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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: Letter From A Former Liberal I was there that afternoon. Got a bunch of pictures. I will tell you this: I've been to a lot of rallies and marches from the liberal side over the years. I've been to both inaugural protests against Bush; was at the million woman rally in favor of abortion rights; have been to countless anti-war marches. I have seen behavior worse than what has been captured on this film. At least in the few hours i was at the health bill protest, I saw no behavior like this, and was struck by how tame this crowd was compared to all the liberal rallies I've been to. I don't depend on the news to tell me what to believe, I go and witness things myself. I live near and work in the belly of the beast, I know what's going on here. On St. Patrick's Day of 2007, there was an anti-war march planned to start at the Vietnam wall and then march to the Pentagon. Normally for marches, I don't bother to check their websites until the morning they start for their location. When I got off the metro I made my way towards the Vietnam Wall. There were several thousand people in that area, but I noticed that all the colorful protest signs were actually a good bit beyond this first crowd away from the wall. At first, I thought Rolling Thunder and the Vietnam Vets had come to join us. As I walked through that crowd, with my anti-war sign in hand, and an Arab scarf about my head, I finally got the feeling that perhaps this somber crowd was not the crowd I was looking for and I didn't know what was going on. I didn't know until later that Rush Limbaugh had announced that the march was going to be in the vicinity of the wall--a big no-no to the Vets, because they regard that wall as sacred ground, and they showed up by the thousands to protect it. Because of the crowd control fences park police put up, it was a very long maze for me to get where the actual protest was. I stopped a couple times to ask vets how to get around to them and they politely explained to me. Never a problem. Had it been any other group of people I guarantee you I would have gotten at least socked if not beaten half to death. I finally made my way to the "peace" protesters. There's always shouting between opposing sides at DC protests. I bet I could come up with even better videos than the Bravenewfilms one, on liberal protesters. At the St. Patty's protest, I fully expected both sides to shout at each other. But something happened--I had a sort of negative epiphany. Both sides carried signs that said, "Support the troops". Both sides. And I'm at the edge of the protest, next to the street, and the two sides were divided by a line of police--a line I had just walked through. Dozens of people on my side--the pro-peace side--where shouting obscenities, giving the vets the finger, yelling "traitor" at them. That's the liberal version of peace. The people on my side were especially loud--and abusive. Across the street, most of the Vietnam Vets stood quietly receiving this abuse. Both sides carried signs that said "support the troops", and there stood the old troops in front of the liberal protesters, completely rejected and even abused as they all were 40 years ago. Watching this, I thought about our brother, Joe--a Vietnam Vet. I could imagine him being on the other side of that street. I nearly threw down my sign to walk back to them to join them. To this day I regret having not done that. And that is a story you'd never see Greenwald put on his website; you certainly won't find such a thing on the news about what very real haters people are on the left. Today, I am no longer a liberal. I've washed my hands of the whole gang of hypocrites. I consider myself an independent, and personally would like to see the annihilation of both democrat and republican parties as neither serve the American people. I also would like even more to see the annihilation of American media and press, for their role for many years has been focused primarily on getting everyone to hate each other. Calling the Tea Party people "racist" is exactly such a tactic. I've seen more prejudice and hatred coming from the left than I ever see from any other group of people. Real discussion of what middle class American citizens want is being completely shut down with a word that has is now actually used as an epithet: "Racist". Even attorneys say if you can't win the argument, start using epithets to shut people up and win by cheating. It is all about controlling the masses by dividing them. Getting people to hate each other is cheaper and more effective than organizing armies to bomb them. What my liberal friends don't understand is that America is losing a thing called Westernization. Such things as the very concept of freedom and liberty come from the West (I study this--go to your library and see the book, "Liberty and Freedom", by David Hachett Fischer"); engineering comes from Westerners; science, logic, even electricity. Most of the world has benefited from both Western concepts and Western creativity--and there are people right inside of our own nation who want to see this gone. Thomas Jefferson wrote the very first Declaration of Independence ever in history. By the time he died, 20 more countries followed suit. Because of what this Western man did, over half the nations on the planet have written declarations of independence. Without the West, there would be no such concept as "freedom". The left does not understand that it is this that they are trying to kill. And what most people on the left don't understand is that capitalism in not the problem. Michael Moore attacked something he misnamed capitalism. The problem here is not capitalism (Pat, you own your own business--you are a capitalist), but CORPORATISM. International corporations--globalists-- get away with literally murder against human rights around the world. They don't care, or have to care about human beings. And they've shipped American jobs to near slaves overseas. They just want everyone's money. Same for international banks. Corporatism and capitalism are not the same, and in fact, real conservatives oppose corporatism and globalism. The other thing the left doesn't understand is that communism, and it's offspring, socialism (it was the Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republic), killed 100 million of their own citizens. Their own people. Not wars between countries, but their own people. Genocide. Liberals totally block this out of their sights and minds, for the political forms they support obviously do not support peace and justice. Socialism is not about generosity, it is simply another method of controlling the masses--by murder, and by destroying human creativity and individuality. I don't buy Greenwald's bull, nor the media's bull in calling the Tea Partiers "racist"--not when I've seen even more of it on the liberal side. If it shuts down conversation, in my book those are the real enemies. I think the tax paying middle class has got to take a stand and start calling that word "racist" an epithet that is just as hurtful and dehumanizing as the epithets those congressmen heard. Greenwald is a spade calling another a spade. For the record--one of my best friends is a gay man, and most days the only white person I ever see is my roommate, and some days, like today, the only white person I see is the one in the mirror. All my coworkers are black and hispanic. I'm the token white, and I've worked there for four years. Nice people all of them. But I don't even let the people I love bullshit me, and I don't let my love for people persuade me into believing what's not true. If you want the truth, kill your tv. But if you'd rather be right, and avoid going through a dark night of the soul like I did on these realizations, don't even think of conversing with anyone outside the choir.
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