Taking a Left Turn Toward Hatred: Anti-War or Anti-American?

CBN News at CBN.com ^ | March 6, 2003 | Paul Strand

[KriegerGeist]

ANTI-AMERICANISM
Taking a Left Turn Toward Hatred: Anti-War or Anti-American?
By Paul Strand
Washington Correspondent
March 6, 2003

America has ended up with the strange spectacle of some who call themselves liberals taking the side of the most authoritarian, anti-liberal leaders on earth, simply because those are the present opponents of America.

CBN.com – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In recent months, hundreds of thousands of Americans have marched against the likely war with Iraq. But some believe those protestors are actually marching against their own country, and that they are led by hardcore leftists who truly hate America.

This anti-Americanism has led some people who call themselves liberals to side with unmistakably illiberal dictators and terrorists.

Here is how some Americans have been talking about their own country and leaders at recent anti-war demonstrations.

"George Bush is a liar. We're against this war," one protest leader shouted through a bullhorn.

Another protestor said, "We've backed horrible dictators, we've backed horrible regimes. And it's really just created hate."

One marcher chanted, "Bush and Rumsfeld, you can't hide. We charge you with genocide."

"It's about the ruling class that exploits this country and the rest of the world," one protestor said.

Another claimed, "...Our imperative to dominate the entire planet..."

Some even go so far as to call the U.S. "aggressive" and "Nazi-like." And they are blaming America for many of the world's sins, including even the terrorism that slammed America on 9/11.

LINK to complete article

[KC_Conspirator]

Hate America filth. They may have the right to spew this hateful bile, but we have the right to crticize them and react to it.

[talleyman]

Milk of human kindness Bump

(so unlike those hate-filled lefties)

[KC_Conspirator]

And what hateful bile is that? When you carry signs that call our President a "Hitler", but have nothing to say bad about Saddam, or if you carry around anti-Semitic signs like you see at every one of these rallies, then thats not a whole lot of love of country, now is it?

[Conspiracy Guy]

Now, now, let's not criticize the protestor, we don't want to challenge their freedom of speech with our freedom of speech. They'll go Pee Wee on us and start yelling " I know you are but what am I?" These guys are dangerously intelligent.

[Republicus2001]

I find that the Maoists speech is hateful, hurtful and I'm offended. I demand Big Hollywood's Jack Valenti hold a press conference to denounce that which I find desensitizing - i.e. Bush is a Nazi, moron, unelected,etc. Oh! but if you put some money in one of my funds I wouldn't be as offended.

[f.Christian]

Pratically everyone is anti war ... so what --- we need leadership --- this axis of evil and thier dupes taken out !

[HumanaeVitae]

Every whacko leftist I've ever known has had issues with their parents. I think that has a heck of a lot more to do with their "political positions" than anything else...

[robowombat]

This is an excellent article. One area it doesn't illuminate and which generally is missed in describing what passes for thought among the left is a soapy sort of unilateral pacifism that much or the social democrat-socialist embraces. While the Trotskyites certainly have no objections to shooting at the 'class enemy' thier useful idiot allies among the SD parties collectively have a nervous breakdown at the prospect of armed force being used.
This first became blatant during the Falklands War. Now aside from pre-Mandela South Africa it would be difficult to find a regime that combined so many of the the things good Laborites should hate than that of the Argentine military junta. Brutal, corrupt, hyper-nationalist, anti-semetic, Argentina's military government was all of those things and embraced economic and philosophical beliefs that could make calling it fascist technically accurate. So what did the Laborites do as the British armed forces gathered themselves and set off for the long slog to a doubtful battlefield in the South Atlantic. Call for britain to make toppling the junta a national objective? Cheer on the soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Queen as they undertook their arduous endeavor? Call for Britons of all persuations to unite in the struggle against an odious foe? Are you kidding? The Labor Party led by the unbelieveable Michael Foot went into a collective swoon over the horror of it all.
From the tenor of the hypertrophied rhetoric issueing from the Labor side one could have been forgiven if they thought another Battle of the Somme was impending amid the ice bergs and fogs of the South Atlantic. The chant that 'war changes nothing' was taken up as a virtual chorus on the left and HM's government from PM Thatcher down through the armed forces were denounced in language that would have been appropriate to direct at say NAZI Germany attacking Denmark and Norway. Some of the shrieking may have been politically motivated but it was clear to me that the socialist left has big time problems with any display of force or even decisiveness by thier governments.

When the liberal left finally did find an enemy they could embrace attacking in the NATO crusade for Albanian democracy the same attitudes constantly appeared. Units departing for the land force buildup from NATO countries were instructed to make sure their departure was as quiet as possible. Since NATO regularly released info on the buildup to impress the Serbs this wasn't for security reasons. The real tip off came when RNAF in combat for the first time since the Indonesian Revolt shot down a couple MIGs in air to air combat. The Dutch initially paintted victory roundels on the tailfins of the f-16's that bagged the MIGs. Immediately blistering directives issued from the Hague to remove the markins along with a strident missive that such militaristic displays were absolutely verbotten. It was all right to bomb the hell out of Serb civilians but having airman display a just reguard for thier military skills was unspeakable.

The left saps can't stand force, displays of curage, sheer old fashioned guts, or anything that abets such retrograde attitudes. This feeds the odd crusade against self defense measures and the positively irratiuonal phobias about guns, hunting, and most team sports. Much of the left is not only politically toxic but arrant cowards and proud of it.

[Republicus2001]

you are offensive -
oops
sorry didn't mean to hurt your feelings

[Redleg Duke]

Yep...hide behind the Grammas and Grampas...you are breaking my heart, Forbin!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

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[KC_Conspirator]

Well, I can only speak from experience. At the local protests there are a few vets and decent people, while the overwhelming majority of those at the protests are exactly as I described them - hateful people who came off campus or from their drug den to hold up "Bush is a terrorist" signs. I frequent the local protest area here because I live right by it and see it every week. And as far as the anti-semitism goes, I have seen signs with Sharon dressed up as the devil and Jews called money grubbers and even the age old blood libel.

B1 Bob Dornan made the same conclusion when he went to the DC protest.

[skeeter]

Flynn said, "I've been attacked at rallies like this for speaking out on these issues. For instance, at Berkeley, I was the subject of a bookburning... They mooned me when I spoke. Protestors rushed the stage, tried to rip the microphone cord out of the wall, shouted me down."

Unwashed brownshirt punks.

May they one day get the fight they're so desperately seeking.