Coattail riders: people in favor of freedom, but not willing to fight for it it

[AKDrifter]

I walked into the local eatery/supermarket yesterday to buy some juice, maybe it was the flu I had that prompted me to do this. I turned to the crowd of snackers and gossipers ( 12-15 of them ) and asked in a voice that could be heard, "All those who love freedom and want it to stay that way raise their hands?" 100% arms went up! Then I said " All in favor of protecting freedom by taking care of the bad guys right now before it's too late raise their hands?" Notta one had the guts. Then I mumbled " that's what I thought" and split.



Now I know that some of you might sat that my tact and timming of these Qs were a trap, but were they? Granted, I was in the organic crowd of folks with $3,000 mountain bikes on top of Toyota Tacomas, they just got back from a world adventure burning jet fuel like it was there to burn anyways, so why not attitude.



I call these type of people coattail riders for good reasons. They have the nerve to say GWB is just going to war for the oil and other stupid s#!t like that. How soon they forget the burning buildings and 9/11, like that was the end of their plan for us, come on. These NIMBYS, and thousands of others, need to reread their history and get it togeather.



I'll rant more later if I can recall exactly what I wanted to say, sometimes I loose my train of thought. But basically, I do believe in freedom, I also believe that sometimes there is a price to pay for it.



Paul

 

[lschultz]

Right to the point. I best stop now before I say another mouth full. I am sure there will be someone that will get there feelings hurt

 

[sdalton]

Well, it is the coattail riders, whiners, and liberals that allow us to so boldly make our points. These people need to be here, it keeps us in line and reminds us what would happen to society, and America if we were not around. Can you imagine the entire country made up of the likes that are the majority in San Francisco??? I might just move to another country if that happened.

 

[The patriot]

Agreed. Freedom isnt free.

 

[jmeehan]

I'm not sure how they can miss it but I think some people don't see the problem's we're confronting right now.

My wife and I had dinner with another couple on Sat. and the up coming war came up. I was the only one there that saw the necessity. I don't usually try to argue since I'm not very good at it but I'd had enough to drink and tried to discuss it but neither side changed their minds. I don't remember what everyone else thought the country should do about Iraq and terrorism.

 

[Morphious]

sDalton, there is already a country dead icated to whining cowardly liberals, it's called FRANCE.



Morph.

 

[Hohn]

Liberals are useful idiots. Without such sterling examples, how could we teach our kids to walk the straight and narrow?



Of course, then we send our kids to college and they come back a liberal that knows it all. Then real life soon teaches them that the fairytale land they lived in at college is VERY different from the real world where they must live now, on their own.



HOHN

 

[dpuckett]

Listen to the song "Have You Forgotten?" by Darryl Worley(?) Sums it up pretty well. What the bleeding heart, panty waist liberals dont understand, is that 1) THe enire Middle East is jealous of the freedoms we have, esp what we allow our women to do, 2) Because of our freedom, we are the infidel, and thus must be destroyed, and 3) THEY HAVE NO CONCEPT OF PEACE, HARMONY, OR TALKING THROUGH THEIR FEELINGS OF AGGRESSION. Yes, I intended to yell. Not at this group, but the above mentioned French immigrants. The enemy we have believes that he who talks and uses diplomacy is weak. I think we need to oust Hussein, then move eastward to Korea, asking along the way, "are you with us, or against us?" THese people need to be put back in their place, before we have another 9-11. The time for talk is LONG past; we need action, swift, decisive action.



Daniel

 

[Ladders]

And in my way of thinking

Bush can let them stew for a few days before he HITS them where IT hurts!! Let them know that we dont always do the "predicted" thing at the "predicted" time!



\\BF//