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No. Shame on you for lying down with the communists and socialists who have MURDERED hundreds of millions of their own people.

No one is lying down with anyone.

Why are they marching under the umbrella of a bunch of socialist and communist groups, then?

My understanding is that this was called by a few groups, and some, whom are also classified as socialist and communist have joined in part. I have seen many rallies and protests of Christian groups that have shared the field with other groups that they disagree with on many issues other than the one at hand, but that doesn't, nor should it stop people from gathering to express their views about the topic at hand, from war, to abortion, to civil rights.

If you weren't so busy missing my point, you might have realized that I didn't express solidarity with their view. I, in fact, gave you no indication at all what my own views on this are. You automatically assumed that because I did not join in your chorus of rhetoric, that I was one of "them".

I'm just expressing an opinion of someone who has Quaker friends. I am offended at your disregard for their following of the teachings of Christ as they feel led to do.

So stop being so reactionary. I would elaborate, but you obviously don't have the capacity to listen to any rational thought without first assigning a category of "us" or "them" to the speaker, and thereby interpreting the remarks as you deem appropriate for their category.

Not only have you missed my point entirely, but you have reacted in a way that only constitutes some shouting about atrocities that I, or anyone I know (particularly not the pacifist Quakers), would never condone; and somehow linking me to the people who have committed them! Talk about useless ad hominem attacks.

I suppose I hoped to find some mature discussion here. I suppose I was hoping for too much. Sad really.

Nonetheless, Free Speech Forever! for everyone.

I would elaborate, but you obviously don't have the capacity to listen to any rational thought without first assigning a category of "us" or "them" to the speaker...

You jumped into the thread, wagging your finger at me for writing about people who willingly march with communists, socialists, marxists, anarchists and all-around terrorist supportering America-hating fools; and now you're offended?

Excuse me for laughing at you.

People who march with the likes of those I have already described either do not possess faculties capable of critical thinking, or they just plain approve of the lying, murderous, anti-pacifist history of said groups.

By offering support, marching with the leftists, the "pacifists" you are defending are aligning themselves with those who support the murder of our own troops. Have you even bothered to read anything about these groups who your Quaker friends are supporting? Go to their websites and read their own words.

If you were truly a friend of the Friends, you would learn these things and discourage a group that believes in pacifism from marching with those who wish death and violence on Americans and other freedom-loving peoples, soldier and civilian.

But I don't believe that is your reason for stopping by FR last night.

I suppose I hoped to find some mature discussion here.

No you didn't sweetie. You hoped to make a hit-and-run attack, to stroke your own misplaced self-esteem. And you expected that you could make your own sweeping accusations without anyone calling BS on you.

Wrong again.

You never did answer any of my questions. If you are having trouble with the questions, perhaps you can ask your Friend friends how they can say they are pacifists, but march with so many groups with such bloody histories, and who continue with their bloody actions to this day?