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Anti-Bushies take anger out on the wrong target --so much for free speech!
Letter to the editor-Seattle Times ^

Posted on 01/24/2005 1:20:18 PM PST by against_kerry

Anti-Bushies take anger out on the wrong target

I'm not sure how many readers read or heard about the haranguing of Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Due at Seattle Central Community College during the Thursday protests of President Bush's second inauguration. Due was badly harassed by a large crowd that destroyed military literature and eventually drove the man off while under campus security protection.

It is one of the great, colossal mistakes of the so-called peace movement that they badger and mistreat recruiters and other people whose job it is to keep the ranks filled. Speaking as a reservist who was brought into the fold by men like Due, I am flummoxed that any group claiming to be smart about international politics can be so stupid as to attack the troops because of the decisions being made in Washington, D.C.

Save your ire and your vitriol for the politicians.

Brad R. Torgersen Tacoma


TOPICS: US: Washington
KEYWORDS: seattle; themostcorruptstate
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To: KiloLima

Expelled?..probably given extra credit.


21 posted on 01/24/2005 2:03:02 PM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Billthedrill

Tighten up the "Get Out of the Draft" deferral options and bring back the draft...


22 posted on 01/24/2005 2:03:40 PM PST by JDoutrider
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To: Former Dodger

Well, this certainly proves that free speech is good only if the libs approve of what you say....


23 posted on 01/24/2005 2:05:43 PM PST by fastattacksailor (This tagline under serious consideration!)
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To: against_kerry
I guess free speech only goes one way!

What do you expect. These people have the brain of a turnip. Seriously, they're stupid!

24 posted on 01/24/2005 2:11:46 PM PST by Fruitbat
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To: against_kerry

It was no mistake. This is what these miscreants do. Hateful vile losers.


25 posted on 01/24/2005 2:39:34 PM PST by vpintheak (Liberal = The antithesis of Freedom and Patriotism)
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To: West Coast Conservative

The picture reminds me of a photo of the old South when black girls were being escorted into a school. The mob trying to intimidate them with hatred on their face was not unlike this one.


26 posted on 01/24/2005 2:40:55 PM PST by winner3000
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To: jveritas
The Left Dictionary define tolerance as accepting all the ideas that agree with you, and kill all the people who disagree with you so only people who agree with you exist.

The Al Queda (Muslim extremists) define tolerance as accepting all the ideas that agree with you, and kill all the people who disagree with you so only people who agree with you exist.

Note for any Muslims: I am not attacking your religion.

Al Queda is to Muslims, as KKK is to Christians.

27 posted on 01/24/2005 2:57:16 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (sH)
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To: Jeff Head

I am curious as to why the MILITARY did not press charges against the students....


28 posted on 01/24/2005 3:06:39 PM PST by freecopper01 (God will grant us the strength for the battle: Will we have the courage to use it?)
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To: freecopper01

Apparently not all terrorists are Middle Eastern ...


29 posted on 01/24/2005 3:44:14 PM PST by knarf (A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)
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To: knarf

Oh, that was a good one!


30 posted on 01/24/2005 3:50:09 PM PST by freecopper01 (God will grant us the strength for the battle: Will we have the courage to use it?)
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To: West Coast Conservative
That picture makes me sad.

Several hundred students walked out of classes at several Seattle colleges and universities to protest the inauguration of President Bush. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Ok, I still don't understand how that's a protest. "I ditched my cultures of the world class, take that Bush!"
31 posted on 01/24/2005 3:52:32 PM PST by Thoro (Then an accidental overdose of gamma radiation alters his body chemistry....)
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To: freecopper01

I am curious as to why the MILITARY did not press charges against the students....

 

  That would give them (the "students") validation for their actions.

Personally, I'd rather see the recruiters "accidentally" beat the snot out of these arrogant little cretins

32 posted on 01/24/2005 4:25:05 PM PST by Fintan (A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. - Groucho Marx)
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To: NorCalRepub

Last week I went to the inauguration. I watched these spoiled street filth assualt a DC cop at D & 7th st. and harass women and children minding their own business. They also assualted counter-protesters.


33 posted on 01/25/2005 6:13:00 AM PST by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: against_kerry

The one and only time I was ever harrased when I was in uniform was on a college campus. Some "little boy" (19 or 20 yers old) spit on me. It was totally disgusting, and luckily for him, he ran away before I could drag him into the nearest alley and hand him his b@lls.

"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I prefer you said thank you, and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand to post." ~ COL Jessep, "A Few Good Men"


34 posted on 01/25/2005 6:30:59 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I love the quote, Diana. And, thank you for your service. Too bad I didn't join, it would have shaped me up. I'm trying to make up for my errant liberal past (not my fault!)by supporting and sticking up for the uniform wherever and whenever.


35 posted on 01/25/2005 2:26:54 PM PST by KiloLima ("guest worker program" is to amnesty as "insurgent." is to terrorist . . . .)
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To: MEG33

I confess I asked my question very "tongue in cheek." I have worked at two "institutions of higher learning" in California and I know just how worthless they have become. Kent State was a LONG time ago . . .


36 posted on 01/25/2005 2:29:17 PM PST by KiloLima ("guest worker program" is to amnesty as "insurgent." is to terrorist . . . .)
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To: KiloLima

That's OK..It gave us a chance to vent our disdain for the "institutions" and their biases.


37 posted on 01/25/2005 3:24:35 PM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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