How Fox News is Helping to Nationalize the GI Sanctuary Movement
"We’ve got to figure out a way to show those AWOL soldiers some…some…compassion.”
Gene Marx, CounterPunch.org
You just never know how your day is gonna go; like last Monday (June 15), at o-dark-thirty, cruising down the interstate, straight into the belly of the beast. And that was just the start. It all started with a weekend (June 13-14) call from Fox News, asking if I’d take the liberal side in a debate on their morning show Fox and Friends. Innocent enough, except that the producer was looking to serve me up to their cave dwelling demographic as red meat, a Veterans for Peace member and co-sponsor of Bellingham, Washington’s GI Sanctuary City Movement.
It’s just good clean fun, you see, to gang up on a lefty over coffee. Taking the other side of the issue, our county GOP Chairwoman and Anne Coulter BFF – who ended up being a no-show, by the way.
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Sanctuary City, Bellingham, WA
The people of Bellingham are calling for an ordinance that will provide legal sanctuary for member s of the military who exercise their duty to object to an illegal war. To that end, we hope to have grassroots community effort to urge City Council to pass resolutions to not waste public funds on the arrest or detention of service members who are absent without leave.
