Sign waving in downtown Bellingham

Learning about what is going on with Syria upset me this morning. It was even more aggravating to see people more caught up with Ben Affleck and Miley Cyrus. I was so angry that I decided I would go downtown and do a bit of sign waving, to at least let people become aware of what was going on (even though I could barely walk today because of my legs being super-sore). I got so distracted with these thoughts that I almost forgot to eat...and that is saying a lot.

I picked up a large permanent marker and a poster and made this sign.

While waiting for the bus to take me downtown, a homeless man asked me about it. He told me he was a veteran and that he is absolutely tired of our country getting involved with other countries' businesses, and wished me luck.

Downtown, I received quite a decent amount of honks and thumbs-ups.

Whenever I go sign waving, I like to be silent. I only talk to people when they approach me first, mainly because I don't want to annoy them. They (I would think for the most part) can read, and therefore trying to tell them things unprovoked may be unnecessary and will sometimes be counterproductive.

A couple of people asked me what was going on and were supportive, some thanked me for doing it. Only one person was critical. It wasn't even that bad. He was comparing it to Al-Qaeda and 9/11, saying that if we don't do about what is going on in Syria, something like 9/11 could happen again, but he admitted that he didn't know much about the current situation in Syria. He compared it to if someone was beating him up, shouldn't the police come and help him out? It was a friendly and peaceful debate.

I had been thinking of organizing a rally in Bellingham on Saturday. Coincidentally, tonight, I saw that there were going to be country-wide rallies on Saturday, so I went to look up to see if one was already made for Bellingham (I doubted it so I was thinking of making one myself). There already is one.

To find one in your city, look up "No War With Syria Rally (your city)" on Facebook - if there isn't one, organize one yourself.

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Ultimately, the reason why I believe we shouldn't go to war there is because the US has no right to act as the police of the world. By doing so, we spend billions of dollars, put our citizens (and sometimes theirs) in danger, and make a lot of countries hate us by trying to tell them what they should and should not do. I don't just ignore the facts of what is going on and blindly say "war is bad" for everything that goes on though (well, war is bad...), so here's a quick, little compilation that Reason has put up on why we shouldn't go to war in Syria.

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