Trijicon Company scope article

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My friend sent this to me. I don't know who has read it and/or watched the accompanying video, but it's good.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100122/ts_nm/us_usa_security_gunscopes

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I think that verse should be on every shell that lands on their Islamic Jihad buttock!

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Another instance of coddling muslim sensitivity.

They gotta be laughing their jihadist butts off.

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I sent an email to Stephen Binden yesterday in support of them. Tonight it was reported on foxnews that they are voluntarily removing the reference from future production. And, they are providing kits to the military to remove it from existing sights.

I understand that their contract is worth around $60,000,000, but I would have told them to buy ACOGs somewhere else.

Oh that's right, there isn't anywhere else.

Coddling the muslims.

Why is islam exempt from critical analysis?

http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/JasonPappas40401.htm

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Peaceful Muslims...:uhoh:

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I'm a Born-Again Christian. I believe that if we allow mosques to built at the rate they are being built here, then we should certainly be allowed to inscribe Scripture on the items we build here to ship there. It's ridiculous and laughable that the officials on the videos were offended.

There. I feel better.:celebrate

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I too am a Born again Christian.

screw trijicon. ..cowards

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Without starting a religious flame thread, I don’t feel like I want tax dollars being spent on such items that promote specific religious affiliations through our armed forces, or any government faction for that matter.

Albeit seventy percent of the US population is of some varying degree of Christian religiously, the official religion of the United States is still freedom of religion and separation of church and state.

Purchasing these scopes via government contract and tax dollars knowingly suggests we are officially something as a nation we are not. Furthermore, it mildly suggests, not just to Muslims, but to the international community of sheeple at large that these are potentially religious wars with hidden agendas which undermine our true intentions which I think is to just stay safe defensively by executing a good offense.

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Let them buy their ACOGs from China. Trijicon is a private company. (That caved for the almighty dollar.) They're not funded by the government. The government is buying their product. The exact same one that you or I can chose to purchase or not. If the government doesn't want ithe subtle inscriptions then their TDP should've specified that. But again the point is moot because Trijicon caved.

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Right, I get the private company and right to buy or not buy thing as I do that the point is now relatively moot because Trijicon is undoing their bad. But, I would want to know if the gov't knew of these subtle inscriptions before the deal was struck or if it slipped under the radar by accident or design.

Is this common practice for Trijicon products or was this done for this specific contract?

Trijicon should have caved, and the fact that they did makes me believe the egg mostly belongs on thier face (aside from the pressure they received from the gov't to cave).

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Trijicon has been marking their sights like this for 40 years.

Some liberal pinhead just noticed this week.

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Remember it is freedom OF religion, Not freedom from religion! The way I see it is that is my tax money so I might want to exercise my right to religion & want my fellow soldiers to have scope with the love of Jesus on it. If the soldiers ok with it, I'm ok with it.

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Well, then I stand corrected and you are right. While I continue to believe it should not have happened on government/taxpayer contracted items, the egg should be on the government's face for not stipulating that in their contract requirements or for not realizing this could become a potential issue down the road as it has. You are also right...Trijicon caved.

I was not familiar with the practice myself.

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Am I going to have to remove the cross I see when I look in my scope now?

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Ethan_Frome wrote:

Without starting a religious flame thread, I don’t feel like I want tax dollars being spent on such items that promote specific religious affiliations through our armed forces, or any government faction for that matter.

Albeit seventy percent of the US population is of some varying degree of Christian religiously, the official religion of the United States is still freedom of religion and separation of church and state.

Purchasing these scopes via government contract and tax dollars knowingly suggests we are officially something as a nation we are not. Furthermore, it mildly suggests, not just to Muslims, but to the international community of sheeple at large that these are potentially religious wars with hidden agendas which undermine our true intentions which I think is to just stay safe defensively by executing a good offense.

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I too don't want this to turn to a religious thread, but I must correct you. There is no such phrase that you speak of...Separation of Church & state. Please if your going to bring this Liberal speak up you need to point out that what was meant by this term ( that does not exist any where in the Constitution) is that Govt. (not Military I mean Politicians) not force any one religion on us, or restrict, any one religion. Nobody forced us to buy those scopes, nobody forced men to join the army, and no one is being forced thru threat of beheading to follow any one religion. Besides who gives a F... what an evil enemy thinks about our Agenda. We are the good guys, they are the bad guys, they don't count, and neither do there feelings, or their opinions of us. Sorry rant over! "this thread is clean"

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This war is not a Crusade.

But, it is a crusade.

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conservative85 wrote:

Ethan_Frome wrote:

Without starting a religious flame thread, I don’t feel like I want tax dollars being spent on such items that promote specific religious affiliations through our armed forces, or any government faction for that matter.

Albeit seventy percent of the US population is of some varying degree of Christian religiously, the official religion of the United States is still freedom of religion and separation of church and state.

Purchasing these scopes via government contract and tax dollars knowingly suggests we are officially something as a nation we are not. Furthermore, it mildly suggests, not just to Muslims, but to the international community of sheeple at large that these are potentially religious wars with hidden agendas which undermine our true intentions which I think is to just stay safe defensively by executing a good offense.

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I too don't want this to turn to a religious thread, but I must correct you. There is no such phrase that you speak of...Separation of Church & state. Please if your going to bring this Liberal speak up you need to point out that what was meant by this term ( that does not exist any where in the Constitution) is that Govt. (not Military I mean Politicians) not force any one religion on us, or restrict, any one religion. Nobody forced us to buy those scopes, nobody forced men to join the army, and no one is being forced thru threat of beheading to follow any one religion. Besides who gives a F... what an evil enemy thinks about our Agenda. We are the good guys, they are the bad guys, they don't count, and neither do there feelings, or their opinions of us. Sorry rant over! "this thread is clean"

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Respectfully, I understand that “separation of church and state” can not be found anywhere in The Constitution verbatim, but it has been implied by the likes of Jefferson and Madison an has been intimated as such by the high court many times over and deserves, I feel, more consideration than to be disregarded as “liberal speak” in this instance.

I would think that if you can’t use a public school to hold prayer, or display the 10 Commandments on government property, then the government shouldn’t be purchasing rifle scopes with Christian scripture engraved on them with the taxpayers’ money for military use in religiously sensitive wars. It’s a resource sponsored endorsement by the government of one religion over others. I’m open to the possibility of being wrong, but that’s just the way I see it at this point.

I would also like to add that I too could give a rat’s behind about what our enemies think of our agendas. My remarks about perceived hidden agendas specifically mentioned not only Muslims, but the world community at large. I think it’s important to make that distinction that it is not the Muslims that we are at war with. We are at war with terrorists who happen to be Islamic extremists that have distorted understandings of the Qur’an which are a threat to the United States.

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It merely means that Barry Hussein cannot tell me to bow before Islam, and he cannot restrict me from bowing before Christ. It merely means that the school cannot tell my son to bring a bible to school, & the school cannot tell him not to bring one. It is a neutral position that they hold.
We can have a Christian president, or we can have an Atheist. The church and state issue Jefferson spoke of was the same it was in a letter written to another private person. It holds no argumentative value in the 1st Amendment.
This scope issue is null & void, I have as much right maybe more as a tax payer to have that on my rifle as a soldier as the next tax payer who don't want it simply because this country is a Freedom OF religion, Not Freedom FROM religion.
As a tax payer (Not a Govt. Entity) with the right to Free speech, & Religion I can have a rifle with the saying on it. If there is a soldier who don't want it then it is up to HIM to complain, But I'll be DAMN if I am going to let some third rate country ruled By the Sword of SATAN, make the rules in this War. If we loose this war it will mean our way of life is lost and for what PC! Rant over!...lol

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I just want to clarify some thing. We are a freedom of...Means as a Tax Payer I can choose to engage in the free exercise or not. If I am an atheist I actually don't have a right protected by the constitution to force others to not practice religion.

Plus if Atheist don't believe, if they think it is all made up & not real...Then why does it bother them? Unless maybe there is an Agenda behind it Hmmm

I don't want to force my belief on anyone, but at the same time I don't want anyone denying me my right to exercise a freedom. Like I said if the soldier has a problem with the verse then I could see an Argument, but to have them taken of all scopes would be denying other people who may want it. Surly the Enemy has no say!

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Freedom of religion.

Not freedom from religion.

And... they're not islamic extremist that have distorted the quoran. They are islamic fundamentalists that have studied the quaran extensively and have a keen understanding of its principles, its doctrine, and the application of that doctrine and principles.