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Germany’s “Peace” Movement Actively and Openly Supporting Iraqi Terrorism By Ray D. Just when you thought the German “peace” movement couldn’t get much more hypocritical they take things to a whole new level. Last week the unbelievable lack of protest at the German government’s plutonium and arms deal with Communist China made it seem as the peace freaks had all rolled up into a big ball for a long winter hibernation. Not so! The German TV news program “Panorama” uncovered some of the wonderful activities that particularly dedicated cadres of the German peace movement are currently engaged in. In the...

<p>In sheer numbers of sign-carrying bodies on the street, the weekend of Feb. 15 and 16 last year marked the high tide of the anti-war movement until now. More than 20 million demonstrators in 600 cities worldwide -- including Arcata, San Francisco and Los Angeles -- hit the pavement in a last-ditch effort to try to at least delay the U.S. invasion of Iraq.</p>

George Galloway, the maverick British parliamentarian who was expelled for the Labour Party after his outspoken opposition to the war in Iraq led to charges that he incited Iraqis to fight against British troops, was there. Tony Benn, another former Labour MP and prominent defender of Socialism, also made the trip. So did Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General (for Lyndon Johnson) and a high-profile advocate for the impeachment of George W. Bush, the freeing of Leonard Peltier, and a host of other fashionable Leftist causes. At the 2003 Cairo Conference held in mid-December by The International Campaign Against U.S....

From the peace movement's elite, like singer and activist Pete Seeger, to the foot soldiers who have trudged through months of winter weather to demonstrate their opposition to war with Iraq, the consensus yesterday was that their job is far from over. While none regrets the dismantling of the repressive regime of Saddam Hussein, many in the peace movement maintain that the war is illegal despite its military successes and view the American invasion as the first step in global-empire building by the Bush administration, with Iran, Syria and North Korea as the next likely targets. Their patriotic duty, they...

U.N. Go Home From the April 14, 2003 issue: As it was in Kosovo, the "international community" is a threat to postwar Iraq. by Stephen Schwartz 04/14/2003, Volume 008, Issue 30 THE WAR FOR IRAQ'S LIBERATION began on March19. The fourth anniversary of the NATO intervention in Kosovo was March24. Kosovar Albanians, a majority of whom are Muslims, lead the Islamic world in their enthusiasm for America. But they hate the United Nations and the European meddlers in whose hands their fate was largely left after NATO's bombing ended. And Kosovar journalists are now warning the Iraqis of the fate...

March 28, 2003 9:10 a.m.Tennessee’s CommiesRed in the antiwar movement. eace can make for interesting bedfellows, as citizens of Nashville and environs have recently discovered. Indeed, the state's most revered and self-congratulatory peace activists have been exposed, by talk radio, as being deeply in bed with the Communist party. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. The fun began when local talk-radio sensation Phil Valentine (familiar to NRO readers for leading the anti-state income-tax movement in Tennessee) decided to have a look at the Nashville Peace and Justice Center's website. The group has been sponsoring peace rallies in the area,...

SMASHING WINDOWS FOR PEACEThe So-Called Peace Protests Substitute Force for an Argument By Robert Garmong March 25, 2003 The attack was well-choreographed. Moving in successive waves, they executed a perfect assault. Some moved to cut off their enemies' supply lines, seizing control of crucial bridges and roadways, while others worked to surround and besiege key command and control buildings. No, these were not U.S. commandos on a mission in Baghdad. They were anti-war protestors on Mission Street in San Francisco. There, as elsewhere across the nation, well-planned demonstrations targeted not the military or the government, but the financial districts, the...

I need opinions and thoughts from fellow "Freepers". I am a Stay at Home Dad and I am taking classes in the evening for an eventual degree. I am taking a required Psych. type course this semester, and getting good grades in it. The problem is the professor is intertwining anti-war thought into the study material as an example of various ways of man failing in human relations. In fairness to him he actually asked if anyone that had a different opinion to speak. I have been uncharacteristicly restrained in my response and in the words of Glenn Beck I...

Sabotage: The Peace Movement's Plans for War THE THREAT: On the day after the U.S. military action in Iraq begins, the so-called peace movement will begin their own war at home. The plan is to cause major disruptions - illegal in nature - in cities across the country to disrupt the flow of normal civic life. These actions will tie up Homeland Security forces and create a golden opportunity for domestic terrorists. The Fifth Column left is also planning to invade military bases. Here is a report from Salon.com's Michelle Goldberg: Camp] Vandenberg is about 50 miles north Santa Barbara,...

“The rebirth of the peace movement.” This is how sections of the Western media describe the marches that attracted 30 million people in some 600 cities, in 25 countries, across the globe last month. On March 5, a group of “peaceniks” gathered in London to discuss ways of nursing the “reborn” child into adulthood. By coincidence, that date also marked the 50th anniversary of Josef Stalin’s death. The Soviet dictator was the father of the first “peace movement” which for years served as an instrument of the Kremlin’s global policy. Stalin’s “peace movement” was launched in 1946 at a time...

No good has ever come from peace movement By Vern R. Kepler The Forum - 03/03/2003 I have a son in Bahrain. He is involved with intelligence for the 5th Fleet, for the Brits and the Aussies as well. I received the following e-mail from him and I was so impressed that I want to share it as part of my opinion piece: “This whole anti-war thing is getting on my nerves. It is not about war, it’s money, politics and face time. Most of these sick, lame and lazy never did anything that did not serve their little lives....

Anti-War Protesters March On Michigan Avenue 1,500 Demonstrators Gather For Interfaith Service, Then March POSTED: 11:25 a.m. CST February 24, 2003UPDATED: 12:42 p.m. CST February 24, 2003 CHICAGO -- Hundreds of demonstrators filled one of Chicago's largest Roman Catholic churches Sunday before taking to the streets of downtown to protest a possible U.S. war with Iraq. An interfaith service held at Holy Name Cathedral attracted more than 1,500 people from different religious backgrounds, including Muslims, Christians and Jews. The service featured speakers who were opposed to war for economic, social and moral reasons. "There is nothing holy about war," said...

<p>Last weekend, across Europe and America, somewhere between 1 million and 2 million people marched against a war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. All protests against war are ultimately ethical in nature, and Saturday's placard-wavers did not break with tradition: "Give Peace a Chance," "Make Tea, Not War," "Bush and Blair-The Real War Criminals.'' These are statements of sentiment, not power politics, and the sentiment is, or is meant to be, a moral one.</p>

<p>I PROBABLY would have been treated to the same anti-American rhetoric that I saw in Barcelona's anti-war protest Saturday if I'd been at the San Francisco protest Sunday. But I was in Barcelona, where Europhiles tell me I should encounter a more elegant and nuanced approach to world affairs.</p>

The socialism of fools has returned to vogue not just in the Middle East and France, but in the American left and Washington. by David Brooks 02/21/2003 12:00:00 AM David Brooks, senior editor AFTER JOE LIEBERMAN completed his unsuccessful campaign for the vice-presidency, I pretty much concluded that anti-Semitism was no longer a major feature of American life. I went around making the case that the Anti-Defamation League should close up shop, since the evil they were organized to combat had shrunk to insignificance. Now I get a steady stream of anti-Semitic screeds in my e-mail, my voicemail, and in...

It's Back The socialism of fools has returned to vogue not just in the Middle East and France, but in the American left and Washington. by David Brooks 02/21/2003 12:00:00 AM AFTER JOE LIEBERMAN completed his unsuccessful campaign for the vice-presidency, I pretty much concluded that anti-Semitism was no longer a major feature of American life. I went around making the case that the Anti-Defamation League should close up shop, since the evil they were organized to combat had shrunk to insignificance. Now I get a steady stream of anti-Semitic screeds in my e-mail, my voicemail, and in my mailbox....

They're Here! They're Loud! They're Ignorant And They're Proud! By Lowell Phillips Wednesday, February 19, 2003 Toogood Reports When the subject is life and death, is it inappropriate to chuckle once in a while? It may well be, but the gibberish spewing from the anti-war movement is certainly making it difficult to avoid. To be perfectly honest, I was disappointed when I realized that the globally coordinated demonstrations against war with Iraq would include a march in downtown Detroit. I wasn't at all surprised that we have our share of delusional pacifists. They're everywhere. No, I was heartbroken that I...

February 14, 2003 Coalition plans disobedience campaign when war startsBy Christopher WalkerORGANISERS of tomorrow’s anti-war march in London plan to follow it with a campaign of civil disobedience throughout the country designed to last while any conflict in Iraq persists. Ghada Razuki, a leading member of the Stop the War Coalition, said that the action would begin on the day war was declared with demonstrations designed to bring the country to a standstill. That was decided at a coalition meeting earlier this week. The protests would be held in Trafalgar Square and the centres of all other major cities and...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO -- Imagine my surprise when I found out that I am banned from speaking at a peace rally here this Sunday. As editor of Tikkun, the largest-circulation liberal Jewish magazine in the world, I have been an outspoken critic of the proposed war in Iraq. I have also unequivocally condemned Saddam Hussein's brutality and called for the world community to bring him to justice for crimes against humanity. But we at Tikkun do not believe that this war -- in which thousands of Iraqi civilians are likely to die -- will bring democracy to the Middle East. Instead, it is bound to increase the threat of terrorism to American citizens and provoke more violence. It will also fuel American fantasies of world economic and political domination.</p>

<p>On Jan. 18, the "peace movement" staged a raucous rally in Washington, D.C., to protest U.S. policy toward Saddam Hussein. Though the rally was sponsored by International ANSWER, a radical fringe group, it drew members and representatives of dozens of better-known organizations, including the United Methodist Church, Pastors for Peace, the Rainbow/Push Coalition, and the Green Party.</p>