Dealing With Peace Activists and Rememberances of War

Tomorrow, I'm driving to Crystal River in Florida to go scuba diving for the weekend. Hopefully, we'll see some manatees. I'll be back on Sunday.

Also, I'm all better now. Blood pressure is back down. No foul language tonight.

Pat, a longtime friend (36 years!) sent me the following on how to explain how the world works to one of those idiot 'peace is the only answer' idiots:

With all of this talk of war, many of us will encounter "Peace Activists" who will try and convince us that we must refrain from retaliating against the ones who terrorized us all on September 11, 2001, and those who support terror. These activists may be alone or in a gathering.....most of us don't know how to react to them. When you come upon one of these people, or one of their rallies, here are the proper rules of etiquette: 1. Listen politely while this person explains their views. Strike up a conversation if necessary and look very interested in their ideas. They will tell you how revenge is immoral, and that by attacking the people who did this to us, we will only bring on more violence. They will probably use many arguments, ranging from political to religious to humanitarian. 2. In the middle of their remarks, without any warning, punch them in the nose. 3. When the person gets up off of the ground, they will be very angry and they may try to hit you, so be careful. 4. Very quickly and calmly remind the person that violence only brings about more violence and remind them of their stand on this matter. Tell them if they are really committed to a nonviolent approach to undeserved attacks, they will turn the other cheek and negotiate a solution. Tell them they must lead by example if they really believe what they are saying. 5. Most of them will think for a moment and then agree that you are correct. 6. As soon as they do that, hit them again. Only this time hit them much harder. Square in the nose. 7. Repeat steps 2-5 until the desired results are obtained and the idiot realizes how stupid of an argument he/she is making. 8. There is no difference in an individual attacking an unsuspecting victim or a group of terrorists attacking a nation of people. It is unacceptable and must be dealt with. Perhaps at a high cost. We owe our military a huge debt for what they are about to do for us and our children. We must support them and our leaders at times like these. We have no choice. We either strike back, VERY HARD, or we will keep getting hit in the nose. Lesson over, class dismissed.

As always, when stuff is sent to me uncredited, I am unable to give credit where credit is due. If anyone knows who wrote this, I will post the author and a link to their site, if they have one.

Thanks to someone who commented on Toren Smith's site it looks like here is where it came from.

I have two distinct memories from the first Gulf War.

The first one was an interview I saw on CNN. A clueless reporter was interviewing an Army sergeant and asking questions about his tank. One of the questions was, "What does this big gun do?" The sergeant answered, without missing a beat, "Mostly, it shoots big bullets." My friend, Wahoo, and I laughed for about five minutes straight. Even today, I can ask him what a big gun is for and he'll give me the answer and we still get a big laugh out of it.

The second remembrance was a press briefing by Stormin' Norman. He was showing videos of bombing runs and he introduced one by saying, "Here is the luckiest guy in Irag." We then saw a car going across a bridge. As soon as the car got across the bridge, Stormin' Norman said, "And then he looked in his rearview mirror and this is what he saw." Boom! The bridge blew up.

And now, what the unluckiest person in Iraq will see.

Posted by denny at March 26, 2003 08:11 PM