Most of the antiwar rallies are organized by the Marxists of ANSWER Coalition who would love nothing more than to see the US fail.
And, democrats, of course, are their dupes.
Sadly, even Saint Cindy is showing that it's not just about peace anymore...
It's about votes.
US peace activist Cindy Sheehan flashes the V-sign as she participates in a march from the White House to the US Capitol to demand an end to the war in Iraq, the return of US troops and the impeachment of President George W. Bush in Washington 15 September.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)
Cindy Sheehan in true Leftist fashion called for mass resistance against the government yesterday since the "peaceful" tactics were not working so well.
Michelle Malkin contrasts and compares the Americans in Washington DC, yesterday.
Victory Caucus has the photos the mainstream media refuses to show you.
My views, not necessarily GOE’s:
ReplyDeleteThe Gathering of Eagles was there both Friday and Saturday (at least they were going to as was stated at our post counter demo meeting at ~ 4:00 PM Sat.). A voice I know pretty well could be heard in the background. Rolling Thunder was unavailable Saturday or we would have had more participants in the counter demonstration and maybe at Code Pink’s house. We were much outnumbered this time partly because of Rolling Thunder being absent due to a prior commitment. The word of mouth information was seemly not as good as in March from conversations I had with participants at this event, GOE III, Operation Eagle Justice. The attack and resulting desecration of the The Wall (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaIMJuD44qY) on Friday evening or Saturday morning last week did not get out widely either; not even any media reports that I know of. A report in February/March that ANSWER was going to attack The Wall caused emotions to run high on our side and caused me and others to attend GOE I.
I will have to say, even though the ANSWER folks violated the police rules, went through the police lines and surrounded us, they were reasonably civil. I wore a T shirt with a statement that my son was serving (I served 1965-71) and quite a few told me they wished by son would return home safely. There were not a lot of personal attacks in the area I was. When ANSWER illegally changed their route, they placed us between them and the barriers and police behind them. We had no escape route except towards the Capitol lawn which was also filling with the demonstrators. We were within arms length of each other as hundred/thousands passed by us with them about 3/4 deep. We were NOT assaulted at that point by anyone. The casket with a Marine's picture (was it the one that the WaPo has in the paper escorted by supposedly the dead Marine’s father? I don't know) caused a stir on our ranks. They, to us, had desecrated the memory and death of a MARINE! After shouts of traitor, etc were issued by many, the 1 or more of the 3 men in Army BDUs with the casket attacked at least one of our people. I don't know the actual number, but I saw two guys rolling around engaged in a wrestling match on the pavement. Our GOE national coordinator, to his credit, tried to pull them apart placing him at significant risk in that volatile situation. This incident was within 15 feet of where I was but I and others were providing the Gold Star Mothers protection and were mainly watching for problems from majority of the ANSWER folks in the area in front of the Capitol grounds; the opposite direction from the incident. We could not leave our charges to become involved in separating the men and many people from ANSWER were running towards the fight; we were afraid of getting the Gold Star Mothers we were protecting caught up in a riot; especially with NO police presence in that area. The Gold Star Mothers were there to protest the intent of ANSWER reading their son's names at the rumored die-in, so GOE members volunteered to provide protection from a possible reoccurrence of the egg throwing event earlier in the march and/or a physical assault.
The initial rush of the ANSWER crowd on to the capitol grounds caused the Capitol Police to abandon us. We were told we were on our own (and obviously greatly outnumbered). Thanks very much, I thought. Some the disorder that was viewed by the media was because ANSWER had violated the rules of the march route, the police positions were undermanned and the police on the scene did not know what the GOE permits allowed.
One verbal encounter stood out. One guy shouted that Bush was a dictator and I countered that if Bush was one, how come he could march. I remained him that dictators were known for shooting demonstrators and using the Army to stop dissent. He said Bush was afraid. Yea, right; real dictators fire on the people or flee the country if afraid. Our President remains in D.C and no demonstrators died. There were obviously quite a few illogical people in the ANSWER crowd, but again I have to give the vast majority of them credit being much more civil than I had expected, except for the one violent incident I witnessed
It is obvious to the most casual of observers that the anti-war/American groups have had a monopoly on the streets of America for almost 40 years. Now grass roots veterans groups are taking back the streets; we are AWAKENED! Unfortunately, few would believe that as a result of the veterans' dissent, the far left would retaliate by this attack and desecration of The Wall. The Park Service didn't have guards posted at the wall during the night and still might not, but they rejected an offer to have veterans provide a civilian watch there in the future
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We were away in the late 1960's and early 1970's doing what many of us thought was important work and unfortunately the Greatest Generation and the mainline veterans organizations were not proactive in countering ANSWER’s and their allies’ messages during that time and afterwards. To me, The Wall is a symbol that stands as our sacred memory of our generation’s sacrifice and regardless of one’s ideology it should be left alone to stand for whatever message it presents to those viewing it. Our AWAKENING is linked to the fact that the Left is again moving towards condemning our military as they did to us when we came home. We SHALL not allow this to happen to our children, our friend’s and relatives’ children and anyone who serves to protect our country from the enemies foreign and domestic.
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ReplyDeleteamr @ 4:25 PM
Thank You & God Bless.. :)
God Bless Soldiers everywhere for putting THEIR
lives on the line to protect us ALL from terrorism!
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I wonder if her two living neurons have ever sparked in such a manner to make her realize that if she has her way Casey will have died for nothing ?
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