Posted on 03/18/2005 7:57:22 AM PST by johnny7
The Rev. John Bennison scheduled a peace vigil Saturday in his small church in the Contra Costa town of Clayton because he hadn't heard of anything happening nearby to mark the second anniversary of the Iraq war.
There isn't much to hear about. The antiwar movement's failure to take root in the suburbs is one reason the movement is struggling to redefine itself and gain political power 2 1/2 years after hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to city streets in the run-up to the U.S. invasion. Antiwar leaders point to a number of reasons for the movement's lack of buzz outside politically "blue" communities. They get little support from the Democratic Party, which is far from unified on whether the United States should pull out of Iraq. Activists wish they had more online backing from MoveOn.org, the Internet hub that galvanized antiwar support in 2003 but has since taken up other issues. And the White House has blunted criticism by pointing to recent democratic uprisings in the Middle East as evidence that the underpinnings for the U.S. invasion were on the mark.
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“Activists wish they had more online backing from MoveOn.org, the Internet hub that galvanized antiwar support in 2003”
Call the Tides Foundation... ask for 'Mama T'. If her line's busy, call George Soros... he 'cares'.
"Our challenge is to take the someone who is grumbling about the way things are going and put that feeling into action," said Bill Hackwell, an organizer with International ANSWER”
ANSWER... that's the ticket! Commies don't have much money... but they got a'lotta pull at the colleges. If American's don't give a damn... we'll look for help from foreigners!
"The movement) was on the verge of taking off again a couple of months ago around the inauguration, but then the Iraqi elections confused the picture, " said Stephen Zunes, a political science professor at the University of San Francisco, "It is pretty moribund now."
Damn... the fu_kers showed up at the polls! What's wrong with them?! Best thing now is to pull out and hope Zarqawi will do the rest.
The Rev. John Bennison scheduled a peace vigil Saturday in his small church in the Contra Costa town of Clayton.
And Peter Brady threw a party for himself when he became a hero.
The whole article is a wonderful shadenfreude experience.
They conclude that their protests are dying because enough people aren't directly affected by the war in Iraq.
They simply cannot wrap their heads around the possibility that most of the people around them agree that the war was neccessary, or at least haven't completely discounted the possibility.
The results are coming in now, and the prospect that there might actually be hope for a lasting peace in the Middle East is the absolute worst news the peace movement could possibly face.
With a plethora of socialist, useful fools in elected office, they still pose a grave threat to our Republic.
I was impressed with the way the reporter interviewed conservative East Bay residents to present an even-handed, two-sided story....NOT!!!!!
The fact that this is 'non-news' and just a free plug for peace-queers' poses no qualms for the author.
However... I'm ripping-off a pithy email to Mr. Garofoli to let him know... we're out there... and we're watching!
Yep! The provincial mentality of the freaks, radicals and wierdos who have taken over my City never fails to amaze me. One observation I have is that the most freaked out freaks are all relos, many from Eastern pockets of liberalism (eastern seaboard blue blobbers). In moving to the "new SF" they have placed themselves into an enclave that is utterly at odds with the surrounding hinterlands and most assuredly, the neighboring states of NV and AZ. I grew up here and watched the freakification of SF first hand. In the course of 100 years, the most recent 30 plus I am well familiar with, SF went from being a Western American small city to being a very East Coast like liberal pit, but one that even outstrips the most liberal East Coast ones in terms of freakyness.
Antiwar leaders point to a number of reasons for the movement's lack of buzz outside politically "blue" communities. "
GEE, maybe the fact that Iraq is now an emerging democracy, that we've liberated Iraq, and that we have basically WON in Iraq, replacing a dictator with democracy ... may have a small amount to do with the 'anti-war' anti-American left's irrelevence.
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