What a bunch of spinless and gutless scum.
2007-02-05 20:36:17 · 7 answers · asked by neoconammo 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Most of them certainly use that when it is advantageous to themselves. They will also be the first to whine when somebody says something that isn't p.c. That's kind of hypocritical, isn't it?
2007-02-05 20:42:55 · answer #1 · answered by Mike V 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
But...help me out here...free speech is the right to speak...erm... freely, right? To say what you feel, whether or not that is something anyone else can agree with. If you disrespect troops, you disrespect troops, big deal. You have the right to do that, and say that, without being a traitor to the values of the land. You can burn a flag any day you like, because it's a valid form of protest against some of the uses the flag is put to - that's free speech too. Either it exists for everyone, or it exists for no-one. The idea that free speech doesn't extend to 'disrespecting troops' is hugely flawed. If free speech exists at all, then it exists for people irrespective of their views on the military, or patriotism, or economics or anything else so long as it doesn't incite hatred of a particular group.
2007-02-06 04:56:28 · answer #2 · answered by mdfalco71 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Spinless( do you mean spineless?) and gutless scum. That's us alright. That tour of duty I spent in Vietnam as a Marine was just a way of hiding out so I wouldn't have to serve in the National
Guard like our brave president. Damn those pinkos who think that the constitution and free speech applies to them. I don't just have a yellow ribbon on my car, I keep in touch with our troops. Just like a spineless and gutless liberal would do.
2007-02-06 04:41:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Spinless? That would be Bill O'Reilly, of the "no-spin" zone :-)
"Free speech" is the opposite of hiding. It is saying flat out what one believes, such as this: I do not and never have disrespected the troops, and few liberals that I know do or have. What we do not respect is a war based on false pretenses, a war in which we are the bullies, a war that is costing us too much in debt and even more in precious American lives. To say that is the opposite of hiding, and it is hardly gutless.
2007-02-06 04:40:44 · answer #4 · answered by Vaughn 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Those who disrespect the troops THEN act like we can't be offended because it is their freedom of speech are not only "hiding behind free speech" but are trying to deny me MY freedom of speech!
Those who disrespect the troops, but DON"T act like we don't have the right to disagree ARE meerly expressing their free speech, as offensive as their speech may be.
NOTE: Most against the war are NOT disrespecting the troops - they just want the troops back home.
2007-02-06 22:32:06 · answer #5 · answered by Smart Kat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is also a right wing religious group that is out there disrespecting the troops at military funerals...picketing military funerals and saying that they were killed because God hates gays (ANY military person who died...not just certain members of troops who died)..
...so let's not limit disrespect to one side or the other...this group is upseting grieving family members to no end..
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061212132828AAYO4mM
http://www.wwrn.org/article.php?idd=21664&sec=36&cont=6
2007-02-06 04:44:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Here's a bigger soapbox for you to PREACH from.
2007-02-06 04:40:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋