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Protesters cross line by cheering on terrorists
DULUTH NEWS TRIBUNE ^ | Aug. 26, 2006 | BRIDGET JOHNSON

Posted on 08/26/2006 10:52:40 AM PDT by rhema

You may have missed the march in downtown L.A. on Aug. 12, but I was there. I expected the Palestinian flags, the jaunty kaffiyehs, the drum-beating and brow-beating. But I nearly dropped my pen in the gutter when I heard cries of "Long live Hezbollah!" from the marchers.

It's one thing to protest the Israel-U.S. alliance, to think Israel's a big bully, etc. I don't agree, but a free country is open to varied political discourse. Call everyone with whom you disagree a Nazi if it makes you feel better.

But it's quite another to cheer on a terrorist organization. And if you think it isn't happening in the United States, you may have missed some recent far-left rallies where that anti-Israel stance crossed the line to anti- Semitism, where the traditional anti-Bush chants were supplemented with support for guerrilla militias armed by Iran.

When I saw the signs saying "Hezbollah forever" and "Hezbollah, Hamas --- People's Resistance," among others, I knew I wasn't hearing things. And the Anti- Defamation League reports similar occurrences at that day's other rallies, including "Long live Hezbollah" cries in San Francisco and San Diego, and a chant of "Nasrallah, Nasrallah, the martyr is the beloved of Allah, the Zionists are the enemy of Allah" in Washington, D.C.

Since when did Hassan Nasrallah become a man of the people, a pied piper to lead the oppressed masses? Since when did Americans find his draconian theological warfare to be a symbol of liberation? "The most honorable death is death by killing," Nasrallah told his followers last year.

"Our motto, which we are not afraid to repeat year after year, is 'Death to America,"' he also said.

Would people get miffed if marchers were screaming "Long live al-Qaeda!" through downtown? Or if Osama bin Laden became the sexy new poster boy for anti-war demonstrations? How vile will these protesters become simply to spite the current administration?

Because it wasn't just about bashing Bush and Tony Blair, or demanding redrawn boundaries in the Middle East. It was about supporting terrorists. And that's just reprehensible. On the State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations, Hezbollah was responsible for the deadliest terrorist attack on Americans before Sept. 11, 2001, when Marine barracks in Beirut were bombed in 1983, killing 241. The "Party of God" is believed responsible for nearly 200 terrorist attacks -- including kidnappings and a 1985 TWA hijacking -- resulting in more than 800 deaths.

"Hezbollah is the main weapon outside of Iran for Iran," said Christopher Hamilton, a senior fellow in counterterrorism studies at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Iran, our fair protesters may be pleased to remember, is controlled by a nuke-coveting mad regime that denies the Holocaust and wants to annihilate the Jewish state in their hat tip to Adolf Hitler.

How does Hezbollah win its support among the American far left? By focusing its virulent hatred on Israel and the U.S. By accusing the Bush administration of interference in the Middle East. By painting itself in a glorious revolutionary light so attractive to the fans of Che.

Nasrallah once referred to the American people as "most of whom are distant and ignorant of what is going on in the world." I look at the terrorist-supporting protesters with a heavy heart and agree, but the Hezbollah leader surely would call this rabble bloody geniuses.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: California; US: Minnesota; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; dhs; fbi; hezbollah; immigration; iran; iraq; losangeles; sedition; waronterror; wot
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To: gcruse
It'd be a lot easier to hate 'em if they was WERE uglier.

Lack of blood to the brain?

41 posted on 08/26/2006 1:10:48 PM PDT by top 2 toe red (To the enemy in Iraq..."Don't bet on American politics forcing my hand!" President Bush)
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To: gcruse
Sorry...I gave you an excuse on your last post, now I see that is the just the way you talk/type.

...folks forget that speech everyone agrees with don't need no protecting.

42 posted on 08/26/2006 1:18:02 PM PDT by top 2 toe red (To the enemy in Iraq..."Don't bet on American politics forcing my hand!" President Bush)
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To: top 2 toe red

It's just dialect, son. Just dialect.


43 posted on 08/26/2006 1:56:23 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com)
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To: rhema
Nasrallah once referred to the American people as "most of whom are distant and ignorant of what is going on in the world."

He may be evil but he seems to have a good idea about the level of comprehension that our mis-educated, propagandized fellows share.

44 posted on 08/26/2006 1:56:31 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Everything I need to know about Palestinian nationalism I learned on June 5, 1968.)
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To: rhema

The left has benefitted greatly from selective editing by the press. If national reporters did their job, Americans would have turned against The Left in a far bigger way than they have.


45 posted on 08/26/2006 5:26:29 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
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To: gcruse
Why? The Nazis would have killed you just as dead.

I think you misread that. Calling someone a Nazi is not cheering on the Nazis. Think of calling someone a terrorist. That's not the same as cheering on the terrorists is it?

46 posted on 08/26/2006 5:45:34 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: rhema

But wait! The media told me that our Muslims were peaceful and assimilated. That can't possibly be false, can it?


47 posted on 08/26/2006 6:05:23 PM PDT by SmoothTalker
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To: My2Cents

about a hundred of them passed through steinway street astoria ,today-parading on the sidewalk with police escort....this is a very crowded area---
only myself and an elderly lady thought to call out to them in response to their rant.....no bystanders cheered or nodded approval where we were but no one challenged them either.
then we saw a group of motorcyclists with American flags--begged them to go in their direction---they ignored us...
this stuff smells and stinks like the 60s and we're letting them get away with it.


48 posted on 08/26/2006 7:58:11 PM PDT by catroina54
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To: Danae

I am telling you, the only SAFE Muslim is dead or disarmed

Tell that to Mohammed N. Rahman
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1451921/posts


49 posted on 08/27/2006 8:11:44 AM PDT by Valin (http://www.irey.com/)
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To: gcruse

"right" but still socialists.

Socialism is the root of all political evil.


50 posted on 08/27/2006 11:36:51 AM PDT by WOSG (Broken-glass time, Republicans! Save the Congress!)
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To: WOSG

The German-American bund was socialist? Is that what you're saying?


51 posted on 08/27/2006 12:31:08 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com)
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To: gcruse

"The German-American bund was socialist? Is that what you're saying?"

Not them per se, but NAZI = nationalism + socialism.
Look at their economic program. In the 1930s we had left-socialist and right-socialist and hardly anyone left around to stand up for economic freedom and free enterprise.

Fascism and socialism were more alike than different.


52 posted on 08/27/2006 2:02:10 PM PDT by WOSG (Broken-glass time, Republicans! Save the Congress!)
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To: rhema

I think this is a legitimate case of speech that should be censored--undermining our government and values and promoting a group that uses hatred.


53 posted on 08/27/2006 2:05:46 PM PDT by boughtwithaprice
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To: rhema

It isn't even about terrorism. it is about supporting a mullahocracy and being forced to either stick one's arse in the air 5 times a day for the moon-god or becoming a good little compliant dhimmi who knows his 2d-class status in the umma.


54 posted on 08/27/2006 2:13:12 PM PDT by attiladhun2 (Islam is a despotism so vile that it would warm the heart of Orwell's Big Brother)
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To: WOSG

My point was that the G-A Bund was more a function of the right than of the left. So that what is old is new again, but in the case, a mirror image.


55 posted on 08/27/2006 2:18:03 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com)
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To: boughtwithaprice

Then prosecute them for treason, not for violation of some asinine speech code.


56 posted on 08/27/2006 2:19:11 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com)
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To: gcruse

This is exactly why I won't call myself a liberal anymore, forever. I left that wing of politics after 9/11, left the Demonrats after they all voted for going into Iraq then lost their collective minds and started saying they shouldn't go into Iraq. Seemed like the whole party went all kumbaya on me and that just ain't cool.


57 posted on 09/04/2006 8:47:48 PM PDT by YdontUleaveLibs
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