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Oh no, It’s Ann (Not Dennis) Miller Time!

 

Have you ever watched “Miller Time” on the O’Reilly Factor on Fox News? If you have, you know that Dennis Miller is not just one funny dude, but he’s smart as a whip.

I listen to Dennis on WTPL, 107.7 FM from 10 am until 1 pm every chance I get. While he talks about very serious subjects, he always approaches them with his unique sense of humor. He’s one of the few people I know who can slam someone or some cause yet, because he’s always laughing and does it in such good humor, it’s difficult to take offense to his position even if you don’t agree with him.

Then there’s Ann Miller, Executive Director of NH Peace Action. Not only does Ann not seem to have much of a sense of humor, she’s also lacking in the smart as a whip department.

Click on her letter recently published in the Monitor, Giuliani’s Offensive Foreign Policy here, and you’ll see why she’s no pie in the face comedian and just not too bright.

My personal history with Ann goes back several months. After I read an article she wrote published in NH Magazine and after reading several stories from several newspapers, I wrote Ann and she called me. The first words out of her mouth were that I had “disrespected her” by referring to her as Tokyo Ann.

For you youngins out there, here’s a bit about Tokyo Rose whom I based my Tokyo Ann comment on:


“She had the best music on her station. During World War II; the Japanese developed a way to demoralize the American forces.  Psychological warfare experts developed a message they felt would work.

They gave the script to their famous broadcaster “Tokyo Rose” and every day she would broadcast this same message packaged in different ways.

The Japanese hoped it would have a negative impact on American GI’s morale.
     What was that demoralizing message? It had three main points:
     1. Your President is lying to you.
     2. This war is illegal.
      3. You cannot win the war.
     Does this sound familiar today?
          It is because we are being bombarded by Tokyo Hillary, Tokyo Harry, Tokyo Teddy, Tokyo Nancy, Tokyo Murtha, etc., and they have picked up the same message and are broadcasting it on Tokyo CNN, Tokyo ABC, Tokyo CBS, Tokyo NBC, etc., to our troops.
          The only difference is that they claim to support our troops before they demoralize them. Come to think of it, Tokyo Rose told the troops she was on their side, too.”

The truth is that there was an amalgam of about 20 Japanese female broadcasters who were known as Tokyo Rose, but that’s not really the point. You may also want to read up on Hanoi Jane, aka Jane Fonda, for information on other well-known traitors against the United States of America.

Ann and I talked for approximately an hour. During that time I asked her the three questions above and kept insisting on a “yes” or “no” answer. Finally Ann reluctantly agreed that her answer was “yes” to the questions.

So, Ann, I said, I haven’t really disrespected you at all, I’ve just been somewhat of a messenger of truth to you and you can still shoot the messenger, but it won’t change the truth.

Ann was getting ready to lead an anti-war protest scheduled for March 17 in front of the State House in Concord where she had the brilliant idea…NOT…to collect used shoes and line them up on the sidewalk with names of Iraqi civilian citizens who had died in the war. She did not want to hear about the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis who had been murdered by Saddam Hussein before his government was toppled.

This is part and parcel of Ann’s usual unwillingness to face the truth. She insists on staying in her state of denial and she’s always “right” unlike Dennis who says things like “I could be wrong” and I’m open to being convinced of that fact. Unlike Dennis, Ann is not open to being convinced of anything except what she insists on believing whether it’s truth or not.

By the way, I haven’t heard anyone provide convincing evidence to Dennis why he’s wrong in supporting our troops and their mission in Iraq. He, like me, realizes that many Americans just don’t “get it” and insist on staying in their denial about what’s really going on in the global war on terror.

I strongly suggested that Ann’s shoe idea was a bad one since it showed irreverence and disrespect to our military that show honor to a fallen soldier by using empty combat boots. Ann’s always right according to Ann and, of course, she still used her empty shoes although she didn’t have her little protest on March 17 because there was a snowstorm and these peaceniks are very fair weather protestors.

Many of us still showed up at the State House on March 17, click here, in a Support the Troops and their mission rally regardless of the weather. We’re a much hardier group of people probably because we have truth on our side and are passionate about true patriotism.

Ann later, when the weather was pleasant, used her shoes and not only that, she and others disgracefully dressed up as Iraqi civilian mothers holding bloody cloths attempting to signify dead Iraqi babies and by reference call our military “baby killers”…something commonly used to taunt and attack our men when they returned from the Vietnam war and were spit on and treated with the most disgusting show of poor behavior by their fellow Americans whom they had been fighting for to keep free at their own personal sacrifice.

Ann is a coward. While I asked her to pass along my letter to her fellow anti-war people outlining her inappropriate bad ideas, she did not. Not only that, she did not share her Iraqi mother dress up idea to any of her constituents and caught them unaware. She also displayed a pair of empty combat boots and put the names of NH’s fallen soldiers on the boots completely outraging some of the Gold Star Mothers whose children had willingingly joined the military and given their lives in America’s fight for freedom against the global war on terror.

How do I know this? Because I subsequently spoke with the President of a High School peace club who had been at the rally and had been slammed for attending this disgraceful display of unamericanism and he was completely unaware of the correlation of the empty shoes and was never told by Ann upfront about her pathetic dress up display.

He felt terrible that he participated in something so outlandish and didn’t quite understand why he would be associated with approving of Ann’s actions. Yikes! I warned him to be careful and find out ahead of time what Ann’s plans were because people automatically assume that you approve of everything that happens when you march in an anti-war protest.

I told him I was proud of him for getting involved regardless of the fact that I completely disagreed with his position. I also encouraged him to call me to perhaps get the other side of things any time he wanted to do so. I have not heard back from him, but I’m guessing he’s a bit more cautious about what he participates in and hopefully attempts to question Ann about her plans before hand….not that she’d tell him the truth as she likes to be in control and take advantage of youth by hiding her motives from them.

Ann just doesn’t seem to get it nor does she want to get it. She thinks negotiating with terrorists is the way to go as though it’s as simple as a high school debate where both sides are willing to negotiate. Who’s the 7 year old here?

Ann lives in a lah, lah peace state of mind and is completely unwilling to believe that religious fanatics such as the islamofacists merely want to kill her, her family, friends and every single American regardless of her or anyone’s belief in peace.

No, Ann, Rudy’s completely right: “They started it.” You’re so wrong, Ann, about a lot of things whether you want to admit it or not, and you’re a traitor and have committed treason against the United States of America and our military who still courageously fight to protect even the likes of you.

Ann told me she believes in globalism rather than Americanism. Ann, you’re allowed to say anything you want because you’re living in a free America. But, why the heck are you still here since you obviously hate America and our American military and more closely associate with Iraqi civilians?

Please, feel free to leave and in fact many of us would be happy to help you pack and even buy you a one-way ticket to Baghdad and you can dress up for real instead of pretend as an Iraqi mother. That would be really courageous on your part and that’s exactly why you won’t leave your safe, peaceful home in the great US of A now isn’t it?

PS: Here’s my Letters to the Editor at NH Magainze:
Letters to the Editor
 

Rubbing Salt?
 
After reading this Q&A [with Ann Miller, director of N.H. Peace Action, March 2007 issue], I almost gagged from a sugar high.
 
I’ve never read anything more naive than Ms. Miller’s opinion that everything in today’s violent world can be handled by finding “common ground” and using “diplomacy.”
 
Unfortunately, what Ms. Miller fails to understand is that it’s absolutely impossible to find common ground or a diplomatic solution when we’re dealing with terrorists and others who place absolutely no value on their lives (or anyone else’s, as we Americans do) and are willing to blow themselves up and take innocents with them.

 
The other side of the story about many of these supposed “peace” groups is this: There are mothers of soldiers currently serving in Iraq who have received “death threats” from “peace” groups; Groups led by Cindy Sheehan, etc. have made it clear that they intend to throw red paint on our sacred war memorials in Washington, D.C., on March 17 at noon, and the Concord High School Peace Club (affiliated with Ms. Miller’s organization) have asked that “old shoes” be donated to “represent Iraqi civilians whose lives have been lost in the war” at their event in Concord on March 17. (See Concord Monitor, Letters to the Editor, 2/25/07.)

 
Not only is this not an “original” idea, it virtually spits on the graves of the very American soldiers who protect their freedoms by disrespectfully encroaching on a very sacred military tradition of empty combat boots signifying respect and honor for our fallen soldiers.

 
These groups (in my opinion) are completely insensitive and continue to attempt to rub salt in wounds, re-traumatize and re-victimize the very American soldiers (past and present) who protect them and their cushy way of life!

 
In my opinion, Ms. Miller is attempting to live in an unrealistic la-la “peace” land and many cowardly people continue to hide behind “peace” agendas while waging their own war against our beloved soldiers and country.

Judy Paris
Bradford

 

Salt II Treaty?

Thank you, Rick Broussard, Editor, for printing “Rubbing Salt?” in your April edition.
News outlets many times only report “peace” agendas and “against the war” stories, although personally I’ve written (and know of many others as well) many rebuttal articles to many newspapers who don’t print “the other side of the story.”

While peace groups spent a year organizing their March 17 march in Washington, D.C., according to the National Park Services, only 5–10,000 showed up. Pro win the war, support the troops and various veterans’ groups organized in only six weeks and, according to the same source, had an estimated 30,000 people in attendance.

It’s disconcerting that so many people believe what they read in their newspapers and hear on TV, although much of it is very biased and inaccurate. It’s too bad that so many people are so naïve, and it certainly makes me wonder about the “polls” taken about “get out of Iraq,” etc. Fox News was the only news station that actually reported the numbers of Americans who showed up in support of winning the war and how few peace supporters showed up.

This is journalism at its finest and you and your magazine should be very proud for printing all sides of a story.

Judy Paris
Bradford

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