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Officials in Bergdahl's Hometown: "Stop the Hate"
NBC ^ | 3 June 2014 | BY HASANI GITTENS AND DIANE DUTHWEILER

Posted on 06/03/2014 4:16:20 PM PDT by tellw

In Hailey, Idaho, the hometown of freed U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl, the joy at his release has turned for some into shock and fear — the fear of picking up the phone.

That's because some town officials have been deluged with angry calls from people who think that Bergdahl is an Army deserter or traitor who doesn't deserve a hero's welcome.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bergdahl; bergdahlparty; bergdahltruthfile; bobbergdahl; bowebergdahl; deserter; dontbeh8tin; gitmo; idaho; traitor
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To: dfwgator

Bergdahl’s father is from California. Lots of people from California move to the mountain states.


21 posted on 06/03/2014 4:25:10 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: tellw

Why don’t these officials wait for the truth to come out?


22 posted on 06/03/2014 4:26:15 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: QT3.14
Thanks for that terse nugget. I forwarded it to one of the town's jerk leaders.
23 posted on 06/03/2014 4:28:08 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: tellw

Bunch of hippies!


24 posted on 06/03/2014 4:28:26 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: forgotten man

PFC Casillas, who was killed looking for this bastard, was from California too.


25 posted on 06/03/2014 4:29:06 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: forgotten man

“I bet there are a lot of people from California living in that town.”

Well, Hailey is 3.65 square miles and has a grand total of 7,980 residents, so I guess you’d better define “a lot.” I will lay you odds that most of them are Mormons, not Californians. Anyway, I did my part and sent the city manager an e-mail to let her know that she had better be careful what the town does by way of a celebration.


26 posted on 06/03/2014 4:34:01 PM PDT by vette6387
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>> “Stop the Hate”

An idiotic, puerile phrase.


27 posted on 06/03/2014 4:34:15 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: tellw

Bruce was there first...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-town-that-bruce-bought-1126033.html


28 posted on 06/03/2014 4:35:53 PM PDT by anonsquared
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To: QT3.14

He is a Taliban agent now


29 posted on 06/03/2014 4:38:24 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: tellw

I think they are confusing hate with a desire to see justice done.


30 posted on 06/03/2014 4:40:27 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: clintonh8r

Not small town people. Lots of money up there. Lots of celebrities. Lots of liberals.


31 posted on 06/03/2014 4:41:28 PM PDT by freeagle
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To: Lurker

I bet some of these people spit on soldiers returning home from Vietnam....they embrace THIS guy because he’s a traitor!


32 posted on 06/03/2014 4:42:59 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: tellw

“...because some people think...”

It is true...the guy left his guard post, took only some clothes and his compass, hung-out with his friends (the taliban), for 5 years, caused 6 heroes to die trying to find him, sent anti-American messages, helped the taliban become better killers...and so on.

sure...” because sop,me people think...”

The traitor needs to meet a rope.


33 posted on 06/03/2014 4:45:24 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: tellw
Funny.

They demand due process but want to have a celebration prior to that due process...

They could well be celebrating a traitor that caused a number of other American's deaths but hey, lets have a party anyway...

And then they wonder why some people are upset and filled with "hate" over their actions...

34 posted on 06/03/2014 4:45:28 PM PDT by DB
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To: tellw

The first thing that needs to be determined is “was he really a captive or merely a turncoat”. Note there is precedence for this, remember Korea.


35 posted on 06/03/2014 4:46:15 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (If you lined up the best and brightest of this administration, you'd just have a string of dim bulbs)
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To: dfwgator

Bingo


36 posted on 06/03/2014 4:46:17 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: tellw

“...because some people think...”

It is true...the guy left his guard post, took only some clothes and his compass, hung-out with his friends (the taliban), for 5 years, caused 6 heroes to die trying to find him, sent anti-American messages, helped the taliban become better killers...and so on.

sure...” because some people think...”

The traitor needs to meet a rope.


37 posted on 06/03/2014 4:47:28 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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Hailey (pop. about 7,000) is located close to the ski resort of Sun Valley and is about a hundred miles east of Boise. Given the location you could assume it is a more left-leaning town than many towns in Idaho or surrounding states.

That being said, I would imagine there are plenty of patriotic citizens in the area too, and I’m sure they are making their feelings known.

That location impresses me in one way, I wouldn’t have thought that the CBC signal carried that far into America.


38 posted on 06/03/2014 4:47:34 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (It wasn't this cold before global warming)
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To: tellw
Jane Drussel, the President of the Hailey Chamber of Commerce, has been fielding dozens of angry calls.
39 posted on 06/03/2014 4:47:36 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: anonsquared

The town of Hailey is just 10 miles south of Sun Valley, Idaho. It is just a colony outpost of the Hollyweird set.


40 posted on 06/03/2014 4:47:48 PM PDT by WMarshal (Free citizen, never a subject or a civilian)
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