If any of you neo-Nazis want Ava, you have to get past ME first

[derby378]

You know who you are. You also know that Ava is one of us. We take care of our own.

Who's with me on this? Sound off!

[Midlodemocrat]

1. I'm with ya.

[swimboy]

2. Me too!

[stepnw1f]

3. I'm with Ya... (nt)

[DS1]

4. What are you planning to do?

[derby378]

8. For starters, if Ava ever comes to Texas...

...she's got herself a bodyguard if she needs one.

[anarch]

9. personally, I'm planning to drive my car right through their march...

and run them off the bridge. I hate Illinois Nazis!

[derby378]

11. Woo-hoo!

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[stepnw1f]

17. We Should Coordinate

You go first and I'll follow up behind you so they get the point.... lol.

[bullwinkle428]

38. I've always harbored Blues Brothers-esque fantasies about

ummmmm..."making my point of view known" at a Freeper rally!

[displacedtexan]

5. Count me in!

[Dolomite]

6. The American Volkssport Association?

ava.org

Vy?

Valking ist fun!

[mdmc]

7. I'm gonna listen to her on the radio today

if I get a chance

[Kerrytravelers]

13. When is she on the radio? Who's show? Is it also available online?

[mdmc]

15. let me look around for a link - it is a CA radio station, I'll listen on

line at 11 am eastern

[mdmc]

18. here is a link for you

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1022624&mesg_id=1022624

[Kerrytravelers]

19. Thank you so much!

I bookmarked the site and will be listening!

kt

[mdmc]

21. me too. peace.

:D

[mdmc]

34. i didn't get a chance to listen

:cry:

[MadHound]

10. I'm with you!

I live in Missouri, and have lots of friends throughout the state also. She comes here and needs help, she's got it.

[SteppingRazor]

12. Count me out. I'm terrified of people who pick on 15-year-old girls

:evilgrin:

[WolverineDG]

14. I'm with ya, Ava!

Chin up!

dg

[Orrex]

16. Clearly, she was asking for it

Imagine--the nerve of a young woman having her own opinions. Where's her keeper?

[tatertop]

20. Mind telling me who Ava is ?

[swimboy]

22. Here's what you need to know!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1021923

[tatertop]

29. thanks

[Zorra]

39. I imagine that the FBI is already in the freeps machines.

Terrorizing young girls means a lot of prison time.

[npincus]

23. I'm afraid the SCUMBAGS are becoming the story... not Ava

and her incredible accomplishments at the tender age of 15.

F*ck those scumbags- let the FBI deal with them. Go Ava, you rock!

[joefree1]

24. Lock and load

Got your back.

But then, I really doubt any of the freeper freaks would really leave their closets of bitterness and paranoia. Shine a light on them and watch them scatter looking for a rock to hide under.

[madokie]

25. madokie's here

[ThomCat]

26. I'm there.

I'm proud that she's one of us. That kid's got heart and talent.

[Rocknrule]

27. Damn straight. My grandfathers didn't fight Nazis in WWII so they could

come back and take over America

[derby378]

28. Listening to Ava on KLSD right now (San Diego)

Go, Ava!!

:woohoo:

[Bluzmann57]

30. I'm here with you

and more importantly, with Ava. I know what would happen if anyone attacked my daughter and while I don't know Ava, I still feel protective of her. I am to the point where the patience is completely gone. If the neocon freaks want to sit behind their keyboards and make threats against a 15 year old girl, then they deserve anything they get, up to and including a beating. By the way, has anyone called the police about any death threats this girl may have recieved?

[Vinnie From Indy]

31. I'll stick up for Ava!

Go girl!

[derby378]

32. Thank you all

Hope Ava sees this soon - she's got friends here!

[BreweryYardRat]

33. And me, by God.

Kid's lucky to have the family and people she's got to encourage her.

If I'd been a solid Democrat at 15 and made animations like Ava's, my mom would have wiped them off the hard drive and either let the scum have me or shipped me off somewhere for "my own safety".

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[derby378]

41. Allow me to differentiate

If I want to post or take part in a thread where we share our iPod playlists, exchange pictures of our pets, or engage in general silliness, I post it in the Lounge.

This, however, is a declaration of support for a fellow DUer that is based on principled and political grounds. Thus, GD is the perfect spot for this thread.

[WildEyedLiberal]

44. I think your response was too polite

That was a really nasty comment. I applaud your restraint, however.

[dogday]

48. There is always someone

who has to shit in the easter basket.....

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. Did you see this?

Peace Takes Courage

Cindy Sheehan



I have a new friend. She is a 15 year young peace activist named Ava Lowery. She is disgusted with the war and with the Bush regime and she started to use her talents for animation to make cartoons that oppose Bush and the war in Iraq.



She first came to my attention when I read an article about all of the ugly hate mail she is getting on her site for a particularly poignant and brilliant animation she has called: "WWJD." It is a heartbreaking piece that has a child singing: "Jesus loves me" and during the song she shows pictures of dead, wounded, bloody, and screaming Iraqi children. She wanted to show how Jesus loves Iraqi children also which is apparently a frightening concept to the people who practice Bushianity.



For this inspired bit of courageous matriotism, Ava has been the object of intense and horribly ugly hate emails and not too subtle threats to do her bodily harm. As soon as I heard about her troubles, I emailed her and she phoned me right away so we could talk.



Even before I went to Crawford last summer, I was the object of these attacks by many people who touted themselves as Christians doing God's work. The attacks are rabidly obscene and horrible in their rage and just downright meanness. There are entire websites dedicated to assailing me and my character and where such comments as: "Someone ought to do the world a favor and shoot the bitch in the head to shut her up," are common. During Camp Casey we had to refer more than one death threat to the FBI.



One particularly wicked threat was sent to me the night before I testified at Congressman Conyers' Downing Street Memo Hearings in June, I got an email from a man who said that he hoped that my other three children would die. I think these people level pretty harsh punishments at other people who are only exercising their freedom of speech when the person who is responsible for killing American soldiers and executing innocent Iraqi children and making them orphans is touted as a fine Christian man.



God help anyone who speaks out against the anti-American Bush regime that condones torture and use of chemical weapons of mass destruction. God help anyone who refuses to be silenced in the face of our government that commits war crimes and crimes against humanity. The individuals who call 15 year old girls and Gold Star Moms vile names and threaten our lives are the lowest denominator in our society and these people are the ones who need to be marginalized and stopped. Open and honest discourse in our society is welcomed and encouraged and our differences are only eclipsed by our commonalities, but obscene and destructive assaults on fellow human beings only adds to the violence in our already all too violent society.



Ava is not calling for a violent overthrow of our government nor is she the one who is being obscene. Ava is not the one who sent our troops into harm's way thus condemning the innocent people of Iraq to death and heartache. Ava is only showing the images that have been brought to the world by BushCo and the people who crassly try to intimidate a 15 year old girl are threatened by the truth and should be ashamed of their support of the disorganized crime mob in DC and ashamed of the way they talk to a young lady who is doing her best to make the world a better place.



How many scandals will it take for the 32 percent of the population who still support murder and mayhem dressed up in suits and ties to wake up and honor people like Ava and not trash them?



Ava is one tough and compassionate cookie and she needs our support and love, please go to her site: PeaceTakesCourage.com and drop a note of support to our little sister in peace. Her type of behavior needs to be encouraged, emulated and rewarded and I can guarantee you, she will be one of the first recipients of a Camp Casey Peace Prize for young activists.



I honor Ava and I am proud to be her friend. She is a true American who wants to grow up in a country that is honorable and just. This is her right and she is properly claiming it. I hope she inspires you to do the same.


Cindy is the founder of Gold Star Families for Peace and mother of Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan who was a victim of the Bush Regime's war of terror on 04/04/04. She is the author of Not One More Mother's Child.

[derby378]

45. Any friend of Ava's is a friend of ours

:P

[proud2BlibKansan]

47. I am so glad she connected with Cindy.

[Ex Lion Tamer]

40. Many years ago,

I ran across bathroom wall graffitti that said "Death To The Intolerant." As an ardent supporter of free speech, I chuckled at the apparent irony of it.

These days, I often find myself thinking that maybe the graffitti artist didn't actually intend irony. And that maybe he was right.

And I dislike those thoughts, but these fascists have pushed us to these thoughts.

[Vinnie From Indy]

42. LOL!

That one is pretty good.

[Ex Lion Tamer]

50. If Vinnie is from Indianapolis,

that's where I am. And the graffitti was in a bathroom at Butler.

[mikeytherat]

43. I'm in.

mikey_the_rat

[sakabatou]

46. Watashi mo (Me too)

[npincus]

49. love this one!

[sakabatou]

55. I also have vids too

My AMVs

[bigwillq]

51. I'm on board!

:bounce:

:hi:

[blm]

52. Those assholes are all smoke and stink - they wouldn't dare show

themselves.

[raysr]

53. Me too. I've got ball bat

my son made in grade school out of OAK that's a tad to heavy for official use, but would work great on a freeper melon!

[Beausoir]

54. I just want Ava to be careful. She is very young and sometimes people are

very nasty.
Her visibility, at such a young age, really worries me.