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Originally Posted by Brush Okie
Is it tasteless? yes
Is it juvenile? Yes
Is some of it offensive to women? Yes
But first it is a civilian website.
Second They have a right to express themselves even if it is distasteful. A JEWISH lawyer took up the case for the KKK to demonstrate for free in the late 70's. When asked why he did that he said that they had a right to their opinion no matter how screwed up and that when we begin to censer people opinion because their opinion is unpopular it is the first steps to what happened in Nazi Germany in the 1930's. The courts have upheld this.
Last but not least doesn't she have better things to do other than micromanaging the military? When was the last budget passed? The economy is a mess. we are at war with with a major terror organization worldwide with US troops being killed and wounded daily yet she is pissed because some 18 y/o boys are acting like........well 18 year olds. If congress was as interested in doing their job as she is in screwing with the military this country would be in better shape.
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How does the position you stake out in this thread square with your previous posts bemoaning the decline of morals in America. Is it your position that different groups of Americans should be held to different standards of moral conduct?
Also, given your frequent references to the Constitution and the original intent of the framers, why shouldn't a member of the House Armed Services Committee, especially one who sits on subcommittees tasked with oversight and investigations, and readiness take an interest in this topic?
Finally, what primary sources and/or secondary works do you have in mind when you argue that "censer[ing] people opinion" because their opinion was unpopular was one of the "first steps" towards the rise of Nazi Germany in the 1930s? I ask because I follow
some guy named Richard J. Evans on Twitter and--based on your say so--I will gladly send him a snarky comment (totaling no more than 140 characters) that he doesn't know what he's been doing the last forty years or so. (Geoff Eley and Ian Kershaw and Peter Fritzsche and Peter Longerich and David Crew apparently don't Tweet. #OMFG! No worries. I'll send those Luddites some angry letters via post.)