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-Caveat Lector- --- Euphorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An Open Letter to the Anti-War Demonstrators: Think Twice Before You Bring The War Home By David Horowitz I appeal to all those young people who participated in anti-war demonstrations on 150 college campuses this week,. to think again and not to join an anti-war effort against Americas coming battle with international terrorism. _ Nakano comments: First, this is not a war against international terrorism, it's a war about oil in the Caspian Basin. It's a war over who controls the oil and natural gas, who builds and controls the huge pipelines that will carry it to markets. It's about money and power. War Against Terrorism is the marketing slogan used to promote this war. It's the same thing, and is just as false as were: The War To Make The World Safe For Democracy and The War To End All Wars. Anyone who actually believes these labels probably still believes in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. __ David Horowitz: The blood of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and tens of thousands of Americans, is on the hands of the anti-war activists who prolonged the struggle and gave victory to the Communists. __ Nakano comments: This is pure unadulterated BULLHOCKEY!! This conclusion is the result of the same aberrant mental processes which result in kidnap victims identifying with, agreeing with, and joining the kidnappers (ala Patty Hearst. And it wasn't hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, it was an estimated two-million Vietnamese. Their blood, and the blood of the 58,000+ Americans who were killed in that war, is on the guilty hands of the people and Agencies who made the policy and the decisions to fight that war. The blood is on the hands of the people who ordered 500,000 plus U.S. troops to Vietnam...the people who ordered the bombing...the people who refused to end the war even when it was overwhelmingly apparent that the American People wanted it ended. This is an incomplete list, but the bloody hands are those of the CIA, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and those who served in those Administrations who didn't have the courage to oppose the war. (I intentionally exclude John Kennedy from this list, because he ordered all Americans out of Viet Nam by 1965. His order, National Security action Memorandum 263, was given just about 10 days before he was murdered. Lyndon Johnson cancelled that order before Kennedy was buried.) I urge all Americans to think twice before they blindly support this war. This isn't being unpatriotic. All Americans have the obligation to speak out against and to lawfully oppose, the policies and the actions of their government when they sincerely believe their government is wrong...and especially when they believe their government is violating the Constitution and the common laws of God and humanity. Nakano __ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- we did not lose the war in Vietnam because of protests here. we lost because it was not a winnable war, it was not a moral war, and it was not our war. -- Doubt. Doubt thyself. Doubt even if thou doubtest thyself. Doubt all. Doubt even if thou doubtest all. It seems sometimes as if beneath all conscious doubt there lay some deepest certainty. O kill it! Slay the snake! The horn of the Doubt-Goat be exalted Dive deeper, ever deeper, into the Abyss of Mind, until thou unearth the fox THAT. On, hounds! Yoicks! Tally-ho! Bring THAT to bay! Then, wind the Mort! Uncle Al. the kiddies pal NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew From: Euphorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 01:48:45 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Think Twice ... -Caveat Lector- From FPM }}}Begin www.frontpagemag.com Return to normal view An Open Letter to the Anti-War Demonstrators: Think Twice Before You Bring The War Home By David Horowitz FrontPageMagazine.com | September 27, 2001 URL: http://www.frontpagemag.com/horowitzsnotepad/2001/hn09-27-01p Editors Note: The text below is being run as an advertisement in college newspapers around the country. To see a graphic version of the ad, click here. I AM a former anti-war activist who helped to organize the first campus demonstration against the war in Vietnam at the University of California, Berkeley in 1962. I appeal to all those young people who participated in anti-war demonstrations on 150 college campuses this week, to think again and not to join an anti-war effort against Americas coming battle with international terrorism. The hindsight of history has shown that our efforts in the 1960s to end the war in Vietnam had two practical effects. The first was to prolong the war itself. Every testimony by North Vietnamese generals in the postwar years has affirmed that they knew they could not defeat the United States on the battlefield, and that they counted on the division of our people at home to win the war for them. The Vietcong forces we were fighting in South Vietnam were destroyed in 1968. In other words, most of the war and most of the casualties in the war occurred because the dictatorship of North Vietnam counted on the fact Americans would give up the battle rather than pay the price necessary to win it. This is what happened. The blood of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and tens of thousands of Americans, is on the hands of the anti-war activists who prolonged the struggle and gave victory to the Communists. The second effect of the war was to surrender South Vietnam to the forces of Communism. This resulted in the imposition of a monstrous police state, the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent South Vietnamese, the incarceration in re-education camps of hundreds of thousands more, and a quarter of a century of abject poverty imposed by crackpot Marxist economic plans, which continue to this day. This, too, is the responsibility of the so-called anti-war movement of the 1960s. I say so-called anti-war movement, because while many Americans were sincerely troubled by Americas war effort, the organizers of this movement were Marxists and radicals who supported a Communist victory and an American defeat. Today the same people and their youthful followers are organizing the campus demonstrations against Americas effort to defend its citizens against the forces of international terrorism and anti-American hatred, responsible for the September attacks. I know, better than most, the importance of protecting freedom of speech and the right of citizens to dissent. But I also know better than most, that there is a difference between honest dissent and malevolent hate, between criticism of national policy, and sabotage of the nations defenses. In the 1960s and 1970s, the tolerance of anti-American hatreds was so high, that the line between dissent and treason was eventually erased. Along with thousands of other New Leftists, I was one who crossed the line between dissent and actual treason. (I have written an account of these matters in my autobiography, Radical Son). I did so for what I thought were the noblest of reasons: to advance the cause of social justice and peace. I have lived to see how wrong I was and how much damage we did especially to those whose cause we claimed to embrace, the peasants of Indo-China who suffered grievously from our support for the Communist enemy. I came to see how precious are the freedoms and opportunities afforded by America to the poorest and most humble of its citizens, and how rare its virtues are in the world at large. If I have one regret from my radical years, it is that this country was too tolerant towards the treason of its
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-Caveat Lector- --- Euphorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The hindsight of history has shown that our efforts in the 1960s to end the war in Vietnam had two practical effects. The first was to prolong the war itself. what a spin...put blame for prolonging the war on those choosing to WAGE THE DAMN THING! = ~ As I've often told Ginsberg, you can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold. KEN KESEY (1935 - 2001) http://www.sinkers.org/news_earth.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/13/01 8:35:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: we did not lose the war in Vietnam because of protests here. we lost because it was not a winnable war, it was not a moral war, and it was not our war. Not bad, you are getting better. I agree with two out of three of your stated reasons. BHoward âIt is wrong, always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.ââW.K. Clifford A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- ok tell me about the 3rd -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. Henrik Ibsen NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew From: Bill Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:57:25 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Think Twice ... -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/13/01 8:35:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: we did not lose the war in Vietnam because of protests here. we lost because it was not a winnable war, it was not a moral war, and it was not our war. Not bad, you are getting better. I agree with two out of three of your stated reasons. BHoward ³It is wrong, always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.²W.K. Clifford A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'?with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds?is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/13/01 10:52:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Caveat Lector- ok tell me about the 3rd It was the part about moral war. War is not moral, never has been and never will be. War is about killing people and breaking things. Why would a sane G*d want to take sides in something like this? Mark Twain once wrote a short story on this subject which is worth reflecting on. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- The War Prayer by Twain is an amazing work... had my copy out on my coffee table since this madness started... Mike -Original Message- From: Bill Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Think Twice ... -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/13/01 10:52:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Caveat Lector- ok tell me about the 3rd It was the part about moral war. War is not moral, never has been and never will be. War is about killing people and breaking things. Why would a sane G*d want to take sides in something like this? Mark Twain once wrote a short story on this subject which is worth reflecting on. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance-not soap-boxing-please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- fair enough though as you know I'm not one who looks to some deity for the source of morals - but as the son of holocaust camp survivors, I do see that some wars are worth fighting - perhaps moral wasn't exactly the right word to use... but I can't quite come up with a better one at the moment which mark twain story? -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew From: Bill Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:59:29 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Think Twice ... -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/13/01 10:52:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Caveat Lector- ok tell me about the 3rd It was the part about moral war. War is not moral, never has been and never will be. War is about killing people and breaking things. Why would a sane G*d want to take sides in something like this? Mark Twain once wrote a short story on this subject which is worth reflecting on. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'?with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds?is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- thew wrote: fair enough though as you know I'm not one who looks to some deity for the source of morals - but as the son of holocaust camp survivors, I do see that some wars are worth fighting - perhaps moral wasn't exactly the right word to use... but I can't quite come up with a better one at the moment Don't let the world get you down at this particular moment. It's still a barbaric place and there's nothing that people seem to like doing more than kicking a dog when it's down. Kelly A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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An Open Letter to the Anti-War Demonstrators:
Think Twice Before You Bring The War Home
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 27, 2001
URL: http://www.frontpagemag.com/horowitzsnotepad/2001/hn09-27-01p
Editors Note:
The text below is being run as an advertisement in college
newspapers around
the country. To see a graphic version of the ad, click here.
I AM a
former anti-war activist who helped to organize the first campus
demonstration
against the war in Vietnam at the University of California,
Berkeley in 1962.
I appeal to all those young people who participated in anti-war
demonstrations on 150 college campuses this week, to think again and not to
join an anti-war effort against Americas coming battle with international
terrorism.
The hindsight of history
has shown that our efforts in the 1960s to end the war in Vietnam had two practical
effects. The first was to prolong the war itself. Every testimony by North Vietnamese
generals in the postwar years has affirmed that they knew they could not defeat
the United States on the battlefield, and that they counted on the division
of our people at home to win the war for them. The Vietcong forces we were fighting
in South Vietnam were destroyed in 1968. In other words, most of the war and
most of the casualties in the war occurred because the dictatorship of North
Vietnam counted on the fact Americans would give up the battle rather than pay
the price necessary to win it. This is what happened. The blood of hundreds
of thousands of Vietnamese, and tens of thousands of Americans, is on the hands
of the anti-war activists who prolonged the struggle and gave victory to the
Communists.
The second effect of the
war was to surrender South Vietnam to the forces of Communism. This resulted
in the imposition of a monstrous police state, the murder of hundreds of thousands
of innocent South Vietnamese, the incarceration in re-education camps
of hundreds of thousands more, and a quarter of a century of abject poverty
imposed by crackpot Marxist economic plans, which continue to this day. This,
too, is the responsibility of the so-called anti-war movement of the 1960s.
I say so-called anti-war
movement, because while many Americans were sincerely troubled by Americas
war effort, the organizers of this movement were Marxists and radicals who supported
a Communist victory and an American defeat. Today the same people and their
youthful followers are organizing the campus demonstrations against Americas
effort to defend its citizens against the forces of international terrorism
and anti-American hatred, responsible for the September attacks.
I know, better than most,
the importance of protecting freedom of speech and the right of citizens to
dissent. But I also know better than most, that there is a difference between
honest dissent and malevolent hate, between criticism of national policy, and
sabotage of the nations defenses. In the 1960s and 1970s, the tolerance of
anti-American hatreds was so high, that the line between dissent and treason
was eventually erased. Along with thousands of other New Leftists, I was one
who crossed the line between dissent and actual treason. (I have written an
account of these matters in my autobiography, Radical Son). I did so for what I
thought were the noblest of reasons: to advance the cause of social justice and
peace. I have lived to see how wrong I was and
how much damage we did especially to those whose cause we claimed to embrace,
the peasants of Indo-China who suffered grievously from our support for the
Communist enemy. I came to see how precious are the freedoms and opportunities
afforded by America to the poorest and most humble of its citizens, and how
rare its virtues are in the world at large.
If I have one regret from
my radical years, it is that this country was too tolerant towards the treason
of its enemies within. If patriotic Americans had been more vigilant in the
defense of their country, if they had called things by their right names, if
they had confronted us with the seriousness of our attacks, they might have
caught the attention of those of us who were well-meaning but utterly misguided.
And they might have stopped us in our tracks.
This appeal is for those
of you who are out there today attacking your country, full of your
own self-righteousness,
but who one day might also live to regret what you have done. David
Horowitz is editor-in-chief of FrontPageMagazine.com and president
of the Center
for the Study of Popular Culture.
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