January 20, 2003

God Bless the Internet and the blogosphere for outing the real force behind this weekend's "peace protests:" the Communist Workers World Party, which hid its Marxist aims clumsily behind the front of A.N.S.W.E.R.
Calling President Bush and his Administration (including Congress!) the "enemies of freedom,"
ANSWER spokesmen called for the violent overthrow of our government and praised the actions of Slobodan Milosevic, the Secretariat of the Communist Party in China who massacred the Tien Amen demonstrators, the violent rebels in Colombia, and the terror killings of Yasser Arafat (among other Islamist terror masters) as well as the brutal dictatorships of Fidel Castro, Kim Jung-Il and of course, Saddam Hussein.
David Horowitz, is a former Leftist who demonstrated against the Vietnam War in the '60's--so he knows whereof he speaks--, spells out exactly what ANSWER and its adherents stand for in his column today which he's entitled "America under Siege".
More importantly for our purposes here in the blogosphere, brave and sage ideological soldier Tacitus calls out several prominent Leftist warbloggers for marching with the Communists, rightly claiming that standing with those who endorse Communism gives their "Hate America First" platform legitimacy, credibility and power.
Even those who participated for the "right" reasons ("I just wanted to protest the war, but I don't support anything else they stand for...") he nails as at the least dupes and the quintessential Useful Idiots.
He ironically and astutely opines, "I forget that we live in a country where the left will howl about you if you express addled nostalgia for the Confederacy, but march alongside you if you strongly support the proprietors of modern-day slave camps."
In her post which she calls "Fellow Travelers" Jane Galt also calls out the peacenik Left for a reckoning and an explanation:

"I've seen a number of people say that it doesn't matter that A.N.S.W.E.R. organized the anti-war marches -- they may be quasi-marxist apologists for Stalin using the anti-war rallies to advance a hard-left statist agenda, but why should we let that stop us from marching in a good cause?

Come again? Would you go to a fundraiser for abandoned puppies organized by the Klan? Please do not bother trying to convince me; of course you wouldn't. You'd donate money to a shelter, or adopt a puppy, but no matter how good the cause was, you wouldn't stand up to be counted alongside the guys in sheets.

In this Age of Information and as citizens who want to play an active role in the shaping of American policy by voting, paying taxes and blogging as well as protesting, there is no excuse--NONE--for not knowing who you're demonstrating with and what they're protesting for and against.
Ignorance is no excuse.
Nor are "good intentions."
Thank you, Jane and Tacitus.
This is definitely a conversation (or more accurately an argument) that needed to take place in the blogosphere.
And given the heavy and favorable coverage of the "peace" protests that the Liberal Media gave them and their [the Media's] not-so-hidden pro-Left agenda, I think it's a discussion that can happen nowhere else but the blogosphere.