Hero's Statue, Weapon Included, to Stand Despite Criticism (Idiot Mother Alert)

CNSNEWS ^ | April 10, 2007 | Fred Lucas

[ronnie raygun]

This is the emasculation of males in this country, Johnny is not allowed to play with guns he plays with dolls now!
This is a man who protects America! how? with a weapon! not a fly swatter.Teach your child why he carries a gun and why he dedicates his life to preserve ours!

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

In their eyes, it’s just a nine-foot guy with a gun.

This is what she actually feels... she's just putting it in the mouths of children...

[Logophile]

“Since it is so likely they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”

C. S. Lewis was very wise. He went on to write, "By confining your child to blameless stories of child life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable."

[real saxophonist]

These are more than the 'concerned moms' they want you to think they are. They've been at it a while. From this article we get this:

Columbine parent Linda Cuesta said she endured long, panicked moments after the shooting desperately looking for her son. During that time she bargained with God. If her son made it out safely, she'd go to work against guns.

Her son escaped safely, and Cuesta has found a cause.

"I used to be polite, and I tried to understand the need for citizens to own guns, to own arsenals," she said.

"I'm not polite anymore. I want the NRA out of this city and out of this state."

[archy]

There are thousands of military monuments in the United States, and a large portion of them feature weapons, Tim Minz, the city's museum director, said in a memo.

The Doughboy statue, entitled "The Spirit of the American Doughboy", which once stood in Garfield Park, has been restored and given a place of honor in the new Soldier Field. The life-size Doughboy, sculpted in the early 1930's of sheet metal and cast bronze, according to its sculptor E.M. "Dick" Viquesney of Spencer, Indiana, represents "a World War I infantryman advancing through No Man's Land through stumps and barbed wire entanglements, his rifle in one had and a grenade held high in the other".

[archy]

Among those opposing the statue were Emily Fuchs, who is a member of the city’s Fine Arts Committee and Linda Cuesta, whose child was at Columbine High School when two teenagers shot and killed 12 students and a teacher in 1999.

Okay, Fuchs, Emily and Cuesta, Linda. Any others for the list?

[archy]

No one objected to honoring Dietz for his heroism, insisted Emily Cassidy, a mother of two children in Littleton. What she objected to was a statue of a soldier, holding a weapon, located across the street from an elementary school and near two other schools.

Ah, yes, there we go. That's three:

Cassidy, Emily
Cuesta, Linda
Fuchs, Emily

[archy]

Oh, another one, from here:

Ann Levy of Denver, who calls herself a "peacenik," would like to see Dietz's sacrifice honored in a different way.

"They should be putting up a peace dove instead," she said. "The question is do we stand for peace or do we stand for war?"

Cassidy, Emily
Cuesta, Linda
Fuchs, Emily
Levy, Ann

[stumpy]

Emily Cassidy will be the next cindy sheehan when her child grows up and enlists in spite of her. Must be a married name, if she were truly of Irish descent, her children would be fighters.

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