Is it right for people to protest in a way that they destroy thier own country like protest in Pakistan ?
154277
Well for a bunch of Pakis... it is right, because all they learn from birth till suicide bomb death is how to become a suicide bomber.. So yes, for a bunch of morons, it is oaky...well, it  reduces America's burdern if pakis are destroying their own property...good.
737948
No it is not, but the right to demonstrate is, so the find a way to go around the reason to demonstrate in the first place.\nFor example you cant have any access to legal  Nazi-sites in the Web with a German IP.
831567
Do you really think that they have to ask permission to the Americans? I think they too have the right to make their own political alliances.\n___\n\n"Many experts predict the new closeness between the world's only superpower and Islamabad's fiercest rival will prompt Pakistan to develop even closer ties with its longtime strategic security partner, China.\n\nPakistan needs a deterrent against India.\n\nThe animosity between the two countries dates to partition in August 1947, when the British divided their former colony into two states. India was meant to be a secular democracy and Pakistan, a homeland for South Asian Muslims. More than six million Muslims migrated to Pakistan, and more than four million Hindus and Sikhs moved to India. Tremendous violence and upheaval during the partition process left more than one million people dead.\nIn the half-century since, Pakistan and India have fought three wars and come close a few other times. The unresolved issue of the disputed territory of Kashmir and periodic military buildups on both sides have kept tensions high. Many Pakistanis still worry that India wants to reunite the territory under its control. Both countries tested nuclear weapons in 1998".\n\nQuoted from: \nChina and Pakistan: A Deepening Bond\nAuthor:Esther Pan\nMarch 8, 2006\nhttp://www.cfr.org/publication/10070/china_and_pakistan.html
1176209
Not exactly correct, this does'nt happen in western democracies In third world countries the people lament by attacking the nations infrastructure, mainly along religious lines
160353
? what, Pakistan...?\n\nWHO CARES\n\nwe should only care about items that happen in the USA
989956
thank you!!! \nexactly what i was discussing with my friends. \n\nIllegals need to stop protesting here and go back to South America and protest there, they need the protests there more. Their country needs them now more then ever.
1007404
Don't think in terms of right or wrong but what would happen if the war was in your back yard. Always take the fight to them never let them bring the fight to you.\n\nThey (terrorist) not countries struck the first blow, not people but governments are responible for the state of confusion. \n\nBut I do agree support government for they have more information than the general public.... \n\nAND the MEDIA= idoits who are out to support the terrorist cause.
98960
I still don't understand why some people feel that violence is warrented or acceptable as a form of protest.  It was a cartoon, sure it was offensive but isn't a violent reaction more so?  Muslims are always complaining about being painted with a broad brush of being violent.  How is this helping to dispurse that stereotype?
200169
In a free society, there is no such thing as the "right" to not be subjected to offensive things. \n\nIf you read the newspaper, browse the web, watch TV, etc. you will be offended in the West. \n\nYou do have the right to protest (peacefully), picket, rally other people to do the same.\n\nIf their "deen" (a Muslim word for faith) is strong, they shouldn't worry about what some non-Muslim has to say about their religion.\n\nYes, I've seen the cartoons. They're a lot less offensive than what the OFFICIAL newspapers of some nations such as Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, etc. say about Judaism
1172187
As in any kind of civil dis-obedience, you should not do it if you are not prepared to be prosecuted for breaking the law.\n\nOf course if everybody who didn't like something about what the government was doing didn't pay taxes, there would be no taxes paid, and we would not have a country.  No police, not army, no money, etc.
1152873
For a pakistani is it acceptable unless the family is lik total extremist which is not good. Otherwise it is totally okay. I know a few pakistanis who have done it. Pakistanis are very nice people.
121014
If one person went on the street and protested against the government, nobody would listen to him/her. And if the authorities get a hold of him/her, then they would make their life a hell.\n\nBut if a large amount of people gather on the street, they get media coverage and their voices would be heard much more loudly and clearly. Also, they would not be able to punish all the people since the authorities cannot punish a thousands of people. As a result, it is surprisingly safer to protest in groups than as an individual. \n\nHowever, there have been instances where even protest by large groups have been quashed (Read about Tiananmen Square  students protest in 1989 if you are interested).
1146068
No it isn't a cheap tactic.\n\nThe reason is because you have to look at the bigger picture. Remember that movie 'Red Dawn' where the USA had been occupied and lost. There was a group of teenagers who setup roadside attacks. \n\nThat is what ppl do when they have been occupied by a country that is more powerful. I mean what do you expect? Do you think they will just say 'oh ok let me just give up my way of life and culture' and surrender to this all powerful boss.\n\nThat isn't human nature. They fight back in the only manner they can knowing they can't take us head to head. Would we not do the same?
815824
sounds like terrorism to me.   How could you want to declare war on your own country-if you don't like it emigrate!
1116317
Unconstitutional or not, if you burn a flag, you should be tried for treason. It's one thing to be pissed off at the government and talk about how pissed you are. Free speech gives you that right. But to act on it violently, such as vandalism and arson (which is what you could break it down to when you burn a flag), you are breaking the law.
1070441
Whose freedom? Yours, theirs or ours? It all depends on your frame of reference. Is it the freedom to do as you please that you are talking about or the freedom to unilaterally invade other sovereign nations or perhaps it's the freedom to become a belligerent bully. I know what it is that you're getting at, it's the freedom to tear anybody down that doesn't agree with you and call them names. My question is: What's your question? Jules, lecturer. Australia.
768334
I'm not sure what the free world should do about Pakistan but I do think it harbors terrorists so we certainly should keep a close watch on it.  We simply must not continue to be blase about terrorism just because most of it is on the other side of the pond.  It only takes a plane ride (as we learned) to bring it here.  Terrorists have one agenda: to kill us.  If we don't stop them, they will succeed..