Protesters Tear Up Army Recruiter's Literature

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Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Due, right, a U.S. Army recruiter, is surrounded by protesters at Seattle Central Community College, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, in Seattle. After about a 10-minute standoff during which protesters tore up U.S Army literature, the protesters were successful in getting Due and another recruiter to leave their table under escort by campus security officers. Several hundred students walked out of classes at several Seattle colleges and universities to protest the inauguration of President Bush
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swampfox:
Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Due, right, a U.S. Army recruiter, is surrounded by protesters at Seattle Central Community College, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, in Seattle. After about a 10-minute standoff during which protesters tore up U.S Army literature, the protesters were successful in getting Due and another recruiter to leave their table under escort by campus security officers. Several hundred students walked out of classes at several Seattle colleges and universities to protest the inauguration of President Bush
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Ever notice how violent the non-violent, peacenik’s are?
 
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Lance:
Ever notice how violent the non-violent, peacenik’s are?
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What I’ve noticed their rights always supercede the rights of anyone who disagrees with them and they continue to exhibit “no-klass”—they also whine a lot.
 
Yep, real mature. Tomorrow’s leaders for sure. They’ll end up getting degrees in art history or basketweaving or something and they’ll be describing this evenings specials in various restaurants for a living. They remind me of the lemming like protesters of decades past, rebels without a clue. Hats off to the recruiters who demonstrated far more patience than I would have.
 
Freedom. Today was all about freedom.

Are the anarchists on the left in favor of freedom for Iraqis the same way they were in favor of freedom for the Vietnamese?
 
I think that many of our young are protesting due to some romantic tie to the 60’s and 70’s. They want to be hippies. The music of the era has made a revivial and they want to match the actions. It was wrong then, and it is wrong now.
 
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Fitz:
I think that many of our young are protesting due to some romantic tie to the 60’s and 70’s. They want to be hippies. The music of the era has made a revivial and they want to match the actions. It was wrong then, and it is wrong now.
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Egged on and indoctrinated by an elitist MSM and NEA teachers, who, when they themselves graduated high school, had the lowest SAT scores of any group of high school graduates. Thomas Sowell has written on this extensively.
 
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swampfox:
Several hundred students walked out of classes at several Seattle colleges and universities to protest the inauguration of President Bush
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Wow, they’ll do anything to get out of class.
 
vern humphrey:
And when I point out that you can’t be “support the troops but oppose the war” liberals always get indignant. http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon11.gif
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Let’s face it Vern, these are the kind of folks who when they get to heaven are going to tell St. Peter he’s not organized the place correctly, he’s not being fair, and he’s not being “compassionate” and begin to picket the entrance gates. Who was the author who called this the “age of lemmings”?
 
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HagiaSophia:
Let’s face it Vern, these are the kind of folks who when they get to heaven are going to tell St. Peter he’s not organized the place correctly, he’s not being fair, and he’s not being “compassionate” and begin to picket the entrance gates. Who was the author who called this the “age of lemmings”?
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Sadly, you are right – a bunch of selfish, self-centered little hedonists.
 
hey vern, just a quick question. What are your thoughts as to how someone who doesn’t agree with the war should go about voicing their opinion? It’s not a loaded question, so please don’t take it as such. Thanks!
 
I for one applaud Sergeant Due and company for keeping their cool and not axing the little buggers.

Lord knows I wouldn’t have that much patience.
 
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wabrams:
hey vern, just a quick question. What are your thoughts as to how someone who doesn’t agree with the war should go about voicing their opinion? It’s not a loaded question, so please don’t take it as such. Thanks!
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The same way grown-ups do. Write and call your senators and representatives.

Sowings the seeds of public dissent only feeds the enemy, harming our troops. Treason, a hangin’ offense.
 
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I for one applaud Sergeant Due and company for keeping their cool and not axing the little buggers.

Lord knows I wouldn’t have that much patience.
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One only wishes one could drop them off into an Iraqi military operation…my guess is the largest supply required would be kleenex for the tears and a change of underwear as they quivered in the corner.
 
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wabrams:
hey vern, just a quick question. What are your thoughts as to how someone who doesn’t agree with the war should go about voicing their opinion? It’s not a loaded question, so please don’t take it as such. Thanks!
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The first thing one should do is carefully consider the damage that one can do by irresponsible actions.

By protesting the war, we give the enemy encouragement to continue killing Americans. We give them leave to hope that another anti-war movement will defeat the United States, and that they can win in the streets of America what they cannot win on the battlefield.

Next, one should look to the outcome – what exactly IS it that those who oppose the war WANT? What is their desired endgame?

Do they want peace? Do they want Iraq to be free of dictatorship? Do they want other nations like Iran to be deterred in their hostility and pursuit of WMD?

The best way to achieve those goals is a swift and successful conclusion to the war. And protests in the streets, attacking Army recruiters, or spitting on men returning from overseas won’t accomplish that.
 
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HagiaSophia:
Let’s face it Vern, these are the kind of folks who when they get to heaven are going to tell St. Peter he’s not organized the place correctly, he’s not being fair, and he’s not being “compassionate” and begin to picket the entrance gates. Who was the author who called this the “age of lemmings”?
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Well, at least you imagine they’ll possibly get close to heaven! 😉
My dad had an album of logging songs once that imagined a fire inspector’s final end. The singer thought it would be okay if the fellow got to heaven, but if he went the other way…“Satan! Look at the fire danger! We gotta close you down!”

Remember that of course “the kind of folks” who oppose Mr. Bush cover a huge political spectrum–that is one of the reasons he won. You can’t paint them all with the same brush any more than you can lump Billy Graham with the far-right Aryan nation types. Some are non-violent, while some are terrorists, plain and simple… this is true on both the left and on the right.

There are lemmings on both sides, too. You know it, and the Karl Rove types on both sides bank on it. That’s why the bulk of our political discourse is so shallow and pathetic.
 
vern humphrey:
The first thing one should do is carefully consider the damage that one can do by irresponsible actions.

By protesting the war, we give the enemy encouragement to continue killing Americans. We give them leave to hope that another anti-war movement will defeat the United States, and that they can win in the streets of America what they cannot win on the battlefield.

Next, one should look to the outcome – what exactly IS it that those who oppose the war WANT? What is their desired endgame?

Do they want peace? Do they want Iraq to be free of dictatorship? Do they want other nations like Iran to be deterred in their hostility and pursuit of WMD?

The best way to achieve those goals is a swift and successful conclusion to the war. And protests in the streets, attacking Army recruiters, or spitting on men returning from overseas won’t accomplish that.
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Great response
 
vern humphrey:
The best way to achieve those goals is a swift and successful conclusion to the war. And protests in the streets, attacking Army recruiters, or spitting on men returning from overseas won’t accomplish that.
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I absolutely cannot stand anybody attacking army recruiters or on men returning from overseas.

But protest in the streets, whether we like it or not, is part of our 1st Amendment rights. How the protesting in the streets is condeucted is another subject.
 
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wabrams:
I absolutely cannot stand anybody attacking army recruiters or on men returning from overseas.

But protest in the streets, whether we like it or not, is part of our 1st Amendment rights. How the protesting in the streets is condeucted is another subject.
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No one disagrees that people have a right to freely assemble and petition for a redress of grievances.

That doesn’t mean that all protests are responsible, or that the people who engage in them are not costing American lives.
 
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