Reply #9: More wisdom from Brent Caflisch [View All]

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(Posted on something called The Anomalies Network, February 7, 2003)

Brent Caflisch: Ryan, once again some truly top notch posts! Anybody that doesnt understand what role the communists play and how truly dangerous their involvment is should read some Golytsin. After all this is basically how it started in Europe.

Anywho, I didnt come here to ruffle any feathers or anything like that, I just wanted to make a comment or two about the war protestors. First of all, why does it seem like the majority of all war protestors are really un-educated as to what is going on in the world? They just dont seem to have a firm grasp on world and current events.

I recently took place in a terrorism "town hall" meeting and I was very dismayed at how little people seemed to know about the world around them. Afterwards, the moderator thanked me for both helping to educate and for being the only one that had the opposite point of view from everyone else. I'm not sure how to classify my point of view, perhaps it was because I consider myself a conservative and everyone else seemed to be a liberal. I offered alternatives, solutions and facts to back up my arguments while others wondered why the whole world just couldnt hold hands and get along. I'm not making this up either. And some of these people are what you would consider pillars of society. One was a judge, another a well known lawyer in town, another was a retired building contracter.

The only other comment I wanted to make is why are kids allowed to protest? They are not old enough to vote. Not to sound mean or anything like that, but a 14 year old kid's opinion about war with Iraq doesnt mean jack to me. The reason I say this is because a few weeks ago during a protest in Minneapolis, the local news actually interviewed a teenager. This kid was so un-educated about the world and what was going on, I wondered what redeeming quality there was in putting this kid on tv.

In closing I would just like to say, if you are not for war then you should stand for something. Simply saying we shouldnt bomb a country isnt good enough. Come up with viable alternatives.

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It's funny how, five years later, we see that the war protestors were right and that it was actually the flag-waving, pro-war zealots like Brent who were "really un-educated as to what is going on in the world".

There is one thing I agree with Brent about. It is obviously inappropriate to use children to promote a cause that they aren't old enough to understand. Right-wingers would never do that!