Veterans groups banned from Veterans Day Parade

[Neptune]

"Weapons are the tools of violence;
all decent men detest them.

Weapons are the tools of fear;
a decent man will avoid them
except in the direst necessity
and, if compelled, will use them
only with the utmost restraint.
Peace is his highest value.
If the peace has been shattered,
how can he be content?
His enemies are not demons,
but human beings like himself.
He doesn't wish them personal harm.
Nor does he rejoice in victory.
How could he rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?

He enters a battle gravely,
with sorrow and with great compassion,
as if he were attending a funeral."

- Tao Te Ching

Only decent men detest war.

[Hometown]

Ever notice how Tulsa is about 98 percent Military, Church and Football?

[iplaw]

quote:Only decent men detest war.

Of course decent men detest war, but only people who believe in fairy tales and tea kettles orbiting the moon believe that war isn't sometimes a necessity.

[iplaw]

quote:Originally posted by Hometown

Ever notice how Tulsa is about 98 percent Military, Church and Football?

Ever notice how San Francisco is about 98% public drug use, rampant STDs and oil spills?

[Neptune]

Nevermind.  You didn't read the passage.  

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[iplaw]

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[Neptune]

quote:So far you and iplaw are tied at about 48% of the posts I've redacted today.

I figured it would have been more than that.  I'll try harder.

Just jackin with you.  I'm done talking to ippy.

[Renaissance]

quote:Originally posted by Hometown

Ever notice how Tulsa is about 98 percent Military, Church and Football?

Sounds like heaven.

[Hometown]

I think there is an emphasis on old testament so -- hell fire.

[Neptune]

If Football has something to do with Heaven, does that mean Baseball fans are going to Hell?

I haven't seen the proof, though I've always made that assumption.

[iplaw]

quote:Originally posted by Neptune

If Football has something to do with Heaven, does that mean Baseball fans are going to Hell?

I haven't seen the proof, though I've always made that assumption.

No.  They're just bored for an eternity instead of tortured...

[FOTD]

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

quote:Originally posted by Hometown

Ever notice how Tulsa is about 98 percent Military, Church and Football?

Ever notice how San Francisco is about 98% public drug use, rampant STDs and oil spills?

Play well with others?

It's an ongoing trend....

Homeless vets are being ignored by our government.

It's shameful.

Inhoffed. Our US Senaturd has twice led the fight against adequate funding for the VA. 52,000 Okies are vets.

Congress passes billions on pork, squandered a trillion on Iraqistan, but won't adequately fund programs for our homeless vets.

Yes Frosty, the sun is setting on America.

[Ed W]

Kipling described combat veterans as men who'd "seen the elephant."  I think that those vets who came back from Vietnam with the thousand yard stare or any combat veteran, for that matter, who chooses to speak out against the war has a position of greater authority than any of the rest of us.  We've allowed the chicken hawks to drag us into a land war in Asia, a war mounted not to secure freedom but to secure oil and markets for American goods.  Who better than the guys who've seen the elephant to speak out against it.

[Rico]

  ^ Very well said Ed W.....

Would the Long Beach parade organizers have allowed a group of "Homeless Vets"...?

This thread has as much to say about why the War in Iraq is going nowhere as the evening news...

Why don't they have the "live footage" on the evening news as when Viet Nam was happening...?

Are we headed towards total censorship.?


The above cartoon courtesy of the Tulsa World.

[guido911]

Nice to see a day purposed to celebrate veterans can be degenerated down on this page to attacks on  our government. From now on, for those of you who get the urge to use Veteran's or Memorial Day as a vehicle to criticize, do me a favor and keep it to yourself. I think the majority of us who did serve would rather not read or hear your exercising the free speech rights that have been given to you by veterans on these days.