Sunday, March 21, 2004 |
15:20 - Slow-motion train wreck
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Via LGF: photos from this weekend's peaceful peace protests for peace:
Yeah, nice job centering the lettering there, sport.
You know, some time ago I think I recall people warning that as the anti-war Left's cause became more and more ridiculous, their expression of that cause would get more and more bizarre, radical, and blatantly offensive. And it would drag along with it all the shallow but otherwise well-meaning people who simply didn't want war. What started out being a simple popular show of support for extended diplomacy rather than quick militarism (a rational discussion can be had there) would devolve quickly to a showcase of all the looniest and most offensive radical agendas who have coopted the movement: eco-terrorists, Stalinists, Maoists, anti-Semites, dictator-appeasers, people who prefer UN-sanctioned genocide to US-sponsored liberation, and people who feel more sympathy for the terrorists who destroyed the WTC than for the people working inside it or their friends and families.
Yet it was with some skepticism that I read the claims that that's where it would lead. "Surely," I thought, "there would be some repudiation of the true fringe radicals from the mainstream of the movement. Surely there would eventually be a schism, a wilful and voluntary separation of the vapid but otherwise harmless Hollywood bubbleheads from the International ANSWER and Hamas and Saddam apologists. No way would they decide, even a year after the invasion of Iraq, with more Iraqis optimistic about their future than Germans are about theirs, that it's more important to show solidarity under the BUSH=HITLER flags than to purge their ranks to ensure their principles at least are unsullied. ...Right?
What a fool I was.
Congratulations, guys. I hope you're happy in the company you've chosen.
You may now board the express train directly to Hell.
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