Demonstrations are stupid,

as the photos here show. There certainly have been useful ones, such as those instigated by Ghandi and Reverend King. But if all you're demonstrating is that you can create disgusting, hate filled signs, what have you accomplished?

Most demonstrations since the 1970s have been of the latter kind. They're a public nuisance. They waste resources of police departments. And they have nothing useful to say.

The demonstrations outside a funeral of Idaho National Guard Cpl. Carrie French, who was killed in Iraq, are supposed to be in opposition to the war. That would be fine, if that's all they said. Instead, they attempt to get attention by expressing sentiments of support for the terrorists, "Thank G_d for IEDs, " designed to offend as many people as possible and express hate toward the dead corporal.
And this is supposed to be what Christians are supposed to be doing?

"Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." (Matthew 7:22-23)

I wonder what he'll have to say to these folks, who in his name indulge in hideous indecencies.

BTW, Instapundit's use of the term "asshat" to describe these people. I'd never heard it before seeing it on Glenn's blog. I couldn't quite figure it out until I remembered the joke about charging a guy with automobile sodomy, defined as "driving with your head up your ass." These people don't just do it while driving. They're always in this contortionate state, which might also be called a DIY colonoscopy.