This blog is on be half of a dear friend of mine and is demanding restitution for his set tires that have been slashed. Sears cost is $512.69 to replace all of them. This person is a disabled vet and has fought for his country and does not need the aggrivation.

 To the parties involved in the support of our soldiers that are in the stockade at Fort Lewis. The way you are getting in the way of the real reason why we are on the overpass, Is distract and a problem for others in support of the troops over seas. Furthermore there has been vandelism and we have witnesses to the recent tire slashings and have now placed hidden cameras to video tape future events.

To the recent tire event, the person involved is willing to press charges on all who to part in this caper to the fullest extent of the law. Also past and future threatso be dealt with according to the law and if self defense is needed it will be applied..

Contact garygeot to make restitution for this matter @ garypplsia@hotmail.com 

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I have also done a lot of thinking about this issue, and this is what I have come to: It is no service to soldiers to lump them together and write them off as "puppets".

True, they are not the orchestrators of this war. But they are the machinery that makes it happen. As we all know, this comes with heavy consequences to themselves, their loved ones, and people in Iraq. Our government happens to be extremely skilled at convincing people in the military that they have no choices anymore, they are nothing more than government property, and that their duty to obey orders is somehow a higher calling than their own inherent human moral sensibility.

Then our government convinces us civilians that our duty to be polite to soldiers is more important than our duty to tell the truth and hold one another accountable.

Bullshit.

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Through a Project Documentary class at Cambridge Community Television.

On a day when Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin was killed, I figured it would be appropriate to evaulate the documentary The Grizzly Man.

A tragic comedy it is. Basically, this guy (I forgot his name) lived with grizzly bears up in Alaska for something like 11 or 12 years (over the course of each summer).

The guy had names for them (Mr. Chocolate, for instance) and was convinced that he and the bears could co-exist with each other.

How he did for such a long period of time, I don't know? The man who flew the helicopter to retrieve his body said it was because the bears were confused as to why he was living with them and "thought he was retarded."

The documentary is set-up pretty good, with the Grizzly Man's video running parallel along reflections from everyone who dropped off supples to him to the coroner who had to cut the bear open to pull the Grizzly Man and his girl friend's bodies out.