To the person who mowed down the crosses today...

[berni_mccoy]

You have certainly inspired anger in many people. But to be angry, you must first be hurt. And I think the people who have lost their loved ones have already been hurt enough, don't you? When you mowed down their crosses, you hurt the surviving family members who honored their loved ones.

As many other Republican War Supporters stated over the weekend, "We Don't Care." This fills me with sadness for you all. By not having concern for your fellow Americans, or anyone else for that matter, you withhold goodness from yourself. You take away the light from the world. In the end, you must answer for your sins.

I do not hate you. I have learned that hate is just another way to not care. Cindy Sheehan could easily let herself be filled with hate and anger. But she is full of light and simply seeks answers and to bring home the troops so that no more people must die for pointless greed. She has taught me that I have no reason to hate and that I must persist in the continuing struggle to unite all Americans against the evil that this administration has wrought on the world.

I am not angry with you, even though your actions inspired anger. I do hope that you are brought to justice, but I also hope that you find peace and repent for your wrong doing.

[FlemingsGhost]

1. Actually, anger comes from fear. (n/t)

Flem.

[koopie57]

3. fear and/or quilt

[uppityperson]

2. Aye. Well written

Furthermore, an earlier post from me along the same line, peace people.

There are scared people and ignorant people and misguided and crazy and just plain bad people in the world. Sometimes people do bad things. It is fine to be hurt, to get angry, to get outraged at people being inhumane and hurting people and things. But please try to not over react to any 1 misguided fool.

Save your energy for the bigger fights (Mr.bush and his evil minions for example), harness your emotions to be used in positive ways (such as expessing your sorrow and outrage about this to people who call you radical unfeeling liberals).

And realize that any time one of these fools does something sooooooo stupid as to drive over a line of crosses put up for our dead friends and family, the media coverage that follows will far outweigh that of these fools who does something bumpishly stupid as shooting off his shotgun in frustration at his life being disrupted.

Get the pictures, get the videos, spread them around to ANY and ALL media you can find. But peace, please, peace is what we are doing this for.

Death is not the most frightening thing to me and I do not fear dieing so much as dieing for a really stupid reason. uppityperson

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[BlakeB]

4. Doesn't make me mad...

makes me want to further our cause even more. I bet it has the same exact effect on Cindy Sheehan and the anti-war movement as well.