Posted on 03/20/2006 1:21:41 PM PST by pabianice
GARDNER, MA Brian Hawkins kept coming up with new words to describe his feelings about the war in Iraq.
Embarrassed that we torture people. Embarrassed that we detain people without due process, said Mr. Hawkins, an information technology consultant who lives in Fitchburg.
Later, he added ashamed to the list.
The United States duty to democracy is to protect it here, he said.
Thats how we spread freedom and democracy, by being a model country, Mr. Hawkins said.
He was among a small group of people with a great deal to say about the war as they held a vigil yesterday at noon at Monument Park in Gardner.
Events were held across the country to mark the third anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.
Gray clouds smothered the sky and a bitter wind whipped at the signs held by the group in Gardner. Some participants left after a while, but others arrived to take their place. Occasionally, passing motorists honked and gave a thumbs-up, but not everybody was backing the group.
A girl in a car shouted out, Yay for the troops! And a man in a pickup truck shook his head as he drove by the vigil.
Karen Leger, a preschool teacher from Hubbardston, said she organized the vigil when she realized there were not any events marking the anniversary in the area.
I have strong feelings about the war and this administration, Ms. Leger said, citing the lies, the death and destruction.
Bella Kaldera, a Hubbardston resident who works in Gardner as a residential counselor for a group home, brought a U.S. flag, saying, I object to the symbols of patriotism being co-opted by those who have no interest in the common good.
Mrs. Kaldera said the war had nothing to do with the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
But the lies have just kept on coming, she said. And whos profited? Halliburton.
Mr. Hawkins wife, Leanne, held a got democracy? sign.
The war is unjust and the country was led into it under false pretenses about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, she said.
Mrs. Hawkins said this war is about the will of neo-conservatives and the Bush administration.
Theyre just really doing it to fuel the military-industrial complex, she said.
Gary H. Sebastian, a high-school teacher from Fitchburg, said, Im basically opposed to this war because I think its pretty obvious that the Bush administrations policies about oil have a lot more to do with this than freedom of the people of Iraq.
Allan and Frances Armington of Fitchburg turned out, with Mrs. Armington bundled up in a muffler to fight the cold.
Mrs. Armington, a retired teacher who is a literacy volunteer, said it is ironic that the country is using up so many resources to protect its dependency on oil.
Instead, the government could be going to the root of the problem and using the money to fund alternative energy sources, she said.
Which people is he talking about? There is a difference between people and pond scum.
and four of them were teachers.
"one nation under surveillance".With people like this it should be!!
I know.
It gets old really fast, and I am glad to see that most Americans are for the surveillance of Al Qaeda.
May we never forget what happened on September 11, 2001, and may we do everything we can to prevent it from happening again.
For sure - yesterday's paper was headlined on the "Global War Protest". This morning, ABC reported "smaller than expected crowds", but never alluded to how anemic they really were.
"Ah geez, not this s**t again......."
Shows just how really out of touch these peple are. Aged hippies with sad, empty lives.
funny how these same people worried about privacy don't give a damn about giving up their private info to get socialized medicine or other gubmint goodies and student loans.
chuckleheads.
oh well,we're only one more candlelight vigil from achieveing world peace!
I was going to post to this thread...until I read your post. Honestly I can't add anything to it. Sums it up quite nicely.
Lefty lurkers: there are easier ways to get laid. I mean, you don't have to risk chillblains . . .
Just go up to any (aromatic, angry) young lady and say, "Would you like to go home with me?"
And you can do that in your poly sci class, in the grocery store/health food store or at the `Hot Pockets'/head shop.
Series.
How can I express my response to the deep anger these TEACHERS have, except to wish some clinton appointed DA wouldn't accuse me of a hate crime for showing that their "deep anger" is nothing to MY boundless fury that I can't demonstrate a Red Brigade invention called "knee-capping"...
You could redo her sign with "I give terrorists hope".
Key words of an Commie SOB: Embarrased of the US, and Haliburton profits. Dumb bastards.
Fitchburg?
I thought that place was closed.
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HALLIBUUUUUUUUURTONNNNNNN!!!!!!
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You folks do know that the largest single stockholder in Halliburton is the family of Ladybird Johnson, don't you? I mean, the MSM surely made that little factoid know, right?
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