Ever wonder how the government views the anti-war movement? Look >

[Dover]

The Peaceniks are being studied:


The Politics of Peace: What's Behind the Anti-War Movement?
View Event | |
Date: August 30, 2005
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): John J. Tierney, Jr.
Author
Host(s): Dana Dillon
Senior Policy Analyst,
Asian Studies Center,
The Heritage Foundation

James Dean
Deputy Director,
Government Relations Foreign and Defense Policy, The Heritage Foundation
Details:
Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium

To describe current anti-war protest as a reaction to the invasion of Iraq or an anti-Bush phenomenon is to miss the point. A closer look at the protestors and their associations reveals a pedigree going back at least to the Vietnam era and beyond to the "progressive" and protest politics of earlier decades. The leaders of the "anti-war" movement today are leftists in ideology. Almost all oppose capitalism and believe in socialism; many are Communists. At root, they are anti-American rather than anti-war. Anti-war groups comprise an authentic political movement. They have distinctive forms of organization, outlets for propaganda, favored strategies and tactics, and access to information technology that increasingly allows their communications to be instantaneous and global. In short, they are a political force...cont'd

cont'd > http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/ev083005a.cfm

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Organization Trends from Capital Research Center


The Politics of Peace
What’s Behind the Anti-War Movement?

By John J. Tierney


What follows in this issue are excerpts from CRC’s new book, The Politics of Peace: What’s Behind the Anti-War Movement? by John J. Tierney. Dr. Tierney is Walter Kohler professor of international relations and faculty chairman at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D. C. The Politics of Peace is a careful look at the organizations spear-heading the anti-war movement today and a comparison of these groups to earlier movements for peace.


http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/OT0305.pdf

[fasttense]

1. They are just sooo full of crap.

Yeah right, any excuse to smear someone you don't agree with. Now they can spy on us and think they are patriotic at the same time.

[MadHound]

2. What happy horseshit!

Where did these idiots do their research? Free Republic?

The vast majority of anti-war people, myself included, are just that, anti-war. We're not anti-American, in fact we view our protests as an effort to steer America away from the wrong direction taken, and back onto the path that leads to American greatness. The vast majority of anti-war folks that I know are not anti-capitalists, socialists or communists. They are against the crony capitalism that is ruining our country however.

And don't look now folks, but ever since the anti-war stance has gained majority footing amongst the populace, it isn't just liberals, leftists and Democrats out on the protest line, but hard core conservatives and Republicans too.

This is just another attack piece, using the same tired and stale rhetoric that the war-mongers have always used. Sad to say though, there is a section of the populace that will lap this up and proclaim it good, fortunately those people are now in the minority.

[Dover]

5. lol! Isn't FR the source of ALL polling for the right?

As FOX says...."fair and balanced".

[bloom]

3. To some extent

I see the wars as Capitalism run amok without morality - where anything goes. War becomes sanctioned murder to benefit corporations and politicians. When they say that they are spreading "democracy" - I think they are spreading "Corporatism" - you could even say "Capitalism". Privatization was one of the most important goals of the the Iraq invasion - and a rewriting of the laws to suit the corporations - with military bases to protect the corporate interests - not the Iraqis.

And probably some of the protesters are protesting that. A democratic-socialist model where the people have more say in the process and where the gov't is expected to serve the public would be more or less the opposite of what we have - esp. with the neo-cons in power.

[pscot]

4. Goddam commie, pinko preverts

Sometimes trashing Liberals just doesn't satisfy the deepest, atavistic needs of your snake-brain republican.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Oh good grief

They always have to find some way to joint the left with Communism. :eyes: Seems like Communism is still their boogey man and yes what crap.