Posted on 09/30/2002 7:44:20 AM PDT by MotleyGirl70
Sunday morning I woke and went to Micky D’s to get my husband a big breakfast and some other kind of breakfast food (I bought myself a large coffee).
As I waited in line behind 100,000,000 other people I looked to my left and saw three boys; I’d say they couldn’t have been older than 16 years old. Description of said white punks listed below:
Boy 1: Frizzed out hair, John Lennon glasses and a jacket that was infested with pins and patches. One of those patches read: “Anti-Flag”. (this set me off)
Boy 2: Blue hair, chubby and he had a top hat on.
Boy 3: Let’s just say my cat craps bigger stool than this little twerp.
So as I was waiting in line I asked Boy 1; “What’s up with that patch, Anti-Flag?”
He said; “It’s a band.”
I said “Are you anti-American?”
The punk said; “Yes”
I said “Why?”
To which he said: “Vietnam, WWI and WWII did us no good. America kills the innocent.”
At this point my blood is boiling and I’m ready to punch this punk in the face and my food order is soon to be picked up.
I said; “I don’t give a shit what you think. When you get a job; and start paying taxes and contribute something to society your opinion doesn’t mean shit. So take your 60’s peace mentality and shove it up your ass. If you three represent the future of America, it scares me, it scares me very much. You want to want to be “anti-American”, go tell your b.s. to a United States veteran who fought for the very freedom you have.” (….I wanted to go on but I had to pick up my order and leave. I got a “nod” from some guy waiting in line in agreement with my confrontation with this kid.)
At that point I picked up my order, they left and I made my exit.
Is this the future of America? Anti-Flag?
In this case, it boils down to a simple matter of good manners. The original poster took it upon herself to begin a confrontation, and came off like a total ass, first by using leading questions, then by apparantly teeing off on the kids without being provoked.
So they gave historically ignorant replies. So what? Sounds like the pissant was looking for a fight to begin with.
Regards.
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And yet you're saying that anyone who prefers an attitude of peace is an unwitting communist dupe of the KGB.
Anyone who believes the 1960's peace movements was about peace, or that the Greens are about the environment, is a unwitting communist dupe of the KGB.
Please explain what an "attitude of peace" is. I personally I am all for universal harmony with a populist backbeat a guy can dance to.
She did not start the confrontation, the kid did. The kid has his freedom of speech, he used it, and she has the right to answer back. Her profanity is, IMO, appropriate to the emotions the kid did need to hear. We in the right, have been far too silent for too long, and if 9-11 has changed this then so be it. The 9-11 event should never have been necessary for motivation.
Ah yes... the registration date challenge.
The last refuge of an FR dullard.
Obviously not, based on the original poster having to inquire what the patch was. It wasn't an invitation; she took it upon herself to find out.
He has know idea what he is standing up for, and she did the right thing and let him know. I don't see how she overreacted to 9-11 by this, this should have been her reaction with or without 9-11.
It has nothing to do w/911, it has everything to do with her histrionics over a non-issue in an inappropriate venue.
She did not start the confrontation, the kid did.
Ted Bundy didn't murder all those women, porn did! He even said so!
The kid has his freedom of speech, he used it, and she has the right to answer back. Her profanity is, IMO, appropriate to the emotions the kid did need to hear.
Again, she came off like a pissy-pants brat, much like she describes the kids. She was on an attitude crusade.
We in the right, have been far too silent for too long, and if 9-11 has changed this then so be it. The 9-11 event should never have been necessary for motivation.
911 is now a turning point in our history. It does not, however, constitute a license to act like an asshole to strangers in public establishments, nor did it before 911.
Some of us believe in manners as well as the Consitution, and it is likely (although I think this entire account is a complete fabrication) that in other circumstances she might have had to have eaten her McMeal with broken teeth.
I also fall in behind of what MG did, punk @$$ kids will remain punks until they are challenged. The kid wanted to make a statement and she gave him valuable feedback. She probably is the best thing that happened to him all day. At least she paid more attention to him then his parents have.
Who says no such right exists?
As an adult and a vet, I see people, regardless of intelligence, exercising their right to free speech. Histrionic emotional reactions have no place in either understanding or protecting the Constitution. Getting angry at someone else's opinion is not logical.
If seeing/hearing about these things doesn't make your blood absolutely boil, why then we're definately not on the same page.
I know what I fought and served for, and it wasn't the flag, but rather what it stands for. Here's a little quote from Mark Twain that ought to clear things right up:
"You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags -- that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let monarchy keep it."
And so.....??
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