I can tell you from personal experience-I was taught by the father of the cretinous, virulently antisemitic snot who founded ISM-that the Shapiro family is filled with people who loathe both their country and their heritage.
As for Medea Benjamin, there's not much that can be done to ameliorate her situation.
She's one of those unreconstructed Marxists whose neurosis has so infected and permeated her deranged mind that there really isn't anything that can persuade her to reject that soul-enervating path.
Anyway, great job guys!
Hopefully, our next counter-demonstration in Manhattan will attract a crowd as large and determined as yours.
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
As for Medea Benjamin, there's not much that can be done to ameliorate her situation.
You are right -- there isn't. Long ago she involved herself with some matters, and now she's trapped inside the Freddy Krueger body of it. Timing, place, person -- it goes from there.
Early on, I was standing with my sign by the side of the road. I was watching the protestors marching down the street and in line to be searched for entrance to the park. My hand was shaken. I turned, and Medea was there, introducing herself and thanking me for my civil sign -- in that it was not nasty. I told her I was glad to meet her face to face. And that while we most certainly disagree, there's no reason she and I couldn't be civil. And, I went on: That there was something I truly wished to communicate to her, personally. That our men in women in the military aren't robots. These are bright souls who not only have independent thoughts but have been affirmed in their mission -- that not only do they believe in the mission -- they are enacting and witnessing MIRACLES in the middle-east. And I hoped she understood that her while her activities hurt them -- these also served to galvanize them. Forge them. She took this in. Conversation faded at that point, and she went away. Mind you, I'm recounting days after; and I know there are some who would not have said what I did. And I'd like to briefly explain this:
I strongly support not only Free Speech but the right to free association. I strongly agree with civility -- My opponents do not. They are the "adhominen-via-politics" wranglers, and the big time advocates of lawsuits -- which stifle civil dissent and civil disagreement. Do I know about her politics? Full bore. I could add some details. The left is frightened, terribly frightened of the right. Part of the reasoning of the left is that if they cave to "civil dissent", the right will win. Liberal ideas have gained coinage over the past 30 years; but as those results filter down to the local level, civil dissent has arisen. And, it is resulting in some areas of the country where people can't even put "vote for Bush" stickers out or on their cars. All this type of hoodlum activity does, is grow more patriots. I don't wanna censor the left. But I do think they need to grow some brain cells in figuring out that they are encouraging, massively, the reduction in their own followers while encouraging the growth in others. Most people, especially Americans, just don't buckle easily. Get in their face, and they are gonna grow a couple and bring 'em full bore to the offender. Call someone a racist just to get out of debating something; that person is either going to ignore you, expose you, or get in your face.
Liberalism got its stronghold back years when they WERE civil and when they WERE promoting ideas -- instead of ad hominems, and Ph.D. level masturbatory language sets that everyone can see through.
Code Pink wrangled into CA's "total recall" election -- perfectly timed, launching political hand-grenades -- but shout from the rooftops: Stop the Bombings!
People see through this.
The "burning bed" visual applies here: You can only stifle people for so long, before they stand up and make themselves heard. This line of thinking isn't reserved for feminists or battered women: It applies in society AT LARGE: A people so battered, will rise up. And that's what has happened through how many years of bullying in the classrooms, the courtrooms, and in our halls of governance -- by Politicians, Feminist Law, Race Law, gay law -- your side has pushed too hard. You have battered the people of America.
And they are burning the beds of their batterers and censors and oppressors.
I wished the left understood that their own "policies" have spread into a weapon the left now claims to disagree with.
Americans usually work hard in living their lives. They are a diverse lot -- and sometimes they make mistakes. But if there is one thing that is absolutely true about America, and Americans -- through slavery, through discriminations, through civil war -- Americans don't like injustice nor oppression. The true face and nature of "America" is rising. It has risen.
And I've only big thanks to the liberals and Democrats for waking up that "don't tread on me asp". Americans are indeed regaining their abs and quads.