But they support the troops.
The mayor of Richmond, CA is under fire for her decision to skip a Veterans Day memorial to attend an Occupy Rally.
Mayor Gayle McLaughlin sent an email to the San Jose Mercury News explaining why she would not be attending a Veterans Day salute that included a re-enactment of the launch of a World War II-era ship at the Richmond shipyards.
“I choose to honor our veterans, not only on Veteran’s Day, but daily, but supporting an end to military warfare to prevent further fighting and dying in needless wars,” she wrote. “I am a strong supporter of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Vets Against the War.”
The mayor said that since the city is not sponsoring the Veterans Day salute, she chose to attend an Occupy rally – an event that she has been actively promoting.
“I think it’s disgraceful,” said Jeff Rubin, who organizes Pinole’s Veterans Day memorial. ““This is not a war issue. This is an issue of honoring people who sign up to protect your rights.”
Rubin told Fox News the mayor has ties to the Richmond Progressive Alliance and has a history of creating controversy in the city.
“It’s disrespectful,” he said. “Just because you’re in politics doesn’t mean everything is political. There are some things that transcend politics and this is one of them. Regardless of your feelings about America’s involvement in Iraq or Afghanistan, you have to respect the troops.”
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/mayor-snubs-veterans-to-attend-occupy-rally.html
How nice to know that fighting back against Islamofascist zealots—across in the Middle East—who attacked this country and want us all dead, is ‘needless’.
Insufferable assholes like McLaughlin use the military as an outlet for their nihilist politics. Give the Left a war that promotes their agenda, without the possibility of America protecting its interests and security, and they’re all for it. They’re quick to undermine wars we’ve already won, but will agitate for conflicts that are not in our interest and won’t be fought. The fact that America already gained a substantial victory against Islamofascist swine in two wars, is just too hard to take.
Aligning yourself with a group full of communists, anarchists, nazis, thieves, perverts, rapists, derelicts, and aimless stutterfucks, is a clear indication that you’re not “honoring veterans”. You’re just another self-absorbed little fringenut whose idea of “social justice” is to destroy the Democratic Republic and the Constitution on which is was founded.
Go fuck yourself McLaughlin.
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The rest of the Richmond City Council led by Tom Butt concurs with the mayor. Butt even aligns himself to draft dodgers.
(Edited to reflect quotation and Butt’s authorship.)
TYPICAL PROGRESSIVE FENCE SITTING!
Barry,
I emailed Butt with this:
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 7:34 PM
To: Butt, Tom
Subject: Your Veteran’s Day message
Re:
Veterans Day
November 9, 2011 http://www.tombutt.com/forum/2011/111109a.html
Having read your lame excuse for Mayor Gayle McLaughlin’s behavior, I had to respond.
I’m a retired Army Sergeant First Class, with a total of 30 years Reserve and Active duty service. I was an Intelligence Analyst, an S2 and a G2 NCOIC, as well as platoon sergeant. I served two tours in Iraq as part of the combat operations in Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Your comment:
That is bullshit on stilts. The Left’s “patriotism” orbits around the guaranteed right to spew about all the things they hate; the country, American history, capitalism, and our Democratic Republic.
Then there’s the special hate category they’ve reserved for the military; denigrating the sacrifices of those sworn to protect them and reap the benefits without having to put their own lives on the line. Marching in a free country in anti-American/pro-Islamofascist/communist/anarchist protests and hoisting signs that read: “We support our troops when they shoot their officers”, doesn’t take a lot of guts.
The IVAW, which McLaughlin so lovingly supports, is comprised of some pretty nasty little malcontents:
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/ivaw-wackjobs-threaten-gathering-of-eagles-counter-protestors/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/ivaw-losers-to-host-winter-soldier-ii/
The “Occupy” derelicts she chose to hang with aren’t any better.
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/nazis-and-communists-announce-support-for-occupy/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/the-occupy-fleabaggers-costly-rampage-rhetoric-and-agenda/
http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/28/occupywallstreet-the-rap-sheet-so-far/
Remember the reception given to returning Vietnam vets by “patriotic” antiwar draft dodgers, who spat on them and called them “baby killers”?
Jane Fonda showed her “patriotism” by posing behind a VC gun emplacment and smiling for the cameras.
Like all liberals who speak wistfully of a brutal system that killed about 100,000,000 people worldwide, they never packed up and moved to any country under its influence.
Remember the epithets, insults, and hatespeech by the Dems toward real Tea Party patriots who dared to question their arrogance, hubris, and unConstitutional ObamaCare? That was our challenge to the abuse of power. Where were you?
McLaughlin, who has ties to the Richmond Progressive Alliance, opines about “needless wars”. How nice to know that fighting back against Islamofascist zealots—across in the Middle East—who attacked this country and want us all dead, is ‘needless’. Give the Left a war that promotes their agenda, without the possibility of America protecting its interests and security, and they’re all for it. They’re quick to undermine wars we’ve already won, but will agitate for conflicts that are not in our interest and won’t be fought. The fact that America already gained a substantial victory against Islamofascist swine in two wars, is just too hard to take.
McLaughlin and her “Occupy” pals are self-absorbed little fringenuts whose idea of “social justice” is to destroy the Democratic Republic and the Constitution on which is was founded. Anyone who aligns themselves with a group full of communists, anarchists, nazis, thieves, perverts, rapists, derelicts, and aimless stutterfucks, is not “honoring veterans”. If you think that’s “patriotic” or “doing their duty as Americans”, you’ve got a serious case of cranial-rectal inversion.
You may like McLaughlin’s perverted idea of “patriotism”, but I didn’t serve this country just so insufferable assholes like her could bad mouth me and trash America without a fight.
That’s MY freedom of speech.
SFC Cheryl McElroy
US ARMY (RET)
Liberals are utterly incapable of protecting national security. Sure, the president OK’s the killing of a major US target who has not managed to hurt us in 10 years, but he is sitting with his thumbs deeply implanted into his rectum as Iran builds a nuclear weapon…oh, wait…he has to go on another vacation.