Stupid Protest Sign Watch
Charles Johnson
Sun Feb 9, 2003 at 4:03 pm PST • Views: 341
It’s a constantly moving target, and there will always be new candidates, but I think I may have found the world’s dumbest anti-war protesters: the Rural Peacemakers in Harmony Minnesota.
First we have a protester who has moved on from banalities like “it’s all about oil” and “no blood for oil” to a simple, direct equation of idiocy so profound that it wraps around and becomes a sort of genius:
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But even the schtoopidity of “Oil=Death” pales in comparison to the following foreign policy expert, whose political thought draws heavily on the noted philosopher Fred … Roberts?
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Frank Wright of Lanesboro, Minn., marches with other protesters in rural Harmony, Minn., Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003, holding a sign reading ‘What Would Mr. Roberts Do?’ Wright had the perfect idea: Use a beloved television character to make his point about a potential war with Iraq. The only problem was that he meant to write ‘Mr. Rogers,’ he explained ‘Perhaps I don’t watch enough TV.’
No … I don’t think that’s the problem.
Frank says: