| # | Name | Comments |
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| 451 | Steven Cole | My family visits Newport several times per year, often bring visitors from out-of-state. However, given the city's stance regarding the "Loyalty Days" celebration, we will not be going back until the city acknowledges its error and takes steps to ensure such an un-Amercian policy will not again be imposed. |
| 452 | Mary Martine | |
| 453 | Anonymous | |
| 454 | Timothy Michael Stetz | I am a Vietnam vet, shame on you for dishonoring vets as myself that gave of themselves, so we all can speak our truths. I will never purchase anything while passing through your non patriotic community. |
| 455 | bob phillips | not a vet.
loyalty does not mean you have to support
errors in judgement. dissent IS community
support |
| 456 | Anonymous | Shame on Newport. Freedom of expression seems to be dead there. Bush would be proud of you. |
| 457 | Anonymous | The Newport establishment seems to think the constitution is mainly a seditious document meant to annoy the military rulers. |
| 458 | Genevieve Athens | |
| 459 | Cliff Hutchins | |
| 460 | Dave Kaainoa | The title of the petition says it all. Portlanders are not going to support intolerant communities in Oregon. |
| 461 | Hugh Moore | The ability to disagree with my government is one of the reasons I served in the military. Even if I am just driving through Newport Oregon I will be sure that I don't stop even to buy gas.
Hugh Moore, HM3, US Navy, 1984-1990 |
| 462 | Art Burden | |
| 463 | Clint Lundmark | |
| 464 | Karen James | It is our patriotic duty to dissent! |
| 465 | Greg Cutting | "...It doesn't have anything to do with ideology or the First Amendment..." said parade co-chairwoman, Lorrie Crook as she tried to weasel out of her community's supression of free speech. Nonsense! That's exactly what it has to do with and she and Patty Louisiana both know it. An apology and an end to such intolerance is needed. |
| 466 | Sam Feldman | Banning veterans from a parade because of disagreement with their politics is something that I would expect only from conservatives who neither know the meaning nor appreciate what freedom really means; freedoms that the very same veterans they banned risked and traumatized their lives for. |
| 467 | Rev. Robert Figley | I lived in Lincoln County for a few years. It was an intollerant place then. Seems things haven't changed much. Still live in the area. I will stay away. |
| 468 | Jacques Cotton | The problem with these kind of issues is if we are not there it is hard to know the truth. As a general rule I believe Vets for Peace.
I don't think that the folks of Newport are going to let this authoritarian bureaucrat speak for them. Who is this chickenhawk to say that peace is not loyalty? She is totally out of step with the people.
Four of us in my family were in Vietnam, so spare me the lectures. |
| 469 | carol mcallister | peace is patriotic |
| 470 | Ella Crow | |
| 471 | Maureen Stapler Crowell | |
| 472 | Tera Ireland | |
| 473 | Anonymous | |
| 474 | Jamie Hunger | |
| 475 | Brian & Trudi Lawson | As it says in the Oregonian article "Dissent is NOT disloyalty". Your Parade chairmen Louisiana and Crook are simply wrong. They have singlehandedly undone much of your advertising message of the last months. We will now NOT visit Newport until the city is willing to admit this was a mistake, take public responsibility for it and insure that it will not happen again. Your festival comittee, and city fathers for that matter, may decide the extent to which freedom of expression really exists in your community but the people who support your tourist based economy will untimately decde whether you are right or wrong. |
| 476 | Paul Smith | |
| 477 | Jenny | Bringing them home before they're dead IS supporting the troops. I am amazed that this would happen in Newport.
I am an Oregonian and visit the coast frequently. |
| 478 | eric smith | I can not imagine the mindset of turning away customers in any fashion; from your front door or from what is essentially a promotional tourist event. This is insanity for a business / chamber of commerce / city looking for tourist dollars.From now on when I drive through Newport I will drive THROUGH, never stopping there again. |
| 479 | John Howes | |
| 480 | Kathy Liebowitz | |
| 481 | Carl Schmele | I'll miss the charter fishing trips but a boycot is a boycot. |
| 482 | Lori Price | We need the treason trials of Bush, Cheney Halliburton, Rumsfeld and Rove to begin... with all possible penalties for treason on the plate.
Cheers,
Lori R. Price
Mgr., Citizens For Legitimate Government
http://www.legitgov.org/ |
| 483 | mary king | My family has owned a small beach cottage in the Miroco Area of Otter Crest Loop since 1967. I am completely appalled and disgusted that the organizers of this "Loyalty Days" celebration decided to not allow a previously registered and approved peace group movement to participate in the parade.
I will fully support the boycott of local Newport businesses that agree with the policy of the organizers and will ask the many peace oriented renters of my home to do the same.
I would suggest that those businesses that are also appalled with this situation find an identifying logo to place in their windows.
Something like "Freedom of Expression Safe Zone"
Thank God Newport has a strong peace organization!
Mary King
9877 SE 33rd Avenue
Milwaukie, Oregon
97222
503-654-2969 |
| 484 | Mike Little | It will always amaze me that people who think of themselves as patriots will censor others rights. |
| 485 | john blank | I am very sorry to have to boycott the town of Newport, which I love to visit, and whose merchants and fishermen I do business with, but I think the town's actions on May 5th discriiminating against the anti-war Veterans are unconcionable and un-American. You won't be seeing me in Newport til we get an apology. |
| 486 | Dan | I applaud you for not caving to the demands of the shrill left. I will be in Oregon next month. I will go out of my way to spend money in your town. |
| 487 | Mikey | Kudos Newport. I will spend more time there. It is sure to be a nicer place with fewer liberals wandering about. I hereby voice my dissent to this boycott. Remember dissent is a good thing. |
| 488 | Ralph Blankenship | I am a Viet Nam combat veteran. And I am dismayed at how the City of Newport has treated this veterans group. The Iraq war is illegal and immoral. And the administration foisted it on the American public and the world through deceiptful presentation of the facts to support the attack on the Iraqi people.
I have always enjoyed Newport but it feels tainted to me now. It is hard for me to say I will never patronize it again. I will have to think on this. What were you thinking? |
| 489 | Elizabeth Barger | this is so sad, to deny Freedom of speech to people who have sacrificed and served to protect our Constitution and Bill of Rights, is un-American. Peace is patriotic. Has this town succeeded from this country and taken loyalty oaths to another nation? |
| 490 | J Beckett Humphrey, DDS | Loyalty Day started as a way to suppress the history of the real grassroots working class peace and economic justice movement which is celebrated worldwide on May 1. |
| 491 | ChrisH | I will vacation this year in Cannon Beach. As for future trips to Newport, I think not, not the place I wish to spend my hard earned money.
Chris Hunt and wife, VFP Member
Phoenix, Arizona |
| 492 | Saundra Whitten | |
| 493 | Mike Woloshin | Newport's McCarthyist censorship of expression of the peace message will come back to haunt it! Journalist Edward R. Murrow said it best over 50 years ago: "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it." On the same theme, the late Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas said: "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of subversives. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." Newport has earned the title of Oregon's "smear and fear" capitol! Veterans for Peace Chicago Area Chapter 26 endorses the boycott of Newport, Oregon!
Mike Woloshin,
Chapter President,
Veterans for Peace,
Chicago Area Chapter 26 |
| 494 | amy thomas | |
| 495 | Anonymous | shame on Newport Oregon, shame on you!! |
| 496 | Cary Herb | |
| 497 | Lucius DiLorenzo | Hiding behind paper is a mark of cowardice. Rules should always be bent to allow peaceful freedom when no physical harm will come to others. Because I know many citizens of Newport do not support what has happened I will limit my boycott to a period of one year. I look forward to it being over. |
| 498 | Paula Cox | |
| 499 | Garry M. Doll | |
| 500 | Aaron Rubin | My yearly trip to the west coast will take a detour--I will not travel through, stop nor spend a dime in Newport because of the unlawful and unAmerican suppression of legitimate protest and constitutionally protected speech by your city. |