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Guanxi882/15/2010 6:49:09 pm PST

re: #469 eclectic infidel

Even if they had 1000 active members, the median age is not 30. At the anti-Israel protests I’ve countered, usually about 1 dozen pink ladies show up. Most appear to be in their 50s and up. Give another ten years and that organization is going to be in dire straights with respect to membership.

Well, I never thought of them as anything other or more than a sort of Westboro Baptist Church of the anti-war movement. I had - and continue to have - a bit of fun at their expense, but that’s about the extent of it.

I’d imagine it’s not too awfully difficult to get together a group of up to 1000 people for any cause, no matter how crazed or transparently goofy.