[mombonn]

Another sterling example of academia. Especially touching that she's adopting a child.

sheesh

[SocialMeltdown]

When you meet someone like this, ask them to name one country that is better than the United States. If they can, offer to pay their moving expenses.

[Republic of Texas]

Drop her off in Kabul, maybe she'll like it there better.

[topher]

I guess she is still getting examples of other people's "Freedom of Speech".

Of course, she probably does not like their "freedom of speech" one bit...

[Dirk McQuickly]

Has she thought about changing her phone number? Brains.

[KC_Conspirator]

She deserves all the comments she gets (except for any comments about violence) and is unworthy of the freedoms that those sacrificed before her. In fact, someone get her email so I can send her my love!

[thucydides]

The wonderfully named Ms Traschen should reflect on whether her attitude that the United States is terrible country imposes on her a moral duty to get out, rather than stay and be a free rider on the enormous human sacrifices of men who have defended their country.

[The G Man]

What a bunch of BS this line about they thought displaying them everyday would diminish their meaning!!!

I live right near Amherst and the reason the town didn't want them flown was:

(Barf alert) ... BECAUSE THEY WERE OFFENSIVE!!! (/Barf alert)

This is the same town that wants to give the vote to illegal aliens.

[Gordian Blade]

Her father may have been an SOB professor at the university I attended during the War in Vietnam. If so, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[regularAmericanWhiteMale]

Is there anybody in Massachusetts who is not a communist or a traitor or a fag? What a hell-hole!

[kapn kuek]

Where can I get her email and address?

[laconic]

Amherst College, named after Jeffrey Amherst, periodically engages in debate over whether to change its name because General Amherst fought the Indians who sided with the French. Just like Madame Traschen's name tells you something about her, this tells you something about the college, doesn't it?

[jackbill]

Jennie Traschen, a University of Massachusetts

Another liberal puke sucking off the government teat. She has absolutely no problem "taking" from the taxpayers, many of whom are standing on the wall, protecting her sorry Clymer.

[TheBigB]

Inavde Afghanistan first, then Berkeley, then Massachusetts. Tell the soldiers, "look for the ones holding the peace signs...they'll be the easiest to off first."

[ao98]

Here is the original thread Amherst Commies

[Salvation]

Not that the events of Sept. 11 have altered her opinions. "To many, many ordinary people in countries around the globe, the U.S. has done terrifying things," she says.

Sure, the USA has made mistakes, but what country has not?

BTW, Mrs. Traschen, you are married aren't you?

And Mrs. Traschen, have you in any way noticed the initials and writing on the bags of rice/wheat, etc. sent to the Pakistani and even Afghanistan refugees?

Wouldn't it be better at this time to concentrate on what the USA is doing right? Including going after the ring of terrorists who planned and perpetrated the attacks on the USA on 9-11-01?

[RWG]

In hindsight, Ms. Traschen wishes she had explained her thoughts differently.

They all do, prisoners on death row, employees fired for cause, disbarred lawyers, and all the rest of the pompus and pretentious individuals who are held to account for their actions in the light of close examination. If she had been celebrated at a gathering of leftists she would have become even more insulting. Once a criminal is caught, there is so much remorse it is sometimes hard to remember that a crime has been committed and that it is not just a matter of a minor error with great emotional impact.

[#3Fan]

I don't understand the locals support of her. If someone in my hometown said this, we'd offer to send her to Afghanistan ourselves.

[GretchenEE]

How touching that those terrorist cops are providing extra security to someone calling them symbols of terrorism.

"What the flag is," she said on the eve of disaster, "is a symbol of terrorism and death and fear and destruction and oppression." In hindsight, Ms. Traschen wishes she had explained her thoughts differently.

So sorry, lady. You can't explain your way out of that to me. You were perfectly clear the first time. And when your hamlet voted to suppress the rights of the VFW to fly the hello AMERICAN FLAG in AMERICA, you made your statement loud and clear.

Below: US Embassy, Lisbon, Portugal, after the attacks on America. Says it all for me.

[GretchenEE]

"People are going to have a much harder time speaking their minds in this community," she says.

It would be tough to get a sellout crowd for anti-American sentimental musings in circumstances such as we find ourselves. Sheesh, lady (not you, mombonn) Buy a clue: do you enjoy your freedoms, the right to trash your country and all who paid for your freedom with their blood? Maybe then, if you do, you should rethink your stance. It's about as stable as an earthquake.

[JmyBryan]

Excellent to see how Freedom of Speech allows for dissent to be aired by both the majority and the minority.