This is a diary as protest to a recommended diary that is calling for action to protest executive's homes.
We are all angry about the current events. Again I write, we are all angry about current events that are happening. I would caution restraint when protesting "executives" homes in CT, NY or NJ...Here is why...
I work in the finance industry. Not directly. I am a consultant that works with finance clients. I work overseas. I write out of personal experience of protests.
One of my clients was subject to protests. An animal rights group was protesting the client. The animal rights group thought that the client directly held shares in a lab that was/may be abusing animals. (I don't have the specifics about the offending company). My client DID NOT hold any shares in this company. The US branch had an indirect holding in this lab (client of a client). The animal rights group protested outside the office building (with graphic signs, etc.) about the inhumane treatment of the animals.
Again I HAVE NO ISSUE with this. But the animal rights group was protesting the wrong branch of the company. No members or employees of this branch were actually involved with the offending company.
It was really kind of comical. The client was in a part of the building sheltered from outside noise and couldn’t hear any of the protests. So the protesters were yelling at someone who couldn’t hear them. The client had empathized with the protestors. However after the anti-terrorist unit of the police visited the CEO the empathy stopped. The animal rights protesters were willing to do the following:
- Protest the CEO’s home (again the CEO who had nothing to do with the lab nor held any stock in the lab).
- If that didn’t work: Send notices to the neighbors that he was a pedophile.
- If that didn’t work: Paint his neighbors’ doors red.
- If that didn’t work: Follow his kids to school and scream things at them.
I have no issues with protest but let’s keep the kids out of it. Let’s protest and protest big at the company but going to individual homes is a step over the line. There are kids that have nothing to do with the sins of the father/mother. And you never know when you are protesting the wrong person for the wrong thing.