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]

Flag waving, patriotic demonstration in front of New Freeway Hall. Friday, April 30th at 4pm. 5018 Rainier Avenue South in Seattle.

[Tropicalwatcher]

This makes me sick, this needs a big old fat rock thrown through it.

[jonrick46]

I heard John Carlson of Seattle's KVI 570 Radio blow the trumpet call for the Fighting 570th to assemble for a peaceful show of support for our troops. We are calling all of the region's Freepers, if they are able, to gather up a flag and help others show these lefty socialists the true spirit of America!

5018 Rainier Avenue South. Be there! Be square!

[Chad Fairbanks]

I have exclusive audio (and video) of some nutjob honcho of the Freedom Socialist Party, from a public meeting last night in Bothell. The meeting was about putting homeless Tent Cities on Public land, and this guy from the party got up to speak on behalf of the SHARE/WHEEL group and spent more time whining about the backlash against this sign than he did about the homeless.

I'm going through 20+ gigs of video trying to find this joker. I'll have to post it when I do. ;0)

[Mr. Mojo]

Freedom Socialist Party

Can it get more oxymoronic than that?

[nutmeg]

ping

[ladyinred]

Seattle, San Francisco North.

Traitors should be deported to Iraq.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Oh, I'm sure they'll think of something. Maybe the "LIberal Intelligence" Party is next ;0)

[fish hawk]

I didn't see this thread yesterday and I'm sure a lot of others didn't either. If you have , you don't have to read it again, move along.

[Chad Fairbanks]

I didn't see it either. I didn't even know about it until I heard that freak last night, and I'm thinking "What sign?". Decided to look, and sure enough, there it an article.

As an aside, it was really nice to hear a guy get up and say, "I'm such-and-such, and I'm here representing the Freedom Socialist Party..." and getting greeted by a room full of laughter. ;0)

[Kozak]

I recall a 60's anti McDonalds campaign:

You deserve a Brick Today...

[Dec31,1999]

Hey soldier, don't you know that second hand smoke can kill?

[Libertina]

Hi Nutmeg... yeah, they are a bunch of twits... However, both conservative stations covered it and lots of patriots went and waved flags and generally fought back - shingin the light if day on their stupidity. This area is also the one with the Lenin statue, I believe... Yeah, that's what I said - Lenin. In the "park." Have heard though that "things" are placed on him... a rubber duck, funny masks... LOL he he he

[Hot Tabasco]

If the constitution is sacred to you....maybe you should try reading it

The Constitution IS sacred to me, thus I am willing to chase out of town any individual or organization whose political doctrine seeks to take away the God given freedoms that our U.S. Constitution guarantees.

Freeper intuition tells me you are nothing more than a "one squirt" troll with the stench of a DU'er....