Posted on 09/30/2001 5:51:35 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:47:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
If you want to see the current state of the anti-American protest movement, log on to http://www.9-11peace .org/petition.php3. That is how the protest against the Vietnam War might have begun, had the Internet existed at the time.
I first received news of the campaign from Germany, where a producer of the Second German Television Network (ZDF) is leading the charge. It is in the form of a petition to the U.S. government to cease and desist from taking action, and is already posted in six languages. Arabic is not one of them.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
[A grim backdrop as the people sing their little song.]
People on fire, jumping to their deaths from high buildings to end the pain, dead flight attendants with blood spilling from their necks, 'hostages' in planes seeing buildings coming closer and closer at a tremendous rate, a weeping nation on it's knees in prayer, fire fighters and police watching a building collapse on their brethren, runs on gas sations at $5 a gallon, and the knowledge that there will continue to be more of the same in the future. Yet the brain-dead song drones on. Did they sing that song in the airplanes? Dead bodies on a floor stained with gallons of blood? Not a chance. AMERICA WAS IN THOSE PLANES!
> Where he was quite certain, however, was the goal to duplicate the > antiwar movement of the 1960s.
But, of course. I use the youth of America as a sort of contrarian gauge of how well things are. The more the naive and inexperienced gripe and complain, the better things must be. When one sees spoiled rotten children protesting in the streets to "Protect the Rats," you know few legitimate issues remain. I guess the next best thing to a real issue, is re-living and re-hashing the past.
> the youth of the world stood ready, and getting readier every > minute. "We are discussing a number of steps," she said. She > wouldn't tell me who was meant by "we."
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I wish this author would have interviewed David Horowitz, an ex-commie ... a founder of the New Left in the 1960s. Horowitz was even more radical and idealistic than most of the commies that marched yesterday. But, predictably, all that zeal and idealism was tempered by reality once he acquired enough experience to see how things actually worked ... instead of the way he thought things ought to work.
> "It's the progressive forces around the world," Mr. Pariser > explained. Progressive? "Well, it's kind of the Left," he obliged > again with his candor. Because a substantial group in the U.S. > House of Representatives calls itself the "Progressive Caucus," we > close our eyes to the fact that "progressive" is code for those who > subscribe to the agenda of the Socialist International.
They're so progressive, they want to go back to the 1960s.
During these dark days, those who professed peace and to just give a chance were very vocal as the English leaders struggled to keep their country and countrymen alive. That is the background to Orwell's comments and why he made these comments! His 1942 comments are even more appropriate today with the anarchists and other so called peace scum rioting in America! p> In 1942, George Orwell wrote, in Partisan Review, this of Great Britain's pacifists: "Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist.
"This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me."
Replace pro-facist with pro-Arab Mass Murderers and you have Orwell updated to describe Clymers like Ramsey Clark and our so called peace niks and their hatred of America/Americans and their love of America's Enemy's, like the Arab Mass Murderers of 9/11!
Ramsey Clark and these so called peace niks are the real terrorists in America with what he/they have done since Viet Nam and 9/11.
I have seen a few posts here and elsewhere that classify as "hate" speech--but not all that many. (Perhaps FR is not a good measure--most here seem to use their brain.)
But one must ask the question: just exactly WHO is doing all this "hating?"
One group, of course, is BinLadin and his gang--perhaps 1000 total very close to him.
Another is perhaps another (few) thousand (???) in the USA.
The purpose of these demonstrations, of course, is to establish a 'straw man.' Those who wish to see BinLadin executed (or at least in jail forever) are categorized as "haters." It's a wonderful trick, used by propagandists for thousands of years. Not at all dissimilar to the way certain FR posters classify as "anti-Semite" anyone who DARES question US aid to Israel.
Voting here at Free Republic on October 24, 2001 in honor of the United Nations 56th Anniversary.
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