Thread: legalize pot
View Single Post
Old 02-09-2007, 05:30 PM   #126 (permalink)
OhDear
Account Deleted
Join Date: Dec 2006
Gender: Female
Posts: 3,738
Country:
Points: 16,625, Level: 82
Points: 16,625, Level: 82 Points: 16,625, Level: 82 Points: 16,625, Level: 82
Level up: 55%, 225 Points needed
Level up: 55% Level up: 55% Level up: 55%
Activity: 0%
Activity: 0% Activity: 0% Activity: 0%
OhDear is offline
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by tristanrobin View Post
oh dear, there were definitely instances of soldiers being treated with great disrespect after their homecoming from VietNam. It is not one of the proudest moments of America.

But America First is saying that it is happening NOW with soldiers returning from Iraq - and I have never heard/read/seen one thing about it now.
Oh my bad, I did not get that was what A-1 was talking about, this present military. But again, the Viet Nam Vets, that did come back and that disrespect that the military experienced in general at those times, I do not believe was by and largely initiated by pacifist hippies, as was what occurred in A-1's Family.

He said that it was the liberal pacifist and hippy element that did these mean things to his father.

I am sure it was a much more purposeful political group that would have done such a thing...

And I do know that kinda thing can happen and it shows the hypocrisy in anyone comes out when folk organize around a cause. The cause gets bigger than each one's own integrity is what happens.

When I was in the UK, at an American Base, there was a group that set up camp outside the base. They were the CND for Nuclear Disarmament. And off and on, a police constable had to come and tote a few off for getting in a squabble with each other, for physical abuse to a child or to a wife. And they also did throw bricks at the school busses of children that were there because their Daddys or Mommys were serving in the Armed Forces.

That is deplorable and not unlike perhaps the mentality of those who hurt A-1's family. But they were no truly pacifist hippy. They were troublemakers looking for a cause to duck into cos they had no better purpose going on in their lives.

And it is just as unfair to lump liberals and pacifists with them as it is to lump all who are pro-life with the few that shoot abortion doctors.

Again, what happened to the military after Viet Nam was not a dishonor initiated by most pacifists. First and foremost, it was the government and the politicians that let those folks down the most. I saw Coming Home years ago...

OD