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Last night a group of anti-war protesters got together on Oakland Ave and ruffed up an army recruiting station. The Journal Sentinel reports 21 were arrested following the mess.

Indymedia broke the news with pictures from the protest — which were featured on the 10:00 TMJ4 news along with their live standup on Oakland. The point of any protest, obviously, is to get the media focused on you for a minute or five. But the key response to this came from a commenter, Steve, over on Indymedia. I can’t summarize it better myself, so I’ll just let him finish the post:

Big Deal
20.03.2007 - 07:41
Congrats, kiddies. You got some ink. You broke some windows. That should bring the troops home any day now, huh?

You guys are angry, and I can relate, anyone who’s been awake for the last four years (not too many, sadly) is angry.

And having broken a window or two I am not about to rip you guys for doing the same.

But getting all dressed up and playing guerrilla ninja protest warrior is the easy part.

Now what are you going to do?

Just being loud and breaking stuff may make you feel good and may draw the attention of the lapdog media for a few seconds.

But now what do you do?

Yeah, right, dude, the people will see you’re pissed. That’s like, so incredibly interesting. Put that together with two bucks and you can buy a cup of coffee at Willow Creek.

The challenge is to come up with something that serves an interest that’s broader and more worthwhile than letting you blow off steam and making you feel good. Otherwise you’re just like those losers who break windows on State Street in Madison every time a sports team wins a big game.

What are you going to do?

C’mon, don’t be shy.