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...who needs violence?
[quote name='Annabelle McDonald, 07/25/06']NOBEL peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W.Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren.
Campaigning on the rights of young people at the Earth Dialogues forum, being held in Brisbane, Ms Williams spoke passionately about the deaths of innocent children during wartime, particularly in the Middle East, and lambasted Mr Bush.
"I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence', because I don't believe that I am non-violent," said Ms Williams, 64.
"Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered.[/quote]
I realize that her winning the Nobel Peace Prize several years ago was simply a journalistic maneuver to catch more interest, but that little example of irony isn't what really draws me into the article to begin with. This wasn't some anonymous MoveOn.org/DailyKos pansy that thought he was being cool by threatening the President from the safety of his basement somewhere, this award-winning woman saw it fit to stand up in front of a group of innocent, American schoolchildren and indoctrinate their young minds in what was probably an attendence mandatory lecture. I'm sure public funds went toward paying this woman to tell American kids that she "would love to kill" our President. How utterly disgusting. This article makes me sick to my stomach. Of course this woman won't get charged for threatening the President's well being, as Federal law says, it will be brushed aside as a slip of the tongue. Hell, we might even get "lucky" and she'll publicly apologize in this sort of fashion, "What I said was out of line, and I do regret saying it BUT this administration has commited so many crimes against humanity that I wish I could kill all of them!"
It's bad enough that this woman has such a screwed up view that when she disagrees with someone politically she wants to kill them, she'll make speeches to announce these threats for all the world to hear, but when she does it for a group of schoolkids, that's just intolerable. Some of these poor, misguided children gave her a standing ovation for advocating killing those who you don't agree with you. What a wonderful example of democracy, freedom, and peace to set for the public. I'm praying that the Department of Justice does something, anything, to hold this woman responsible for what she did. Fine her, jail her, deport her, I don't care. Do something to her, don't let her get away with this.
[quote name='Annabelle McDonald, 07/25/06']NOBEL peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W.Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren.
Campaigning on the rights of young people at the Earth Dialogues forum, being held in Brisbane, Ms Williams spoke passionately about the deaths of innocent children during wartime, particularly in the Middle East, and lambasted Mr Bush.
"I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence', because I don't believe that I am non-violent," said Ms Williams, 64.
"Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered.[/quote]
I realize that her winning the Nobel Peace Prize several years ago was simply a journalistic maneuver to catch more interest, but that little example of irony isn't what really draws me into the article to begin with. This wasn't some anonymous MoveOn.org/DailyKos pansy that thought he was being cool by threatening the President from the safety of his basement somewhere, this award-winning woman saw it fit to stand up in front of a group of innocent, American schoolchildren and indoctrinate their young minds in what was probably an attendence mandatory lecture. I'm sure public funds went toward paying this woman to tell American kids that she "would love to kill" our President. How utterly disgusting. This article makes me sick to my stomach. Of course this woman won't get charged for threatening the President's well being, as Federal law says, it will be brushed aside as a slip of the tongue. Hell, we might even get "lucky" and she'll publicly apologize in this sort of fashion, "What I said was out of line, and I do regret saying it BUT this administration has commited so many crimes against humanity that I wish I could kill all of them!"
It's bad enough that this woman has such a screwed up view that when she disagrees with someone politically she wants to kill them, she'll make speeches to announce these threats for all the world to hear, but when she does it for a group of schoolkids, that's just intolerable. Some of these poor, misguided children gave her a standing ovation for advocating killing those who you don't agree with you. What a wonderful example of democracy, freedom, and peace to set for the public. I'm praying that the Department of Justice does something, anything, to hold this woman responsible for what she did. Fine her, jail her, deport her, I don't care. Do something to her, don't let her get away with this.