One way to deal with Peacniks

Received this in an email:

With all of this talk of impending war, many of us will encounter
> "Peace
> > Activists" who will try and convince us that we must refrain from
> > retaliating against the ones who terrorized us all on September 11,
> 2001,
> > and those who support terror.
> >
> > These activists may be alone or in a gathering.....most of us don't
> know
> > how to react to them. When you come upon one of these people, or one of
> > their rallies, here are the proper rules of etiquette:
> >
> > 1. Listen politely while this person explains their views. Strike up a
> > conversation if necessary and look very interested in their ideas. They
> > will tell you how revenge is immoral, and that by attacking the people
> who
> > did this to us, we will only bring on more violence. They will probably
> > use many arguments, ranging from political to religious to
> humanitarian.
> >
> > 2. In the middle of their remarks, without any warning, punch them in
> > the nose.
> >
> > 3. When the person gets up off of the ground, they will be very angry
> > and they may try to hit you, so be careful.
> >
> > 4. Very quickly and calmly remind the person that violence only brings
> > about more violence and remind them of their stand on this matter. Tell
> > them if they are really committed to a nonviolent approach to
> undeserved
> > attacks, they will turn the other cheek and negotiate a solution. Tell
> > them they must lead by example if they really believe what they are
> > saying.
> >
> > 5. Most of them will think for a moment and then agree that you are
> > correct.
> >
> > 6. As soon as they do that, hit them again. Only this time hit them
> > much harder. Square in the nose.
> >
> > 7. Repeat steps 2-5 until the desired results are obtained and the
> > idiot realizes how stupid of an argument he/she is making.
> >
> > 8. There is no difference in an individual attacking an unsuspecting
> > victim or a group of terrorists attacking a nation of people. It is
> > unacceptable and must be dealt with. Perhaps at a high cost.
> >
> > We owe our military a huge debt for what they are about to do for us
> and
> > our children. We must support them and our leaders at times like these.
> We
> > have no choice. We either strike back, VERY HARD, or we will keep
> getting
> > hit in the nose.
> >
> > Lesson over, class dismissed
>

 

Monty,

Nice try! One minor problem, if you are refer to the Iraq thing: WE WERE ATTACKED ON 9/11 BY AL QUEDA!! Not the Iraqis.

This e-mail must have been related to going into Afganistan -- if so, I apologize

Rodger

 

i liken it to:i f your child repeatedly disobeys what you say. kill the little bastard.

 

I just forwarded it and found it humorous. I found the analogy fairly accurate though, but no, I wouldn't kill my child.

If my kid weren't cleaning his room or kept pulling the dogs tail when he was told not to, that's one thing. If he's out killing people because he doesn't like their lifestyle, that's something else.

 

Sounds good so far. But what if the person (when they get back up) immediatly reports me to a cop and I get arrested for hitting him? He would surely argue that every crime has a punishment that is sought out through law. Therefore, if I hit him, he should call the police and I should answer for my crime.

Now, if Iraq hits us, we should go to the police and ask them to punish Iraq. The problem is that the "police" in this case are the UN. We asked them, and they asked us to wait. We then got ourselves a posse together and took the law into our own hands. And even having said this - Iraq actually did not hit us, we just thought they might one day.

So how does your example help exactly in our moral dilema?

p.s. - I'm still for disarming Iraq, and agree with going in without the UN. I just wish the UN were not so weak and that we were with the UN in this.

 

Oh yeah, I'd take his racebike away too! That's gotta be worse than death!

 

If Saddam raced bikes, we'd have never had these problems in the first place. He'd be too consumed with the BBS to threaten anyone.

 

except if someone threatens you, and has been agressive with past behavior, and the police keep saying that they'll look into it....................

 

yeah, thats more like it. It's like knowing someone in the neighborhoods got a gun and he wants you and your kids dead. the police can't search his house,a nd wont protect you, so they tell you to wait till he does something. And you're not just going to sit back until this guy kills one of your kids.

...we need a better "police" force out there.