“Peace” protestors spray “blood” on congregation
Six “http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1942 Francis George in an action that highlights the growing irrelevancy of an antiwar movement that has been hijacked by the far left and, by proving unwilling an unable to motivate the white middle class, objectively aids the neocon war machine.
The sextet, identified as Donte D. Smith, 18; Ephran Ramirez Jr., 22; Ryane Ziemba, 25; Mercedes Phinaih, 18; Regan Maher, 25; and Angela Haban, 20, call themselves as Catholic Schoolgirls Against the War, despite being made up of men and women and being long out of school. As Cardinal George began his homily in the Holy Name parish hall, they began shouting slogans againt the war on Iraq, then began spraying “stage blood” on members of the congregation, which first reacted with shock and disgust at what they thought was real blood, then with anger. As the six were dragged out of the mass they chanted “Even the Pope calls for peace!” to which the Cardinal replied “and so should we all call for peace,” to applause.
Outside, one of the parishioners shouted at the group, “Are you happy with yourselves? There were kids in there. You scared little kids with your selfish act. Are you happy now?” Police charged the group with felony criminal damage to property and two counts of simple battery as a result of the actions. They are being held on up to $35,000 bail each.As even the Catholic Schoolgirls morons admit, the Pope and the Catholic Church are leading critics of the Iraq War, and an attack like this mmakes no sense, unless we consider the composition of the “antiwar movement” in the US.
When the neocon wars started, the nascent antiwar movement was seen by various Marxist and anarchist grouplets as a shortcut to relevance. In their minds they had an opportunity to regain the momentum they enjoyed at the height of the Vietnam War. The wars on Afghanistan and Iraq were perfect for the left. Unlike the NATO attacks on Yugoslavia, the victims were not white Christians, but brown Muslims, and the leftists were able to construct an elaborate galaxy of front groups that mixed all the leftist sore points into a mass of cultishness. The name of one group says it all. ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) was originally a front for the Workers World Party, formed when hardliners quit the Socialist Workers Party in the 1950s because the SWP was not enthusiastic enough about the Soviet invasion of Hungary. No normal person, let alone the white middle class, which opposes the war, would get involved in such idiocy.
The lack of relevance of the antiwar scene oddly reflects similar inability on the “far right” to intersect the real world. Stuck in a political ghetto, the mindset and commitment to irrelevance gets to the point where groups like the “Catholic Schoolgirls” actually strengthen those they claim to be fighting, by making antiwar sentiment look literally crazy and by alienating whole groups of support. It is http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2500 to find the hand of the state and special interests at work in many “far left” and “far right” groups, while the media love to lavish attention on fringe words, symbols and ideas.
As a Western Voices reader said in October of 2007:
From hundreds of thousands of protesters in the run-up to the war, ongoing control of the antiwar movement by Marxoid sects has sidelined support for an Iraq withdrawal. This despite the fact that antiwar sentiment is now held by 58% of the US population, up from a mere 23% in 2003. The latest demonstration brought out a pathetic showing of less than a thousand people in Washington, DC.
Such protests have become circus-like roadshows of politically correct mania, mixing calls for “anti-racism,” “gay rights” and amnesty for illegal aliens in with the antiwar message. The largest officially “antiwar” group is the Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition, and as the name suggests it is tailor made to alienate the white middle class who have the social power collectively to force an end to the war. Instead, almost as if they are playing off neocon cue cards, ANSWER and various other hangers -on have led the movement into a cul de sac.
ANSWER was founded as a front group for the Workers World Party, a long-established, tiny sect with, like the neoconservatives, roots in Trotskyism. Considering their antiwar pose, it’s a fact that they cheered the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary and supported the Kremlin when it rolled tanks into Czechoslvakia to crush the Prague Spring in 1968. And while they are against the US war to dislodge the Taliban in Afghanistan, they favored the Soviet invasion of 1979. Even more politically correct than many of its leftist opponents, the WWP is infamous for an especially antiwhite hard line. Its own internal affirmative action policies led a Latina who had been built up as a WWP leader to take her influence and supposed skills seriously, taking the bulk of the WWP — and the ANSWER Coalition — into a new grouplet, the Party for Socialism and Liberation. The WWP and PSL now hold rival antiwar events, much to the bemusement and disgust of genuine antiwar activists and the ordinary people who pay the price of the war.
The aim of these organizations in making a serious political issue into a joke is to recruit new members based on a Marxist vision of how to build a movement. They don’t care about actually ending the war — after all, leftism suffered a huge defeat in America when Nixon pulled out of Vietnam. In this sense the far left and the neocon right are allies: the left gets to imagine that it is relevant while the neocons get a paper opposition.
What these leftists care about is using the antiwar movement to piggyback their own delusional ideology and America suffers.