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STRYKER PROTEST -- PROPAGANDA & REALITY: Ft. Lewis soldier says 'glad you
were there'
[Michelle Malkin's distorted, vicous column on the Port of Tacoma Stryker
protest, which is being circulated on right-wing blogs and a few
mainstream newspapers, shows that the protest on the Port of Tacoma is
perceived as an important one on the right. -- Her column,
(http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5889/), whose arguments we have
analyzed and refuted, (http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5889/), was
further envenomed Friday by the *Kansas City Star*
(http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/opinion/16864338.htm) when
it titled its reprint "Our Troops Face Enemy Even Before Leaving U.S." --
This is a pathetic, contemptible attempt to pit troops and their
so-called "supporters" (who are all to ready to send our young men and
women off to a doomed, futile, dehumanizing, and illegal year of service
in an utterly alien culture in a land laced with toxic chemicals and
depleted uranium, where their presence is ardently detested by the vast
majority of the people they are supposedly being sent to protect) against
those who would like to spare them that futile, and for many permanently
disabling or fatal, experience. -- What's more, that's not how the
troops see it at all. -- The attempt to oppose "our troops" and
protesters is belied by the fact that on the very first night of the
protests, one of the soldiers posted a message of appreciation to the web
site of one of the groups involved.[1] -- "We were told to expect
protesters and frankly, I was glad you were there," he said, writing under
the Kafkaesque pseudonym "K." --Mark]
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5902/
1.
News
I WAS THERE
By K
Tacoma SDA
March 3, 2007
http://www.tacomasds.org/news/
I was one of the soldiers tonight who rolled into Port of Tacoma. We were
told to expect protesters and frankly, I was glad you were there.
I'm an old school punk rocker, and I'm not going to bore you with the
details of my enlisting, but I'm totally against this war.
I'm glad most of your posters had support the troops against the war.
Many soldiers are very young and impressionable and tend to follow the
right wing view of things, but they are young. You'd be surprised how
many soldiers don't believe in the war, though. I 'm going to do my time
as it's better than working in the food industry or driving a cab, for
now.
One thing I was happy about you guys being out there was that only a few
of us from each section was there to drive our vehicles to the port. Come
on now, what do you think I'd rather be doing on a Saturday night?!
Well, most of my leadership wasn't there but you guys were, so I'll buy
you a beer.
Anyway, don't forget who is actually making the decisions here -- it's not
the soldiers. General Dubik himself could have been there and he has less
control over this war then you do.
I submit that your protests would be much more effective in front of the
Governor's house or in front of your local congressmen's house. Soldiers
only do what the citizen-controlled government tells them to do.
Any[way] keep freedom alive.
