September 26, 2005
I love Christopher Hitchens, or, "Cindy Sheehen can go screw herself"
Christopher Hitchens is my hero. He's got a fantastic takedown of the "anti-war" protests going on in DC right now. The organizers behind the rallies? Self-proclaimed Stalinists, jihadists, Baathists, and defenders of the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide. "Anti-war"? As Hitchens puts it, "It is really a disgrace that the liberal press refers to such enemies of liberalism as 'antiwar' when in reality they are straight-out pro-war, but on the other side."
I ran into the same types when i was at a rally in DC prior to entering Iraq, spring 2003. More or less, every one anti-authoritarian who felt the need to "get theirs" showed up in one place. You had Mennonites walking around with disciples of Farakahn and anti-capitalist/hyper-enviromental Greens. Which, specifically for the Mennonites, was sad considering the conglomeration made them look like everyone else.
Posted by: jCave at September 26, 2005 6:49 PMI'm afraid that I live in the district of the only elected official to show up at the rally: Congresswoman">http://www.house.gov/mckinney/welcome.htm>Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.
It's enough to make a fellow want to move.
Posted by: bob at September 26, 2005 7:41 PMsorry. I'll try that again: Cynthia">http://www.house.gov/mckinney/welcome.htm>Cynthia McKinney's page.
Posted by: bob at September 26, 2005 7:44 PMThis war has really done bad things for the Mennonites, I think. I would've hoped they'd have shown more discretion in distancing themselves from such people. I can respect their pacifism.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at September 27, 2005 11:50 AMI saw those protestors marching down the mall last weekend. Several of them were carrying mock coffins draped with U.S. flags, and somewhere in the distance, I heard The Star Spangled Banner played pensively on a trumpet.
Posted by: Laura at September 28, 2005 1:12 PM