Sacramento Bee/Jay Mather
Stephen and Virginia Pearcy hung a U.S. military uniform from a gable of their Land Park home to protest the war in Iraq and provoke discussion.
Posted on 02/15/2005 7:08:31 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO (AP) - The anti-war message a suburban couple hung below the rafters of their home was meant to be provocative: It's a soldier's uniform, complete with helmet and gloves, and the sign "Bush Lied. I Died," painted in black and white.
Since Stephen and Virginia Pearcy put up the display, it has been vandalized twice and put up again. Police are investigating the vandalism reports as well as a claim by a military mother that the display should be investigated as a hate crime.
"It's a message of dissent over the war in Iraq," Stephen Pearcy said. "The soldiers are being left out to hang" under misguided American policy paid for with U.S. tax dollars.
Deborah Johns of Roseville, co-founder of Marine Moms and Military Families, asked police to investigate the Pearcy display. "My son wears that uniform every day. It's an insult to hang it up like that."
Johns' point of view is getting support from military supporters who planned to protest outside the home Tuesday night. The Pearcys said they welcomed the discussion.
Stephen and Virginia Pearcy hung a U.S. military uniform from a gable of their Land Park home to protest the war in Iraq and provoke discussion.
lightning rods tend to draw lightning
Are the little Maoists still pretending they care for the troops?...Puhleeeze...They are simply trying to undermine troop morale and give aid and comfort to the Islamic enemy...And that assumption is not hyperbole.
SANDY BERGER... where is SANDY BERGER???
Why are these people not asking the question?!?!?!?
WHERE IS SANDY BERGER!!?!?!?
[and the sign "Bush Lied. I Died," painted in black and white.]
BUSH WAS RIGHT
TERRORISTS DIE IN THIS FIGHT
Steven and Virginia are tasteless elitists. Let them show it.
Seems like such a mighty effort to say that you hate America. But then, 3000 effigies protesting 9/11 would'nt have fit under the eves either. Would it?
"Are the little Maoists still pretending they care for the troops?...Puhleeeze...They are simply trying to undermine troop morale and give aid and comfort to the Islamic enemy..."
Ditto that! Like the Islamofacists would do them any better than to laugh in their faces before their cut their stinking commie/atheist heads off.
Hey, maybe most of us could have lived, unhappily, under communism; islamofacism can't be counted on for the same luxury.
Anti-War Protest Includes 'Hanging' of US Soldier
CNS News | 2-15-05 | Susan Jones
Posted on 02/15/2005 10:54:41 AM PST by FlyLow
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