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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.

Milk of human kindness Bump

(so unlike those hate-filled lefties)

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.

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...

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.

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.