War Protester Gets Sent To Iraq

[granny lover]

How about a story of a woman who protests the war.
The F.B.I. wants to teach her a lesson so they send her to one
country after another letting the head of each counrty do anything
they want to do to her short of torture and death. each chapter can be about a different world leader. It would take a few years for her to get home. this could turn into a multi story saga of
the little lady that couldnt keep her mouth shut.maybe she could fall in love with Fidel castro or someone like that. just an idea.

 

[Couture]

How about sending Bush over. Now THAT would be a story.

 

[deliciously_naughty]

How about a story of a woman who protests the war.
The F.B.I. wants to teach her a lesson so they send her to one
country after another letting the head of each counrty do anything
they want to do to her short of torture and death. each chapter can be about a different world leader. It would take a few years for her to get home. this could turn into a multi story saga of
the little lady that couldnt keep her mouth shut.maybe she could fall in love with Fidel castro or someone like that. just an idea.

Notice: this is a person who has been pming me and emailing me to critique a personal political statement I make in my sig line. I did not initiate contact, s/he did. When I refused to argue personal politics or remove the offending comment from my sig line this person has taken to critizing me in such infantile ways as this "story suggestion" as an attempt to get a rise out of me since I threated to complain to Laurel if s/he did not stop pming/emailing me after repeated requests. I find this amusing, but it has gotten tiresome.

Granny Lover,

I can easily surmise that you're a second or third screen name for someone I pissed off on the general board. You seem to think that I give a shit what you think about my personal politics or that I owe you personally and the world at large an explanation for them. I don't. Nor do I give a damn that you think I'm wrong and have worked yourself up into such a frenzy over it that you would pm me, email me, and propose a story about me. Go ahead and write it...I really don't care. But if you had any balls at all you'd take me on in public and by screen name where it belongs: the GB.

Prior to your pming me I was considering changing my entire sig line. However, now you have made it a point of pride and I will NOT remove something you have a problem with. You will NOT intimidate me off this board, this site or into changing my personal beliefs. You obviously were never taught to respect others viewpoints. If you have a problem with me, put me on ignore and forget I exist.

However, if you do write the story...I prefer clean shaven men so make sure I beg Castro to shave off that icky beard. But make sure you spell and grammar check your story first...your personal notes to me have indicated that you never learned such things in school.

D_N

 

[granny lover]

o.k so your mad at me. I am not a bad guy really. I do not wish to push my politics on anyone. The thing is , the statement at the bottom of your replies reads " protest the war in Iraq" it does not say I protest the war in Iraq. I THINK ITS FINE FOR YOU TO PROTEST. just dont tell me to. I dont want to bug you, so dont bug me. love ya anyway.

P.S. sorry about the spelling.

(sex is universal)

 

[MissTaken]

So, granny lover? Is this thread a story idea or not? Please, let me know.

 

[Chicklet]

i dunno...i wouldn't want to mix politics with erotica...*personally*

 

[deliciously_naughty]

o.k so your mad at me. I am not a bad guy really. I do not wish to push my politics on anyone. The thing is , the statement at the bottom of your replies reads " protest the war in Iraq" it does not say I protest the war in Iraq. I THINK ITS FINE FOR YOU TO PROTEST. just dont tell me to. I dont want to bug you, so dont bug me. love ya anyway.

P.S. sorry about the spelling.

(sex is universal)

Okay...I debated replying to this as I just don't this this belongs in the story ideas forum.

However...my sig line is an expression of my free speech. I read plenty of sig lines that I disagree with, the same way I'm often forced to drive behind people with the stupid jesus fish or pro life bumper stickers. I don't get out of my car and ask that they remove the offending bumper sticker because I don't like what it says. I don't like being told that I should keep an unwanted pregnancy or that I should be christian or that I should vote for Bush and Cheney. However, people have the right to paper their car, their sig line and their posts with whatever philosophies they espouse.

When one person a problem with something expressed by another poster here on lit they should do one of the following

1. put the person on ignore...it makes them and their sig line go away
2. change their personal options so that they can't see the av, sig line, whatever
3. examine if they want to be part of a community that espouses free speech enough to let trolls hang around (and there are many regulars on the GB) much less controversial sig lines

Again, I'm sorry you have a personal objection to something I state in my sig line. I'm sorry you feel it's a directive comment aimed at you or anyone else. It's a statement of protest against an unjust military action and something I feel strongly about. However that doesn't mean that I will change it to something like "I protest the war in Iraq" which does not make as strong a commentary. I'm still not changing it.

A suggestion, granny lover before I go back to having you on ignore. When you disagree with someone's comments regardless of how they are expressed and feel the need to open up a dialogue with them about those comments, send them a pm that is respectful and inquiring, rather than hurtful and attacking. Attacking someone and calling them a "ungreatful little snot" who might as well "wear a burka" (to quote you directly) is only going to put that person on the defensive and get them pissed off, as you saw with the tone of my reply to that pm. Instead you might want to say something like "I saw your sig line and I was curious why you want to protest the war." I would have replied to that pm with a lengthy, well thought out response. At which point you could agree or refute my reasons with your own and we could have had an intelligent and useful diaglouge. Instead you attacked me, contacted me after I told you not to and then posted this thread. None of that inspires me to try to understand you or to kiss and make up.

There's always room for dissent and argument and debate. But it has to started in a much better way than calling someone names and insulting them and demanding an explanation from a complete stranger. Understand that no one here owes you anything and that if someone takes the time to explain personal philosophy they are doing you a favor. Request the explanation with a firm understanding that you are being given a gift, not something you are owed.

DN