[Rhodes22-list] Anyone else see this? Is this a true storyorurban
legend??
Wally Buck
tnrhodey@hotmail.com
Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:41:36 -0500
I sent previous post before I saw Ric's post. I guess it is no legend.
Wally
>From: "Wally Buck" <tnrhodey@hotmail.com>
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>To: rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Anyone else see this? Is this a true
>storyorurban legend??
>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:23:34 -0500
>
>I would be surprised if Charlie Daniels even wrote the letter. Then again
>Charlie is "born again" and seems to be in the press a lot these days so
>perhaps he did. Usually any letter I see on the web I assume is a fake
>however I did not see this one listed on the Urban Legend web site. So I
>guess it could be real???
>
>Anyway the rich and famous have a right to an opinion just like anyone
>else. People don't seem to mind when they agree with the stars but they do
>seem to mind when they disagree. I really couldn't care less what Hollywood
>(or glitzy Nashville) stars have to say about politics.
>
>Knoxville is not Baxley GA but there were 1000 plus people out on a cold
>rainy day protesting a US attack on Iraq. I think war protesters usually
>serve a good purpose; they help people consider other options. A lot of
>people protesting against the Viet Nam conflict were called traitors. I
>think history has showed they were protesting a war that we should not have
>gotten involved in. I am not talking about the people spitting on service
>men and calling them baby killers, many protesters did not behave this way.
>America was lied to by our leaders. Viet Nam was a tragedy for the US and
>the whole thing was handled poorly from the highest levels.
>
>I am not saying there are no wars worth fighting or that we should never go
>to war. I am saying I don’t care about celebrities and their political
>views and that it is not unpatriotic to protest against war.
>
>Wally
>
>PS - I think "Long haired Country Boy" aka Charlie Daniels swore off
>drinking and drugs a few years ago. No deli trays and champagne, try fried
>chicken and sweet tea! ;-)
>
>
>
>
>>From: Steve Alm <salm@mn.rr.com>
>>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
>>To: Rhodes <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
>>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Anyone else see this? Is this a true storyor
>>urban legend??
>>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:00:07 -0600
>>
>>Let me get this straight. Here's a celebrity up on his soapbox bitching
>>about celebrities who are up on their soapbox? He calls them pampered and
>>overpaid? Charlie, baby, YOU'RE A MILLIONAIRE!! How many deli trays and
>>cases of champagne were on YOUR contract rider tonight? What five-star
>>hotel are YOU staying at? What the Hell would you know about an
>>overworked,
>>OTR truck driver? Unless maybe he's working for you, hauling your shit
>>around the country day and night. Gimme a break! You wouldn't know the
>>real world if it bit you in the ass. You live in the dream world of
>>Nashville glitz and privileged celebrityhood. How seriously am I supposed
>>to
>>take some rich, redneck fiddler who still thinks the South's Gonna Do It
>>Again? Do what, Charlie? Have another civil war? Overturn the
>>Emancipation Proclamation? You'd like that, wouldn't you? I can see
>>you're
>>a real patriot.(?) You've got your cowboy hat on a little too tight
>>there,
>>buckaroo. And why is it that you wear it so low that nobody can ever see
>>your eyes? Hiding something? We played "The Devil Went Down To Georgia"
>>tonight. Tomorrow night, I'm boycotting you, you hypocrite!!!
>>Yeee frickin' haw!
>>
>>Slim Chance and the Gamblers
>>
>>P.S. Barbara Streisand DOES make more sense than Michael Jackson--she just
>>does--it ain't hard! Get over it!
>>
>>On 3/13/03 9:45 PM, "Alex Bell" <alexbell@coastalnet.com> wrote:
>>
>> > When Charlie Daniels gets on his soapbox, a lot of patriotism can
>> > come out of him:
>> >
>> >
>> > An Open Letter To The Hollywood Bunch
>> >
>> >
>> > Ok let's just say for a moment you bunch of pampered, overpaid,
>> > unrealistic
>> > children had your way and the U.S.A. didn't go into Iraq.
>> >
>> > Let's say that you really get your way and we destroy all our
>> > nuclear
>> > weapons and stick daisies in our gun barrels and sit around with
>> > some white
>> > wine and cheese and pat ourselves on the back, so proud of what
>> > we've done
>> > for world peace.
>> >
>> > Let's say that we cut the military budget to just enough to keep
>> > the
>> > National Guard on hand to help out with floods and fires.
>> >
>> > Let's say that we close down our military bases all over the world
>> > and bring
>> > the troops home, increase our foreign aid and drop all the trade
>> > sanctions
>> > against everybody.
>> >
>> > I suppose that in your fantasy world this would create a utopian
>> > world where
>> > everybody would live in peace. After all, the great monster, the
>> > United
>> > States of America, the cause of all the world's trouble would have
>> > disbanded
>> > its horrible military and certainly all the other countries of the
>> > world
>> > would follow suit.
>> >
>> > After all, they only arm themselves to defend their countries from
>> > the mean
>> > old U.S.A.
>> >
>> >
>> > Why you bunch of pitiful, hypocritical, idiotic, spoiled
>> > mugwumps. Get your
>> > head out of the sand and smell the Trade Towers burning. Do you
>> > think that a
>> > trip to Iraq by Sean Penn did anything but encourage a wanton
>> > murderer to
>> > think that the people of the U.S.A. didn't have the nerve or the
>> > guts to
>> > fight him?
>> >
>> > Barbra Streisand's fanatical and hateful rantings about George
>> > Bush makes
>> > about as much sense as Michael Jackson hanging a baby over a
>> > railing.
>> >
>> >
>> > You people need to get out of Hollywood once in a while and get
>> > out into the
>> > real world. You'd be surprised at the hostility you would find out
>> > here.
>> > Stop in at a truck stop and tell an overworked, long distance
>> > truck driver
>> > that you don't think Saddam Hussein is doing anything wrong.
>> >
>> > Tell a farmer with a couple of sons in the military that you think
>> > the
>> > United States has no right to defend itself.
>> >
>> > Go down to Baxley, Georgia and hold an anti-war rally and see what
>> > the folks
>> > down there think about you.
>> >
>> > You people are some of the most disgusting examples of a waste of
>> > protoplasm
>> > I've ever had the displeasure to hear about.
>> >
>> > Sean Penn, you're a traitor to the United States of America. You
>> > gave aid
>> > and comfort to the enemy. How many American lives will your
>> > little, "fact
>> > finding trip" to Iraq cost? You encouraged Saddam to think that we
>> > didn't
>> > have the stomach for war.
>> >
>> > You people protect one of the most evil men on the face of this
>> > earth and
>> > won't lift a finger to save the life of an unborn baby. Freedom of
>> > choice
>> > you say?
>> >
>> > Well I'm going to exercise some freedom of choice of my own. If I
>> > see any of
>> > your names on a marquee, I'm going to boycott the movie. I will
>> > completely
>> > stop going to movies if I have to. In most cases it certainly
>> > wouldn't be
>> > much of a loss.
>> >
>> > You scoff at our military whose boots you're not even worthy to
>> > shine. They
>> > go to battle and risk their lives so ingrates like you can live in
>> > luxury.
>> > The day of reckoning is coming when you will be faced with the
>> > undeniable
>> > truth that the war against Saddam Hussein is the war on terrorism.
>> >
>> > America is in imminent danger. You're either for her or against
>> > her. There
>> > is no middle ground.
>> >
>> > I think we all know where you stand.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > What do you think?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > God Bless America!
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