posted on January 28, 2003 05:36:33 AM new
ARTHUR:
Now look here, my good man--
FRENCH GUARD:
I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
GALAHAD:
Is there someone else up there we could talk to?
FRENCH GUARD:
No. Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a!
[sniff]
You have the right to an informed opinion -Harlan Ellison
FRENCH GUARD: You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur King, you and all your silly English k-nnnnniggets. Thpppppt! Thppt! Thppt!
posted on January 28, 2003 12:53:49 PM new
Some statements ARE un-American, imo.
In a two-page advertisement in The New York Times today, a group calling itself, "Not In Our Name" criticizes the war on terror and the impending action against Saddam Hussein.
But the ad goes way over the line when it states, quote, "We too watched with shock the horrific events of September 11, 2001. We too mourned the thousands of innocent dead and shook our heads at the terrible scenes of carnage -- even as we recalled similar scenes in Baghdad, Panama City, and a generation ago, Vietnam."
When I read that, I couldn't believe it. This guy is comparing the slaughter of American civilians on 9/11 to the first Gulf War, where Saddam Hussein was defeated after invading Kuwait, and to the removal of Manuel Noriega, who had turned the country of Panama into a drug distribution cartel.
This is an absolute outrage and demonstrates not only muddled thinking but an anti-American point of view that is staggering in its implications. The Not In Our Name group apparently sees America as the brutal oppressor. And I think this opinion is un-American in time of war.
