Fwd: #American Legion Declares War on Protestors -- Media Next?

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While I do believe the American Legion does some very good things in individual

communities, I wonder how useful it is to the nation.

Our post has one Korean vet left, the rest are Nam vets, and " sons of the

American Legion " , because there aren't any new veterans..at least interested

ones.

NO...I am not denouncing the Ameican Legion, as a whole. No hate mail, please.

 

Let me take a few quotes out of context...

 

<< " We had hoped that the lessons learned from the Vietnam War

would be

clear to our fellow citizens.>>

 

<<Cadmus advised: " Let's not repeat the mistakes of our past. >>

 

 

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American Legion Declares War on Protestors -- Media Next?

 

By E & P Staff

 

Published: August 24, 2005 4:20 PM ET

 

NEW YORK The American Legion, which has 2.7 million

members, has

declared war on antiwar protestors, and the media could be

next.

Speaking at its national convention in Honolulu, the

group's national

commander called for an end to all “public protests” and

“media events”

against the war, even though they are protected by the Bill

of Rights.

 

" The American Legion will stand against anyone and any

group that would

demoralize our troops, or worse, endanger their lives by

encouraging

terrorists to continue their cowardly attacks against

freedom-loving

peoples, " Thomas Cadmus, national commander, told delegates

at the

group's national convention in Honolulu.

 

The delegates voted to use whatever means necessary to

" ensure the

united backing of the American people to support our troops

and the

global war on terrorism. "

 

In his speech, Cadmus declared: " It would be tragic if the

freedoms our

veterans fought so valiantly to protect would be used

against their

successors today as they battle terrorists bent on our

destruction.”

 

He explained, " No one respects the right to protest more

than one who

has fought for it, but we hope that Americans will present

their views

in correspondence to their elected officials rather than by

public media

events guaranteed to be picked up and used as tools of

encouragement by

our enemies. " This might suggest to some, however, that

American

freedoms are worth dying for but not exercising.

 

Without mentioning any current protestor, such as Cindy

Sheehan, by

name, Cadmus recalled: " For many of us, the visions of Jane

Fonda glibly

spouting anti-American messages with the North Vietnamese

and protestors

denouncing our own forces four decades ago is forever

etched in our

memories. We must never let that happen again….

 

" We had hoped that the lessons learned from the Vietnam War

would be

clear to our fellow citizens. Public protests against the

war here at

home while our young men and women are in harm's way on the

other side

of the globe only provide aid and comfort to our enemies. "

 

Resolution 3, which was passed unanimously by 4,000

delegates to the

annual event, states: " The American Legion fully supports

the president

of the United States, the United States Congress and the

men, women and

leadership of our armed forces as they are engaged in the

global war on

terrorism and the troops who are engaged in protecting our

values and

way of life. "

 

Cadmus advised: " Let's not repeat the mistakes of our past.

I urge all

Americans to rally around our armed forces and remember our

fellow

Americans who were viciously murdered on Sept. 11, 2001. "

--

The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making ten-thousand

revolutions a

minute and man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

Religion is

the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to

give him

the ride. --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

 

 

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Pay your taxes so the rich don't have to.

 

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