DesertFox
01-04-2008, 11:25 AM
Alicia Colon
New York Sun
4 Jan 08
My Staten Island neighborhood, Tappen Park, has been the meeting site of anti-war political rallies. This past summer, organizers provided refreshments and entertainment to liven up the sparsely attended events. These rallies reminded me of the title of an old movie, "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" The progeny of the protesters would likely hear this response: "I did everything I could to bash our country and loathe the military."
Last Friday, as I passed the park's gazebo, I noticed two individuals seated at a table while a third stood nearby, sipping something from a cardboard container. A large banner that read "Food not Bombs" was draped from the columns of the gazebo, but no one else seemed interested in partaking of the free sustenance. This city has an obesity problem, and I have yet to see any emaciated indigents in this borough who are suffering because of the war in Iraq. Part of me feels sympathy for these misguided true believers, but another part is cynical enough to recognize that their motivation is inspired less by altruism than by anti-government paranoia and the Bush derangement syndrome.
More (http://www.nysun.com/article/68931)
New York Sun
4 Jan 08
My Staten Island neighborhood, Tappen Park, has been the meeting site of anti-war political rallies. This past summer, organizers provided refreshments and entertainment to liven up the sparsely attended events. These rallies reminded me of the title of an old movie, "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" The progeny of the protesters would likely hear this response: "I did everything I could to bash our country and loathe the military."
Last Friday, as I passed the park's gazebo, I noticed two individuals seated at a table while a third stood nearby, sipping something from a cardboard container. A large banner that read "Food not Bombs" was draped from the columns of the gazebo, but no one else seemed interested in partaking of the free sustenance. This city has an obesity problem, and I have yet to see any emaciated indigents in this borough who are suffering because of the war in Iraq. Part of me feels sympathy for these misguided true believers, but another part is cynical enough to recognize that their motivation is inspired less by altruism than by anti-government paranoia and the Bush derangement syndrome.
More (http://www.nysun.com/article/68931)