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This was a letter to the editor of my home town newspaper.

I find it increasingly difficult to understand people such as this.

I wonder who he voted for in the last election?

And his kind ALWAYS vote.

Good God, what a p***y.

Must be a albore voter to be that dumb.

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! Patrick Henry

David "Mr. Rogers" Cox to Adolph Hitler: "I like you just the way you are. Would you like a hug?"

I bet he probably works at the plants or ORNL too. Why would he if sharing such deep convictions live in the Atomic City and support it's economy? The cities mainstay is defense contracts. I'm glad the builders of the Manhattan Project were not so compassionate as he or we would possibly have lost the war.

Man, I wish we had folks like this in our town. He'd buy us all new cars and televisions just to keep from getting the crap beat out of him. What did he buy you, by the way, or did you just take his lunch money?

I'll bet this guy talks with a lisp and has limp wrists, too...Thanks for the nausea warning...It sounded more like he was saying "I want my mommy..."; or "make the bad guys go away, they're scaring me....".

It's yo-yos like this that make Americans look like a bunch of sissies. This guy can in no sense call himself a real man. Real men don't act like that. His appeal to the Bible proves he doesn't have a clue as to what the Bible says. He confuses personal response to personal attacks with a nation's response to an attack on our nation. I'll bet he doesn't read much of the Old Testament or Revelation because it's got a lot of violence...

This Jack@ss would make Neville Chamberlain proud!

Maybe we could just get a signed document that the perps of this act of terrorism (no apologies to Reuters) will be nice now.

Compassion belongs to innocent victims. Justice belongs to U.S.

David Cox wrote: We will be safe in the world when we are thought of as caring, compassionate people who conduct themselves in accordance with the principles upon which our government was founded.

What kind of drugs is this guy on??? Terrorists are NOT caring compassionate people...they eat people like that for breakfast! What a moron!

I can only imagine the level of pain that motivated them

"I feel your pain." Where have I heard that before? What a bunch of sniveling idiots.

Sniveling idiots indeed.

This from the liberal arts degreed newspaper EDITORS that form popular opinion. If I were his boss, he would have a pink slip tomorrow and could stand in the unemployment line with tens of thousands of airline workers who may not feel his brand of 'compassion.'

With the proper inflection, as only Rush's show can do so well, this would be a hoot!

BTW, I think this piece is not a genuine letter from Joe Six Pack, but rather a great PR-urban legend stunt.

I mean it literally drips with sarcasm...

This from the liberal arts degreed newspaper EDITORS that form popular opinion. If I were his boss, he would have a pink slip tomorrow and could stand in the unemployment line with tens of thousands of airline workers who may not feel his brand of 'compassion.'

The truth of the matter is this attitude is prevailant in this county or rather the county is a Democratic party dominated county. Only two county elected officals I believe are GOP or even conservative the rest is Democratic with even factions inside of that that stand more libereal than others. I'm not that sure about the city government but I would guess more so.

The Democratic party they believe built the city in the WW2 era and are their protectors. It's harder than pulling teeth to convince them otherwise. Believe it or not many are as well career workers for DOD and Department of Energy defense projects who think as this.

The 'attitude' you elude to my friend is do in large measure to the socialistic education system in this country. The most ingrained liberal/progressive/socialist viewpoints come from the text books, from first grade (the Little Red Hen should have shared her hard earned grain with the lazy ones) through graduate skool, with precious few exceptions.

Just because the majority is wrong doesn't make them right.

The 'attitude' you elude to my friend is do in large measure to the socialistic education system in this country. The most ingrained liberal/progressive/socialist viewpoints come from the text books, from first grade (the Little Red Hen should have shared her hard earned grain with the lazy ones) through graduate skool, with precious few exceptions.

Somewhat true but not so much so in this county I'll explain why. It was one of the last counties in the state and probably the nation to stop school prayer and the pledge. I'm in my mid 40's. In grade school we were taken to the gym about twice a month and a preacher came in and read a Bible story to all of us.

The government influence in this case comes from several different parts of the counties history. In the 1930's TVA got the local economy going with Norris Dam. The government work camps were pretty common in this area. Another aspect is unions. The county used to have a good coal economy. Add the Department of Defense with the Manhattan Project and it's Unionization and the Department as being the areas major employer along with DOD contractors and that in turn still has a bunch of FDR faithfull Democrats in the county.

But the county also has a violent history as the high school was bombed when segragation was ordered. Up till 1980 the highschools in the county were small one of the principals being a preacher as well. We were not taught political correctness in school. From 1980 on when the high schools were consolidated and made bigger there you have a pretty good case.

Some of it can also come from people who have migrated into the area for these type jobs.

I see a mention of my old Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. He was deceived by Herr Hitler. Once again on this mans behalf, let me roughly quote(September 1939) "The Germans had been given 24 hours to withdraw their troops from Poland. No such offer has been received . I regret to say that a state of war now exists between Great Britain and Germany". In the time (1938) that Chamberlain, came back from Germany with his "piece of paper" and refused to confront Hitler, the new all metal aircraft, Spitfires and Hurricanes were rushed into production. When the war was declared,(once more for an encore) BY CHAMBERLAIN, 1200 fighting aircraft had then been added to the Royal Airforce strength. Many of the previous aircraft they had, were 1930's canvas covered types, and some were still used to bomb Germany. Chamberlain hardly ever has been give credit for the fact that he happened to buy time, whatever anyone says. Back to the subject though, please forgive me, I say sod the bloody compassion.