Some other jewels from the same gay, pro-abortion "writer":
Posted on 02/24/2005 12:28:47 PM PST by TFFKAMM
Guilt can only weigh on a person's mind for so long before they crave the act of purgation; to get the weighty feelings of shame and responsibility out of the mind - or at least the guilty parties attempt to find some kind of peace if they cannot rid themselves of a screaming conscience that implicates and indicts its possessor.
That said, perhaps some readers will understand why my friends and I rip yellow ribbon "support the troops" magnets off of cars or wherever people have affixed them. By ripping off these ribbons, we find a way to deal with our guilt, as though with each ribbon swiped we take back a life that was taken by this senseless war started by our senseless president and those who support him.
I will never say, "support the troops." I don't believe in the validity of that statement. People say, "I don't support the war, I support the troops" as though you can actually separate the two. You cannot; the troops are a part of the war, they have become the war and there is no valid dissection of the two. Other people shout with glaring eyes that we should give up our politics, give up our political affiliations in favor of "just supporting the troops." I wish everything were that easy.
What they really mean is that we should just give up our will, give up our identities, give up our voices to those in power. Perhaps that's just the way people aligned with the right wing choose to get rid of their guilt: blindness and ignorance.
I listen to talk radio very often. It's important to know who your enemies are. The pundits on the radio are the pinnacles of guiltless, shameless wonders, and I am jealous. It must feel good to believe without question, to benefit from the blind belief of young men and women who chose to join the armed forces, to sit in a radio studio in New York and admonish the public to give in like the troops, to just follow orders, to live as just a number that will soon be etched into a gravestone that no one will ever see.
I look into the cars of people with "support the troops" ribbons as I speed past, trying to find some trace of recognition on their face, recognition of their guilt and the fact that they have given up. I usually see nothing; just a mouth moving robotically, singing the pop hits of today or the contemporary country wine of fake cowboys who share a lot with George Bush: no shame.
We say, "support the troops" so that we won't feel guilty about saying "no" to war. We reason that if we say that we support the troops, somehow we aren't monsters for not saying a word when the death tolls of U.S. soldiers climbed above 1,000. Those ribbons are yellow for a reason, they are not the mark of armed forces support, they are the mark of cowards.
Pundits on the radio advise their cowardly listeners to approach men and women in army uniforms and say "thank you." I cannot do that. Every time I pass a person in uniform I look long and hard at them and all I can think inside to say is "I'm so sorry." I want to apologize to them, to their families and to their friends. I feel sorry that we, the people, couldn't control our own government at the outset of this conflict when most of us knew deep inside that it was a mistake.
Where are we now? Are we in a better place? Is the world safer for democracy? No, it is not safer and we are not in a better place. In this war that we are fighting to somehow avenge the deaths of the Sept. 11 tragedy, we have amassed a field of body bags, the number of which almost matches the number killed in the terrorist attacks four years ago. Now, we stare at yet another request for barrels of money for this war by President Bush, while people in our own country search fruitlessly for jobs to feed their starving families, while every public school gets left behind, while our elderly are ensured an uncertain future of unpaid medical bills.
I guess we shouldn't think about those things though, right? We should just buy a yellow magnet and slap it on the butt of our car so we can sleep at night and just let our government do whatever they want. That's supporting the troops, right?
Two years ago my friend Eric called me out of the blue after almost five years of silence between us. We were in a band together when we were teenagers and he had joined the army around the time I was graduating from high school. He had to join the army; he had a son to provide for in the grand tradition of many young members of the armed forces. He called me to tell me that he was going back to Iraq, against his will. He was so sad and angry and scared. He didn't say it, but I know he was calling to tell me that he might die. I didn't say it to him then, but I felt such overwhelming guilt that I couldn't do anything to keep him from going back.
I haven't heard from him since. I don't know if he's dead, and my guilt is alive and well. I hope that all of our family members in harm's way return alive. Until then, I can really honor their sacrifice by demanding that it finally comes to an end.
I pray G*d sends gangrene to rot away the fingers from your miserable little hands, since you've nothing productive more productive and compassionate to do with them beyond stealing the property of others and writing your little liberal swill.
Because of that for which this country and our soldiers fight, you are free to have a forum to spew your bile. Ponder that, you leftist endomorph.
Some other jewels from the same gay, pro-abortion "writer":
I don't read 'sorry' as sorrow, I read it as 'pathetic'.
sorry. I don't regret what I said, but once was enough!
Thank you for your extraordinary service to our great nation and the incredible sacrifices you and your buds made to defend our sorry asses.
Semper Fi!
RR
I don't read 'sorry' as sorrow, I read it as 'pathetic'.
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Works for me. This guy is a real whiny little punk who deserves the beatdown he will one day surely get.
Another example of the liberals' reverence of the First Amendment.
"what you cowardly he-asses should do, at the very least, is cease damaging and stealing the private property of others.
I mean: if you have no respect for the private property of those with whom you disagree, you can hardly complain if those folks - grown tired of your antics - burn you out of house and home, now can you?
You remain free to speak the idiotic contents of your narrow little feeble mind, but DO cease your attempts to squelch the sociopolitical voices of others: It is rude and shall eventually lead to reprisals you are ill equipped to survive."
WOW - great job!!
If you rip the yellow ribbon off of MY senseless car, I will hold you at senseless gunpoint for the senseless police, and you will go to senseless jail.
So Mr. Naughton is admitting to serial theft?
I will forgive this person for ripping off the Support out Troops sticker , If she will support me for knocking the pure dee living sheit out of anyone I catch doing it ,and then charging them with destruction of property.
Buy 'em in bulk and give them away to likeminded friends.
Let's drive them crazy with patriotism.
Want to bother Thomas on the internet? His email address is bigbiglights@hotmail.com!For some reason, I wouldn't be at all surprised if that's a lie.
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The real problem with this state is the concentration of colleges and universities. They are not institutions of higher learning. Rather, they are leftist/socialist/communist indoctrination camps. There is no diversity of ideals or philosophies, only the echo chamber of the hippie/counter culture ethos. The ironic part of all of this is that the graduates of these gulags usually become staunch conservatives within 5 years of their graduation. Why? Because once they see how the real world works, and are exposed to real diversity of thoughts and ideas, they can finally make the right choice.
He's admitted to committing a crime, the crime of Theft By Taking.
Who lives in the area and can pursue the DA to arrest this guy?
No more calls, we have a winner!!!
This skinwasting loser and his butt-buddies are exactly like the Leftists of the '60s. They KNOW, in their heart-of-hearts, that they can never measure up as either MEN or AMERICANS to those who selflessly wear the uniform. They are keenly aware that they could never in a million years muster the testosterone to hack boot camp, advanced training, and deployments to unpleasant places without crying for Mama, or endure even peacetime training, what with its mud, cold, and poor food (things which even their grandfathers experienced in CIVILIAN life without complaint). They could never deal with discipline, professionalism, and a heirarchy of command. Nor could they deal with such things as Honor, Courage, and Commitment, as those things require a strength of character and an amount of pure BALLS that they lack, or at least have no interest in developing.
When they see an American Serviceman, they see everything that their instincts tell them they should be, but that they are AFRAID to be. Instead of facing that, and going through the obvious, but difficult, remedies, they prefer the easier path of slinging hatred and mud, whilst claiming some perverted "superiority".
It is the same twisted sort of defensive psychosis by which the '60s Leftists claimed that they were the MORE courageous for STAYING HOME. It was a pure rationalization for outright cowardice, and doubly so since it was a cowardly denial of the first cowardice.
I'm currently recovering from surgery to fix a serious injury I suffered in a training accident. I'm working my butt off to recover in time to go with my squadron on our upcoming deployment to support ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM. Every day I risk my life, limb, and future health to do things this posssum's pecker can't bring himself to do, and I consider it an honor to be able to.
I truly cannot fathom someone so cowardly, so unmanly, who could write such an admission of patent worthlessness and count himself "courageous".
Note to the author...if you're REALLY so upset, and your panties are indeed so twisted that you feel this way, do us all a favor, and your country a service: Kill yourself. And do it before you breed.
Not that any self-respecting female would willingly choose to bear so tainted a seed as you carry.
LOL
Just dont get me mixed up with those nut cases.
Still have my Bush Chenney 04 poster, framed and hanging on the wall.....
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