Website review: The Progresive -
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14Peacenow rated 7 months ago- Man Who Flies Flag Upside Down Gets a Brick Through His Truck Window and a Rock Through His Daughter's Bedroom Window December 14, 2007 By Matthew Rothschild Mark Karol-Chick lives in the small town of St. Helens, Oregon, about thirty miles north of Portland. The day after Kerry lost the election to Bush, Mark decided to fly his flag upside down as a sign that our democracy is in distress. "Our country is going down, and going down fast," he recalls thinking. "Our democracy is being stolen left and right by people who have no idea what democracy stands for." It didn't take long for things to turn ugly. "A couple of days later, someone came up onto my porch in the middle of the night and cut up a portion of the flag," he says. "Not long after that, someone came and stole the whole flag altogether." So he got a new one and flew it higher from a planter box in a windowsill upstairs. Unable to reach the flag, vandals started to egg Mark's truck and his wife's van, which have political signs on them, including a "Bush/Orwell 1984" sticker. This went on for months and months, he says. "People would leave nasty notes on our windshields, like, `If you don't love your country, leave it.' " Mark's teenage son got threats at high school. "One of the larger hicks in town confronted him and said, `Hey, I don't like your flag. That's pretty fucked up.' And a group quickly surrounded him, but fortunately a teacher broke it up, Mark says. A while later, when his son was walking down the sidewalk, another student pulled his truck onto the sidewalk and, according to Mark, said, "One of these days we're going to burn your house down." On the night of May 22, 2006, they heard a crashing noise in their driveway. "My son said, `Did you hear that?' And I said, `Yeah, what was that?' And my son said, `I don't know, but I see three people running away.' " Mark and his son went outside to look around. "It was raining very hard," says Mark, "and I didn't see anything, so I said, `Things seem fine. We'll take a look in the morning.' " When he got up the next day and went outside he discovered what had made the noise. "Sure enough, a brick had been thrown through the back window of my truck," he says. "Written on one side of the brick was, `Fix your flag.' On the other side: `Love it or leave it.' " He reported the incident to the police, who came out but didn't find the culprits. After that, there were some minor incidents, Mark says. But he also says he's received support from a woman in the National Guard and a former Marine, both of whom came by the house to wish him well. But last month, at 1:00 in the morning on November 10th, someone hurled a huge rock through his daughter's upstairs bedroom window. "We heard a large crash," he says. "I thought a cat had knocked something over." He got up and checked things out. "I noticed there was a big gaping hole in my daughter's bedroom window," he says. "The rock weighed about five to six pounds. My daughter hasn't caused any kind of a squabble. She's thirteen. Thankfully, she was sleeping downstairs at the time." This rattled Mark. "I was worried about my family, and I was shaking with anger," he says. "And the first thing I thought was, tomorrow I'm going to go take the flag down and take all the signs off my truck and the van." But his wife convinced him not to, he says. "That's what they want us to do," she told him. "We're fine." Again, they called the police out to investigate. Mark says the police officer "was beside himself that someone in this community would do something like that." "Our officers went out to answer his complaints and did the investigations at the scene," says Lieutenant Terry Moss of the St. Helens Police Department. "We h
- antifascista rated 17 months ago
- Calls its self liberal and progressive, but supports Israel's inhuman and aggressive policies in Palestine. So in reality, they are not a left-wing magazine.
- skipp0023 rated 25 months ago
- I've read the magazine and website for a few years now. The new site design sucks, but it's one of the best sources for leftwing opinion.
- kalitime rated 27 months ago
- The Progressive Magazine - A leading voice for peace and social justice since 1909.
- pthemusicgod1 rated 27 months ago
- One sure fire way to only get one point of view, and to be wrong a lot is to not allow anonymous posting, and to put up barriers keeping the anonymous internet user from posting immediately. Sure they probably allow you to get an account and post, but sometimes people just don't want to go through that much trouble to correct someone; and this leaves a bias trial that people who are just slightly off base are left uncorrected if their error in reasoning falls into the side of the political spectrum that the forum takes place to support. KULT had similar problems. It also keeps a lot of spam out, so there's a tradeoff, but this website looks like it's big enough to handle spam in other ways.
- absquatulate rated 28 months ago
- I'm ashamed to say that I'd never heard of the Progressive until I stumbledupon it. It's in my bookmarks now and I'll read over the headlines every day.
- I'm ashamed to say that I'd never heard of the Progressive until I stumbledupon it. It's in my bookmarks now and I'll read over the headlines every day.
- Mustang-Kev rated 30 months ago
- Progressive. Another name for Socialist Democrats.
- Truff rated 31 months ago
- The Progressive. A leading socialist propoganda machine since 1909.
- Sealight rated 32 months ago
- The writer(s) of this magazine have objective-rectidus. This disorder begins as a mental disorder called Liberalism and ends with both eyes full of shit.
