Posted on 03/23/2007 5:56:59 PM PDT by TFFKAMM
If the cause of peace is worth supporting and we believe it is then peace protesters must demonstrate the values they promote. The vast majority of the estimated 15,000 protesters who took part in a peace march Sunday in downtown Portland did just that. They were well-behaved, well-intentioned and serious about their cause.
But then there was a smaller group of demonstrators if they can even be called that who engaged in numerous actions that violated the sensibilities of ordinary people and damaged the very cause the activists claimed to endorse.
This splinter group of protesters showed its support for peace by burning a U.S. soldier in effigy. It exhibited its supposedly pacifist nature by knocking a police officer off his bike an action that brought out the police riot squad.
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....
(Excerpt) Read more at portlandtribune.com ...
Had I seen him do that, I would not hesitated to beat his sorry but. No jury would convict me, temporarily insane.
"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.
One for your Anti-American Idiot files.
you're right.
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!
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.
The guy who did that is the Portland Tribune's kind of guy.
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.
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.
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.
Yes. You articulated it better than I did.
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.
Not to mention the defecation released methane gas and other noxious chemicals. Talk about environmental degradation.
Many, many people at my place of work agree: There are some really bad times ahead for this country.
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?
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.
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.
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