Targeted for hate mail: Woman who called US Flag a symbol of terrorism responds

Hampshire Gazette ^ | Friday, September 28, 2001 | By JENNIE TRASCHEN

[RaceBannon]

If the discussion had included only local voices, it probably would have been a typical public meeting in the town of Amherst: a wide range of opinions, feelings, and analysis are presented in an atmosphere in which everyone's right to present their view is respected.

In other words, Jennie, If only LIBERAL, Hate-America-First people spoke, you would have felt right at home, eh?

Jennie, I clearly heard you state how the flying of the flag was wrong because people across the world think it represents terrorism. Not Freedom. Not a selter to come to and hide from oppression. Not the great country that is has become. Where else would you hide, Jennie, that you could speak against while you were there?

Thanks to people like Jennie, we have a limp wristed history of trying to sing Kum-Bay-Yah with our enemies, instead of destroying those who try to destroy us. Thanks Jennie, at least in America we admit our mistakes. The Soviet Union had to fall apart before they admitted anything...

[Constitution Day]

This is the only flag "Ms." Traschen believes in:

The white flag of surrender.

[fone]

If I can stomach any more of the peace-nik nonsense I want to start a "Neville Chamberlain Award". She is nominated at the top of my list. In fact, I'm going to start keeping track of these threads and maybe we'll have a freeper vote on the United Nations 56th anniversary 10/24/01.

Keep your barf bags handy!

[RobFromGa]

The police advised me not to respond to the messages, although I felt a strong desire to defend myself and set the record straight.

I'm stunned she would listen to the evil POLICE, don't they carry guns, engage in racial profiling and shoot innocent civilians on an hourly basis?

This Anti-American certainly has bad-timing but there are many others who HATE America in our ranks. 90% of them are Dems or Greens who hate personal responsibility.

They are evil-doers because they poison our society with Socialist clap-trap. Note: Socialism fails every time. Things just have to get bad enough for people to rebel or the civilized world to respond.

BOOOOoooooooo to this woman. She should be shunned by decent people, not coddled or felt sorry for.

[randog]

Jennie Traschen, Surrender Monkey.

[fone]

Hey there CD! Our efforts for a "Constitution Day" earlier this month was twarted; check out my post #3 I'm keeping a log now of the "best of" these mutant threads believing "peace" is the answer to the world's ills.

Mark your calander for 10/24 my friend!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this diatribe by a hater of America!

In 1942, George Orwell wrote, in Partisan Review, this of Great Britain's pacifists: "Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist.

This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me.'

Replace pro-facist with pro-Arab Mass Murderers and you have Orwell updated to describe Clymers like Ramsey Clark and this hate American, Jennie and their hatred of America/Americans and their love of America's Enemy's, like the Arab Mass Murderers of 9/11!

Ramsey Clark and the hate Americans like Jennie are the real terrorists in America with what he/she has done since Viet Nam!

What this b$tch needs to realize is when she speaks against our flag after 9/11, she is a person that uses hate and dares to call it peace!

[mbynack]

Capitulating to terrorism by changing our foreign policy is a HUGE mistake. All it will do is show the rest of the world that terrorism is an effective tool in changing our foreign policy.

Even if we the policies that inflamed these bastards were opposed by 90% of Americans, we still couldn’t react to this action by changing them. Every group that disagreed with us would know that the group that does the most damage is going to get our vote. It breeds more incidents of terrorism just as giving in to a bully results in more bullying.

[MAWG]

Your letter is like gasoline on a fire,BITCH! It figures that you are a college professor, biggest bunch of Commies in the country. It also figures that you live in The Peoples Republic of Taxachussetts. You want to do something good for the country? SHUT YOUR STINKING PIE HOLE. " You are either with us or you are with the terrorists!" We know where you stand.

[Mr. Bungle]

"Figuring out what we should do is a more challenging task. I do not think that capturing Osama bin Laden and his associates will be sufficient to make the world safe from terrorism. Our work must include asking some difficult questions and doing some important learning. What are the real roots of the terrorism? I think we have to do some learning about what goes on in places like Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. What are the living conditions and the political conditions like for most people in these countries? How have the sanctions against Iraq affected the Iraqi people? What disease and death among children has resulted from the sanctions, and can we understand the grief of their parents? What's it like living in a Palestinian refugee camp? What role has the U.S. played in these countries and how do the people who live there think about the U.S.? "

[First_Salute]

Jennie:

"During my own years as an activist, many civilians in different parts of the world lost their lives as a direct result of our government's policies. Throughout the cold war years, our government backed dictatorships in numerous parts of the world that brutally suppressed human rights in the name of anti-communism."

But she did not add:

"Many civilians in different parts of the world lost their lives as a direct result of our government's policies" to fight communist regimes which slaughtered 10's of millions of people and showed little sign of slowing up: the last really big slaughter by communists (supported by Jane Fonda and numerous world-wide socialist organizations among which are now members of the U.S. Congress), being in Cambodia, where over a million people died at the hands of the people whom the Prof. supported by giving to, "aid and comfort."

And many civilians who fought the communists, also died, alone and without much record, such as in Hungary.

True: "our government backed dictatorships;" but not in "numerous" parts of the world. However, backing dictatorships is indeed a sore point with me, as well as the Prof. But then again, "higher-ups" in our government, think-tankers who were politically from both general camps, thought it better to support the least–likely tyrant, and some dictators "won" over some REALLY brutal communists.

I hope that soon, the Prof. will take the money she has taken from us (it's tax dollars), and devote her energy to looking up all the truth which the "liberal media" saw fit to not print, and she, not to relate.

Without which "confessional," she is still part of the most gigantic killing machine the world has ever seen mankind make: Socialism and its one-design, earth-tone variation, Communism.

[Constitution Day]

Calendar marked! That sounds like a great idea!!

[First_Salute]

Do you suppose that we'll also hear from the Prof., that the million plus Cambodians who died at the hands of the poltical forces she supported ... "had it coming?"

We might wonder what did the million plus dead Cambodian people do to the Khmer Rouge, that the Communists hated them so much to be motivated like the Taliban's terrorists?

[Gladwin]

Maybe 20% of the Muslim world hates the USA because of our strength - because we are a superpower. It must be very frustrating to read in the Koran that you will be given success if you are Muslim, but then the most successful country in the world is Christian and Jewish. This most successful society lets its women vote, and dress how they please. It is apparent that these people hate freedom and democracy. That is why they call us the Great Satan. These side issues that peaceniks refer to are secondary motivations for Osama and his secret society. So, even if the US stopped supporting Israel, or loosened the sanctions on Iraq, the clash of civilizations would continue.

It is like trying to negotiate with someone that wants to chop off your arm - the peaceniks have to realize the moral authority of not breaking with our most sacred principles. Truly bizarre, hate America first logic.

[Constitution Day]

Read carefully between the lines of this letter.

Obviously, our little friend Jennie is a masochist.
What she's really saying is:

"Thank you sir! May I have please have another!

I think she really wants some more letters!

[RaceBannon]

You're a sick man.

I like that...

[Publius6961]

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~~ John Stuart Mill ~~

[HoweverComma]

A true sadist is someone who's kind to a masochist...

[NYC GOP Chick]

Oh, I like that a lot! Good work! :-D

[MississippiMan]

My father survived, thanks to the courage of the French Resistance.

This explains it, folks. Her core belief system has been influenced and molded by the "courage" of the French. I ask you: is there really anything else that needs explaining?

MM