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Dont beleive anything Micheale More says... god.. hes such a snake.
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Originally posted by oldsoldier oldsoldier wrote:

Do we feel any better or safer, for most probably not for many here, or our "brave" protesters never saw first hand how in thier mind glorious "Peoples Liberation Armies" or "National Liberation Fronts" or whatever the tyrant of the day cares to claim his force is called treats his own peoples who may thru a moment of freedom not agree with the resident tyrants minions.

OS, way to put words into our mouths, no one was trumpeting how great Saddam was, hell We agree, evil man. So why don't you just shove those lies right up in there?

Originally posted by oldsoldier oldsoldier wrote:


As for the "babykiller" reference, you two smitty"s need to review your past postings...and I quote...."But our entire nation calls little dead children in Iraq "collateral damage." Are our little white American fetuses more precious than little brown Iraqi ones?" veiled referance but the point is American servicemen still intentionally kill "little dead children".

Hmm, and yet more masterful word twisting, great, for propogandist agitation, not so great for honest debate. No one is insinuating that soldiers are deliberatly killing iraqi children (IE baby killers), this is to compare the right wings enormous concern over a few aborted fetuses to their apathy towards tens of thousands of innocent iraqi's.

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And where was all the rightious indignation while the Democratic hero Mr Clinton was bombing "aspirin factories", "babyfood plants" and even a real honest to god "Chinese Embasy" with real Chinese inside, and all the deaths of innocent Serb children killed by the bombings, oh we were too worried on the vast right wing conspiricy while Mr Clinton was getting ......skys.....

It was right here... (Not as much as the current one, but that was because I was around 11 at the time.)

Originally posted by oldsoldier oldsoldier wrote:


At least be consistant folks......protest all wars, acts of aggression, attrocities, not the ones the DNC decides may get them back into power again.

We do, all the ones that make no sense.

Originally posted by oldsoldier oldsoldier wrote:


And maybe, just maybe if these protestors actually did some true investigating instead of hoping on the popular bandwagon, many of these DNC talking points may be questioned, but by their agenda, they prefere not to for the true point of the exercise is as usual an attack on President Bush, and his administration....no true Democratic ideas to spout other than Bush is wrong.

Yeah, some just jump on the bandwagon, but the real instigators and the ones who keep going are only supporting THEIR Ideals, not the DNC. The democratic party is dead, its a slightly less conservative Republican party.

Originally posted by oldsoldier oldsoldier wrote:


Not revisionist history, just history in its cycle of repeating itself again....65 years later....Radical Islam and its individual and or nation state supporters are no threat to the west..........

What about radical American nationalism and movement away from a free society? What about our imperialist expansion?






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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dune Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 March 2005 at 9:53pm

I protest all wars, I'm consistent.

Anyways, it seems too much of a scapegoat to blame movies and video games. I guess that's what happens when people don't feel the need to take responsibility for themselves and their children.

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Our computer labs all have Doom 95 mysteriously present...

It even has online multiplayer.
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Gahh! Your right! I was so busy whipping through the game that I didnt pay any attention to the story line. Plus, I dont think that my laptop from back then had a sound card.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Clark Kent Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 March 2005 at 9:32pm
^^^^  Demons.  In Doom the Marine shoots demons, not aliens.  Get your classic FPS right - sheesh!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Hades Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 March 2005 at 9:29pm
In my opinion, it was a stretch by the media. I believe in a home video one of them was taped saying that they were going to shoot up and kill just.."just like in Doom." [Doom being a popular video game at the time.]

In this instance this could have been an influence on the 2 boys, but for the millions of others that played the game, they figured out that the game was strictly fanasty. Also in that particular video game, the player shoots aliens, not humans.

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Their MAIN motif was society looking down upon them.

They were the kids always called "**edited**s" and "**edited**" and things like that.

All they wanted was revenge and how society is degrading. Look at Rome.

Great empire until they had to much. Couldn't handle it, and they died out.

Isn't that what America is becoming?
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Just a case point....not a proven fact on violence rates......but in the Columbine shooting did not the shooters use a movie as the basis of their motive?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Clark Kent Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 March 2005 at 9:21pm

Originally posted by Bolt3 Bolt3 wrote:

Bowling for Columbine.

Good movie.

Go watch it.

Really annoying/boring/stupid movie.

 

Originally posted by OS OS wrote:

.....care to compare the youth violent crime rate pre video game era to today...may shock you

Good reason why correlational statistics should be kept out of the hands of the underinformed.

 

BTW, OS, not to get picky or anything, but a sig complaining about idiots works a lot better with proper spelling.  You might want to fix that.

Originally posted by OS's Sig OS's Sig wrote:

My motto is: Never argue with idiots, they will drag you down to thier level and beat you with expierience.

Although at least you aren't calling people "retarted", unlike some of our members...

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I disagree that it is the video games causing the violence.

Most youth/people are aware that video games are fiction and fantasy only.

Video games and movie violence are the scapegoats because the real problems are being ignored.

The same video games (even more violent in some cases) are being played in other nations and their crime rates have not increased...

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Yes, but don't they have the EXACT same things in other countries? Don't most of those things actually come from other countries?

/me only 14 so don't beat me up.
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The gospel according to Micheal Moore, Americans are not violent, every socirty has those who for thier own personal gratifacation inflict pain on others.

If you want to point blame, how about violent video games that glorify killing......desensitize youth to what shooting someone actually does, no reset button....
Violent and graphic movies......and the list goes on...and of course it is your right to view this.....care to compare the youth violent crime rate pre video game era to today...may shock you
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Bowling for Columbine.

Good movie.

Go watch it.

Americans kill eachother with guns thousands more times than other countries and our friendly neighbors to the north.

Amercians are violent people.

It's not the soldiers faults' but their leaders.
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I'm not sure if it is selective memory, or just selective observation in the first place.  Hard to tell the difference sometimes.

Another interesting phrase:  "Effort justification."

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Wonderfull little debate, problem is I have heard it all before, 35 or so years ago......

Do we feel any better or safer, for most probably not for many here, or our "brave" protesters never saw first hand how in thier mind glorious "Peoples Liberation Armies" or "National Liberation Fronts" or whatever the tyrant of the day cares to claim his force is called treats his own peoples who may thru a moment of freedom not agree with the resident tyrants minions. Many of you have no idea what a true attrocity is, never smelled death a klick away as you approach a ville, never seen a victim of a mass rape, or a disembowled village elder, or a dismembered child, in you mind a true attrocity is only a stack of naked Iraqis where the intent of the exercise is to remove the only thing we could thier dignaty, and if you do not understand the methodology that in itself shows the ignorance and blindness of the pacifist. And by the way never saw a news man or camaraman takin any pictures of any of these Vietnamese villes, or Honduran villes, because even then it did not meet the agendas of the time.

As for the "babykiller" reference, you two smitty"s need to review your past postings...and I quote...."But our entire nation calls little dead children in Iraq "collateral damage." Are our little white American fetuses more precious than little brown Iraqi ones?" veiled referance but the point is American servicemen still intentionally kill "little dead children". And another true anti-war or anti-violence statement from our resident leftists,"Woot! Getting ready for the March 19 protests! I even have a few extra days off in case I get arrested. I hope I get to do a pre-emptive strike on those Protest Warrior fools if they show up."

And where was all the rightious indignation while the Democratic hero Mr Clinton was bombing "aspirin factories", "babyfood plants" and even a real honest to god "Chinese Embasy" with real Chinese inside, and all the deaths of innocent Serb children killed by the bombings, oh we were too worried on the vast right wing conspiricy while Mr Clinton was getting ......skys.....

At least be consistant folks......protest all wars, acts of aggression, attrocities, not the ones the DNC decides may get them back into power again.

And maybe, just maybe if these protestors actually did some true investigating instead of hoping on the popular bandwagon, many of these DNC talking points may be questioned, but by their agenda, they prefere not to for the true point of the exercise is as usual an attack on President Bush, and his administration....no true Democratic ideas to spout other than Bush is wrong.

Ask the Danes, Belgians, Norwegians, French how they were told Herr Hitler was no threat and their will be "Peace in our Time", and until the end there were French protestors to a "criminal" war, right up until the French Surrender in May 1940.

Not revisionist history, just history in its cycle of repeating itself again....65 years later....Radical Islam and its individual and or nation state supporters are no threat to the west..........








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Originally posted by MattyJ MattyJ wrote:

Originally posted by MT. Vigilante MT. Vigilante wrote:

Originally posted by MattyJ MattyJ wrote:

Originally posted by goodsmitty goodsmitty wrote:

Why not thank them all? Any public servant who risks their lives (police, fire fighters, EMS, and soldiers) deserve our respect. In peace time, soldiers suffer far fewer casualties than police officers, and vice versa in war.

I don't agree with your show of disdain for soldiers just because they are getting their due (insert smiley of choice here, you know I'm your pal). Firefighters and police officers got their due after hundreds lost their lives in the world trade center collapse. But I absolutely agree that not all soldiers are boy scouts, and some are downright criminals.

I'm not going to enter into this debate, because neither side will ever agree, nor will either side convince the others to embrace their beliefs (yes, I am including myself in this group.) However, one thing you said jumped out at me and I just need to clarify something. You're not advocating that all police officers are cops, are you? The majority of cops have broken at least one law (no matter how major or minor) that they are charged to enforce, simply because there was nobody to stop them. Just wanted to clarify that with you.

I don’t know where you are from but where I live it is common knowledge that “Cop” is just another word for Police Officer. And what in the world does the fact that everybody commits some kind of small crime ( example: speeding) including cops, have to do with cops and firemen during 9/11 giving their lives just doing their jobs! I don't care what they did in the past, all of them are heros.

Wow, you missed the entire point of my post. Perhaps you failed reading comprehension in grade school? First off, I was in no way implying that "cop" and "police officer" were at all different. Second, I'm from NJ, and a lot of NJ police and firefighters lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks. But that doesn't mean that all cops are saints. Goodsmitty said that some soldiers are downright criminals. I agree with this, because there are some soldiers that cross the line. But I was just wanted to make sure that it was understood that all of the groups that are considered heros have some bad apples in them. It doesn't mean we should look down on the group as a whole, but we need to know the difference between a few bad apples and a corrupt system. I think that goodsmitty feels as I do in this matter, but I just wanted to clarify it.

I did not understand because you worded it badly so that it sounded like you were saying what I said it sounded like. Now that you have clarified what you said, I completely agree with you.

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Originally posted by goodsmitty goodsmitty wrote:

Originally posted by goodsmitty goodsmitty wrote:

Originally posted by Badsmitty Badsmitty wrote:

Wow Dune and goodsmitty.  This is just the most heartwarming thing watching you two bond.  It reminds me of George Bush and Jeff Gannon embracing.  I think that from now on I'll have Barbara Steisand's song Memories playing in the background when I read your posts. 

Let's see, you and I have like, one ally on this forum, so don't insult him please.

And I will shoulder your insult because it includes a negative reference to our president. The crosses I bear.

You know, you guys are right and I'm way wrong.  The song is actually "The way we were."  Sorry about that.

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Originally posted by MattyJ MattyJ wrote:

Originally posted by goodsmitty goodsmitty wrote:

Why not thank them all? Any public servant who risks their lives (police, fire fighters, EMS, and soldiers) deserve our respect. In peace time, soldiers suffer far fewer casualties than police officers, and vice versa in war.

I don't agree with your show of disdain for soldiers just because they are getting their due (insert smiley of choice here, you know I'm your pal). Firefighters and police officers got their due after hundreds lost their lives in the world trade center collapse. But I absolutely agree that not all soldiers are boy scouts, and some are downright criminals.

I'm not going to enter into this debate, because neither side will ever agree, nor will either side convince the others to embrace their beliefs (yes, I am including myself in this group.) However, one thing you said jumped out at me and I just need to clarify something. You're not advocating that all police officers are cops, are you? The majority of cops have broken at least one law (no matter how major or minor) that they are charged to enforce, simply because there was nobody to stop them. Just wanted to clarify that with you.

I thought that COP meant Consumer Of Pastries.  Are there any who do not?

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Originally posted by Thor Thor wrote:

Why Military Force Is Sometimes Needed.
Here's what you can do when you happen upon one of those stupid, naive, idiots that just can't seem to understand why force is sometimes needed:

1) Find the person involved in "no retaliation" type discussion.

2) Engage him in brief conversation, then ask if military force is appropriate.

3) When he says "No," ask, "Why not?"

4) Wait until he says something to the effect of, "Because that would just cause more innocent deaths, which would be awful and we should not cause more violence."

5) When he's in mid-sentence, punch him in the face as hard as you can.

6) When he gets back up to up to punch you, point out that it would be a mistake and contrary to his values to strike you, because that would, "be awful and he should not cause more violence."

7) Wait until he agrees that he has pledged not to commit additional violence.

8) Punch him in the face again, harder this time

If you see me at a peace rally, by all means see if that works. 



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