Blood of the Peaceniks
 

January 23 2005
Counterbias.com
Drew Bedson
 

In the West, we understand protestors pretty well, admiring those who have the conviction to go out on a rainy day and do their thing to set this world straight. As a freedom worshiper, protest represents freedom at it’s best.

Yet well-intentioned peaceniks are witless slaves of another’s political agenda. Like a Mel Brooks - Sophocles comic-tragedy of errors, they cause untold damage and pain to those whom they intend to save.

Pre-World War II groups on both sides of the Atlantic held back their respective governments as Germany tuned itself up to propagate the Aryan race, applauding Chamberlain for a flaccid peace agreement with Hitler and, later, being instrumental in getting the US out of Vietnam. More recently, peaceniks tried to stop the US-led invasion of Iraq.

While these are, in reality, noble acts, history judges them more harshly. Was Hitler contained by a heavily armed and unified allied force, willing to negotiate and disarm? No. Forty million dead, a continent in smoking ruins as the US was two years late in appearing on the front line. Pre-war peace organizers are conspicuously missing at Nuremberg. In Vietnam, people like John Kerry and Jane Fonda vilified and demoralized their own while giving the enemy a moral boost. The US pull-out set in motion a virtual genocide of purges, with almost a million dying in the Communist takeover.

With Iraq however, the underlying tempo changed. While protests prior to the Iraqi invasion seemed unnoticed by the Bush Administration, Saddam, smugly in violation of fourteen UN resolutions, tells a somber, pouting Dan Rather on the eve of invasion that he won’t give up, challenging Bush to a debate instead. Protestors worldwide, none of whom seem to say a bad word about Hussein, actually appear to approve of his defiant stance. The result? Twelve thousand Iraqi deaths. It's less than what Saddam killed on a day-to-day average, but, nonetheless, casualties of war that otherwise would possibly still be alive if Saddam was only given one Global message: leave or die. In the end, he gave up, rather than die.

Lethal dictators don’t understand democratic protests, equating them to official government rallies. Indeed, while conferences with the Hollywood elite may seem like a strange way to conduct despotic foreign policy decisions, in the face of reality any thread seems like a chain of iron.

Pistol-packing peaceniks like Sean Penn, ‘Shut up and just sing’ Streisand and part-time Eurotrash expatriate Madonna are more than likely second only to the word of Allah to freaks like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who lop off the heads of hapless hostages in between Dallas reruns. After all, they have the same belief and goal: America is bad and should leave Iraq so it can follow it’s ‘natural path’ of purges, executions, Islamic retribution, or simply a bloody civil war with over a million deaths and a terrorist superpower emerging with Iran.

Now this is not to say that peace protestors are evil. On the contrary, they’re good, concerned people who wish to save lives but inadvertently become Lenin’s proverbial ‘useful idiots.’ The real evil are those who organize and steer them. You see, Socialism hates excellence as it thieves on co-dependent mediocracy with a centralized government controlling all. The West stands for individual freedom and achievement, with America being the most successful. Hence, if, the Socialist argument is to have credibility, America’s stature and purpose must be vilified.

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