Open Letter to Protesters -

Open Letter to Protesters - This note appeared on the Minnesota National Politics discussion list, in a topic about Minnesota's clacque of anti-Bush protesters. I liked it, and am using it with permission.

I don’t think there is any questions that the majority of Americans and Minnesotans believe that those people out protesting the war in Iraq weeks ago were Anti-American professional protesters who if the war was not the issue of the day, would be out protesting something else. In other words the usual suspects who regardless of the issue not only fall on the left side, but the far left side.

They are a tiny fraction of a minority of America, there candidates can not get elected to office, and there views, when fully explained to the masses are laughed at and ridiculed. When one of them does attain some degree of notoriety and is paid attention to in an electoral situation there views are such that they do more harm than good to there movement (See Ken Pentel and the Minnesota Green Party). For the most part there are politically irrelevant, except on lists such as these which allow them to spout there drivel to the masses and afford them some degree of credibility that they are unable to receive in the real world.

Once again what has happened in Iraq has proved not only there dire predictions wrong, but has shown them for what they are, anti-American professional protesters who care little for anyone, other than themselves and there warped world view. The fact is simple Americans, Minnesota and now the World is rejecting these far left people who protest on a dime, who left to there own devices could not govern a fraternity, let alone a nation.

The professional protesters are not gone, just proven wrong on this issue-next week they will be back, protesting Governor Pawlenty, Mayor Kelly or maybe even Mayor R.T. Rybak. Once again average ordinary Americans will be forced to listen to this minority drone on and steal precious resources from society as a whole .just to get out there bigoted,mean spirited and hatful message.

Of course there's a right to protest. There were even rational reasons to oppose the war, if you wanted to find them.

But so many of the anti-Bush protesters have taken such incredible leave, not only of reason, but of simple morality. Opposing the war, in full cognizance of the evil Hussein represented and the things he'd done meant supporting Hussein; agreeing with institutional rape, the torture cells, the child prisons, the nerve gassed families. To end the war at that point - go "Support the troops by bringing them home" - would have been to deny liberty, and unleash a degüello on the Iraqi people like we haven't seen since...

...since the last time we betrayed them, at the behest of the UN.

So yeah, I'll be going to the demonstration today. If there is one.

Posted by Mitch at April 9, 2003 01:59 PM