Reply With QuoteWhy does the right have nothing to say about this war hero's injury?
Is this how the right supports the troops and defends the Constitution?
Scott Olsen, a 24-year-old Marine who served two tours of duty in Iraq, stood calmly in front of a police line as tear gas canisters that officers shot into the Occupy Oakland protest Tuesday night whizzed past his head.
"He was standing perfectly still, provoking no one," said Raleigh Latham, an Oakland filmmaker shooting footage of the confrontation between police and hundreds of protesters at 14th Street and Broadway.
"If something didn't hit him directly in the face, then it went off close to his head and knocked him down."
The something was a projectile that apparently came from police lines, fractured Olsen's skull and put him in Highland General Hospital. Doctors upgraded his condition Thursday from critical to fair, and said they expect him to make a full recovery.
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Mjölner
Why does the right have nothing to say about this war hero's injury?
It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.
Because they only call warfighters and veterans heroes when they agree with them?
Mjölner
I wonder if they consider him "collateral damage"?
It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.
He was protesting greed, which they consider a virtue.Originally Posted by Return of Dune
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You think that somebody on the right sent San Francisco police officers after protesters in San Francisco?
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Did anyone say that?
Uwaa OmO
You did, in the title.
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No, I didn't, drunkard. I asked a question.
How come someone as stupid as you survived Iraq while better men didn't?
Just wondering.
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Why would you ask if it was how "the right" treats them if you didn't believe that somebody on the right sent these police officers after him?
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Why wouldn't I? The purpose of asking questions is to get answers, isn't it?
I notice that none of the purported righwing champions of the Constitution seem disturbed by the treatment this man got for exercising his rights.
rebel
I'm hearing that hundreds of marine vets are quite pissed at the police now.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
Banned
I wouldn't call anybody a hero just cause they went to kill some Arabs.
Should they be pissed at the conservatives who sent them into harms way for nothing and then offshored American jobs so they wouldn't have anything to come home to?
Why don't you give it a try, TopDoper?
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