Posted on 10/04/2005 8:08:52 AM PDT by SW6906
SHORELINE - Ken Potts calls himself a patriot. That's what his front yard tells you too.
Metal American flags are staked in the ivy beside the driveway. A red, white, and blue pinwheel spins near the front sidewalk. One flagpole flies the American flag. A second flagpole carries the banner of the Army's 101st Airborne.
Even his mailbox on North 185th Street in Shoreline sports the image of the Airborne's screaming eagle.
But he says that in the last year the mailbox has been blown up twice with fireworks. The house has been egged. Paint has been thrown on the house too. The flags have been torn down and ripped up more than once.
And the 101st Airborne flag has had the word "murder" and a swastika written on it with a permanent marker.
"It's really difficult for me to see something like this and not feel sad," Potts told us of the vandalism that started around election day last year. Especially, he says, since the 101st led the charge in World War II to defeat Nazi Germany.
But the biggest insult to this house with a permanent Bush-Cheney placard attached to the second story and a collection of mostly Republican election signs in the side yard, is the spray paint someone left on his vinyl siding this past weekend.
...
He installed a security camera that keeps watch over his front yard. And for his own political jab he put an electronic readerboard in a front window. 24 hours a day it says:
(Excerpt) Read more at komonews.com ...
The "tolerant" left in real life.
I know what you mean. I am surrounded by them. They do not want to hear anything that contradicts them. Facts do not matter either.
A couple of well placed .223 rounds in the front yard would discourage those a**holes!
This man is to be commended for his patriotism. He's welcome to move next-door to me.
It is the same in my family...my Aunt and her brothers were the type that drove vw vans around Europe during Vietnam. They only discuss politics when it is all libs in the room. When my Uncle or I am around, all conversation seems to cease. I guess I have a nasty habit of listening to their point of view and then asking them to back their statements up with facts and figures. I always let them know that we can go upstairs and search on the internet if they like. I actually look forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas now more than ever...albeit for maybe some of the wrong reasons...lol
One of my liberal friends told me that there are no facts or that they didn't matter only feelings mattered, then she slammed the phone down. Hung up on me.
I was talking with another "friend" (old girlfriend) the other night when she went off on a tangent about Bush and how America had killed more people than anyone else.
I ask her if she had read "The Black Book Of Communism" and recited the list of how many people had been killed by various dictators, Nazis, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, etc. She was surprised.
I told her she's got to read more and offered her some URL's. I don't think any of these people would read the Freep or FrontPage Magzine.
YEP! As is Kitsap County prosecutor.
Are we related? Do we have the same family? LOL.
One of my relatives is a university professor who doesn't want to discuss "politics". Very tolerant, don't you think? I could go on and on about how the intellectuals want to fool themselves and and not face reality.
I'm just about at the point where I actively despise all so called "do-gooders".
What will they do after the Islamofascist nukes go off in this country? I wonder if that will be "real" to them.
Bush's fault of course.
He also says he's turned the other cheek and doesn't want prosecution or revenge. He says he'd like to meet the vandal or vandals and have a friendly American debate instead.
These people don't debate because they CAN'T. A debate requires a certain amount of intelligence and an ability to reason. It can't be done with the kind of people responsible for this vandalism. If you ask them WHY they are so hateful, you won't get anything that makes a lick of sense in reply.
It's not Haney's job to determine intent.
Did you say "Haney"? That's the sherrif's name? LMAO
So true....
I'm almost certain that should the person who does this ever be confronted by this man or any veteran, he'd wet his pants.
An easilly identified idiot.
What makes him an idiot? Too many American flags?
Just once would you idiots read a little further before deciding to prove your idiocy.
Gotta LOVE this man. Liberalism IS a mental disorder. (And so is Conservatives eating conservatives)
Yes, a generation ago these little people were wearing brownshirts and painting signs like "Juden" on people's houses.
The Nukes will simply be a symptom of the real problem. American influence and nation building in the Middle East. Middle Eastern freedom fighters will be only expressing their anger at our unjust occupation of their holy lands. Since we deny their point of view to be heard through our control of the media, Nukes are the only media available to them that the rest of the world will hear. All the while, our fat, white, racists politicians get richer through the Military Industrial complex they have created. (Not Arab rich, but rich...) Does this sound familiar? LOL
I was a liberal for many years, but for all the idiotic ideas I bought into, I would never have done anything like this, nor was it even something discussed amongst liberals back then. Liberalism has changed; it has crossed over a line--once liberals were just wrong and wooly headed; now they are mean, destructive, and dangerous. Let's not be fooled by this act of vandalism--it is not just an isolated incident but a barometer of the liberal mindset in general.
I love it! ;)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.