Stay safe; stay armed.
Posted on 12/19/2002 5:20:06 AM PST by Alkhin
I have no idea how things are in North Carolina, save your stupid flag is upside down, but in Texas we do not make disparaging remarks about peoples mother and father UNLESS we are looking to have out rears kicked.
I too ALWAYS wonder about calls to talk shows but I assure you it will be sorted out today, without your help. If we tar and feather the wrong guy first, we will give him a Christian burial and serve ham steak, and pork ribs after the service.
Thank you for your wimpy input.
No sense in ruining someone's hand or chest merely on hear-say..
I think you should substantiate these type of things before going off
half-cocked.. exploding Garand, indeed... ;-)
Take your pitchfork AND your torch and shove them both where the sun never shines.
And don't worry, I won't be there at the lynching to spoil your rip-roaring good time.
Will the ham have cherries and little spikes of clove? Or can we have the whole damn pig with an apple in it's mouth?
Hey Humblegunner can you work up a recipe for a whole pig on your BBQ pit?
Stay safe; stay armed.
However, Jon Matthews is a former Marine, and I trust his judgement in discerning what is real and what is not as far as reports.
The young man who called in GAVE HIS NAME. Executives from Conoco called in to say they are looking into this. The last thing in the world they want is to piss off customers, and would never sit still for treating US military personnel with the disrespect.
I would far more believe a young private in the Army over an ugly MEasterner. I am quite sure that military personnel know the consequences of making this kind of thing up.
I did not get a chance to get the address. I am in the process of getting this.
I can already see who is supportive of the military and who is not.
HoustonCurmudgeon, am sorry that you dislike Jon Matthews, but appreciate you tuning in. Perhaps you can help give us the details??? Would appreciate it. I am listening right now to commercials, so I am still on 'standby.' >
Okay, here as reported once again by Jon Matthews: about 6:30 this morning a woman by the name Barbara S. called in VERY upset. Her son, Sean S. who is 18 and in the Army and is on leave for Christmas after finishing basic training, was on his way for a morning run, wearing his PTS emblazoned with the Army logo, stopped in at the Conoco station 322 Raeper (mspelled?) Road to fill his gas tank. He went into pay and the clerk, who was Middle Eastern, asked if he was in the military. "yes sir," was Sean's reply. the ME man told him "Get out! Get out! You are not welcome here. US Army are murderers." Sean said "Let me pay for my gas." The ME man said "NO! Get out. Your money is not welcome here."
This was inexcusable.
Now the people at the gas station are denying it happened.
I'd sooner believe this young man who has VOLUTARILY agreed to defend my fat lazy butt than that puke in the gas station or any of you who whimper that its all just made up.
IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN!
Look, I'm just a civilian. I dont have any experience in the military. I never could. So I have to trust that others will take up the call.
They ARE boycotting...They are expressing their opinion. Who else but the corporation are you going to make it known that use of their product and logo are being used to intimidate and criticize someone who protects this country.
It takes one little stone to start an avalache. If this isnt responded to, others will do the same.
Haven't you got that through your head yet?
Sean went home told his father what transpired, father went to the store and asked man behind counter...man behind counter got defensive and denied the events.
So it is down to the 18 year old who is most likely about to go overseas and fight in a war against Militant Islamists...and as I recall yesterday we had a LARGE round up of ragheads across the US, seems to me, that the gasoline raghead had a "chip" on his shoulder because some of his "breathen" were rounded up yesterday and put behind bars, and maybe, just maybe, he is "guilty" of shady behavior, maybe his actions against the 18 year old was his protesting a little bit too much.
Will be interesting to see the round up that is about to take place here in Houston...the rumors among Federal Agents is that something big is about to go down here in Houston.
I generally agree with this. In this case however, if the report is correct: A soldier on leave from the US Army stopped off in a Conoco station to fill his vehicle and is told by the Middle Eastern man running the place to leave because he is a murderer.
If the clerk actually called the soldier a, "murderer," that is not legal, and could actually be prosecuted for a number of things including, "verbal assault," "defamation," (that would be civil I believe), and possibly, "descrimination," or "hate-something."
Frankly I am dissappointed an American serviceman handled this in such a wimpy way, calling a radio talk show. Good grief!. If anyone had said anything like that to any of my buddies, they would have gotten the "in-your-face" answer, "That's right! I'm a paid American assassin and you better be very afraid, and very fast with the service. We're trained to kill people for less than this, and we enjoy doing it." Then, a nice big grin.
Hank
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