--- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 16, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > > What I would ask also is, has the anti-war > movement no > > sense of decency, using this poor woman as a prop > in > > its attempts to attack the President? How do you > feel > > rallying to someone supported by David Duke > > (http://www.davidduke.com/index_print.php?p=350) - > it > > seems to me that people willing to exploit a poor, > > bereaved woman as she lashes out to assuage her > grief > > should be comfortable in his company. > > That's also pathetic, Gautam -- or are you happy > rallying behind a > president supported by a porn star? > > By this logic, you are on the side of the rednecks > who decided to > "protest" Sheehan by destroying some of the crosses > left near her vigil > point (vandalism is illegal, last time I checked), > No, of course not. You're an editor, Warren, you can do better than this. My point is (obviously) that this person has made claims that draw the specific support of anti-semites, and according to our list's self-apponted arbiters of all that is good and compassionate, we're supposed to defer to her moral judgemnt, blah blah blah. But, of course, it's not a coincidence that the David Duke's of this world have rallied particularly to her claims. They agree with them. This tells us something. Now I think this is just "no enemies to my left." Anti-semitism (lots of people), anti-Americanism (Michael Moore, for example), and actually wanting the Iraqi "insurgents" to win (George Galloway) are all fine, as long as these people oppose the war. So here we've got a case where this poor woman has, under the influence of far-left figures, made claims that echo the traditional anti-semitic slanders, and been supported in those claims by some of the most prominent anti-semites in the United States. And guess what? We find out that very prominent members of the anti-war movement - and even ones on the list - are just fine with those statements and the people who make them. This doesn't surprise me, of course. But when someone makes _exactly_ the same statements that David Duke would make _on the traditional topics of anti-semitic slander_, it is, to put it mildly, highly significant, and it tells us something about the people who are willing to exploit her grief for their cause.
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