posted on October 31, 2004 09:12:45 PM new
Lawyer gives up big salary to join Army
By JAMIE STENGLE
Associated Press
DALLAS -- A chance meeting in Subway restaurant with an Army recruiter changed the life of Michael Brown, a Dallas lawyer.
Brown, 26, leaves for basic training at Fort Benning, Ga., on Thursday, cutting his annual income from $120,000 to $18,000 to serve in the Army.
The impetus was a conversation with Staff Sgt. Jerome Huntley in mid-July.
"I had been thinking about doing it," Brown said. "It's on your heart and your thinking about doing it and there he is."
They talked in the restaurant and the next day Huntley came to Brown's apartment to describe life in an Army special operations unit, such as the Rangers or Green Berets.
Huntley said Brown's enthusiasm eliminated any doubts about someone giving up a career as a lawyer.
"He was just saying he wanted something more exciting in his life," Huntley said.
After 16 weeks of basic and advanced individual training as an infantryman at Fort Benning, he'll go to Fort Campbell in Kentucky. He hopes to then join a special operations unit.
A recruit like Brown is "relatively unusual" not only because of his profession, but also because of his income and age, said Douglas Smith, spokesman for the U.S. Army Recruiting Command at Fort Knox in Kentucky.
About 98.5 percent of Army officers have a bachelor's degree, and 40 percent of those have a master's or a doctorate, according to the Army. But only about 5 percent of enlistees have a four-year college degree or higher.
Smith said the average recruit's age is 21, and according to 2002 data, only 7 percent of enlistees come from households with incomes of $100,000 to $150,0000.
Brown grew up in Starkville, Miss., and played outside linebacker at Mississippi College where he earned an accounting degree before going on to law school at the University of North Carolina. He moved to Dallas to practice construction and personal injury defense law.
Approaching Huntley that day was no spur of the moment decision, Brown said. It was something that built for a long time. As a boy, he loved to play with toy soldiers and as a young adult he thought about a career in the military, but he went on to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, both lawyers.
After Brown got to Dallas, he started contemplating the switch.
"The law may not be exactly what I want to do -- the military's something I've always wanted to do," he said.
Brown, who is single, said he misses being out in the field, building a camaraderie with a group of guys like he did when he played football.
"I wanted to serve the country too," he said. "That was something that really interested me with the special forces or Rangers. You give all your time to do that. The bond that you have with that group of guys was something that I didn't feel."
And the possibility of being sent into war isn't something that would stop him from joining.
"I want to go," Brown said. "That's really part of the reason that I'm signing up. You're ready to go out there and do what you can for the country."
Making friends and family understand his decision took some work.
"My mom just realized that that's what I really wanted to do," Brown said. "Dad didn't come around till I said it's already done. He said, 'All right, then I'm behind it.'"
Brown's mother, Patsy Holeman, 53, of Madison, Miss., said Brown told her about a year ago that he still had the urge to join the military.
"He was still searching, still looking," she said. "He just kept saying, 'This is something I've got to do. I've always had this in the back of my mind. I don't want to be 10 to 20 years down the road saying I didn't do it.'"
Will Andrews, 27, of Clinton, La., has been friends with Brown since they played football together in college. He said that he didn't know how serious Brown was about enlisting until Brown said he'd talked to a recruiter.
"It did surprise me, but it didn't at the same time," Andrews said.
His co-worker, Randy Montgomery, had the same thoughts.
"I think it's rare that someone will give up as much as he's giving up to go and fight for his country," said "Montgomery, a partner at Deary Montgomery DeFeo & Canada in Dallas. "That's a good quality that we don't all have."
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The person who has nothing for which he is willing
to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill
posted on October 31, 2004 09:19:00 PM new
Bear posts, "I think it's rare that someone will give up as much as he's giving up to go and fight for his country,"
posted on October 31, 2004 10:20:00 PM new Bear, actually I can name at least one liberal who did just that and his name is John Kerry.
Not hardly, He did it to keep from being drafted. Then he turned his back on his brotheren in Viet Nam after 14 weeks in combat, then turned traitor and sold out to the North Viet Commies, which got him a "Other than Honorable" discharge, which he got changed to a honorable discharge under carters "draft dodger" amnesty. Hey, hey Ho, ho Kerry - sign the 1-8-0
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The person who has nothing for which he is willing
to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill
posted on November 1, 2004 06:07:22 AM new
Most Stupid Post of the Year Award and the winner is..........BEAR!
""""Not hardly, He did it to keep from being drafted""""
Yup, that cowardly Kerry joined the armed forces and fought in Vietnam to dodge the draft LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!
And to keep from being drafted and fighting like a man in Vietnam BUSH joined the National Guard, couldn't even show up for a physical because of the drugstore in his veins.....lily-livered coward and traitor to his country!
posted on November 1, 2004 07:09:50 AM new
Let's see....first kerry applies for a draft deferment....which is DENIED. Then he joins the Naval RESERVE not the active Navy.
And on the two tours fenix mentioned in another thread....LOL his first 'tour' was on a ship SAFELY out at sea.
Then here's the traitors own words on 'serving his country'.
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"According to our favorite Boston Globe reporter Michael Kranish on 6/16/03, Kerry said...
"I didn't really want to get involved in the war," Kerry said in a little-noticed contribution to a book of Vietnam reminiscences published in 1986. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing."
"But two weeks after he arrived in Vietnam, the swift boat mission changed -- and Kerry went from having one of the safest assignments in the escalating conflict to one of the most dangerous. Under the newly launched Operation SEALORD, swift boats were charged with patrolling the narrow waterways of the Mekong Delta to draw fire and smoke out the enemy. Cruising inlets and coves and canals, swift boats were especially vulnerable targets."
Kerry has claimed both that he joined the Swift boats because he wanted to serve in combat, and that he joined them because he didn't want to serve in combat.
Which is it, John Kerry?
(Please credit Freerepublic.com if you cite this research in media reports)
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And then there's his 14 week VN service, then his pro-communist stand...siding with our enemies...then his 20 Senate service where he accomplished almost nothing worth nothing ...which is exactly why we haven't heard him state ANY accomplish during his campaign...can't when there are none.
Oh yea...some hero...volunteering for war.
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"And they, the interrogator went through all of these statements from John Kerry. He starts pounding on the table. 'See here, this naval officer, he admits that you are a criminal.'" Excerpt from "Stolen Honor"
- James H. Warner Former Vietnam POW
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"I will never submit America's national security to an international test. The use of troops to defend America must never be subject to a veto by countries like France. The President's job is not to take an international poll -- the President's job is to defend America." --President George W. Bush
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Re-elect President Bush
posted on November 1, 2004 07:26:17 AM new
Ha! It's in your face !
And to keep from being drafted and fighting like a man in Vietnam BUSH joined the National Guard, couldn't even show up for a physical because of the drugstore in his veins.....lily-livered coward and traitor to his country!
Saw NO COMBAT at ALL!!!!!! Hard to see combat from inside a bottle!
posted on November 1, 2004 08:23:37 AM newKerry served two tours. For a relatively uneventful six months, from December 1967 to June 1968, he served in the electrical department aboard the USS Gridley, a guided-missile frigate that supported aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin and was far removed from combat.
"I didn't have any real feel for what the heck was going on [in the war]," Kerry has recalled. His ship returned to its Long Beach, Calif., port on June 6, 1968, the day that Robert F. Kennedy died from a gunshot wound he received on the previous night at a Los Angeles hotel. The antiwar protests were growing. But within five months Kerry was heading back to Vietnam, seeking to fulfill his officer commitment despite his growing misgivings about the war.
[ he went where he was sent...he didn't request this duty]
Kerry initially hoped to continue his service at a relatively safe distance from most fighting, securing an assignment as "swift boat" skipper. While the 50-foot swift boats cruised the Vietnamese coast a little closer to the action than the Gridley had come, they were still considered relatively safe.
"I didn't really want to get involved in the war," Kerry said in a little-noticed contribution to a book of Vietnam reminiscences published in 1986. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing."
[BostonGlobe.com]
bbl
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"And they, the interrogator went through all of these statements from John Kerry. He starts pounding on the table. 'See here, this naval officer, he admits that you are a criminal.'" Excerpt from "Stolen Honor"
- James H. Warner Former Vietnam POW
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"I will never submit America's national security to an international test. The use of troops to defend America must never be subject to a veto by countries like France. The President's job is not to take an international poll -- the President's job is to defend America." --President George W. Bush
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Re-elect President Bush
posted on November 1, 2004 08:36:56 AM new
Funny, all these people bashing Kerry. How will they feel after he is inducted in January as our next President. Will Linda respect John Kerry as President or will she continue her anti-Kerry posts? Will these neocons think that their anti-Kerry claims are anti-American? These neocons love to cry foul when a liberal speaks their mind, calling us un-american.
posted on November 1, 2004 11:16:58 AM new
Craw, seeing you down there groveling on your knees just makes my day. All your accusations again Pres Bush won't changes the fact that kerry is "Unfit for Command"..
Gumbo, I hope you get treatment for your delusions, Hey, hey Ho, ho Kerry - sign the 1-8-0
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The person who has nothing for which he is willing
to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill
posted on November 1, 2004 01:50:53 PM new
Bear what are you smoking?
When have I been on my knees??
You're rambling and grunting again!
You rather vote for a yellow-bellied coward who wet his pants just thinking of fighting in combat in Vietnam......I hope for your sake you ARE on drugs, too, just like bush......maybe that would explain your sheer stupidity.
posted on November 1, 2004 02:09:38 PM new
I guess we will see Bear. I have faith that most Americans are intelligent Americans. Intelligent Americans can piece together the failures of George Bush and realize this guy is not fit to lead this country out of a paper bag, let alone a war, an economic recession, a failing education system, high unemployment (which includes those who have fallen out of the unemployment system), skyrocketing health care costs, flu vaccines, and a myriad of other issues that have been flushed down the toilet by the Bush Administration.
I have faith in the fact that the polls mean nothing right now, and that in fact Kerry will win this election. The mere fact that an incumbant in war time is failing at gaining a majority of support across America shows he is a miserable failure. He was supposed to be a Uniter, not a Divider. Can any one of you conservatives explain what or who Bush was going to unite? Intelligent Americans don't want to continue this path. Intelligent Americans want this country united for the right reasons, reasons that make sense not only in America, but on a global scale. An America that promotes jobs, families, intelligent foreign policy, health care, education, equal rights for all, and so on... Intelligent Americans are the ones who can understand that GW is a repeated failure throughout his education, his private businesses, his political career, and his own religious faith. I can give credit to GW for one thing. He has led consistently by example. The problem is that his examples have always failed and are simply not in the interest of an Intelligent America that promotes true democracy (for the people by the people) instead of fascism (for the corporate interests by the government).
posted on November 1, 2004 02:14:44 PM new
blairwitch - Bush not only showed up...he was given an honorable discharge...something many are beginning to suspect kerry didn't earn.
He never would sign the 180 form so we could see why his 'released' was granted so many years after the fact. Many things could be found in those records...but kerry HAS REFUSED to open them up.....DOESN'T SOUND LIKE A HERO TO ME.
One would think a hero would be more than proud to open up ALL his records. But not kerry....he's hiding something he's ashamed of.
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The both were in the RESERVES...BOTH. kerry was unlucky enough to draw what he THOUGHT would be a safe mission. Turned out they changed the purpose of the Swift Boats...and kerry then couldn't get out of there fast enough. Yea...served...right....made HISTORY with three scratches that got him out and back to safety within 14 weeks. A historical record to earn that many scratches....in such a short period of time.
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"And they, the interrogator went through all of these statements from John Kerry. He starts pounding on the table. 'See here, this naval officer, he admits that you are a criminal.'" Excerpt from "Stolen Honor"
- James H. Warner Former Vietnam POW
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"I will never submit America's national security to an international test. The use of troops to defend America must never be subject to a veto by countries like France. The President's job is not to take an international poll -- the President's job is to defend America." --President George W. Bush
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Re-elect President Bush
posted on November 1, 2004 02:18:16 PM new
rusty asks: How will they feel after he is inducted in January as our next President. Will Linda respect John Kerry as President or will she continue her anti-Kerry posts?
Linda hasn't respected kerry since her VN days....when kerry was so busy helping our communist enemies out. So...no, Linda won't be supporting kerry as a president.
Linda plans to work with those who are filing a lawsuit to have kerry tried for treason. That's whether or not he gets elected. If he's is elected it will just make it a little more embarassing for him.
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"And they, the interrogator went through all of these statements from John Kerry. He starts pounding on the table. 'See here, this naval officer, he admits that you are a criminal.'" Excerpt from "Stolen Honor"
- James H. Warner Former Vietnam POW
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"I will never submit America's national security to an international test. The use of troops to defend America must never be subject to a veto by countries like France. The President's job is not to take an international poll -- the President's job is to defend America." --President George W. Bush
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Re-elect President Bush
posted on November 1, 2004 02:23:09 PM new
SOME paople just can't accept that their "hero" has NO war record because he was too lily-livered to fight for his country.
RRRIIINNNG......RRRINGG..
Hello?
Who is it...please don't whisper , speak up.......
Oh, Bill O'Riley, the great bush supporter....who..who did you want to speak to...oh, linda!
Linda, phone's for you.....it's the great neocon family values guy....he has some Republican values he'd like to share with you.
Better take the call....it might be the only "call" you get.
posted on November 1, 2004 03:24:00 PM new
Exactly what I would expect from Linda. She cries and cries about respecting Bush. The only reason why Bush hasn't been impeached is that the Republicans hold the House. He, as only he has ever done, hides behind a wall of deception that your party has created. GW has gone so far beyond what any president has ever done to kill over a thousand American soldiers, leading them straight to their death sentance. You Linduh, you support this president. The greatest traitor to American values. He has lied repeatedly, Cheney has lied, and then we have Linduh here, going to cry because I typed "Linduh" who wants to try Kerry for treason. LOL. You are a fascist, a liar, a neonazicommy b!tch who seems to think that everyone should play by your rules. Let me tell you right here, right now Linduh... You're nothing but a stupid lemming who has no common sense. You are the one who is anti-American. If you think speaking out against atrocities committed by some (not all) of the American soldiers in Vietnam is wrong, then you are really much, much, much more stupid than what you have led us all here to believe. You live in a fantasy world of emoticons and "fascist ideologies" where if you are American, you are always right. You have no idea what it is to serve this country. You disrespect the very fabric of the Constitution that this country was founded on. Linda, you are the most disrespectful American I have ever seen. I promise you one thing Linda. Absolute misery for the rest of your life and afterlife. To agree with a murderer and support his cause makes you no better than the nazi's who followed Hitler.
posted on November 1, 2004 03:33:22 PM new
Oh brother.....another angry left liberal in dire need of a chill pill.
After all the name calling and insults I hope you're feeling better. Liberals can't discuss or argue their position without resorting to the worst name calling they can think of. They refuse to see that more than 1/2 this nation thinks just the way I do. Your unrealistic views of who supports this country and who will sell it out in a minute are quite mixed up. [to say the least].
You evidently think it's okay for a man to be president who met with the enemy when he was still an officer Huh?
He was a traitor who endangered the men in VN still serving and the POWS who were being tortured while kerrys words were being spoken to them as the communists proof. And this is a man you support and then STILL claim your care about your country. What a sad, sad joke. Obviously you never learned right from wrong.
Wrong is to cause more pain, suffering and death to American soldiers still fighting the communists.
No surprise you can't see that. No suprise YOU support that position during war time. No surprise you have no understanding of those who served and why they feel he should NEVER be commander in chief.
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"And they, the interrogator went through all of these statements from John Kerry. He starts pounding on the table. 'See here, this naval officer, he admits that you are a criminal.'" Excerpt from "Stolen Honor"
- James H. Warner Former Vietnam POW
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"I will never submit America's national security to an international test. The use of troops to defend America must never be subject to a veto by countries like France. The President's job is not to take an international poll -- the President's job is to defend America." --President George W. Bush
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Re-elect President Bush
posted on November 1, 2004 03:44:05 PM new
Can't stand the truth it appears.
The communist leader said they were about ready to give up ...but kerry and his ilk were starting to convince our Nation that they should hold out just a little longer. kerry continued leading the anti=war protest and finally turned public opinion against the war. A war we would have won had it not been for the likes of kerry, fonda, etc.
The communists leader not only thank people like kerry but even went so far as to honor him for his participation ON THEIR BEHALF. That says a lot all by itself.
And rusty....pathetic to me is one who loses his self-control....and that appears to be YOU at the moment.
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"And they, the interrogator went through all of these statements from John Kerry. He starts pounding on the table. 'See here, this naval officer, he admits that you are a criminal.'" Excerpt from "Stolen Honor"
- James H. Warner Former Vietnam POW
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"I will never submit America's national security to an international test. The use of troops to defend America must never be subject to a veto by countries like France. The President's job is not to take an international poll -- the President's job is to defend America." --President George W. Bush
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Re-elect President Bush
posted on November 1, 2004 03:46:27 PM new SOME paople just can't accept that their "hero" has NO war record because he was too lily-livered to fight for his country.
Better to have no war record (until now), than to desert his shipmates, become a sold out traitor under N Viet commie control, and receive a "Other than Honorable Discharge"
Pres Bush did not have to apply for a Honorable Discharge from the weakest Pres in US history: Yimminy CARTER (like kerry) under the deserter amnesty program
Hey, hey Ho, ho Kerry - sign the 1-8-0
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The person who has nothing for which he is willing
to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill
posted on November 1, 2004 03:50:36 PM new
Linduh- I'm not losing my cool whatsoever. I'm just calling it what I see it. You are nothing more than a traitor who can't think for herself. Really, you are pretty much worthless. I might give you a penny for all the stupid little emoticons, but you are worthless.
posted on November 1, 2004 03:54:56 PM new
HA! linduh says, "And rusty....pathetic to me is one who loses his self-control....and that appears to be YOU at the moment. "
Well, when you see a statement as bone dead stupid as this
"A war we would have won had it not been for the likes of kerry, fonda, etc."
would make any decent honest person at least a little upset that another human could actually be that UNEDUCATED and stupid.
Gee, linda where did THAT brilliant theory come from...oh, never mind I see you pulled it out of your very large asp.
By the by linduh, we've ALL seen YOU loose your cool Just when we think you're totally dead inside you get your feelings hurt and lash out.
posted on November 1, 2004 03:59:37 PM new
Linduh is nothing more than a hypocrite. She wants everyone to respect GW when he is president, but obviously she doesn't do the same when it is Clinton or if Kerry was to win. She cries when someone spells her name as Linduh, and then she cries some more when someone calls her on the carpet to rub her pathetic little nose in it.
Linduh, your words were turned on you. You claims of Kerry as a soldier are shallow and dumb. Keep in mind, Bush is president and has killed over 1000 innocent American Soldiers and 100,000 innocent Iraqi's. GW is gaining on Milosevic on being a mass murderer and you are there to lap up GW's poo as if you were about to chow down on dinner.
posted on November 1, 2004 04:14:11 PM new
Not quite through with the name calling yet, huh? Can't defend kerry's pro-communists actions so you resort to insulting me. What's that old childhood saying...'sticks and stones will...' You too appear to be very childish in the way you respond so you resort to name calling. Maybe this is a liberal trait....whining and name calling when they can't stick to debating the topics.
Tell you what though rusty, when the day comes - but don't hold your breath - when I care one tiny bit how a rabid, name calling liberal like you sees me....I'll let you know.
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"And they, the interrogator went through all of these statements from John Kerry. He starts pounding on the table. 'See here, this naval officer, he admits that you are a criminal.'" Excerpt from "Stolen Honor"
- James H. Warner Former Vietnam POW
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"I will never submit America's national security to an international test. The use of troops to defend America must never be subject to a veto by countries like France. The President's job is not to take an international poll -- the President's job is to defend America." --President George W. Bush
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Re-elect President Bush
posted on November 1, 2004 04:20:08 PM new
Linduh, oh great whiny neocon that you are... I find it amusing that you think I haven't debated you on this. I suggest going back to read what I wrote. You might find some facts there for ya. Oh, I forgot, you are too busy chewing GW's poo.
posted on November 1, 2004 04:23:30 PM new
For any still undecideds you don't have to believe me vs the rabid liberals....read the words from the Pow/Mia and their families yourself. I know most of you were probably too young to have lived during those times. And I know from what my sons aged 35 and 33 learned about Vietnam in history was almost nil.
But read their own words and see why THEY think kerry betrayed them.....
and there's plenty more anti-military/Vets who also don't want to see kerry as CIC...because they feel the exact same way the POWs do.
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"And they, the interrogator went through all of these statements from John Kerry. He starts pounding on the table. 'See here, this naval officer, he admits that you are a criminal.'" Excerpt from "Stolen Honor"
- James H. Warner Former Vietnam POW
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"I will never submit America's national security to an international test. The use of troops to defend America must never be subject to a veto by countries like France. The President's job is not to take an international poll -- the President's job is to defend America." --President George W. Bush
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Re-elect President Bush
posted on November 1, 2004 04:36:19 PM new
oh yeah, just like a typical neocon. Linda, you are so stupid it is crazy.
You constantly fail to recognize how you much of a hypocrite you really are. There are words I would love to say right now, but b/c this is a PG-13 site, I can't.
If you want to believe a neonazi like Linda, that is fine with me. Don't go to a website where it is obviously a partisan website. How about sending them to a site that may present the facts as they are, so someone can decide for themselves. Not some hatemongering group of nazi's that shouldn't be allowed Non Profit status because they spew lies and cover up the facts.
No, Linduh. You don't bother to take the "moral" high ground and provide truth, instead you try to trick people into believing what you want them to believe. You constantly present the conservative agenda as fact when it is simply opinion.
Excerpt from "Stolen Honor"