Posted on 09/17/2001 3:16:52 PM PDT by maxwell
Okay, my first question is-- WHO DO THEY THINK THEY'RE KIDDING?! Let me put this into context: this is the text of a flyer that's being posted around the campus where I attend graduate school:
WAR IS TERRORISM
Contact your Congressmen and speak out against unneeded and violent retaliation. The lives of foreign peoples [sic] and US soldiers will not bring back those lost in the recent tragedy in New York.
For more information about US foreign policy and the events that have taken place in the US and abroad, refer to the following websites:
www.indymedia.org
www.zmag.org
www.wtowatch.org
www.globalexchange.org
www.wto.org
www.protest.net
www.slashdot.org
Throughout the 20th Century violence and military might has been used to curb international terrorism. It hasn't worked. We need a new solution for a new century. Let's show that America has learned something from Vietnam, from Libya, from Iraq, from Israel, and Afghanistan.
Above all, don't listen to CNN and the major news networks. They say we are at war. They say that this is the new Pearl Harbor. Inform yourself. Terrorism is not new. Learn from the mistakes of the past.
Keep yourself informed and inform Congress in turn. The only way we can prevent needless violence is through active protest.
[emphasis mine]
I won't even address the appalling sentence structure and composition (and this is one of the better schools... sheesh...)-- that last line gets me. What, d'ya think suicidal religious fanatics are going to pay attention to a few flyers and some nude picketing?! The sheer assininity of kids these days floors me... Didn't bother to check out the links, but I speculate it's more of the same...
So my question to the rest of y'all is, how much anti-war rhetoric have you come across so far?
Don't go away mad now. I want to make clear to everyone on this thread that I have no more beef with the Catholics than with anybody else on God's green earth. Hell, I don't even know how we started talking about Catholics in the first place. Sure I was raised among the strictest of Protestants so they taught us that y'all RCers had a few things out of whack, but no more than the rest of us do, I've come to the conclusion... My betrothed happens to be Catholic (albeit more than slightly lapsed, haha, to hook up with the likes of me!) and many FReepers, I've noticed, are Catholic. Y'all are good people. Don't let any self-righteous Protestant say otherwise.
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