Peace protestors speak. No wonder Lenin called them "useful idiots"

To listen to voices from the counterfeit peace movement is to finally grasp what Lenin meant by "useful idiots". Lenin clearly understood that the 'voice' of the people is not the voice of God, nor is it always the voice of wisdom. It would be unfair, of course, to judge the wisdom and knowledge of a population by the incoherent ramblings of those attending a rally. But that is what our leftwing journalists are doing.

Howard, on the other hand, understands that time and not manipulated demonstrators is one of the key elements in politics. Even if he knows nothing of the Stalinist controlled peace rallies of the thirties, he sure as hell knows a lot about the Australian electorate — and that worries the Leader of the Opposition. And if the ramblings and mindless sloganeering of our intrepid protesters is anything to go by, Howard could be on another winner.

As Brooks has already dealt with the despicable Pilger in an accompanying article I shall confine myself to writing about those comments that our leftwing reporters considered humane, caring and thoughtful, if not actually profound.

There was 64-year-old Carole Reynolds from Manly. Now this granny, obviously riven with anguish, said, "It's a horrendous thought to think of all those children being massacred." I was truly shocked to hear this. An informed demonstrator complaining about Saddam massacring children. Alas, I was premature in my judgement. This dear old granny meant President Bush. That's right, the evil President Bush (Fuehrer of America's "Third Reich," according to the insane Pilger) is planning to massacre Iraq's children. Thank God they have Saddam to protect them and their mommies and daddies.

Some of you may have concluded that poor old Granny Reynolds is suffering from encroaching dementia. Not so, unfortunately. Granny's inability to grasp reality was also shared by Kye Towie, 27, of Randwick. Kye, a former Royal Australian Navy sailor, remarked: "If I was still in the navy I think I'd really have an issue carrying out orders if they could result in something I didn't believe in." What is it that Kye does not believe in? Well, toppling genocidal dictators that are trying to manufacture weapons of mass destruction, for one.

And what does the young Kye believe in? You guessed it. The United Nations. The former veteran of the high seas believes in deferring to the UN Security Council and allowing such stalwart defenders of liberty as Beijing, the Syrian Arab Republic, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Libya, Iran, etc., to defend his life and liberty.

The 64-year-old Margaret Lee of Stanmore stood firm in her opinion "there was no excuse for other nations invading a country to prompt regime change." I presume that Mrs Lee could tell us how many times she has demonstrated against Beijing for invading Tibet. Or even Saddam for invading Kuwait. I am sure a person of Mrs Lee's scruples would have a history of similar protests.

Margaret Lee's view is quite an old one. In fact, it was the one used to persuade the French and British not to take action against Hitler when they were strong enough to topple him. The result was WWII. Is Mrs Lee also saying that it was wrong to topple Pol Pot and Slobodan Milosevic?

Magistrate Brian Deegan, whose son Josh was killed in the Bali bombing, tried to draw a parallel between criminal law and the impending war with this gem: "Our Government has adopted the view that to kill a defenceless individual is murder, but to kill many thousands of unarmed civilians who happen to get caught in the crossfire is a liberation."

Perhaps grief has damaged Mr Deegan's thought processes because the Government has not adopted any such view and it is a foul distortion of the facts to claim otherwise. If Mr Deegan is so concerned with the welfare of Iraqi civilians how come he never demonstrated or publicly spoke against Saddam for slaughtering hundreds of thousands of them? The same depraved argument, Mr Deegan, was used against the US before it invaded Afghanistan. Now it is being used to prevent the liberation of the Iraqi people.

But back to granny power in the form 82-year-old Nancy Gill of Newport Beach. Dear old Nancy's brilliant contribution was: "I've been through one war and that was enough. I'm dead against wars, and especially this one." Quick! Call the Kurdish resistance and get them to fly Granny Gill to Baghdad to give that naughty Saddam a whopping what-for. Sorry, about that, I meant fly her to Washington. It is obvious that Nancy reckons Bush is the bad boy and not the thug in Bagdad who likes squeezing out the eyes of children.

Graeme Morgan's contribution was so stunning it deserves an Idiot of the Year Award. According to Graeme bombing is the most, and I kid you not, inhumane "form of killing people." Our well informed Graeme should pay his uncle Saddam a visit. Maybe he would show him the vats of acid he has people slowly lowered into. Then there are his workshops where his jolly bunch of happy workers use electric drills to slowly kill people. Anyhow, what makes Graeme think America and Britain are targeting civilians and not Saddam and murderous crew?

Genan Dadoun, a third-year student at the University of Technology, reveals the depth of her intelligence by arguing that we are the terrorists. Her source for this insight was the pathological Chomsky, friend of tyrants and apologist for terrorists. The same man who defended Pol Pot. Every time I think of Chomsky I am reminded of Orwell's comment, "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool."

And what would an anti-American demonstration be without a self-righteous ignorant cleric to lecture us on morality. In this instance it was the Reverend Ray Richmond, of Sydney's Wayside Chapel. The good Reverend intoned that the Churches were as "one voice of condemnation" against a war. Terrific. Remind me to send a telegram to the relatives of Saddam's million or so victims, who are also dead, assuring them that their liberty and lives are being protected by the Christian Churches. Although I am of the opinion that Iraqi's would much prefer the protection of American marines and British Paras.

Vietnam, that political staple of political and historical illiterates, was soon on the Reverend's lips. That war, he claimed, "... was stopped by people like us, numbered in the millions." What finally stopped the war was a bloody communist invasion resulting in the murder of millions. Those, like Reverend Ray Richmond, who supported this communist aggression have bloodstained hands. But Vietnam and Cambodia is evidently not enough for this cleric. He now wants the same for the Kurds, and perhaps even for all the Iraqi people. I guess some people just cannot get enough of someone else's blood.

I think readers get my drift. Nevertheless, I would like to finish with quotes from Melbourne's Anglican Archbishop Watson. A man of outstanding intellect, integrity, courage and humanitarianism. A landmark in our community and an example to us all.

The Archbishop states that "The people of Australia have no argument with the people of Iraq." That is absolutely right, Archbishop. The argument is not with Saddam's victims, and that is what the Iraqi people are, but with their brutal overlord who is intent of getting his murderous hands on weapons of mass destruction. It is the Iraqi people who have already been the victims of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and may well again be the first victims of his new ones. Therefore, Archbishop, we have a common cause with the people of Iraq. We both want and need Saddam gone.

Revealing his grasp of the situation in Iraq the Archbishop announced that "With or without the approval of the Security Council we oppose Australia joining a war against the people of Iraq. It would be a war of cold-blooded aggression against the people of Iraq." Once again, it is not the people of Iraq who is the target but Saddam's vicious regime.

Determined to expose us to the full power of his intellect, the Archbishop claims that war is not justified if it means that some Iraqi civilians will be killed or maimed. Now grasp the full moral import of this: a war that killed a dozen Iraqi civilians would not be justified even if it saved the lives of thousands. Has he never heard of the just war doctrine and proportionality? Our Archbishop is not without moral sense. He did concede that Saddam Hussein was a "brutal dictator" but to try and overthrow him would cause suffering among "the five million people of Baghdad...especially women and children." With moral guidance like this from our Archbishop, if it any wonder that the Anglican church is but a shadow of its former glory, and all but irrelevant.

When Bush announced his intentions regarding Saddam the Archbishop had the side of Melbourne's Anglican Cathedral draped with a huge banner with the words: NO WAR. Funny thing though, the cathedral was never draped with banners with the words: SAVE THE CHILDREN FROM SADDAM or SAVE THE KURDS or STOP WAR BY STOPPING SADDAM. It seems that Archbishop Watson is prepared to support any policy on Iraq so long as it leave Saddam in place. His refusal to support the war even if it is sanctioned by the UN security council is certainly suggestive.

I believe there is a common thread of unspoken racism that runs through the protest movement's one sided condemnation of violence, real or imagined. So many of these protesters are shrill and vitriolic in their condemnation of Bush, Blair and Howard but silent about any number of third world and communist tyrants. They appear to be holding the whitemale Anglo to a higher standard than they expect from those they tacitly regard as culturally and/or racially inferior. They truly are Saddam's "useful idiots".

As Brooks has already dealt with the despicable Pilger in an accompanying article

That sounded good too, so I went and looked it up. Link here: http://www.brookesnews.com/031802pilger.html

Did you hear the pro-US "plant" on Limbaugh today?

This inventive young activist and his pals "crashed" the LA "anti-war" march with signs like:

"WAR NEVER SOLVED ANYTHING ......Except for destroying Naziism, Communism, Fascism and Slavery!

"Protect Islamic Property Rights!!!" pictured alongside: a Burkha-festooned woman chained to a post.

"So what if Saddam Tortures Iraqis--they're HIS people! It's NONE of our business!!

We should start a thread to build a library of these and use 'em on the weekend's new round of "peace" marches.

You mean these?

From rushes site.

Oh, those INTERVIEWS!!! Hilarious -- no one had any reasonable solutions to the Iraqi problems, everyone said "I dunno" half a dozen times, yet all seemed to think Bush is evil, Hitler-like, ad nauseum. What a pack of brain-dead fools! You'd think at least the older ones would've learned something during their lifetimes but clearly they did not. How do these "people" even survive?????

Didn't know whether to post this or not but the antis deserve it. Was listening to a local radio station's ( "Radio Free Rocky D", 1250 WTMA Charleston SC.) drive time show and a caller had this story.

He and his friend were buying CDs at a music store in one of the local malls. They're both active duty USAF stationed here. His friend is getting ready to deploy to the Middle East very soon. They were checking out and the girl at the register was giving them all kind of rude anti war comments. They blew her off. She asked him if he was going over to the war. He said yes and she said "I hope you get killed over there."

Rocky D suggested the caller contact the store's management and he said it's in work. The caller also agreed to put Rocky D in touch with his friend off air. I don't know if they were able to get more on this story as they switched to another subject and didn't mention it later in the show. I'll try to find out if this will continue on tomorrow's show.

"So many of these protesters are shrill and vitriolic in their condemnation of Bush, Blair and Howard but silent about any number of third world and communist tyrants. They appear to be holding the whitemale Anglo to a higher standard than they expect from those they tacitly regard as culturally and/or racially inferior."

Two reasons why I feel the liberal left are closet racists:

1.) They think that non-Anglos are too primitive for democracy. They made the same argument in Japan and South Korea.

2.) They treat groups like Al Queada and North Korea as not serious threats since their countries are backwards. They say things like "Come on. Do you actually think those people could do anything damaging to the United States? We are just being a bunch of bullies." I, on the other hand, truly believe in human ingenuity. If anyone makes it their policy to kill Americans and hit our strategic areas I accord them enough respect to take them for their word and to realize they probably have enough ability to figure out some way to do what they desire.

I don't think anybody knows. I got this tidbit from a fun book which came out several years ago on bogus quotations, called They Never Said It. Other bogus Lenin quotes include the famous "promises are like pie-crusts made to be broken" and "the capitalists will sell the rope that hangs them.

From all accounts, Lenin was a rather humorless man who lacked a sense of irony. He was not known for pithy phrases or witty quips.

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