[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-17 Thread Jim
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Tedesco" <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]>wrote:> > jim,> I am glad to see that you are as appalled by > > the t

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-17 Thread Jim
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Tedesco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:> > > jim,> I am glad to see that you are as appalled by the treatment of the > > prisoners as i am. i have actually been involved in discussions

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-17 Thread Jim
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Tedesco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:> > jim,> I am glad to see that you are as appalled by the treatment of the > prisoners as i am. i have actually been involved in discussionswith > some that feel that the prisoners got what was coming to them.> > th

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-16 Thread Tony Tedesco
jim, I am glad to see that you are as appalled by the treatment of the prisoners as i am. i have actually been involved in discussions with some that feel that the prisoners got what was coming to them. the point i was trying to get at was that his orders may have very well come from up th

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans - Legacy and Result - freedom

2005-01-16 Thread dfsavgny
Before anyone says it, I'll do it myself; it was an ignorant thing to say. Sorry, woke up in the middle of the night thinking about that damn Triangle and couldn't get back to sleep. My Mr. Hyde republican side has control today. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans - Legacy and Result - freedom

2005-01-16 Thread dfsavgny
Skip, Love your moxie, but the rest of the world sucks. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "SkipDragon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At a time when Americans are said to be motivated by "moral values" > the rest of the world wonders "the America we used to know and love > is slowly disa

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans - Legacy and Result - freedom

2005-01-16 Thread SkipDragon
At a time when Americans are said to be motivated by "moral values" the rest of the world wonders "the America we used to know and love is slowly disappearing before our eyes". Though many Americans believe the land of the free continues to attract immigrants due to its freedom, the United S

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-16 Thread Tony Tedesco
excellent point. this is one area that i have always tried to make clear in discussion about the war. Support for the troops serving is not mutually exclusive with questioning the war. i would hope that we, as a country, are all in agreement that the treatment of vietnam vets, with way to

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-15 Thread Jim
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Tedesco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:> > Jim,> I see your point of view, but can i ask your take on the current > situation with Spc. Charles Graner Jr and his current conviction > stemming from the 'abusegate'. I dont want to stir the pot (yeah > right)

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-15 Thread Jim
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Tedesco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:> > Jim,> I see your point of view, but can i ask your take on the current > situation with Spc. Charles Graner Jr and his current conviction > stemming from the 'abusegate'. I dont want to stir the pot (yeah > right)

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-15 Thread Tony Tedesco
Jim, I see your point of view, but can i ask your take on the current situation with Spc. Charles Graner Jr and his current conviction stemming from the 'abusegate'. I dont want to stir the pot (yeah right) on terrorists noit being normal POW's. My concern is more directly linked to someone

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-15 Thread Tony Tedesco
john, for what its worth, i value your input. While you and i have butted heads before, it was never over a lack of respect for you. Please keep up challenging my point of view, and i will return the favor tony --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "jerseyjohn99" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

[AsburyPark] Re: :helping veterans

2005-01-15 Thread Tony Tedesco
on this whole topic, i have to say that dissent is a duty, when authority impinges on ones rights. here are some germane quotes for thought.. tony "In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all -- security, comfort,

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans - Legacy and Result

2005-01-15 Thread Tony Tedesco
Hesh, I dont hear anyone (at least anyone here) saying that bush is hitler. But ,for your own sake, please dont downplay the rights milestone that the patriot act and the patriot act 2 are(as well as mandate for the national id card, both of which were bundled in the recently passed securit

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-15 Thread Tony Tedesco
John, As rhetorical as the answer may be, i would have to say that i would opt for him excercising his rights. We hear all the time about how it is critical to support the troops because they are fightiong for our right to free speech. Why on earth would they be exempt from the same rights

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans - Legacy and Result

2005-01-15 Thread SkipDragon
Hesh, that's one hell of a red herring "that the rest of the planet ought to learn to get along with us as well, and not try to destroy us for whatever reason", it never ceases to amaze me how broadly paranoia grips this nation. Despite America's great, and seemingly endless, talent for fash

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-14 Thread Jim
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "jerseyjohn99" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just when we were all wondering what this has to do with Asbury > Park, the truth comes out. > you have to ask the person who brought it in the Almighty Jimmy Keady. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-14 Thread jerseyjohn99
Just when we were all wondering what this has to do with Asbury Park, the truth comes out. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some one to cometo me & ask for a soliders address that served in Iraq just so he can write him & then I see him speaking out a

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-14 Thread Jim
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Lighty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On 1/13/05 10:20 PM, "Tony Tedesco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > > > > > wow...this is a scary sentiment..here is a guy who was honorably> > discharged, did his duty which caused him emotional distress,> > and you are wis

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-14 Thread dfsavgny
I'm sitting this one out. Hopefully, the one thing we have learned from the Vietnam era is to give our unilateral support and help to those who put themselves in harms way despite our personal feelings about the particular conflict. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "jerseyjohn99" <[EMAIL P

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-14 Thread jerseyjohn99
It's amazing. People on here take potshots at a government I helped to elect without one peep, yet I bring a healthy skepticism to a counter-revolutionary group, and I'm branded everything from selfish to a Nazi sympathizer. (which is humorously ironic to this history buff, as nazism was a SO

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-14 Thread JWKeady
In a message dated 1/14/2005 8:48:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: given the choice between him exercising his rights & your safety & your pursuit of happiness being ensured, which would you choose? I cannot speak for Tony to whom your email was addressed, so I will spea

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans - Legacy and Result

2005-01-14 Thread Lighty
Title: Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans - Legacy and Result On 1/14/05 12:26 PM, "Tyler, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hesh - You make good points.  But there are countervailing issues.  I think there can be consequences from failing to make analogies to Nazi Germa

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-14 Thread Lighty
On 1/13/05 10:20 PM, "Tony Tedesco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > wow...this is a scary sentiment..here is a guy who was honorably > discharged, did his duty which caused him emotional distress, > and you are wishing a terrorists fate on him. all for taking > advantage of the same rights whi

RE: [AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans - Legacy and Result

2005-01-14 Thread Tyler, Mark
Title: RE: [AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans - Legacy and Result Hesh - You make good points.  But there are countervailing issues.  I think there can be consequences from failing to make analogies to Nazi Germany as well.  For example: It is estimated that 800,000 people have been

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans - Legacy and Result

2005-01-14 Thread Heshy
Skip, While I do agree with your point that we need to learn to get along with everybody on the planet (which also means that the rest of the planet ought to learn to get along with us as well, and not try to destroy us for whatever reason), the extent to which you're willing to stoop to cri

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-14 Thread jerseyjohn99
Tony, given the choice between him exercising his rights & your safety & your pursuit of happiness being ensured, which would you choose? The FBI has documentation that the main source of funding for VVAW was the KGB. I highly doubt the Soviets were interested in our civil rights & democracy

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans - Legacy and Result

2005-01-14 Thread Jim
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "SkipDragon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Legacy and Result of the Actions of VVAW > The reason that "generation of veterans [was] spit upon, shamed, > and > discriminated against" is the direct result of government run > amuck. Should we "relive newsree

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans - Legacy and Result

2005-01-13 Thread SkipDragon
Legacy and Result of the Actions of VVAW The reason that "generation of veterans [was] spit upon, shamed, and discriminated against" is the direct result of government run amuck. Should we "relive newsreel footage of [another] overloaded helicopter retreating in shame from the US embassy in

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-13 Thread Tony Tedesco
wow...this is a scary sentiment..here is a guy who was honorably discharged, did his duty which caused him emotional distress, and you are wishing a terrorists fate on him. all for taking advantage of the same rights which you would argue he was there protecting and enabling for us at home..

[AsburyPark] Re: Helping Veterans

2005-01-13 Thread jerseyjohn99
Support his efforts? Why? So this generation of veterans can be spit upon, shamed, and discriminated against like the 2.5 million veterans of 30 years ago, which is the legacy & direct result of the actions of VVAW? So we can relive newsreel footage of an overloaded helicopter retreating in s