Ah the disrespect for America's fallen amendment act

[Johonny]

Nothing says thank you America like using Memorial day to remove yet another civil liberty. Sure the "protesters" are idiots in this case, but wouldn't it have been a better idea to leave Iraq than ban the first Amendment.


President Bush, marking Memorial Day with a speech paying tribute to fighting men and women lost in war, signed into law Monday a bill that keeps demonstrators from disrupting military funerals. In advance of his speech and a wreath-laying at America's most hallowed burial ground for military heroes, Bush signed the "Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act." This was largely in response to the activities of a Kansas church group that has staged protests at military funerals around the country, claiming the deaths symbolized God's anger at U.S. tolerance of homosexuals.

[Moochy]

1. What fallen in Iraq?

I have not seen any pictures of coffins. Oh but that would be disrespectful now wouldnt it, to let the anonymous image of coffins touching down on US soil reach the airwaves.

Disrespect for the fallen is the their modus operandi.

[Olney Blue]

2. The Kansas group just doesn't seem to understand that the deaths of

our troops occurred to PREVENT tolerance of homosexuals.

Ban the protesters- out of sight, out of mind.


:sarcasm:

[BOSSHOG]

3. If bush only knew what irony meant

Passing a law on Memorial Day to restrict the constitutional liberties of those who hate to placate members of his base who spend their life hating. Oh, the sad, muddled, ignorant mind of "conservatives."

I'm a veteran. george bush I know commanders in chief and you are no commander in chief.

[Minnesota Libra]

4. What this tells me is some Democrats/Liberals don't think............

.....the rest of us liberals are smart enough to put this issue in the terms it should be put in and I, for one, resent that implied message.

Yes, we need to stop this horrible slaughter in Iraq and we need to deal with the criminal ass holes that brought this about for nothing but financial gain in the first place.

We ALSO need to start telling OURSELVES and the WORLD that Americans are smart enough to honor our military no matter where or when they serve in our name. We don't have to agree with the commander in thief and his "buckshot heart attack waiting to happen" puppet master who sent our young people to fight a horribly stupid unneeded war. All we need to do is support and honor our own. Then tell the truth about the WH idiots loud and long.

Please don't automatically confuse two different issues just because the neocons/fundies hope that's precisely what liberals will do. The neocons/fundies are just waiting to pounce on this "dis the pResident and his puppet masters and dis the military" for November and again in 08.

[treestar]

5. As if respect can be legislated

Next it will be a "Respect for the President in Time of War" Act.