Communist Threat of ANSWER.

[Iceberg]

BTW, I'm willing to bet that the maker of the "Crashing The Protest" video did little more than go to an anti-war demonstration and search out for the most extreme Communists he could find.

I never take a sure loss.

[Joe]

I'm pretty sure I recall seeing one of these videos (also by Protest Warrior) a couple months ago where they did single out a much more reasonable anti-war guy to ask him questions. I don't know where it is offhand, although I might be able to find it if anyone desires.

[Peregrin Toker]

Simon, this was posted to demonstrate that the anti-war effort is receiving funding and organizational direction--those critical elements which can give a small segment of the populace a disproportionate voice--from inherently anti-American sources. It does not invalidate any anti-war arguments in and of itself; what it does is call into question the nature and motivations of the current anti-war movement. The two are seperate things.

You wrote "See the true face of the opposition" - implying that everyone opposing the war were closet Communists.

I never take a sure loss.

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[The Duchess of Zeon]

You wrote "See the true face of the opposition" - implying that everyone opposing the war were closet Communists.

Only if you wanted to take it that way. Though certainly I meant that its true face was indeed communist--that it had a red head so to speak(*snerk* need to be able to make fun of my own hair colour)--that doesn't necessarily imply that the whole opposition to the anti-war effort is communist. After all, the word Opposition is often used to refer to organizations, like Opposition parties, and can be pretty monolithic. And, yes, that was the intent, no less.

Besides that, even if every single anti-war protestor today was an outright self-avowed Stalinist, I admit that this would not change the validity of anti-war arguments; they would stand or fall on their own merits. However, wouldn't you think twice before associating with such people? Perhaps, maybe, you would form your own anti-war group and refuse to take money from such people as a matter of principle? And, indeed, the party which funds ANSWER also happens to be the socialist party which supported the Stalinist invasion of Hungary.