Post #142,640
2/21/04 12:10:50 PM
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Girl Scout cookie boycott urged
People in Waco were more than a bit taken aback after turning on a Christian radio station and hearing a community leader call for a boycott of Thin Mints and Caramel deLites.
"I encourage you to join me in abstaining from Girl Scout cookies," John Pisciotta, director of Pro-Life Waco and an associate professor of economics at Baylor University, has been saying for two weeks in public-service announcements running around the clock on KBDE/89.9.
Pisciotta then says the Waco-based Bluebonnet Council of Girl Scouts supports Planned Parenthood's annual sex education seminars.
The vaguely worded radio announcements are the latest and most public attempt by the group to discourage the Girl Scouts from even a casual affiliation with Planned Parenthood, an international organization that promotes reproductive freedom and provides health care services related to reproduction.
[link|http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2413650|source] lincoln
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Post #142,641
2/21/04 12:22:05 PM
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Are the cookies made from real Girl Scouts?
1. Is a boycott unethical?
2. Are calls by a religious leader for a boycott unethical?
3. Under what circumstances is a call by a religious leader for a boycott unethical?
Seems to me that under certain conditions (racist policies being one instance), that all three of these questions can easily be answered yes. So the question is not whether you agree with the idea of the right to boycott, but whether you agree that the target is worthy or not.
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Post #142,649
2/21/04 1:37:55 PM
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I disagree with the boycott
1. because of the reasoning behind it.
There are far too many organizations in the US that feel that they have the right to force their morals upon everyone else. As is happening so frequently with any organization that has even a miniscule relationship with Planned Parenthood, they get targeted by groups who want to regulate your sexual activities and "make you pay" for not doing "it their way". By having sex "your way" and getting counseling from Planned Parenthood for undesirable and unplanned consequences later, you're violating the "rules" as designated by these "morality police". [link|http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-12-05/pols_feature.html|Go here to read about how harassment and boycotts have targeted the construction crews building an Austin, TX Planned Parenthood" facility].
2. because it hurts the individuals and the local troops.
The girls sell cookies to pay for activites that their troops undertake, such as sleepovers at amusement parks. The girls themselves receive credits that they can use to reduce the costs of going to Girl Scout camps while additionally qualifying for honors (ribbons, plaques, medals, awards ceremonies) that go to high selling Scouts.
lincoln
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Post #142,650
2/21/04 1:42:42 PM
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Re: I disagree with the boycott
It's collectivism - everyone's doing it left and right. Let's all be one big happy exactly defined family.
It's very strange, the most destructive force imaginable, better than bombs, and everyone's doing it.
-drl
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Post #142,651
2/21/04 2:17:47 PM
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You have that right.
And so do they.
"Find the cost of freedom..."
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
It goes in, it must come out.Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law
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Post #142,676
2/21/04 9:23:01 PM
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No, the Girl Scouts outsourced those . .
. . they're now made in China from enslaved Tibetan children.
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Post #143,027
2/24/04 1:41:59 PM
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Boycott guilt trips and parents selling at work.
I buy GSCs once per year, and only from an actual GS. Then I give most of them to a food pantry or something, as I don't think they're all that good at the same time they're addictive. Damn thin mints to HELL!
I am so freaking sick of people selling at work and laying a bunch of guilt bullshit on me if I don't buy them. I once saw 2 women almost come to blows about trying to sell in the break room at the same time. Pathetic, but also hilarious of you knew them...
That's what I don't put up with anymore.
However, reading about the proposed boycott will actually _increase_ my order this year. Just like I bought a Dixie Chicks cd and promply gave it away.
WWJD? JWRTFM.
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Post #143,039
2/24/04 1:55:23 PM
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Two words: Keebler Grasshoppers
[link|http://www.keebler.com/family/cookies/fudgeshoppe.jsp|http://www.keebler.c...s/fudgeshoppe.jsp]
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Post #143,081
2/24/04 3:51:37 PM
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Nah; they can't hold a candle to Crunchy Frog
(obPythonRef)
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Post #143,091
2/24/04 5:07:20 PM
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..lovingly smothered in rich dark chocolate___Mmmmmmmm
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Post #143,140
2/24/04 9:27:41 PM
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STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT
WWJD? JWRTFM.
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Post #144,178
3/2/04 9:43:49 PM
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It was just a digested version of -
We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose..
OK I'll Stop,
but Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition
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Post #143,406
2/26/04 3:13:25 AM
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Peter
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