Posted on 10/22/2004 3:16:00 PM PDT by FreedomPoster
Note: On Thursday night, an antiwar protestor in Milwaukee spit on a returned Iraqi war veteran, Marine Major Jerry Boyle. Boyle is a Republican candidate for Congress in Milwaukee. Boyle served in Operation Iraqi freedom and was posted to Baghdad shortly after the invasion. Although he is an underdog in the race, he has shown up for every campaign forum, where he's won high marks for his civility and willing to face hostile audiences...
On my show this morning, Boyle described himself as "livid" over the incident, but had restrained himself from responding in any way...
Here's the story as relayed to me by one of his campaign aides:
Charlie:
I would like to relay to you a disturbing and unsettling incident which happened tonight at the Alverno College debate between Gwen Moore and Jerry Boyle.
Boyle has attended every debate and forum he has been invited to, even ones where it has not been the friendliest of audiences receptive to his Republican message.
Last night's debate at Alverno College was one attended by mostly people which will not vote for him in next month's election, but was a well run and fair debate none the less.
The questions were pointed and thoughtful and the answers were equally to the point. The topics ranged from foreign policy to the economy. The stark contrast between Moore and Boyle was pretty clear to those in the audience. Boyle was to the point and made it evident that although his was not the most popular opinion in the room, this is what he believed in.
Many people approached him following the debate to discuss the topics and their views and several said although they did not agree with his stance, commended him on making great arguments and being forthright in his presentation.
One man, unfortunately took the opportunity to ruin the evening.
As Boyle was walking from the stage to the reception, a graduate student from UWM spit on Boyle as he passed by.
Boyle, restraining himself, went to the restroom to clean up let this incident go.
I, however, did not.
After seeing Jerry wipe the spit from his jacket, I asked him what was going on and asked the young man why he spit on him.
Although it was witnessed by several people (at least five) he denied it and approached me looking for a confrontation. He walked up to me and got right in my face.
I asked him why he spit on Jerry and he said he didn't but should have because Jerry didn't answer his question to his satisfaction.
He called me an imperialistic pig and said that I was a puppet for an imperialistic regime. I asked him if that was a new term he had just learned in school and that I was very proud of him for using it in a complete sentence.
To make a long story short, after a little more verbal back and forth, he was ushered away by his teacher and escorted from the building.
My point is this. Are we now at a time when, even at a debate with dissenting views have the right to spit on each other?
Will he go home and brag to his friends that he spit on an Iraqi War veteran?
Is that the culture we live in now? This is not Kerry vs. Bush, its a small debate at Alverno College on the south side of Milwaukee.
He liked that fact that Gwen Moore is against bunker busting bombs (which she repeated) but will spit in the face of someone who helped liberate a country of 25 million people from a homicidal madman and made the world a safer place in the process.
To their credit, the people at Alverno apologized, but the damage was done.
If there are any liberals listening to your show, please ask them to take a step back and think before they act like this. Political discourse is what our country was formed on, but actions like this are all too common and its time to rein it in.
This was indeed a sad day for Milwaukee and America as a whole.
Sincerely yours,
Matt Lambert
Glad this scum did this in what has become an in-play, battleground state. This reflects on Kerry, and his whole anti-war persona, to any thinking person.
this is sad
we will defeat them..... and seek them out ......
But people like this always claim to be Kerry Christians.
I will always wonder why so many Christians have protested the war in Iraq. Iraq is home to some of the most important sites mentioned in the Bible. Christians should realize that after the fall of Saddam Hussein the door to the past will some day be opened to foreign visitors. That is, after Iraq becomes the nation that the United States has hoped it will be.
The Christian people will be able to visit the place where they are told it all began, at the crossroads of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, in whose lushness once stood the Garden of Eden in the city of Qurnah.
Another city the Christian people will be able to visit is the city of UR. Genesis 11 suggests that Abraham lived here. And, the city of Babylon is where the Tower of Babel was built.
For all Christians the journey to the past begins in Iraq.
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This sounds like the Viet Nam protestors all over again. Now, you can understand better what the Viet Nam vets came through when they came home. Kerry has been encouraging this sort of his behavior by his treatment of those brave men.
Looks like the liberals took another page out of the Vietnam playbook.
Thanks for posting this! I was checking Syke's site all day for this. I'm glad he finally put it up.
Deja vue...it's never really anti-war. It's anti soldier, same old chit different day.
If I had been there, I wouldn't have asked him anything.
I've never picked a fight with anybody in my life, but I would have gotten in that snot-nose's face before he got in mine. I would probably have gotten my ass kicked, but some things are worth getting your ass kicked for.
John Kerry must be so proud. Folks doing the same thing he did to our returning vets during Vietnam.
we should find out who is and post their names... including the teacher ..... on the web site for Liberals.... so all can remember where we are coming from and what we have to fight ...... not only terrorists..... but our socialists.....
Different war, same a-holes.
A real hero on the front lines - in Iraq and at home!
This would be Kerry's legacy and his example of leadership that will never escape him. This is the #1 and most significant reason why John Kerry should have NEVER, NEVER been allowed to hold a public office, let alone even be considered as a candidate for the office of the POTUS.
How is there so much restraint? Geeze, I would have jumped that dude and beat him into a bloody mess. Perhaps Maj Boyle understands that their is a terrible, roiling nightmare in the shadows just beyond liberal contempt, waiting to be unleashed on the little commie bastards.
Spitting on our Vets, throwing pies at Anne Coulter, trashing yard signs, keying cars whose bumper stickers offend them: sounds to me like some serious buttkicking is in order. We have got to get out the Conservative American Vote big, big time. Vote early if you can. Be sure that every Conservative you know gets their vote in. Let's produce a national landslide in this one.
Yes!!! It's sad!
But nothing has changed since the 70's. They did it then same as now!
These vermine come out of the woodwork just like when kerry got help from hippies back then. They spit, cursed, were nasty, filthy people. Same as now.
And..........I might add....................they vote dem!!
George W. Bush!!! 2004!!!
At some level, it's the same war with those within our society.
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