The Peaceniks Strike Back

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For this blog article, you will need a copy of the Imperial March, from"The Empire Strikes Back." If you have it, COOL! If not, just float back in fond memories of yesteryear when DarthVader would stride down the ramp from a shuttle, with all of the evil fanfare.

Yes, for while the forces of good, right, and justice continue onward with their mission, both on the international level, and here in the city of Laramie,Wyoming...while proud Americans stand up for the rights of people everywhere...including here at home to excercise their freedoms, even when those people are dead wrong in their opinions, and even as the foreign policies of the Bush administration continue to bear fruit in the form of blossoming democracies and cowering dictators...even as all of this happens, the liberals, the Democrat National Party, and the peaceniks continue to snipe fromthe shadows...

...and they whine a lot...

Taking you back to the battle over the SUFP protest that was not a protest against the speech last month by Ken Starr at the University of Wyoming, I received a letter from Lesley W, a member of SUFP, who in a very long-winded note proceeded to tell me how I was wrong, how SUFP had been most effective in getting their point across at the Starr speech, and recounting pretty much everything that SUFP even thought of doing from the dawn of the Revolutionary War right up to yesterday afternoon.

What I have just done is save you all some eye-strain by giving you the gist of Lesley's note, because our starting point for this article is in the reply to MY reply to Lesley W.

I responded to Lesley W. ... you can read my response in the comments to that particular blog article if you wish...and then I got the following reply from Willis:

"Pathetic.

It seems that it has become easy fodder for neo-con sympathizers to criticize the efforts of grassroots groups for being "ineffective." It certainly seems easy to sit at home, throw out a few e-mails, and then write up a few pieces of baby-muckraking as if there's some type of story to be had. But then that's the luxury one has when sided with the winning team, right? Just keep nodding your head, chewing up the same political information that the rest of the righties are armed with, provide nothing in your opinions that might amount to authentic substance or insight, and go after the little people because they are concerned with making a statement against overwhelming odds... That seems to be the emerging American ethic, eh?

Keep up the good work. The status quo needs more noble people like you beating up on old ladies, hippies, and peaceniks.

Wondering, John, when did you choose to trade your suit and tie (and cowboy hat?) for a brown shirt?"

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This note is just precious.

Willie here comes onto my blog talking tough, saying that I'm all hot air, providing you with nothing of substance or insight.

Yet what does he do?

When I read Willie's note, I do not hear someone taking my arguments about SUFP and providing some substantial or insightful arguments to combat my singular point, which was that by their inept handling of something as simple as a protest against a speech, SUFP proved that they are nothing more than a bunch of losers.

Rather than "Stand Up For Peace", SUFP should stand for Shut Up Freakin' Peaceniks.

Apparently Willie is well-versed in the fine liberal art of failing to practice what one preaches.
WIllie made some interesting comments, such as: "It certainly seems easy to sit at home, throw out a few e-mails, and then write up a few pieces of baby-muckraking as if there's some type of story to be had."

If Willie had perhaps read my blog article, he would see that I followed the story of the Starr protest with quite a bit of interest. The only thing I didn't do was show up at the speech itself. For coverage of the event, I relied on the local newspapers, and they did a good job...then again, it's not like covering a speech is a hard task.

Nowhere do I say that it is my job to track down stories. I am not a reporter. I am an opinion guy. My job is to look at the news of the day, give you feedback based on the facts as I find them, and give you my opinions. If you don't like those opinions, find some other blog to read...but when I give you my opinions, they are based in fact, and often I try to teach
people about history, society, economics, or whatever other subject I slide into on that particular day.

However, rather than combat my fact-based opinions with some opinion of his own, Willie only seems interested in making snide attacks on people who endorse the Bush administration, support the war against terror, and trully believe that we are doing yeoman work in the Middle East.

The last few sentences of Willie's note are interesting. Why is it that if you are supporting liberal psychobabble, if you are speaking out against Republicans, or conservatives, if you are supporting the things that have made this country great and are willing to go into a public arena with comments to that effect, you are called aNazi?

Throughout all of this argument with Shaddup Freakin' Peaceniks, I have steadfastly stood by and defended their rights of free speech. This is even though I disagree with their ideas...this is even though I think their conspiracy-theory-laced BS is about as stupid and wrong-headed as you can get.

Despite all of that, they still have a right to wander around the Laramie area, spewing their propaganda, and pretending that they are relevant.

Yet, I dare to utter a word against the peaceniks, and I get attacked. The person that I run into that I know is a member of SUFP recently referred to me as a "whiney-mouthed Star Trek fan". (It is amazing what you can find on a person by running their email address through Google.)

I've twice been called a Nazi, and other verbal slings have been hurled my way.

The peacenuts can have all the free speech they want...but if you are a supporter of our efforts to take down the terrorist baddies, if you endorse our spreading of democracy over there so that the world is a much safer place, and if you don't think that Bush, Rumsfeld, Rice, and the rest of the administration are the scum of the earth, apparently your rights are forfeit.

Not as long as I breathe air they aren't...

John B.