Here is a brief summary sympathetic to the leftists, on how they were bravely trying to thwart Reagan administration defense plans in the 1980s.... and remember that Ted Kennedy co-authored a nuclear freeze book along with the Kennedy-Hatfield resolution..... "nuclear freeze" was leftist code for "stop the Reagan administration and keep the USSR happy"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SANE
1982 The Kennedy-Hatfield freeze resolution is introduced in US Senate. One million gather in New York City on June 12 - the largest peace and disarmament march in US history. A sister rally draws 100,000 to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The SANE Political Action Committee is formed; 16 of 32 SANE supported candidates win. More than 10 million voters approve freeze referenda in 8 states.
1983 The Nuclear Freeze resolution passes the US House of Representatives. SANE, working to link peace and civil rights, participates in 20th Anniversary Mobilization commemorating the historic civil rights march on Washington DC. Hollywood for SANE is revitalized, and publishes an ad in Variety magazine signed by over 250 celebrities including Jack Lemmon, Burt Lancaster, James Earl Jones, Sally Field, Jean Stapleton, Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft and Ed Asner.
1984 SANE's door canvass reaches over 250,000 households and recruits 10,000 new activists by early 1984; membership tops 100,000. President Reagan announces that Washington is ready for "mutual compromises" with Soviets to resume arms control negotiations. SANE's weekly radio program, "Consider the Alternatives," is on 140 stations. Despite a Reagan landslide, 106 of the 167 House and Senate candidates endorsed by SANE PAC go on to win. The MX missile program is killed.
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I wonder how much George $oreA$$ was involved in these actions via funding some of these pseudo non profits.
We are seeing the same bs with the WOT as we saw against Ronald Reagan and the Cold War, and against LBJ and Nixon in the Nam War.