Military support rally shared different opinions (Kerry "should be shot")

[Nambe]

WXIN-TV, Indianapolis

Indianapolis -- Attendees at a pair of noon time rallies on Monument Circle displayed their support for American troops in Iraq in vastly different ways.

On the southside of the monument, dozens of Hoosiers lined up to sign a book of support for the troops amidst a background of patriotic country music, flags and banners that proclaimed opposition to terrorism and that John Kerry was supported by the communist party.

"I think Kerry should be tried for treason," said Edytha Hall, who described herself as a grandmother of eight. She equated Kerry with Osama Bin Laden. "I think he's a traitor. I think he's an evil, evil man. I think he should be shot." Gesturing to the opponents of the war, who recognized their own solemn demonstration on the northside of the monument, Hall said, "Soldiers are fighting for them so they can show their stupidity." ..

On the other side, silently, dozens of observers quietly walked among one thousand pairs of boots displayed on the monument steps, one pair of boots for the life of each soldier lost in Iraq.

"We're just trying to hold the government accountable, make them see the reality of what is this war and when you see these boots here today, this is the reality," said Jeri Sheese of Military Families Speak Out. Her husband served a year in Iraq. "To be American is to be able to ask questions, to have they freedom to say what you want to say and to say we're un-American because we question the war is a contradiction." ..

[LauraK]

1. Say that about bush and you're toasted on a stick by the SS.

The boot display is very appropriate, as liberals usually are.

[xray s]

5. Saying it about Kerry will bring the Secret Service down on you too!

I would hope someone is checking up on that freeper idiot. That's EDYTHA HALL.

Catch her before she acts on her delusions.

[Citizen Daryl]

14. Intelifinder says $7.95 gets her address.

http://www.intelifinder.com/

Anyone want to order it and forward it to the Secret Service?

[otohara]

20. She Lives In Orleans, IN

just looked her up on the internet yellow pages

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. The Secret Service takes seriously all stated physical threats. . . . nt

[EST]

28. God, I hope so.

Michael, where are you when we need you?

[Demeter]

49. Calling J Edgar Hoover!

[Bo]

43. Yeah just Like Big Dogs.....

[NeoConsSuck]

40. Here is the contact info for the SS:

http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/index.shtml

http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/contact.shtml

Field Offices (Indiana):

INDIANA
EVANSVILLE 812-858-7365


INDIANAPOLIS 317-226-6444


SOUTH BEND 219-273-3140

[LisaL]

7. Hah?

Wasn't the guy who said he would have shot Bush if somebody gave him a bullet arrested for a attempted murder? And here is this person saying "Kerry should be shot" and nothing?

[otohara]

18. Exactly - Kerry's Life Is In Danger

Grandmother or not, the Secret Service needs to pay her a visit

[TahitiNut]

23. Funny. Absolutely everything she says I agree with, except ...

... she got the name wrong. It's spelled b-u-s-h.

It's fascinating how constantly these reichbots practice projection. They take every attribute of their cohorts and project it on their opposition, thus confirming both the fact and the rationale for their own behavior. "Suzy did it so I can too!"

[0rganism]

37. "* deserted in 1972, and should be executed by firing squad at dawn."

Don't ever say that. That is something No One should ever say. Do not put it on a sign at a protest, or screen it onto a T-shirt. Do not mention it to your friends at the health club. Do not print it on flyers and distribute them in public places. Do not think the thought. Do not remember you read this post.

"He is an evil evil child of an evil evil family."

[NMDemDist2]

2. what is so sad is that "grandmother" considers herself a christian

and a patriot i'm sure :cry:

[Erika]

32. Christians Should Be Ashamed of the Woman

and Bush. They need to read the New Testament. Bush's administration is evil personified.

[Kool Kitty]

59. Humans should be ashamed of this woman.

She should know from evil.

[expatriot]

3. quintessential Bushie

wow, that's sad. Why do Bushies think America is the enemy?

[Just Me]

4. Yeah,...and they deserve more attention than the millions of voices,...

,...who have taken a vocal stand otherwise.

Why do these few get more attention?

Who defines "reality" these days?

[ranosgol]

6. I live in Indiana too..and it is sad this state is so GOP

Guns God and Gays

Hoosiers for the most part are so ignorant of the facts.

Indiana the most 'Southern State' in the Midwest.

It has voted for the GOP in every presidential election since Lyndon Johnson.

It was the first state to be declared for W in 2000.

It is sad Indiana has lost huge under every GOP president that has been in office.

[Rose Siding]

11. I'm glad this piece includes several thoughtful remarks...

from the empty boot side. They make the others look so foolish.

[bluestateguy]

8. I hope Kerry (if he wins) sets up a COINTELPRO to monitor the right

These people need to get a taste of their own medicine for a little while.

Who will monitor the people like Edytha Hall?

[Ohio rules]

9. "Boots on the Ground"

Isn't that the name of the traveling boot memorial?

[Nordic]

10. who the hell let her breed eight times?

Good God can you imagine what a mother she must have been?

Now you can multiply that nastiness by eight.

Wonderful

[LiberalFighter]

12. Likely to vote?

Edytha not likely!
Didn't vote in 2003 or 2004 primary
Didn't vote in 2003 city election
2002 general only vote

[henslee]

13. Hey, whataya expect..... Indiana.

[Citizen Daryl]

15. DHS has been notified.

[otohara]

21. Phone Numbers For SS in Indiana

EVANSVILLE 812-858-7365


INDIANAPOLIS 317-226-6444


SOUTH BEND 219-273-3140

[otohara]

16. I Think The Secret Service Should Pay This Woman A Visit

because you know if she that about AWOL, they'd be on her like a fly on shit.

[LisaL]

17. They would be dragging her a$$ into

jail, grandma or no grandma.

[Judi Lynn]

33. She needs to wake up. What kind of loon allows herself to issue

death threats to public officials to a reporter?

I'd like to suggest an area where people like this winner could meet to express their view to the American public. They could vent their venom without interruption after they assumed the position. You wouldn't want them to run off without giving us the benefit of EVERYTHING that's on their "minds."

[Raster]

19. You neglect to mention that this is a FAUX station, website and story.

[w4rma]

22. Lock that nut up. That sounds like a threat to me. (nt)

[DeepModem Mom]

24. kick

[vogonjiltz]

26. Like my hoosier pa said

Indianapolis, a nice place to leave.

[MaineDem]

38. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[TahitiNut]

48. "hoosier pa" - the basis for the word 'hoosier'?

"Who's your pa?" :evilgrin:

[FlemingsGhost]

27. 8 grandchildren? How many are fighting for her stupidity?

I'm all for a draft, if only to see these "patridiots" change their tune.

[EST]

29. Fighting to make the world safe for__________________.

VietNam-era non-sequitor. Fill in the blank. For that?

[Judi Lynn]

30. Rigid, brittle, dying minds attempting to express themselves.

It's embarrassing, isn't it? From one of the visitors to the exhibit:

"I think we need to finish a job that is done right there," said Matt Mahan, a Marine Corps veteran who served before the current war began. "If you go skiing and you take the ski lift up and there's only one way down and that's just to go for it and go down the hill and I think that's what we need to do with Iraq."

Why the hell even try any more? Our roads, bridges, air, water, ocean creatures are disintergrating in front of our eyes, (the right-wing is happy as clams about this), our ability to educate children is faltering, health care is only a dream for many, and these mental giants step forward to insist it's time to kill everyone on the planet if it meets our fancy.

Why even bother SPEAKING any more? Hell, it's just too much of a hassle. Why bother to understand anyone who speaks to you? Just shoot him unless you recognize him.

Don't worry about long term solutions, live too intensely in the moment. Have a ball.

Headed right back to the Stone Age, if you look at your life that way. Fortunately, there are a lot of us who DON'T look at life through a violent perspective, and in the long run, we'll last a hell of a lot longer. The peacemakers will save the world, if the others don't destroy it first.

[FlemingsGhost]

34. Good post

I keep having to remind myself that these folks are terrified, and fear has a way of putting blinders on even the most intelligent.

Unfortunately, the situation becomes surreal when you add being not too bright to the equation. Enter the Edytha Halls and Matt Mahans of the world ...

[EST]

57. There, there now.

(patting gently on back, speaking softly, stroking cheek)

I know it's tough to avoid feeling desparate, sometimes. Damned impossible, even. They are turning our beloved planet into a horror movie, but at some point they will run into their match, and hopefully we'll still be around to pick up the pieces. Maybe tomorrow we will finally find the cure for this kind of loutish disease that has haunted the human race since we came down out of the trees. Someday (sigh) that sort will be only an old nightmare. Someday, someday.

[Erika]

31. Bush the Elitist Hid?

While Kerry fought? But this woman's complaint is against Kerry?

What stupidity.

[Leilani]

35. We really need to prevent this from becoming

Vietnam all over again.

The country divided, the Republicans won, & the Dem party has been seen as anti-military & unpatriotic by some since that time.

[0rganism]

36. People, get off Edytha Hall's case -- she's not a serious threat

All bluff and bluster, I bet she doesn't own a gun. So what if she said stupid things? The SS is not going to go hard on her. Don't waste your time and theirs on a crazy old woman.

This is not to say Sen. Kerry isn't in danger. There are probably a million people in this sad, sad nation who think Sen. Kerry was a traitor and ought to be shot. Some of them are among our "friends" at freeperville and lgf, some of them own firearms, and I imagine there are at least a hundred capable marksmen who would plan to use them if they can get a clean headshot. They'd actually pretend God is telling them to kill the people they disagree with, as they pull the trigger.

Don't underestimate these fuckheads. They killed the Kennedy brothers and they'd gladly kill again with a smile on their faces and joy in their hearts. But they won't be so stupid as to talk about it with the press first.

[shrub chipper]

58. Better yet,

she evidently doesn't vote often, either.

[Darth_Kitten]

39. What a stupid, evil woman!!!

:mad: honestly, just when you think you've heard it all!!!

[devinsgram]

41. And then we wonder why the world is the way it is.

They better wake up soon, or there won't be a world anymore. The way it's going man will annihilate himself.

[leesa]

42. What a lovely POS Edytha Hall is, eh?

No reasons, just irrational emotion.

[mitchum]

44. SOMEONE NEEDS TO SMACK THAT GODDAMN CRONE EDYTHA!

It wouldn't be violence against women, but well-deserved violence against a stupid piece of shit.

[gratuitous]

45. Kerry HAS been shot, Edytha Hall

Three times. That's why he got those Purple Hearts.

[Deja Q]

46. Then let the heifer get a gun and do it herself. She also raises questions

She is entitled to her opinion. But she won't want to hear mine.

Why is Kerry evil? Or is she, much like your typical terrorist, refusing to say why she wants people to die?

[Christof]

47. I think the SS needs to pay Ms. Hall a visit.

Saying "I think he (Kerry) should be shot" is a threat, IMO.

And what's so unAmerican about speaking out against a war that SHOULD NOT have been fought? It clearly states in the First Amendment of the Constitution that WE CAN! Jeez...that woman should know better. :grr:

She seems like a member of the Neo-Nazis...I mean the Neo Conservatives.

[mitchum]

50. I urge everyone reading this to contact the Secret Service about...

Edytha Hall's comment. Keep up the pressure (we pay their damn salaries)

[mitchum]

51. KICK (because it is important that the Secret Service investigate...

the lovely Edytha Hall)

[tabasco]

52. These people are not above the law.

:kick:

[Endangered Specie]

53. I bet you $100 that If one of us said the same thing about Bush...

the NKVD would be at our door in no time.

[Career Prole]

54. As far as I know they don't shoot civilians for protesting wars...

...that option remains possible for servicemembers who desert during wartime, however.
Think about it, you stupid old woman. :grr:

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

55. About the only place in Indiana that has any brains is the Chicago suburbs

Remember this is the state that elected Dan Quayle.

[underpants]

56. The highest number of Klansmen in any state EVER was in Indiana

It's turre, you can look it up.

Idiots.

I guess we know were NOT to spend any money. Oh and by the way fuck you Edytha I would say that you will make a beautiful looking fossil but I doubt it.

[ArnoldLayne]

60. kick

:kick:

[saigon68]

62. Huge Number of Lynchings in Indiana

Lynching 1930

A mob of 10,000 whites took sledgehammers to the county jailhouse doors to get at these two young blacks accused of raping a white girl; the girl’s uncle saved the life of a third by proclaiming the man’s innocence. Although this was Marion, Ind., most of the nearly 5,000 lynchings documented between Reconstruction and the late 1960s were perpetrated in the South. (Hangings, beatings and mutilations were called the sentence of “Judge Lynch.”) Some lynching photos were made into postcards designed to boost white supremacy, but the tortured bodies and grotesquely happy crowds ended up revolting as many as they scared. Today the images remind us that we have not come as far from barbarity as we’d like to think.


ON EDIT Their offspring are still alive and attending the above rally "FOR THE TROOPS"

[Swamp Rat]

63. disgusting

And those are supposed to be "Americans" posing for the photo.

Fucking BULLSHIT!

I'm sorry saigon68. Everytime I see that photo I get really pissed off.

[saigon68]

64. Just 15 years before I was born

I still remember "Whites only" water fountains as a child.

[JSJ]

61. republicans win the pander contests every time n/t