Who do these fools think they are?
American Legion Declares War on Protestors -- Media Next? Editor & Publisher 08/24/05 (via Atrios)
The American Legion, which has 2.7 million members, has declared war on antiwar protestors, and the media could be next. Speaking at its national convention in Honolulu, the group's national commander called for an end to all “public protests” and “media events” against the war, constitutional protections be damned.
"The American Legion will stand against anyone and any group that would demoralize our troops, or worse, endanger their lives by encouraging terrorists to continue their cowardly attacks against freedom-loving peoples," Thomas Cadmus, national commander, told delegates at the group's national convention in Honolulu.
The delegates voted to use whatever means necessary to "ensure the united backing of the American people to support our troops and the global war on terrorism." ...
The "national commander" also vented the usual lying Republican dupe-the-rubes line about the anti-Vietnam War movement:
Without mentioning any current protestor, such as Cindy Sheehan, by name, Cadmus recalled: "For many of us, the visions of Jane Fonda glibly spouting anti-American messages with the North Vietnamese and protestors denouncing our own forces four decades ago is forever etched in our memories. We must never let that happen again….
What, has the American Legion decided to reorganize itself from a veterans social club to a national goon squad? Do they plan to start practicing Christian terrorism against war critics?
Or maybe it's just one more instance of blowhard white guys spewing their anger at being old. And still trying to avoid the fact that Bush and his Republicans snookered them like little children on the "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq.
And maybe it's time for pro-democracy Americans to ask members of the American Legion why they are part of an organization that declares their hatred for American freedoms and promotes Christian terrorist violence? It's a fair question.
2 comments:
They are old fools, as perhaps one day we will be if we live long enough. Try not to take them too seriously. You would think by now these geezers would have figured out that Vietnam was totally f'd up. The analogy to Iraq is getting clearer every day -- word of advice to the American Legion: avoid Vietnam references - they only remind us of the old fools who got us into that one.
Neil
My favorite theory is that they act this way as a side-effect of Viagra.
When I'm up there in my 80s and 90s, where these guys are mentally (and many of them literally!), I'm going to spend my time following the concert tours of Britney Spears' daughter.
If I make it to my 90th birthday, I plan to celebrate it there on the front row of the Bambi Spears concert with oxygen tank and my brand-new cataracts.
Unless I come down with Impotent Old White Guy Bluster Syndrome, which seems to be infecting these old farts. Maybe we should name the condition Legionairre's Syndrome II. - Bruce
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