To support our troops is to support warfare

Cape Cod Times ^ | May 18, 2003 | BEATRICE JOHNSON

[Leisler]

In your April 27 editorial you say "wearing a yellow ribbon is not a political statement in support of warfare" but rather "a reminder that we may know someone in the service who is sacrificing his or her life for our freedom" - a major contradiction! If you favor "supporting the troops" when they are engaged in warfare, you support warfare. It's that simple. Those poor souls who die in combat are sacrificing their lives because they bought the story that killing the "enemy" (whomever the "leader" chooses to call "enemy") keeps you free. What is "freedom"? If freedom implies safety, the massacres have failed. We're now at a much greater risk of counterattack and inside terrorism than ever before. If freedom implies peace of mind, military might has failed. Sadness, depression, anger and violence are at all-time highs. If freedom implies the manifestation of a civil society, military might is a complete failure. I grieve for our attacking soldiers who die or are hurt, I grieve for their families, I grieve for the poisoned land and water systems, I grieve for the mass murder of animals and I grieve for all my brothers, sisters and children of the countries we invade.

[SandRat]

I do hope that what-ever it was that wrote this waste of words for the Boston-Globe is either totally sterile or well beyond the age of adding progeny to this world.

Good Lord more Chlorine to the Gene-Pool, Quick!

[Cannon6]

I say "give war a chance"

[SandRat]

My appologies to the Boston-Globe I meant to say Cape Cod Times.

[CommandoFrank]

And Beatrice, I grieve for you and your warped sense of realtiy in that you just don't understand; Freedom is not free. There is a price to pay...

Perhaps you prefer a burqa(?) so that we won't see your grieving face streaming tears of liberalism, socialism and animal rights idiocracy flowing down your cheeks.

Wake up, you flake!

Excuse me, I have to go and prepare for todays barbque; chicken and steak. I would invite you over but I couldn't stand hearing you complain about the animals that sacrificed their lives for my gluttony. You know, if they prove vegetables have feelings too, your in deep $hit...

[ontos-on]

If freedom implies peace of mind,

Well, no actually. Listen carefully, you might learn something:

Freedom does not imply safety. Freedom implies someone fighting for it and being vigilant against those who would take it away, as is the way of human life, everywhere and at all times.

For you to proclaim that "freedom implies safety", you must be under the condition of having that someone who fights for and maintains your freedom and safety, be someone else. I hope you someday learn who those people are; and, at the very least, thank them. You can start by not maligning them, if your moral compass can handle that.

For the time being, since you proclaim that "freedom implies safety", you betray that you have your freedom and your safety provided for you by others and, also, that you have no idea about their conditional and contingent nature.

Upshot: You enjoy your freedom and considerable safety over there on Cape Cod; and you are unaware of and ungrateful to those who provide what you receive parasitically.

Frankly, my dear, you should grieve for your sorry self.

[Consort]

Correct. In order to give peace a chance, it has to first be imposed — in one way or another.

[Brytani]

I bet she doesn't have a problem with tax funded abortion and has bought right into the line that legalized abortion makes her a "free" woman.

[Madame Dufarge]

Well, that's a keeper.

Thanks!

[CommandoFrank]

Upshot: You enjoy your freedom and considerable safety over there on Cape Cod; and you are unaware of and ungrateful to those who provide what you receive parasitically.

I believe that says it all...

[metesky]

See what happens when I post without coffee?

17 posted on 05/18/2003 10:13 AM EDT by Leisler

You don't have some weird sort of "life" that enables to lounge around all morning? Something you're keeping from NEHQ, eh?

[Doctor Raoul]

BEATRICE JOHNSON = Patrice Lamumba

[magellan]

Sometimes it's hard to believe Massachusetts was the location of the Boston Tea party, Paul Revere's ride, and The Shot Heard 'round the World.

How this once mighty cradle of American liberty has fallen.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

To support our troops is to support warfare

Yeah. And I do. So?

[Leisler]

Euro-trash supermodels in Miami keep me up all nite with their drinking and whoreing. Something about my flounder white, beer gutted political crankyness, makes them squeal. Hence the late morning post.

[Radix]

Sometimes it's hard to believe Massachusetts was the location of the Boston Tea party, Paul Revere's ride, and The Shot Heard 'round the World.

How this once mighty cradle of American liberty has fallen.

 

It sure seems that way to a lot of people, including myself. I assure you though, things are changing here albeit slowly. I know a lot of people who are coming around. We have elected Republican Governors (RINO's, yes except for Romney who is  wet sometimes but definitely no Liberal) in Massachusetts  for four elections in a row. Things are changing, and you may be very surprised at some results in the upcoming elections next year.