Sanity
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Joined: 6/14/2006 From: Nampa, Idaho USA Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: JVoV I really don't mind having opposing views of issues being presented. Truth is often subjective. I do generally watch ABC News, and its local affiliate, but I use the internet to fact-check anything I feel the need to. Especially when politics are involved, I watch clips of FOX News and CNN. Or ya know, read a newspaper. Well then you must not be a true leftist I read a magazine article tonight about a familys escape from East Germany prior to the wall coming down. The wife was permitted to travel outside the country because the rest of her nuclear family were still there, as hostages of sorts. A man and his young daughter, Hans-Peter Spitzner and Peggy Spitzner... He took his daughter to the area by checkpoint Charlie and with her in tow began asking random Westerners for assistance getting across, and kept getting rejected because it was so dangerous. Finally, just as he was about to give up an American soldier said he would help, even though it was against his directives. The two hid in the hot trunk of his car for a nerve wracking twenty five minute ride and when the trunk was opened they were free to speak any kind of political views they desired without the family being violently split into pieces, never to see each other again Someone giving out samples of a sweet soft drink of some kind randomly gave the girl one of the free samples that day and it was something she will never forget because back home you had to wait in line for sometimes hours for just basic necessities, no one ever just handed you something so good The man took a huge chance, he could have been killed But it was well worth it to be rid of the true leftists who had controlled his life since the time he was born
< Message edited by Sanity -- 6/7/2015 10:16:43 PM >
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