Posted on 05/27/2003 12:25:05 AM PDT by JustPiper
Denied permission to participate in the Northbrook Memorial Day parade, an anti-war group plans to gather silently at the event, prompting the local American Legion post to urge people to attend to outnumber the group.
A leader of the Northbrook Peace Committee said his group merely wants to show its patriotism, but members of the American Legion decided their parade Monday would not be the appropriate time for something that could be construed as a political statement against war.
"As far as I'm concerned, they aren't Americans," said Michael Murray, 62, an American Legion member who voted against allowing the peace group into the parade. "This whole thing makes me hot."
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Any reason to party will do.
I dunno. A lot of people here are still protesting the Civil War; maybe that's the one.
Alot of people protest the way our Confederate war dead have been forgotten and disrespected. We are told to 'get over it' the war is over...move on... no ceromonies honoring our vets...If we still fight it is because we have been forced to by those who show contempt for our brave men... much like the protesters who show disrespect and contempt to our world war vets....you don't much like it either do you.
You can be certain of one thing, when they sought "approval" from the American Legion, and were shunned yet still tried to attend--its obvious the "Peace Movement" did not care nor have they ever cared (beyond current fashionable lip service), about the opinions and welfare of American Serviceman.
These phonies need to be called out in public. Rest assured though that a lack of Soviet funding for 14 years is destroying them. After all we've had 2 decried "Vietnams" in 2 years, and America won them both. Its a tough time to be a bile spewing anti capitalist subverter.
Lets be real here, its a terrible thing, but every single person who knew those people, or who even knew those who knew those veterans is long dead. Its been 139 years! Why not celebrate those that died in the Spanish American War, or the French-Indian War? If you did people would think you were thoughtful at best, weird at worst. They'd probably tell you to "get over it" or "get a life" The problem with the Civil War is that it was a War were Americans slaughtered eachother. No one wants that stirred up or restarted. Its a healthy and understandable thing for people to be saying "get over it" since no can honestly say they remember.
I felt alone before the Old Europe thing blew up that I was the only one annoyed by the press' constant reference to "Europeans" rebuke of America. For example, how many times have you heard something like;
"Today President Reagan said that you can't have freedom without free market economics. He cited large growth in the last quarter since deregulating XYZ, with a boom forecast. However others are skeptical, citing fears. Europeans are growing critical of this policy lacking in addressing growing problems, large protests outside American embassasies throughout Europe cite homelessness and those without health care."
I felt like I was the only one seeing how the press always focused on the Left to cite as an unbiased observer. The Cronkite's Hero-Protestor was, and still is, their absolute favorite rebuke of data (and reality).
Course I would slap blacks down who would attempt to deceive me. How do you know what I tell "slaves" or anyone else about anything? How could you possibly assume that?
Maybe thats the norm for the North but down South we
See how hostile and divisive you are about the Mason Dixon line? I can see why people are telling you to "get over it." By the way, I'm obviously not a part of your bizzare little Civil War reenactment, I live near the Pacific Ocean! More importantly this is again putting more words in our mouths and then beating that straw man you created. Look, have you ever heard the old saying that when you "ass-u-me" something you make an -ass- out of -u- and -me-? You would be wise to think about it.
Today, a long article in the Baltimore Sun (the daily slam on Governor Ehrlich, a Republican ) takes to task his recent fund-raising letter because it uses the word 'liberal' 13 times!
Put aside the pettiness of criticicizing a fund-raising letter and consider this thought. The left are masters at name-calling directed at their opponents. Until very recently the word 'liberal' was never spoken or written by the 'old media' because the left assume themselves to be the 'mainstream.'
There were "think tanks" and "right-wing think tanks"; "magazines" and "conservative right-wing magazines"; "commentators" and "radical right-wing commentators."
You get my drift? Now that there are more conservative media outlets more think tanks, magazines, and commentators are being identified for their slant. And the left hate being labelled. Because THEY USE labels as pejoratives.
Personally, I have decided not to call these socialists 'liberal.' As with the word 'discriminating' I can remember when liberal was a nice word.
These socialists are anything but liberal.
I think its great that people wish to remember those who died in battle close to 150 years ago, its a nice gesture and we should try for every warrior, my point is that its impracticle and a losing battle as time passes, I was questioning your motives for this particular War as opposed to Spanish American War, or the French Indian War. Given your anger at me seeing it as a "Northerner", my questioning about the Civil War was dead on. You want to be proud of something, you want to honor those dead? Industrialize the south, make it a capitalist success- rather than battle daily against the obliteration of our history and ancestors for something long Gone With The Wind.
Do yourself a favor, look to the future of the 21st Century's possibilities with HALF the passion you do with the 19th Century's possibilities, and you and your Southerners will all be small business owners and millionaries! Good luck to you.
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