 | While this guy might still be officially in group # 3, I think he really belongs in a fifth group of foaming at the mouth lunatics. He is disconnected from reality like group #1 but he is not sincere, honorable or well-intentioned. Just plain crazy. |
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| Infighting splits US war protesters |
| 2007-06-03 |
| The American peace movement has been plunged into disarray after failing to persuade the new-look Congress to stop the war, amid mounting warnings of a summer bloodbath in Iraq. When its most high-profile controversial figurehead - bereaved mother Cindy Sheehan - quit the anti-war campaign and the Democratic party in disgust last week, her resignation statement revealed the deep divisions. Now opponents of President Bush are warning that the anti-war movement and the Democrats have little time to salvage their credibility if they want to end the war - and take the credit for it. . . . But while some believe that Sheehan may return to the peace movement after a spell out of the limelight, she seems unlikely to kiss and make up with the Democrats - or one of their most famous support groups, MoveOn.org - which has become the other high-profile face of the US anti-war movement. She called MoveOn's reputation as a big player in the anti-war left 'hilarious', accusing it of being so tied in to the Democrats and their electoral cause that they clammed up when the party failed to protest about the war. Military Families Speak Out admitted that the anti-war movement was 'fragmenting' - a view endorsed by the Crawford Peace House, a campaign based near Bush's ranch, which is calling for the anti-war movement to 'regroup'. 'The peace movement is in disarray. It's run by the Democrats and they are scrambling to try to show that they are anti-war, but no one is fooled any more, and Cindy Sheehan just added an exclamation mark to that,' said John Walsh, a commentator for the leftwing online newsletter Counterpunch. It seems we have an antiwar movement composed of three distinct factions: 1. Principled pacifists who believe all use of force is immoral. (Example: Quakers.) These people are sincere, honorable, well-intentioned, disconnected from reality, and damned lucky to live in a country where men with guns keep reality at a safe distance from them. 2. People who aren't against the war so much as they are rooting for the other side. (Examples: Mother Sheehan; CAIR.) 3. People who are out for their own short-term political gain, and are amoral enough to not mind a few thousand of their fellow citizens getting killed if they think it'll juice their poll numbers. (Example: MoveOn.org and its wholly-owned subsidiary, the Democrat Party.) As they are not above losing a war to get elected ("I was for it before I was against it."), they are certainly not above using groups #1 and 2 and then discarding them when their utility runs out. Groups #1 and 2 are just now figuring this out. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #10 There's at least one, maybe two other groups as well - sincere, foaming at the mouth crazies like Murtha who believe that anything and everything Republican is just plain bad as everyone knows the Republicans are all cold-hearted psychopathic murderers who are responsible for most of the death and destruction around the planet, and Those afflicted with Bush Derangement Syndrome, but whom do not truly believe that all Republicans are bad, but do believe that GWBush is the root cause of all evil in the world today and we can solve the current problems through talk and peaceful negotiations. |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2007-06-03 18:56 |
| #9 I think Murtha is bought and paid for. Abscam shows he was in bed with them then, why not now? He has to say, "How high?" when they say, "Jump" or they will expose him. I have a friend who told me that the Boise local station KBOI was talking about a scheduled protest at the capital yesterday. She said that she went down there to see and there was only two people holding up a sign. It was such a pathetic showing that no one even tried to get a single photo op to show for the evening news. Since it was such a flop, they ignored it after talking about it all day. The Surrender Movement is down to the $400 per month paid activists that George Soros rallied from advertising on Craigs List and the crazy losers from MoveOn.org. They had their day in the sun in the 70's. The day is over and no one with any dignity wants to be associated with such an obvious bunch of lunatics. |
| Posted by: Angaiger Tojo1904 2007-06-03 17:33 |
| #8 The most strident leftwing elements all fit into category #2 - something which the other groups are implicitly aware of but can not openly admit (taqiyya for infidels?) I blame George Bush for not caving in to their demands after the election and shipwrecking the Democratic Party on the shoals of their public voting records. |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-06-03 17:31 |
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| Posted by: Elmereter Hupash6222 2007-06-03 16:47 |
| #6 Nice analysis Mike. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-06-03 16:19 |
| #5 Group #4 - Peace through superior firepower. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2007-06-03 14:28 |
| #4 it's a quaqmire i tells ya. |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2007-06-03 13:36 |
| #3 Included in 4) are college-aged guys trying to hook up with protester chicks. The protester chicks, in turn, invariably end up marrying tax-lawyers but if pretending to care about green economics and organic yogurt means you get laid in the meantime it is worth putting up with a protest march once in a while too. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-06-03 13:06 |
| #2 also 4) aging hippies who are still looking for more dope and free love... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-06-03 12:50 |
| #1 There's an American peace movement??? Give war a chance. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-06-03 10:25 |