Next, they’ll want to remove the cross from inside the scope.....
PC Crap!
Does anyone really think Iraqis or Afghans would give a good goddamm?
What is all the fuss about? The scope is meant to kill some Islamic terrorist SOB. What does any inscription have to do with it. Here we go again with PC idiocy.
A few symbols on our scopes referring to biblical scriptures is so HORRENDOUSLY OFFENSIVE??
Where and how is this grounds for invoking p.c. doctrine?Why are we so literally AFRAID of offending muslim terrorists that we dont dare use Isreali jewish bullets? Much less to have christian scriptural references on our scopes?
WTF are we coming to?
Damn!
Just Damn!!!!
Former President George W. Bush heightened those concerns shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington when he referred to his war on terrorism as a "crusade," a remark critics warned raised images of Christian knights attacking Muslim cities during the Middle Ages.
This is such bull s--t!
Bush bent over backwards to make it clear this wasn't a religious war. This is a total rewrite to make Obama look like the reasoned one of the two. That's a complete fabrication.
Nothing short of a revolution is going to restore our country to sanity.
If we had to deal with this PC crap 65 years ago, we would have lost WWII.
After 3 decades, Trijicon has succumbed to the pressure and is removing the Bible Verse references:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_military_weapons_bible_references
I don’t know what’s worse; the freakin’ godless Libtards who made a big deal out of this, or the gutless Christians at Tijicon who gave up without a fight...
Cheers
I wonder what Patton would have said about this? Ah, nevermind. Those days are gone.
This is Political Correctness run amok.
Frankly, it's also must be offensive to God as well. There once was a time when when we wanted Him on our side and honored Him. If our Founding Fathers were still around, they would probably grab their muskets off the wall and head out to stop this madness. And they would probably take their Bibles with them as well.
Maybe we should take IN GOD WE TRUST off our coinage as well just to please CAIR and the God-hating pantywaists that infest this country,... and I hate to say it,... our "Defense" Department, too?
F*ck them! God save us from these fools.
Why is it nobody inside the beltway can call this for what it is: trivial BS that's being spun into a major crisis as a test to see how much clout the liberals and their media still have? Why hasn't one person gone on the record saying that this is a phony crisis, and the sights are on the weapons because we want to kill these people, so we don't really care if they're offended or not?
Trijicon was successful when this was a minor "insider" item that "offended" nobody. I'm sorry if they feel that continued business success depends on assuaging the feelings of some RAT liberals who feel their calling in life is to assuage the feelings of moslem terrorist cowards. It would cost tens of millions of dollars to retool their entire product line, but if Trijicon feels this is the best course for their company, so bet it.
Personally, I'd offer the government the choice of buying the existing products at existing prices, or develop a Politically Correct version at double the price. For that price, they could also include materials in arabic explaining while we're eager to kill them, we'd never intentionally or unintentionally offend them.
The saddest part is seeing retired flag officers swallow hard and tow the party line. Perhaps they remember the Clinton years, when pro-Clinton retirees got speaking and consulting gigs, while anybody who spoke up against them could find their pension checks routed into a black hole for months at a time.
DOD cancelled the Crusader in 2002.No, General dipshit. Disturbing is the PC claptrap your Pentagon put out as a “report” about the Fort Hood jihadist scumbag POS.
"Disturbing"? Hardly, but then I am a Christian. If someone were to have references to the Koran, I doubt I'd be able to read them anyway, but I could do the same.
To me, the bottom line is that the company has been doing this for years (decades), and that until someone ginned up a complaint, it wasn't a problem.
If our allies don't like it, let them buy their own scopes.
Such astounding idiocy in an otherwise intelligent seeming individual is “disturbing”.
The mohammedans want to butcher you General, enslave your young female relatives and murder the males. A few letters and numbers embossed on a weapons sight isn’t going to make them a graver threat.
Idiot.
We should name our army weapons systems after Muslim names..we already have the M. Should not be to difficult. The M1 can be Muslim1. ya think that would make the left and muslims happy?
Flames away:
But I agree with Petreous!
If the mil spec for these scopes did not include inscriptions, then the supplier should not be allowed to alter the mil-spec. Thus the supplied equipment does not meet contract, and should not be paid for nor accepted!
How would everyone feel if a Muzzie firm in Michigan got a contract for, say $600 toilet seats, and the firm’s president, Mohammad, ordered his workers to inscribe on them a reference to Jesus?
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