Saturday, October 20, 2007

A "Pro-War" Post Office?

Beatniks, upset over posters of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on display in a post office, complained that such a display amounted to "pro-war" propaganda. The displays were hastily removed.
“It’s an emotional issue and people look at their post office as a hub of the community, but the post office is there to do postal business and it’s not a place to post things or make displays,” said postal spokesman Richard Maher.

After a firestorm of criticism erupted over the removal, efforts are underway to put the posters back on display. Only a dyed-in-the-wool liberal would throw such tantrums over something so innocuous as images of US troops. And again another irony surfaces when the protesters lash out at the bulwarks that defend their freedom to protest, and make total fools of themselves, in the first place.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/breakingnews/story/171384.html

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