The right to Protest - Ramblings from an uninformed source

I am watching the news about the protestors climbing the Golden Gate Bridge!   As a previous commuter on the bridge and memories of trying to get over when Woody Harrelson was protesting the cutting of the redwoods and the long wait on the bridge makes me want to say, "Who cares?"    Don't get me wrong, but when you are driving the GG Bridge, the priorities on the driver's mind is usually about their destination and most likely the traffic jam will not bring sympathy to their cause.   A word of caution before you read this, I am not informed,  I am rambling from my gut!!

This protest bring up four major things for me

1. Who's securing the GG Bridge?   How did people get on the bridge, climb the cables, hang a sign, and still hanging on the cables without any interventions?   So glad they weren't "terrorists" with  other intentions.   Just brings to mind that "where there is a will, there is a way!"  We need to thank the protestors for creating the opportunity on how the bridge is protected and just how secure is our security? 
2.   We as a nation have acted like China.  I wonder if the US wasn't a mentor for how to be a big bully nation.   We complain about human rights in China but in the name of security, we arrest and detain American citizens because....We say that China should be transparent about their nuclear and military programs.  I admit I am not well-read nor an expert on diplomacy.  But just from where I pray and stand, the US could do a lot more about alleviating the life conditions of many in our own country as well as other countries.  Rather than forcing countries to become "democracies" when some of our allies are not.  I think China is doing just what the US does and continues to do...pollute, make the gap between the rich and the poor wider and wider and force themselves on other countries.
3. If we could turn back the clock, maybe we as a nation could have  learned to depend on our own nation as opposed to depending on cheap labor...and the rest is history.  We have become so dependent on China we can't say much!!!   
4. The Olympics is not just about the country.  Its about the participants.  It's about the youngster who dreams of winning the gold medal and finally having the opportunity to do it.  It is the American Dream!!  Boycotting the Olympics should have been one of the arguments for not having the Olympics in China, not only by the US but other countries before they made the decision to go to China.  Deciding whether or not to have the games in China must have had arguments for and against from all parties, but the Olympic committee did decide.   That's the process and when we don't like the process we want to change it, Is that the American way?

Time to go more news to watch and Bible to read!!!  Hope Tibet, the people who are poor, homeless and hungry are on your heart so that you can do something, but please don't stop traffic!