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| Disabled Iraq Vet Deserved Verbal Abuse, Sez Moonbat Island, WA Op-Ed | |
| 2004-07-10 | |
| From the July 10 edition of the Bainbridge Review. Not yet on the paper’s Website (www.bainbridgereview.com). Other stories from the 7/10 edition are online, not this op-ed. I’ll leave it to my fellow Rantburgers to decide if the editor is just being a candy-assed coward... Keep Politics Out of Our July 4 Parade Partisan speech inspires a partisan response. This is news? Yet fireworks are sounding, amid complaints that a young gentleman carrying a "Veterans for Bush" sigh was "harassed" by an announcer and subjected to verbal abuse from the crowd at last Sunday’s Grand Old Fourth of July parade. The incident has aroused indignation in some circles and attracted the attention of the Seattle media. Not just the Seattle media, you leftist assnugget. Michelle Malkin’s gotten ahold of it now, and in about 48 hours, the entire fucking country is going to know your name. Hope to hell your home number’s unlisted, schmuck. Have we islanders besmirched our own good name with a shameless affront to our veterans and our nation?
Bullshit. Too many witnesses, including a Vietnam vet who contacted the Seattle P-I and ignited this story. Someone’s gonna have video, too, so quit lying, you asshole. Given that she lost her own father in a foreign war, we have to think her "Support the Troops" credentials are intact. Oh, really? Then explain the "why" of Howard Zinn, WW2 bomber navigator turned "Amerikkka Is Evil" historian. Or, for that matter, explain John Effing Kerry... But what of the invectives alleged to have been hurled by several folks watching the parade? While we’re generally opposed to rudeness—who isn’t?— we also take issue with the idea that you can taunt a crownd and not expect a heated response. It wasn’t directed at his politics, numbnuts - it was directed at him because HE WAS A VETERAN. And in these times, carrying a "Veterans for Bush" sign in a Bainbridge Island parade is obviously, knowingly and deliberately provocative. Ah, a little long in coming, but there it is. "Free speech for me, but not for thee!" This has nothing to do with "liberal hypocrisy" or "Bainbridge intolerance" or any such nonsense. if you disagree, just imagine what kind of reception "Peaceniks for Kerry" (or our own humble Women in Black) would get marching in the Armed Forces Day Parade in Bremerton (Info for non-PNW folks: Bremerton’s the site of a naval shipyard). Probably a more civil reception than this poor disabled vet got from the "quality" folk of Bainbridge. As for the Women in Black - a hell of a lot of us remember that one of these "humble, gentle" peace creeps assaulted a counter-demonstrator last summer. In front of the Bainbridge cop shop, no less! Of course, no action was taken against her... It’s not about the message - it’s about the context. "Context", my ass. Like I said, you and your fellow oh-so-fashionable leftists trashed this kid for what he’d done for his country - NOT for his political beliefs. Spare me the phony pieties. EFL. The rest of the article encourages the Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce (organizers of the 7/4 parade) to ensure the elimination of any and all political content from future parades. | |
| Posted by:Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) |
| #1 The veteran has earned my respect and my shut-up for honorable service, his politics notwithstanding. Why didn't she figure this out? |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2004-07-10 10:10:13 PM |