Telling The Protesters Where To Go Respectfully...

On the eve of this Memorial day a subject comes up that we all will deal with this weekend, nutty uncivil anti war and anything from peanut butter to ozone protesters will be fighting amongst themselves for facetime on CNN or their local newscasts by disrupting parades and memorials to our fallen heroes across the nation.

In additon there will be counterprotesters who are respectfully pay ing tribute to the troops and their mission in a manner far removed from the psycho left wing militants who hate opposing views. Those on the left who cannot tolerate anyone with an opposing view to theirs as the subject of this great story I found below tells, demonstrated by this quote deep in the article:

.....Seen he was. Though there was plenty of room on the corner, he says he was bumped, shoved and challenged. One person asked, "Do you live in fear?" Another demanded, "Why don't you go and serve?"....

"They had that corner for five years, every Saturday, unopposed," Mr. Davis told me. "They couldn't stand the thought of one person having a sign they couldn't tolerate."

The first quote is the typical left wing response to people not on their particular wavelength which most people aren't thank goodness, threats of violence and verbal harassment are a common practice. One poignant example is this one pictured below:

Remember this nutty Code Pink militant woman stalking Condoleeza Rice in a Congressional hearing of all places a while back: (here's the actual video of this nutjob)

Imagine what they get away with around average people not in a protective environment as Rice was supposed to have been that afternoon. As we've all seen and many experiences, it's quite a bit. For clarity purposes, just look at the snapshot differences between a disorderly and obnoxious left wing demonstration and calm collected conservatives counterprotesting, it's like night and day of civility:

Code Pink Commies at Berkeley this year protesting the Marine Recruitment Center they despise so much, For the troops, against the war........... right? Bullspit.

Here's a shot of their real feelings demonstrated by their albeit temporary defacement of our government property on the scene:

Now for the conservatives counterprotesting in the story below:

As I said, night and day

S0 this counter protester below himself started a counter trend to the loons occupying his local streetcorner unchallenged and his story is a great one and worth reading, so I posted part of it below on this Memorial day weekend to pay tribute to those who pay tribute, instead of those who destroy and denigrate this country we love so much along with the troops who protect it and us day in and day out for over two centuries now.:

Protesting the Antiwar Protestors

Cross Country - WSJ.com: "Memorial Day isn't until Monday. But for Rich Davis, a 20-year veteran of the Navy, it seems to come every Saturday. That's when he pulls out a handmade sign and heads for a street corner near the Chester County Court House in this suburban Philadelphia community.

Mr. Davis, 54, is a pro-military protester who makes a public stand each week in support of the troops and their mission."

In 2001, Mr. Davis retired from the Navy and ended up settling in West Chester, where he spent 2006 and 2007 watching antiwar protesters rally each Saturday from 11 a.m. until noon outside the courthouse near his apartment. The Chester County Peace Movement, Mr. Davis would later learn, had been demonstrating at the site since March 2003, when the U.S. invaded Iraq. At first he hoped someone would challenge the protesters, speak up for the troops, and defend their mission. On Sept. 8, 2007 he decided that someone had to be him.

Mr. Davis had been building to such a decision for a long time. He was just a kid during the Vietnam War, but he is still bothered by the disrespect heaped on returning Vietnam vets in the 1960s and '70s. In part that is because, in 1967, Mr. Davis attended the funeral of a man he idolized – his sister's boyfriend, Marine Lance Cpl. Alan R. Schultz from Levittown, Pa. Schultz was killed by mortar fire in Vietnam.

"Al was a great guy," Mr. Davis remembers. "When we got the word that he had been killed, I felt the bottom fall out. I cried the rest of that summer."

Even today, Mr. Davis can't look at an antiwar protest without thinking that Schultz, his comrades and their modern-day counterparts are being disrespected. So after seeing the war protesters each week, Mr. Davis said to himself, "Not this war. Not this time."

"We're not silent anymore," Mr. Davis told me. "We refuse to let antiwar protesters have the stage to themselves."

Not that he wants to stifle dissent. He just doesn't want to go unanswered the signs and protests that he believes encourage the enemy and demoralize U.S. troops. So, sign in hand in September, he walked to the corner praying he would have the strength to stand there, to be seen and heard.

Seen he was. Though there was plenty of room on the corner, he says he was bumped, shoved and challenged. One person asked, "Do you live in fear?" Another demanded, "Why don't you go and serve?"

"They had that corner for five years, every Saturday, unopposed," Mr. Davis told me. "They couldn't stand the thought of one person having a sign they couldn't tolerate."

More people than the antiwar protesters took notice. A few weeks after he started his own weekly protests, Mr. Davis had about 40 sign-holding, flag-waving supporters at his side, thanks to support from the Gathering of Eagles, a national organization supporting the troops. continued here

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