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According to Byron York:
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A notice on (SWWNBN's) website...
asks for donors who might be able to offer a camper, or an RV, or just money,
for SWWNBN's upcoming cross-country tour, scheduled to begin Wednesday in
Crawford, Texas, and end in Washington at the big antiwar demonstration
scheduled for September 24. At the end of the note, readers with something to
offer are asked to "please call organizer Lisa Fithian."
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To anyone familiar with the world
of professional protesting — protests against globalism, capitalism, war,
police tactics, and dozens of other causes — the presence of Fithian is a
sign of how far SWWNBN has strayed from the roots of her "one mom" crusade
against George W. Bush. Or, perhaps more accurately, it is a sign that the "one
mom" crusade was never just one mom. Fithian is a legendary organizer who
operates in the world of anti-globalism anarchists, antiwar protesters, and
union activists; an advocate of aggressive "direct action" demonstrations, she
protested the first Gulf war, played an important role in the violent shutdown
of Seattle during the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting, was a key planner
in protests at the Republican and Democratic national conventions in 2000 and
2004, and organized demonstrations at trade meetings in Washington, D.C.,
Prague, and Genoa.
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Although she has received virtually
no attention from reporters covering Sheehan, Fithian has been part of the
Crawford protest from the very beginning.
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The name rang a bell. Ah, yes. One of the teammates for "peace activist" Bill Dobbs, the
same guy from "United for Peace and Justice" who crowed so loudly when the
Washington Post backed out of the Freedom Walk memorial for the 9/11 victims.
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Busy little activist, isn't she? Flitting from
protest to protest. Part of one big happy activist family. All that activism - I
wonder how she pays the bills ?
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Speaking of which, I know a great deal more about
the tactics of the Code Pink folks than I new when I wrote the
post linked above. Enough to believe that the average useful idiot trotting out
stupid slogans in front of Walter Reed Medical Hospital is unreflectively
deluded by an organizational leadership dedicated to using truly reprehensible
tactics.
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One of the Code Pink people, a
polite but mildly irritated middle-aged woman, singled me out for some reason to
earnestly complain about this sign calling the Code Pink people Marxists. I
politely disagreed, saying that it was a fair sign and gently pointed out that
Medea
Benjamin, the
co-founder of Code Pink, was a Marxist with a long history of supporting enemies
of America. She blinked hard a couple times. My impression was that she had
never heard that before.
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That's why they call it due diligence. (You'd be
proud of me, I think - I just barely resisted the temptation to finish that last
sentence with ", dumb ass." It was close though. And H/T to Matt for the link)
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And although the connection is tenuous at best, my
blood is up, so do go and read Jeff Goldstein eviscerate a Northwestern prof
who argues that well, in Jeff's words: "Indoctrination isn't
really
indoctrination" when it's left/liberal doctrine being crammed down the students'
throats. Ah, well. As long as it isn't on the test. Speaking of the academy, I
wonder how that sort of posing would go down with the students in this NRO article, former Marine Sergeant Marco
Martinez and Marine Corporal Armand McCormick - two gents that who, between
them, have one more Navy Cross and Silver Star than does your humble
narrator.
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Martinez and McCormick take the high road when
they're faced with sanctimonious ignorance: They shrug, move on and get back to
studying. Which is something that Lisa Fithian and her friends at Code Pink
could usefully take as good advice. I guess that's part of why they're heroes.
Tell me: What is Fithian, again?
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