Anti-Inaugural Protests

[Chuck0]

Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer wrote:
> 
> >They are a front for the Workers World Party- basic ideology is what they
> >call global class war, which means defending China's policy down to shooting
> >people in Tianenmen Square.  But they are pretty good at building coalitions
> >for one-day protests - in fact that is their major skill - so more power to
> >them and everyone endorsing the J20 actions.
> 
> >-- Nathan Newman
> 
> Actually, Nathan, I would say *less* power to those neo-fascist parasites.
> Other than the RCP, I can't think of a worse excuse for a political grouping
> (well, there's Fulani and Fred Newman). Read only enough of their stuff to
> know how horrible they are; but I'm curious: Do they they parrot the Chinese
> line down to the regime's old support for the Khmer Rouge and hostility to
> the Vietnamese? Or do they stop at advocating the murder of unarmed
> dissenters?
> 
> The only thing I liked about the WWP was when they disrupted the third party
> presidential debates on C-SPAN in 1996. Great live TV. Thought that Harry
> Browne and Howard Phillips were going to shit each other's pants. John
> Hagelin, on the other hand, simply went into TM mode, and blocked out the
> negative vibes coming from the lunatics waving placards. If Budweiser and
> Phillip Morris were more cutting edge, THIS is what they would they sponsor
> instead of the dreary corporate version. Perhaps then FOX would televise the
> debates, sensing bigger ratings than what "Dark Angel" would bring.

Hear, hear. The WWP looks at the world through anti-imperialist glasses,
which  is, as most of you know, inadequate to truly understand how the
world operates.

Frankly, I think the IAC sucks ass big time. I've seen them in action
here, as well as their front groups. They have a reputation in D.C. as
being the group that arranges the lamest protests. A good example is
that anti-war demo they put together in June of 1999. It was basically a
march across the Potomoc on a Saturday to the empty parking lots of the
Pentagon. Nobody saw us, there was no news coverage, and nothing
happened. Marching with Serbian nationalists was another bizarre aspect
of that lame march.

Then there was the anti-Iraq sanctions rally that their group, the
National People Campaign, put together. Of the 75 people there, I think
I brought 20 of them. We started off with a lame rally in from of the
MLK library in downtown D.C., which is a deserted place on a Saturday
morning. We then walked down E St., which is even more deserted on a
Saturday, toward the White House. And then we didn't even stop in front
of the White House, instead opting to end the march in front of the guy
that take your picture with the Clinton cardboard cutouts (in front of
the Treasury Building).

I could go on with more stories, but you catch how impoverished their
protest style has been.

Then they always make this appeal to authority, by trotting out Ramsey
Clark, the ex-Attorney General. Who gives a shit if he was the AG at one
time. Isn't the only requirement for that position that you have a warm
pulse?

Chuck0