Posted on 11/30/2005 5:02:14 AM PST by unionblue83
IT’S AS IF RACHEL CORRIE WERE KILLED BY THE PLO, and her parents blamed Israel, anyway. Yesterday, the previously unknown jihadist group “The Swords of Righteousness Brigade” took hostage four Westerners – including American Tom Fox – for allegedly acting as “undercover spies.” However, all four men belonged to Christian Peacemaker Teams, a “peace” organization of human shields that blamed 9/11 on American foreign policy, ran an “Adopt-a-Detainee” campaign, regularly interfered with Israeli anti-terror operations, trespassed at a U.S. military base during wartime, has waged a relentless propaganda campaign against the American “occupation” of Iraq, has demonstrated against Americans and capitalists around the world – and blames the abduction of its members on President Bush.
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shades of an Italian journalist ...
I'm having a really tough time feeling bad for these idiots. On second thought, I don't feel bad at all.
The CPT’s diverse agendas perfectly illustrate the overlapping currents of the Left, whose sole common thread is hatred of the United States. The insight yesterday’s kidnappings (and its attendant outlandish charges of espionage) provide into the psyche of our common enemy might shake a less ideologically committed entity, but CPT proves it still not gotten the message that there are some forces darker even than the Great Satan. These four CPT activists may soon illustrate another truth: totalitarians always murder their enablers first.
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