[JohnGalt]

This writer is blatantly ignorant of the pacifist tradition in this country. The post World War One pacifists in the country were distinctly Communists or at the least Communist sympathizers (useful idiots)like Steinbeck and Dalton Trumbo.

When the Stalin signed the non-aggression pact with Hitler, the pacifists were very confused and troubled by the Russian invasion of Poland, but their prayers were answered in June of 1941 when the Wehmarcht invaded the Soviet Union. Suddenly, the pacifists revealed themselves and demanded aid for Uncle Joe through Lend-Lease programs and increased pressure on Japan through embargos. Cleary, there was nothing pacifistic about this bunch save opportunism.

Pacifism is the left wing 'version' of American non-interventionism (America First) that sprung from the Mid-West (Prairie Populism) and a lasting belief that the First World War was caused by Wall Street Bankers (namely, JP Morgan.) Henry Ford claimed it was the 'Jews' and sadly, Lindbergh got caught up in that mode of thinking.

Too lump the too distinct ideologies together, when one was clearly a tool of Joseph Stalin, and the other a homegrown populist response to world events, is to display ignorance.

[Kay Ludlow]

Socialism by that name may be down for the count, but the true proponents have found a home in the environmental movement, where they are pushing for the same end - stict control of humans to save the animals, rather than to improve the human race. The ends are still the same though, and those people are still a danger to our freedom and way of life.