Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Sniffin' out the peaceniks ... literally
President Bush will be speaking in Nashville today at a fundraiser for U.S. Senate candidate Bob Corker. You can bet that a large contingent of protestors will be on hand to greet the president.
Since President Bush will be speaking at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, we can expect a gaggle of 19, 20, and 21-year-old liberal Vandy students - all of whom have the world's problems all figured out - to be all frontin' and protestin'; but we can also expect the hardcore/hair-head left-wingers to be on full display as well. Thus, I feel it's only appropriate that I re-publish a letter, penned by moi, that the Nashville City Paper saw fit to print nearly three years ago. To wit:
Am I the only one who finds it disturbing that the establishment press has failed to acknowledge some of the outfits responsible for organizing the most visible anti-Iraq War rallies?
On October 25 [2003], a group of protestors met in Washington, D.C. to demonstrate against U.S. military operations in Iraq. C-Span featured live coverage of the event, and brief blurbs were printed in the next morning's papers. If it was mentioned at all, press stories revealed that International ANSWER organized the march. But that's where the story ended.
ANSWER, which stands for Act Now to Stop the War and End Racism, is an auxiliary of a Marxist-Leninist organization, the Workers World Party, which in its past history has supported the Warsaw Pact invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the Chinese massacre in Tiananmen Square. Not one major U.S. news service mentioned the fact that a Communist front group sponsored the Oct. 25 protest.
Can you imagine what would happen if an organization affiliated with, say, the John Birch Society or the Ku Klux Klan organized a large pro-war rally? And if a Republican presidential candidate happened to show up at said event (Al Sharpton was a featured speaker at the ANSWER rally), the left's outrage would reach a fever pitch.
Since President Bush will be speaking at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, we can expect a gaggle of 19, 20, and 21-year-old liberal Vandy students - all of whom have the world's problems all figured out - to be all frontin' and protestin'; but we can also expect the hardcore/hair-head left-wingers to be on full display as well. Thus, I feel it's only appropriate that I re-publish a letter, penned by moi, that the Nashville City Paper saw fit to print nearly three years ago. To wit:
Am I the only one who finds it disturbing that the establishment press has failed to acknowledge some of the outfits responsible for organizing the most visible anti-Iraq War rallies?
On October 25 [2003], a group of protestors met in Washington, D.C. to demonstrate against U.S. military operations in Iraq. C-Span featured live coverage of the event, and brief blurbs were printed in the next morning's papers. If it was mentioned at all, press stories revealed that International ANSWER organized the march. But that's where the story ended.
ANSWER, which stands for Act Now to Stop the War and End Racism, is an auxiliary of a Marxist-Leninist organization, the Workers World Party, which in its past history has supported the Warsaw Pact invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the Chinese massacre in Tiananmen Square. Not one major U.S. news service mentioned the fact that a Communist front group sponsored the Oct. 25 protest.
Can you imagine what would happen if an organization affiliated with, say, the John Birch Society or the Ku Klux Klan organized a large pro-war rally? And if a Republican presidential candidate happened to show up at said event (Al Sharpton was a featured speaker at the ANSWER rally), the left's outrage would reach a fever pitch.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Wednesday, August 30, 2006 
