The Party of Peace Goes to War
By: Nick Danger · Section: Democrats
Code Pink is not your average, everyday collection of "peace activists." This is, after all, the group that raised $600,000 last year to aid terrorists in Fallujah. As Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin put it at the time, "I don't know of any other case in history in which the parents of fallen soldiers collected medicine...for the families of the ‘other side’."
Ms. Benjamin and the other co-founders of Code Pink have been "on the other side" for quite a while.
In the 1980's, Benjamin worked as a project coordinator for the Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP), which was widely credited with aiding the Marxist Sandinista regime. Upon visiting Cuba in the 1980's, Benjamin told the San Francisco Chronicle that Castro's paradise "made it seem like I died and went to heaven." She is widely credited as a chief organizing force behind the 1999 Seattle riots in which 50,000 protesters did millions of dollars worth of property damage.
Code Pink spokeswoman Sandy Brim flew an American neurosurgeon to San Salvador in 1985 to operate on Marxist Revolutionary Party Commander Nidia Diaz, whose hand had been injured in combat. Diaz’s group had claimed responsibility for the murders of four U.S. Marines and nine civilians two months before. Kirsten Moller, the current executive director of Global Exchange and Code Pink, like Benjamin, worked for IFDP in the 80s.
These are long-time, serious Marxist organizers. And here is Howard Dean touting their wares at the DNC meeting in Arizona last weekend.
Recent events make it clear that a pitched battle for control of the Democratic Party is now underway between the far-left "peacenik" contingent symbolized by Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi, and the DLC or "Clinton wing" of the party which sees only electoral defeat in the rabid antiwar sloganeering of the increasingly leftist DNC. Those of us who were around to see the rise of George McGovern have seen this movie before. It ends with a wildly cheering base nominating a candidate who proceeds to lose 49 states, and in the process tars the Democrats for a generation as a party of left wing moonbats.
Those on the right who are gleefully anticipating a Deaniac victory in this struggle know that the media are not neutral observers in this fight. Since they are mostly on the far left themselves, reporters and editors from the legacy media can be relied on to hand their biggest megaphones to the antiwar contingent, as they have done with Rep. John Murtha, and as they continue to do with Dean himself. The Clintons, who have long been darlings of the media, may find it increasingly difficult to be heard above the chants of "Peace Now!" coming from the DNC and its allies in the press.
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