Anyone else notice that the anti-war protesters of today look and sound a lot like the ones from the 60's? With a few more grey hairs and wrinkles, of course.

I had the dubious pleasure of being among a group of students being recruited for "service" with the SDS back in the 60's. They seemed to think that I fit their target audience of teenagers of upper middle to upper income, well-educated families. They were wrong, of course, which may explain why their tactics didn't take. Being curious and as hard-headed then as now, I took advantage of the opportunity to take a good look inside their organization anyway. It was disturbing, to say the least.

The speeches, the printed materials, and the organizers themselves were straight out of Communist China and the USSR. My uncle, the printer, checked the hand outs and assured me that almost everything I brought home was printed in China. You didn't have to look far behind the curtain to see actual foreign agents at work. It was scary to a kid, and my family soon forbid me to participate in any more "field trips."

Fast forward to the past couple of years. Many of the same individuals are still involved in the anti-war movement. They are still hawking their communist agenda, with a success rate which far exceeds my comfort zone. They are training their children to carry on. They still disrespect anything which uplifts our military, our country or our culture.

Many of these clowns have traded in their smelly clothes for three-piece suits, but their message remains the same: Destroy the United States through rhetoric, dirty tricks, and legislation.

Perhaps the most disturbing innovation of the current crop of anti-war activists is that they now use their children to do their dirty work. At protests, it is quite common for them to send their children to curse and ridicule the veterans who are at the next corner or across the street counter-protesting.

Do we know anyone else who uses children as human shields or instruments of destruction?

Contributed by Bobbie (OWB) on October 5, 2006 at 12:26 AM in Bobbie Craig, Peacenik Stupidity | Permalink

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