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.
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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 ...
I thought you would.
"Liberalism - is a mental disorder."
I knew. I wish i had neighbors like this instead of the libs.
Could you pass on to him somehow that we respect and honor him for his service to his country, and his courage in standing up to the liberal pukes?
LOL! Trying to get a liberal to read! Especially factual stuff! Yuk-yuk-yuk! Good luck on that one!
I have some of each as neighbors ~ the conservatives put up signs and have bumper stickers ~ the libs (even though there are more of them here) don't do or say anything, they are all wussies. ;)
But we are the party of intolerance, riiiiight..
If you ever get a chance to speak to him, please let him know that his service is appreciated. His stand against the libs is inspiring.
I am sorry that this was done to his house and property.
Mine are not vandals, they are just whiny libs. The, oh Bush this and that crowd.
Ditto!
These traitors are trying to "support" the B!tch In The Ditch" movement by recreating a repeat of the Hanoy Fonda/Kerry anti-war/USA movement.
It ain't gonna happen again. I believe we're inching towards civil war especially, if they don't win in '08.
Gee! some typing!
support "The B!tch In The Ditch"
Hanoi NOT Hanoy
I think the left is more hostile and violent now than they were during the Vietnam war era. Certainly, far too many of the returning vets were treated with apathy and downright cruelty by the libs, but I just don't recall this level of virulent hatred which now permeates the left.
Added to the motley stew of liberalism this time around is their alliance with radical islamists and an unchecked anger that they lost the White House twice. This is truly a recipe for violence and mayhem.
That old adage about not discussing religion,politics or sex at family gatherings makes a lot of sense.
I remember as a child the often ugly screaming and threatening words among family members invoved in "discussing"these sensitive subjects.
The fact that the liquor flowed freely didn't help matters either.
Let 'em whine, snivel and snarl ~ Just tell them that President George W. Bush will be our fearless leader for three years and three months longer ~ isn't it great!
That'll make their day. ;);)
Thats funny cause even when I "was a liberal"I was very critical of much of the liberal agenda.
And,I must confess,though I have leaned to the right over the past two decades,some of what passes for "conservatism"sometimes gives me the creeps!
I told them we going to repeal the amendment so he could run again. Man they hated me that day.
Perfect! ;););)
Publius, freepmail me his address. I want to stop and say hi to him.
Usually by the end of the night, the service men and the Vietnam Veterans are upstairs and the hippies end up in the kitchen cooing over the tabooli that someone brought instead of something "tradtional". It is always fun though and family is family so it is all really just about getting together for the Holidays in the end. I happen to like Tabooli so it all works out.
Unbelievable.
We should all get that readerboard going!
;-)
DD
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