Palo Alto/Stanford "Peace" Rally

CounterCounterCulture

[CounterCounterCulture]

Anyway, that's what's going on in Palo Alto these days.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Note: The rally occurred October 7

[Texas_Jarhead]

Thanks for the info.

[randog]

Since this is a 'racist war', did the Kumbaya Krowd carry their message over the bridge to their brothers and sisters of color in East Palo Alto?

[CounterCounterCulture]

FYI

[CounterCounterCulture]

That would have been a good idea. But instead they went west.

[HEFFERNAN2]

Sorry you went to so much trouble because very few and probably even less care what the lefties in Palo Alto are doing. You girls just hold on to your garter belts and when it's safe to come outside we'll let you know. Semper Fi, Mike

[CounterCounterCulture]

ALSO: San Francisco (so-called) Peace Rally FREEPED!!

[farmer18th]

The speeches and chants were rather pathetic in my opinion but the crowd ate them up as usual

I graduated from Stanford. What you saw was the bean-curd and Jesse Jackson crowd. No one takes them seriously, on or off campus. These are the folks who live in Synergy (a campus row house), where they assign bedrooms once a quarter by having an all night talk-fest, comparing their degrees of oppression in order to earn seniority. I knew a few of them, and most of their parents were rich Republicans. It's a rite of passage thing they all go through before becoming investment bankers.

[Cool Guy]

Thanks for the report. I am ready to take em, next time they come out of their holes.

[Illbay]

Have you noticed that the peaceniks seem to have no coherent message this time around?

For example: "It's a racist war." Well, I guess that goes for the "other side" not ours; the hate-rhetoric seems to spew from them much more readily than from us.

Or how about "decimating a country whose people had nothing to do with this." On what proof do they base this charge? It seems to me that these attacks are VERY scaled back and concentrated solely on the bad guys. True, there are likely civilian casualties as there always are in war, but this country's BEEN at war for decades now. The case is easily made that the end of war in that country is now in sight because of us.

And so it goes. There just doesn't seem to be ANYTHING they can pin their hopes and dreams on. The "jihadists" aren't overt socialists; even to the extent that they are, they're closer to fascist than communist.

I think this "peace movement" is going to die of anemia and sheer boredom, of it's own volition.

[nascarnation]

Everybody now..... All we are saaaaying is GIVE NUKES A CHANCE!!!!!!!

[Dr. Frank fan]

That "racist war" slogan is the one that cracks me up the most. Just which "race" do these people think we are being "racist" against?

The Arab race? Well are we bombing Saudi Arabia?

How about the "Afghan race" (if such a concept exists)? But how does attacking the despotic government which is subjugating the Afghans count as "racism against Afghans"? That's like saying that bombing Hitler's government was anti-Semitic because Jews may have died in the process.

I just don't understand what these people think they are saying by calling it a "racist war". I really don't.

[100%FEDUP]

"Have you noticed that the peaceniks seem to have no coherent message this time around?"

You wanna talk about incoherent. Did you see Phil Donahue on ABC with O'Reilly and Diane Sawyer?

Donahue was giving the usual "Make love not war" crap and O'Reilly was b****slapping him around. Donahue hair tossled and about to cry, so Sawyer asks him, "Okay after we've stepped back and caught our breath, then what do we do?" After a pregnant pause Donahue breaks into this mansonesque soliliquoy. "We reach out to all countries and announce that WE are ready to become a part of the human svkjdfwueghoew (uncomprehendable)!"

At that point O'Reilly said, "This is pointless."

I really think we should put all these peaceniks someplace where they couldn't hurt themselves and at the same time keeps them out of our way. Maybe we could fence in South Dakota or Minnesota?

[Combat Override Button]

I just don't understand what these people think they are saying by calling it a "racist war". I really don't.

It is difficult trying to figure this stuff out. I have tried to understand it as well and the arguments don't really follow logic. In most cases I can usually "see" the other side even though I disagree but many of the peace arguments are just naive. Some are just psychotic. Even the liberals seem to be on-board with the current action but there are some that just seem so far out there isn't another way I can describe them.

I think these people see the U.S. as white and everyone else as non-white and then they jump to the belief that the U.S. engages in war because non-U.S. people are not white. It appears that those that call the war "racist" believe that any war the U.S. engages in is racist unless we were to engage in a war with Britain or maybe Germany.

It is likely that pointing to the number of non-whites citizens in the U.S. would not be convincing to them. These people likely are so filled with hatred towards whites and our system of government that any evidence would simply be discounted.

Here is an excerpt that I found on an anti war website: http://sf.indymedia.org/display.php?id=104035

"An African-American man who works on gentrification issues in West Oakland said that "we're always seeing Americans drop bombs on people. We watch the Vietnamese get bombed, Iraqis get bombed, Palestinians get bombed, now it has come home to roost." Japanese-Americans spoke about internment camps and the nuclear holocaust brought on by US militarism."

[CounterCounterCulture]

And I should add that the crowd was predominately WHITE.

[Number_Cruncher]

I think that the word "racist" is the most emotionally charged word they can think of, at least for them. To call someone "racist" is the very worst thing you can say about that person. Ditto, for war.

These leftists seem to see everyone as part of group first and then maybe later as an individual. I think they assume everyone else has this pattern of thinking too. It is kind of weird.

[American Preservative]

Thanks for the ping, CCC.

I think that green ribbon represents support for the P.L.O.T.errorists. The Arabs like the color green or green/blue-ish.

After your stealth Counter-work, you must be thirsty...enjoy...remember, though, everything's BETTER with COKE! ; )

PEPSI, the choice of stupid Pakistani protesters

[tenderstone jr.]

"To decimate a country that had nothing to do with this attack on the U.S. is not justice. It is revenge, pure and simple."

If Afghanistan played no role in the attacks, then what are we getting revenge for? If they really had nothing to do with it, this man would be calling what we're doing something much worse than "revenge."

[larryjohnson]

Stanford prof couple used my guest house thru labor day. I flew my USAF,Viet Vet and U.S. flags the whole 3 weeks.