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| 101st Veteran vs. Moonbats |
| 2005-10-05 |
| Ken Potts calls himself a patriot. That's what his front yard tells you too. Metal American flags are staked in the ivy beside the driveway. A red, white, and blue pinwheel spins near the front sidewalk. One flagpole flies the American flag. A second flagpole carries the banner of the Army's 101st Airborne. Even his mailbox on North 185th Street in Shoreline sports the image of the Airborne's screaming eagle. But he says that in the last year the mailbox has been blown up twice with fireworks. The house has been egged. Paint has been thrown on the house too. The flags have been torn down and ripped up more than once. And the 101st Airborne flag has had the word "murder" and a swastika written on it with a permanent marker. "It's really difficult for me to see something like this and not feel sad," Potts told us of the vandalism that started around election day last year. Especially, he says, since the 101st led the charge in World War II to defeat Nazi Germany. But the biggest insult to this house with a permanent Bush-Cheney placard attached to the second story and a collection of mostly Republican election signs in the side yard, is the spray paint someone left on his vinyl siding this past weekend. In two-foot tall letters on the side of his house facing Meridian someone painted "Bush Nazis." "Where do they get off calling the President of the United States a Nazi," he said. This former soldier with three tours of Vietnam says he feels like his own freedom of speech is under attack. "When you have someone or a group of people who want to take that away from you, who probably didn't do a thing to defend them in the first place, it's really sad." But to fight back he always puts new flags back on those front yard flagpoles. He installed a security camera that keeps watch over his front yard. And for his own political jab he put an electronic readerboard in a front window. 24 hours a day it says: "Liberalism - is a mental disorder." "I want to make sure that they know I can't be pushed around." And he says he'll leave the spray painted "Bush Nazis" on the side of his house for a while to show people on this busy corner what tolerance "doesn't" look like. He also says he's turned the other cheek and doesn't want prosecution or revenge. He says he'd like to meet the vandal or vandals and have a friendly American debate instead. "If we want to have disagreements in this country there's ways to have disagreements and there's ways to have a dialogue. If you've got a problem with me come up and talk about it. We may not even agree but we can agree to disagree." |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #8 It is definately way past time to start killing people. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-10-05 15:12 |
| #7 A swastika painted on a mans house for flying the American and 101st Airborne flags. Where is Jesse Jackson and the rest of the self proclaimed civil rights leaders. It's safe to assume the plight of white republicans don't elicit the same outrage. A simmilar thing happened in my home town to a man for displaying a large Bush/Cheney yard sign. Repeated vandalism to prperty and swastikas painted on his house. Not much outrage. In fact, the local fishwrap went as far as to write an op/ed saying he had it comming because he lived on a busy street and the sheer size of his signs were enough to incite vandalism. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2005-10-05 13:53 |
| #6 "Freedom of speech for me... but not for thee." is the mantra of the moonbat left.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-10-05 12:46 |
| #5 He should apply some of his training. Plan and set an ambush carefully with sufficient assets on call for contingencies. Keep it documented from start to finish. Wait patiently for the moment. Let nobody escape. Call the 5-O's when the area's secured and the documentation is ok'd. Trace the perps' links. If you find organizational structures follow up promptly. Let the 5-O's know and retain a trial lawyer on contingency to skin the guilty in civil court and the media. |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-10-05 12:08 |
| #4 He is having exactly the wrong kind of reaction, teh one who led to moonbats dominating in the propaganda war. It is US who should be plastering the houses of Vietnam activists with paintings of "Genocider!" and with photos of mass graves in Cambodia alonside with "Your Work". It is the people who marched agsint the war who should have their cars and houses defaced with paintings like "I marched for genocide". We should stop apologizing and reamaining on the defensive as this guy is doing. |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-10-05 11:34 |
| #3 Socialism is a form of Slavery. The desire to force people to work for things that they do not freely choose to by forcibly extorting a percentage of their earnings i.e. their time; is exactly analogous to owning slaves. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2005-10-05 11:26 |
| #2 "He says he'd like to meet the vandal or vandals." Oh and I would too! Only I doubt there would be much conversation on their part. It's a little hard to talk when you’re unconscious. Please of please let law enforcement catch these assholes and expose them to the whole country. But then what would some expect from Washington State, hell they have a statue of Lenin! Everyone in Europe tore them down, but Seattle put one up? Sad state of affairs. Five bucks to the tip jar says that they are caught within the week. Because Liberalism is a mental disorder and the perps probably don't watch the news. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-10-05 11:15 |
| #1 Ken, Good luck on having an educated debate w/ these MOONBATs!! They have NO idea what freedom costs!!This is what some liberal(peice of sh&%)professer has been drilling into their heads until they actually beleive it. You've stated it correctly LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER!!!!! |
| Posted by: ARMYGUY 2005-10-05 11:08 |