SternSkipper
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MARINES TO OAKLAND POLICE: 'You Did This To My Brother' Interestingly, I was at a coffee place downtown today having a rainy day GA with my local group. There were a bunch of you men there pushing one of the area's newspapers with a story on the event. Turns out all of em are local Iraq and Afghanistan Vets, all working part time at best. Three were Marines and the other two were Army and National guard. I gotta say, they were pretty angry. And I said at one point after talking to them for a while "You know the cops will come up with some extenuating circumstance or point to a blemish on his record or something right". The biggest of the three Marines says "yeah? Fuck them... we had to go to fallujah and not shoot motherfuckers that had it coming and we were what? Highschool Graduates? And these shits shoot their own people for what? Standing fucking still? He turns to his his four friends and say how many fucking mass cops ya figure it'd take to take us down if we had a gear? And they all just laughed. Later I asked the vocal one how he felt he'd been treated since he got back. He said you know, the ROTC guy in highschool said we'd come back big deals with local employers. I work 25 hours a week at my uncle's hardware store and I think he just does that for me cause he's disgusted how lame things are." We talked about a lot more and let me tell ya. They ARE watching this shit and they AREN'T happy. And they are looking at this movement and wondering if they should be checking it out more closely,. Needless to say, they have my card.
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