Joan Baez banned at Walter Reed hospital

[k4kyv]

It appears that Joan Baez would do more harm to wounded soldiers than walter reed has already done.

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,134391,00.html

[n6hcm]

Quote[/b] (k4kyv @ May 04 2007,23:32)]It appears that Joan Baez would do more harm to wounded soldiers than walter reed has already done.

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,134391,00.html
i'd think that the folks at walter reed have more pressing tasks to tend to ... getting picky about the entertainment seems like a waste of time when they have more pressing patient care issues to sort out.

[n4sva]

could it be because of her felonious past and her stint in prison?

[K2WH]

Quote[/b] (n4sva @ May 04 2007,21:29)]could it be because of her felonious past and her stint in prison?
There you go. Now that's what I'm talking about.......!!!

Could it be she's a commie sympathizer or Jane Fonda under a different name.

K2WH

[W3MIV]

Some thirty-five or so years back, the late Al Capp immortalized her as "Joanie Baloney." I don't think she rates the contempt that Jane Fonda earned, but I can understand why military authorities would view her with a similar "fondness."

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[K6UEY]

The hospital management was probably concerned that she woud sing the wounded troops songs about how stupid they were for fighting a war and defending this country.She is quite well known for her Anti-American Pro-Socialist's leanings,(Hell she don't lean she bends over sideways )Let her entertain Nancy Pelosi, and Barbara Boxer, they were all cut from the same bolt of cloth . http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[KI4ITV]

You'll probably never see Siegfried & Roy performing before a PETA rally for the same reasons.
Makes perfect sense to me.

[W3MIV]

Quote[/b] (KI4ITV @ May 05 2007,08:24)]Makes perfect sense to me.
As usual, though, "making sense" has nothing whatever to do with this thread. It is all about "making a point."

All things considered, I much prefer Capp's point to the one that underlay this thread.

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[K9STH]

Now I wonder how many of those who are commenting in this thread even know who Al Capp was?

Hint: Dogpatch

Glen, K9STH

[n2ize]

I can't belive 40 years later we still have conservatives carrying on about Joan Baez and jane Fonda. Then again I shouldn't be surprised the neocons are still trying to pass the Vietnam war off as a legitimate war, they are still trying to sell us the Joe MCCarthy red menace scare, and a few months ago were complaining about gangs of hippies wearing beads and tye dyed shirts protesting the Iraq war. I think the neocons are living a bit behind in the times. Way way behind in the times. Wake up guys, the world has changed a bit since the 1960's.

[n2ize]

Quote[/b] (K2WH @ May 05 2007,04:00)]Quote[/b] (n4sva @ May 04 2007,21:29)]could it be because of her felonious past and her stint in prison?
There you go. #Now that's what I'm talking about.......!!!

Could it be she's a commie sympathizer or Jane Fonda under a different name.

K2WH
Of course. Like Hanoi Jane she dared to disagree with the neocons and their leaders. This is America.Heaven forbid someone should speak their mind.

[w0aew]

Perhaps for real entertainment value, the W could show up at Reed and explain what it was all about.

(They'd better search the troops first for contraband weapons.)

[k4kyv]

I'd bet these guys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmR40Nxvxm4) won't have any trouble being admitted.

[n4sva]

Quote[/b] (n2ize @ May 05 2007,03:44)]Quote[/b] (K2WH @ May 05 2007,04:00)]Quote[/b] (n4sva @ May 04 2007,21:29)]could it be because of her felonious past and her stint in prison?
There you go. #Now that's what I'm talking about.......!!!

Could it be she's a commie sympathizer or Jane Fonda under a different name.

K2WH
Of course. Like Hanoi Jane she dared to disagree with the neocons and their leaders. This is America.Heaven forbid someone should speak their mind.
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[k4kyv]

Quote[/b] (n4sva @ May 05 2007,08:29)]could it be because of her felonious past and her stint in prison?
A felonious past? A stint in prison? she once was detained for a brief period following an act of civil disobedience:
Quote[/b] ]Well today we thought we'd go back in time. Never before has it been so crucial to remember voices of dissent.

We're going to turn to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We'll hear two little-known and hard to get speeches on civil disobedience.

We start with an impromptu speech and press conference he gave outside the Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center in California. He traveled there to visit the famous singer and activist Joan Baez (http://www.joanbaez.com/officialbio05.html). Baez had been imprisoned for blocking the entrance to the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland. After spending over an hour with Baez, King came outside and was met by a couple of hundred supporters. A Pacifica radio journalist recorded his remarks, and we're going to hear them in a few minutes. But first, we thought we'd talk to Joan Baez herself. We spoke with her yesterday and asked her to describe the day she was visited by Martin Luther King Jr. in prison. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0313210

Oh, yes, she was in prison one another time.
http://www.customflix.com/204634

[AE6IP]

In 1995, while I was a patient of the late Dennis Ettare, I met Ms Baez, who was also a patient. I have seen her many times in the dozen years since.

She is an incredible, positive person, and Walter Reed did those soldiers a disservice by not allowing them the opportunity to experience her music in person.

It saddens me to see the same people who easily forgive dubya's "youthful indiscretion" of being a coke head, so unwilling to forgive Ms Baez for having had the courage to stand for what she believes in.

Unlike you, that young woman who made the mistake of traveling to Hanoi has grown up, and grown.

"And if you're offering me diamonds and rust, I've already paid."

[w4rot]

You go girl
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[KI4ITV]

I say we should hold a rally and pronounce the death of the "N" word.
NEOCON
This divisive word is used only to incite scorn and ridicule. You will also find that it is never used internally among conservatives themselves to put down one another, making it a "unapproved" slander and actually not worthy of the letters used to spell it. Anyone who knows anything about words, and I claim to not know anything, will tell you that a word that is not used by the target group is not up to the standards necessary to be of any value at all.

I say we take the time to rid the world of this horribly inefficient word for all of history.
All in favor scream..."All Politicians Suck equally!"
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[KI4ITV]

ROT,
Dude is livin' LARGE!

[w4rot]

Quote[/b] (KI4ITV @ May 05 2007,18:00)]ROT,
Dude is livin' LARGE!
As he should be.
rot

[n2ize]

Quote[/b] (AE6IP @ May 05 2007,14:42)]In 1995, while I was a patient of the late Dennis Ettare, I met Ms Baez, who was also a patient. I have seen her many times in the dozen years since.

She is an incredible, positive person, and Walter Reed did those soldiers a disservice by not allowing them the opportunity to experience her music in person.

It saddens me to see the same people who easily forgive dubya's "youthful indiscretion" of being a coke head, so unwilling to forgive Ms Baez for having had the courage to stand for what she believes in.

Unlike you, that young woman who made the mistake of traveling to Hanoi has grown up, and grown.

"And if you're offering me diamonds and rust, I've already paid."
A friend of mine met Joan Baez and said had basically the same to say of her. She is a wonderful person with positive vibes and great energy who is sincere and cares about people.

As for Jane Fonda she dares to oppose the Vietnam war and she dared to put a human face on the persons being bombed.