posted 08-20-2002 08:48 PM            

let's make this clear, the protesters knew the govenor called out the guard the day before...the protesters went there anyway...the shit was a tinderbox...something had to give and it did...

sorry for your loss if that's what your implying by "G/F"....

posted 08-20-2002 09:09 PM            

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You hold military service personnel in the highest contempt.

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A typically un-informed opinion from a uniquely ignorant individual (I use the term loosely). One of Mega's moderators happens to be ex-military. He is an articulate, open minded and talented researcher. It's the little tin-soldiers who frequent these boards for the sole purpose of spreading transparent disinformation that I hold in contempt; this means you.

I can only assume the rest of your post contains similar mis-characterizations and trademark Pacer deceptions, hence my lack of interest.

You don't like it, then go get a rifle and gun me down. Then tell Time magazine that it wasn't any different than following orders to clean a latrine.

There are two kinds of people in this world, Pacer. Those who acquire it by developing it within themselves and those who are satisfied with having it doled out to them by their 'superiors'. It isn't hard to discern which of us is his own man and which is chattel.

Oppono astos,

posted 08-20-2002 09:54 PM               

Characterizing US soldiers as having "notches" (ie suggesting that they are somehow proud) in their weapons for murdering civilians can only be interpreted as a negative insult. Don't try to walk out of that one by telling me that I simply can't understand your symbolic poetry.

"A typically un-informed opinion from a uniquely ignorant individual (I use the term loosely)."

I gather my opinions based on what you post. Nearly every reference you've mentioned regarding military personnel has been a negative one. Your reference to the Mega moderator being ex-military is your token attempt to prove to everyone that indeed you don't hold military personnel in contempt...that is, you won't if they share your hatred for their superiors.

"It's the little tin-soldiers who frequent these boards for the sole purpose of spreading transparent disinformation that I hold in contempt; this means you."

Transparent, eh. So all my observations regarding flight patterns, aircraft systems, and other info is "transparent". Flaming rhetoric eminating from your keyboard is what's transparent, Chem. You add very little to discussions, but you're more than generous with the insulting phrases, put-downs and generalizations.

"I can only assume the rest of your post contains similar mis-characterizations and trademark Pacer deceptions, hence my lack of interest."

For someone who just got off their soapbox about ignorance, you sure do rush to double back on your words. I READ posts. I don't take bits and pieces and "assume" what the other person is saying. Very intellectual...

"You don't like it, then go get a rifle and gun me down. Then tell Time magazine that it wasn't any different than following orders to clean a latrine."

I'm sure you'd like for me to resort to threats, then you can go run to your Mega friends and show them how righteous you are. You could be Mega's resident martyr.

I guess you've also "assumed" that military personnel follow orders to the letter, and that none of them have heard of the phrase "illegal order"....or the fact that they could be prosecuted for following an illegal order. But hey, in Chem11-world, the American soldiers have heard none of this, for they obey dilligently for their masters...unless your an ex-military moderator on the Mega board.

"There are two kinds of people in this world, Pacer. Those who acquire it by developing it within themselves and those who are satisfied with having it doled out to them by their 'superiors'."

My superiors aren't much different than any other civilian boss in that regard. If your boss (if you have one) would tell you to steal money, would you do it? No, of course not. Ditto for mine. If they told me to commit a crime, I'm no more obligated to carry it out than you are. Again, drawing on your posts, you ARE pretty uninformed about military personnel...going with that Hollywood stereotype that we simply snap our heels when our commander barks. Doesn't work that way, except in movies and radical rhetoric.

"It isn't hard to discern which of us is his own man and which is chattel. "

That's only if you're arrogant enough to claim such a thing.
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