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Monday, September 26, 2005
Moonbats On Parade!
First, a quick NEWSFLASH (courtesy of my friend, The Heretik): the St Pat's Four were found NOT GUILTY of conspiracy! I'll have more about that later. Now on to more important matters...
Ever since Gordo the Magnificent cleverly outed me as a hate-filled, rape-advocating, lightsabre-wielding, violent practicioner of non-violence with a deap-seated fear of pygmy marmosets and a strange attraction to Michelle Malkin, I just can't stop thinking about that crazy-cool, pro-war, internment-advocating psycho hose beast. So I visited her site to see what insightful and sexy things she had to say about the DC peace rallies.
What a lot of folks don't know is that the moonbats haven't left yet. Today, they plan on lobbying Capitol Hill and then sapping local police resources the entire day with what they're calling "nonviolent direct action."
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The United for Peace and Justice group has expressed "solidarity" with radical activists who plan to "disrupt the city's traffic or commerce." The group has done nothing to distance itself from property-destroying vandals who warmed up over the weekend with "nonviolent direct actions".
What a lot of rightwing nutjobs don't know is that the term 'moonbat' doesn't insult us--we revel in it, in fact! What a lot of rightwing nutjobs also don't know is what nonviolent action really is--not surprising in the least. What a lot of rightwing nutjobs also also don't know is that this weekend there was also a protest of the IMF and World Bank--and why exactly do peace marchers need to scold anarchist spray paint artists anyway?
Other fun facts about what a lot of rightwing nutjobs don't know: how to count; how to read; how to raise money for their pet projects.
And now a new, innovative feature on this widely-read, highly-influential moonbat blog: meta commentary (please don't tell Thers)!
- A comment on one of the Michelle's pictures: isn't it great how 'pacifists' just LOVE keeping their identities hidden?
- Uh...the snipers were keeping their identities hidden, too. One more thing, you dipshit: you're looking at one fucking picture of a few protesters (who walked by me at one point, blowing on whistles and basically annoying the shit out of me) out of 100,000-250,000.
- A trackback on MIchelle's original post: This morning fanatical anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested during a protest outside the White House. As you can see by the look on her face, she’s devastated by this terribe mistreatment … unless … this couldn’t possibly be a publicity stunt…could it?
- Yeah, she's just a publicity hound like that big phoney Martin Luther King, Jr. Which part of 'civil disobedience' don't you understand?
I have a podcast about the entire weekend in the works, but there's no way on God's Green Earth that I'll finish it today. It's been an exhausting five days and at some point I do have to at least pretend to think about considering what I'm going to lecture tomorrow (unless maybe I can get away with pulling a "Mrs Krabappel" at the college level?).
Peace out, my beloved Moonbats,
ntodd
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Funny - do you have a link for MLK jr. sending out press releases like this:
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/130422/index.php
And, I don't quite recall any picture of MLK Jr. smiling about getting arrested - please don't insult the memory of that true American patriot by comparing Cindy to him.
Posted by: Charlie | Sep 26, 2005 7:39:38 PM
Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. And we must rejoice as well, for surely this is the first time in our nation's history that a significant number of its religious leaders have chosen to move beyond the prophesying of smooth patriotism to the high grounds of a firm dissent based upon the mandates of conscience and the reading of history. Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movement well and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us.
Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. At the heart of their concerns this query has often loomed large and loud: Why are you speaking about war, Dr. King? Why are you joining the voices of dissent? Peace and civil rights don't mix, they say. Aren't you hurting the cause of your people, they ask? And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live.
Rev. Martin Luther King
excerpted from "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence"
4 April 1967
Posted by: !!! | Sep 26, 2005 9:32:32 PM
Maybe it's because I'm just a whiteboy who has always been recognized by the Constitution as 5/5 of a human being, but I've always felt Beyond Vietnam was MLK's most powerful speech. Not to disrespect I Have A Dream or anything else, but damn...
Posted by: NTodd | Sep 26, 2005 10:34:48 PM
I actually agree, NTodd - now, can you at least admit Cindy does not hold a candle to MLK, Jr.?
Posted by: Charlie | Sep 26, 2005 11:00:16 PM
Not at all. Not everybody can be a saint, not even MLK. He was a womanizer, you know. Fact is, human beings with human frailties interact in human ways with other humans, and it's messy. Sometimes there's violence. Sometimes there's divorce. Sometimes there are wacky things shouted aloud.
We invoke Gandhi and MLK not because we think Cindy or NTodd have to be exactly like them in every respect, but rather because we use them as inspiration. A naked fakir in a loincloth can lead a country of 800,000 poor, ignorant brown people to overthrow an age-old empire. A passionate minister in the Jim Crow south can convince a President from Texas to admit that "all men are created equal" and it's the Federal government's duty to ensure that it's the case in fact, not just on paper.
So Cindy can be physically, emotionally or psychologically as ugly as you folks try to make her. She speaks Truth to Power, she isn't the sum total of the so-called "peace movement", and the fact is she stands agains a war that the vast majority of Americans think is wrong.
Now, can you at least admit that Bush does not hold a candle to MLK, Jr.? Or Bush I? Or Reagan? Or Nixon?
Posted by: NTodd | Sep 26, 2005 11:29:01 PM
I'm not saying MLK, Jr. was a saint, simply observing that he was effective - Cindy will not be. That being said, Bush does not hold a candle to either MLK or RWR.
Posted by: Charlie | Sep 26, 2005 11:32:54 PM
And Cindy hasn't been effective? With 2/3 of Americans thinking Bush is screwing the pooch in Iraq? Are you really the same Charlie who told me that Vietnam wasn't a quagmire yet because we hadn't reached 58k dead yet--but now claim a woman who has been in the spotlight for 6 weeks isn't as effective as the icon of the Civil Rights movement?
You continue to astonish me as you reach even greater depths...
Posted by: NTodd | Sep 26, 2005 11:43:17 PM
"Effective" as in ending the war, NTodd. You know, actually EFFECTING change like MLK, Jr. did?
Posted by: Charlie | Sep 26, 2005 11:55:59 PM
Wishful thinking, Charlie. If Sheehan is not effective, how do you explain the fact that her arrest was on the news front of just about every major internet news site? "The whole world is watching," chanted her supporters, and it appears the whole world was indeed watching, aside from those in the GOP bubble. I'd hate to be in Bush's shoes; what's he going to say about her arrest? nothing? that won't work, either.
Sheehan is Sheehan, not MLK or anyone else, and whatever her relationship to the history of nonviolent civil disobedience, she clearly knows how it is done, now, today, in her own context. Mr. Bush should be so fortunate, so competent, so... effective.
Posted by: Steve Bates | Sep 27, 2005 12:02:12 AM
Really? Ask Saddam if he was "effective" next time you see him. I'd hate for you to be in Bush's shoes too - I love America too much to subject her to you ; )
As for how I explain her arrest making news, probably the vacuum from Rita not killing very many people and the mainstream liberal press conspiracy accounts for most of it.
Posted by: Charlie | Sep 27, 2005 12:11:54 AM
As I said, Charlie, that's wishful thinking on your part. Give it up. Bush is an embarrassment to true conservatives everywhere. Save yourself; divorce him... it's the American thing to do.
If I were in Bush's shoes, I'd promptly go looking for an antifungal treatment...
Posted by: Steve Bates | Sep 27, 2005 12:41:16 AM
We'll see how much coverage she gets once Gonzales or Owen gets the next nomination, D.C. heats back up, and the SCOTUS overturns Roe v. Wade, etc. Thankfully, Bush will stay the course until it is safe to leave and even you know he will not withdraw from Iraq one minute sooner because of Mother Sheehan.
Posted by: Charlie | Sep 27, 2005 12:56:59 AM
Charlie seems to think that Cindy is the only person protesting this war. Odd, that.
Posted by: NTodd | Sep 27, 2005 11:52:48 AM
I don't think Mother Sheehan is the only one - my posts above lament that NO ONE including her will be effective. You saw how one hurrican took her off the front page - wait til D.C. heats back up again - her 15 minutes are up.
Posted by: Charlie | Sep 27, 2005 2:04:15 PM
So the war will start to become more popular again once "DC heats back up"? Keep whistling past the graveyard, Charlie.
Posted by: NTodd | Sep 27, 2005 5:07:19 PM
I never said "the war will start to become more popular again once DC heats back up"?
Posted by: Charlie | Sep 27, 2005 8:24:25 PM
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