Posted on 01/01/2005 6:29:45 AM PST by kristinn
I don't care what she said, the offical posistion is what will get press:
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Obviously you don't understand what these fascist mean by "the other side" They certainly are not giving 600,000 to the U.S to build schools etc. Since the U.N. is to scared to be in Iraq, we must assume that the money is going to the terrorist linked charities. Not all ais is equal.
I know that and you know that. The problem is they will get away with charchterising it as providing food and medical supplies to widows and orphans.
The left clothes their treason in 'humanitarian' gestures. They gave similar aid to the communists in Latin America in the Eighties.
here's some old stuff (Tuesday, November 7, 2000)on Medea Benjamin:
http://www.usajewish.com/scripts/usaj/paper/Article.asp?ArticleID=991
POSTER CHILD FOR JEWISH LEFT BUSTED FOR NEEDLING FEINSTEIN
We called up the Benjamin campaign in SF and were assured the candidate is a direct descendant of Abraham. This makes the item below the Jewishest story of the 2000 campaign, right next to the Lieberman pick. Go forth now and vote for the lesser of multiples of evils and may God forgive us all in the morning...
Jewish Green Party Senate Candidate Arrested at Feinstein Rally
Medea Benjamin is cited after disrupting a rally for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who was wrapping up her campaign.
SAN FRANCISCO--Medea Benjamin, the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, complained frequently during the campaign that her candidacy has not received the attention it deserved. She finally got noticed Monday night, but maybe not in the way she intended. After disrupting a Democratic campaign rally featuring incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Gov. Gray Davis, she was kicked out of the auditorium and handcuffed by San Francisco police. The incident began after Benjamin and several of her Green Party workers tried to attract Feinstein's attention at the rally, which drew about 150 sign-waving celebrants to the Delancey Street drug treatment foundation.
Several men surrounded the demonstrators and hustled them out a side door into the arms of police, who at times had to carry the candidate when she went limp. Benjamin was taken with two other Green Party workers to a police van and placed in handcuffs. She was cited for disrupting an assembly and trespassing and then released, said Patrolman Steven Ratto.
Benjamin was taken with two other Green Party workers to a police van and placed in handcuffs. She was cited for disrupting an assembly and trespassing and then released, said Patrolman Steven Ratto.
(L.A. Times)
Medea Benjamin
Green Party Rival Mocks Feinstein
Borrowing ideas and slogans from both ends of the past century, Green Party U.S. Senate candidate Medea Benjamin has published a political manifesto and begun running radio ads, one of which makes fun of incumbent U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein's hairstyle.
The ad about Feinstein's hair, titled ``Hair Spray'' in Benjamin's news release, features a male announcer reading a would-be news bulletin:
``This just in from Washington. The National Oceanographic and Space Agency reports that the hole in the ozone layer has doubled in size due to all the hair spray used by Senator Dianne Feinstein over many, many years.''
(SF Chronicle)
Profile of Medea Benjamin
Medea Benjamin is Founding Director of the San Francisco-based human rights organization Global Exchange. Her books, reports and articles have examined global issues of hunger and poverty at home and abroad. Medea worked for ten years as an economist and nutritionist in Latin America and Africa for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Health Organization, and the Swedish International Development Agency to develop more sustainable models of development. She was also a senior analyst with the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) in California, working on poverty and agricultural policy in the United States.
(medeaforsenate.org)
Check out the new thread ....The Jordanians stopped them cold. Guess they know something about them too.
I get really sick of hearing the media describe opponents of U.S. military policy as "peace groups" or "anti-war groups" or "pacifists". Very few of them actually fit those descriptions.
A true pacifist or "peacenik" would oppose ALL military operations and all war activities by any nation or any group using violent means. If someone told me that was their position, I couldn't agree with it but I could at least respect it if they truly believed that all violence is wrong. But if they then started expressing hope that our enemies win, and started calling bloodthirsty terrorists "freedom fighters", I'd dismiss them as pure hypocrites.
That's the problem. Most of these so-called peaceniks are just people who sympathize with the other side. They don't hold some deep philosophical belief that all violence and killing are wrong. They're just using that as a front to undermine our side in a war.
We saw the same thing in Vietnam, where guys like George McGovern would weep and moan about the violence of U.S. military operations and would then praise the murderous Ho Chi Minh as the "George Washington of Vietnam". Joan Baez was at least somewhat consistent but she was the only one. When the Boat People began fleeing Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge began slaughtering the Cambodians, Baez called up Jane Fonda, Abbie Hoffman, Bella Abzug and all the others and suggested they should protest the brutality of those communist regimes. They all hung up on her, basically telling her that violence by enemies of America was justified.
Michael Moore's no pacifist. He just supports the enemy. That's probably true of 99% of the anti-war crowd.
Oh yes. I don't believe anything the MSM reports sorry.
I agree, not primary goal, just immediate goal---from article
Code Pink along with their anti-American friends International ANSWER--whose leader Ramsey Clark is one of Saddam Hussein's defense lawyers--will be protesting President Bush at his Inaugural Parade on January 20
It doesn't matter what you believe.
Code Pink needs to be identified as an organization that offers financial support to terrorists. Their assets should be frozen immediately, and they should be put under investigation.
Instead of viewing highly publicized actions through the lens of the rule of law, those whose job it is to uphold the law are thinking politically. If Fonda et al was never charged, I doubt we'll see anyone in the future. Not treason, anyway.
Oh reeeaaalllly!
What market share of viewers or listeners do you reach ?
You, a racist...? Have these people lost their minds?
Never mind. That was a dumb question...
Don't let 'em get ya down. Keep the faith!
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
"the crap will continue until the JD starts prosecuting these clowns"I agree 100%, but don't expect the JD to do anything. I fear this is a political hot potato that no one is going to touch.
Then stop replying to me and I will do the same. Buh Bye
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