LTTE - The local global warming denier turns his attention to the war and its protestors.

[bbernardini]

Some of you may remember a LTTE I posted a while back by a local gentleman who always writes in to the local rag to put down anyone who thinks global warming is real. Turns out he works for a chemical company with a history of polluting. :) Anyway, today he turned his attention to the war. We have a local "Peace Movement" who has been protesting in one area for quite a while. Recently, a "Victory Movement" has sprouted up on the other side of the street at the same time every week, ostensibly to offer a counter view, but primarily to harass the folks in the "Peace Movement." Anyway, on to the letter. Thoughts, anybody?

Letter begins below:

While not condoning the behavior that led to it, I find Karen Porter’s plea to the borough (DLN, April 5) to “resolve” her predicament exquisitely ironic. Ms. Porter and other Chester County Peace Movement protesters have been “occupying” our town square and the pages of this newspaper for the past five years. They ardently believe in their right to be there and the truth of their message.

Yet they routinely accuse our soldiers of illegally occupying another country and killing innocent people in cold blood. They have accused the duly elected president of this great nation of being a cold-blooded killer and worse. They say we invaded Iraq without provocation and without cause, excusing Saddam Hussein’s actions, the biggest bully in the world. They have advocated that our U.S. forces retreat immediately to within our borders and leave the Iraqis to fend for themselves against a brutal and determined enemy who uses murder as its primary means of communication. They argue that the bullies would go away, if only we went home.

Now, facing harsh words and intimidation, they are appealing to a greater authority and power than themselves, so they can continue their occupation of the town square. Karen Porter seems surprised that her bullies did not just stay on their side of the street when she retreated to the other side. Shocking!

The lesson of this story will undoubtedly be lost on Ms. Porter and the members of the CCPM: You do not appease bullies; you beat them back until they submit to you. Now if the CCPM truly believes what it has been preaching for the past five years, it will retreat to Ms. Porter’s home for their Saturday morning protest. Maybe then the bullies will go away.

Dan Pourreau

Uwchlan

[fasttense]

1. Seems to me the peace movement is supporting the troops, and

not accusing them, when they protest the war. Since most polls show the majority of our military personnel want out of the occupation of Iraq.

The truth is they do accuse the bushes of being cold-bloodied killers. The bush was appointed by the Supreme Court and was not elected by the majority of Americans in 2000. The only votes that counted in 2000 were the nine on the Supreme Court. In 2004, playing off of the fear he generated, bush got some votes but if he hadn't had Blackwell in Ohio to rig the voting machines and disenfranchise minorities, the bush would be nothing but a bad dream today.

True Saddam was an evil dictator but a dictator America supported and sold weapons to. Why of all the mideastern countries, with dictators like Saudi and the UAE, did the bush decided on Iraq? Especially since the real terrorist were in Afghanistan.

But Dan fails to note that Iraq at least was a functioning country with electricity, running water, hospitals and a stable economy until the bush and dick turned their eyes toward Iraq's oil fields.

Bushes policy and continued occupation of Iraq has only fueled the terrorist and allowed them to flourish in Afghanistan while our troops are too busy in Iraq to hunt down the real terrorists.

The only bully around is the bush and ending the occupation of a now defenseless nation is not what a bully does. A bullies hang around taunting and abusing their victim until some responsible person steps in. But I agree with Dan in one respect. No, as is evidence by the last 8 years of almost dictatorial rule and royal decrees by the bushes, bullies do not go away if you ignore them. A responsible person must step up and force them out. As Dan has made clear, you do not appease bullies; you beat them back until they submit to you. Impeachment seems to be the only solution to getting the bullies out of the White House.

[bbernardini]

2. Wow. You don't mind if I adapt this for a response, do you?

They never printed the LTTE in which I kicked his ass over one of his global warming letters. Maybe if I do a slightly shorter response... :)

[gratuitous]

3. Hard to say where to get a handle on this

The spew of misinformation is so all over the place, it's difficult to know what to refute. The danger is that by not taking on every point, this idiot will claim "victory" on the unaddressed topics. Probably best to start with a sentence about how it would be impossible to correct every one of Mr. Pourreau's misstatements, half-truths and outright lies in one little letter.

Then take just one or two points. Perhaps the first one would be his use of the word "occupying." His implication is to draw a parallel between citizens using their own town square to express their First Amendment rights and an imperial army squatting in a foreign country. A country that never attacked us, and indeed, never had the means to attack us. Does Mr. Pourreau mean to say that he lies awake at night, shivering in his bed, scared that the Chester County Peace Movement means to break into his house at any moment and waterboard him? Mr. Pourreau can rest easy, because from the news reports last week, it doesn't appear that the torture and cruelty authorized at the highest levels of the White House in 2002 and 2003 weren't directed at him personally.

That should be sufficient to make him the town laughingstock he deserves to be.

[zbdent]

4. Actually, "the left" is not accusing the soldiers of occupying a country ...

we are accusing Bush of ordering an invasion of a country on lies, and the fact that we will be occupying hostile territory for the unforseeable future (if McCain wins) ... anybody remember the Repukes telling us why we shouldn't get involved in Bosnia? Something about how the tribes there are still arguing about who f*cked whose goat a thousand years ago ...

[bbernardini]

5. Kick!

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6. Kick!

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7. Kick!