Hating America; CodePink and anti-Americanism

We all saw the protester who tried to rush the stage during Governor Sarah Palin’s speech on Thursday, and yesterday two more women were picked up last night during John McCain’s speech trying to do the same thing. This all following the arrest of Amy Goodman, part-time reporter and full-time radical, as she tries to push her way past the police line after several warnings not to. Why is this seen as a heroic action when the real heroes are the one who are protecting the rights of those within the Republican convention and their right to free speech? This wouldn’t have been allowed during the DNC, so why do so many think it is during the RNC? Is it just me or is radicalism growing in North America?

Now I will say that this kind of radicalism isn’t new to me. My first real experience with it was in first year politics, during a discussion group about the September 11th attacks. Ever since I watched the Twin Towers fall on a small television in my high school cafeteria, I have been passionate about the issue, and when I sat there and listened to a group of radicals discuss how America deserved it, I got mad. That was the last politics class I took, knowing full well that University of Ottawa professors were filling these students’ heads with anti-institutional, anti-capitalist, anti-American ideas. The University Center was usually filled with these people trying to push one radical cause after another, and, knowing what I know now about the true face of Socialism from my time spent in China, I find it rather disturbing to think people still buy into it. Even after the failure of the Soviet Union, I am amazed to see that this ideology lives on, rather pathetic really…

It isn’t just politics, same goes with history class. Depending on the subject, you just might find yourself in front of a radical in an educator’s clothing. I made the mistake of taking a class on the history of the Vietnam Wars. The professor, a woman, made a point that we (the students) should be careful when doing our research since the Vietnamese government, after the fall of Saigon, rewrote the history books to promote views they wanted. What does she do right after saying this? Starts talking about how great things were after the Americans were pushed out and teaching the rewritten history. She also used the “politically correct” dating system, BCE and CE, to further top off her overly liberal approach to this topic. In defiance, I wrote a paper on the evils of the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese government, a paper which she tore apart. On what you might add? Well that my sources were biased. Explain to me how the personal accounts of Reeeducation camp survivors is biased? Under that logic, we should have listened to the testimony of Nazi concentration camp guards before believing the stories of those who survived the Holocaust. What a waste of money that course was…

With all this, it is no surprise that radicalism is so prominent on campus’ across the Western world, but you would hope that when these students leave them, when they are in the real world, that they would realize that they spent too long listening to propaganda from people trying to push their radical agenda. Problem is, by the time they do leave school, they are already indoctrinated to the point where they can’t be helped. Groups like PETA bombard campus’ and those their recruit are then sent back to become recruiters themselves. Anti-war groups like CodePink, however, impose their twisted will on anyone and anywhere they deem fit. While it is in the guise of legitimate protest, this group’s actions cross legal lines, mostly breaking the laws regarding harassment and vandalism. Videos of these actions can be found all over the internet, but very few of them are honest representations of what really happens.

The link above shows a video CodePink’s attempt to close down a Marine Corps Recruitment Center in Berkley, California. Fox News also covered this story, helping bring pressure from people around the country to bring about the end of this disgraceful protest. The worst part was that Berkley’s city council actually declared the Marines unwanted in their limits, a ruling which changed very quickly when they realized their stupidity would result in a multi-million dollar fine. That was the kind of cowardice I discussed in my post last night. It’s that whatever they can’t tolerate, they try to destroy in one way or another…

Is this any surprise? We have seen this kind of tactic before, something Laura Ingrham herself has addressed. Sunsara Taylor is a symbol of what is wrong with this movement, and as you can see in the video, she refuses to even acknowledge Ingrham’s view, let alone let her express it. As a member of The World Can’t Wait, a group very similar to CodePink, Sunsara believes that “the means justifies the ends”, no matter how twisted these “ends” are. The rights of others aren’t their concern, and acting in their own self interest, do everything from storming the stages of universities and colleges around the country, to camping out in front of the homes and offices of those who they believe are enemies to their ambitions, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Now while I am definitely not her biggest fan, I do believe that their actions involving her were disturbing. It wasn’t as bad as their protest of Secretary of State Condileeza Rice, a truly upsetting event which could have had a far worse ending then it did. Freedom of speech, in that event, was abused, and with these radicals, we don’t know how far they would have gone to push their agenda if security wasn’t there.

Anti-American radicalism doesn’t just extend to the far-left, but also the far-right. Reverend Fred Waldron Phelps’ protest of the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq enraged an entire nation. His homophobic beliefs cost him $10.9 million dollars, but many of these hatemongers get away with their crimes. The radical left, for example, is well known for abusing the constitutional rights found in our system, a system which they want to bring down. Bill Ayers, a friend of Senator Barack Obama, wasn’t really punished for his involvement in the Weathermen bombings, something this former domestic terrorist gloats about. Thanks to a legal error, him and his wife Bernadine Dohrn, were never charged in connection to a slew of bombings his group carried out. It is upsetting to see that their actions and the fact that they were never really punished for them, inspires more radicals to commit such hateful crimes…

All in all, this political season has shown just how ugly these extremists can get to force their beliefs on us. I fear that nothing short of a prison sentence can stop these people from continuing these actions. In all honesty, police should step in and actually enforce the punishments to the laws these radicals break during their protests. Many of them, including Amy Goodman, are simply slapped on the wrist and let go with a warning. With their actions becoming ever more brash, sooner or later one of these anti-American traitors will cross a line which will finally make people realize that something needs to be done. The problem is, until that happens, these hateful displays will be protected by laws which they knowing abuse. It is scary that these laws which were enacted to protect the people of this land, are now keeping them powerless to defend their own rights and freedoms. That, my friends, is something I find terrifying…

UPDATE: Half-time break so I am surfing the internet. Michelle Malkin is reporting on some good news, CodePink has been forced to close their office in Berkeley, California. Guess the Marines just had more support than a bunch of anti-American hippie-grandmothers. So long you TWITS!