| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 501 | Ed Armas | |
| 502 | David Colburn | Buses are not excluded from the Free Speech clause of the U.S. Constitution. |
| 503 | mik hearington | |
| 504 | jo bristol | It's never too late to change vacation plans, and the Newport nastiness has confirmed my decision NEVER to go there while censorship and police state tactics are in force. Support our troops? Not in Newport, eh? |
| 505 | Sean McGonegal | Wow, effectively gagging the very individuals whose sacrifices allot to all of us the right to free expression. Utterly repugnant. |
| 506 | Bibuld, Jerome | |
| 507 | John Kevin Fabiani | The VFP Bus should have been allowed. To exclude them based upon thier views upon war soils thier supreme sacrifice to this country. Those who excluded VFP have dishonored themselves and should be ashamed of thier unamerican censorship. |
| 508 | Neptali Morales | |
| 509 | Mark Burwinkel | There was never a Good War or a Bad Peace
Benjamin Franklin |
| 510 | RM Merrill | |
| 511 | Peggy & Al Manfredi | Disgraceful, and the end result, very unamerican! Our country represents NOTHING if it does not stand for our FREEDOMS, of which freedom of SPEACH is not only encouraged, but also promised and protected! You have nothing to "parade" on the streets of your fine city if you deny the rights of American citizens. This includes the rights of our veterans all the rights they protect by their service. Shame on all of you. May your profit margin reflect your sense of dignity. |
| 512 | Joan Brown | |
| 513 | Sgt. Rock | BOYCOTT ROGUE ALES WHEREVER THEY'RE SOLD!
In response to the war vets excluded from Newport's "Loyalty Day" parade on May Day, a Newport business responds:
"You must be confusing Rogue with someone else. We make Ales, Lagers, Porters and Stouts. Not wars or parades.
"We will, however, help you with your boycott. If you provide me with the names of the boycotters you represent, we will be happy to extend a ban on them (86 list) from our places not only in Newport, but also in Seattle, San Francisco, Portland and Eugene.
"We will not be threatened by you or anyone else. Long ago we learned if we do not stand for something, we fall for everything.
"This ban also applies to the horse you rode in on."
Jack Joyce, President Rogue Ales |
| 514 | F. Dennis Morgan | |
| 515 | Greg Wingard | What part of the sacred American tradition to gather and speak out in the village square does Newport fail to understand. Unwavering support for the federal administration in the face of any and all insults to the Constitution is not patriotism, simply stupidity of the sort that has always allowed tyranny to rise. |
| 516 | Elaine Duskin | I will indeed boycott Newport, Oregon this entire summer! Shame on them. |
| 517 | James Emanuel | |
| 518 | Rachel M Hervey PHN | Dissent is Patriotic ! Sincerely, |
| 519 | Ben and Laura Smith | |
| 520 | Jeffrey Segal | |
| 521 | Patrick Story | I will miss the beautiful Newport area, but I will stay away until the terms of this petition are met. |
| 522 | STEVE BONZAI | GUNNA POKE ALONG THE COAST. WONT SPEND A NICKEL IN NEWPORT. |
| 523 | Donna Cinelli | |
| 524 | John Wooden | A friend and I will be passing through Newport on our way to California on Wednesday. I want to emphasis the words "passing through". |
| 525 | Fred Jakobcic | Somebody has their priorities mixed up. Peace is always preferable to war, for obvious reasons, yet those of war abhor those of peace. Why...? It seems to some, wrongly, that support of war, death, killing is more patriotic, more loyal than those of peace and condemned them as such, not allowing them to participate community acitivities. There is something wrong when killing is more important than life and peace. |
| 526 | Dan Wood | Count me out of Newport. I usually enjoy my visits there. They are being very un-American. Since when is free speech and peach not loyal? Sounds like they have been taken over by a conservative force. |
| 527 | John M. Clark | I am a former Marine and a Vietnam veteran |
| 528 | Carolyn Young | |
| 529 | gail parker | As a founding member of Catholic Mothers for Peace, I would like to register my deep sadness at the decision of Patty Louisianna to prohibit the entry of a Veterans for Peace contingency in the Loyalty Days Parade. Even the ultra conservative Albany Oregon Veterans Day Parade has seen the wisdom of including Peace Vets in their annual parade since 1991. I and all members of Catholic Mothers for Peace intend to boycott the Newport merchants who condone such action. I hope they will provide the community with an open denuncialtion of such limitations on free speech.
Gail Parker, Chairperson
Catholic Mother´s for peace
Founded 1990 |
| 530 | dick canby | |
| 531 | erika wanenmacher | |
| 532 | Anonymous | More open and representative governance please. |
| 533 | Fauna-June Fauth | As a newcomer to the Oregon Coast, Newport, for me, was a bastion of liberal thought and ideas and one of the reasons I moved here from the East. I do stand with the veterans who swore to protect the country from ALL enemies, foreign and domestic and my husband is one of those veterans-Vietnam. Newport has "sold out." the veterans and the American people by not honoring the veterans of past and present wars. We will boycott any businesses in the area, saddened to say it, but we must take a stand against tyranny of all types! |
| 534 | Connie Weiss | I feel that the Veterans For Peace are just as loyal to our country as anyone and should be part of the loyalty parade if they wish. Also, their experience makes their advocacy for peace particularly credible.. |
| 535 | Terrie C. Williams | |
| 536 | Hannah Todd | |
| 537 | Christy Allen | My husband is a Viet Nam vet and is strongly against the war in Iraq, as I am against it. We need to find peaceful, diplomatic solutions to conflicts, as we expect our children to do and our society. |
| 538 | Jeri Lynn Barth | |
| 539 | Kerri Russ | We vacation in Newport every year but we are reconsidering that plan this year. If they are in the habit of turning away people who want to peacefully make a statement, perhaps we'd be happier going somewhere else where someone with a differing peaceful opinion is welcome. |
| 540 | Marcia Bianchi | I am sadden to learn that a city in Oregon would ban our brave men and women, who served us so well, from speaking out against the unjust and unwarranted illegal occupation of another country. "Speak truth to power." |
| 541 | Aaron Katurski | what a disgrace |
| 542 | Lisa Wooden | |
| 543 | MARY MARLOWE | WHAT HAPPENED TO FREE SPEECH IN THIS COUNTRY? DID IT DISAPPEAR LIKE OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES? THESE ARE TRUE PATRIOTS IN A COUNTRY THAT IS RAPIDLY STARTING TO LOOK LIKE THE OLD SOVIET UNION. |
| 544 | Anonymous | I am shocked and saddened by this. My daughter and I visit Newport on a regular basis, but we will not be spending any money in Newport until this is rectified. |
| 545 | Bob Rasmussen | |
| 546 | Carolyn Pinkham | The only reason to not allow heroic veterans who happen to disagree with this preemptive unnecessary and disasterous war is that you want to remain in denial. Why is the truth something to be feared and avoided at the cost of freedom and morality? |
| 547 | David S. Wilson | Dissent is a loyal American act, NOT disloyalty. |
| 548 | lorenza | |
| 549 | Jonathan O. Bellg | |
| 550 | Ronald Richardson | |