'Peace' rallies less than met the eye

NY Daily News ^ | 02-25-03 | John Leo

[veronica]

FYI.

[veronica]

FYI.

[veronica]

Bump.

[aeronca]

interesting....

[Angelwood]

Good analysis by the reporter.

[airborne]

.5%??? Seems a bit high.
.05% is more like it.

[mewzilla]

Hundreds of thousands protested.

Billions stayed home.

Nuff said.

[fella]

Surely the author isn't implying that the maistream media in this country has an extremist leftwing bias.

[Let's Roll]

Welcome to FR.

"The protests in Europe (including London - supposed bulwark of support for the war movement) were clear evidence that war is NOT seen as an immediate requirement by a large number of people."

War is NOT seen as an immediate requirement by a large number of people because they have not yet been a target. Polls, including internal polls conducted by the WH, show what the American people are really thinking. Don't know about Europe, but the liberal San Francisco Chronicle was able to show that the SF 200,000 turnout was really only 65,000.

link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/850283/posts

[finnman69]

Go away troll.

[driftless]

Well actually quite a few protesters are "fringe fruitcakes" as evidenced by their comments and signs. Furthermore most of the anti-war rallies here and elsewhere are organized by America-hating leftists. Many of these idiots would gladly march to protest American fast food. Slainte!!

[finnman69]

Fruit loops on parade. Not too mention, the numbers of protesters were much smaller than claimed by the wacko LWers. Consider this, more people went to go see Daredevil than protest the war. ROFL

[biblewonk]

The media also fulfilled the organizers' deepest hopes by depicting the protest as a festival of soccer moms. Success depended on this because of the presence of Stalinists, Leninists and Maoists among the key organizers.

bump.

[biblewonk]

which is a front group for the Workers World Party, an old-line Stalinist group with legendary organizing skills.

I don't understand why anyone would want to be a communist.

[dix]

Last week The Houston Chapter Of Freerepublic had a little freep of the commies who gather around The Mecom Fountain every Friday night. What a bunch of odd wads. They had music, poetry readings, and they no doubt cleaned out the local homeless shelters.

At one point some old bat from England stood in front of our We Support The Troops banner trying to block it out so the passing cars couldn’t read it. She asked us if we were Christians, and if we were how could we support our cause? She then announced she was a Pagan. Nuff said.

[shetlan]

Many anti-war people understand the problem of relying so heavily on the Stalinists. They say little, but they wonder whether the soccer moms will crowd out the Stalinists or whether the dangerous hard left is taking over the "peace" movement entirely. Good question.

Good question.