Posted on 03/31/2004 10:29:31 AM PST by Pyro7480
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Rebecca:
Hi everybody!
I want to talk today about how we’re actually going to stop the Occupation. (jeers) I don’t have a plan, but I think there’s some key strategies that we need to adopt, that are gonna make this more successful.
And the first thing is that we need to support the Resistance of Iraqis in Iraq. (applause) Right. These are people who are risking their lives to get the United States out of their country. And we have to see them as our allies. We have to see them as our main allies.
Similarly, we have to support resistance in the US military. Soldiers, and you know, anyone – (applause) families who are actually opposing the war, we need to be on their side.
If you recall, there’s one time in the last 30 years when the US military machine was brought down, during Vietnam, and it was brought down because there was a fierce Resistance in Vietnam, and because the soldiers were refusing to fight.
(applause)
The third thing is that we need to build a fighting movement. We’re obviously all out here today because we think protesting is valuable. The most powerful tool we have is to get people out on to the streets. The reality is that we’re not going to morally convince someone like George Bush, to feel sympathy for the Iraqi people. We’re not gonna convince him of that.
So what we have to do, is make him and the people that he’s working with feel like they’re in big trouble, if they don’t listen to us. (applause) And that means we have to mobilize.
Another point that, no matter – the truth is, that no matter who you vote for, in November, if you vote for Bush, or Kerry, we’re gonna have an Occupation on our hands that we have to fight. And taking resources out of this movement, to support the Democrats, is gonna be a mistake for us. (applause) Because Kerry is a proponent of progressive internationalism. Which basically is a softer, gentler version of US imperialism. (jeers) We wanna go to other countries, take over the United States, but in a nicer way. We wanna look better while we do it. That’s not good enough. We have to oppose the Occupation completely.
(applause)
Kerry has no plan to pull troops out of Iraq. And instead, he criticizes Bush for not doing it “well enough.” (applause) There’s no way to occupy a country, and torture its citizens, and steal its resources, that will not encourage resistance. There is no “right way” to carry out a brutal occupation of a country.
(applause)
So clearly, no one at the top is gonna represent us. In his book A Call to Service, Kerry tells the anti-war movement, and I quote, “As a veteran of the Vietnam War, and the Vietnam protest movement, I say to both liberal and conservative misinterpretations of that war, that it’s time to get over it.” That’s what he says to anti-war protestors. We need to take that seriously.
So it’s up to us to build a real alternative. I’m here representing the International Socialist Organization because we believe another world is possible. It is possible for us to build a world, where our children don’t have to fight wars for oil and profit. And if – if you agree with that, you should become a Socialist, too.
(applause)
And I just wanna end – I just wanna end by mentioning the Campus Anti-war Network, uh, of which I’m a part. I know there hasn’t been a lot of young people on the stage today. And CAN is, basically, a national grass-roots network of student groups around the country, that have actively opposed the war. Starting with before the war in Iraq, and continuing, now, to oppose the occupation. And if that’s something that, you know, you feel that you can organize on your campus, you should come talk to me, I’m gonna be at the ISO table. So this is really significant, using student organizing provided a real backbone for the anti-war movement over the last year, and we need to continue that.
And, uh, I just want to leave with a chant, ‘cause I know that everybody has been out here listening to a lot of speeches, and it’s a long program. So, if people will just repeat after me:
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE! U.S. OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST!
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE! U.S. OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST!
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE! U.S. OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST!
Here was a white, apparently middle class American girl, standing in the middle of San Diego, advocating support for thugs and terrorists who murder Americans and Iraqis alike.
I could not allow her remarks to go unchallenged. But what could I do? If I stood up and shouted that she was supporting people who had murdered friends of mine, it might feel very good for a moment or two – but I would surely be escorted off the premises in short order.
No, I wanted to do something more lasting. I wanted to expose this woman’s hateful propaganda to a much wider audience, so she could face the shame she so richly deserves.
Then it hit me: the answer was in my hands.
Click here to read My Interview with Rebecca.
I stopped reading right there.
It's obvious that this isn't some ditz liberal that just wants "love and peace throughout the world", this is a subversive that wants the USA to be a totalitarian state.
Yeah, because half the populace will be excecuted or held in re-education camps.
That's the game plan. The core of the movement that "brought down" America's effort to stop the invasion of South Vietnam was an international leftist disinformation campaign to smear the U.S. military as murderers and war criminals.
Here's a play-by-play account of how they did it.
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