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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.

It seems that since you called me "sweetie", you are either assuming I'm female, or just simple minded, or perhaps both. Re-evaluate your assumptions, please. Oh, and don't call me "sweetie".

If this were a "hit and run attack" would I have responded, or even cared what your response was? Would I have tried to explain the original posting, which actually, if you read it, there is not much contrversial about. I simply wanted to remind all freedom loving people that there are folks who disagree with them, who don't deserve to be slandered. Free speech isn't any good unless everyone can use it.

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?

I'm not sure what you wanted me to say, other than my last post that those are atrocities, indeed, and I would never condone them. Do you want me to go through each one.... "nothing was moral about...." give me a break. I'm not a moron, and I understand the point that there was indeed nothing moral about the atrocities commited by various regimes you listed. To pretend like I have to answer each one of your "questions" is just silly. I've made it clear that I totally find those actions and atrocities repugnant, as would any thinking person.

You want me to ask my Quaker friends why they still march with groups who are associated with bloody and deadly groups, perhaps I will. But I won't pretend to speak for them when I haven't discussed it with them yet. My point originally was just that my friends are good people, and yes, I was offended at the ranting on this board. Every group has it's nuts, and every side can find pictures that support their view of a "debate". People on this board (not necessarily you) have painted all anti-war folks as hatefule and anti-american, but when I look around at my fellow conservatives in this forum, most of what I'm seeing is hate toward other citizens. Citizens of America. If I were seeing informed debate, it would be wonderful, but there isn't much beyond hateful rhetoric and stereotyping here.

I don't know if I can bother with this forum anymore. You might point to that and claim this was a hit and run, but the truth is otherwise, and people who bother to read the whole thread will see the truth.

I understand why most true conservatives have left the halls of the Free Republic. I'm about to join them. I hope I find a place where discussion is more cerebral and less gonadal. I'm glad you have a forum for your type of 'discussion', but it's not what I was looking for. Good luck to you.

Free Speech Forever

Why are you so obsessed with "free speech"? Are you not aware of the rest of the first amendment?

You would have more credibility if you were equally concerned with the freedom to peacably assemble, without interference from the courts and unwelcome intruders.

You would have more credibility if you were equally concerned with the freedom of religion, which includes the freedom to discriminate against non-believers who show up at your church just to make trouble.

You would have more credibility if you were concerned with the people's constitutional right to "petition the government for the redresses of grievances" without being labled "hate-mongers", etc.

You would have more credibility if you gave the entire constitution equal billing and stopped obsessing over one sentence out of one thousand or more sentences.

In other words, it's time to become a little more "well-rounded" in your understanding of what "being American" really entails.