I write for a local news and information website called Halifax Live. Some of the articles found here on this blog can also be found there including my latest entry here titled "Way To Go Soldier Boys". Today in my Halifax Live mail box I found three messages from people who took great exception to the article and for your viewing pleasure I'm placing the best one here. No wait...I'll put the best two messages here.
All three of them are hate-filled vituperations. All three are written by males. If they're adults well, that's just scary as hell. If they're teenagers, that's even scarier because they're going to take this hate and anger into their adult years and do god-knows-what with it. Maybe join the military...
This is what one gets for exercising freedom of speech and expression these days. Not only do they attack the message, they verbally assault the messenger and god forbid that anyone says anything negative about a soldier fighting the "good fight" in Afghanistan or Iraq in an attempt to rid the world of all those Middle Eastern "animals".
So without further ado, the first email:
Screw you, you friggin bloody ass wipe. It seems you don't have too much to say when there are soldiers getting killed every day, but when some "rag head" little snot nosed (soon to become a suicide bomber)gets whacked, you become a blithering idiot that don't really know what the hell you are talking , or writing about. Why don't you go enlist and volunteer to go to afghansitan so you could talk'em to surrendering. Let's see, wasn't your kind the same idiots that thought they could TALK hitler in to being a nice man? He did too. He let the young ones organize into the youth corp. and they went about recruiting "other children" that were worse than the older scum bags. Tell that to the Jewish children that he murdered you left wing prick, and who say's we lost? You? The taliban and alqaida think you are A OK. They will kill you last, butt head.
And the second one:
This editorial garbage reflects someone who has never been near, let alone engaged in, a combat situation. If the enemy hides with children and the children are killed, at least they won’t grow up to be the enemy. That is when the terror goes away, when the last Muslim dies. Age makes no difference.
Oh wait. D. L. McCracken is Canadian. Almost as used to losing as the French. That explains it. And if he had half a ball, he’d try to find me so we could “discuss” his shortcomings outside.
Oh hell, I may as well include the third one:
Im glad they blasted the school. They're animals. Enough of us playing by ridiculous rules of war while the enemy runs and hides in religious sites. Do our troops put children in cars filled with explosives then leave it on a busy street, run away then blow it up with the kids inside. Umm nope. The purpose of the kids there was so that the parked car wouldnt raise suspicion from patrolling police. We should target mosques, these people are animals. Our military troops are the elite people of the US. Yet scum like you look down upon them, if it wasnt for them youd be dead.
All three are published verbatim.
1 comment:
As you say, these days one cannot have their say, or own an opinion different from another's... or you stand to be personally attacked .
This trend seems to have begun in the government, and been perpetuated by the media.
If we are anti war, we do not support the soldiers... or we are pro terrorist.
This has indeed trickled down to the workplace, the schoolyard and anyplace that one might state on opinion, or or open a discussion.
Sad state of affairs.... very sad. I too, fear where this might take us.
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