Teen Stopped From Chalking Names Of Iraq War Dead On Sidewalks

[The Straight Story]

Teen Stopped From Chalking Names Of Iraq War Dead On Sidewalks

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Fort Myers police have stopped a teenager from chalking the names of Iraq war casualties on downtown sidewalks.

Willie Filkowski, 15, and two companions were told to stop their writing after a city worker called authorities claiming there was an anti-war protest going on in downtown.

Filkowski had begun his chalk work on July 1 and had worked on his memorial most nights along with his parents, sister and friends. He started writing the names beneath a flagpole in an area park and had written almost 300 names before being stopped Monday evening. Recent rains and power washings have since swept away much of the writing.

"I thought it would be thought-provoking, and it appeals to people on both sides of the issue," Filkowski told The News-Press in Fort Myers.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Don't you understand?

It isn't patriotic to remember the fallen--they are to be hidden away. It is patriotic to go to the mall and spend mindlessly--isn't that what Our Great Leader said? :sarcasm:

[baldguy]

2. Can't let the dead intrude on the Gloriousness of the War For The Liberation Of Iraq's Oil.

[indepat]

5. That Iraq's oil will be liberated fbo of big oil is as certain as the sun rising each day in

the east, no matter what the cost in treasure, lives, limbs, other body part and brains, for that is what winning is all about.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. I know someone who does that on the sidewalk in front of

the local recruiting office. And they have never been erased.

[MatrixEscape]

4. A reacent brodcast from

the Ministry of Enrichment, (Minirich) contained a statement from our Great Commander, Big Brother, and courageous comrade, Bush about that kind of ungood behavior!

Along with the usual pearls of doublplus good doublethink, this statement came directly from the Commander, (don't say Decider anymore, it was never his position or job):

"Honoring them dead ... its just ... ah, ungood, ah, not good. Nope! Its a transvestity to the livers, ah ... living ones here! If we honorize those now decreased ... deadened ... folks ... ah ... we ... we ... if the honor to them is over here we will maybe have to burrow them over there in that evil place!" Gooder Americans can easily ... ah ... concepulate such a dirty ... ah, duty to practice this kind of Patriotic loveness against terror."

We can only hope, for the sake of our purity and goodness, that those types of criminals will be eventually rounded-up before they spread more ideas about death against our Great Commander's issuances and sincere desires! We are marching to perfection, one Executive Order at a time, comrades! Soon we will find the knowledge that is total ignorance!

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. Would it be legal to chalk the names of e.g. every baseball player in America there?

Or, indeed, a list of random non-controversial letters? Or would it fall afoul of vandalism laws?

If so, this protest should be allowed; if not, not.