If a poll could be taken wouldn't you say the 97% of those marching on Sat. or doing CD on Monday or lobbying Congress disagree w/ ANSWER being allowed through their bullying and reserving in advance all the permits for potential dates and locations for rallies months in advance to arrogate to themselves an unwarrented leadership role in a peace movement, when they have a well stated opposition to peace and non-violence? Of coarse, given the parlous, puny state of the U.S. Left compared to the 60's and 30's there are going to be a small, obnoxious "red" sects that are the worst advertisement for marxism imaginable ("presence of reds within a movement" cf. Lacny, "The Joy of Sects."), but, one of the points of this, "Cooper, Corn, Newman, Daily Kos, " critique (which doing a search at google blog search will show has hundreds of left-liberal blogs agreeing w/ their points) is precisely that ANSWER's politics are the opposite of those that marched on Sat., unrepresentative, divisive, demogogic, marginalizing. The "entire" anti-war movement or damn near the entirety of it isn't represented by these freaks.
To think that the Peace Movement of 2005 is anything like the CPUSA dominated American Peace Mobilization of 1939, now that's "red-baiting". To quote Richard Nixon, heh, "Throw the Bums Out!"
-- Michael Pugliese