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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Ubiquitous" |
| Date: |
25 Jan 2007 11:15:21 AM |
| Object: |
Re: But He Supports the Troops! |
Sgt. Jason Hess, who is stationed in Iraq with the U.S. Army's First
Cavalry Division, wanted to buy some floor mats for his men to sleep on. He
wrote to a West Allis, Wis., company called Discount-Mats.com:
Do you ship to APO [Army Post Office] addresses? I'm
in the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Iraq and we
are trying to order some mats but we are looking for
who ships to APO first.
As Snopes.com notes, because of paperwork and other regulations, some
companies do not ship to APO addresses. Discount-Mats turned out to be such
a company, but the response to Sgt. Hess, from an anonymous employee,
included a bit of editorializing:
We do not ship to APO addresses, and even if we did,
we would NEVER ship to Iraq. If you were sensible,
you and your troops would pull out of Iraq.
The story spread, and Discount-Mats heard from "furious people," who
"e-mailed and called the Web site owner's house and left obscene messages,"
Milwaukee's WTMJ-TV reports. The company fired the employee responsible.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that "anti-war and free speech
advocates were equally offended, by the widespread criticism of the company
and the individual who responded to the soldier":
"This is a matter of free speech," said Julie Enslow,
an organizer with Peace Action Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
"It is totally irresponsible for radio stations and
bloggers to attack a person for his personal political
views."
You've got to love Julie Enslow's concept of free speech. If you agree with
her, it's fine to shoot off your mouth on company time. If you disagree
with her, it's "totally irresponsible" to express your views in a public
forum.
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Those who cheered Bush back then as he described the enormous task ahead,
only to turn into (or back into) bitter critics with no strategic
alternatives to offer, have to be judged fundamentally unserious about
America's national security.
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