This is why America can’t have nice things, and why we don’t deserve them.
Bowe Bergdahl is from Hailey, Idaho, population 8,000. In a show of small town solidarity and patriotism and love of our Troops, the good people of Hailey have held a “Bring Bowe Back” rally every June.
Now, if Bowe Bergdahl had just had the good sense to stay imprisoned another 20 or 30 years until a white Republican man was in the White House again and was somehow able to get him released, everything would have been fine. But, since the POW insisted on getting himself released during the reign of the tyrant Obama, he and his family and his town should bear the punishment and cancel the damn gathering this month.
You heard me, now that Bowe is being released, they are canceling the Bring Bowe Back celebration.
See, angry racists and teabaggers were planning on Westboro Baptisting the the tiny hamlet of Hailey, Idaho, during the annual June event, previously called “Bring Bowe Back.” I am truly dumbstruck how quickly these fuckers turned on their own. Hailey, Idaho has probably all of two Obama voters, but the quaint, little, god-fearin’ town had the gall to celebrate the return of one of their own at the hands of the Kenyan Usurper who wanted poor folks like themselves to have some health insurance, so they might as well have been throwing a party for the Taliban, right?
“We just don’t have the facilities,” said Hailey Police Chief Jeff Gunter after a press release Wednesday announced the event’s cancellation.
Hailey doesn’t have the means to accommodate a bunch of dumbass, non-serving, open-carry, pretend veterans who have been calling and talking tough about how they were gonna ride into town bringing their army of millions to protest they release of an American soldier. Hailey is a town of 8,000 and therefore has a whopping 17 police officers and there was going to be no way to control these roving, armed bands of goobers if they actually made good on their threat to come bother everyone.
Remember how we never heard the end from these folks about how Vietnam vets were treated when they came back? I guess that same concern doesn’t apply, here. Remember how we welcomed the other vets back with a recession and an under funded VA and a nation they risked their lives for that is politically bereft?
If you listened only to the RW echo chamber, you’d think that all of the military is against what Obama did and that Bergdahl should have been left to rot. Well, I have many jarhead friends to inform me that even IF this fella was a deserter, he still is a US soldier first and foremost and any stupid chickenhawk who questions whether we should have left one of our own to die in the captivity of the Tailban has not one goddamn right to say a single fcking thing – the rule is and forever will be, we leave no one behind, and we sort out the rest later. What American people sitting in their comfy chairs opining on subjects on which they are completely ignorant have to say about the matter is completely irrelevant.
As despicable as the Westboro asshats are, they actually showed up to be mocked and ridiculed, these shitstains don’t even do that. I guess they learned well from the GOP, the THREAT works, no need to actually leave your comfy chair, or your hove round, to actually DO it.
Could it really be that somehow the GOP thinks this is an opportunity to grab the military vote in 2014 and beyond?? I know this idea is not playing amongst younger vets, but the guys/gals who generally could see thru Shrub but bought the whole Clinton derangement thing, are they actually buying into this crap? I think we can safely say the Teabaggers are shooting themselves in the foot here (probably to avoid serving).*
*The prescribed method to avoid military service is defecating in one’s pants.