Posted on 04/09/2007 11:00:00 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Did you read it yet? This story is so flabbergasting, I'm going to walk you through it here to ensure you don't miss it. There's no clearer illustration of just how unreality-based and ignorant the Left is in this country.
[Link to anti-gun story: http://slapstickpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/04/colorado-statue-honoring-fallen-navy.html]
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
Denver Post propaganda has succeeded in clouding the minds of previously rational Coloradoans.
Colorado is turning into a real bad area. It used to be overall realibly Republican or at least rational. The Boulder insanity has spread bad.
I thought I saw Rudy out there protesting this.
Not yet - I STILL live here, and I'm still rational. And, I can attest to a few more of us. :-)
"It's a parent's job, including these parents who are protesting, to teach their children the difference between two thugs who murder their classmates and a soldier who died fighting for their freedom," she said. "Danny represents every soldier and sailor who has fallen, and for them to take this stand, well, that's offensive to me."
http://boringmadedull.blogspot.com/2007/04/mixed-nuts-emily-cassidy.html
http://wcbstv.com/national/topstories_story_096130631.html
We stand for entitlement checks.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The ingrates have a short memory.
Hey now! Don’t go questioning their patriotism! After all, they’re for the troops!/sarc
I suspect that they were never very rational. Emily Cassidy sounds like a genetic liberal.
Trouble is they see no difference between two thugs who murder their classmates and a soldier who died fighting for their freedom.
That tells you everything you need to know about their intelligence and their patriotism. They have an agenda and it isn’t rational.
Oh, I don't doubt that at all. The question is, the troops on which side...?
There DOES seem to be a lot of this sort of thing going on of late, and not just in the US:
Hero's tale is 'too positive' for the BBC
By Chris Hastings, Arts and Media Editor, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 11:56pm BST 07/04/2007
Amid the deaths and the grim daily struggle bravely borne by Britain's forces in southern Iraq, one tale of heroism stands out.
Private Johnson Beharry with his Victoria Cross
Private Johnson Beharry's courage in rescuing an ambushed foot patrol then, in a second act, saving his vehicle's crew despite his own terrible injuries earned him a Victoria Cross.
For the BBC, however, his story is "too positive" about the conflict.
The corporation has cancelled the commission for a 90-minute drama about Britain's youngest surviving Victoria Cross hero because it feared it would alienate members of the audience opposed to the war in Iraq.
The BBC's retreat from the project, which had the working title Victoria Cross, has sparked accusations of cowardice and will reignite the debate about the broadcaster's alleged lack of patriotism.
"The BBC has behaved in a cowardly fashion by pulling the plug on the project altogether," said a source close to the project. "It began to have second thoughts last year as the war in Iraq deteriorated. It felt it couldn't show anything with a degree of positivity about the conflict.
"It needed to tell stories about Iraq which reflected the fact that some members of the audience didn't approve of what was going on. Obviously a story about Johnson Beharry could never do that. You couldn't have a scene where he suddenly turned around and denounced the war because he just wouldn't do that.
"The film is now on hold and it will only make it to the screen if another broadcaster picks it up."
The independent production company which was developing the project for a prime-time slot on BBC1 is now believed to have taken the script to ITV.
Pte Beharry, 27, who was awarded the VC in March 2005, was the first person to receive the country's highest award for valour since 1982 and the first living recipient since 1965. He was honoured for two acts of outstanding gallantry which occurred just over a month apart while he was serving with the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, in the Iraqi town of al-Amarah, in 2004.
He was cited for "valour of the highest order" after he drove a Warrior tracked armoured vehicle through heavy enemy fire in May 2004 to come to the rescue of a foot patrol that had been caught in a series of ambushes. The 30-ton Warrior was hit by multiple rocket-propelled grenades, causing damage and resulting in the loss of radio communications. Pte Beharry drove through the ambush, taking his own injured crew and leading five other Warriors to safety. He then extracted his wounded colleagues from the vehicle, all the time exposed to further enemy fire.
The following month, Pte Beharry was again driving the lead Warrior vehicle of his platoon through al-Amarah when his vehicle was ambushed. A rocket-propelled grenade hit the vehicle and Pte Beharry received serious head injuries. Other rockets hit the vehicle incapacitating his commander and injuring several of the crew.Despite his very serious injuries, Pte Beharry then took control of his vehicle and drove it out of the ambush area before losing consciousness. He required brain surgery for his head injuries and he was still recovering when he received the VC from the Queen in June last year.
The script of the film about his heroics was being developed by Darlow Smithson, the production company responsible for the Bafta-winning Touching The Void and the docu-drama Tsunami, which was recently aired by the BBC. The Ministry of Defence is believed to have been supportive of the project and was offering the film-makers technical advice.
The BBC's decision to pull out will only confirm the fears of critics that television drama is only interested in telling bad news stories about the war.
The Ministry of Defence recently expressed concern about Channel 4's The Mark of Cain which showed British troops brutalising Iraqi detainees. That programme was temporarily pulled from the schedules after Iran detained 15 British troops.
A spokesman for the BBC admitted that it had abandoned the VC project but refused to elaborate.
This really illustrates how far gone Britian is. Their definition of "HERO" is the behaviour displayed by the 15 who cowered when confronted by geriatric Iranian troops.
Columbine parent Linda Cuesta said she endured long, panicked moments after the shooting desperately looking for her son. During that time she bargained with God. If her son made it out safely, she'd go to work against guns.
Her son escaped safely, and Cuesta has found a cause.
"I used to be polite, and I tried to understand the need for citizens to own guns, to own arsenals," she said. "I'm not polite anymore. I want the NRA out of this city and out of this state."
From this article:
Almost reminds me of Cindy Sheehan vis a vis the War in Iraq.
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