MARIA RUUD vs. THE TROOPS
 How Dare You Have Fun When People Are Starving!
Maria Ruud
The following letter is reprinted from the Star Tribune Letters to the Editor, Sunday, August 28, 2005:
Thank you for printing the deeply disturbing side-by-side photographs of the starving child in Niger and the man gorging himself in a hamburger-eating contest in Wisconsin.
I only wish you would have included information on where people can donate to help save the starving child. That child, and millions like him, did not get to choose the side of the planet they were born on.
As fellow human beings, we all have a personal responsibility to try to correct the gross inequities in this world. Once you know they exist, you cannot not know. The question becomes: What are you willing to do to try to correct it?
Maria Ruud
Minnetonka |
Analysis: Maria's appeal, as with many on the Left, is primarily emotion, not logic.The deeper question is: why do such conditions exist? Are people having some innocent fun in Wisconsin to blame for Africa's poverty? Or is it a result of oppressive governments and corrupt economic systems?
If the answer is that we need to promote more freedom in the world, then why do people like Maria fly out to Washington and protest every time our soldiers are put in harm's way to defend that freedom?
This War Opponent Won't Be Silenced!
Maria Ruud
The following is reprinted from the Minnetonka Sun-Sailor Letters to the Editor, Thursday, March 20, 2003
To the editor:
To the person who stole our “No War on Iraq” sign:
Are you the same person who stole our first sign (also our Paul Wellstone sign)?
How did you feel when you came within five feet of my front door and took the sign, along with the American flag that was attached to it?
Do you mistake my patriotism for a lack of respect for our troops? If so, you are wrong. I am thankful for and value the individuals that serve in the military. That is why I will fight to bring them home alive and not see their lives squandered in a senseless war that the world community is against. At first glance, the theft of our sign may appear as a simple prank. Yet, it tugs at something much deeper inside of me. I work with refugees, or people who have a well founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular group or political opinion, many of them victims of torture for voicing their beliefs. Thankfully, we still live in a country where free speech is a right. We will not be silenced or intimidated by your actions toward us or our personal property.
Maria Ruud
Minnetonka |
Ruud supports our troops like an arsonist "supports" firefighters. She cannot say that she supports our troops without supporting the mission that they are fighting and dying for. Ruud has even flown to Washington D.C. to personally protest the U.S. presence in Iraq . . . .
 Democrats in pictures . . . .
Are the people who organize these protests patriotic? Do they represent Minnetonka and Eden Prairie values? To get an idea of the kind of people who appear at such protests, please check out the following links:
 Photos were taken from the Global day of action rally in San Francisco in March 2006.
Photos from the "Stop Killing Palestinian Children" rally in Berkeley, CA, June 2006.
Photos were taken from the San Francisico "World Can't Wait" anti-Bush rally in 2005.
A textbook example of the biased coverage the major media has given to the anti-American protests in Washington in 2005.
Photos taken from various anti-War rallies around the country.
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