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Title: Fremont farmer plants dead-end message on war in Iraq
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Published: Oct 9, 2007
Author: JENNIFER FEEHAN
Post Date: 2007-10-09 08:34:57 by angle
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'Anti-maze' has kernel of dissent FREMONT - The message hovering over Dave Rimelspach's cornfield is none too subtle. At the end of a straightaway, 200-foot-long path cut into the field is a sign that says, "Iraqi Corn Maze: No Way Out." The "maze" is, quite simply, a dead end. "It's not really a corn maze. It's pretty much a spoof on corn mazes, and I guess it's a political statement too," said Mr. Rimelspach, 52, who opposes the war but said he's "not radical" about it. "How can anybody be for the war?" he asked. "War is not good." Business at corn mazes is good, though, and the owner of Rimelspach Farms and Produce at State Rts. 12 and 53, south of Fremont, said he enjoys poking fun at the corn maze phenomenon. "People spend so much money using GPS systems to design corn mazes. They spend thousands of dollars building them, and we get almost as much attention by doing something simple." In business since 1992, he said he's never built his own real corn maze. "I kind of have more fun doing the anti-corn maze," he said. He mounted the "Iraqi Corn Maze" sign on a forklift so that it would be easy for motorists to see from Route 53. "Real staunch Democrats just love it," Mr. Rimelspach said. "They take it purely as a political thing, not so much a tongue-in-cheek joke. I haven't gotten anything negative yet." Like the hundreds of bright orange pumpkins arranged around his business, he's hoping simply to attract attention. "Different people slow down and stop," he said. "I was a little leery one day when I saw a big black SUV parked there and it kind of looked like CIA."
Dave Rimelspach enjoys poking fun at corn mazes. But he is serious about Iraq, saying 'War is not good.'
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#1. To: angle (#0)
Check with the shareholders of Halliburton, Blackwater, the Carlyle Group, etc. I'm sure they have a somewhat different view. "It's all good" might well be what they would say of the last six years. And here's hoping it lasts another 94, they might toast, at company board meetings.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
#2. To: angle (#0)
"How can anybody be for the war?" he asked. "War is not good."
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