This is America (local high schoolers go to an anti war/Bush protest)

Bucks Country Courier Times ^ | November 6, 2003 | SHANON JAEGER (HS Student)

[Killborn]

The Mask style? :)

[Hunble]

OUTSTANDING!

Not only have I book-marked your comments, but I have been sending it to every Liberal that I know.

[randog]

Let me know, too, if your letter makes it to print.

Thanks for your service.

[thulldud]

Well, technically, after a linking verb, the nominative is correct ("Caucci and I"), while colloquial speech normally uses the objective.

All the same, I suspect your instinct is correct--she may just have happened to get it right, like a stopped clock.

[LoneConservative]

What some of these "Patriotic" protesters don't get is that to the Taliban, al Qaeda, etc., They are infidels as well, and don't really care about their politics. They'd want these two little uncovered women DEAD.

[3catsanadog]

Took a look at this. I wonder more about the parents who would let their jailbait age youngsters go to Spring Breaks where everyone knows that sex, drugs, booze and rock 'n roll are the main activities that people who attend participate in.

[TastyManatees]

Actually, me and my sweetie jogged past these losers over by the Washington Monument that day. They congregated together near a bunch of guys playing football, so it almost looked like their group was bigger than it was...until the games ended and a few tourist buses pulled out. Then, it became clear that their demonstration consisted of a few hundred people (maybe a thousand, but I doubt it). They had red flags galore and looked pretty foolish for their efforts. We laughed at them for a while, then went back to jogging circles around them.

It was a beautiful day, otherwise.

Good letter.

Tasty Manatees

[Killborn]

Considering their leftism it is safe to say that her parents are also communists.

[dueler88]

my first post, inspired by my colleague mr. atos . . .

What struck me about the girl’s article is that it wasn’t about principles; it was about BELONGING to something. She’s fallen for the socialist propaganda, but that’s what young Americans often do because they don’t have to worry about their freedom, their safety, or that of their friends and family. To young adults, everything works in socialism because nobody has to take real responsibility for themselves. The State is your parents, supporting your tuition, room, board, etc.

I don’t know exactly when the leap takes place - when a young person realizes that with freedom comes responsibility. Perhaps more importantly, the realization that freedom can not be mandated or enforced; it comes from an individual concept of yourself that, through a little philosophizing, also becomes applicable to those around you. The step has to be made from “everybody should be like me because I’m free and smart and young and idealistic” to “everybody should have the freedom to have their own opinions, determine their own course and respect the courses of others.” It takes an understanding of what oppression is and how to overcome it.

Sadly, I fear that it is going to take an even greater catastrophe than 9/11 for the Left to wake up and understand that there are people that want us dead simply because of our belief in freedom.

[Mr.Atos]

Well said, dueler88 (again!). Welcome to Free Republic!

Atos

[Abe Froman]

Absolutely......these girls are not ideologically self-aware. Their protest is frankly more of a social endeavor than an ideological one.

[DeuceTraveler]

One can but hope.

[DeuceTraveler]

"The Mask style? :)"

The it's-over-my-head-and-I-can't-breathe style. : )

[Spruce]

BUMP

[Killborn]

Exactly!

[tet68]

So you're fifteen years old, that explains it.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

it will be my generation ruling

Does this mean America will become a monarchy after we are "gone"?

[baseballmom]

The reasons we went to war are illegitimate. Want proof? Read chapter 2 Dude, Where’s my country, by Michael Moore.

You poor child, bless your heart. You would come to this forum and actually tell us that you have proof of something, and your source for that truth is Michael Moore. LOL.

Please, you need to read more - both sides of the issue. You must educate yourself, or you will continue to embarrass yourself as you have done here.

If you really care to know about the other issues you have mentioned, do some keyword searches on this forum, get a drink and a snack, and take the rest of the weekend to read and learn.