Hate Crime
Topic: Antiwar Movement

They just can't help themselves.

Oh, sure, antiwar activists have tried to present a moderate face to the world. For the troops, against the war—that's their marketing strategy. But gather them together in a large mob, hand them signs, and their venomous hatred of America bursts forth:

The principal sponsor of the demonstration was United for Peace and Justice, a coalition of 1,400 antiwar groups led by the veteran Communist operative Leslie Cagan. Marching alongside the UFJP were representatives of World Can’t Wait, a scarcely disguised front for the Revolutionary Communist Party. No stranger to militant tactics, the WCW in 2005 staged a day of “society-wide resistance” aimed at toppling the Bush administration but succeeding largely in stalling traffic in select cities.

Also present at this weekend’s rally was Medea Benjamin, the founder of antiwar group Code Pink and one of the main architects of the 1999 protests in Seattle wherein rampaging anti-globalization activists burned cars, smashed windows and generally sowed disorder in a failed bit to shut down a conference of the World Trade Organization. For her part, Benjamin hailed the riots, which caused millions of dollars in property damage, as “a battle cry.” In this company, it’s little wonder that some demonstrators felt free to mount their charge.

 

Against the war? Against America and all it stands for would be more accurate. They don't want to "stop the war." They want to see America defeated.

 

(Hat tip: FrontPageMag.com)

America First, Jr.
Topic: Antiwar Movement

In an article for the American Spectator, Jeffrey Lord points out the similarities between today's antiwar movement and a certain organization of which the late Charles Lindbergh was a prominent member:

Here's a test. When were the following said, and by whom?

"The greatest danger to this country lies in their (the Jews) large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our Government."

"The issue we are dealing with in the...administration is dual loyalties-the double allegiance of those myriad officials at high and middle levels who cannot separate U.S. Interests from Israeli interests....they honestly do not know whether their own passion...is motivated primarily by America-first patriotism or is governed first by a desire to secure Israel's safety..."

The first was said by a prominent member of the pre-World War II "America First Committee," an organization that was fanatically dedicated to isolationism and keeping America out of any involvement in European or Asian struggles. The date: September 11, 1941.

The second is a column posted in the MoveOn.org "MoveOn Bulletin" of May 9, 2003. The piece was entitled "A Rose by Another Name" and was written in 2002 by two former CIA political analysts.

Isn't that interesting? I confess that the America First/MoveOn.org connection never occurred to me, but the more I think about it. . .

Fast Times
Topic: Antiwar Movement
Cindy Sheehan and company are fasting for peace in Iraq, a strategy that no doubt will soften the hearts and minds Islamofascisat terrorists everywhere. However, the fasting protesters are being careful not to impair their future ability to wave signs and spout nonsensical slogans:

. . .supporters, including Penn, Sarandon, novelist Alice Walker and actor Danny Glover will join a 'rolling" fast, a relay in which 2,700 activists pledge to refuse food for at least 24 hours, and then hand over to a comrade.

A whole 24 hours without food! That's sure to impress people in Zimbabwe and Darfur!

Four antiwar activists—Sheehan, comedian Dick Gregory, former army colonel Ann Wright and environmental campaigner Diane Wilson—are have pledged to maintain an open-ended fast. Christ, a former Army colonel. What a disgrace to the uniform.

Cindy Fasts for Genocide
Topic: Antiwar Movement
I see that Cindy Sheehan is about to disgrace herself and the memory of her fallen son with another lame publicity stunt: a two-month fast for peace in Iraq.

Oh, wait, allow me to correct myself on one point. Cindy isn't exactly fasting for peace. She's fasting for mass murder. That's the likely outcome if the the United States were to abandon Iraq now, and everybody knows it. Probably even Cindy Sheehan knows it, dumb as she is. But who cares? As long as Cindy and her pals can stick a finger in the eye of Chimpy McBushitler, who cares how many Third World creeps get killed?

So Long, Ward
Topic: Antiwar Movement
The antiwar mob suffered a setback recently when the University of Colorado announced its intention of firing Ward Churchill.

Churchill, you'll recall, is the charlatan academic whose description of the 9/11 victims as "little Eichmanns" ignited a media firestorm. This, of course, would never have been enough in itself to get him ejected from his tenured faculty position, but once the spotlight was on him, it didn't take long for the world to learn that Ward Churchill is a lame fake.

Churchill certainly won't be missed by the University of Colorado, which has been humiliated by the revelation of his academic fraud. (How this slug ever managed to worm his way into a tenured faculty position at a major university is indeed an interesting question.) But there's no doubt that he'll find his defenders, loud, profane and obscene, in the progressive ranks. After all, Ward Churchill is their kind of guy.

Their True Colors
Topic: Antiwar Movement
What's the big headline this morning over at the Huffington Post?

Murtha: “We Cannot Win This...It Is A Civil War...Al Qaeda Is A Small Part Of This”...

That's Rep. John Murthra, the former Marine whose latest career move was to throw his fellow Marines under the bus, convicting them of atrocities without all the fuss and bother of an investigation and a trial.

Murthra's moronic comments and the big play that they receive in the progressive blogosphere are symptomatic of the moral and intellectual corruption that has infected liberalism and , by extension, the Democratic Party. When the salutary elimination of a notorious terrorist elicits comments like this from a progressive, you know that the movement's in trouble:

With all that has been learned about religious fanaticism, America should begin an era dedicated to the eradication of religious influence of government here in the U.S. of A.

Devoutly religious people are the most dangerous people in the world. America, because we are not yet under the total influence of religiouse fanatics (Falwall, Robertson) should begin taking steps to reduce the influence of religion in the U.S. of A.

So let's whip up a jihad against religious belief right here at home. Good one.

Granted, this is only one comment from an individual who may have been dropped as a baby, but it's not that far from the HP-style progressive mainstream.

There are indeed some sick, sick people on the Left.

A Sad Day for Some
Topic: Antiwar Movement
Rumor has it that later today, a wake will be held at the Huffington Post for the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Word is that HP denizens are already speculating about the possibility that Chimpy McBushitler and Gauleiter Rumsfeld engineered the murder of al-Zarqawi in an underhanded attempt to distract attention from Al Gore's new film, An Inconvenient Truth.

Amnesty International"s Sad Decline
Topic: Antiwar Movement
I used to respect Amnesty International, even when I disagreed with some of its specific statements. But now that AI has fallen victim to the pervasive anti-Americanism of the global elites, that respect has evaporated. For how can one respect any organization whose leader makes perfectly idiotic statements like this:

"[The United States] has basically mortgaged its moral authority on the streets of Fallujah and Baghdad -- and lost moral authority to speak on this issue," [Amnesty International secretary general Irene] Khan told AP Television News in regard to Darfur.

Say what?! While the rest of the world averted its eyes from Darfur, the US government pressed for action. If Ms. Khan would consult the record, she would find that no nation has done more than America to rescue the suffering people of Darfur. But in her bitter spite, she seems willing to abandon Darfur to the tender mercies of the Islamofascist government of Sudan, while calling on UN action—as if the UN were capable of doing anything at all without US leadership, money and manpower.

One can readily understand Ms. Khan's dislike of what has happened in Iraq. The United States removed from power one of the world's most notorious tyrants. With American assistance, the people of Iraq have created the first and so far the only functioning democratic state in the Arab world. And all this was done in spite of Amnesty International—a once-admirable organization now deformed and crippled by its refusal to recognize the realities of the war on terror.

Lying for Peace
Topic: Antiwar Movement
The antiwar mob likes to parade its self-proclaimed moral superiority over the sinister Bush Administration. After all, antiwar activists are in favor of "peace," while the wicked Bush and his neocon puppet masters are engaged "genocide." And peace, as all right-thinking progressives know, is the supreme virtue. It even trumps the truth, if one must choose between them.

This is why antiwar activists lie without hesitation. To bring down the hated Bush is their goal; if truth stands in the way of that goal, then the truth must be trampled underfoot. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Peter Wehner provides some examples of the antiwar mob's disregard of the plain facts in Iraq:

Iraqis can participate in three historic elections, pass the most liberal constitution in the Arab world, and form a unity government despite terrorist attacks and provocations. Yet for some critics of the president, these are minor matters. Like swallows to Capistrano, they keep returning to the same allegations—the president misled the country in order to justify the Iraq war; his administration pressured intelligence agencies to bias their judgments; Saddam Hussein turned out to be no threat since he didn't possess weapons of mass destruction; and helping democracy take root in the Middle East was a postwar rationalization. The problem with these charges is that they are false and can be shown to be so—and yet people continue to believe, and spread, them.

Mr. Wehner's article debunks each of these false and lying claims, laying out the facts in each case—facts which the antiwar mob will no doubt continue to ignore. But they're lying for "peace," so that's all right.

Into the Ditch?
Topic: Antiwar Movement
An editorial in today's Wall Street Journal reflects upon the shameful treatment accorded Sen. John McCain at the New School:

[T]he ugliness of the New School crowd toward Mr. McCain reveals the peculiar rage that now animates so many on the political left. Dozens of faculty and students turned their back on the Senator, others booed and heckled, and a senior invited to speak threw out her prepared remarks and mocked their invited guest as he sat nearby. Some 1,200 had signed petitions asking that Mr. McCain be disinvited.

The WSJ editorial points out that the poisonous rage on display at the New School has leaked into mainstream Democratic Party politics. In Connecticut, an antiwar candidate has emerged to oppose Sen. Joe Lieberman in this year's primary election. Lieberman is excoriated by the antiwar Left for his support of the war on terror generally and the Iraq War in particular.

It's clear that the Left is doing its utmost this year to seize control of the Democratic Party and use it to engineer an American defeat in Iraq. As this becomes clearer to voters, the Democrats' apparent lead in the 2006 election will likely vaporize. Joe Lieberman and a few other prominent Democrats realize this, but they seem helpless against the raging bulls of the hate-Amerika, antiwar Left. Bottom line: A sharp left turn on national security could drive the Democratic Party into the ditch.