Posted on 03/10/2003 6:24:08 AM PST by Ga Rob
Nearly a month ago, Leslie Cagan, the Communist* (pro-Cuba version) head of the United for Peace and Justice coalition that organized the New York Iraq protests announced that when the shooting starts in Iraq the so-called peace movement would take action to "disrupt the normal flow of life" in America. This is thinly veiled code for sabotage and sedition (treason).
In fact, the organizations and plans for this effort are already in place. Check out the website at www.actagainstwar.org. where it is clear that these activists intend to create a riot in the streets of San Franciso that will destroy property, tie up police and open a war front at home. Don't be fooled by the non-violent boilerplate -- which is a cover for the radicals who will see to it that violence erupts. If you're setting out to stop the war, you obviously want a bigger and better riot even than the anti-globalization riot in Seattle. The affinity groups which form the core of the actions reflect the hand of the hard, radical, pro-Communist left. The term "affinity group" is from the Sixties. Its provenance is Che Guevara's guerrilla foco as popularized by Regis Debray. In the Sixties these groups, organized by "revolutionaries" like Tom Hayden and the LA Times Robert Scheer (if you think the media is going to be outraged by this, think again) had names like The Red Family and Red Sun Rising. These groups are manipulated by members of the Communist groups -- the Workers World Party, the Revolutionary Communist Party and various pro-Castro organizations -- who are behind all the "peace" protests and will see to it that violence erupts.The anti-American communist left that is behind these actions is firmly allied and working with our radical Islamic enemies (which is why you don't see any signs denouncing them).
*Cagan was a member of the Communist Party USA even after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
From The Direct Action to Stop The War website (www.actagainstwar.org)
(#3 shows the ideological character of this movement, which has nothing whatsoever to do with peace but is a self-conceived revolutionary vanguard, utterly deluded and therefore equally dangerous)
Our Goals
1) If the government and corporations won’t stop the war, we’ll shut down the warmakers! We will impose real economic, social and political costs and stop business as usual until the war stops. We are publicly declaring and organizing mass nonviolent direct action now, before war begins, with the express intention of deterring a war against Iraq and future wars.
2) Assert our power to transform our city from profits, oil and war to resistance and life! We will create an open, welcoming, inspiring space that gives voice to the anti-war majority as an assertion of real democracy.
3) Uproot the system behind the war (and behind the war at home—racism, poverty…); help catalyze mass movements to challenge corporate and government power and create socially just, directly democratic, ecological, peaceful alternatives.
What You Can Do If the Bombs Drop
Don’t go to work or school. Call in sick, walk out, don’t go—and get your co-workers/ schoolmates to join you. Head downtown-- leave early or come the night before-- things may be jammed in the morning. Or ride your bike and join Bikes not Bombs.
Bring friends, music, art, performance, and food to share
Join / create an ongoing transformation/occupation
Form an affinity/action group now to get prepared. Get a group of five to 25 of your friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, or schoolmates to prepare for and participate in the emergency morning-after action. Make a plan of how you will get together, get downtown and what you will do if war starts. Send one or two people from your group to the weekly action "spokescouncil" to coordinate with other groups. Participate in a nonviolent direct action training to get prepared. Several affinity groups can join together as a "cluster."
Press Statement by Rayan El-Amine (Arab American community and Anti-Capitalist Cluster member)
As a member of the Arab-American community, I want to fully support the "day after" actions against the war in Iraq. Arab Americans have been targeted by an administration that has used racism, fear and the events of September 11th, to attack our community abroad and at home. We feel that we share a historical role with other immigrant communities like Asian Americans, Latinos and African Americans who came before us in fighting racism at home and unjust wars abroad.
We intend to show that despite the attacks on our civil liberties and a government that refuses to represent us in the halls of Congress or in the White House - our opposition to this war will be heard. Arab-Americans, South Asians, and other targeted community members will join thousands of others who are against the war and we will represent ourselves in the streets.
The US war on Iraq is not a war to liberate anyone in the Middle East, but in fact it is a war about profits, oil and empire. The only people that will benefit from such imperial escapades are the corporations, weapons peddlers, and self-serving politicians who hope to take advantage of people‚s fears in this country. In reality this war and US foreign policy in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world has helped undemocratic and oppressive regimes remain in power under the economic and political protection of the US government. The US‚s unquestionable support of Israel for example is a source of deep resentment by millions in the Arab world. Israel is the only state in the Middle East which has proven weapons of mass destruction; nuclear and biological. It has also defied dozens of UN resolutions to stop attacking, occupying, and killing Palestinians but the US has no problems with Israel. _________________________________________________
DH: Note well: The statement says, this is "a war about profits,oil and empire." This is the language of our mortal enemies. Anyone who doubts at this juncture that we have a well-organized, long-developed Fifth Column at home which is a domestic support movement for Communist and Islamo-fascist agendas and is a serious threat is deluding himself.
How You Can Help To Fight This
(Comment submitted by Bob Wittstruck in regards to blog entry: Sabotage: The Next Phase of the Peace Movement)
Dear David,
Will our homeland defense people arrest these people? Does the homeland defense agency have people who have infiltrated this group? What charges can be used against them?
DH: This is a good question and I don't have anything like a complete answer. I assume that if they are obstructing intersectons the police will offer them the opportunity to leave and when they do not, will try to arrest them. If they are passive, they will probably get off with a misdemeanor. I think the law should be changed on this and they should get six month mandatory sentences -- no probation. After all, even if they were Thoreauvians -- which they're not -- the master spent time in jail for his civil disobedience.
But remember, these people our out to stop an evil war planned by corporate capitalists for greed. So it's likely that many of them will resist arrest. I would like to see the sentences for these people be a year in jail plus a $10,000 fine each to pay for the costs of their arrest. Come to think of it, I would like to see everyone associated with the planning of this illegal demonstration slapped with a $50,000 fine to underwrite the costs of policing it.
Will the Homeland Security Department be involved in the security in San Francisco (and elsewhere, since the organizers have incited others to follow their example)? I hope so but I don't know. Is the FBI and the Justice Department surveilling and investigating the organizing individuals and and groups: I surely hope so as well.
Finally, are legislators drafting laws that would define illegal demonstrations (obstruction of traffic etc) in time of war seditious and worthy of severer punishments -- since they endanger the lives of American citizens? I don't know, but I think this would be a good idea.
I urge everyone who would like their Homeland Security officials, law enforcement agencies and legislators to think about these questions, to email this blog to one or a hundred of them. I urge you to email it to others, so that they can do the same.
Other than that...how was evertone's weekend? Good I hope!!:-)
I don't see the veil!
THESE ARE THE ACTS OF THE ENEMY...TO DO THESE THINGS IS TO BECOME THEE ENEMY!
MILITARY TRIBUNALS!!!
I suggest we give 'em a bunch of pot, a piece of dirt, and a has-been band and they'll be quiet for awhile.
As long as FReepers get to play the part of Hell's Angels.
Yeah, you're right. But when I look at them all I see is a bunch of overgrown hippies.
3) Uproot the system behind the war (and behind the war at home—racism, poverty…); help catalyze mass movements to challenge corporate and government power and create socially just, directly democratic, ecological, peaceful alternatives.
It seems these folks want San Franciso, and by extension the rest of the nation, to become another Cuba or North Korea. Where nothing works, except the military and police, and everyone (else) starves.
Today's seditionists will use the emotions of anyone who is willing to act out. The flower children are just one such group. The 'anti-globalization' crowd is another prime group of useful idiots. They are anarchists who just want to break things.
And the young just want to be heard in the Springtime. Before the sixties college campuses witnessed protest if students were told they could not walk on a certain path or piece of grass. Johns Hopkins students had 'panty raids' every spring, disconcerting the administration. The Radical Left just channeled these natural hormonal energies into the causes of the 60s. And the rest is history...
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