The Rev. Robert Cromey, left, and others keep their vigil on Larkin Street.
Posted on 05/23/2008 8:04:00 AM PDT by SmithL
Every Thursday since the United States started bombing Afghanistan in October 2001, several men and women have stood on the street in front of San Francisco's Federal Building in a quiet vigil for peace.
This week marked the 333rd Thursday that the group - 30 to 40 people - most of them older, some of them young, have gathered at the corner of Golden Gate Avenue and Larkin Street with their signs.
They don't chant or sing. They don't demonstrate or block traffic. They pray, some of them; they stand vigil, with signs: "NO TO WAR YES TO PEACE."
They are a familiar sight. Tour buses come by most every Thursday. Sometimes the tourists wave, sometimes they applaud, sometimes they only stare.
"I think our vigil makes a difference," said Pete Russell, 50, who stood with a sign one recent Thursday. "In any case, it feels like the right thing to do."
The Rev. Robert Cromey, left, and others keep their vigil on Larkin Street.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Does being a pacifist means walking in straight orderly lines and not singing kumbayas too loud on the way to the gulag or gas chamber?
If ever there were people who needed free, non-refundable, round trip tickets to Saudi Arabia for a month’s vacation, it is this crowd. They desperately need to see another culture to put their own in perspective.
And each should be given a complimentary Bible to take with them.
These people are fools. Their ideals, carried to their logical outcomes, would leave them all dead.
Everybody wants peace. All wars pretty much end with peace. Peace is not the absence of war, it is the result of war.
Leftists only care about themselves.
The fact that 3000 people paid the ultimate price for Bill Clinton's leftist policy of appeasing terrorists doesn't matter at all to these people. Those 3000 were simply the cost of doing business in a world run by people who live in an alternate reality of cotton candy and butterflies, a reality of the here and now and nothing else, and a reality where there is no real good and evil and no God.
In their world, if there even was an attack on America, it was justified because it was done by people who don't believe in or aspire to emulate the principles that were the foundation of this country and have made it great.
In their world, if there even was an attack on America, that attack wasn't anything to get upset over.
It certainly is nice to see people out peacefully exercising their 1st Amendment Rights.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God” (Matthew 5:9).
LOL, what idiots.
But for liberals, history begins when the wake up each morning.
Maybe 9/11 simply slipped their minds.
Bears repeating...
Afghanistan gets what it deserves. A tribal system, a medieval religion, and a drug producing economy don’t make for a stable situation in ye old global village.
I didn’t say one-way, because it would be tacky for the Saudis to have to cut all their heads off, just to stop their whining.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.