[snippy_about_it]

Good morning Darksheare.

Interesting observations about today's thread. Please continue with your thoughts. We don't consider it 'droning' but rather intellegent discourse and we appreciate it.

Do drone on at your leisure. ;)

[Darksheare]

OKers.
Back then, burning our flag was an act of war.
Now, people do it all the time.
Back then, speaking abusively against our leaders from foreign soil was treason, and a nation slandering our leaders was an act of war.
Now, such things are given a pass.
Back then honor, dignity, and 'the right thing to do' was more important than being 'sensitive' and 'not offending' anyone.
Now one must be mindful of the rights and feelings of extreme wackos who want to give gophers the right to free speech.
Back then, when a US soldier commited a crime on foreign soil, he was brought back to the US for trial and, if convicted, sat in a dark basement suite in Levinworth.
Now we put our soldiers under the rules and dictates of foreign laws that, in some cases, are contrary to the rules our soldiers must follow.
This last one is an ugly precedent to set, because once you put a soldier under penalty of foreign laws, you deny him the rights his uniform represents and basically reject him from his country.
A US soldier is, still, US property according to UCMJ.
The precedent for that is this, when you attempt suicide in the military, you get nailed for attempting to destroy US property.