Sour note: Music blaring from Fort Benning bothers protesters near post BY

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (Georgia) ^ | November 23, 2003 | S. Thorne Harper

[Doctor Raoul]

Call (703)428-0711 and let DOD Public Affairs know on their comment line that you approve of what that base commander authorized.

[Stultis]

Why not have the Army Band pratice near the gate?

Why not a mortar squad?

[DeFault User]

"Why can they play music and we can't?" Fort Benning spokesman Rich McDowell said. "We're not participating in political action; we're playing patriotic music."

[localrevolt]

You all focus on the protestors, but you never care to figure out what the protest is about. Do you people even know who trains at Fort Benning?

[BJungNan]

"There's a lot of ill will being caused that's not necessary," said SOA Watch founder the Rev. Roy Bourgeois. "The closer we get to shutting that school down, the meaner they get.

Is this guy really this stupid?

[Travis McGee]

In most of the world, these little sniveling creeps would be arrested and beaten or shot.

Here they whice about the horror of having to listen to patriotic music while they spew their venom.

[The UnVeiled Lady]

You all focus on the protestors, but you never care to figure out what the protest is about. Do you people even know who trains at Fort Benning?

No who?

[WackyKat]

No doubt he's still sponging off Mom and Dad like all these fine Dean supporters.

I doubt that. Bill Quigley is a law professor and is about 60 years old.

[concerned about politics]

I doubt that. Bill Quigley is a law professor and is about 60 years old.

LOL. OK, he's sponging off the tax payers. Once a parasite, always a parasite!

[Stultis]

You all focus on the protestors, but you never care to figure out what the protest is about. Do you people even know who trains at Fort Benning?

Sure. The protest is against the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, previously known as the School of the Americas (thus the name of the protest group: SOA Watch). The school has played a key role over the last several decades in the long, hard struggle to increase security and restore civil societies in South and Central America. Its main purpose is, through training and education programs, to instill higher standards of professionalism -- including respect for civil rights, civilian control of the military, etc -- in the officer core of South and Central American armed forces.

The protestors, whose leadership are without exception extreme and radical leftists, focus on the fact that some graduates of the school have been involved in human rights abuses. It's the usual leftist "argument": If absolute perfection cannot be achieved we must do nothing to make things better.

Actually there's more to it than that. In truth the leftists are more concerned about the successes of programs like this than their failures. Safe, civil societies with professional soldiers (and other elements of good governance) tend to be resistant to radical revolution. The (extreme) left prefers that South America be left to chaos and disorder. It doesn't really matter to them how many little brown people suffer or die, so long as their political goals are thereby furthered. After all, once the socialist utopia is acheived, all of the murders and violent insurgencies will be justified.

[Stultis]

No who?

See my #30.

[Stultis]

Wow! He didn't last long. Musta kicked up (more of) a ruckus in another thread. BTW, that's no fun when the banned user's account page becomes immediately inaccessable. Can't go look at his recent posts and enjoy ogling the burning wreckage!

[Stultis]

Unwashed get the Noriega treatment...

[Stultis]

(No Metallica though. I'm inclined to overlook the oversight.)

[Doctor Raoul]

Do you people even know who trains at Fort Benning?

ANSWER on their website since May has called for "unconditional support" for "Iraq's anti-colonial forces", yet the peace protesters march with ANSWER.

Who are Iraq's anti-colonial forces? They're the people killing our soldiers.

Who is ANSWER? They're the ones who give unconditional support to those killing our soldiers.

Who marches with ANSWER? Traitors.

[Stultis]

But ANSWER is against war!

That is if you don't count violent, leftist and/or narco and/or terrorist insurgencies in Columbia, The Phillipines, Palestine, Iraq, etc -- all of which they support -- as "wars".

[dighton]

Poor leftie Father Bourgeois, trying to live down that name.

[Humidston]

I'll tell you what:

I read tonight about the lynching/murder, ala Samolia, of two of our finest young men in Mosul and I'm really not in a very good mood right now.

Now the way I look at it, we are at war. If those little tree-hugging, daisy-picking peaceniks choose to *deliberately trespass* on a military base, I say shoot first and ask questions later.

If that's not touchy-feely enough for you, sorry. Step to the left to get your card punched.

[Doctor Raoul]

LOL, well only those that the US might win.....

[Stultis]

LOL! Never notice that.