Once again we have the anti-war movement peppered with people from A.N.S.W.E.R., and the mainstream media ignores that organization's traitorous rhetoric, merely calling it "a hard-left anti-war coalition" AlterNet.org or ignoring its roots entirely SF Examiner.
Let's set the record straight about Act Now to Stop War and End Racism! (exclamation point is not mine) Here is an interesting search that someone did on the group. The group has known links to the Workers World Party, which is known to support North Korea, Cuba, and China (the government -- including the Tiananmen Square massacre), (online encyclopedia description I found) and calls itself a Marxist-Leninist group. Apparently the worldwide failure of Marxist-Leninism eluded their attention.
ANSWER states quite openly that:
Here's some more sickly amusing information from their website. They have a list of US military interventions from 1890 to 1999. Here are two descriptions that I found particularly telling:
GERMANY, 1948/ Nuclear threat/ Atomic-capable bombers guard Berlin Airlift. (This is rich -- humanitarian airlift effort required after illegal blockade by Soviet forces turns into "nuclear threat"!)
KOREA, 1951-53(-?)/ U.S.& South Korea fight China & North Korea to stalemate; A bomb threat in 1950, & vs. China in 1953. Still have bases. (Forget to mention that North Korea INVADED, oops)
But wait, there's more! ANSWER thinks Sudan is a happy little country that shouldn't be the subject of sanctions. The attack on Afghanistan is cited as bringing destruction and hardship to the people of Afghanistan, curiously ANSWER fails to mention the Taliban and the draconian religious rules in place from that regime. They also mention the extremely poor living conditions and life expectancy in Afghanistan but fail to blame the Taliban regime. Palestinian suicide bombers, killing innocent civilians, are never referenced as such but are generally referred to as "defend[ing] themselves" against Israeli aggression. All of this in one document: International Answer Center fact sheet.
This is the anti-war movement? Keep this information in mind the next time you see ANSWER referenced with an anti-war protest such as those that occurred on 20 March.
Let's set the record straight about Act Now to Stop War and End Racism! (exclamation point is not mine) Here is an interesting search that someone did on the group. The group has known links to the Workers World Party, which is known to support North Korea, Cuba, and China (the government -- including the Tiananmen Square massacre), (online encyclopedia description I found) and calls itself a Marxist-Leninist group. Apparently the worldwide failure of Marxist-Leninism eluded their attention.
ANSWER states quite openly that:
(from ANSWER's "Counter-revolution & Resistance in Iraq" PDF document here). Treason is defined as, "Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies." ANSWER states that the anti-war movement must support Iraqi resistance. Support is a synonym for aid. Seems like the definition fits.
Here's some more sickly amusing information from their website. They have a list of US military interventions from 1890 to 1999. Here are two descriptions that I found particularly telling:
GERMANY, 1948/ Nuclear threat/ Atomic-capable bombers guard Berlin Airlift. (This is rich -- humanitarian airlift effort required after illegal blockade by Soviet forces turns into "nuclear threat"!)
KOREA, 1951-53(-?)/ U.S.& South Korea fight China & North Korea to stalemate; A bomb threat in 1950, & vs. China in 1953. Still have bases. (Forget to mention that North Korea INVADED, oops)
But wait, there's more! ANSWER thinks Sudan is a happy little country that shouldn't be the subject of sanctions. The attack on Afghanistan is cited as bringing destruction and hardship to the people of Afghanistan, curiously ANSWER fails to mention the Taliban and the draconian religious rules in place from that regime. They also mention the extremely poor living conditions and life expectancy in Afghanistan but fail to blame the Taliban regime. Palestinian suicide bombers, killing innocent civilians, are never referenced as such but are generally referred to as "defend[ing] themselves" against Israeli aggression. All of this in one document: International Answer Center fact sheet.
This is the anti-war movement? Keep this information in mind the next time you see ANSWER referenced with an anti-war protest such as those that occurred on 20 March.
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