"Stop Thinking like an American..."

The anti-everything organization The World Can't Wait recently staged an anti-war protest in Berkeley, California and I came across this picture of a protestor attired in an orange jumpsuit ostensibly portraying a prisoner being held in Guatanamo Bay, Cuba. I was immediately struck by the the message taped to the back of the protestor's jumpsuit which read "Stop thinking like an American and start thinking like someone who cares for the whole planet!"

It has been my experience that when you run across the machinations and propaganda of far left organizations they are, for the most part, not prone to disavowing their country in order to push their agenda(s) on others but, in the case of The World Can't Wait, they come right out and say it -- "Stop thinking as an American...!"

The National Director of the World Can't Wait group, a Ms. Debra Sweet, not only wants President Bush indicted for war crimes, but she is also clearly not confident that the recent President-elect, Senator Barrack Obama, will be any better than Bush. Apparently she is worried about the "Chosen One" nuking Iran and trashing Afghanistan!

Recently, Code Pink activists ended their year long demonstrations at the the United States Marine Corps Recruiting station in Berkeley when it became obvious they could not find a legal remedy to have it removed from the community. That didn't bother World Can't Wait activists who moved right in and started their own demonstrations. According to the group's director, the recruiters "...have no right to be in our communities (or anywhere else) - since their right to recruit is in conflict with the right of the Iraqi peope to live, and to be free from unjust occupation. So we have to decide: Do we think American lives are worth more that Iraqi lives...Which right do we respect?"

In addition the above, the World Can't Wait organization responds to the question of "Regardless of how you feel about the war, don't you have to support our troops?" as follows...

"NO! The cliche 'support the troops' is nothing but war propaganda intended to paralyze people and prevent them from taking action to stop what the troops are actually doing. Yes, young people are lied to and manipulated into joining. Yes, veterans are treated poorly when they get back. But no, the troops are not doing anything honorable - they are part of a U.S. military machine that is committing war crimes - and they should not be supported. If you were living in Nazi Germany, would you have said 'support the troops' ."

For all their ant-war rhetoric, I could not find any article by the World Can't Wait organization or its Director, Ms. Debra Sweet, commenting on the issue of Islamic Fundamentalist terrorism. No statements about either of the two World Trade Center terrorist acts, the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, the London subway bombings, the Madrid train bombings, the bombings in Beriut and Lebanon, etc. Sadly, in the "I'm so far left I am off the map" of both Ms. Sweet and her organization, the only fault to be found in the world today lies solely at the feet of the United States of America.