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09-27-05, 06:47 AM
A Tale of Two Demonstrations
By Ben Johnson
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 27, 2005
FOR THE FEW AMERICANS ENTERTAINING DOUBTS THAT CINDY SHEEHAN is just another grieving mom, the goofy grin she flashed Capitol police as they forcibly removed her from an illegal sit-in in front of the White House yesterday said it all: normal, grief-stricken parents don’t rejoice as they’re headed to the paddy wagon. They also don’t clog up traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of “the people’s house” in a “direct action” protest to shut down the nation’s capital; they aren’t jealous of the media coverage given to their fellow Americans in the midst of a hurricane; and they don’t consort with the motley crew of Hate America leftists who clotted the District of Columbia for the past several days.
Antiwar, Anti-American Hatefest
This weekend, more than 100,000 people attended the Washington, D.C., “peace protests” organized by International ANSWER and United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ). The main rally, on Saturday, featured several anti-American, anti-Bush hate screeds from such practiced rabble-rousers as:
Cindy Sheehan, whose speech angered even fellow leftists. After camping out on the frontpage of every newspaper in the country for a month, she resented having to share the headlines with acts of God, whining, “I am watching CNN and it is 100 percent [Hurricane] Rita [coverage]…even though it is a little wind and a little rain.”
Jesse Jackson, who compared Sheehan to Rosa Parks.
George Galloway, clad in keffiyah, who is widely suspected of receiving largesse from Saddam Hussein’s Oil-for-Food money laundering.
Lynne Stewart, the convicted terrorist lawyer who passed messages on from Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman to his terrorists followers in Egypt. This is the woman Sheehan called “my human Atticus Finch.”
Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation; former SDS member; and founding board member of Sami al-Arian’s National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom. Bray testified on behalf of al-Arian, saying the two were “kindred spirits.” This includes a propensity for violence; Bray once told a similar “peaceful” crowd, “Let's all go into jihad, and throw stones at the face of the Jews.”
“Poet” Amiri Baraka, who lived down to his image as a radical hatemonger. His very first sentence was: “First, I must confess that I am a Communist.” Two sentences later, he quoted Mao Tse-tung. He then stated, “I am not against a people’s war against” imperialism, racism, and other such ideals, “because that is the only way” to overthrow these evils. He tritely labeled White House Republicans “the *******s of Evil.”
Ibrahim Remy of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, who spoke adoringly of the “political prisoner” H. Rap Brown.
Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-GA, who distinguished herself in the past by alleging the Bush administration knew about 9/11 in advance. In the words of the Washington Times, McKinney “accused the Bush administration of election fraud and of starting the war on false evidence.”
Ramsey Clark, the founder of the WWP front group International Action Center (IAC), and recently self-appointed counsel for Saddam Hussein.
Gloria La Riva of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five. She averred, “For 46 years, the United States has terrorized the people of Cuba for daring to take an independent route from Washington.”
“Poet” Suheir Hamad, who participated in a New York City salute to convicted traitors Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on June 19, 2003.
Musa al-Hindi of Al-Awda International, who yelled, “Long live Palestine…from the river to the sea!” (This sounds like context for Cindy Sheehan’s advice, “You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you’ll end terrorism.”)
Brian Becker, another WWP leader who has said 9/11 “is fundamentally a consequence of U.S. policies around the world.”
Larry Holmes, a longtime Marxist agitator, two-time WWP presidential candidate, co-founder of International ANSWER, and fan of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal, most recently of the Troops Out Now Coalition (not to be confused with the heavyweight boxing legend and capitalist of the same name).
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, the founder of The Partnership for Civil Justice Legal Defense & Education Fund (a part of the IAC) and also a member of the National Lawyers Guild.
George Martin of UFPJ, who boasted, “We’re the coalition that continues to drive this whole weekend.” He also discussed his trip to the World Social Forum.
Ralph Nader, perennial presidential candidate (and closet slave-driver).
Hadi Jawad, founder of the Crawford Peace House.
Damu Smith, founder of Black Voices for Peace and the progenitor of the “environmental racism” con.
Ricardo Santos-Ortiz, of the Socialist Front of Puerto Rico.
The General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ, whose name is John Thomas. (Well, that’s truth in advertising.)
Democratic presidential hopeful Al Sharpton and far-Left Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, D-CA, addressed the protestors over the weekend, as well.
During the various festivities, the heroin-addled Steve Earle sang protest songs and Sheehan’s backers chanted, “Hey, Bush, we know you/Your daddy was a killer, too.” Unsurprisingly: supporters of the Socialist Equality Party and the World Socialist Web Site distributed thousands of copies of a statement of the SEP entitled “Katrina, the Iraq war and the struggle for socialism” and sold a large number of copies of a new WSWS pamphlet, “Hurricane Katrina: social consequences & political lessons.” They found a positive response to this intervention, which posed the necessity of building a new mass socialist movement.
The Nazi “Peace” Axis showed up again, as Byron York reports seeing individuals from David Duke’s website, NoWarForIsrael.com in the crowd.
The Washington Post’s orgasmic coverage tried desperately to spin this collection of seethers as mainstream, claiming, “The masses on the street served up a broad cross section of the United States.” As proof, WaPo propagandist Petula Dvorak cited the participation of such all-American folks as the Raging Grannies, Portuguese Against Bush, and the Buddhist Peace Delegation. She also quoted an alleged vet, who said he was at the rally because “this is the only way I can shove it to Bush.”
The leftist Village Voice, for once, told it straight: “Monday's civil disobedience ran the gamut of Code Pinkers and Naderites, anarch-kids and feminist boob-flashers, along with some guys roaming around in prison garb, with Abu Ghraib hoods over their heads.”
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By Ben Johnson
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 27, 2005
FOR THE FEW AMERICANS ENTERTAINING DOUBTS THAT CINDY SHEEHAN is just another grieving mom, the goofy grin she flashed Capitol police as they forcibly removed her from an illegal sit-in in front of the White House yesterday said it all: normal, grief-stricken parents don’t rejoice as they’re headed to the paddy wagon. They also don’t clog up traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of “the people’s house” in a “direct action” protest to shut down the nation’s capital; they aren’t jealous of the media coverage given to their fellow Americans in the midst of a hurricane; and they don’t consort with the motley crew of Hate America leftists who clotted the District of Columbia for the past several days.
Antiwar, Anti-American Hatefest
This weekend, more than 100,000 people attended the Washington, D.C., “peace protests” organized by International ANSWER and United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ). The main rally, on Saturday, featured several anti-American, anti-Bush hate screeds from such practiced rabble-rousers as:
Cindy Sheehan, whose speech angered even fellow leftists. After camping out on the frontpage of every newspaper in the country for a month, she resented having to share the headlines with acts of God, whining, “I am watching CNN and it is 100 percent [Hurricane] Rita [coverage]…even though it is a little wind and a little rain.”
Jesse Jackson, who compared Sheehan to Rosa Parks.
George Galloway, clad in keffiyah, who is widely suspected of receiving largesse from Saddam Hussein’s Oil-for-Food money laundering.
Lynne Stewart, the convicted terrorist lawyer who passed messages on from Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman to his terrorists followers in Egypt. This is the woman Sheehan called “my human Atticus Finch.”
Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation; former SDS member; and founding board member of Sami al-Arian’s National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom. Bray testified on behalf of al-Arian, saying the two were “kindred spirits.” This includes a propensity for violence; Bray once told a similar “peaceful” crowd, “Let's all go into jihad, and throw stones at the face of the Jews.”
“Poet” Amiri Baraka, who lived down to his image as a radical hatemonger. His very first sentence was: “First, I must confess that I am a Communist.” Two sentences later, he quoted Mao Tse-tung. He then stated, “I am not against a people’s war against” imperialism, racism, and other such ideals, “because that is the only way” to overthrow these evils. He tritely labeled White House Republicans “the *******s of Evil.”
Ibrahim Remy of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, who spoke adoringly of the “political prisoner” H. Rap Brown.
Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-GA, who distinguished herself in the past by alleging the Bush administration knew about 9/11 in advance. In the words of the Washington Times, McKinney “accused the Bush administration of election fraud and of starting the war on false evidence.”
Ramsey Clark, the founder of the WWP front group International Action Center (IAC), and recently self-appointed counsel for Saddam Hussein.
Gloria La Riva of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five. She averred, “For 46 years, the United States has terrorized the people of Cuba for daring to take an independent route from Washington.”
“Poet” Suheir Hamad, who participated in a New York City salute to convicted traitors Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on June 19, 2003.
Musa al-Hindi of Al-Awda International, who yelled, “Long live Palestine…from the river to the sea!” (This sounds like context for Cindy Sheehan’s advice, “You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you’ll end terrorism.”)
Brian Becker, another WWP leader who has said 9/11 “is fundamentally a consequence of U.S. policies around the world.”
Larry Holmes, a longtime Marxist agitator, two-time WWP presidential candidate, co-founder of International ANSWER, and fan of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal, most recently of the Troops Out Now Coalition (not to be confused with the heavyweight boxing legend and capitalist of the same name).
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, the founder of The Partnership for Civil Justice Legal Defense & Education Fund (a part of the IAC) and also a member of the National Lawyers Guild.
George Martin of UFPJ, who boasted, “We’re the coalition that continues to drive this whole weekend.” He also discussed his trip to the World Social Forum.
Ralph Nader, perennial presidential candidate (and closet slave-driver).
Hadi Jawad, founder of the Crawford Peace House.
Damu Smith, founder of Black Voices for Peace and the progenitor of the “environmental racism” con.
Ricardo Santos-Ortiz, of the Socialist Front of Puerto Rico.
The General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ, whose name is John Thomas. (Well, that’s truth in advertising.)
Democratic presidential hopeful Al Sharpton and far-Left Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, D-CA, addressed the protestors over the weekend, as well.
During the various festivities, the heroin-addled Steve Earle sang protest songs and Sheehan’s backers chanted, “Hey, Bush, we know you/Your daddy was a killer, too.” Unsurprisingly: supporters of the Socialist Equality Party and the World Socialist Web Site distributed thousands of copies of a statement of the SEP entitled “Katrina, the Iraq war and the struggle for socialism” and sold a large number of copies of a new WSWS pamphlet, “Hurricane Katrina: social consequences & political lessons.” They found a positive response to this intervention, which posed the necessity of building a new mass socialist movement.
The Nazi “Peace” Axis showed up again, as Byron York reports seeing individuals from David Duke’s website, NoWarForIsrael.com in the crowd.
The Washington Post’s orgasmic coverage tried desperately to spin this collection of seethers as mainstream, claiming, “The masses on the street served up a broad cross section of the United States.” As proof, WaPo propagandist Petula Dvorak cited the participation of such all-American folks as the Raging Grannies, Portuguese Against Bush, and the Buddhist Peace Delegation. She also quoted an alleged vet, who said he was at the rally because “this is the only way I can shove it to Bush.”
The leftist Village Voice, for once, told it straight: “Monday's civil disobedience ran the gamut of Code Pinkers and Naderites, anarch-kids and feminist boob-flashers, along with some guys roaming around in prison garb, with Abu Ghraib hoods over their heads.”
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