So I got the scoop, maybe not on this guy, but on the protesters as a whole. Apparently, these people were inhibiting the abilities of the longshoremen to load their boats with food. So far, no big deal right? Well, this food was being sent to feed our troops. Those troops fighting in Iraq.

It is one thing to express oneself in protesting the war, but to not support our troops is a knife in the back. You may not be for the war, you may not be for fighting Muslims on their land, you may not be for democracy for all people. You have the right to express those views, but to effectively abandon those who give me (and you) that right is treason (in my mind).

I’m not saying this guy deserved to be shot. I’m saying he had no business being there. His business is expressing his views, not in blocking shipments of food.
Look at it this way: If any man or woman were to try to break the troops’ supply chain in Iraq, the troops wouldn’t think twice about killing them. That being said, stop bitching about being shot with rubber bullets, because that is what you did. Just because you life in the United States does not give you the right to act like a terrorist against your own military. Those people are there to serve you. Those people are given orders to follow and they do it well. Go somewhere else to fight your battles of free speech. If you don’t like it, move to a third world country and see how their government treats you when you speak out against them.
Be glad you are alive. Be glad you have freedoms. Be glad you live in America and have troops to serve and protect you. Be glad.