A History of Freedom
By Amy Hooper | October 18, 2001To the Editor: In "Counter-Protests Insulting" (Letter to the Editor, Oct. 11), the members of the "Minus Green" write the following: "There is a fundamental difference between a protest for peace and a counter-protest for war -- the latter being a gratuitous display of callousness which flagrantly disrespects the sanctity of human life." Their assertion that a protest for a peaceful strategy and a counter-protest against such a strategy are necessarily qualitatively different is absurd and propagandist. You cannot deny the fact that we are where we are today, living in a free and democratic country, in some part because of those individuals laying down their lives -- because of war. You are doing yourself an intellectual disservice if you unilaterally condemn war (and any group of individuals mobilized in support of war) and simultaneously benefit every day from what war has brought this country.