The Republic of Cambridge
This was just too easy! If you had not heard, at an election held last week in Cambridge, Massachusetts the folks who run that “city” decided that the boxes put out by BOY SCOUTS to collect toiletries for our troops in Iraq were–are you sitting down–a pro-war sentiment being expressed in their city.
Hey, I don’t make these things up. Evidently the Politically Correct Police were very vigilant in protecting the values (sic) of the Republic of Cambridge…whatever those values might be.
I for one, along with many others, think that maybe the Republic of Cambridge should leave the environs of the good old US of A and find another country to attach itself to. Let’s see, maybe Venezuela and their buddy Hugo Chavez. Or how about city of Cambridge and the state of Vermont create their own country? That would be even better. They deserve each other and Bernie Sanders, the Socialist United States Senator from Vermont, could represent them all.
Come on people. Get a real life. It’s not the war it’s the warriors. Yes, we all know it’s an unpopular war but get your head out of your asses for heaven’s sake. It’s the BOY SCOUTS not the CIA, FBI or any other United States government agency that those in Cambridge abhor.
Be sure to visit the following link to read a humorous, but all too real, summation of Cambridge. And then take a look at what the locals think at http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/homepage/x799506901. Maybe there is some hope for Cambridge after all.
It’s truly sad to see the state of Political Correctness running amuck in our country. We need to get some spine and it should start in places like Cambridge, Massachusetts. But I’m not going to hold my breath…hell that might be illegal in Cambridge.
November 19th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Al,
This isn’t new, and it isn’t just Cambridge. When I was a senior in college, almost 40 years ago, a professor wondered how I could be drafted given the number of years I had worked with the Boy Scouts, which he called a paramilitary organization. Of course, the Boy Scouts have had their own PC issues on both sides of the political spectrum, on the one hand discriminating against gays and athiests, and on the other, at one time considering banning rifles on rifle ranges at Boy Scout camps.
Just for the record, though, I agree that it’s warped thinking to consider helping the troops “pro-war.” But I also agree that the Boy Scouts was, and may still be, a paramilitary organization.