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“Speak Out in Public On Memorial Day, get your friends, kids, co-workers, neighbors, aunts, uncles, grandfathers, grandmothers, and anyone and everyone you know together to show your support for the troops and end the war. Bring “Support the Troops! End the War!” signs. Invite any local speakers who you think share our message of patriotic responsibility. Be sure to check with your local authority for any permits you need for public gatherings. Contact local media to publicize your event. Make sure you conduct yourself respectfully-both for those serving in Iraq and the memory of the brave servicemen and women that...

The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn’t work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they’re convinced it does. Gandhi persevered for years and ultimately gained independence for India, but that was because, for all its faults, England was basically a civilized, Christian nation. It was possible to arouse the sympathy and good will of the British people. Had he tried it with Nazi Germany, he would have died in an oven. There’s no getting around the fact that being a pacifist has a nicer ring to it than being, say, a warmonger. But when...

For much of America, the 70’s finally ended at Lake Placid, with the US Hockey Team beating the Russians. It ended a way of thinking, geared towards our inevitable decline. People had gotten royally sick of thinking of America as a failed state, the way it was portrayed to us nightly during the entire Presidency of James Earl Carter. Carter left Washington, the Soviets folded and history marched us forward, even if not all of us wanted to go. However, the nostalgia for the 70’s still seems to color how many of our venerable statesmen in the US Senate view...

TIBERIAS, Israel, 30 August 2006 — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied yesterday that Israel had aimed to destroy the Hezbollah Shiite militant group during the monthlong Lebanon war. “The government made a decision on the 12th of July. They never said the goal was to destroy Hezbollah. It was to implement UN Resolution 1559, to have the Lebanese Army in the south and that was achieved,” he said here. UN Resolution 1559, adopted by the UN Security Council in September 2004, called for all foreign troops to leave Lebanon and for all militias there to disband. Olmert spoke a day...

A thank you site dedicated to Hero worship and praise for left leaning non-comedian Stephen Colbert. I FReeped it and put in a few sarcastic "Thank you's" of my own and thought others might like to do the same. At the very least it is entertaining to see what the linguini spined Liberals consider a Hero. Is it a Soldier who defends all of our freedoms?...NO Could it be a life saving doctor?...OF course not! How about a geek using his fifteen minutes to act liking an idiot and read Democratic talking points?? BINGO!!

Desmond T. Doss Sr., 87, an Army medic on Okinawa during World War II who saved more than 75 wounded soldiers at great personal peril and became the first conscientious objector to the receive the Medal of Honor, died March 23...Mr. Doss was one of only two conscientious objectors to receive the Medal of Honor. ...Mr. Doss grew up in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, whose tenets forbid bearing arms. However, when he was called to the draft, the lanky native Virginian declined a religious exemption that would have allowed him to continue working in a shipyard. He served in the...

Fort Collins, Colorado. The local Center For Peace and Justice members marched to downtown Fort Collins carrying empty boxes to rally against the war. Marching in front of them were a bunch of FReepers........

The list of feel-good bumper stickers such as "Think globally, act locally" and "You can't hug your kids with nuclear arms" should now be countered with "Nobody can afford 'peace at any cost.'"Late last year, four people who were billed as "Christian peace activists" were abducted in Iraq by a group calling itself the "Swords of Righteousness Brigade." Around that time, Al-Jazeera, the Middle Eastern TV network best known for their "two-fer Tuesday" back-to-back airings of classic hits from al-Qaeda and any other unhinged spiral-eyed crazy with access to video equipment and a FedEx guy, broadcast a video. On that...

Some student groups around the East Coast are planning actions to coordinate with this NYC event. ---------------------------------------------- Please resend this email to everyone you can. If you have a website please put a prominent link to this website. http://www.nynotinourname.org (A website for the Oct 7 action, this week only). PDF flyers and posters are available on the site. Information will be udated as it is available. Posters and flyers can be picked up at DSA, 180 Varick 12th fl, WRL 339 Lafayette, AFSC, 15 Rutherford Place (E. 15 th st and 2nd Ave.) More locations to come. New York: Not ...

Having read some of the threads on the "peaceniks" gearing up on college campi, and in liberal loony towns, I have come to some conclusions - aided by cogent comments from other FReepers. 1) We made a mistake during the Vietnam War, by ignoring and laughing at the "protest" movement until it became too big too ignore. 2) If you've read David Horowitz you know that the "anti-war" movement was really a "save my own sorry a** from combat" movement. Once the personal threat was removed, the so-called "anti-war" movement completely died out. 3) Peter Collier has likewise pointed out ...

Just as America must fight a "new kind of war," so it must deal with a new kind of peace movement, one that blames American foreign policy for the recent terrorist attack. Blame the hateful mass murderers seeking martyrdom in their radical holy war against America? Not the new peace movement -- it's a part of a global war against America. Those who opposed U.S. military action in the past questioned the right of America to protect its interests in other countries. That questioning centered on two issues: the definition of American interests and our right to impose our interests ...

<p>MOST Americans seem to understand the gravity of the situation that terrorism has put us in - and the need for some serious military response, even if that means dangers to the lives of us all. But some still insist on posturing while on the edge of a volcano.</p>

The headline said, "Students, others urge restrained justice." The story told of rallies being planned at more than a hundred campuses in what was being described as a national "day of action" in opposition to America's becoming involved in a war. "Nerds Against War" read one of the student-made signs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wake up, campus nerds. The United States of America is already at war, having been attacked by terrorists waging war against this country. Campus protests might much more logically and fairly be directed not against fellow Americans who are willing to reply to force ...

I noticed that the hymn proposals for the "new primary resource" are available online at the Renewing Worship web site. Just in time for them to say that they have been made widely available before the Churchwide Assembly. www.renewingworship.org/about/proposal/pdf/Hymns.pdf In a quick look at the proposal, there are some suggested changes in tune and text that I like. For the most part it preserves what has been known in LBW and WOV. The changes are predictable: -- Those nasty words like "Lord" have been purged when possible (For example, see "For the Beauty of the Earth.") -- That nasty "F"...

Washington, DC, May. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy has approved nine of 19 applications for "conscientious objector" status since the war in Iraq began, a Navy document shows.

More than 9 million people across the country are expected to watch Minneapolis resident Mina Leierwood make her television debut tonight on ABC's reality hit "Wife Swap." It's a strange move for a 39-year-old Quaker art teacher who doesn't watch TV. "I just figured that somebody had to step up and say how they felt," said Leierwood during an interview Tuesday morning at the MayDay Cafe in South Minneapolis. "I wanted to see a pacifist on TV." The producers of "Wife Swap," a show where two women from different mindsets trade families for two weeks, sought out Leierwood two days...

Bill Press you're an unmitigated a$$wipe for comparing the general to Hannibal Lecter. That general is a true patriot. You're best luck is that Sean gave you time tonight to show the world that you're a butthead. Oh yeah you're book is crap too.

The coming economic crisis. Unemployment. Health care for the poor. The almost 1,500 dead soldiers. The almost 100,000 dead Iraqis. Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher. The Christian Conservative takeover of our nation. The missing 9 billion. The missing weapons of mass destruction. The impending invasion of Iran, and Syria. The total failure to protect us on 9-11.

YOO-HOO! SECURITY MOMS: THE TERRORISTS ARE TARGETING OUR KIDS! GEORGE BUSH WILL ACT PREEMPTIVELY TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN AS HIS 34-YEAR RECORD PROVES. . . JOHN KERRY WILL NOT Posted on Sat, Oct. 30, 2004 Bush will protect and defend Carol A. Taber is president of FamilySecurityMatters.com, a Web site devoted to informing women on issues of national security In the 2000 election, 7.7 million more women than men voted. Having fought for the right to vote - and in that struggle, many courageous suffragettes were beaten, jailed and tortured - women have become conscientious citizens. Indeed, after 9/11,...

Look Inside Kerry's Mind and You Find a "False Personality" Written by Joan Swirsky Wednesday, October 20, 2004 There's a term to explain why the clearly haughty and self-important John Kerry repeatedly calls George Bush "arrogant." In psychology, it’s called projection: attributing to others what, in fact, perfectly describes the person hurling the insult. Similarly, there’s a term to explain why Kerry, a lifelong pacifist after his four-month foray in Vietnam, is now trying to convince the public that he would fight the war against terrorism more effectively than President Bush. It’s called self-delusion. Another term explains why Kerry has...