posted March 24, 2007 05:51 PM            

Which basically reads: If you don't agree with me you're a sheep and must die? Lovely, compassionate, heart warming sentiment there...

Extremism starts to look more and more like a form of mental illness.

And btw, I would say the same if those were fanatical Bush supporters saying Nancy Pelosi and anyone that supports her should die.

Someone needs to tell them that hate often hurts the hater more than the hated.

posted March 24, 2007 07:26 PM            

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not unlikely that they're 'plants'...with the intention of making legitimate protesters look bad.

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Good point, exactly what was on my mind.

posted March 24, 2007 08:03 PM            

Well we know he's not a Republican. If he were, he wouldn't have printed "there" on his sign when it should have been "their".

I don't see any Republicans threatening to kill Peelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Hillary or any of the brain dead. I also don't see any Republicans dragging a US flag on the pavement or setting one on fire.

We leave that to the brain dead morons of the radical left.

posted March 24, 2007 10:18 PM            

But that aside, these idiots (and I am not talking about all liberals, protesters or Democrats but the fringe left that mirrors the fringe right in violence- there is no difference between blowing up an abortion clinic and blowing up a school) have no clue what the war is all about. They makes these stupid statements that they support the troops but not the war, well you can't do both- it kills the troops morale. One only has to watch the multitudes of interviews with the troops- watch War Diary on MSNBC and you'll see how the ground troops feel about that sentiment- and you'll know what this is doing to the Soldiers that they proclaim to support. Even with the liberal reporters constant rant about how horrible the war is, how much it is a losing battle, Soldier after Soldier states that they believe in the mission. Even as mortars are going off in the background, they feel they are making major progress.

Talk to other Military wives, we get the info from our husbands. We hear about how they are welcomed by the people, how the schools are being built, streets are being made safe, even in the middle of insurgent attacks.

I keep hearing people state "this is THEIR civil war, we need to leave" But did WE (AMERICA) NOT have help during our civil war? Did we not receive support from foreign countries that helped us establish who we are? The same people against the war in Iraq keep bringing up Dafur, but hey, our "meddling" in that region is similar to what we are doing in Iraq. Should we intervene as we have done in Iraq and it is lead by President Bush, would we hear the same hue and cry from the far left? I believe we would, because with some it is not the action it is the person that is pushing the action.

I wouldn't wish death on ANY Liberal or Democrat. That is absurd. I can't stand Pelosi, Kennedy or Murtha, I think they are a waste of space, but they deserve the same rights as I have.

The woman in the shirt that is promoting Chavez obviously doesn't know the brutal and murderous history of the man yet she calls for the impeachment of Bush.

Ugh.. it drives me crazy. OF course there are things that this adminstration has done and continues to do that torques me off beyond belief.

I firmly believe though, that there IS no pleasing the left. Should we get a Republican President in 2008, they will come out in force against him. (I say him because this country, sadly, will still never vote in a woman or an African American into office).

Anyway.... it is a losing battle with some. It won't change, they need to hate, they need a cause. If it isn't Bush, it is the US.

~Pidaua

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The democratic world believes that it is not the terrorists that are to blame, but us. Us, the westerners.
WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the sooner you eliminate this misconception from your minds, the better.
We are NOT to blame. It is the freaking terrorists and the freaking terrorists only!!!! They are the bad guys. They do not understand concepts like peace, democracy, and respect for human life. They are, pure and simPle, EVIL!!!!! Behind all their political manipulations, if you carefully look at the actions of these MONSTERS, they are EVIL!!

http://www.mideastweb.org/log/archives/00000489.htm

posted March 25, 2007 07:36 AM              

The strength of left lies in the fact that they suck on the weak minded, they suck on the poor and make a huge base and wealth for themselves! The communist party is one of the wealthiest entity in India - and their followers are one of the poorest too!

As for the terrorists - yes they need to be dealt with harsh actions, though I do not agree with the latest tantrums of Bush, things have gone beyond rational explanations with his actions, and it is time to give Iraq to the people of Iraq (yeah, the oil factor - I know I know).

posted March 25, 2007 07:40 AM              

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Jwhop, I think you're a paranoid right wing radical. And a moron. You're no better than any of these people, you're just on the other side of the spectrum.

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I disagree completely BlueRoamer.

posted March 25, 2007 09:03 AM            

So many words posted on the net, spread through any media available or just tossed out into the ethers all over are full of hate, anger and violence that are often spewed by people who consider themselves to be entirely in support of love, peace and brother/sisterhood.

You just have to wonder how they ended up so far in denial. Even the most basic perusal of any ancient and even most modern "wisdom" makes it clear that hatred only breeds more hatred. Focusing on what you don't want to happen is exactly the way you create more of what you don't want. Everyone out there "fighting" against what they consider evil is really giving that supposed evil more energy. I'd laugh but it's actually quite sad. Is focusing on the positive really that hard a concept to put into effect? You'd think the effort would be worth it to achieve Peace worldwide.

And no, I'm not saying anger or outrage aren't ever justifiable. I'm saying getting stuck in them is not going to do anyone any good.

posted March 25, 2007 02:49 PM            

I'm guessing hes a loyal Bushie. LOL

On the one with the big pink sign, who is that in the lower left hand corner. Is that, SADDAM? LOL

posted March 25, 2007 06:20 PM            

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We hear about how they are welcomed by the people, how the schools are being built, streets are being made safe, even in the middle of insurgent attacks.

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posted March 25, 2007 10:00 PM            

An examination of each of the antiwar protest groups and individuals which fund, sponsor and organize antiwar, anti America protests in the United States.

"Below (actually above now), witness the true face of the worm-eaten antiwar movement, rotten to its core as it was during the Vietnam era, propped up by hypocritical, anti-US jackasses like George Soros, who helps fund "antiwar" rally organizers International ANSWER, an anti-U.S., pro-totalitarian group directed by the loathesome Ramsey Clark, United for Peace and Justice, an anti-US pro-totalitarian group headed by lifelong anti-U.S. communist Leslie Cagan, and Code Pink, a radical leftwing anti-U.S. group led by pro-totalitarian, Castro worshiping misogynist Medea Benjamin."

George Soros, communist America hater. Major contributor to Move On Dot Org, the brain dead morons who say they own the democrat party...because they bought it. Contributes to a wide array of communist front organizations.

George Soros, the man behind virtually every sick, immoral and degrading movement in the world, including legalization of drugs, the teaching of homosexual culture to school children as young as 6, euthanasia, the dissolution of America as a sovereign nation, investing all political, police and military power in the United Nations.

George Soros, convicted inside trader in a French court...appeal denied. A man who fantasizes about being God. He's a nut case.

Multi-billionaire funder of leftwing causes and groups
Founder of the Open Society Institute
Stated that defeating President Bush in the 2004 election "is the central focus of my life"

George Soros is a Hungarian immigrant who came to the U.S. in 1956, at age 26, and made his fortune as an international financier. His father, who was born into an Orthodox Jewish family, changed the family name from Schwartz to Soros in 1936 - a move that enabled the Soros family to conceal its Jewish identity and thus survive the Nazi Holocaust. In 1947 the family emigrated from Hungary to England, where an event occurred that greatly influenced the development of George's personality and worldview. He broke his leg and was cared for by England's National Health Service, free of charge, while the Jewish relief agencies of that era did not offer him the help he believed they owed him. In that convergence of events was born Soros' favorable opinion of Democratic Socialism, and his negative view of many Jewish groups.

In 1956 Soros started life in America with very little money but a well-developed knowledge of investing, thanks to his education at the London School of Economics and his experience working for a London stockbroker. He transformed his meager seed money into a huge fortune by becoming one of the world's leading hedge fund investors and currency traders. In 1969 he started his enormously successful Quantum Fund, which, over the ensuing three decades, yielded its long-term investors a four thousand-fold increase on their initial 1969 investments. During his career, Soros has orchestrated some extremely risky, ethically questionable deals. For instance, in a $10 billion 1992 deal whose success was contingent upon the devaluation of the British Pound, he earned himself a $1 billion profit and the title, "the man who broke the Bank of England." Over the years, he has amassed a personal fortune of some $7 billion.

In 1979 Soros founded the Open Society Fund, and since then has created a large network of foundations that give away hundreds of millions of dollars each year, much of it to individuals and organizations that share and promote his leftist philosophy. He believes that in order to prevent right-wing fascism from overrunning the world, a strong leftist counterbalance is essential. Asserting that America needed "a regime change" to oust President Bush, Soros maintained that he would gladly have traded his entire fortune in exchange for a Bush defeat in the 2004 election. In a November 2003 interview with the Washington Post's Laura Blumenfeld, he stated that defeating President Bush in 2004 "is the central focus of my life". . . "a matter of life and death." "America under Bush," he said, "is a danger to the world, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is." Claiming that "the Republican party has been captured by a bunch of extremists," Soros accuses the Bush administration of following a "supremacist ideology" in whose rhetoric he claims to hear echoes from his childhood in occupied Hungary. "When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' " he explains, "it reminds me of the Germans. It conjures up memories of Nazi slogans on the walls, Der Feind Hort mit (The enemy is listening). My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitized me."

Soros pledged to raise $75 million to defeat President Bush in the 2004 Presidential election, and personally donated nearly a third of that amount to anti-Bush groups (see The Shadow Party). He gave $5 million to MoveOn.org, the group that produced political ads likening Bush to Adolf Hitler. He also contributed $10 million to a Democratic Party 2004 get-out-the-vote initiative called America Coming Together, whose directors include representatives from the AFL-CIO, the Sierra Club, the Service Employees International Union, and EMILY's List. He further pledged $3 million to the Center for American Progress (CAP), a think-tank headed by former Clinton chief-of-staff John Podesta.

PBS broadcaster and Schumann Center for Media and Democracy President Bill Moyers is a trustee of the Open Society Institute's Board of Directors. The network of Soros foundations - the most prominent of which is the Open Society Institute - supports a wide array of leftist groups and causes.

In August 2006 Soros wrote a Wall Street Journal piece titled "A Self-Defeating War." The article's premise is that "the war on terror is a false metaphor that has led to counterproductive and self-defeating policies." "Five years after 9/11," Soros elaborates, "a misleading figure of speech applied literally has unleashed a real war fought on several fronts -- Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Somalia -- a war that has killed thousands of innocent civilians and enraged millions around the world. Yet al Qaeda has not been subdued."

According to Soros, "[T]errorism is an abstraction. It lumps together all political movements that use terrorist tactics. Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Sunni insurrection and the Mahdi army in Iraq are very different forces, but President Bush's global war on terror prevents us from differentiating between them and dealing with them accordingly. It inhibits much-needed negotiations with Iran and Syria because they are states that support terrorist groups." "The war on terror," adds Soros, "emphasizes military action while most territorial conflicts require political solutions. ... [It] drives a wedge between 'us' and 'them.' We are innocent victims. They are perpetrators. But we fail to notice that we also become perpetrators in the process; the rest of the world, however, does notice. That is how such a wide gap has arisen between America and much of the world. Taken together, these ... factors ensure that the war on terror cannot be won. An endless war waged against an unseen enemy is doing great damage to our power and prestige abroad and to our open society at home."

In December of 2006, Soros met with Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama in his New York office. Soros had previously hosted a fund-raiser for Obama during the latter's 2004 campaign for the Senate. On January 16, 2007, Obama announced the creation of a presidential exploratory committee, and within hours Soros sent the senator a contribution of $2,100, the maximum amount allowable under campaign finance laws. Later that week the New York Daily News reported that Soros would back Obama over Senator Hillary Clinton, whom he had also supported in the past. Soros's announcement was seen as a repudiation of Clinton's presidential aspirations, though Soros said he would support the New York senator were she to win the Democratic nomination.

In early January 2007, Soros was interviewed by Wolf Blitzer of CNN. Blitzer began the interview by asking Soros about the following quote that appears in Soros's newly published book, The Age of Fallibility: "The Bush administration and the Nazi and communist regimes all engaged in the politics of fear. Indeed, the Bush administration has been able to improve on the techniques used by the Nazi and Communist propaganda machines by drawing on the innovations of the advertising and marketing industries." When Blitzer asked him to defend that assertion, Soros replied:

"You actually picked out the most incendiary part of the book, and I am very careful to draw a clear distinction between the Nazi regime and our open society, because we are a democracy. But there are some similarities in the propaganda methods, which I pointed out. ... I think there are some serious arguments about our open society being endangered by the policies followed by the Bush administration. The war on terror, which does not have an end, changes, it leads to an undue extension of executive powers. It has stifled debate. Criticizing the president is considered unpatriotic, and as a result, we have been following policies which endanger our traditional [unintelligible]."

"A lot of people will agree with you on that," said Blitzer. "But where they will starkly disagree is to then bring in the whole Nazi and Communist comparison." Soros replied: "Actually, it's a valid point, and maybe I did go over the line, but I think that on the whole my assessment is a balanced one. And frankly, when President Bush said, 'you are either with us or you are with the terrorists,' that's when I was reminded. But I should have probably kept it to myself."

While cricizing the Iraq War for the benefit of reporters at the January 2007 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Soros unburdened himself of the view that Nazis were now running the United States government. "America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany," Soros explained. "We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process." Lest there be doubts that Soros was actually likening his adoptive country to the Third Reich and the Bush administration to the Nazi nomenklatura, a Soros spokesman, Michael Vachon, moved quickly to dispel them. "There is nothing unpatriotic about demanding accountability from the president," he said of Soros's appeal for de-Nazification. "Those responsible for taking America into this needless war should do us all a favor and retire from public office."

posted March 25, 2007 10:06 PM            

A communist front group for the communist Workers World Party. A stalinist group in support of the communist Kim Jong Ill and other communist governemnts around the world.

Organized the antiwar protests to protect their little communist buddy Saddam Hussein. Teamed up with other communist, terrorist and narco groups from around the world.

Anti-war front group for the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party

A major organizer of the massive anti-Iraq war rallies of 2002 and 2003

Opposes embargo against Communist Cuba
Supports convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal

International ANSWER (an acronym for "Act Now to Stop War and End Racism") is run by Ramsey Clark's International Action Center, which is staffed by members of the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party (WWP). ANSWER views the United States as a racist, imperialist, sexist, homophobic nation and the world's chief violator of human rights -- guilty of unspeakable atrocities, past and present, foreign and domestic.

Founded on September 14, 2001 (three days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon), ANSWER held its initial mass demonstrations fifteen days thereafter, on September 29th in Washington, DC and San Francisco. These rallies drew 25,000 and 15,000 participants, respectively, to protest the Bush administration's impending invasion of Afghanistan, whose Taliban regime had aided and abetted the al Qaeda terrorist network responsible for 9/11. In July 2002, ANSWER shifted its focus to denouncing the prospect of a possible U.S. invasion of Iraq.

ANSWER's first "six-figure" rally took place on April 20, 2002, when more than 100,000 people protested outside the White House and marched through Washington, DC "in support of justice for Palestine." According to ANSWER, this demonstration "broke the existing taboo in the United States among the traditional peace movement against open solidarity with the Palestinian people's struggle," and "revealed that the U.S. anti-war movement … could successfully organize with tens of thousands of Arab-American, Muslim and South Asian people to form a united front." The aforementioned communities, says ANSWER, "have been under siege" in the U.S. since 9/11.

On January 18, 2003, ANSWER initiated the first internationally coordinated day of action against the impending war in Iraq, when some 500,000 people demonstrated in the District of Columbia, as did 200,000 in San Francisco and millions more in cities around the world.

On February 15 of that year, ANSWER, in conjunction with United for Peace and Justice, helped mobilize another set of massive antiwar demonstrations; some 500,000 attended in New York City, as did 100,000 in Los Angeles and many others in San Francisco, Chicago, and elsewhere across the United States.

ANSWER-organized rallies are all conducted in a similar fashion: Protestors gather at a mustering ground flanked by information and merchandise tables that are manned by a variety of leftist and communist organizations, which have paid ANSWER a fee for permission to distribute literature or sell their wares. An elevated stage is set up at the front of the rally site, complete with a massive sound system. After a musical prelude, a number of speeches are delivered -- usually, over a dozen. Once this initial round of speeches is completed, the attendees march along a short route to the location of the final rally, where they encounter more literature and merchandise tables and are treated to another round of speeches. At both rally locations and along the course of the march, ANSWER volunteers raise funds by moving through the crowd with large buckets into which attendees deposit cash donations.

The speakers at ANSWER rallies are generally members of the political far left who oppose not only America's role in the current war on terror, but also many additional aspects of the nation's foreign and domestic policies. Such speakers include prominent members of activist and communist organizations; celebrities and entertainers; and politicians -- often members of the Democratic Party's Progressive Caucus. Some -- such as Brian Becker, Larry Holmes, Teresa Gutierrez, Sarah Sloan, and Sara Flounders -- are members of the Workers World Party. When addressing the crowds, these speakers accuse the U.S. of a broad spectrum of transgressions, including its alleged pursuit of colonialism, imperialism and world domination; its current "occupation" of Afghanistan and Iraq; its purportedly unjustified and immoral trade embargo against Fidel Castro's Cuba; its "attacks" on the "civil rights and civil liberties" of Americans, as embodied in the Patriot Act; its mistreatment of "political prisoners" like cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal; its allegedly excessive military-related spending coupled with its "cuts in social programs"; and the discrimination, institutional racism, and police brutality it supposedly directs against minorities.

ANSWER's policies and activities are guided by a steering committee that includes the International Action Center, the Korea Truth Commission and the Partnership for Civil Justice Legal Defense and Education Fund; the Free Palestine Alliance; the Middle East Children's Alliance; the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organizing /Pastors for Peace; the Nicaragua Network; the Mexico Solidarity Network; the Kensington Welfare Rights Union; and the Muslim Student Association of the U.S. & Canada, the Haiti Support Network; Alliance for Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines; and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

The Houston chapter of ANSWER was a signatory to a February 20, 2002 document, composed by the Maoist C. Clark Kissinger's radical group Refuse & Resist, condemning military tribunals and the detention of immigrants apprehended in connection with post-9/11 terrorism investigations. The document read, in part, "[T]hey [the U.S. government] are coming for the Arab, Muslim and South Asian immigrants. … The recent 'disappearances', indefinite detention[s], the round-ups, the secret military tribunals, the denial of legal representation, evidence kept a secret from the accused, the denial of any due process for Arab, Muslim, South Asians and others, have chilling similarities to a police state."

ANSWER supports an immigration policy that calls for open borders as well as amnesty and full civil rights for illegal aliens residing in the United States. Along those lines, the organization's website features a link to a petition that reads: "Neoliberal economic policies targeting Latin America, like NAFTA and CAFTA, have pushed millions of people into abject poverty. Immigrants are forced to come to the U.S. to look for work. Nobody should be criminalized for attempting to survive. No human being is illegal. Racism against immigrants emanates from the same forces behind the U.S. war to conquer and control the wealth of Iraq."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6147

posted March 25, 2007 10:15 PM            

An American disgrace and traitor. A communist who supported the communist North Vietnamese in the war and supported every enemy of the United States for the last 40 years.

Ramsey Clark, a man on whose behalf some here and on the Conscious Evolution website promoted a petition to impeach Bush...before the war against Saddam.

Ramsey Clark, who defended every contemptible dirtbag he could find including the butcher of Baghdad Saddam Hussein.

Former U.S. Attorney General
Acted as counsel for North Vietnamese Communists and Iran’s Islamic dictatorship
Founder of International Action Center, which is staffed by members of the Workers World Party, a Marxist-Leninist vanguard. Works closely with the WWP
“The Christian Church[es] overwhelmingly . . . choose to call Mohammad a terrorist. They could call Jesus a terrorist too.”

The life and career of Ramsey Clark has been marked by the former Attorney General’s inseparable relationship with the anti-war movement. Over the decades, Clark has consistently condemned American foreign policy and its related military campaigns, from the Vietnam War, to the Iraq War, to the broader War on Terror. Conversely, he has backed groups, nations, and individuals with anti-American and even terroristic agendas. Among the notable recipients of Clark’s support are the following: anti-war protestor Philip Berrigan, who fire-bombed a military recruitment office in 1968; Libya’s Moammar Qadaffi; the Palestine Liberation Organization; Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic; the Communist-driven Workers World Party (WWP); the 1993 World Trade Center bombing conspirator Sheik Rahman; and Saddam Hussein.

In the 1960’s, Clark climbed the career ladder rungs of a Presidential appointee, serving as Assistant Attorney General of the United States until 1965, Deputy Attorney General until 1967, and finally Attorney General until 1969. Throughout his tenure as Attorney General, Clark focused on social issues and civil rights. He set up the first federal narcotics addict treatment unit. He restructured federal prisons to stress the importance of rehabilitation, early release, education, and job training. He oversaw the first federal gun-control law to be enacted in over thirty years. He proposed the prohibition of the use of wiretapping and electronic surveillance in criminal investigations. And he was the first Attorney General to call for the elimination of the death penalty.

Upon his departure from the position of Attorney General, Clark began a career as a defense lawyer, representing and counseling individuals and groups he deemed to be victims of political repression and human rights violations. More recently, Clark’s anti-war views led him to create the International Action Center (IAC), whose creed reads, “Information, Activism, and Resistance to U.S. Militarism, War, and Corporate Greed.” The IAC serves as an umbrella foundation for a host of anti-war radical groups, and is likewise staffed by members who share a dual responsibility for the Marxist-Leninist WWP. Clark also founded Vote to Impeach, which seeks the impeachment of President Bush for what it calls “Presidential abuse of power.”

Clark’s sympathy for anti-American terrorist groups and nations has led him to support Saddam Hussein during both Gulf War conflicts. He has asserted that he does not believe Saddam Hussein to be a brutal tyrant, but instead assigns that label to President Bush, and to America as a whole. In an open letter to President Bush in 2003, Clark stated, “A huge, all powerful nation has assaulted a small prostrate, defenseless people half way around the world with ‘Shock and Awe’ terror.” Clark sought to legally counsel the ousted Iraqi dictator, accused of 30 years of war crimes, after his December 2003 capture by U.S.-led military forces in Iraq.

On the subject of religion, Clark recently stated, “The greatest moral force there by far is Islam. . . . The Christian Church[es] overwhelmingly . . . choose to call Mohammed a terrorist. They could call Jesus a terrorist too.”

Clark was a member of the legal defense team (whose members earned a combined $7 million of U.S. taxpayer money) that defended Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-'Owhali, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, and Wadih El-Hage -- the four men who helped orchestrate the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed a total of 224 people. The Clinton administration took these al Qaeda bombers to federal court in New York, where all of them received life sentences in prison. The two defendants who faced the death penalty were spared by a minority-dominated jury that was swayed by Clark's assertion that that no member of a racial minority -- African-American, Arab or anyone else -- could get a fair trial in the United States. Clark also blamed the 1991 Gulf War and the subsequent UN sanctions against Iraq for having caused the psychological "suffering" that provoked the embassy attacks.

posted March 25, 2007 10:29 PM            

A fine sounding moniker but the reality is that this group is an umbrella group for an array of other communist front organizations.

To these brain dead morons, peace and justice will only come about when the United States is destroyed and all who resist communism are dead.

Anti-war coalition consisting of more than 1,300 local and national groups
Co-chaired by pro-Castro socialist Leslie Cagan

United For Peace and Justice (UFPJ) is an anti-war coalition consisting of more than 1,300 local and national groups joined together "to protest the immoral and disastrous Iraq War and oppose our [American] government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building." The coalition's Unity Statement denounces "the 'pre-emptive' wars of aggression waged by the Bush administration" in its "drive to expand U.S. control over other nations and strip us of our rights at home under the cover of fighting terrorism and spreading democracy."

In an effort to diminish the potential calamities that might result from what UFPJ characterizes as America's aggressive pursuit of world domination, the coalition has launched a Nuclear Disarmament Campaign. "The world," it says, "is destined to find itself in a state of perpetual war so long as the United States maintains its bloated nuclear arsenal. Nuclear disarmament must become a core issue on the global peace movement's agenda."

UFPJ was officially created on October 25, 2002 in the Washington, DC offices of People For the American Way. Its initial membership consisted of approximately 70 organizations. Prior to UFPJ's founding, the anti-war movement had earned a reputation as a hodgepodge of radical elements. All the large-scale peace demonstrations to that point had been held under the auspices of International ANSWER, an organization aligned with the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party; Global Exchange, headed by the longtime pro-Castro communist Medea Benjamin; and Not In Our Name, a project organized by Ramsey Clark and fellow leaders of the Revolutionary Communist Party. United For Peace and Justice was created explicitly to put a milder face on the anti-war movement, although from its inception UFPJ shared with the aforementioned groups a passionate hatred for the United States and for capitalism.

The Co-Chair and principal leader of UFPJ is Leslie Cagan, an original founder of the Committees of Correspondence (a remnant organization created by the American Communist Party upon going out of business) and a strong supporter of Fidel Castro since the 1960s; Cagan proudly aligns her politics with those of Communist Cuba.

The breadth of UFPJ's agendas extends well beyond anti-war activism. Passionately anti-American, this group condemns virtually every aspect of U.S. foreign policy and domestic life. It impugns America's "daily assaults and attacks on poor and working people, on women, people of color, lesbians/gays and other sexual minorities, the disabled, and so many others." It asserts that "the government treats all immigrants as potential terrorist threats until proven innocent, in violation of the Constitution," thereby "expanding the scope and depth of racial injustice within the U.S."

UFPJ was a Co-Sponsoring Organization of the April 25, 2004 "March for Women's Lives" held in Washington, D.C., a rally that advocated unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.

UFPJ has campaigned against American support for Israel's construction of an anti-terrorist security fence in the West Bank, which it describes as an illegal "apartheid wall" that violates the civil and human rights of Palestinians.

UFPJ is also a sponsoring organization of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition, which seeks to secure ever-expanding civil rights and civil liberties protections for illegal aliens, and policy reforms that diminish or eliminate all restrictions on immigration to the United States.

The UFPJ steering committee is a somewhat fluid collection of nearly four-dozen individuals; in recent years this committee has included representatives of such organizations as Historians Against the War, the Independent Progressive Politics Network, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Global Exchange, Peace Action, Veterans For Peace, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Tikkun Magazine and Community, the Communist Party USA, Code Pink, Not In Our Name, the American Friends Service Committee, the Institute for Policy Studies, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, and Military Families Speak Out. Among the individuals serving on the steering committee are Medea Benjamin, Van Gosse, Kevin Martin, and Rania Masri.

UFPJ has received financial support from the Colombe Foundation, the Samuel Rubin Foundation, the Shefa Fund, the Tides Foundation, and the Town Creek Foundation.

Notice the Tides Foundation. A money laundering so called charity which is a favorite of Teresa Heinz and John Traitor Kerry to launder money to communist groups without having their names attached to their contributions to communists

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6166

posted March 25, 2007 10:34 PM            

A dedicated communist and co-founder of United for Peace and Justice. What's in a name eh?

Co-chair of United For Peace and Justice
Member of the Communist left since the 1960s
Founder of the Committees of Correspondence, a splinter group of the Communist Party USA
Ran a think tank promoting Castro's dictatorship
Set up Iraqi Occupation Watch to encourage U.S. troops to defect and undermine the US effort

Leslie Cagan is the co-chair of the large anti-war coalition United For Peace and Justice (UFPJ), which consists of more than 650 local and national groups joined together "to oppose our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building." She was an original founder of the Committees of Correspondence, a splinter group rooted in the Communist Party USA. A strong supporter of Fidel Castro, Cagan is a committed socialist and longtime activist who proudly aligns her politics with those of Communist Cuba. Over the past three decades, she has mobilized millions of demonstrators in rallies denouncing America's foreign policies; its military-related spending; and its purportedly virulent racism, sexism, and homophobia.

Cagan has often praised Castro's Cuba, which she considers a far better place than the United States. During her seven years as director of the Cuba Information Project, she led numerous demonstrations demanding that the U.S. end its economic embargo of, and travel ban to, Cuba. "In the winter of 1969-70," Cagan fondly recalls, "I spent over two months with the First Venceremos Brigade in Cuba. Just ten years into their revolution, the Cubans had taken control of their history. . . . While we were in Cuba, Fred Hampton and other Chicago Black Panthers were murdered. It was a shocking reminder of the brutality and power of the U.S. government, and there we were in Cuba, a whole nation under attack from the U.S. As Brigadistas we were taking a risk traveling in defiance of Washington's travel ban, but we knew the risk was small compared to what Cubans and so many others around the world faced every day." The Venceremos Brigades were organized by Castro's Cuban intelligence agency, which trained some "brigadistas" in guerrilla warfare techniques, including the use of arms and explosives. Among the supporters of the many pro-Castro rallies that Cagan has attended or helped organize are such socialist entities as Casa de las Americas, the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Workers World Party, and the Young Socialists.Cagan condemns what she calls America's "daily assaults and attacks on poor and working people, on women, people of color, lesbians/gays and other sexual minorities, the disabled and so many others." She strongly opposed the U.S. 2003 military strike against Iraq, which she characterized as nothing more than a thinly veiled oil grab. "Oil is not worth war!" read Cagan's UFPJ Website. "How much is the Bush administration's push for war with Iraq motivated by its desire to gain control of Iraq's oil fields?"
Cagan was a signatory to the Not In Our Name (NION) statement denouncing America's declared war against terror, which began in Afghanistan. "Let it not be said," reads the NION document, "that people in the United States did nothing when their government declared a war without limit and instituted stark new measures of repression. The signers of this statement call on the people of the U.S. to resist the policies and overall political direction that have emerged since September 11, and which pose grave dangers to the people of the world."

posted March 25, 2007 10:38 PM            

Code Pink, the lamebrains behind Cindy Sheehan...because Cindy is totally brainless. Also the organizer, funding source and media PR of Sheehan's protests.

Founded by pro-Castro radical Media Benjamin
Presented "pink slips" in the form of women's lingerie to President Bush

Launched on November 17, 2002, Code Pink for Peace describes itself as a "grassroots peace and social justice movement" whose self-defined mission is "to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities." Rejecting "the Bush administration's fear-based politics that justify violence," the organization calls instead "for policies based on compassion, kindness and a commitment to international law." Code Pink was founded by four radicals: Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin, Diane Wilson, and a radical Wiccan activist calling herself Starhawk. Ms. Evans is the nominal leader of the organization, which works closely with Medea Benjamin's group Global Exchange and Leslie Cagan's antiwar coalition United For Peace and Justice.

As a parody of the Bush administration's color-coded security alerts (regarding terrorist threats), the "Code Pink Alert" warns that this administration poses "extreme danger to all the values of nurturing, caring, and compassion that women and loving men have held." Proclaiming that "women have been the guardians of life … because the men have busied themselves making war," Code Pink calls on "women around the world to rise up and oppose the war in Iraq … to be outrageous for peace." During one Code Pink demonstration in Washington, D.C., participants marched up the steps of the Capitol, unfurled their slogan-bearing banners, and stripped down to the dove-adorned undergarments they wore beneath their clothes. "We're putting our bodies on the line," they shouted. Another popular chant was, "We don't want your oil war. Peace is what we're calling for!"

During each of the first 100 days after its inception, Code Pink staged all-day antiwar vigils in front of the White House. Moreover, it initiated a campaign that involved presenting pink slips (women's lingerie) to President Bush and other pro-war officials - an allusion to pink slips of the paper variety, which are traditionally given to employees whose jobs are being terminated.

In 2003 Jodie Evans led a delegation of fifteen Code Pink women to Baghdad, where they met with Iraqi women for the purpose of "creat[ing] the understanding that the people of Iraq are no different than you and me." "We who cherish children," said Evans, "will not consent to their murder ... in a war for oil."

In addition to scorning America's military action in Iraq, Code Pink also condemns the racism, sexism, poverty, corporate corruption, and environmental degradation they claim are rampant in the U.S. Depicting the financial cost of the Iraq War as a drain on resources that would be better earmarked for other purposes, Code Pink laments that "[M]any of our elders … now must choose whether to buy their prescription drugs, or food. Our children's education is eroded. The air they breathe and the water they drink are polluted. Vast numbers of women and children live in poverty." The threat of distant terrorists, claims Code Pink, is insignificant when compared to the "real threats" that Americans face every day: "the illness or ordinary accident that could plunge us into poverty, the violence on our own streets, the corporate corruption that can result in the loss of our jobs, our pensions, our security."

In conjunction with Global Exchange and United For Peace and Justice, Code Pink helped establish Iraq Occupation Watch (IOW) to monitor potential American abuses -- including "possible violations of human rights, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly" -- during the reconstruction of Iraq. Code Pink's and IOW's stated objective is to thin U.S. forces in Iraq by causing soldiers to seek discharges and be sent home as conscientious objectors.

During the last week of December 2004, Medea Benjamin announced that Code Pink, Global Exchange, and Families for Peace would be donating a combined $600,000 in medical supplies and cash to the families of the terrorist insurgents who were fighting American troops in Fallujah, Iraq. In an article dated January 1, 2005, the online publication Peace and Resistance reported that Rep. Henry Waxman had written a letter addressed to the American ambassador in Amman, Jordan to help facilitate the transport of this aid through Customs.

For much of 2005, Code Pink for Peace staged weekly protests outside of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where many U.S. soldiers wounded in combat are treated. As one Code Pink sign put it, American soldiers were being sent overseas to "die for a lie."

As part of a national coalition led by the Ruckus Society, Code Pink runs an aggressive Counter-Recruitment campaign aimed at dissuading young men and women from joining the U.S. military. According to Code Pink, this project represents a way of "standing up to these warmongers and liars" in the Bush administration.

Code Pink also endorsed the Civil Liberties Restoration Act of 2004, which was designed to roll back, in the name of protecting civil liberties, vital national-security policies that had been adopted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

In 2004, Code Pink was a signatory to a letter urging members of the U.S. Senate to vote against supporting Israel's construction of an anti-terrorist security fence in the West Bank, a barrier that Code Pink described as an illegal "apartheid wall" that violated the civil and human rights of Palestinians.

Code Pink identifies another of its objectives as "creating space for women to speak out for justice and peace in their communities, the media and the halls of Congress." Code Pink was a Cosponsoring Organization of the April 25, 2004 "March for Women's Lives" held in Washington, D.C., a rally that advocated unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.

Consisting of more than 90 chapters in the U.S. and elsewhere around the world, Code Pink is a member organization of the Abolition 2000, United for Peace and Justice, and After Downing Street anti-war coalitions, and a member of the National Council of Women's Organizations. As of July 2006, Code Pink claimed that more than 30,000 people were receiving its weekly updates and "alerts."

Code Pink works closely with Cindy Sheehan, founder of Gold Star Families for Peace.

Code Pink receives financial support from the Tides Foundation, the Streisand Foundation, and the New Priorities Foundation.

posted March 25, 2007 11:04 PM            

These communist groups are the organizers and funders of the antiwar protests, including the one from which the pictures above came.

Most of these groups are also directly funded by the insane little communist madman, George Soros.

Another group which is also interlocked with those mentioned is the Revolutionary Communist Party..RCP which is closely associated with another communist group..Not in Our Name. Not in Our Name, a group whose propaganda was posted here a short while back by another member.

Revolutionary Communist Party

Maoist group formed in 1974 as an offshoot of the Progressive Labor Party
Seeks the violent destruction of America's capitalist economic system
Called for the assassination of President Reagan in 1984
Was a key instigator of the 1992 Los Angeles race riots

The Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) is the premier Maoist party in the United States. Its earliest roots can be traced to June 1, 1962, when, in the immediate aftermath of that year's Sino-Soviet split, approximately fifty members and ex-members of the U.S. Communist Party met at the Hotel Diplomat in New York. Favoring the Chinese brand of Communism over its Russian counterpart, these radicals founded the Progressive Labor Movement (PLM) to promote their political views. By 1966, the several-hundred-strong PLM renamed itself the Progressive Labor Party (PLP), which, at its first convention, decided to join forces with the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). But PLP shunned the counter-culture image of SDS and opposed the latter's calls for student revolution -- urging young people instead to avoid doing anything that would alienate fellow students or their communities. PLP tried unsuccessfully to take over SDS's National Office, thereby pushing SDS even further to the political left -- toward hard-line Maoism. Opposition to PLP tactics led to the formation of yet another Maoist group, the Revolutionary Youth Movement, which eventually split into two factions -- one becoming the notorious terrorist group Weatherman; the other spawning a 1969 splinter group called the Bay Area Revolutionary Union (co-founded by H. Bruce Franklin, Robert Avakian, and Charles Hamilton), which would become the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1974.

RCP's "Draft Program" consists of the following major tenets:

"Of all the tyrants and oppressors in the world, there is none that has caused more untold misery and committed more screaming injustices against the people of the world than the rulers of the U.S. This is a country founded on genocide and slavery. … The rulers of the U.S. have plundered and slaughtered their way to the top position within the worldwide system of capitalist-imperialism -- a system of global exploitation, of political and military domination, and of murderous rivalry among the imperialist powers themselves."

"The imperialists in their endless quest to turn everything into a means for private profit, and in their monstrous methods of warfare to enforce and extend their domination … generally wreak havoc on the earth and its resources. … To bring down this system is the urgent need of the world's exploited and oppressed. In the U.S. itself, it is our special challenge and responsibility to make revolution, at the earliest possible time, right within the belly of this most powerful imperialist beast … as part of the world proletarian revolution."

"The ultimate goal and the historic mission of the proletariat is communism, a world in which human beings are no longer divided into classes. … Socialist revolution will put an end to the profit-over-all, expand-or-die insanity of capitalism. … As the crucial first step in this, the new proletarian power will immediately seize and socialize ownership of the major means of production -- that is, convert them into the common property of the people, in the form of state ownership or collective ownership by large groups of working people. The state will also institute socialist economic planning to consciously regulate and guide social production to serve the masses and revolution."
RCP considers capitalism the root cause of the world's most destructive social ills, such as: (a) Racism: "The history of the development of capitalism in the U.S. is a history of the most savage oppression of the Black, Native American, Chicano, Puerto Rican, Hawaiian, Asian, and other oppressed peoples"; (b) Discrimination Against Immigrants: "Millions of undocumented immigrants live in the shadows of U.S. society without the most basic rights … Entire groups of immigrants, such as Arabs, are scapegoated and demonized, and non-European immigrants generally are targets of racism; and (c) Subjugation of Women: "In the face of the brutal oppression of women and the traditional thinking of thousands of years, the proletariat will make dramatic changes upon coming to power."

In RCP's calculus, "revolutionary war" is the only means by which people can ultimately be freed from capitalism's shackles. Says RCP: "Marx once noted that 'Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with the new.' The old ruling classes have never voluntarily stepped down from power. … Thus the proletariat must overthrow and thoroughly smash and dismantle the bourgeois state. And that requires war. In the words of Mao [Zedong]: 'A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.' War brings with it great bloodshed and destruction, and the proletariat will ultimately abolish war. But this will be done, and can only be done, by abolishing the system of capitalist accumulation and class oppression that constantly gives rise to war."

The early to mid-1980s were a time of intense activity for RCP. In the summer of 1983, the organization set up terrorist training camps in Colorado, drawing people from the Iranian Student Association and the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) -- the latter of which is known for its involvement in heroin trafficking. Police have also linked the RCP to heavy-weapons-trafficking endeavors carried out in unison with the Ohio-based "Outlaws" motorcycle gang.

In October 1983, RCP tried to sabotage American efforts to deploy Pershing and cruise missiles in Germany. Toward that end, the noted RCP member C. Clark Kissinger led a "World Without Imperialism Contingent" (WWIC) on an eight-week tour of Germany to lay the framework for these efforts. Accompanied by members of Peru's Marxist guerrilla army, the Shining Path, Kissinger and his RCP comrades penetrated Mutlangen U.S. military base in West Germany, where Pershing II intermediate-range missiles were stored. In November of that year, RCP / WWIC members were involved, along with Red Cells and other German anarchist-terrorists, in an assault against Vice President George Bush's caravan during the latter's visit to Krefeld, Germany. Two months thereafter, the RCP newspaper Revolutionary Worker (renamed Revolution in 2005) called for the assassination of President Ronald Reagan.

This was approximately the period during which RCP sought to establish alliances with radical environmentalist organizations, as exemplified by its November 22, 1983 joint public meeting with representatives of Greenpeace. RCP's radical agendas found further expression when the Party sponsored the March 12, 1984 founding conference of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement in London.

Throughout its history, one of RCP's principal objectives has been to foment civil unrest in the United States. The most notable example of such efforts occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled "It's Right To Rebel" -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong. Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as "the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States."

Robert Avakian is RCP's Founder and current "Chairman-in-Exile." As a result of 1981 criminal indictments issued against him and several other RCP leaders for their break-in to White House grounds during a presidential ceremony, Avakian and his cohorts fled to Paris, where they have been living ever since. From his Parisian base, Avakian continues to agitate for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. RCP National Council member C. Clark Kissinger in 1987 founded the group Refuse & Resist to serve as a recruiting office for RCP. More recently, he created the organizations Not In Our Name and World Can't Wait.

posted March 26, 2007 01:04 AM            

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Also, his shirt says "stupid."
I'm guessing hes a loyal Bushie. LOL

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LMMFAO....I totally missed that too.

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On the one with the big pink sign, who is that in the lower left hand corner. Is that, SADDAM?

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