Gathering of Eagles - North Carolina

Ms. Peters,

I am a State student, a member of Gathering of Eagles, an a member of the North Carolina Army National Guard who has served in Bosnia and Iraq in my career. I was at that rally yesterday and feel the need to give more to this story than you did. I'm sure your quotes from the captain of the police department are accurate but what you didn't report is that GOE wasn't on private property other than to park our vehicles. We were on the sidewalk. We were there long before SDS showed up, getting our support from the people of Chapel Hill in the form of car honks, waves, and thumbs up. We were told by the police officers, via Tony Stevenson, that we could be anywhere on the sidewalk until SDS showed up and then we had a point we had to back up to and they had a point that they could come up to. They didn't come up that way. They turned the corner like the cowards they are and went up the back way and they tried to get on the property that the recruiting station is on.
Their website, http://chapelhillsds.org/node/1330 says that the rally would end with "creative action." Previous "creative action" has resulted in three paint vandalism attacks on military facilities in Chapel Hill in the last year, once at the ROTC office and twice on this very recruiting station.
An Attack on the ROTC
News Observer Article

That is violent behavior. (Hope you are reading this, too Miles Holst. Past behavior shows who is really violent and GOE members don't get arrested.) The police officers then informed us that we could go around the block and counter the moonbats from SDS. We did. We yelled them down and they turned their frail little bodies around and went straight to the bus stop and left. We hung around a little while and many of us got handshakes from the fine officers of the Chapel Hill Police Department that you said "warned" us, the same ones that escorted SDS down Franklin Street.

For Daniel Foster...I'm not sure which one of those moonbats was you, but if just one of the officers, even the smallest female, had assaulted you, you wouldn't be able to even type your letter today.

And for Miles Holst...if you really support troops, how do you reconcile that statement with the fact that your rally was organized by Kosta Harlan, notable for his article "The Iraqi Resistance is Just, and Should be Supported" in which he brags of increased attacks on US soldiers as a sign of the strength of the resistance. He has traveled to Iran and personally met with members of the Iraqi insurgency.
The article can be found here: asheville.indymedia.org

That recruiting station is not a backdoor draft. No one is making you enlist. In case you hadn't noticed, it IS a free country. You may have noticed that no one was at the recruiting station. My hope is that is was because the recruiters were with men and women who have enlisted at the Military Entrance Processing Station, [Chuck's hopefull assumption is 100% correct. ~Bubba] so little boys and girls like SDS could protest. Your beef is not with Soldiers, it is with the U.S. government, so leave us alone you mean old troop supporter, you.

Our message is clear. We will have peace when we win the war against jihadists who have declared war on us and the entire western world for that matter. For those who say the US brought this on ourselves, I would ask them to explain the Islamic attacks on places such as Bali, Tunisia, Argentina, Spain and others. I would also ask NCSU ROTC students and veterans to check out http://gatheringofeagles.org/.

Respectfully,
Charles Phillips