Killing your own Cause

So, there are a lot of protests going on recently.
It's great if you can stand up for a cause that is really important. After all, Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi made very significant changes to the world with their protests.
What would the world be like without them?
But these protests today... not so much.
I'm sure there are some good protests. But it's mostly the bad ones that have been publicized. Because the media loves to focus on the bad stuff (coughEbolacough).

Someone described these poor protesters as "shooting themselves in the foot."
Shouldn't the point of protests be to gain support of people who are neutral to the problem? Get their attention and have them take action to help make things better?
Well, how the heck is that going to work if you start screwing with the lives or normal people?
When protesters start breaking things, blocking traffic, and shutting down an entire bridge during traffic, then they start losing support.
Do you think any of the people that were stuck on that bridge for over two hours will have any desire to help the people that caused the delay?

I also heard that they turned down the Olympics in San Francisco because too many people were going to protest it.
Anyway, I don't want to list all the protests that didn't go too well.

When you mess with the lives of neutral people, you are not going to get their support. Even people who agree with your cause are probably less likely to want to help.
Do they really think that breaking windows and blocking roads will fix problems? Because sometimes it seems like an excuse for people to cause trouble.

We were actually very lucky to avoid the effects of one, last week. Dad thinks we missed it by a few minutes.
So, thanks to whatever fairy was watching over us. @__@

And seriously, fight for your cause. We have to fight for causes, or out world would be in much much worse shape.
I'm using college to prepare for my own big fight. Just wait for me to get it started.
But don't mess with innocent people. It's very unlikely that doing so will help you, at all.