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Rudeness mars peace message [antiwar protestor DEFECATES on burning US flag]
Portland Tribune ^ | 3/23/07 | Portland Tribune Editorial

Posted on 03/23/2007 5:56:59 PM PDT by TFFKAMM

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To: TFFKAMM
This scene was an insult to Portlanders because the burning flag RELEASED CARBON INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.
41 posted on 03/23/2007 6:49:30 PM PDT by BlazingArizona
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To: wastedyears

Had I seen him do that, I would not hesitated to beat his sorry but. No jury would convict me, temporarily insane.


42 posted on 03/23/2007 6:50:13 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: cripplecreek
I saw that too.

"Marilyn", the poster, had it slammed right back at her.

One poster, in particular, pointed out that it was probably Moveon or ANSWER, that had paid these scumbats, NOT Halliburton, as she was inferring.

43 posted on 03/23/2007 6:51:10 PM PDT by happygrl
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To: kristinn; tgslTakoma

One for your Anti-American Idiot files.


44 posted on 03/23/2007 6:59:31 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Will I be suspended again for this remark?)
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To: keats5
For those not familiar with the newspapers of the Portland area, note that the Portland Tribune is a smaller twice weekly publication which is seen as more conservative than the decidedly left Oregonian.
45 posted on 03/23/2007 6:59:50 PM PDT by Route66 (America's Main Street)
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To: happygrl

you're right.


46 posted on 03/23/2007 7:00:56 PM PDT by jokar (for it is by grace, http://www.gbible.org)
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To: TFFKAMM
.....estimated 15,000 protesters who took part in a peace march.....

Wow! 15,000! (Divided by 10, of course, for a more accurate number).......
That's the best the 'libs' can do for a "Rent a Mob" these days........
Geeez!

47 posted on 03/23/2007 7:04:04 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Bahbah

No, there is still only one America.

There is a organized, hard core group of communists that are dedicated to destroying this America operating in America.

They are aided, abetted, and supported by the Democrat Party, the mainstream media, and stuipd American voters. The ones who vote for Democrats.


48 posted on 03/23/2007 7:06:23 PM PDT by sport
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To: TFFKAMM

The guy who did that is the Portland Tribune's kind of guy.


49 posted on 03/23/2007 7:07:34 PM PDT by sport
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To: Route66
For those not familiar with the newspapers of the Portland area, note that the Portland Tribune is a smaller twice weekly publication which is seen as more conservative than the decidedly left Oregonian.

In reality, it is just a smaller version of its big (but shrinking) cousin, the Oregonian (aka Daily Red Wet Worker).

They are all bastards, and that is the problem.

50 posted on 03/23/2007 7:07:37 PM PDT by CT
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To: TFFKAMM

No, no. You must have misunderstood the gentleman's gracious gesture. Surely he must have been offering up part of his brains to the flag.


51 posted on 03/23/2007 7:08:36 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich!)
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To: Bahbah; kristinn; Jim Robinson; Just A Nobody; trooprally; Syncro; Thunder90; RonDog; ...

Consider: of the several thousand A.N.S.W.E.R. types, only this ONE actually had the courage to act out his true convictions.

The rest did not squat in solidarity--they felt the same but either from wisdom or cowardice remained--shall we say, silent.

If dozens had risked arrest for this, they would have got much more media attention, causing sufficient public outrage to in fact rise up and curtail this bathroom bolshevism once and for all.


52 posted on 03/23/2007 7:09:03 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: sport

Yes. You articulated it better than I did.


53 posted on 03/23/2007 7:09:18 PM PDT by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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To: CT
If the cause of peace is worth supporting — and we believe it is

Don't get me going. These people are as ignorant as any I have ever seen.

You don't make nice with people that want to kill you.

Osama still has several hundread thousand left from his fatwa to kill before he reached 1st base.

54 posted on 03/23/2007 7:10:04 PM PDT by CT
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To: TFFKAMM
...self censoring myself with all my will power.
55 posted on 03/23/2007 7:10:15 PM PDT by lormand (Michael Wiener - the tough talking populist moron, who claims to be a Conservative)
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To: BlazingArizona
This scene was an insult to Portlanders because the burning flag RELEASED CARBON INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.

Not to mention the defecation released methane gas and other noxious chemicals. Talk about environmental degradation.

56 posted on 03/23/2007 7:11:33 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: TFFKAMM

Many, many people at my place of work agree: There are some really bad times ahead for this country.


57 posted on 03/23/2007 7:13:02 PM PDT by caddie
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To: TFFKAMM

Would there be any different reaction or news coverage if this act had been done to a picture or drawing of Mohammad or John Kennedy or Martin Luthur King?


58 posted on 03/23/2007 7:13:08 PM PDT by rogator
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To: TFFKAMM
Perhaps the most disturbing scene of the afternoon, however, involved the man who pulled down his pants in front of women and children and defecated on a burning U.S. flag. This disgusting act actually elicited cheers from some members of the crowd, but we hope that the emotion it produces in the community is one of revulsion....

Here's my letter to the editor.

My, my... aren't you being judgmental. When will paleo-conservative reactionaries like you learn that alternative cultures and ethnic, gender and social identities have different customs and sensibilities that you have no right to criticize. These individuals are from a newly emerging minority of proto-civilized simians who are empathizing with their ancestral heritage by expressing themselves in the manner considered appropriate to their history and cultural norms.

Who the hell do you think you are trying to impose you outdated morals and chauvinistic sanitation standards on this noble emerging minority? You should instead applaud and celebrate them for adding yet more diversity to our racist, sexist, homophobic and oppressive imperialist entity that is the enemy of all of personkind.

Signed ... Cindy S.

59 posted on 03/23/2007 7:18:58 PM PDT by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

I couldn't even read the whole account...it was just too disgusting.

At least the ANSWER people don't usually make speech after speech about how much they "love the troops"...as they are pulling the guns right out of their hands...

As far as I am concerned...what the Dems did today in the House was a symbolic defecation on our Flag.


60 posted on 03/23/2007 7:20:26 PM PDT by Txsleuth (I don't know who I am voting for yet...just window shopping.)
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