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The Hidden Agenda Behind the "Peace" Rallies
by John Perazzo
If the anti-war demonstrations were only about a peaceful, reasoned criticism of foreign policy, there'd be little to fear. Unfortunately, the people behind today's anti-war demonstrations have more sinister agendas.
Former activist student demonstrator, Brian Sayre
Marxism for a time was a powerful alternative religion: Karl Marx preached that he was the first to find the scientific laws of human history and that those laws would ultimately produce a heaven, even though the heaven would be on earth. While science and communism claimed to dispense with the gods, they almost enthroned the human race, and its potential, into a god. This utopian attitude, even more than traditional religion, was in decline at the end of the 20th century, with the collapse of communism in Russia and eastern Europe. But it might well appear again in new garments.
Geoffrey Blainey, A Short History of the World, p. 414
As evidenced by the throngs of people attending the recent anti-war rallies in cities across America and around the world, the contemporary "peace" movement is one of the truly significant social phenomena of our time. It has organized a number of massive, synchronized demonstrations -- attended by millions -- in hundreds of cities all over the globe. On 15 February alone, simultaneous protests against US military action in Iraq were held in more than 600 cities.
Though virtually unreported by the mainstream press, the organizers of every major rally to date have deep, longstanding ties to a brand of hardcore Communism that seeks nothing less than the destruction of the United States.
A.N.S.W.E.R., for instance, which has organized the bulk of the rallies, is a front group for the Workers World Party (WWP) -- a Communist organization that avidly supports Kim Jon II's regime in North Korea. Yet this purportedly benevolent cornerstone of the "peace" movement has in the past supported Soviet interventions in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Afghanistan, as well as the Chinese government's massacre in Tiananmen Square. United for Peace and Justice, the other principal organizer of the rallies, is headed by Leslie Cagan, a Communist radical since the 1960's who proudly aligns her politics with those of Castro's Cuba. And the Not In Our Name project, whose condemnatory statement against President Bush's "imperial policy towards the world" is publicly recited as a gospel of sorts at most of the rallies, is headed by C. Clark Kissinger, a longtime Maoist activist and a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Given these facts, where does the average person -- who professes no allegiance to revolutionary Communist politics, but only a personal desire to avert war -- fit into the mix? Can any harm come from one's attendance at a Communist-sponsored rally, if his purpose is to express a wish for peace?
First of all, the vast majority of such attendees haven't the slightest idea that the rallies are organized by hardcore Communists. This is of crucial significance, because when someone attends an event whose purpose is to take a stand on an important social issue, he generally ascribes an air of legitimacy and expertise to the assertions of the organizer and the featured speakers. If he is blind to their true agenda cloaking itself in the rhetoric of "peace," he cannot know that he is being used as a propaganda tool by the enemies of his own country -- and is being purposefully indoctrinated with all sorts of ugly beliefs about America that he probably did not hold in the first place. Indeed, he will hear speech after speech referring to the US as the world's foremost terrorist nation; as a greed-driven, power-hungry empire seeking world domination; as an outlaw country aspiring to take control of all Middle Eastern oil. And just as importantly, he is unlikely to hear so much as a word offering a different perspective. In short, he will hear the Communist party line about the many evils of the United States and capitalism.
This is in many ways reminiscent of the 1995 Million Man March, organized by Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Though publicly billed as a "day of atonement" for African-American men, it was in reality a tag-team exhibition of racial hucksters taking turns verbally thrashing America as they stepped to the podium. Farrakhan, for instance, condemned "the idea that under-girds the setup of the Western world ... white supremacy." Kwanzaa founder Maulana Karenga lamented "the increasing racism and continuing commitment to white supremacy in this country." Congressman Charles Rangel called black men "victims" of American racism and injustice. Jesse Jackson said blacks are "under attack by the courts, legislatures, [and] mass media." "We're despised," he asserted. "Racists attack us for sport to win votes."
A barrage of such rhetoric continued, virtually uninterrupted and unopposed, for several hours. And while it is possible that some of the men in attendance really did go for purposes of "atonement," they were quickly buried by an avalanche of ugly, incendiary rhetoric much likelier to foster bitterness and hatred. And that rhetoric did not come from nameless talking heads behind a distant microphone, but from people they viewed as legitimate, authoritative commentators on the issues of race and justice. A great many minds were poisoned that day, all under the righteous-sounding banner of "atonement." Marches and demonstrations inevitably reflect the agendas and philosophies of their organizers.
That is why, during the months leading up to the inevitable war in Iraq, not a single "peace" rally anywhere on earth convened at an Iraqi embassy or publicly called upon Saddam to disarm. That is why no such protest ever implored the Iraqi dictator to free the tens of thousands currently being tortured to a slow and agonized death inside his notorious political prisons. Instead, the wrath of the protestors was aimed solely at the United States -- the "Great Satan" in the Communist worldview.
Take a look around. So long as America is not involved, we do not see protesters gather to denounce military actions anywhere in the world. Nor have we ever.
Indeed, when did "peace" groups ever convene en masse to denounce the Soviet Union for exiling the entire Chechen nation to Siberia; for annexing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; or for sending troops and tanks into Warsaw, Budapest, and Prague? When did they ever condemn the wars and ethnic cleansing campaigns that China's Communist regime waged against Manchuria, East Turkestan, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia? Why did they never once protest against these military incursions, the way they marched in opposition to America's leadership of a UN coalition to drive North Korea's Communist invaders out of the South? Why did they never even politely request the removal of Soviet missiles from Central Europe, whereas they vehemently demanded that president Reagan refrain from deploying missiles in Western Europe to achieve a balance of power? And more recently, why did they utter not a word about the systematic campaigns of mass torture and slaughter in Liberia, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Angola, Rwanda, Congo, or Sudan? For that matter, where were they hibernating when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990? They saw fit to begin barking for "peace" only when the "meddlesome" United States threatened to drive Saddam's invading army out of the tiny Persian Gulf state.
Predictably, there was stony silence from the "peace" crowd when the US virtually ignored pre-9/11 attacks by Islamic extremists during the past decade -- the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1998 bombing of two American embassies in Africa, and the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. So long as America continued to meekly "turn its other cheek" in the face of unprovoked barbarism, the "anti-war" activists were content. Yet when President Bush responded to 9/11 by sending troops to dismantle al-Qaeda's Afghan training camps and their Taliban benefactors, the guardians of "peace" instantly swept back into action, condemning this "moral atrocity" that would supposedly kill countless innocent Afghans.
The "peace" movement clearly has very little to do with preserving peace and trying to spare innocent lives, and a great deal to do with sowing seeds of anti-Americanism in as many unsuspecting minds as possible. Those who attend such rallies with the purest of intentions should be aware that they are being used toward that end. They should be no more eager to attend a "peace" rally organized by revolutionary Communists that to attend a "civil rights" rally organized by the Klan or the Aryan Nation.
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Source: Reprinted in The Schwarz Report. May 2003, pp.1-2, from FrontPageMagazine.com 19 March 2003.
Editorial comment
It is important that one be able to differentiate between the principled dissenters of U.S. policy from those who orchestrate demonstrations for "peace," but whose real agenda is the destruction of not only America but all of Western Civilization. We see the patriotic voicing of a difference of opinion among men of good will as being in the best tradition of what the Founders had in mind when they created and enacted the Constitution of the United States.
And it is in the spirit of voicing an honest difference of opinion that we notice that in this article -- with whose argument we are in total agreement -- there does not appear a single mention of Israel's genocidal aggression against the unarmed Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that it was originally posted on former communist and now reformed conservative David Horowitz's FrontPageMagazine website.
The reader of these words is either aware of the indescribable atrocities committed by Israel, not only to Palestinians, but to Arabs in general and Lebanese in particular, or he is not. If he is not, we recommend he delve into the matter and are sure he will learn things that will make him shudder with indignation and rage. If he is, then we are equally sure that he is just as curious about the absence of any mention of Israeli wrongdoing in this article as are we.
But perhaps we are being naïve: How could we expect a comprehensive accounting of Israeli genocidal mayhem from Mr. Horowitz's FrontPageMagazine when we see that its home page carries a perpetual appeal for contributions to "David's Defense of Israel Campaign"? How could we expect a fair and balanced accounting of Israeli aggression from a man who passionately supports an explicitly ethnic identity for Israel, while at the same time arguing that White Americans should not be allowed to recreate their own self-consciously White America?
The gist of this article tells the reader to beware of those who profess to be what they are not. We think that one should apply this same rule to Mr. Horowitz and other "conservatives" of his ilk.
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