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I think it's pretty clear who I was talking to and it wasn't you.It's really amazing how many times I can argue your point (this specific one you keep making) into oblivion, and you still act like it's fact.Did he?What I don't get, is why this topic took a political spin in the first place.
Come on, just admit it, your happy someone finally stood up to their bullshit.
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http://www.omaha.com...S97/708319913/0George Vogel drove his Ford pickup truck toward a group of people he thought were the infamous Westboro Baptist protesters.The 62-year-old Omahan's trigger finger rested on a can of potent pepper spray that can cause temporary blindness and vomiting. His grandson rode in the passenger seat.
But what Vogel saw as he leaned out the driver's side window and twice sprayed the crowd outside the Saturday funeral of Marine Staff Sgt. Michael Bock is a 40-year-old memory he can't shake, his wife says.
In the memory, Vogel is himself a young Marine. He has just climbed off the ship that has brought him back to the United States from a brutal tour of duty in Vietnam. And he encounters a group of anti-war protesters, young adults his own age, waving signs and screaming at him.
?He kept saying, ?All I could think of was when I got off the boat,'? Marlene Vogel said Monday of the lone phone conversation she has had with her husband since he was jailed Saturday on suspicion of 16 counts of misdemeanor assault.
The charges stem from the 16 people ? none of whom are believed to be Westboro Baptist members ? who were allegedly harmed by Vogel's bear repellent, a Mace-like chemical that burned their eyes, turned their stomachs and sent several to the hospital.
First. I don't like what the WBC people are doing. I'm offended by it but they have the right to do so. The First Amendment isn't there to protect kind or polite speech.
So, let's say your wife is murdered in your home by a bunch of whacked out PeTA people because your wife wears leather shoes.
A few years later PeTA buys the property next to where you live (assuming no zoning violations) and intends to build an "information center" to share with the community all the good their organization does, on the property right by where PeTA people slaughtered your wife, because of their radical PeTA beliefs.
Seeing how you don't have any reason to be offended by this, at what point do you bring over the basket with "welcome to the neighborhood" baked goods?
So that first PETA group are actually not really part of it, they're just nutcases who are using PETA to feel justified in killing your wife.
PETA comes out and says that person was wrong. Anybody who targets civilians is wrong. 9 years later, they build an information center two blocks away from your house, where you can't even see it. Are you offended?
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