I wish those little punkassed children would come picket my local recruiting station.
Seeing as how military and Iraq war issues are now extremely personal to me (he leaves in 11 days), I can’t not post about all the goings-on involving protesting of recruiters. Malkin has the best rundown.
Punk. Ass. Babies. All of them.
And not very bright, either. To the surprise of absolutely no one. Brad Staggs has some quotes from real-live Berkley protesters who don’t even realize they’re being made fun of, which either makes me feel warm inside or cold dark hatred. I can’t decide.
Rob Riggle of the Daily Show went to Berkley and here are just a few of the quotes he got from people on the street (again, please remember that this is about one recruiting station in the city):
“Berkley is, uh, a bastion of liberal thought and the Marines are just the opposite.”
“I kinda felt like, probably, the Iraqis felt, like we’re being occupied here in Berkley.”
“The Marines, we don’t need to be worrying about their rights. It’s not an equal relationship.”
…
Protester: It’s very important to protect free speech and so we clearly have the right to be here.
Riggle: If only there was an organization that was sworn to defend that free speech.
Protester: That would be great.
Riggle: That would be outstanding!
…
Protester: Wars in general would stop if we didn’t have weapons. Just like violence on our streets would stop if we didn’t have weapons.
Riggle: So if we got rid of police we wouldn’t have crime?
Protester: Potentially.
Mmmkay. Behold the thought processes of true liberals. I know it’s unlikely since I live in Texas, but I so deeply wish some of these turdeaters would come to my city. I’d have to be sure to find them as soon as they landed because they wouldn’t last long on the ground here, and I would like to capture their beatings on video.
I’m going to try to have a sense of humor about these idiots. The Nose On Your Face handles a letter from an anarchist site:
“Fuck state power (I like the way you jumped right in and used your “important voice.” This should erase any doubt that you are a serious-minded individual who is looking to test his carefully crafted viewpoints in the arena of ideas.) ! And let’s be clear (I thought you people liked “nuance?”), the right wing groups like A Gathering of Eagles, and Move America Forward, are not only all about state power (they are for lower nacho prices too), but they want state power to be used to crush us (That’s patently false. I want to see you crushed by good old fashioned, grassroots power. Or a meteor.).
“They represent the most reactionary elements of the state (As opposed to someone like you, who comes from the calm, measured, and reasonable school of thought) which support the most disgusting acts performed by “our troops,” (If by “disgusting acts” you mean protecting “protecting radical treasonous douchebags,” then you might be on to something here) from the bombing of Falluja to the torture of Iraqi civilians, to supporting the mercenary pigs of Blackwater (Looks like someone is putting his new copy of ”Flowery Rhetoric For the Budding Young Rabblerouser” to good use!).”
Heh.
I hate these people. I truly hate them. Rupert says I shouldn’t take them seriously or spend any energy on this hate because they are irrelevant morons. I’m sure he has a point but all I can think about is that Rupert himself is sworn to the organization that protects these little fuckers’ right to say whatever they want about him and everyone else with the same job.
It makes me crazy with loathing.
UPDATE: Here’s the Daily Show clip:
hear hear!
i’ve seen things like this and it’s really damn frustrating. i thought berkeley was a “smart” school. apparently not. bunch of morons.
and you know what’s sad? these are the same kids who say that the media is run by conservatives and that conservatives have the upper hand.
March 12th, 2008 at 11:17 amDear Rachel,
You do know there is a weekly Code Pink protest here (DFW), right? At least there was last time I bothered to check. Which was a while ago. I always meant to go counter protest, but I’d have to leave work early and drive down and park, and…
Lemme see if I can find the info… well, their website says there will be a big protest on March 19th. http://www.codepinkdallas.net/
Oh, and at their “I Stand For Peace” thingy in Arlington they will have “… a short nonviolence/confrontation training. /- Your rights and responsibilities if confronted by police.” That could be fun to go to, to screw with them.
Maybe I’ll invite my cousin and some of his buddies in the the 4th ID to come up.
March 12th, 2008 at 11:25 am(That’s patently false. I want to see you crushed by good old fashioned, grassroots power. Or a meteor.).
Heh. I choose meteor. Stupid, idiot, moronic little suckers.
March 12th, 2008 at 11:41 amWell, I don’t want to raise your blood pressure enough to make your brain explode, but have you seen this over at RWN?
It’s too bad the conservatives spend their time, you know, working, because I think we need some counter-protests.
March 12th, 2008 at 11:43 amOh please. Can’t we just lock them up and throw away the key!!!!???
March 12th, 2008 at 11:51 amWeird, I just watched that over at Hot Air.
Anyhow, it’s just my personal opinion, and I know I’ve said it before, but fuckers like that aren’t good enough to lick the sand from Matt the Marine’s combat boots.
Matt the Marine is my son, and recently returned from a 6 month deployment with the 22nd MEU, 3/8.
And I do believe that Iraq is next on his agenda, too.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:04 pmI see you’ve added a new category to your blog.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:07 pmGood Job, Rachel.
Thank you for posting this.
Also, thank you to Matt the Marine for his service. Stay safe.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:09 pmThe problem with free speech is you have to take the bad with the good… and there’s a lot of bad in that part of the country. Then again, the beauty of it is they have to take the bad with the good, too… which is why we get to point and laugh at them.
Except for me. I live within a day’s drive of that little hellhole. It doesn’t help that pretty much every college student between 18-24 in Reno seems to think they should adopt the Berkeley party line since it’s “cool and cosmopolitan” or some such nonsense. Then again, when they get too annoying, I remember a bumper sticker I saw once…
“All you nonconformists are all the same.”
Heh.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:15 pmRCOB. must not yield to rage. must stay logical and cool. must not push “reset” button. must not curse monitor. RCOB
Please, someone direct those fools to Quantico. I promise to film the ensuing hilarity and sell it as Pay Per View.
* * * How long and what will it take for the AMERICAN citizenry to sit up and ask the following questions of their country?
1. Why is it warm?
March 12th, 2008 at 12:17 pm2. Where am I going in this handbasket?
Scratch that, it’s not a new category at all.
In other news, I don’t pay attention to anything.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:21 pmFor now, Rupert is right about their irrelevance. But there is a growing mountain of evidence that these seditious punks are promoting violence, and the recent feeble bombing of the NYC recruiter’s station is just a starting point. These fucknuts are hungrily eyeballing the line between peaceful protest and open attacks, and they are not far from that “kill the pig, slice his throat” moment.
The suckiest part is that nobody in the government is willing to dust off the words sedition and treason, so nothing tangible will be done to prosecute these morons.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:22 pmI am going to have to seriously re-think my dislike of The Daily Show. That clip had to be the hands-down funniest shit I have seen this year. “..giant-handed constitutional scholar…”, too funny!
I think that’s why I don’t bother with trying to poke fun at dumb-asses like that; I’d just be pointing out the obvious. How does anybody take anything they say seriously?
March 12th, 2008 at 12:23 pmSometimes I believe we should take away some free speech rights for the greater good. Somehow, I don’t believe the troops died for the right of these asshats to vilify them. That’s just against basic human nature. Nobody’s THAT saintly.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:25 pmdiapers sagging
they wail
at Marines
stonelike
grinning
behind thin battlements of
glass and posters
eggs and curses
they spurt as
droplets of
fun juice
on sheets
doors open
Marines exit
diapered asses in retreat
but not before
meaty
collisions
of scarred knuckles
and quivering chins
to the dorms
March 12th, 2008 at 12:25 pmthey yell
let us tell
the tale
with voices full of
empty
passion
how brave
we are
DearRachel,
Please do not get so worked up, Mistress (other than over the lack of police response when the protesters break the law). My personal experience (22 years active Navy) is that few military personnel get worked up about these tards, so if the targets of the protests are not offended, you should not blow a forehead vein over the protesters.
Again, my personal experience is that military guys don’t normally get worked up because, having taken an oath to defend the Constitution, we really do see them exercising their Constitutional rights. Plus, we recognize that they are tards and look at them much like you probably looked at Sunny when she pooped on a neighbor’s lawn: you tried and tried to show her The Way but, being a poor, dumb animal, she just sometimes does something stupid. Like participate in a Code Pink protest.
Plus, the funnest thing to do in the whole world is to engage them in discussion. There used to be a perpetual anti-nuke protest at the Pentagon (outside Corridor 3). I used to go by them in uniform on cold mornings, buy them some coffee, and take it out to them. When they would hit me with their anti-nuclear rhetoric, I would agree with their overarching points (invariably: we dont want nuclear war and want to actively work to prevent one) while explaining that I disagreed with their approach (theirs: ban nukes. mine: overwhelming superiority). You could see the brain synapses trying to process the information that the Evil Military Beast (c) was actually nice to them. bwahaha.
BTW, these same folks are now protesting weekly at the Pentagon against the Iraq war. I talked to one of them last month and he remembered me from 10 years ago.
mike
PS Mistress. Did you see the article on Malkin (and other places) about the Berkeley Code Pink protester who was being roughed up by someone and called to the Marines for help? So what that means (to me at least) is that deep down inside they know they are tards.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:25 pmPPS I read some conservative blog a while back that said, if a man encounters a male peace protester with a girlfriend, you should smile at him and shake his hand, then wink at the girlfriend. Because all three of you know he’s a pussy.
Rachel, I just had dinner with Brad last night, actually. While he finds these turds in the bowl of life pathetic and not worth of strong emotions, I did tell him that if it wasn’t for the fact that the Daily Show’s Rob Riggle was there to mitigate the fuming hatred I felt, there would have literally been equipment flying out of the window as I watched this video.
I wanted to do a blog entry and simply shred these festering pieces of effluvium to bits, but I couldn’t find words strong enough and couldn’t contain my rage enough to actually write anything coherent. I really, truly want them dead. Every last one of them. In the most painful way possible, hopefully involving rusty sporks and battery acid.
I know I’m supposed to be protecting their right to spew whatever horrible spew they decide to vomit forth, but I really, truly believe that their right to regurgitate said spew does not protect them from the consequences of their actions. While I will protect to the death their right to be free from government retribution for their words, I will also protect the right of anyone else - including myself - to beat them to a bloody pulp. And I AM willing to face the consequences of my actions in court!
Nicki
March 12th, 2008 at 12:27 pmThe Daily Show is known for host Jon Stewart’s liberal-leaning views, but I like it because they will take anybody to task and they have actually had LTC Nagl (co-writer of the new Insurgency Field Manual) and LTG Caldwell on as guests. Not to mention the fact that Rob Riggle is a former Marine.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:30 pmOhh ohh! I can just see it… first 1, then another.. with pink signs (of our favorite blogger), slowly gathering, chanting “Viva the Rachelution!” until the code plunksters are outnumbered & outshouted - and that’s when we hear - “Sunny for Prez!”
/dream fades - back to work - millions on welfare depending on it
March 12th, 2008 at 12:34 pmLet the pansy retards resort to violence. There are lots of conceal carry permit holders wearing support the troops t-shirts, and they have a right to self defense.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:52 pmRob Riggle showed a lot of restraint. His reaction to the old guy was dead-on as well. I’ve found myself wanting to kick things and have done the “seething rage pushups” as well. It’s amazing how many pushups you can knock out when you would rather be snapping necks.
I also have strong reservations about the Daily Show, but that report was some good satire.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:59 pmI know Stewart’s liberal leanings, but I have to give kudos to the Daily Show… they really do a great job of making fun of EVERYONE! Brad watches it a lot more than I do, and we’re both incredibly sensitive to media bias, as we’re both in public affairs for the military… but I do give them credit where credit is due.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:03 pmI have a friend in Fairfield. Every time I go up there to visit her, she wants to go this particualr store in Bezerkley. God, how I hate it. I don’t even like being in the vacinity. You can smell the hemp and BS five miles before you get there.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:05 pmI wish Code Pink, anarchists, and their ilk would encounter REAL fascists just so they can see how much worse real fascism is to what they think this government is doing and that they call fascism. Real fascists don’t let you protest.
I severely doubt we present-day US fascist that we’d be seeing movies like “Jarhead”, “Syriana”, “Michael Clayton”,”Good Night and Good Luck” and “Stoploss”.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:14 pmBecause we are a democratic republic we are beholden to the mindset of a working majority. Sadly, that majority swings farther left with each passing moment. Enough of us have failed to properly train our children that the leeches now outnumber the producers. They have discovered how to vote themselves other people’s money. It is not reversible without an upheaval of some sort. What if only employed owners of some minimal value of property were permitted to vote? Would it be so bad to weight the proceedings in favor of those who are producing the goods and services? More incentive to be a producer, seems to me.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:16 pmMy dear, I could not agree w/ you more. I would firebomb the whole lot of them if I could.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:17 pmRachel and friends, you need to get yourselves to a Gathering of Eagles event - preferably in DC. We have one coming up in April. The Eagles regularly confront the anti-military and anti-American douches, and it is most satisfying. I took my son and nephews to GOE I in DC last year to teach them what traitors look like in person. Life lesson learned - in spades.
The anti-military black bloc (socialists, misfits, and militant liberals) are getting edgier and more radical the more they are stymied. They have been openly opposed by GOE and MAF and cannot stand the heat. In their meltdown, they are issuing stupid threats and pushing the envelope of confrontation (eg: Berkeley and NYC recruiters office).
Wouldn’t you all love to be part of standing against them - live and in person? I guarantee you that a GOE is like no other you’ve ever been to - and you will be surrounded with Americans from OUR Tribe (see Whittle’s essay) as you stand together against the socialists. It’s most exhilirating and empowering, but warning: it will also enrage and outrage you, as you will be exposed to the worst elements in America.
So think about it. Maybe it’s not enough to merely bitch about it anymore - put your money - and your body - where your mouth is. Confront the bastards!
As the Eagles say: Fight the Insurgency At Home!!!!
March 12th, 2008 at 1:33 pmWe had those idiots from the pseudo church here about a year ago to protest the funeral of one of our home town heroes.
They had three folks show up and we had close to 3000 (my guess) and in the classiest act I have seen in a while the family asked us not to engage the wackos. We were asked to all stand together with our flags and signs and turn our backs on them. It was incredible, no one engaged them, no one even looked at them or acknowledged them. They packed up and went away in about 20 minutes.
This is my favorite part. Idiots!
Protester: It’s very important to protect free speech and so we clearly have the right to be here.
Riggle: If only there was an organization that was sworn to defend that free speech.
Protester: That would be great.
Riggle: That would be outstanding!
March 12th, 2008 at 1:33 pmRachel: heads up -Akismet snagged my comment - it’s in moderation.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:35 pmDearRachel,
My comment is in moderation as well. I wonder whether it’s because I used “mistress” or “pussy.
Woops. Used them again. The Mistress will be displeased.
Woops. “She Who Must Be Obeyed” will be displeased.
better.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:41 pmmike
That’s the one that looks like Frankenfurter on crack!
March 12th, 2008 at 1:42 pmStratfor has been closely monitoring black blocs for their increased activity. Here’s a quick Stratfor synopsis of the groups the Eagles are up against:
“Scouts” on bicycles with handheld radios, huh? Oooh - scawy.
These are panty-waist kids playing at a game that the warriors within the Eagles have LIVED. They believe themselves to be radical, militant revolutionaries and their silly recon and scout dramas provide great hilarity for the Eagle veterans whose very lives depended on the real thing. My son and nephews got a kick out of watching their shenanigans and how quickly they pissed their pants when caught and confronted by Real Men. That’s just one more reason a trip to DC would be worth it… Don’t you want to see hippies cry???
March 12th, 2008 at 1:46 pmOh, no! Yesterday my blog was the fourth one listed on Rachel’s blogroll, but today it’s the eighth. I’m falling in the ratings!
Just kidding. I have no idea what determines the order of those links, but it can’t be merit. If that were the case, Bill Whittle’s name would not be below mine. No freaking way.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:57 pmRiggle never got a fair shake on SNL–but it looks like he’s thriving on TDS. I read last week that he’s a veteran in my copy of USAA magazine. I can’t believe the control this guy has. The “leave the room and punch a wall” vignettes were funny, but you know RR wanted to put his hand down Santa’s throat there and pull out that hippy’s still-beating heart and show it to him.
The bit about “wouldn’t it be great if we had an organization sworn to protect…” was classic moron-expose. Reminded me of the Man Show when they went around protesting women’s suffrage telling women to sign a petition to stop women’s suffraging. Women were lining up thinking they were doing something worthwhile.
Kind of like the fools in this video. Thanks for posting it, Rachel.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:04 pmCaedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:59 pmever notice how they use violence and the unsolicited imposition of their will to protest the exact same thing they accuse our government of?
they are children who need someone’s approval, just like they were taught they deserved in school.
F’em.
Semper Fi.
March 12th, 2008 at 3:09 pmI only have this to say to the libbies:
We DON’T HAVE to defend you . . . . . . . . and we WON’T!!!
When Taliban here again, we give you to them!
March 12th, 2008 at 3:14 pmI understand Ruperts ™ attitude, but I have to disagree with him. People in this country have excessively short and incorrect memories. I well remember the late ’60’s and they weren’t the carefree passive Hippy era at all. We had a long spate of internal terrorism - black power, Weathermen, and many other groups. We’re still prosecuting som eof those folks … like “peaceful” KILLTHEPIGS “Mumia”.
Don’t forget that almost all of the destruction in this country by home grown terrorists was from Hate America left wing fascists. And the majority was commited by empty-headed young liberal fascists in taxpayer funded colleges.
Although I agree with several of the commenters that we’re armed now, and have CCWs, these ignorant clowns are still dangerous, as long as their leftist fascist leaders are anti-(this)war (usually they’re pro-war …w hich is why they wanted us involved in Kosovo, and want us in Darfur).
What these creeps hate about this war is they have no chance to try their “we need to restrict rights while the war is going on” crap. Although they’re trying. Witness which party wanted to bring back the draft.
March 12th, 2008 at 3:17 pm2dn to DonBodell,
If the West Coast ever gets invaded, I say we wait a week or so so that suficient pant’s pissin’ time has elapsed before we send in the troops to mop up the mess.
Then again, maybe mopping up Hippy urine isn’t the best analogy.
Maybe we just amass them on the border of California and make sure the mess stays there.
The conservatives there will be just fine. They’re well armed, and they’ll probably just shoot right through the hoards of surrendering hippies to get to the terrorists if they have to.
That’s called a bonus.
March 12th, 2008 at 3:28 pmOh - if that pisses you off. Since I live pretty close to berzerkly they are on the news several times a week. Get this:
“Stanford University and UC Berkeley will each get nearly $30 million for helping set up the curriculum and hire faculty for a new graduate university in Saudi Arabia.
The money, spread over five years, will go to Cal’s well-regarded mechanical engineering department and to the equally respected Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering and computer science department at Stanford. “
Berzerkly protests the military because they ban gays. Yet - they set up a university in Saudi Arabia.
March 12th, 2008 at 3:45 pmAll I kept thinking when I was watching that was, “this is what happens when estrogen balance goes awry on a massive scale.” That was truly the funniest thing I’ve seen in a loooooong time. I wouldn’t sweat the morons, Rachel. They’re clearly in good hands.
March 12th, 2008 at 3:47 pmThat’s awesome. Awesome in its idiocy. As a police officer, I run across these pinheads periodically. Interestingly enough, they are the same people that are whining and complaining when they have been a crime victim, wondering why we police don’t do more to stop the problem.
March 12th, 2008 at 3:47 pmMy favorite part was Riggle’s twitching face, “HIIIIPPPPPIES!!!!!! ARGHHHH! HIPPIES!!!” Fuckin’ classic.
March 12th, 2008 at 3:48 pmtest post - my posts dont seem to be going through.
March 12th, 2008 at 3:52 pmOops the video went away:
Here is aother link:
Rob Riggle at Berkley
March 12th, 2008 at 3:52 pmSnark,
Did you say something?
March 12th, 2008 at 3:53 pmIf that pisses you off. Since I live pretty close to berzerkly they are on the news several times a week. Get this:
For some reason I can’t get my links to be happy and post. Just search for Berkley Stanford partner Saudi Arabia.
“Stanford University and UC Berkeley will each get nearly $30 million for helping set up the curriculum and hire faculty for a new graduate university in Saudi Arabia.
The money, spread over five years, will go to Cal’s well-regarded mechanical engineering department and to the equally respected Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering and computer science department at Stanford. “
Berzerkly protests the military because they ban gays. Yet - they set up a university in Saudi Arabia.
March 12th, 2008 at 3:57 pmThat was great. “If only there was an organization sworn to defend free speech!”
March 12th, 2008 at 4:41 pmSnarkolepsy - dang I don’t know why the spam filter chose you to attack today! I couldn’t find anything amiss in any of the versions of your comment. Anyway, I cleared one for you; sorry about that!
March 12th, 2008 at 5:34 pmRachel, I don’t think they have a clue they’re being mocked. They’re so lost in their own little world and they can’t see out of it.
Come on, Riggle dresses like some ’60s throwback, and they don’t bat an eye.
The clue train left, and these people didn’t even know it had arrived.
March 12th, 2008 at 6:38 pmLiberalism truly is a mental disorder. Only self-absorbed mental light-weights are capable of thinking this way.
March 12th, 2008 at 6:52 pmSnarkolepsy said: “Berzerkly protests the military because they ban gays. Yet - they set up a university in Saudi Arabia.”
Just shows how utterly clueless they are.
“But, but, Islam is a peaceful religion!” That’s a direct quote from a protester I was arguing with here in Perth. We have plenty of our share of these useful idiots here in Australia.
March 12th, 2008 at 7:20 pmWayneB and Steve Ronin, I’ll have to side with Redheaded Infidel on this one. There are many organizations which stand up to ANSWER and Code Pink and their ilk– Gathering of Eagles, Eagles Up, Free Republic, Rolling Thunder, Patriot Guard Riders, Move America Forward, Protest Warrior… Google any of these names and you will find a heaping helping of patriotic goodness.
I attended several Gathering of Eagles events last year, most notably the one on St. Patrick’s Day in DC. It was about 30 degrees F outside with a windchill of zero, and there was provided no food, no water, and nowhere to sit (we packed it in, and we packed it back out). We also had no corporate sponsorship and only a few short weeks to put the event together. Despite all of this, many sources state that we (the pro-troop crew) outnumbered the ANSWER crowd by 3 to 1. And perhaps more importantly, none of our monuments got defaced while there were Eagles to guard them (which was the whole point of the exercise). Of course, the only “real” press we got was a high-energy shot of a young man shouting at the opposition. Oh well.
There have been many, many smaller events all across the US over the last year… so many that I’ve lost track of them all. We’ve done recruiter appreciation days, we countered the anti-war protests at the Coast Guard Academy and at West Point, we’ve faced off protesters on college campuses (including Berzerkeley) and public parks. People ARE standing up; it just doesn’t always get reported.
March 12th, 2008 at 8:29 pmOne of our co-bloggers, the vaunted computer Mycroft Holmes, has calculated the extinction date of this plague of aged hippies:
“Patchouli and failure…” I have never been so proud.
March 12th, 2008 at 10:06 pmI giggled myself sick when I saw the saggy-baggy Berkeley hippies. I understand the kids; they would march for macaroni and cheese if it moved them. But the over-the-hill gang of 60’s washouts have no excuse for their idiocy.
Last year I made a trip back to Viet Nam. There were 16 in our tour group and aside from my wife, they were all strangers. One fellow had been in a concentration camp in WWII. Three of us had been in Nam to break things and kill people. Two women from Boston were ready to bring out their Jane Fonda pamphlets. In the nearly two weeks we were together, we became a divided camp with fourteen of us trying our best to ignore those two in a civil way.
My best friend and neighbor was in the Hanoi Hilton for five and a half years. When we toured the prison, one of the women made a comment too contemptible to be overlooked. I told her that I would fly her to my home and she could tell the man to his face what she felt comfortable saying in the prison where his picture was on the wall. Naturally, she just hissed and blew steam.
Some people get so infected from their venality that they really cannot be objective. There was a day when I would have liked to punch one of them, but they are not the enemy. If you mix it up with them, you have come down to their level and when all is said and done, it is probably you who will go to jail and lose your credibility.
As incredible as it may be, another neighbor was on the Bataan death march and the long, miserable prison camp afterward. These two neighbors and friends suffered unmentionable hardships and torture. But they are gentle and thoughtful people who would do it all over for the defense of their country.
Either one of them is bigger than all the protesters put together. And God help us if we had to depend on the protesters to help save the day. The protesters are certified wimps with the courage and determination of pig snot. Sorry for the catharsis, but you plucked a nerve.
March 12th, 2008 at 10:52 pmI have an old oak tree in my front yard.
Would you like me to tie a yellow ribbon around it for Rupert?
I hope he comes home with some great stories and all the body parts he left with!!
Hugs,
March 13th, 2008 at 7:55 am“Wars in general would stop if we didn’t have weapons. Just like violence on our streets would stop if we didn’t have weapons.”
If anybody ever says that to me, I’m going to punch him in the face.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:26 amActually Rachel, I think you are right concerning these leftists and Rupert is wrong. The foot soldiers are definitely idiots, but their leaders are not. Also, they are very much relevant. If history teaches us anything, a small body of disciplined people can wreck havoc. These people can do damage all out of proportion to their numbers (for an example look at the administrative functions in education). And make no mistake, these people are very much disciplined. They can certainly do considerable damage by creating an image that undermines this country’s international image (i.e. War on Terror). It’s unfortunate that much of society simply dismisses these protesters as meaningless.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:27 amI actually had to watch this again. Laughter is good. It elevates endorphins, burns calories. Good stuff. So, what do you think are the odds any of these idiots would ever take such a brave stand against an organization that would actually fight back?
**crickets chirping**
March 13th, 2008 at 12:40 pmThe conservatives there will be just fine. They’re well armed, and they’ll probably just shoot right through the hoards of surrendering hippies to get to the terrorists if they have to.
That’s called a bonus.
para–I’m not a conservative but I am armed. And I will shoot through the hordes to get to the terrorists.
Count on me for that.
March 14th, 2008 at 3:30 pm