Clueless In Seattle

From: Lord Valve (lordvalve2002_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: 29 Apr 2004 22:59:43 -0700

My goodness, these folks are some *major* losers.
Perhaps some of the saner folks in Seattle (if
there actually are any sane people there) can
take some kind of action. Nothing violent, you
understand - something uniquely American, say...
Hey! A baseball game! They could have a baseball
game right outside the Freedom Socialist Party's
headquarters. Of course, they'd want to be extra
careful that any stray pitches or foul tips didn't
hit the windows where the "Victory to the Iraqi
Resistance" sign was located. Wouldn't they?

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ON THE HOME FRONT

Seattle sign cheers
U.S. enemies
Window front on major street:
"Victory to the Iraqi Resistance''

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Posted: April 29, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Art Moore
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© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

As U.S. troops engage radical Islamic insurgents
in Iraq, passersby on a major thoroughfare near
downtown Seattle this week will notice a sign in
a window front that urges: "Victory to the Iraqi
Resistance."

The sign appears on the New Freeway Hall Community
Center on multi-ethnic Rainier Avenue, home of the
local branch of the Freedom Socialist Party.

Luma Nichol, Seattle organizer of the party, told
WorldNetDaily her group put up the sign because there
has been a "distortion of the truth" about the Iraq
war, and "we want to educate our neighbors."

She said the reaction to the sign, noted by a
contributor to FreeRepublic.com, has been much
more positive than negative.

"There is a lot of opposition to the war," she told
WND. "A lot of people understand that what the U.S.
government is doing is a hostile invasion that violates
the sovereignty of the Iraqi people."

However, Tuesday, she said, a "not very eloquent person"
telephoned and "called us all a bunch of fags, which is
not very conducive to debate."

But some opponents would call wishing victory for an
enemy of the United States an act of sedition, she
acknowledged when asked.

"I'm sure there are some people that would see it that
way, but the U.S. is the aggressor in this situation
and in the wrong," she said.

"A people whose country is being invaded and colonized
by a hostile force have a right to defend themselves -
that is what people did in World War II, and I stand on
the side of the victims not the aggressors," Nichol declared.

She said she agrees with people who call the ousted Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein a "dictator and vicious man."

"But I don't believe that the U.S. government wants to
bring liberty and democracy to Iraq," she said. "They
have their own agenda - oil, making money for Halliburton
and other firms. There is no evidence that the U.S. has
the interest of the Iraqi people at heart."

It's up to the Iraqi people to deal with their own dictator,
she asserted.

"How would you feel if somebody said *** Cheney is a threat
to democracy and invaded our country?"

Nichol explained her group is a "socialist, feminist
political party" that has been active in the U.S. for
more than 30 years. As part of the Trotskyist wing of
communism, it is distinguished from the Communist Party
U.S.A. she said, "calling for socialist democracy in
opposition to Stalinism."

There isn't a country in the world that practices her
party's model for government, she said, but Cuba comes
the closest.