Schedule for Operation Cease Fire?

[Guiny]

Originally posted by redsock:
   You are better than a comment like that Rob.  

Which comment was that, I've written alot today. I don't remember saying she wasn't patriotic, but I don't remember saying she was either. I just wish I knew how her son felt about the war. Something tells me it wasn't the same view as hers. I guess not everyone is like my mother cause if someone like Cindy came up to my mother with her beliefs and wanting her to do her little protest with her if I had been deceased in this war, your damn right my mother would put a boot to her face and probably more than once. Then a couple of the neighbors would join her. There's no way she would let her insult or embarass my memory. But like I said, I guess some people are stronger than others......And have lives.   :roll:

[Sage 703]

Can you please explain to me how this insults or embarasses anybody's memory?  If you start from the point that this started from - "I want an explanation for why my son died" - please tell me why that's insulting to anybody's memory.
 
 Yes, it has become bigger than that, and I mentioned earlier today that the protest is joined by a lot of people who have made it more than it originally was - "bring the troops home NOW" is a simplified message that is latching on to the bigger picture.
 
 But explain why wanting an answer to the original question embarasses anybody's memory.

[Guiny]

Originally posted by callat703:
  Can you please explain to me how this insults or embarasses anybody's memory?  If you start from the point that this started from - "I want an explanation for why my son died" - please tell me why that's insulting to anybody's memory.
 
 Yes, it has become bigger than that, and I mentioned earlier today that the protest is joined by a lot of people who have made it more than it originally was - "bring the troops home NOW" is a simplified message that is latching on to the bigger picture.
 
 But explain why wanting an answer to the original question embarasses anybody's memory.

Because now when people hear his name they won't think of all the good things he's done and how he fought for his country, they will think how Mommy made a spectacle out of it. How, it's all about her. Her five seconds of fame. If she just "wanted an answer", all's she would have to do is right to her congressman or the President himself like Andy Dufresne did to the governor for library funds, once or twice a week until someone got sick of him and answered him back with the funds. It's that simple.

[Sage 703]

Because now when people hear his name they won't think of all the good things he's done and how he fought for his country, they will think how Mommy made a spectacle out of it. How, it's all about her. Her five seconds of fame. If she just "wanted an answer", all's she would have to do is right to her congressman or the President himself like Andy Dufresne did to the governor for library funds, once or twice a week until someone got sick of him and answered him back with the funds. It's that simple.

I think this is a rather simplistic view of things.  Now when people hear his name, they'll be able to know something about what he's done, who he was, and what he went to war for.  It also identifies the people that loved and cared about him, and the people that he left behind when he died.  He's no longer one name of 1,900 - he has an identity that puts a real face on the casualties of this war.  In a sense, he's become a symbol of the very sacrifices and positive things that you're talking about.  It reminds Americans that soldiers aren't faceless drones without attachments to people here at home.
 
 And write letters to your congressmen?  You're comparing a dead son to getting books for a prison library in a fictional movie (albeit a very good one)?  Come on Rob.

[Guiny]

Originally posted by callat703:
 

 You're comparing a dead son to getting books for a prison library in a fictional movie (albeit a very good one)?   [/b]

Are you telling me that wasn't based on a true story? Damnit!!!!!!!!

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
  Are you telling me that wasn't based on a true story? Damnit!!!!!!!!

If by "true story" you mean I have, in fact, climbed thru 500 yards of poop, then yes, it is true.

[Guiny]

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:
 If by "true story" you mean I have, in fact, climbed thru 500 yards of poop, then yes, it is true. [/QB]

Morgan Freeman to this day probably still doesn't know how any man could do that.

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
 Morgan Freeman to this day probably still doesn't know how any man could do that.

I'm sure there's an anal sex joke somewhere in here, but I, for the life of me, don't have the heart to look for it.

[jardison]

It's my personal belief that there is nothing more rock and roll than the first amendment.  I wonder what the neo-cons would say today about the civil disbobedience of Martin Luther King Jr., Ghandi, Malcolm X etc.  Moreover, I think the following quotes seem to fit the Forum discussion.:
 
 "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
 Thomas Jefferson
 
 "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
 Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by jardison:
  Moreover, I think the following quotes seem to fit the Forum discussion.:
 
 "The government that governs best, governs least."
 Thomas Jefferson
 

whoops, wrong thread.  sorry bout that.  back to your regularly scheduled programming.

[ggw]

Originally posted by jardison:
  I think the following quotes seem to fit the Forum discussion.:
 
 "That servant girl Sally Hemmings has one fine booty."
 Thomas Jefferson
 

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I think the following quotes seem to fit the Forum discussion.:
 
 "That servant girl Sally Hemmings has one fine booty."
 Thomas Jefferson
 

QUICK SOMEONE CENSOR IT!! IT MIGHT BE TOO OFF-COLOUR FOR SOME'S SENSITIVE SENSIBILITIES!!

[hostiledm]

ok, we get it.

[ggw]

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:
   

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I think the following quotes seem to fit the Forum discussion.:
 
 "That servant girl Sally Hemmings has one fine booty."
 Thomas Jefferson
 

QUICK SOMEONE CENSOR IT!! IT MIGHT BE TOO OFF-COLOUR FOR SOME'S SENSITIVE SENSIBILITIES!! [/b]

Don't you have some algebra homework to do?

[chaz]

I guess not everyone is like my mother cause if someone like Cindy came up to my mother with her beliefs and wanting her to do her little protest with her if I had been deceased in this war, your damn right my mother would put a boot to her face and probably more than once. Then a couple of the neighbors would join her. [/qb]

Sound like you got some violent kin-folk.  Were you raised in some sort of skinhead commune or something?