earlycuyler
Extra long Bad Ass Cut.
But it bothers me when a third party uses someones military background to make a point...such as when I hear "an Irqui vet is injured by the police.
The fact that he is a vet is irrelevant to the topic at hand...and his service is being used to pushhome a point.
In my eyes, no one has the right to try to gain by using the heroism of one of our military.
And thank you, personally, for your service.
Thank you for yours.
Yes, it's obvious some people are trying to make political hay out it, but what are you going to do? Didn't Glenn Beck make political hay with his "non-political" Restore Honor rally? He used the military as a jumping board for his own political agenda. Should he have been allowed to do it? Although I agree with you that the political agendas of third parties using the military to further their goals is deplorable, I do not believe we should stop it since it puts us on a perilous path. This isn't "Stolen Valor" where people are lying about a service record, but just profiting off of it. Not nice, not honorable and I'll happily call it out when I see it, but we shouldn't stop it.
In the spirit of not making political hay out of it, there has been little reporting on either side about the protesters getting out of jail and going back to help clean up the mess from the night before.