Fired Up! Firing Blanks

The Source will never agree with Roy Temple, Jean Carnahan and their anonymous minions at Fired Up! Missouri. We expect them to mislead, misquote and misunderstand. That is their nature. But even The Source was shocked to read one of the latest missives posted at Fired Up!

Bob Boldt, one of the few Fired Up! posters to ever use his real name, recently launched an inflammatory post aimed at President George W. Bush. “The Sole of a Thankful Nation” is Boldt’s farewell to Bush, and is rife with comparisons to dictators like Pol Pot and Hitler. Boldt certainly has every right to dislike Bush, and to voice that dislike. The way he does it is irresponsible and ugly. Fortunately, in this democracy, men like Boldt are free to be ugly, but he should ask himself what would have happened to him had he wrote such a thing under Pol Pot or Hitler.

Boldt also plays fast and lose with several facts. For instance, any “thug justice” Iraqi journalist and shoe-tosser, Muntazer al-Zaidi received was from Iraqi security, not “Amerikan” hands. Most sources say al-Zaidi received “minor injuries,” not broken bones.

For Boldt to call Bush a “criminal and mass murder” is ridiculous, and he probably knows it. Bush is Commander in Chief, but every stage of the Iraqi war was approved and funded by Congress, as well as being planned and executed by the appropriate military structure. Just because you don’t like the war, Mr. Boldt, that doesn’t make the participants criminals. To say so is to malign not just your president, but every soldier serving under him.

Finally, for Boldt to “fervently hope and pray” that harm will come to Bush is an insult to all who worship God Almighty. Prayer is not a weapon.

The Source asks, in the name of democracy and the spirit of Christmas, that Roy Temple remove this offensive post. We know the likelihood of Roy or Jean listening to us is small, but maybe our loyal readers can pipe in as well. Perhaps then they will do the right thing.

Comments

[deboldt]

I see you are too cowardly to post my response to your "Firing Blanks" attack on me. Readers can find it on the Fired-Up Missouri site.

Peace,

Boldt

[deboldt]

It did occur to me that there might be a possibility that my response might have been completely blocked by your spam filter and not (as announced) held for your approval. If this is the case and you feel you can handle the truth, send me your valid email (not the one herein published)and I will send it to you for publication. My email is deboldt (at) gmail. com.

Peace,

Boldt