I don’t want to go all Mohamed on you, but why is it the people like those at Time Magazine or John doofus Kerry's old anti-war band insist on using the nation’s most revered war memorial as a political prop?
If Marines were even 1/100,000,000,000th as hysterical about cartoons or photoshopped crap of our cherished touchstone as Muslims are of…well, nearly everything, the Time building would be a smoldering cinder this morning and its editors forced into deep hiding.
But we’re not. So the dopes at Time, who aren’t fit to carry one of those young men’s shoes, take the Pulitzer Prize winning photo of Marine heroism and morph it into something so banal and common even the weasels at Time could do it.
Environmentalism is not akin to scaling the steep slopes of Mt. Surabachi under enemy fire. It is the exact opposite. It takes no courage what-so-ever. Environmentalism is like riding an inner tube on “the lazy river” at the local water park. It is literally the easiest thing that you can do. Just go with the flow. Nobody is going to assault you for your efforts. Quite the contrary, you are likely to be hailed as some kind of hero for doing nothing more than separating your garbage.
So to use the photo of men who risked life and limb to raise that flag to support a cause that requires NO courage or sacrifice at all is just dumb. I’ve seen the Marine Corps War Memorial misused in dozens of ways. In cartoons I’ve seen the flag staff replaced with a cigarette or an assault rifle or a syringe to name a few. The U.S. flag has been replaced with everything from a bra to the MicroSoft flag.
I suppose it’s a great honor that nearly everyone can identify with and want to be a part of the Marine Corps War Memorial. Here's a tip, unless the cause or effort being promoted requires true sacrifice and courage and promotes freedom and democracy - editors, organizers and outsiders ought to leave that Memorial alone.
If Marines were even 1/100,000,000,000th as hysterical about cartoons or photoshopped crap of our cherished touchstone as Muslims are of…well, nearly everything, the Time building would be a smoldering cinder this morning and its editors forced into deep hiding.
But we’re not. So the dopes at Time, who aren’t fit to carry one of those young men’s shoes, take the Pulitzer Prize winning photo of Marine heroism and morph it into something so banal and common even the weasels at Time could do it.
Environmentalism is not akin to scaling the steep slopes of Mt. Surabachi under enemy fire. It is the exact opposite. It takes no courage what-so-ever. Environmentalism is like riding an inner tube on “the lazy river” at the local water park. It is literally the easiest thing that you can do. Just go with the flow. Nobody is going to assault you for your efforts. Quite the contrary, you are likely to be hailed as some kind of hero for doing nothing more than separating your garbage.
So to use the photo of men who risked life and limb to raise that flag to support a cause that requires NO courage or sacrifice at all is just dumb. I’ve seen the Marine Corps War Memorial misused in dozens of ways. In cartoons I’ve seen the flag staff replaced with a cigarette or an assault rifle or a syringe to name a few. The U.S. flag has been replaced with everything from a bra to the MicroSoft flag.
I suppose it’s a great honor that nearly everyone can identify with and want to be a part of the Marine Corps War Memorial. Here's a tip, unless the cause or effort being promoted requires true sacrifice and courage and promotes freedom and democracy - editors, organizers and outsiders ought to leave that Memorial alone.
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