I'd like to give a medal to the brave protestors that did this!

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Union Label  (307 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-20-08 12:00 PM
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I'd like to give a medal to the brave protestors that did this!
   
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Edited on Thu Mar-20-08 12:01 PM by Union Label
While it might upset some it was an in your face to the warmongers. I cant stand to see these tributes to the war machine so from my point of view it was ****ING RIGHTEOUS! :evilgrin:


Vandals dumped a bucket of red paint on a downtown veterans memorial this morning, the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, in what police suspect was a symbolic act of protest. Passers-by spotted the blood-toned paint on the Anchorage Veterans Memorial, in the Delaney Park Strip off I Street, during the morning commute and reported it to police. The soldier's helmet was blood red, with the paint dripping down to the ground below.

"There's a movement across the country, since it's the fifth anniversary of the war, to protest," police Lt. Paul Honeman said.

Police say they are investigating the vandalism as a crime, and the responsible party could be facing charges of malicious destruction of property or felony criminal mischief, depending on what it cost to clean up the paint, he said. http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/350192.html

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that is not bravery. it is vandalism.

ET Awful  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-20-08 12:07 PM
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1. Sorry, but vandalizing a memorial to veterans is not a "brave" thing to do.
   
A veterans memorial is not a "tribute to the war machine", but is a tribute to those whose lives were destroyed by "the war machine".

Sorry, but defacing a memorial to those who died in World War II (which is what was defaced), is NOT acceptable in any way, shape or form.
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Union Label  (307 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-20-08 12:34 PM
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15. IMHO
   
There is NO place for any tribute to the war machine and yes a statue of men with weapons of war is a tribute to war, so I'm sorry if any veterans are offend but type os shit has to go.
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uppityperson  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-20-08 12:08 PM
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2. Not me. Destroying other people's property isn't a good way to make a point
   
Edited on Thu Mar-20-08 12:16 PM by uppityperson
If they' put crosses around it, or boots, or taped dead military pictures all over it, that would be ok.

"****ING RIGHTEOUS" would be going after recruiters, or Republican congresscritters. Not dark of night vandalism of vets.
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KansDem  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-20-08 12:09 PM
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4. "...destruction of property or felony criminal mischief."
   
Sounds like the basis for Bush's foreign policy.
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notadmblnd  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-20-08 12:47 PM
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21. or an act of freepers trying to generate hate for those who protest war.
   
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take off the tinfoil hat.
 

backscatter712  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-20-08 01:52 PM
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34. Wrong target.
   
It's damned inappropriate to vandalize a veteran's memorial. Those should be respected.

Now recruiting centers, OTOH, as far as I'm concerned, it's Open Season.
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[Chris_]

"backstabber" and "onion babbel" should volunteer as human shields in Afghanistan.

[DixieBelle]

Yet the irony is lost on them. Those brave veterans gave you the freedoms you have today that allow you to post on DU in relative comfort.

Asshats.

[Flame]

hey, Unionlabel..........


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and   again just for good measure!

[Chris_]

Yet the irony is lost on them. Those brave veterans gave you the freedoms you have today that allow you to post on DU in relative comfort.

Asshats.

And as noted, this was a WWII memorial.  If not for them, these yahoos would be posting their love for the fuhrer or emperor in German or Japanese.

[Crazy Horse]

  ya'll that think this was RIGHTEOUS....................****ing bastards