Tubular TV Show 13: Lafayette Iraq War Memorial

Scott stumbles upon a hill of fatalities marked by crosses. We revisit Lafayette's Iraq War Memorial after first visiting 6 months ago, and interview the originator of the installation, Jeff Heaton. We also interview two volunteers working to maintain the memorial who share their views and experiences at the citizen made war memorial.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• lafayette
• iraq
• war
• memorial
• crosses
• activism
• anitwar
• peace
• greenday
• offspring
• patriotism
• protest
• death

[thisisnotleewolf]

Why people ignore Louise Clark's ties to the Black Panthers? And Jeff Heaton's support for Communist rebel Che Guevara? If this was simply put up to memorialize the troops that is one thing, but these people wish to use dead soldiers to push a radical political ideology.

[MediaSpinner]

Let's please reveal your sources behind these two accusations before jumping to conclusions that the allegations have been ignored. It is clear you have a radical political ideology as well: the dangerous kind that has places US soldiers and National Guard troops into Iraq.

[thisisnotleewolf]

You're accusing me of jumping to conclusions by calling me a radical? It's now obvious to me why this video only has 205 hits. To verify one accusation you can simply look at the back of the red SUV one the organizers drives. There you'll find bumper stickers in support of Che Guevara. Louise Clark registered peace and freedom party which is openly socialist, voter reg info is public record. Do some hard news instead of this softball bullshit and maybe you'll get more hits.

[MediaSpinner]

Thanks for the advice. Supporting YouTube popularity contests is not what I'm about. Good luck competing with James K or whatever your vain cause seems to be.

[thisisnotleewolf]

Interesting how, rather than address the clear evidence i've presented, you instead attack me as "vain." When you say "Supporting YouTube popularity contests is not what i'm about." what you really mean is "This video is crappy content that no one will watch, but rather than admit that i'll act like I don't care."

[MediaSpinner]

We went to the Memorial area and shot the video as it happened. We cared enough to document what was going on there. Sorry we didn't snoop people's bumper stickers, or whatever it is you seem to be demanding of us. We're a small group without customer service at this time. It is you who visited here and began this "attack", so do not try and remove yourself from responsibility or reverse th accountability as so many Republicans tend to do. You do play strange games, don't you?

[thisisnotleewolf]

Perhaps I should have simply worded my thoughts as a statement rather than a question. Before you're colleague attacked me for my alleged "radical" politics, I was simply asking the question of anyone who would respond, why are people ignoring the aforementioned realities about the memorial's organizers? The memorial is designed to exploit the deaths of these soldiers to push their leftists ideology, and I think that should be reported.

[Fingersallabout]

Hey thisisnot, listen up:

As the guy who hosted this segment, let me just inform you that Spinner said it perfectly - we simply went and shot the video as it happened and moved us...nothing more, nothing less. It happened to be that the people who were there that day felt strongly about a cause, we caught that feeling and showed it. If I remember correctly, this IS youtube, NOT network news. But thank you for your enthusiasm.

[thisisnotleewolf]

Yea imagine "snooping" around for information, it's called journalism, you should try it sometime. By the way, I initially attacked THEM not you. It was not until you attacked me with this gem, "It is clear you have a radical political ideology" that i then went on the offensive. Fabricating facts to fit your argument, how progressive.

[thisisnotleewolf]

Your story makes it seem like these are just a bunch of moderate people who want to memorialize soldiers, and i'm telling you thats not the case. They're radicals. If you choose to report that it's your business, but clearly you're not interested in any kind of balanced reporting.