I found this very interesting tidbit from the same place you got your wonderful article. I thought it well worth putting forth for all us conservative bent people....
Vigil or Forum?
By Senator James Gallagher
I went to the candlelight vigil on Tuesday night to mourn the deaths of thousands of innocents, but what I got instead was a political forum on U.S. foreign policy. It disgusts me that some students can't drop their damn political agendas for one day, for just four hours on a Tuesday night, and just mourn the great loss we all experienced. Doesn't anyone know how to mourn anymore? Thousands of innocent people are dead, and for some they are simply fuel for the fire of their stupid agenda. Wake up, these people lived real lives: they had wives, husbands, sons, daughters, mothers and fathers. They did not deserve this. Regardless of how you feel about Israel or Palestine or U.S. foreign policy, what happened on Tuesday was extremely evil, and there is absolutely no justification for it. All of you "activists" could have saved your rhetoric for an issue forum later this week. Tuesday night was not the time for political activism, it was a time for mourning and grievance. Those of you who got up to make your big political point, who salivated at the chance to hit home on U.S. foreign policy: you disgust me. You didn't mourn those people on Tuesday night, you used them for your own selfish cause. Where does the hate come from? It comes from people who are so passionate about their cause that they can't possibly act rationally. From those who are so filled with intensity that they have forgotten what it is to mourn. Apparently, from what happened at our so- called "vigil," we haven't even begun to learn our lesson.
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I agree 100% with the senator... Well put...
Thanks for the wonderful article find Angryclam...
Low Oil
Actually, I was at that vigil, and managed to speak quite early in the "open microphone" section of it. It should be noted that while I was the only person to speak something other than idiocy in the first two hours, it was because the many people who came expecting a remembrance and found instead a political rally, left in disgust, some crying. On my own way out three hours later, I noticed a World War Two vet standing far behind the crowd of people holding a 48-star flag and crying slightly. I stopped to thank him.
Also, if our less than on top of things webmaster ever gets around to it, you should see the November issue, which details all the counterprotests and pro-America rallies in Berkeley that I and my fellow Americans have had a hand in.
Please circulate this (the Pepsi vs. Coke) article widely.