Posted on 04/06/2007 9:07:26 AM PDT by tgslTakoma
Seven-year-old Alvin Mitchell worked intently yesterday on what looked to be a blue balloon wrapped around a tennis ball. It was a fake version of a cluster bomb, and the real thing, he pronounced, can "blow you up and kill you."
The fake bombs Alvin and a dozen other children were making at a peace workshop will be put to use Monday in Lafayette Square. As hundreds attend the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn, a smaller group will gather at the park on the north side for what is being billed as a "family-friendly Easter cluster-bomb hunt."
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"Obviously, we're trying to spoof a little bit what will be happening on the South Lawn," said Brian Hennessey of the Vineeta Foundation, a local human rights group founded in 1995 that is the lead sponsor of the cluster-bomb hunt. "We're not trying to hit kids over the head with this; we want them to have fun."
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"This is supposed to be funny," he said about the hunt. "We're not trying to be confrontational. We're not going to be in anyone's face. People are welcome to reject what we say or think about it."
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Other peace groups, such as Code Pink and the Coalition for Justice and Accountability, came onboard.
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The event, which runs from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m., the same hours as the White House Easter Egg Roll, will include a search for weapons of mass destruction for the adults.
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A hulk of a large bomb will be filled with toy bombs, and a prize will be given to whoever guesses the number inside.
*The adults told the children they could write their names on the "bombs" and take them home after Monday's event.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Actually, cluster bombs are used primarily on runways to create craters to impair take-offs and to disable aircraft.
Sorry, Bro, but you are wrong on this one.
Ask any active-duty personnel and they will tell you a draft is very bad idea.
They only want someone next to them and behind them who WANTS to be there.
Re-instate the draft, and you really will see a charlie-foxtrot of the first order.
The draft was the over-riding issue during Viet Nam.
We do not need another one.
We have enough to deal with now.
I prefer the Daisy-cutter for personnel, though. Quick, thorough, and everything is sterilized.
Profound comments with which I whole heartedly agree, from someone self labeling as not particularly religious. I happened to be watching the Lawrence Welk Show on PBS a few minutes before reading your comments.
I commented, “a better age, the world according to Mr Welk”. We couldn’t go too far wrong using his show philosophy. A self regulated man who gave America what he saw as good for them. Not likely that he would be pro easterbomb hunt.
Is there a sarcasm tag, if not there should be.
I hope you’re right, because these people are out to lunch.
The draftees in his unit were more trouble than they were worth. Two of them they didn't even issue ammunition to.
Plus, the liberal moonbats all want a draft so they can get the cowardly and lazy college students on board for anti-draft riots. . . just like the LAST time.
No thanks. Let the warriors do their job.
It’s supposed to be bitter cold and cloudy Monday. I hope it snows on the Socialists parade. I’m going to laugh if it snows tomorrow. Better yet, I hope we have a blizzard tomorrow.
I’m off but I just can’t make this one. Too bad, though, cuz I have this bag of water balloons that look just like grenades. . . . Ya might be able to find them in dollar stores in your area! :-)
That was my point precisely, which you got. My thinking was that cluster bombs, or bomblets were the ultimate anti-personnel weapons. They do not have sufficient explosive power to put holes in runways. They will decimate airplanes with thin structures, but are not effective against armored vehicles. In vietnam we did have some airplanes that carried WWII bombs that contained numerous fire producing clusters of the kind used against Japanese cities, and were great at area bombing at night, when the aim was not near as good as day time.
Comments based purely on memory, and not recent research.
If it will penetrate 7.5 inches of armor, I garontee it will put a hole in a concrete runway.
http://www.vineeta.org/cancel
The text at the link reads:
This is a message to our listserv members as we can’t update or edit our website page without the webmaster (who’s Mon-Fri).
Sorry for this late notice but we’ve been contacted by the authorities that there are plans for a counter demonstration tomorrow and on their blogs (which they’ve been monitoring and taking seriously) some of these groups have stated that they’d like to use violence against us.
It’s lamentable that there’s a segment in our society that feel that they must deal with all their problems and disagreements with violence :-(
But because there are children involved we, in consultation with the authorities, have decided to cancel our event.
We regret this but can’t risk the security of the children. Hope you’ll understand and agree.
P.S. Please don’t release this information widely because we’d be happy for these groups to waste their time and resources with their counter demonstration tomorrow :-)
I'll believe the moonbats canceled when we get to the White House tomorrow and don't see them anywhere. I would not put it past them to try a misdirection ploy on us.
JUST TO BE CLEAR: WE ARE GO FOR MONDAY MORNING
Good Morning tgslTakoma.
Wish I was living closer to DC.I would take the day off to be there.
This is sick.
Wishing you and yours a blessed Easter.
The moonbats like to push the envelope, even amonst their own.
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