Gordon Osmond

Gordon Osmond
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Retired lawyer, playwright, English teacher, tennis umpire. Author of So You Think You Know English: A Guide to English for Those Who Think They Don't Need One. ISBN: 978-1-61546-414-2 and Wet Firecrackers http://www.publishamerica.net/product38929.html Osmond hosts a weekly interactive broadcast dedicated to the discussion of books and ESL education. To participate, check out www.publishamericaauthors.com

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NOVEMBER 11, 2011 1:56PM

Veterans' Day Contrasts

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As veterans are honored on OS and elsewhere by the grateful, as Georgette Mosbacher, a supremely successful capitalist, marches to persuade fellow capitalists to employ veterans, we have two counterpoints--Obama intoning on about whatever and mobs of snot-nosed malcontents kvetching about the fact that they have less than others.

It takes a wonderful occasion like today, bringing out the best in the best, to highlight in bold relief just how pathetically parasitic some beneficiaries of veteran sacrifices can be.

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Didn't veterans fight wars, so that these kids could have the right to protest and Kvetch about whatever they damn well want? The First Amendment has been guaranteed by the sacrifices of our armed forces. Whether you agree with the protesters or not, we can all agree that if it wasn't for our brave men and women in uniform, these folks wouldn't have the right to protest.

We should be happy we live in a country that has rights such as ours, that has a Bill of Rights and a Constitution and the strength and power to preserve the same.
The fact that two speakers share a right to speak doesn't mean that one can't be viewed as heroic and the other trashy.
Among my community Occupy marchers, I note quite a few veterans, some of them disabled, who can't find jobs even in a strongly conservative community.
GW: but as an American, you support the Constitutional right of the citizenry to engage in political protest, even if you disagree and think they're trashy, correct?
I mean GO. Sorry. 8)
And you, dear Gordon what are you doing about this mess? Huh?
And you, dear Gordon what are you doing about this mess? Huh?

In case my post didn't make it clear, dear TG, I'm pointing out its lack of intellectual gravitas and its general uncleanliness.

The most anyone can say in favor of what you rightly call a mess is that it brings attention to the "unfairness" of a system that results in unequal distribution of goodies. The problem is that history, some of it rather recent, informs that under alternative systems, the goodies have a nasty way of disappearing.

Viewed in that light, today's protesters have the distinction of being involved in the silliest and vapid of all the often heroic protests that have preceded it.