http://www.nypost.com/seven/07112007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/lethal_peaceniks_opedcolumnists_michelle_malkin.htm
Read how crasy this hippie is and Why hasn't the major news media told you about this story?
2007-07-12 03:30:55 · 20 answers · asked by John Galt 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Funny how the "peace-hippies" claim that they want to bring home the troops, for the troops sake... then they shoot them...
Yes, I know this isn't indicitive of all "peace" activists... however, it goes to show that they really aren't in this because the love the American soldier, but rather because they hate America.
Yes, I said it... they hate America. Most of these "peace" activists are anarcho-marxists (or at least the leadership is) and they believe America to be a force of evil in the world. They are the ones that use terms like, "American Empire", or "neo-imperialism". They cannot stand what America stands for, namely capitalism, liberty, and self-determination... and are using the guise of "peace" as a front for their agenda of hate.
Unfortunatly, the anarcho-marxists have an ally in the mainstreem press, who rarely report on these sorts of issues... they are too buisy trying to run the name of America through the mud...
Not that America is perfect, by any means... but I tire of being told constantly that my country is a racist, sexist, homophobic, land full of small minded idiots, who are the greatest force for evil, and the world's worst terrorists organization. They use rhetoric that was popular during the socialist revolutions of the early part of the 20th centry... claiming that America is in the pocket book of "big business", and that "the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer". I am tired of all of this anti-Americanism... is anybody else?
2007-07-12 03:45:55 · answer #1 · answered by Schaufel 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Reading comprehension is your friend John. Where does it say he was a liberal peace activist? It doesn't mention anything polictical other than he "had a beef with the government" that could be anybody. For that matter, since he had a gun, he was probably a right wing nutcase, since you know all us liberals hate guns and all we wouldn't have one.
Maybe you should read the article next time before you post and point fingers to the left.
2007-07-12 03:53:44 · answer #2 · answered by Spirish_1 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have got to be kidding. Maybe just narrow-minded if you think one person represents a whole group. How many crazy Neocon right wing extrimists are out there claiming that soldiers are dying because there is homosexuality in the US? Does that make you part of that group? If you want to claim every left-wing individual shares the same beliefs as one obviously insane individual, you are delusional. What is wrong with you people? Get off your high horse and try to realize that there are many crazy people out there, on both sides of the political spectrum, but that does not mean that the entire group shares the same values!
YOU are whats wrong with politics in this country. I sit and watch the Libs bash the Cons, and vice-versa all day long on Y!A. What is wrong with you? Seriously! Get over yourselves. Don't even try to delude yourselves into thinking that you are always right.
2007-07-12 03:45:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well this guy was obviously a nut case and in no way whatsoever represents the peace activist movement and it's irresponsible of the tabloid writer of the NY Post, a joke of a newspaper, to suggest that.
To answer you r question: No, liberal peace activists are not crazy. This one guy was nuts. Don't try to use this moron as an example of how peaceniks behave.
2007-07-12 03:37:51 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
This guy is crazy, there is no doubt about it. You would have to be to do what he did. However, to use this one story about a crazy messed up guy in order to put down an entire group of people who would never do this is ridiculous.
As a "peace loving hippie" myself I find this to be a tragedy, I hope that the soldier recovers in full. As a woman from a military family, I love and support the troops, I volunteer, I send care packages and I attend parades when our boys come home.
You should be ashamed of yourself, someone who has probably never actually supported a troop in his life, to come on here and put down men and women who love our boys so much that they want them home from this unfounded war.
2007-07-12 03:38:55 · answer #5 · answered by paganmom 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Propaganda is basically ideaological marketing. The word comes from a program of 'Propegation of the Faith' undertaken by the Catholic Church long ago - utilizing the relatively newly-invented printing press to promote it's ideaology. Whether you're pro- or anti- war, or pushing or opposing any cause, any communication technologies you utilize to sway people to your side are essentially propaganda.
2016-05-20 09:39:37 · answer #6 · answered by amie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course the media didn't cover it. First, it doesn't support their agenda that all of the military are violent and all peaceniks sweet, loving people. But also, the media KNOWS that it bares some responsibility for this whack-job's act. They constantly portray the war in the worst possible light, and even worse, portray the military in the worst possible light. So is it any surprise that some weak-minded idiot is compelled to go out and attack the nearest soldier?
Now if the table had been reversed, and the GI had attacked a peace activist, then it would have been plastered all over every news outlet in the country.
2007-07-12 03:37:58 · answer #7 · answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Because he's a random backwater dude. It's not really big news, unless you think "some people are crazy" is big news. Why does everything have to be a liberal conspiracy. If I suggest that there is more to anything with this administration, I get jumped all over as a "crazy liberal conspiracy theorist" by people who won't shut up about the "liberal media agenda"
edit: wait a minute, it doesn't even say liberal in the article. It never mentions his opinions or his affiliation. It just says "had a beef."
It never even says he was a peace activist, he could be mad that we aren't nuking Iran fast enough for all we know.
2007-07-12 03:33:51 · answer #8 · answered by U_Mex 4 · 7⤊ 4⤋
This guy was just plain crazy and not a peace activist. To say that this guy is representive of liberals who oppose the war is about equivalent to saying that Tim McVeigh was a typical conservative Christian.
2007-07-12 03:38:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Funny how you assume he's liberal. I thought he was conservative but since the article DIDN'T say, we'll just have to disagree. Though conservatives are the ones who say murder is wrong and then kill abortion doctors, and the ones who own most of the guns and believe in violence as a solution.
heres a few other links to this story from the "liberal" news media
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19644931/
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070706/NEWS/70706034/1001/rss
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/nj/20070706_Airman_critical_after_shooting.html
2007-07-12 03:37:05 · answer #10 · answered by crushinator01 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋