Protester Microphone Check -- One, Two

On the U.F. campus, the student government has set up a microphone and amplified speaker set up on the Plaza so that people can step up and voice their opinion. Here are my impressions of the speakers I saw:

• First speaker I saw was for the Iraq war. He praised the liberation of the Iraqi people. Naturally, he was booed for voicing an opinion for the war effort as he was encroaching on the protester territory.
• Second speaker was a Chinese man. Actually, he was the second, fifth, and seventh speaker. He couldn't seem to stay away from the mike. He was hard to understand as his english was not very good. Anyway, he made the claim that the American press is biased. He also started talking about the China student uprisings in 1989 but I was unable to figure out what he was saying. Later, he said something like "Although we don't have freedom of speech and freedom of the press in China, we are still very free." What?! For one, for someone complaining, you sure are taking advantage of "freedom of speech"! And thanks to China and their control of the press, this SARS epidemic has exploded because they kept it so secret for so long! FOOEY!
• Another speaker said that we need to wait and see how our country handles the transfer of control back to the Iraqis. I agree with that. Man, we sure better not screw that up!
• Another old guy from the local alternate press got on the microphone and talked about how we should study our past because America has a history that involves taking over other countries and exploiting them. Of course, that dick was wearing shoes and a t-shirt that were probably made in Guatamala. Dick. He also said that the "Geneva Conference" stated that a country that destroys another country's infrastructure must restore it. Uh huh. I guess he was pointing out the "Geneva Conference" when the Iraqi's were torturing our POW's on video. He certainly didn't mention that at the time. He lives to think of his own country as the enemy.
• Of course, there were those assorted beat poets that read out of their notebooks, trying desparately to sound wise.

I wish that I was a better public speaker. I really wanted to get on the mike and tell all of those stupid protesters going to a government-subsidized school using Pell Grants, wearing clothes put together by so-called "exploited" countries, to shut their pie holes and watch the footage of all the people excited that they were finally free to move around and smile. GRRR!!!!!