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Silent No Longer: The Anti-Anti-War Movement Giant ‘peace’ marches are a perennial favourite of the mainstream media. During every conflict (or period of great international tension) over the last forty years television and the print media have been filled with long and flowery tributes to the unruly mobs who fill the streets of great cities to shout meaningless slogans in rallies organized by communist front groups. These groups, even though they represent a minority of public opinion, are usually presented as being both idealistic and morally correct- as righteous paragons of virtue. The right has long chafed at the sympathetic...

The socialism of fools has returned to vogue not just in the Middle East and France, but in the American left and Washington. by David Brooks 02/21/2003 12:00:00 AM David Brooks, senior editor AFTER JOE LIEBERMAN completed his unsuccessful campaign for the vice-presidency, I pretty much concluded that anti-Semitism was no longer a major feature of American life. I went around making the case that the Anti-Defamation League should close up shop, since the evil they were organized to combat had shrunk to insignificance. Now I get a steady stream of anti-Semitic screeds in my e-mail, my voicemail, and in...

The socialism of fools has returned to vogue not just in the Middle East and France, but in the American left and Washington. AFTER JOE LIEBERMAN completed his unsuccessful campaign for the vice-presidency, I pretty much concluded that anti-Semitism was no longer a major feature of American life. I went around making the case that the Anti-Defamation League should close up shop, since the evil they were organized to combat had shrunk to insignificance. Now I get a steady stream of anti-Semitic screeds in my e-mail, my voicemail, and in my mailbox. It transpired that I couldn't have been more...

Do you have an inquisitive mind? How about a background in corporate research? If so, and you'd like to put it to work for Free Republic, I would like to invite you to join the FR "Citizens for Fair and Balanced Funding" (CFBF) Committee. CFBF conducts research into the activities, programs, funding and key individuals of the various groups & organizations that provide financial & other support to anti-American causes. A good example of an organization being researched is ANSWER & their parent organization, the People's Rights Fund. In many cases, these organizations knowingly violate IRS requirements for non-profit 501(c)3...

I have a question about these massive anti-war protests they’re having around the world. Who’s pulling the strings? Who’s behind it and what’s their agenda? And why do they operate in secrecy and anonymity? Not to sound like some crazy conspiratorialist – like Hillary Clinton or Timothy McVeigh – but the level of orchestration and coordination in these protests and mass demonstrations is so great and so widespread as to require extensive and central command and control. Translation: Somebody’s in charge. The question is: Who? For example, last Saturday as many as three million people in at least a dozen...

Communist Peace Movements: Then and NowBy Stephen Schwartz FrontPageMagazine.com | February 19, 2003 America and the Free World stand at a crossroads.  There are many historical echoes now of 1941, when America joined battle against Nazi and Japanese imperialism, and of 1950, when America rescued South Korea from Communist aggression. America today leads a coalition facing as great a danger as those our fathers and grandfathers faced: that of Islamist extremism.   Fuelled by Saudi Arabia’s totalitarian Wahhabi death cult, armed by the Communazi-style dictator of Iraq and supported both by ungrateful past beneficiaries of American blood sacrifice in Europe and...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 19 -- President Saddam Hussein's government, apparently emboldened by antiwar sentiment at the U.N. Security Council and in worldwide street protests, has not followed through on its promises of increased cooperation with U.N. arms inspectors, according to inspectors in Iraq. No Iraqi scientist involved in biological, chemical or missile technology has consented to a private interview with the inspectors since Feb. 7, the day before the two chief U.N. inspectors arrived here for talks with Iraqi officials. The United Nations also has not received additional documents about past weapons programs, despite the government's pledge to set up...

Saddam and Kim Jong-il's allies organise 'anti-war' rallies Gerard Jackson Melbourne: Australia BrookesNews.Com Saturday 15 Feb. 2003 Public luminaries like Brown, Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne Peter Watson Laurie Brereton and Green Senator Bob Brown, Democrat Senator Natasha Stott Despoja gave, with the support of leftwing union activists like Ron Hubbard and Martin Kingham, their ardent support to anti-American rallies dressed up as 'anti-war' rallies. The Archbishop, along with Bob Brown, Laurie Brereton made their alleged feelings known when they addressed the crowds. What they and the other speakers did not reveal is that these rallies were organised by a dedicated...

A FREEPER lost Among RED WOLVES["freeper" - www.freerepublic.com]  By Anthony Catalano AGE 43 - Bay Ridge Brooklyn NYC - acatalan@pipeline.com [I apologize about some of the vile words contained below - they are that of the protestors for it is their main mode of discourse] The Design.I had prepared my 20x30 placard sign during the week that ended with Valentine's Day. On it a full-sized American Flag with a handsome characature of George "W" dressed as Uncle Sam with his sleeves up, large-fists clenched and ready for war was captioned, "OPERATION UNFETTERED ACCESS'. On the reverse was taped a hodge-podge...

The group (A.N.S.W.E.R) is organizing a protest at the White House on Saturday, March 1st. They are calling it the "Emergency Convergence at the White House". I have linked their release (do not want to take up space by posting their garbage) regarding their protest, in the hope that the D.C. chapter of FR will take note and prepare accordingly. We need to show support for President Bush and our troops.

Some Alienated Some demonstrators, particularly Jewish dissenters who oppose the war but support Israel, have been alienated by the virulently anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric of groups such as the radical Workers World Party, a key member of the International A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition that organized the big Oct. 26 and Jan. 18 demonstrations. Workers World, which follows a Stalinist political line, supports Saddam Hussein and calls for the elimination of Israel as a Jewish state. Signs of this friction were evident this week when a Bay Area rabbi and magazine editor, Michael Lerner, complained that anti-Israeli factions in the movement had blocked...

As most of us know, the anti-war group is usually tied up with the group ANSWER, an arm of the International Action Center which is itself an arm of the World Workers Party. In short, Commies. One peek at the ANSWER webpage (shower shortly afterwards) reveals that their group is comprised of all sorts of wacko fringe groups which embrace dictators, thugs, terrorists and cop murderers. Most of the media either hides this intentionally, or is unaware of the link (HAH). Many of the marchers (being clueless generally) don't know or don't care, but they also don't publize it and...

Today the Heart of Texas Chapter of FreeRepublic.com CounterFreeped the Saddam Sympathizer Peacenik Protest organized by the A.N.S.W.E.R(Socialists) Klan. They had several thousands(they claimed 10K, but I doubt it was that large). To say the least, we were a bit outnumbered. The peaceniks disgraced the south steps of our beautiful State Capitol. I arrived with my son(hopefully youcan guess his name) overloaded with signs and hoping to have help holding them. After making the 5 block trek from the first parking spot we found, we approached our usual counterprotest spot on the west side of the thru-street only to find...

Last night while working and driving through Baltimore City in the Lower Park Heights Area I came across several telephone, street, and red light poles with bright yellow notices on them. Wondering what they were I pulled over, got out of the company car, and walked over to read one. The first goes stop Bush's Racist War...Money for Jobs Health Care and Education. Rally March 1st in Washington DC catch the bus and community meeting on Feb. 22nd. The second read it is about economics, wealth, and money for the poor now. Bush/Cheney/Rumsfield the real axis of evil. Now for...

The Chicagoland Chapter had a successful Anti-antiwar protest in the Lincolnwood area of North Chicago. Attendees were Chicagolady, GRRRRR, Chi-Town Chief, BillyBoy, RedWing9, justshutupandtakeit and son. BillyBoy, Chicagolady and myself arrived at the corner of Western and Devon around 12:15. GRRRRR and Chi-Town Chief had already laid claim to the corner flying the American Flag and egging-on the 'Saddam Fan Club' of 'Useful Idiots.' justhshutupandtakeit and his son came soon after that, yelling comments from across the street like 'We love Saddam'. We were located about 4 blocks west of the protest gathering but right along their planned march. Their...

Marching orders The press reveals its convictions in coverage of war and abortion ralliesBy Tim GrahamIt's not often that the nation's capital witnesses two major rallies within four days of each other. On Jan. 18, opponents of a U.S. war against Iraq drew tens of thousands to the national mall to protest. Four days later, another crowd of tens of thousands congregated for the annual March for Life to mourn the 30th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion on demand. The "peace" rally was mostly angry, with podium speakers lamenting the supposedly destructive impact of the...

I realize the organizers of the "possibly 10 million anti-war protestors" are the usual suspects, er, socialists, but I wonder if FReepers keep tabs on any of the groups listed below? Thanks for your help. United for Peace & Justice is a new national campaign that brings together a broad range of organizations throughout the United States to help coordinate our work against a U.S. war on Iraq. At an initial meeting in Washington, DC on October 25, more than 70 peace and justice organizations agreed to form United for Peace & Justice and signed on to the following statement:...

Heads Up!! The following information has been posted at the communist A.N.S.W.E.R. website under "February 15-16 Regional & Local Events, and Transportation to Them From Near You":ARIZONA Phoenix, AZ Local to Global Justice CONTACT: phoenixrally@internationalanswer.org EVENT: Gathering at Patriot Square Park (Washington & Central) at 10am

There is not a single political issue today that has one unified opinion. Our great democracy allows for the diversity of opinion. Without this diversity, our democracy would not exist. The current nationwide "leadership" heading up the Anti-War on Iraq "movement", I am sorry to say, cannot be considered the "other side," simply because it adopted this antiwar on Iraq stance, due to its long rooted hate of our country, our democracy, and our freedom. Ironically, it is some of that same freedom which allows them to "protest" in the first place. This group includes major elements of the Communist/Socialist...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO -- Imagine my surprise when I found out that I am banned from speaking at a peace rally here this Sunday. As editor of Tikkun, the largest-circulation liberal Jewish magazine in the world, I have been an outspoken critic of the proposed war in Iraq. I have also unequivocally condemned Saddam Hussein's brutality and called for the world community to bring him to justice for crimes against humanity. But we at Tikkun do not believe that this war -- in which thousands of Iraqi civilians are likely to die -- will bring democracy to the Middle East. Instead, it is bound to increase the threat of terrorism to American citizens and provoke more violence. It will also fuel American fantasies of world economic and political domination.</p>