Adam Yoshida: Not enough Vietnam demonstrators killed!

[denverbill]

"Vietnam was lost both because seditionists were allowed to run free and because the government failed to take proper action to curb them. Today Kent State is memorialized as a great tragedy because a few traitors (or those stupid enough to stand near them) were killed when, in fact, one of the great tragedies of the war was that there were obviously too few Kent States. 55,000 Americans ultimately died for nothing because of those people. If a few of them would have had to die to curb their disloyal behavior, then so be it. "

http://www.adamyoshida.com/2004_05_01_archive.html

Hey, this little shit is certainly old enough to go to Iraq and fight. I wonder what the little chickenshit pussy is still doing here?

[Whitacre D_WI]

1. He's Canadian.

[denverbill]

Doesn't matter. The US Army takes Canadian chickenhawks too.

Their are plenty of non-Americans fighting in the US Army.

[BJ]

7. If he's Canadian...

If I were a dittohead, freep creep I'd say: Since he's Canadian he can keep his mouth shut!

[placton]

2. Understand, these people are today's Nazis

Hitler came to power on the fiction that the Germans would have won WWI, but were "stabbed in the back" by Jews, Commies, and other usual suspects - whom he then murdered when he took power.

We never would have won Vietnam, without employing nukes - and that may well have led to a global war.

[denverbill]

9. Just ask Goering.

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

[BJ]

3. With a Japanese surname...

With a Japanese surname one would think he'd understand what happens in the United States when paranoia, racism and militarism raise their ugly heads.

What an unmitigated jerk.

[charlie]

4. Because he doesn't have to

Despite of his routine use of "us" and "we" in his screeds, the mouthy little twerp is a Canadian living in a nice suburb of Vancouver.

[denverbill]

10. As I said above, you don't have to be a US citizen to join the US Army.

Surely, unless he's a real whiny pussy, he would jump at the chance to go to Iraq and fight the war on terrorism.

[charlie]

14. Well, yes

He's a whiny wuss. He's just a pup, prime age for the military. And he's been advised countless times of that fact, but naturally, thinks guarding the homefront against naysayers is every bit as mission critical as picking up a gun. Just another standard-issue chickenhawk, seems there's no end of them...

[Lisa]

22. Canadian? So my family might actually know his family ...

If they were here for the internment, they might even have been put in the same camp. Which, if he applies the same logic he's using, he should have approved of, because many similar "security" arguments are being dusted off these days!


In the States, there was the "JACL" group which tried to be ultra-patriotic Americans (some in hope of avoiding reprisals), and ostracized those who protested the loyalty oaths (like the draft resisters at Heart Mountain).

But I know that a lot of my relatives who went through this got interested in the civil rights movement, and vote Liberal or NDP. Even their kids (my generation) -- a surprising number entered public service, and even my cousin the lawyer was viewed as a "radical" (though at U of Western Ontario, which isn't exactly Berkeley).

For the record, my father, who usually doesn't talk about the internment, gave a long interview to the local paper after 9/11 talking about his experiences, because he was very concerned that Arab and Muslim Canadians would be attacked by Yoshida's ilk.

[northernsoul]

5. I'm willing to contribute to Mr. Yoshida's psychotherapy fund

Anyone who is that obsessed with killing people is going to end up acting on his impulses some day. I say we get this poor guy into a nice padded room somewhere where highly trained psychologoy professionals can help this guy sort out his numerous problems before he does something terrible.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. Yoshida is clearly a socialist in deep-cover as a bigot.

His parodies of neo-con vitriol are spot on.
:evilgrin:
He has a habit of showing up at websites that provide links to his drivel. Kind of like a crap, whiny Candyman.

[the Kelly Gang]

8. just another nutbag but you are right...my only reply to he and his like

who claim they love this war and how just it is ..is to get over there and fight or they're just a chickenshit , yellowbellied hypocrite. Fortunately it usually shuts them up.

[LittleApple81]

11. I have seen stuff by him for a long time here in DU.My question is why? nt

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. He can't take being mocked.

A common neo-con trait. Hold them up to ridicule, it's a weapon they can't defend themselves against.

[denverbill]

17. If more Germans had read Mein Kampf, maybe they woudn't have

elected Hitler.

The more people who realize what the extremists are actually capable of thinking, the better.

[keithyboy]

13. 55,000 died because of lies...VietNam today is unified and communist

And we are dealing with them like nothing ever happened.

It was an unnecessary war based on lies just like this Iraqi invasion and occupation.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. Interestingly enough, Yoshida is from Coquitlam

which in the Coastal Salish language translates as 'stinking of fish slime'. Appropriate, no?

[damnraddem]

16. Hey, Adam, we were correct, and proved correct.

Although I'm not sure we were successful in ending the Vietnam War, I'm glad you think we were. I'd love to think that you are correct that our actions prevented the U.S. from doing even worse things to Vietnam, all of Southeast Asia, its own young people, and the world generally. Keep saying all the good things about us!

[Kinkistyle]

18. ONLY 55,000 Americans died because of brave patriots at Kent State.

Its because of the unfortunate heroes at Kent State and protestors everywhere that we kept U.S. deaths down around 55,000 and not into the hundreds of thousands (never mind the Vietnamese deaths, Nixon and Kissinger were drawing up Nuke plans to just glass the whole place). Thats what idiot chickenhawks like Yoshida don't understand.

55,000 died for nothing because it was an unjust war. Tens of thousands of others lived because of the actions of the Peace Activists.

[Kinkistyle]

19. ONLY 55,000 Americans died because of brave patriots at Kent State.

Its because of the unfortunate heroes at Kent State and protestors everywhere that we kept U.S. deaths down around 55,000 and not into the hundreds of thousands (never mind the Vietnamese deaths, Nixon and Kissinger were drawing up Nuke plans to just glass the whole place). Thats what idiot chickenhawks like Yoshida don't understand.

55,000 died for nothing because it was an unjust war. Tens of thousands of others lived because of the actions of the Peace Activists.

[Blue_Tires]

20. such violent vitriol!!

What's the deal with this guy?? Years ago did some hot hippie-chick turn him down for a date or something??

And what does he care anyways? Canada had no stake in the Vietnam conflict...Adam, just STFU & GFY...Better yet, just put a gun to your head and pull the trigger to free up some oxygen for thinking humans on this planet

[Whitacre D_WI]

21. The best way to deal with Adam Yoshida...

...is to ignore him. He's a troll. Even on his blog, he's a... well, a STATIONARY troll.

He THRIVES on reaction.

What gets the goat of impotent little fuckers like him is when nobody gives a damn. So I don't.