Seattle sign cheers U.S. enemies

WorldNet Daily ^ | 04/29/04 | Art Moore

[Patriot62]

Window front on major street: "Victory to the Iraqi Resistance''

By Art Moore © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

As U.S. troops engage radical Islamic insurgents in Iraq, passersby on a major thoroughfare near downtown Seattle this week will notice a sign in a window front that urges: "Victory to the Iraqi Resistance."

The sign appears on the New Freeway Hall Community Center on multi-ethnic Rainier Avenue, home of the local branch of the Freedom Socialist Party.

Luma Nichol, Seattle organizer of the party, told WorldNetDaily her group put up the sign because there has been a "distortion of the truth" about the Iraq war, and "we want to educate our neighbors."

She said the reaction to the sign, noted by a contributor to FreeRepublic.com, has been much more positive than negative.

"There is a lot of opposition to the war," she told WND. "A lot of people understand that what the U.S. government is doing is a hostile invasion that violates the sovereignty of the Iraqi people."

However, Tuesday, she said, a "not very eloquent person" telephoned and "called us all a bunch of fags, which is not very conducive to debate."

But some opponents would call wishing victory for an enemy of the United States an act of sedition, she acknowledged when asked.

"I'm sure there are some people that would see it that way, but the U.S. is the aggressor in this situation and in the wrong," she said.

"A people whose country is being invaded and colonized by a hostile force have a right to defend themselves – that is what people did in World War II, and I stand on the side of the victims not the aggressors," Nichol declared.

She said she agrees with people who call the ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein a "dictator and vicious man."

"But I don't believe that the U.S. government wants to bring liberty and democracy to Iraq," she said. "They have their own agenda – oil, making money for Halliburton and other firms. There is no evidence that the U.S. has the interest of the Iraqi people at heart."

It's up to the Iraqi people to deal with their own dictator, she asserted.

"How would you feel if somebody said Dick Cheney is a threat to democracy and invaded our country?"

Nichol explained her group is a "socialist, feminist political party" that has been active in the U.S. for more than 30 years. As part of the Trotskyist wing of communism, it is distinguished from the Communist Party U.S.A. she said, "calling for socialist democracy in opposition to Stalinism."

There isn't a country in the world that practices her party's model for government, she said, but Cuba comes the closest.

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Art Moore is a news editor with WorldNetDaily.com.

[Patriot62]

[annyokie]

Cute. How can you stand it there?

[counterpunch]

Obviously Kerry supporters.

[kaktuskid]

A winder just itchin' for a big rock!!

[annyokie]

[Da Mav]

Isn't there someone in Seattle with a brick after hours?

This would be worth a minor act of civil disobedience, or several for that matter.

Who owns the building? Could the sign be viewed as invalidating an insurance policy?

Just a couple thoughts. Thanks for the heads up. No wonder Patsy Murray rules there.

[Uncle Miltie]

In my former neighborhood in Seattle, pro-Iraq bumper stickers outnumbered American flags.

Glad I left that hell-hole.

B.C.
Fargo, ND

[CaptRon]

oil, making money for Halliburton and other firms

These people don't have an original thought in their heads, let alone a logical one.

[Publius]

This is the same thing you posted yesterday. Do all of us who participated in that thread have to copy-and-paste our responses to this one?

[appalachian_dweller]

I pray to God that I never see anything like this. Else I'll end up in jail for vandalism at the very least. More likely some type of assault charges because I'd be throwing bricks or rocks or whatever is handy though that window.

This is just unbelievable. Traitorous slime. They do not deserve the freedom they enjoy.

[End Times Sentinel]

However, Tuesday, she said, a "not very eloquent person" telephoned and "called us all a bunch of fags, which is not very conducive to debate."

I resent that.  I was extremely eloquent and she'd have know that if she hadn't hung up on me.  They are a bunch of fags and I believe it's incumbent upon me to point that out.

If they'd quit being such a bunch of fags, maybe we could cut straight to the discourse.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[Puppage]

Almost as bad as the protesters in 'Frisco with their "I Love NYC...Especially with out the WTC" posters.

How I LOATHE these anti Americans.

[BaBaStooey]

Freedom Socialist Party?

Freedom AND socialism? Isn't that an oxymoron?

Oh, sorry, forgot, we're just dealing with plain old morons here.

Its funny how the opinion of a couple of people (the ones who put up the signs) gets sucn attention. Yet the silent majority, tens of millions times that number...

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

When it was Hitler on the horizon, Sir Winston Churchill provided the early warning: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

This time around, George W. Bush is saying much the same thing: "A policy of appeasement could bring destruction of a kind never before seen on this earth."

As it turned out, Churchill's early warnings were ignored and the world saw that appeasement delivered the most devastating war in human history. Altogether, an estimated 62 million dead – 25 million military and 37 million civilians.

[RinaseaofDs]

Baghdad Jim too.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Enemies both foreign and domestic....

[babyface00]

As part of the Trotskyist wing of communism, it is distinguished from the Communist Party U.S.A. she said, "calling for socialist democracy in opposition to Stalinism."

There isn't a country in the world that practices her party's model for government, she said, but Cuba comes the closest.

I'd be happy to pitch in to provide her and her fellow "socialist, feminists" a one-way ticket to Cuba.

[Publius]

I'll copy-and-paste my response from yesterday.

The 5000 block of Rainier South is predominately black with a good sprinkling of Arabs, Somalians and Ethiopians. Some whites and Asians remain. I wouldn't characterize it so much as liberal, but rather as a little piece of the Middle East plunked down in what was once an Italian neighborhood.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Shameful !