Posted on 04/20/2010 8:43:28 AM PDT by scoobysnak71
As commander of the Duluth Combined Honor Guard, I have received a number of complaints, belligerent rants and slanderous remarks from our community after the guard posted the colors at the Tea Party rally Thursday in Bayfront Festival Park. The guard posted the colors during the Pledge of Allegiance to our flag and during the National Anthem.
The responses I’ve received have been intolerable and unfounded. People really need to inform themselves about the intentions of our honor/color guard before becoming irrationally reactionary.
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IMO, these useful idiots don’t deserve to be called Americans.
Me not understand
Ping to you.
I don’t understand either WHO caused the trouble? If I was a member of the ‘lamestream’ media I would be reporting that the ‘Teabaggers’ attacked you.
>”Me not understand”
Apparently, a bunch of so-called “citizens” in Duluth Mn have had nothing better to do since April 15th (the day of the tea party) that they have continually verbally attacked the local Honor Guard for simply posting the colors.
Seems like it has gotten so bad the Commander has had to resort to writing an editorial to explain to these Minnesota Socialists that this is STILL a free country. These LIBERALS up here should be ashamed of themselves.
Personally, I’m ashamed that they live here.
Well, we are attending a party about 50 miles from Duluth at the end of May and we are planning on driving up to Duluth just for a look around.
While this sort of behavior is disgusting, I doubt it is representative of the entire town. In fact, since there was a Color Guard, a Pledge and and the National Anthem, as well as a Tea Party, it would appear that there are a lot of patriots up North.
None of us are responsible for the irrational loons who have managed to infest our nation, everywhere. I would rather see a list of any businesses that are connected to this behavior, rather than damning an entire city or region.
Al Franken type of Minnesotans, eh?
>”While this sort of behavior is disgusting, I doubt it is representative of the entire town.”
Dont bet on it. A few years ago, the DoD (I think) gave Duluth the option of putting the battleship USS Des Moines in a Veterans Memorial Park. The proposal was SOUNDLY defeated because the city felt it “Glorified War”.
You talk about Patriots, and yes. There are some up here. A few. Far more that live in this area are at the other end of the spectrum, I’m afraid.
Enjoy your trip. I dont fault anybody for making that decision. On the other hand, I live here and I do NOT support the cities fiscally and socially liberal stance on everything. (One thing that really got me was days before the Tea Party, this paper came out with a plea for NO VIOLENCE FROM THE TEA PARTY MEMBERS.)
The liberals dont care what you think. Obama has already proven that. However, I vote with my money and I’ll not support any of them as much as I can.
Do you think you could have someone videotape your next event? I think the American people need to see the belligerence and antipathy of these liberals toward an honor guard that is simply showing respect and deference to our national symbol.
As the business grew, I heard that he later tried to reopen operations in Duluth with the same result. I don't know if this is true or not, but last I heard, the operation in Fargo was still thriving.
Yep......
I stopped visiting the Duluth area years ago. The lefties in that area are just hateful people.
Remember that the wunnerful folks in Minnesotastan found the means to fraudulently send the fraud Al Franken-Stan to the US senate.
It is disgustingly ironic that these so-called patriotic Americans also castigate we Tea Party conservatives as racist and intolerant! Can we say, "projection"???
It was a great crowd (over 1000 attended), with lots of cameras and videocams. Not even one piece of paper left on the ground after the group left. The color guard was led in by two stout fellows with bagpipes....it was outstanding.
The most controversial thing that happened was about 20 anti-war protesters showed up at the end with their typical banners and peace signs. I personally shook each of their hands and congratulated them for exercising their right to free of speech. They didn't have a clue as to how to respond to that!
Militant
I understand.
My formerly conservative area in SW WI is now staunchly leftist after about 30 years of in-migration. They have taken over about 2 blocks of Main Street and what is left of the former local retailers are either gone or struggling. They have also taken over the school board and several townships and are a force on the County Board. So, our taxes have increased and our Veterans Memorial has an “Iconic Peace” symbol.
However, a few of us began over 20 years ago to raise the alarm that this was happening. We were told that we were “not nice”, that the influx was raising property values and that we predominated, so, we would always be in control. Beginning about 5 years ago, some who made those statements sidled up to those of us who told them the future and admitted we were right, they were sorry and things were totally FUBAR. However, no one can do anything. Those who get elected to the Boards and advocate/vote conservatively see their businesses harmed, their children bullied and they lose, anyway. Several formerly conservative Protestant denominations have split over gay clergy issues, with the liberals retaining the property and the conservatives forced out. The pastors simply refuse to quit and tell the conservative congregants that if they don’t like it, they are no longer welcome.
We are now basically two communities and while some of us in business do see customers/clients from the *alternative* community, most of us boycott them. From what I can see, the now-adult children of the conservatives have joined the alternatives, because, otherwise, there is no one left with whom to associate. We are mostly older and politically marginalized.
I think this is what has happened in most places. The establishment culture has won. Until the present demographic of 18-50 changes, politically and culturally, it isn’t going to easily revert back to what it was 30 years ago. The young people will not change until they are also hurt in so many ways that they begin to understand why we are incensed over the situation. The changes must come from the young.
Part of the reason this all happened is that conservatives did nothing about the culture. We did not infiltrate them because anyone who tried was simply frozen out. They, however, did infiltrate us because we were trying to be inclusive from a vantage point of feeling we could accept anyone and our culture would prevail. It has not.
The Tea Parties may change this, at least somewhat. But, IMO, the battle is over and we lost. Either the younger people develop a love for liberty and an ability to exercise discernment or the rest of us are just going to be marginalized until we die.
As my screen name indicates and as I have posted before on FR, I came from the left. Many of us grew up, became more conservative and tried to warn folks that this was coming. So few listened or saw any way to counter what was happening, that here we are, today. It is miserable. We may not survive it. However, from experience, all that happens with boycotts is the community businesses die and are replaced with *alternative* ones while the boycotters are simply more isolated.
“free of speech” = “free speech”
Doh!!
Militant
“I stopped visiting the Duluth area years ago. The lefties in that area are just hateful people.”
I moved here 8 years ago from Fargo, ND.....quite a culture shock! I agree....there are a lot of hateful people here. However, the closet conservatives are beginning to emerge. Last year, we never dared to hope we’d even see a hundred folks show up for the original tea party. We had around 800! With over 1000 this year, I’m hoping it’s an indication that we’ve wakened the sleeping giant!
Militant
My decision was just made easy! Thanks for posting. Now I'll just send them a slightly nicer gift.
I do envy you as I have driven the advertised Great Lakes loop, it is 1200 miles around the lakes from Sault Ste Marie, Michigan and back to the same city.
I thought I had read a spoof in the Duluth paper at the time. A woman said that the name of the connecting bridge between Duluth and Superior Wisconsin should be re-named. She said North Korean vessels were now coming up as far as that area. Now the connecting bridge is the Richard Bong Bridge, generally called the Bong Bridge. It was named for Richard Bong of Poplar, Wisconsin. Bong was arguably the greatest air ace of WW2. For he had 40 kills against the Japanese. This was one on one and each enemy could have killed him. The woman said the bridge should be renamed to avoid humiliation to ships from an Asiatic country.
Apart from that the railway museum, showing the last of the great steam engine dreadnoughts of the 1940's is something to view.
Anyway if you cross the Bong, you will think of a rural country boy and his incredible contribution to victory over a cruel foe.
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