Despite Morning Joke's description of people who write e mails to his show with differing opinions of the thoughts that fall out of his and Mika's mouths and occasionally their guests. Not all of us are basement dwelling trolls living our lives on the graciousness of our parents or other loved ones. Some of us have earned it and I don't even have a basement, I have 2700 square feet in the house and a 700 sq foot pool house. I have wifi I can blog from any corner of my property and I suspect some of my neighbors boot strap on my wifi to power their lap tops.
But I was attacked viciously by a member of this community yesterday, because I did not "agree with them" and I even had the nerve to explain why. I felt like throwing some donuts at them but I didn't they were upset, hysterical and way over the top, Dan Choi had been arrested for pad locking himself to the White House Fence, supposedly in uniform. What else did he expect to happen? You can NOT protest in any military uniform, the UCMJ prohibits it.
I was accused of being against human rights, fairness etc excuse me that has no argument here, as all who have ever served knows that when you get drafted or enlist as has been the case since 1973, you sign away many of your American "civil rights" and you fall under the Uniform Code of Military Justice which has few "rights" in it. You have the right to obey their laws or they will "throw the book at you" and it is a thick book.
One of the fellow kossacks came to my assistance and to them, all I can say is thank you and SALUTE
I'd just like to point something out (14+ / 0-)
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The DKos member you just referred to, testvet6778, when you made this comment
Choi made a courageous move knowing as he does the military.
More courageous than the Cheeto-stained cowards seemingly happy Choi may be punished even further by yanking away even more of his civil rights.
May the same never happen to you or your family.
(And may you and yours never be judged of being "deserving" of the denial of your civil rights.")
was as a member of the military who was unknowingly exposed to chemical and biological weapons, as a defense department guinea pig. This did not occur in battle but was an experiment to which he had no knowledge that he was participating in.
testvet6778 is the last person to whom anyone should ever direct the statement:
And may you and yours never be judged of being "deserving" of the denial of your civil rights."
His civil and human rights were denied in the very worst way and he suffers horribly to this day for it.
Cold War "test vets" to finally get their day in court
Please take care of what you say to people on this site as you do not know what horrible experiences many have gone through.
The beatings will continue until morale improves. 8.50, 6.92
by ferallike on Thu Mar 18, 2010 at 10:23:13 PM EDT
I know what the deprivation of basic human rights are, I have served in nations where there are NO civil rights, the government just locks you up because they want to, phone calls? hell most of the people don't even have phones, people disappear and die daily. I spent a year on the DMZ and watched men die, so go ahead and educate me about civil rights.
I am a disabled veteran who spent most of his adult life defending rights, yours, mine and people in other nations who have NO rights, I became totally disabled because of it, and you feel you have a right to lecture ME about not understanding civil rights........
I can't help your ignorance but I do really appreciate people of Daily Kos and especially people like ferallike
as a community we do great things here, but in order to do that we have to open the doors and allow idiots in, and despite a few hundred posts telling you that you were wrong in your assuming that Dan Choi was "disappeared" like the Al Qaeda members in Pakistan and blamed President Obama for it, you really jumped the shark and you owe this community an apology for being obstinate.
For me keep paying your taxes I need a new power chair......