National Guardsman Attacked by Protestors

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National Guardsman Attacked by Protestors

Post by Bigity » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:47 pm

http://www.kirotv.com/news/9765757/detail.html

Cowardly little shits. Too bad he wasn't in Texas, where someone could have shot the jerks.
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Post by adciv » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:51 pm

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I wouldn't want to remain anonymous. Hell, I'd volunteer to deliver a punishment on them.

So much for anti-war protesters being peace activists.
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Post by Calus » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:57 pm

There where reports of Coast guard personal being attacked durring Vietnam.

People going against their own rantings.
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Post by dmpotter » Thu Aug 31, 2006 6:10 pm

[quote="adciv";p="668192"]So much for anti-war protesters being peace activists.[/quote]
So much for those anti-war protestors being peace activists.

There are idiots in every group. Someone found them.

And, yeah, stuff like this happened around Vietnam too. A lot of the "support our troops" stuff comes from not wanting to repeat that.

Hate the war if you must, don't hate the soldiers.
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Post by StruckingFuggle » Thu Aug 31, 2006 6:17 pm

So much for anti-war protesters being peace activists.
While this incident is horrible & disgusting, that attitude is uncalled for. It's about as valid and accurate as calling vietnam vets baby killers for the Mai Lai massacre.

Still, though... what stupid, violent, miserable little hypocritical fucks. I hope they get caught, tried, and locked up.



edit: ninja'd by dmp, who said it better.
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Post by Makh » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:36 pm

He was protesting against the war with a shotgun... :?
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Post by Metzgirl » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:38 pm

I think they all need to be drafted. and sent to at least three months of bootcamp with no possibility of being kicked out.
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Post by Makh » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:43 pm

You would give military training to war protestors?
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Post by StruckingFuggle » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:48 pm

Of course. It's a brilliant plan. Give some crazy violent assholes who already dislike the administration a massive and fully legitimate cause to loathe the government. Give them combat training. Give them weapons. Of course they'll happily fight for you! There's not a possible chance, ever, that that could possibly go wrong, that it wouldn't make sense to expect bastard idiots who went from disagreeing with you to hating you to not be good little soldiers.
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Post by Nitz Walsh » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:53 pm

Better solution, don't give them any military training, just send them to Iraq as "observers" and let them wander around city streets unescorted.
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Post by Metzgirl » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:57 pm

I never said you'd actually use them... They could have a special non-combatant boot camp where they just make your life a living hell for a few months. Then you could send them to Iraq. It'd be great.







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Post by adciv » Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:35 am

I think I'd rather drop them off in Huston with a huge sign saying what they did. Or maybe a few other areas in the south I know of. I live about 5 miles from one of the largest army bases in the country.
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Post by StruckingFuggle » Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:38 am

I'm sorry, but I don't have a constructive way to express my disagreement with that sentiment, so let me just ask a question:


While you're already ignoring the legal process, why not just skip the middleman altogether and commit your acts of assault, battery, and potentially murder yourself? No stomach for it, but it's fine when you get other people to do it for you?



And yes. That's a serious question. If that's what you want to happen, why not go beat them up yourself? Does it somehow make it better, if it wasn't done by your hand? And if so, why?
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Post by Calus » Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:31 am

Lets do it with StruckingFuggle too.
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Post by Blaze » Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:33 am

[quote="Makh";p="668229"]He was protesting against the war with a shotgun... :?[/quote]

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