Who The So Called Peace Protesters Aren't (They're Anti-American)

donfeder.com ^ | 4/10/03 | Don Feder

[goldstategop]

THOSE PROTESTING THE IRAQ CONFLICT AREN'T PRO-PEACE AS MUCH AS THEY'RE ANTI-AMERICAN A Speech By Don Feder At A Rally For Our Troops At Notre Dame University, April 10, 2003

I could speak to you today about the justice and necessity of our intervention in Iraq. I could focus on our military – the courage, tenacity, skill and sacrifice of our fighting men. I could speak of the evils of Saddam Hussein’s fascist regime and the clear and present danger it posed to the American people.

Instead, I want to talk about the anti-war movement, so-called – because there’s a civil war, a political war, a cultural war going on in this country. And its outcome every bit as important as the war in Iraq.

It’s a 40-year war, at least. The first shots were fired when I was a college student in the late 1960s. The conflict continued during the McGovern campaign and the Carter and Clinton administrations. It’s a war for the soul of our republic – a war fought on such far-flung battlefields as movies and television, the foreign policy debate, public school curricula and college education.

My message to you is simple – that pathetic collection of ideologues, malcontents, misfits and miscreants masquerading as an anti-war movement isn’t pro-peace as much as it’s anti-American. It loathes America and everything we stand for. It’s opposed to our intervention in Iraq because it is opposed to America.

There are exceptions. Some of the protestors are naïve and uninformed. Others are sheep who graze with the herd. However, by and large, the leaders and activists of this movement are radicals who are alienated from their society and their people.

Their rancid rhetoric betrays them.

At a demonstration in San Francisco not long ago, activists carried a banner reading: “We Support Our Troops When They Shoot Their Officers.” Well, thank God they’re pacifists. Imagine what they’d be like if they believed in violence.

Speaking before 3,000 students and faculty at a teach-in at Columbia University on March 23, Professor Nicholas De Genova said, “The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military.” U.S. military is a euphemism for America. He then added, “I personally would like to see a million Mogadishus.” This refers to the 1993 ambush in Somalia when guerrillas shot down two Black Hawk helicopters, killed 18 U.S. Army Rangers and dragged their bodies through the streets.

None of the 3,000 people present booed the professor, or turned their backs on him, or left the room. De Genova was loudly applauded when he latter declared, “If we really believe that this war is criminal … then we have to believe in the victory of the Iraqi people and the defeat of the U.S. war machine.”

Excuse me -- the Iraqi people? Would those be the ones we saw dancing in the streets of Baghdad, spitting on pictures of Saddam Hussein? We’re presently feeding the people of Iraq, after Saddam starved them for the past 12 years to build his evil toys. We’re the guys who’ve taken the jackbooted heel of the tyrant off the necks of the Iraqi people. If the Iraqi people are ever to enjoy the basic freedoms we take for granted, it will be thanks to the success of the U.S. war machine.

In a letter to the editor of the Columbia Spectator, Professor De Genova tried to explain what he really meant by his “million Mogadishus” remark. De Genova wrote that in his speech: “I outlined a long history of U.S. invasions, wars of conquest, military occupations, and colonization in order to establish that imperialism and white supremacy have been constitutive of U.S. nation-state formation and U.S. nationalism. In that context, I stressed the necessity of repudiating all forms of U.S. patriotism.” Given that many of our colleges and universities are little islands of Stalinism in a sea of relative normalcy, I predict a bright future for professor De Genova.

Cut through the verbiage, and the professor is saying America is evil, that we’ve engaged in wars of conquest, military occupations and colonization -- that racism is the very essence of Americanism. Anyone who believes this is a traitor of the heart, a Benedict Arnold of the spirit. They should pack up and relocate to a nation compatible with their contemptible worldview – say Cuba or North Korea.

This disease of the soul isn’t confined to the academic leftist. Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, Katha Pollitt, a writer for the liberal magazine The Nation, disclosed that when her 13-year-old daughter requested that the family fly the American flag outside their New York City apartment, this veteran America-hater told the child that her nation’s banner, “stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.” Three thousand of their countrymen lay buried beneath tons of rubble, their remains barely cold, and the Pollitts of America still couldn’t suppress their deep-seated loathing for their native land.

In Hull, Massachusetts, not far from where I live, Selectman Regina Burke refuses to stand for the pledge of allegiance at official functions. Burke explains, “Every time I see the flag, I can picture George Bush wearing it as a toga, and I don’t know what it stands for anymore other than for his particular financial group and followers.”

I doubt that Burke ever understood what the flag stands for. By the way, it does not represent a party or a president, but a nation, a history and a heritage. “I’m upset with the policies of this administration, so I won’t stand for the pledge of allegiance.” Isn’t that infantile? Burke should honor the flag that upholds her right to dissent and the heroes who fought and died under it for all of the freedoms she enjoys. But the left understands none of this.

You may think I’ve picked some extreme examples. Then, consider this – what’s the most popular sign at “peace rallies”? No Blood for Oil. And what does this imply? Quite simply, that America is waging war in Iraq to steal its resources. That we’re the modern equivalent of the Huns or Visigoths swooping down on the poor, defenseless people of Iraq to carry off their oil.

You have to be a member of the legion of the lobotomized to believe something so stupid. If all we wanted was Iraq’s oil, then instead of going to war, we would have lifted the embargo and cut a deal with Saddam, who would have loved to have given us all we wanted – at cut-rate prices. By the way, did we keep Kuwait’s oil after the 1991 Gulf War? If we did, I wouldn’t be paying $1.67 a gallon for gas.

Far from taking Iraq’s wealth, when the war is over, we’ll pour our wealth into that nation – probably to the tune of $75 billion in reconstruction aid.

No blood for oil? If we’d let Saddam Hussein acquire nuclear weapons and supply chemical and biological weapons to terrorists, there would have been blood all right – our blood. It would have made the World Trade Center look like a love-in.

The slogan “No Blood for Oil” is classic Marxism – the dogma that whenever a capitalist country goes to war it’s to grab someone else’s resources. Thus, all human affairs are reduced to grubby economic principles. So, why did we go to war with the Germans in 1941 – to steal their knockwurst? What were we after when we fought Japan across the Pacific for 3 ½ bloody years – its sushi?

There’s an exquisite irony here. In the peace movement, you have a bunch of Marxists who are rallying to the defense of a fascist. It’s the Hitler-Stalin pact all over again.

But seriously, how many American flags have you seen at anti-war protests? Have you ever heard a speaker at one of these demonstrations stand up and say: “Yes, I oppose this war. I disagree with the president’s policies. But here’s what I think is fine and noble about America.” Ask these people what they like about the United States, and you’re likely to be met by deafening silence – what we in talk radio call dead air.

They think the history of the United States is a chronicle of oppression, exploitation, racism, genocide and other crimes against humanity. They honestly believe that U.S. history began with slavery, then proceeded to the dispossession of the Indians, Jim Crow, sweat shops and strike breakers, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, McCarthyism, My Lai and now our awful “aggression” against Iraq.

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Did they leave anything out? Oh, just the sacrifices of pioneers and settlers, the Founding Fathers and the model of representative government they provided to the world, the war to preserve the union and end slavery, the shores of refuge, the building of the greatest industrial engine in history (one that conferred incalculable benefits on humanity), the defeat of communism and fascism in the century past, the inventions and discoveries that flowed from our workshops and laboratories, and trillions of dollars of American foreign aid – just a few little things like that.

Colonialism? There has never been a nation like America – a world power less inclined to empire building. After World War I, France and Britain divided up the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East, not America. Following the Second World War, we could have colonized Germany, Japan and half of Europe. Instead, we rebuilt the devastated economies of our enemies and created firewalls to keep Europe and Asia free.

But, again, the left always assumes the worst of America. It’s one thing to disagree with the policies of a particular administration – God knows, I disagreed with Clinton’s flower-child foreign policy – it’s something else to have chronic paranoid fantasies about your country’s character and intentions.

In and of itself, the anti-war/anti-American movement does not pose a threat. Less than 30 percent of the American people agree with it on the war – and most of them are repulsed by its antics.

But the movement reflects the mentality of the left – which exerts an influence in this country out of all proportion to its numbers. The ideologues of the anti-war movement have their counterparts in Hollywood, academia, public education and the news media. Multiculturalism is their invention. They are the reason American history is no longer taught in American schools. They are why depictions of the American military went from “Sergeant York” and “The Sands of Iwo Jima”to “Platoon” and “Full Metal Jacket.” Their dogma fills our airwaves, newspapers, public school classrooms and college lecture halls.

Ladies and gentleman, I urge you to support our troops by fighting for America on the home front – by confronting and refuting the toxic lies of an anti-American elite that cloaks its evil in idealism.

As our troops are willing to brave bullets on the battlefield, you must be willing to brave scorn and derision to tell the truth about America and help to raise up the next generation of patriots.

[goldstategop]

We all know who the so-called peace protesters are. You know, the anti-war movement. As we won the War In Iraq, our greatest enemy is right here at home, in the likes of Nicholas De Genova to Tim Robbins. What they all have in common is they hate America. Ask them what they like about our country and you are greeted by an eerie silence. There are Huns and Visigoths and cultural barbarians ransacking the greatness of America and looting our country of its spirit and patriotism - but they aren't to be found in Iraq. They are right inside our own gates. They cloak their toxic lies as Don Feder pointed out so exquisitely, in a wrapping that essentially stands for "evil in [the name of] idealism." That is what they mean when they don't stand behind our country in its name. Its time to take America back by telling the truth about the land we all love so patriots will once again be counted on defend it in its hour of need. God Bless America.

[GailA]

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[AbsoluteJustice]

Excellent excellent article....BTTT

[AZFolks]

The best disinfectant is sunshine. The "peace protestors" are being battered by public opinion now thanks to the internet, talk radio and Fox. Growing up these anti Americans were lionized by the media establishment. It is really great to see them run, get defensive, say outrageous thing and otherwise get discombobulated and demonstrate their intolerance to criticism and their paranoia. The secret is tenacity in keeping at it by printing and challenging every stupid thing thing they say.

[RaceBannon]

On a few website bulletin boards, I have used the term PEACE NAZI to describe the peace movement in general, and one person asked me for an explanation as to what the term means and why I say it. Here is my answer:



It is intentionally derogatory, and I use it because I believe it has to be said.

It has to do with the foundation of the PEACE movement in the US and abroad and their Communist foundation, and how the majority of the signs held and slogans chanted are not about peace or genuine concern for the people of two warring countries, it is about the anti-American attitudes and the violence-inducing signs and slogans calling for violence against American Troops and President Bush.

Carrying signs calling on troops to kill their officers, to bomb Texas, for Bush to choke on a pretzel and die, for troops to shoot their officers, signs that call for communist revolution, starting fights with people who disagree with you while carrying a peace sign, trying to steal my money in Boston while carrying a peace sign and then telling me because you were shamed into giving back the money that means you are ok after all...

Things like that.

I will NOT stop using it. It is intended to make the peace protestor think.

After all the horrors we found in Iraq, you should all be thankful we went in and invaded to remove that madman. Yet, the mantra has changed, it is now against occupation! Still, not one PEACE NAZI has apologized and admitted we were right. All they do is complain that a people that were under slavery for 30 years have gone looting, and who do they blame? Why the US!! We did nothing to stop it! Maybe because we stayed out of the crowd because the PEACE NAZIS would have complained we didn’t let them vent their anger??

(As a side note, people who are now called PEACE NAZIS didn’t call on the LAPD or Federal Troops to stop the LA riots after the Rodney King riots, did they? They told us all to step back and let them vent their anger, yet all of a sudden, we are supposed to go in and use force to stop rioters in Iraq?)

We never intended to occupy a country like SYRIA has the last 20 years, and where are the PEACE NAZIS and their signs calling on SYRIA to leave Lebanon? They are non existent. The Syrians killed tens of thousands, chasing little children into bedrooms and shooting them point blank.

Did you know there was a Christian Community in Beirut before 1985? Now, they are almost either all killed or fled from the Syrian backed Junta, and not a peep from the PEACE NAZIS, only against American forces sent to Beirut to keep peace. Why arent the PEACE NAZIS arguing for the return of the Christian Community back to Beirut where they lived for 2 Millennium?

In fact, there is not a single country that we ever went to war with that we stayed as the government power for more than 10 years! We always returned it to the people.

And that brings up another point: PEACE NAZIS are NOT against war, they are against wars that the US is engaged in to overthrow pro-Communist or PRO-radical Islamic regimes or PRO-Maoist/PRO-Stalinist regimes.

My point here, is simple: These COMMIES are not for peace. If they were, they would have been screaming about Clinton killing innocents to keep his sexual scandals off the tv,

they would have been screaming for the Hutus and Tutsis to make peace,

they would have been screaming for that madman Saddam to stop killing Kurds or Iranians,

they would have been screaming for the Turks to stop killing Kurds or Greeks,

they would have been screaming for the Chinese to stop killing Vietnamese in 1982,

they would have been screaming for the Angolan Army to stop killing with the help of the Cuban Army in the 1980's,

they would have been screaming for the Muslims to stop killing Christians in Indonesia

They would have been screaming for the Sudanese to stop the torture and slave trade which continues today

They would have been screaming when the Syrians invaded Lebanon in 1985

They would have been screaming when Pol Pot started a genocide in 1975,

They would be screaming now about Mugabe killing all the white farmers in Africa in Zimbabwe

They would have been screaming at the murders caused by the African National Congress and their necklacing of prisoners and at Winnie Mandela who was convicted of murder, yet the communists are silent

They would have been screaming about Tiananmen Square, but they are silent.

They would have been screaming about the repression in Cuba and why so many people have chosen to flee in rickety little boats, but instead they lionize that dictator, Castro

They would have been screaming about the invasion of South Vietnam where the north started a genocide campaign in direct violation of the Paris Peace Accords of 1973 and caused over 2 million Vietnamese to flee in little boats that got picked up by ships like mine in 1981

They would be screaming at the Palestinians for their suicide bombings that intentionally target innocent school age children


Except, the only time they scream is when the US is at war against a tyrant who is support by Russia.

And since NAZI is one of the most vile insults you can give someone in our last two generations, I call them PEACE NAZIS, for they are not for peace, they are for war, they are for the overthrow of my country and into communism and anarchy, and they are a violent bunch who base their foundation on lies and the telling of lies and the repeating of lies.

[showme_the_Glory]

Nice piece.... Bttt

[driftless]

I don't know how many posts I've read on liberal forums where some poster will deny he or she hates the U.S. and profess his or her love for America. Then in their next breath they usually say "however we are raping the wilderness, starving children, killing old people, oppressing minorities, bullying small countries, having stir-fried kittens for snacks, etc". In short they DO!! believe that their country is evil and a great revolution has to take place completely condradicting their previous statements. To these people the glass is always half-empty. Nothing short of a full-fledged Marxist revolution will satisfy them. They hate religion, the free-market system, big cars, guns, and people who don't think going to a "save-the-spotted-cockroach" rally is great fun.

[FITZ]

That's a long list ---and pretty damning of the United Nations and so-called "international law". It's been completely useless but costly.

[EdReform]

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[MeekOneGOP]

At a demonstration in San Francisco not long ago, activists carried a banner reading: “We Support Our Troops When They Shoot Their Officers.” Well, thank God they’re pacifists. Imagine what they’d be like if they believed in violence.

Speaking before 3,000 students and faculty at a teach-in at Columbia University on March 23, Professor Nicholas De Genova said, “The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military.” U.S. military is a euphemism for America. He then added, “I personally would like to see a million Mogadishus.” This refers to the 1993 ambush in Somalia when guerrillas shot down two Black Hawk helicopters, killed 18 U.S. Army Rangers and dragged their bodies through the streets.

None of the 3,000 people present booed the professor, or turned their backs on him, or left the room. De Genova was loudly applauded when he latter declared, “If we really believe that this war is criminal … then we have to believe in the victory of the Iraqi people and the defeat of the U.S. war machine.”

Excuse me -- the Iraqi people? Would those be the ones we saw dancing in the streets of Baghdad, spitting on pictures of Saddam Hussein? We’re presently feeding the people of Iraq, after Saddam starved them for the past 12 years to build his evil toys. We’re the guys who’ve taken the jackbooted heel of the tyrant off the necks of the Iraqi people. If the Iraqi people are ever to enjoy the basic freedoms we take for granted, it will be thanks to the success of the U.S. war machine.

This guy hits the nail on the head !

Here is a link to the SF-IMC site where these FAR LEFT LIBERALS posted an actual pic (below) of one of their Support Saddam/Terrorists events recently and changed the image when I posted/linked it to an FR thread. The pic at the top of that link (of 2 Allied Soldiers TORTURING someone) was what they changed it to . . .

These folks at San Francisco Indy-Media are terrorist supporters . . .

Oh, the lurkers on FR from SF-IMC CANNOT change that picture (above) now since it is hosted by FR friendly sources !

Here is what the SF-IMC changed that pic to, btw . . .

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the post and the ping !

[MeekOneGOP]

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[EdReform]

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[MeekOneGOP]

Excuse me -- the Iraqi people? Would those be the ones we saw dancing in the streets of Baghdad, spitting on pictures of Saddam Hussein? We’re presently feeding the people of Iraq, after Saddam starved them for the past 12 years to build his evil toys. We’re the guys who’ve taken the jackbooted heel of the tyrant off the necks of the Iraqi people. If the Iraqi people are ever to enjoy the basic freedoms we take for granted, it will be thanks to the success of the U.S. war machine.

Credit to Eternal Vigilance for this caption on the USO Canteen (#117):

The Fruit of the Resolute

"Great victories come only to those who never waver
No matter how loudly the enemies of freedom may mock
Who see the path of duty, and follow it to the very end
God bless our President on this day
He will be known forever as 'the Liberator of Iraq'!"

[jriemer]

Simply, there are people in this world who believe that all of us do not have the right to be free. The "peace" activists have no interest in liberating oppressed people around the world as it is counter to their unspoken goals.

[GailA]

The more you expose the peace nazi's the more outrageous things pour out of their pie holes.

I had one call me an Ultra Right Wing Radical in an email yesterday.

I'll proudly take that compliment.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for finding this excellent article and posting it.

I lived during those terrible days of the 1960's/70's when these anti American A$$holes and their butt buddies in the media turned many Americans into anti Americans.

These 3 paragraphs from this article really sum up this war of right versus left in America. This is our war and not the Presidents. We are the ones who have to fight these anti American A$$holes with the truth.

"I want to talk about the anti-war movement, so-called – because there’s a civil war, a political war, a cultural war going on in this country. And its outcome every bit as important as the war in Iraq.

"It’s a 40-year war, at least. The first shots were fired when I was a college student in the late 1960s. The conflict continued during the McGovern campaign and the Carter and Clinton administrations. It’s a war for the soul of our republic – a war fought on such far-flung battlefields as movies and television, the foreign policy debate, public school curricula and college education.

"My message to you is simple – that pathetic collection of ideologues, malcontents, misfits and miscreants masquerading as an anti-war movement isn’t pro-peace as much as it’s anti-American. It loathes America and everything we stand for. It’s opposed to our intervention in Iraq because it is opposed to America.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

[KineticKitty]

"Burke explains, “Every time I see the flag, I can picture George Bush wearing it as a toga, and I don’t know what it stands for anymore other than for his particular financial group and followers.”

I'll take that ANYDAY over Clinton using it as a bed sheet.