October 8th, 2010 
Admin Question by Dead Marxist: Isn’t the so-called ‘Peace’ movement just a front for anti-Americanism?
All this sounds lovely, of course. Decent people prefer peace to war, life to death, nonviolence to violence. But they also prefer freedom to tyranny — and the peace studies movement, all too often, promotes a mentality that plays directly into the hands of despots.
The founding father of the global peace movement is a 77-year-old Norwegian professor, Johan Galtung, who established the International Peace Research Institute in 1959. Invariably portrayed in the media as a charismatic and (these days) grandfatherly champion of decency, Galtung is in fact nothing of the sort. He’s called the U.S. a “killer country,” accused it of “neo-fascist state terrorism,” and gleefully prophesied that it will soon follow Britain “into the graveyard of empires.” In the 1970s, he wrote admiringly of Mao Tse-tung’s China, and his consistently leftist, anti-Western tune has not changed.
What’s taught in peace studies departments around the country generally remains faithful to Galtung’s inspiration. Many professors emphasize that the world’s great evil is capitalism
As for the peace racket’s recommendations, if democracies consistently followed them, they’d eventually reap the kind of peace found today in Havana or Pyongyang.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-bawer2sep02,0,2697346.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
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Answer by ron j
ah…the old they are out to get us argument.
next…..if you are not with us you are against us??
lol
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No, unless you think America’s purpose is war.
It is a proven fact that most of the anti-war groups during viet nam were kgb funded.
Yes. I think so.
Remember Where You Heard It First – by a disgruntled old hippie
We were right about the war in Vietnam. Just like we said, it was all a big lie cooked up by the CIA and the military-industrial complex to enrich a lot of fat cat assholes at the expense of thousands of American families and millions of Laotian, Cambodian, and Vietnamese families.
We were right when we said it was illegal, immoral, and just plain wrong.
We were right when we said we couldn’t trust the government to tell us the truth.
We were right back in the 60s when we said we needed alternative energy, an environmentally sustainable life-style, and that we should stop trying to force everyone into the same mold.
We were right when we said we needed to curb the excesses of capitalism or the gap between rich and poor would become a divisive and oppressive nightmare.
We were right when we said that prohibition would not work and that the laws against drugs do more harm than the drugs themselves ever could.
We were right when we said that Nixon was a rat and a crook, and that the CIA was running heroin in Vietnam.
We were right when we said that Reagan was a wolf in sheep’s clothing and a disaster for America.
We were right when we said trickle-down economics was a bullshit greedhead rip-off of the poor.
We were right when we said they were torturing and murdering innocent people in SE Asia, South America, Central America and elsewhere, and that we were training foreign armies to do those things at the School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, Georgia.
We were right when we said that Wall Street, the government, and the military-industrial complex had formed an evil iron triangle that has a stranglehold on our country and is pushing us inexorably into a state of total war to serve their own nefarious ends.
We were right when we said the MSM was becoming a propaganda machine.
We were right when we said the religious right was filled more with hatred and intolerance than with love or Christian charity.
We were right when we said love and peace are the answer.
We were right when we said workers were being ruthlessly oppressed and unions neutered and pressured out of existence.
We were right when we said the government was spying on American citizens.
We were right when we said we were sending too many people to prison for all the wrong things.
We were right when we said that the government wants to take away our civil rights.
We were right when we said the Republics were bible-totin’ fascists with fake smiles and daggers up their sleeves.
We were right when we said that we all deserve to be freer but that the government intended to make us less so.
We were right when we said that there is something bad wrong with a government that spies on Quakers, peaceniks, and the guy who wrote All You Need is Love.
And you think WE are anti-American? That’s almost funny – except that it isn’t.
Where is the respect? Where’s the love? Where is the acknowledgement that we are the leading edge of thought? Where is the admission that WE WERE RIGHT?
The communists will do whatever it takes to kill capitalism and Western Civilization.
No but thanks for asking a stupid question
Democracy thrives on dissent and difference of opinion. During war time jingoists often try to use scare tactics and charges of lack of patriotism to get people to walk in lockstep with the fearless leader.
Many words and charges are made that people don’t mean or regret saying later on. I wonder if the person making the following quote, although it fits your idea of what is happening, ever regretted saying it.
“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.”
– Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
No!
Sometimes war leads to peace (WWII) sometimes it just leads to more war (Iraq)
That’s absolutely ridiculous. The world isn’t split cleanly into two groups. It’s both possible to endorse capitalism, and abhor irresponsible wars at the same time. Rational people are capable of making their own decisions on a variety of topics independently.
But for those unfortunates who aren’t capable of thinking for themselves, I suppose the GOP is always happy to do it for you.
Most people in the Peace movement habitually cling to the delusion that leftist regimes offer a utopia. Why these people refuse to look at the facts of leaders like Mao Tse-tung, a ruthless megalomanic who killed 72 million of his own people, Josef Stalin, etc. The truth is, peaceniks enjoy the security and freedom that allows them to espouse whatever nonsense they want to. That security and freedom was earned by the blood of fine Americans and others. Like many Euros who have forgotten the horrors that occur when a tyrant takes control, you can bet American peaceniks will be among the first to scream for our goverment to “do something” should their loved ones, or probably more likely, their own skins are at risk.
“Gosh Batman when you put it like that”
The news media in this country are anti-America. They will bring down anyone, left or right to kill this country. So take what they say with a grain of salt. The far left also hates America and individual liberty, so for now, they are in cahoots. The peace movement, like liberals in general, are just the pawns of the far left. Being used to advance socialism and communism in America without even realizing it. Notice how liberal and lemming starts with the same letter?
You’re really not saying anything new. And this argument needs something new to convince anyone of anything.
People aren’t pacifists because of some grandfatherly Norwegian Professor no one has ever heard of. They are pacifists for lots of reasons. Religious and Philosophical beliefs. Awareness of other countries and cultures. Compassion for others.
Try addressing some of those issues next time. Or better yet, actually ask a question and try to learn something instead of trying to yell at liberals from your soapbox.
A good example of the intellectual bankruptcy of these so-called “pacifists” is “gun control”. Newsflash “pacifists”, in order to confiscate people’s guns, you have to use violence thru sanctioned thugs called “police”. The moment you tell someone what to do, you will have violence. The “Peace Movement” is a sham.
Yes. They cheer on America’s enemies when they fight us. “Peace movement” has become an oxymoron.