Watched the news last night, saw an SF cop beating an Iraq war protester in the street with a billy club. The protester was just a guy, not a thug or a bully, just a guy. Looked to me like the guy just bumped into the cop and the cop went into a fury, clubbin' away at whomever he could hit, including young girls and old girls. It all took me back to Viet Nam days, when I was a late teen. At the war rallies I attended, I saw the cops swinging the billy clubs then too. My girlfriend and I huddled next to big building column so we wouldn't get hit. They never stop. Yeah, they hit whomever they could strike. Just plain people making a statement. Free speech is what we are free to do here, yet the cops just don't get it. My Dad was in WWII. He said war was hell and he said it with conviction. War is hell and we have a right to be against it if we so desire. That doesn't give the cops the freedom to beat the ordinary citizens into oblivion. Cops don't beat bicyclists when they ride their bikes down Market Street, SF.
Watched the news last night, saw a bunch of protesters protesting the Marine Recruiting Center in Berkeley. Marines have saved our asses for many decades. They are good people too, always faithfull. They are just doing their job, just like war protesters. Marines don't like war anymore than us plain folk. The Marine Corps is a way for some Americans to find something to join, just like religion. It isn't about war, it's about comraderie and fellowship. Marines are just doing the job they have found to do that makes them feel good. The Marine Corps should not be protested, the people who run our government are the ones to protest. The politcians get us into war, not the Marines and all the other Armed Forces. It is the commander-in-chief who gets us into war. (George W. Bush) Let's honor the Armed Forces because they protect us against fascism. They protect our American freedom. Protest in front of the White House, keep the president up all night. It will give him time to think about it and all the son's and daughters who have lost their lives fighting for his agenda overseas. And oh yeah, watch out for the DC cops billy clubs, we all saw those being used during the civil rights movement and Viet Nam war rallies.
Here's some homework, google the meaning of Semper Fi, Marines don't have to take this quiz!
and read this: http://www.oo-rah.com/Store/editorial/edi52.asp
Imagine all the people, John, I do.