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Some of you may remember a LTTE I posted a while back by a local gentleman who always writes in to the local rag to put down anyone who thinks global warming is real. Turns out he works for a chemical company with a history of polluting. :) Anyway, today he turned his attention to the war. We have a local "Peace Movement" who has been protesting in one area for quite a while. Recently, a "Victory Movement" has sprouted up on the other side of the street at the same time every week, ostensibly to offer a counter view, but primarily to harass the folks in the "Peace Movement." Anyway, on to the letter. Thoughts, anybody?
Letter begins below:
While not condoning the behavior that led to it, I find Karen Porter’s plea to the borough (DLN, April 5) to “resolve” her predicament exquisitely ironic. Ms. Porter and other Chester County Peace Movement protesters have been “occupying” our town square and the pages of this newspaper for the past five years. They ardently believe in their right to be there and the truth of their message.
Yet they routinely accuse our soldiers of illegally occupying another country and killing innocent people in cold blood. They have accused the duly elected president of this great nation of being a cold-blooded killer and worse. They say we invaded Iraq without provocation and without cause, excusing Saddam Hussein’s actions, the biggest bully in the world. They have advocated that our U.S. forces retreat immediately to within our borders and leave the Iraqis to fend for themselves against a brutal and determined enemy who uses murder as its primary means of communication. They argue that the bullies would go away, if only we went home.
Now, facing harsh words and intimidation, they are appealing to a greater authority and power than themselves, so they can continue their occupation of the town square. Karen Porter seems surprised that her bullies did not just stay on their side of the street when she retreated to the other side. Shocking!
The lesson of this story will undoubtedly be lost on Ms. Porter and the members of the CCPM: You do not appease bullies; you beat them back until they submit to you. Now if the CCPM truly believes what it has been preaching for the past five years, it will retreat to Ms. Porter’s home for their Saturday morning protest. Maybe then the bullies will go away.
Dan Pourreau
Uwchlan
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