Protesters Tear Up Army Recruiter's Literature

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gilliam:

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?

Pretty much. And what makes it all the more interesting is that you never hear a peep out of them as to what their “heros” are doing to their own people.

Would that Jane Fonda had spent a year in “reeducation facility” in Viet Nam. Of course, butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth when it came to making any honest statements about what the North was imposing…

 

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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.

Hey! The music was great!

 

[vern_humphrey]

otm:

Pretty much. Ans what makes it all the more interesting is that you never hear a peep out of them as to what their “heros” are doing to their own people.

Would that Jane Fonda had spent a year in “reeducation facility” in Viet Nam. Of course, butter wouldn’tmelt in her mouth when it came to making any honest statements about what the North was imposing…

And when our POWs came home and told about being tortured by the North Vietnamese, her comment was, “They’re LYING!”

For a while I worked for Colonel Floyd James Thompson, who had been a POW for 9 years. I cannot say in this forum what he said about her.

 

[HagiaSophia]

vern humphrey:

And when our POWs came home and told about being tortured by the North Vietnamese, her comment was, “They’re LYING!”

For a while I worked for Colonel Floyd James Thompson, who had been a POW for 9 years. I cannot say in this forum what he said about her.

The problem with Jane is that most expressions regarding her role at that time are uprintable and unrepeatable

One columnist noted today that as various military groups passed yesterday some of the “protesters” had rather unkind things to say to them too. Good thing I didn’t get to go. Better for them and better for me.

 

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HagiaSophia:

The problem with Jane is that most expressions regarding her role at that time are uprintable and unrepeatable

One columnist noted today that as various military groups passed yesterday some of the “protesters” had rather unkind things to say to them too. Good thing I didn’t get to go. Better for them and better for me.

Somehow it’s perfectly acceptable to play games with the lives of soldiers, but unacceptable for those same soldiers to say what they think of it.

 

[Fitz]

Michael C:

Wow, they’ll do anything to get out of class.

I went to college in the late 60’s and early 70’s and well, some things never change.

 

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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.

When I went to college in the early 70’s the Vietnam Veterans themselves caused much of the disturbances and screaming matches when the recruiters would set up their tables in the student union. I felt bad for the recruiters, but it was the times I went to college in. One day- and this is the truth, a protestor came in with a chicken and right in front of the recruiting station- screamed at the recruiter and cut off the chickens head. I left, sick as that is. Back then, if you can believe it, animals rights were not at the heigth that they are now. Imagine that happening now. My memory is bad, so I don’t remember what happened to the guy that did this. I just remember being traumatised. As someone pointed out, the music was good but I really don’t think back fondly at all on my college years- lots of upset times in our country.

 

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Fitz:

When I went to college in the early 70’s the Vietnam Veterans themselves caused much of the disturbances and screaming matches when the recruiters would set up their tables in the student union.

A lot of people who claimed to be Viet Nam Veterans were no such thing. The “Veterans” of the Winter Soldier Project were almost all fakes.

 

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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.

Right. I don’t mind people protesting “war”. But I do mind all the anti-american bile.

 

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vern humphrey:

A lot of people who claimed to be Viet Nam Veterans were no such thing. The “Veterans” of the Winter Soldier Project were almost all fakes.

That is true and I have often wondered about the group at my school.