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| No pride in harbouring cowards from U.S. |
| 2006-07-17 |
| Aw, it must have been such a beautiful moment. There was a conference of Vietnam-era draft dodgers and deserters in B.C. last weekend, coming together after all these years to celebrate their deep-seated courage in avoiding service in the Vietnam war by coming to Canada. They unveiled a statue showing a Canadian welcoming two fleeing Americans with open arms. The sculpture was originally to have found a home in a municipal setting, but the national uproar it touched off sees it now in a private gallery in Nelson. I think the fuss would have been more muted had the statue perhaps better reflected the reality of those times. Shoulda been a chicken hiding behind a beaver. Yep. A beautiful moment. That is if you were born without the capacity to feel shame. Let's get something clear here. Vietnam was a moral war. A bunch of folks written off at the time as loonies by the left predicted that if South Vietnam fell it would become a brutal Communist dictatorship that would herd dissidents into concentration camps, that other south Asian nations would also fall. Well, after Saigon fell, those predictions came true. Life in Vietnam, particularly for ethnic Chinese, became so horrific that it gave birth to the boat people, who were thousands of desperate souls who crammed themselves and their children into leaky boats and cast themselves into the ocean to get away from the monsters who'd "liberated" their homeland. They became fodder for sharks and pirates, but it was worth the risk to get out of yet another "people's democratic republic" under a red flag. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 "Shoulda been a chicken hiding behind a beaver." -hahaha, now that is funny. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-07-17 13:10 |
| #7 I'd love to read about that 'moose. Is there a book? |
| Posted by: 6 2006-07-17 10:09 |
| #6 In WWII, commies were sent to the Aleutians, along with individuals who after a beer or two just couldn't help but blurt out any military secrets they knew. Some wit in the Pentagon used one such battalion for an experiment that any physician could have told him wouldn't work. The concept was that if people routinely ate a large amount of cellulose with their meals, would they "learn" to digest it? Well, no. However, it must have given many officers at least a little satisfaction to know that such pests were spending half the day eating paper, and the other half on the toilet. They did their tour in the regular army. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-07-17 10:02 |
| #5 Mike, Cassius Clay/Mohammed Ali earned some respect from me when he took jail time rather than running or wiggling out of the draft. He put his money (a lot!) where his (big) mouth was. |
| Posted by: glenmore 2006-07-17 08:53 |
| #4 I hope their guilt and shame haunts them well beyond their graves. They don't have any now, so what makes you think they'll suddenly develop a conscience later? |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2006-07-17 08:52 |
| #3 Another Communist, Pol Pot, who conquered Cambodia, was worse. He killed off millions of his own countrymen; their skulls are still heaped in pyramids around that nation. Being a lefty neo-marxists means never having to say you're sorry. It goes along with one of the major principles of elitism - one set of rules for yourself and another set of rules for everyone else. Or as George Orwell wrote - four legs good, two legs better. |
| Posted by: Thomoque Glaque5388 2006-07-17 08:47 |
| #2 ...I don't - and never have had - a problem with someone who honestly and truly opposes a war, and follows the LEGAL means to oppose it. The ones who ran and hid - they are the true cowards. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2006-07-17 06:23 |
| #1 This was no conference, it was a support group of pussies and cowards. I hope their guilt and shame haunts them well beyond their graves. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-07-17 04:24 |