Circular Bullshit
I read a letter to the editor today in which one anti-war person was responding to a previous letter by a pro-war person. The first letter by the pro-war person had said something like if you are anti-war, it is time to shut your mouth and support your peers.
Then in the second letter, the anti-war person was saying how this was “nonsensical.” He then goes on to say,
“Whether we are fighting for the freedom of the oppressed or control of oil fields, if we do not exercise the rights that the soldiers in Iraq are fighting to preserve, then we are fighting for nothing.”
I think this might be the most ridiculous round of banter I have ever heard in my life.
Pro-war: “I think it’s time for anti-war people to keep their mouths shut and support their peers.”
Anti-war: “Ha, if I keep my mouth shut then the terrorists win! That is nonsensical.”
Pro-war: “I am expressing my free-speech rights by telling you to shut your mouth.”
Anti-war: “I am expressing my rights by defying you and protesting.”
Pro-war: “FINE!”
Anti-war: “FINE!”
Pro-war: “FINE TIMES 10, HA!”
Anti-war: “FINE, INFINITY, HAHA!”
Pro-war: “Fine, INFINITY TIMES TEN, HAHAHA!”
Anti-war: “You can’t multiply infinity times ten, idiot.”
Pro-war: “I just did, you tree hugger.”
Anti-war: “Keep it up you unenlightened Mongoloid.”
Pro-war: “You are the Mongoloid.”
Anti-war: “Good one dumbass.”
Pro-war: “Talk to me if you are a bitch.”
Anti-war: “Your mom.”
Pro-war: “Oh yeah, YOUR mom.”
Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah and it continues.
The issue is the war. How does it affect Iraqis, soldiers and world opinion of this country? Just like the self-centered Americans that the world accuses us of being, we have turned this into an issue about us, at home, the people who aren’t actually doing anything other than paying taxes. Keep it on the issues and don’t bother me with this disgusting infighting between the representative bird metaphors. I KNOW IT IS PROTECTED SPEECH, but that doesn’t make it productive.
