ANSWER wackos call EMERGENCY PROTEST against IRAQ liberation

[zarf]

The ANSWER guys are like watching midgets in a burlesque. An absolute hoot.

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[cripplecreek]

I wonder if i would have any success if i told ANSWER that i oppose the war and am going to Iraq to act as a human shield in hopes that some will join me.


Why prolong the misery, they should just walk into the line of fire and get it over with.

[Army Air Corps]

Yes, and their answers are always the same: Capitalism is evil and we must move to the "joys" of iron-fisted rule by a socialist intelligentsia.

[firebrand]

They picked Good Friday, when a lot of the righeous are otherwise engaged.

[Redbob]

This is certainly an "emergency" to them: if we succeed in Iraq, Kerry is doomed this fall.

[WOSG]

Traitors on Easter Parade.

YUK.

[Army Air Corps]

Well, any time that the Communist International is threatened, it IS an emergency for the ANSWER folks. These folks are also funded by the Ford Foundation (no relation to Ford Motor Company - it is operated by one of the "blacksheep" of the Ford family.).

[hellinahandcart]

Uh huh. The one-year anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, and I'm supposed to believe it's a spontanteous "emergency" protest.

[Army Air Corps]

Sure, it is spontaneous. As spontaneous as a meeting of anal retentives with day-planners.

[cardinal4]

The Iraqi revolt against occupation is spreading in qualitative developments. The Pentagon is reacting with a murderous iron fist that is making the popular Iraqi position increasingly clear to the world: that the occupation forces are indeed an enemy - not liberators.

I hope the FBI is paying attention, these people are the same enemy Al Sadr and the Fedeyeen are..

[sergeantdave]

Wow! I haven't read this kind of old-style communist propaganda since the 1960s. Unfortunately, ANSWER forgot to include such oldies but goodies as "running yellow capitalist dog," "imperialistic war mongers" and my favorite: "yankee go home!"

I bet these people think they're channeling Stalin. "Hey, comrade! I think I've got Trotsky on the psychic hotline."

[jtminton]

murderous iron fist

If there's one thing I hate, it's murderous iron fists.

[Sender]

Maybe we should start International QUESTION:

Quit
Useless
Exercises in
Stupidity, you
Treasonous
Insignificant
Offensive
Ninnies

[boxerblues]

George W. Bush's Vietnam


Ted Kennedy
John Kerry
Sadr
ANSWER

all got the DNC talking point

[mabelkitty]

This is disgusting!
A blatant attempt to power grab within the U.S. and castrate our military!
I might just seek some of these scumbags out this week-end.

[Peter J. Huss]

They are now advocating violence in support of the Iraqi insurgents:

From a person connected with http://www.mutualaid.org

Bring the War Home

By Chuck0

for Infoshop News

April 7, 2004

The latest escalation of the fighting in Iraq is a clear sign that the people of Iraq reject their “liberation.” The United States, led by the Bush regime, can’t decide why it invaded Iraq and refuses to pull out of Iraq. The Bush regime is dedicated to the continuation of the American program of empire building. A withdrawal from Iraq would be seen as a setback of this ongoing effort to build a Thousand Year Reich in which the world would be run by America. The quagmire in Iraq has not deterred the United States as it continues to intervene in the internal affairs of other countries (Haiti) and actively threatens other countries (Syria, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and on and on). Even if the U.S. pulled out of Iraq completely tomorrow, this would not stop its empire-building and imperialist policies around the world. Any person can look at the 200+ year history of the United States to see that it only drives in one direction.

While resistance and uneasiness over the Iraq war is growing among the American population, the so-called peace movement has not helped this along. The peace movement (sic) has been asleep at the wheel since the war began a year ago. It was impressive that million protested before the war began, but street protests don’t end wars and they certainly won’t roll back the American war machine and its Empire. Street protests aren’t very effective, but sitting alone at home is even less effective. The organizations that run the peace movement are responsible for this disempowerment, because they’ve limited the anti-war strategy to a series of infrequent pointless spectacles. Listening to speakers, marching in circles and selling newspapers every six months will not do anything. None of this will even increase public opposition to the war one percentage point. And none of it will throw up any significant roadblocks to the U.S.’s continued efforts to rule the world through intimidation and violence.

The least we can do right now is make our resistance to war and empire more visible. We need to make our opposition to war visible everywhere that Americans are pissed about the war and everything about the U.S. war machine and its imperialist ambitions. We can start by placing anti-war agitprop everywhere. We need to have more frequent protests, but these need to be in places that make sense. No more protests outside of deserted government buildings on weekends. If you want to organize a protest, take it to the neighborhoods, shopping malls, and entertainment complexes. We need to show our neighbors that people are pissed about this war. A protest in front of the White House might be symbolically important for the leaders of ANSWER, but these protest haven’t accomplished anything.

The war needs to be brought home. The anti-war and peace movements need to step up their opposition in every way possible. We need to shut down the military recruiting centers. We need to kick military bases out of our communities. We need to demand that veterans aren’t being forced to live on the streets. We need to sabotage the war machine. We need to kick ROTC out of every school. We need to shut down every draft board. We need to continue our resistance to capitalism, which is, after all, the driving force behind American imperialism. We need to throw pies and, yes, we may need to throw bricks. It will be up to us to organize all of this together, but the good thing is that we have the networks and organizations. We know what needs to be done and we can’t afford to allow the organizations that purport to “lead” the peace movement to lead us down the path of despair and disempowerment.

We are not alone. Millions of Americans oppose the war. Billions of people around the planet oppose the war. We have our work cut out for us, but we’ve rejected the challenge. If there is a time where we can go beyond merely reacting to the current war du jour in dissent and move towards a wider opposition to the U.S. war machine, now would be that time. But we can’t accomplish anything if we sit on our hands or take no risks by attending the same old rallies and marches. There are enough of us out there that we can make a difference if we step up our opposition to the American war machine.

Anti-war groups around the country are calling for “emergency” protests against the war for this Saturday, April 10th. Hopefully these groups will protest in new places where there are people and not in front of the usual symbolic targets. The rest of us need to get in the streets this weekend. We need more daily and weekly protests, because every day the U.S. military is allowed to exist there will be an “emergency” somewhere. We need more frequent protests, but we need to organize opposition against the entire war apparatus. We must recognize that a change of presidents will not end the American war machine. We can shut down the American war machine and end America’s dream of A Thousand-Year Reich.

Consider this an invitation to a revolt!

[zarf]

LOL!! These ANSWER kids are on a permanent LSD trip.

[Wolfhound777]

Sounds like a perfect test area for MOAB II.