Death of the anti-war movement

Recent anti-war movement protests have managed to attract very little support. Most attract a few hundred and at best maybe a thousand.

But who is marching? Who are these few hundred or so people; common folk who really are against the war or organized enemies of America?

Let's look at an anti-war rally, held yesterday in Boston. Boston is appropriate due to a famous tea party held there.

BOSTON -- Hundreds of protesters rallied yesterday on a city plaza to call for an end to the U.S. military presence in Iraq.

"We are here to say that it is time now to bring the troops home to their families where they belong. It is time to care for the thousands and thousands of broken bodies, minds and hearts created by this war," Paul Shannon, an activist with the American Friends Service Committee, told the crowd on Copley Plaza.

Police estimated a crowd of about 400 to 500.

OK. So who are the American Friends Service Committee?

The American Friends Service Committee is and has always been committed to undermining Western democracy, propping up Communist regimes and working for the total disarmament of the United States in the face of her enemies. From Front Page

Hmmmm. No common folk here. Let's try the rally's organizers.

Similar protests were scheduled for the weekend in cities around the nation, including San Francisco, St. Louis and New York, said Jennifer Horan, a spokeswoman for United for Justice With Peace, the coalition of groups that organized the rally.

With that kind of name surely these are some common folk.

Given the manner in which the major media report the contemporary "peace" movement's activities, the average American would never suspect that it is in fact a movement dominated the selfsame Communists that once marched in support of Stalin, Mao, the Vietcong, the Sandinista Marxists, and the Communist guerrillas in El Salvador; the same America-loathing radicals who, because they passionately deem America the root of all evil in the world, now support Kim and Castro. From Front Page

Wow! Certainly no common folk here either. This is not looking good for the anti-war movement.

Horan, acknowledging the turnout in Boston was disappointing, said, "My feeling is right now a lot of people are demoralized because trying to bring the troops home is like trying to move a mountain."

That mountain being the mountain of public opinion of the common folk who, based on the "disappointing" turnout, do not support the anti-war movement.

Horan goes on to contradict herself.

But, she said, "We are here and we're not going away and more and more the American public is coming to support the idea that the troops should be brought home."

Well if "more and more" of the American public support the idea, how come the turnout for your rally was a miserable few hundred? And if you have so much support, why is stopping the war "like trying to move a mountain"?

I think one of the reasons for the decline of the anti-war movement is the internet. With the aid of the internet you truly "cannot fool all the people all the time". It is all too easy now to look up who these people really are, who they support and their actions in the past. Not only does the internet give you access to vast amounts of information; the internet has a very long memory.

If only we had had the internet during Vietnam, I have no doubt the outcome would have been far different.

UPDATE: Perhaps the Boston anti-war types should pay more attention to what is happening in their own backyard.

FBI Investigating Terror Suspect in Boston
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