The Left's New War Against Our Military

[Bonnie]

By Rocco DiPippo
FrontPageMagazine.com | July 11, 2005

The latest attack on the U.S. by its Fifth Column enemies is aimed at stopping the Armed Forces from enlisting new recruits. Faced with a flagging anti-war movement, leftist agitators have shifted gears and are now subverting the War on Islamist Terror by trying to destroy America’s ability to maintain a fighting force. Though so far limited in success, this counter-recruitment movement is growing quickly and threatens to wreck America’s ability to defend itself from its enemies.

Nation-wide there are hundreds of small organizations involved in this counter-recruitment movement. They formulate strategies based on those of prominent traditional pacifist groups. Almost all of them are directed by a handful of well established “social justice” and “peace” groups with long histories of anti-U.S., pro-communist and pro-totalitarian alignments and agendas. All the larger pacifist and radical groups work with each other, with the smaller groups and with the Legal Left to coordinate what amounts to a broad national movement.



At the movement’s forefront are the radical groups Code Pink for Peace, United for Peace and Justice, the Ruckus Society, the Campus Antiwar Network and the Society of American Law Teachers. These groups coordinate with four major pacifist organizations having long histories of anti-U.S. pro-communist activities- the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO), The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Veterans for Peace (VAP) and the War Resisters League (WRL)



Code Pink for Peace, headed by Castro-loving neo-communist and perennial anti-U.S. activist Medea Benjamin, orchestrates the direct-action segment of the counter recruitment movement with the Ruckus Society, an off-shoot of the eco-terrorism group Earth First!



Benjamin’s history with the Ruckus Society goes back to the late 1990s when she helped it plan and execute the violent riots that occurred during the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle, Washington. As part of Code Pink’s counter-recruitment drive Benjamin has enlisted the Ruckus Society to provide training camps for potential 18-22 year old counter-recruiters.



Ruckus Society training camps provide activists with the tools to organize street protests, shut down recruitment offices and avoid arrest. Those attending the camps are exposed to a constant barrage of anti- capitalist, anti-war, anti-U.S. propaganda. Ruckus also advertises its training camps through its front group, Not Your Soldier, a counter-recruitment organization whose website marquee features an angry looking young man reading a book titled, “History of U.S. Imperialism.”



Code Pink and Ruckus provide tips on organizing and executing counter-recruitment protests and give detailed instructions on how potential recruits can opt out of recruitment databases. In conjunction with Leave My Child Alone, a front for the leftist-funding Working Assets group, Code Pink provides a detailed guide to pressuring school boards to counter Section 9528 of the 2001 Now Child Left Behind Act. Section 9528 allows the U.S. Military access to high school students’ names, addresses and phone numbers and is an important tool in identifying and contacting potential new recruits.



Code Pink instructs its members on how to harass and shut down military recruitment offices. One of the tactics it prescribes involves having members schedule meetings with recruitment officers under the pretense of being potential recruits and then showing up for the meetings with groups of rowdy anti-military protesters. Protesters are urged to block doors, directly harass recruiters and stage “die ins” in front of recruitment centers. Code Pink’s website displays a deep animosity towards military recruiters, referring to them as “warmongers and liars.”



The radical-left United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) is another group that shares the direct-action helm of the counter-recruitment movement. Formed in 2002 and led by communist Leslie Cagan, an anti-U.S.agitator with a 40 year history of shilling for totalitarian regimes including Castro’s, UFPJ acts as a contact point for over 800 smaller “peace and justice” groups involved in the anti-war and counter-recruitment movements. UFPJ pushes a counter-recruiting agenda similar to Code Pink’s and like Code Pink aims its counter-recruitment effort primarily at junior-high and high school students, concentrating on neutralizing the Section 9528 provision of the No Child Left Behind Act .While Code Pink organizes and directs counter-recruitment in urban areas on the West Coast and in the Midwest, UFPJ runs the counter-recruitment movement on the East coast, focusing its activities in New York City and in urban centers in New Jersey. UFPJ also helps coordinate counter-recruitment activities on college campuses in the U.S. and provides extensive grassroots training to college anti-war activists.



The Campus Antiwar Network (CAN) is at the forefront of the counter-recruiting movement on college campuses across America. CAN represents a new breed of anti-U.S., anti-Israel activist organizations since it operates independent of major anti-war groups like International ANSWER and UFPJ. CAN is run directly by college students and has organized a comprehensive counter-recruitment campaign that focuses on in-your-face tactics including threatening and verbally harassing recruiters and chasing them off campuses.

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[nosarcasm]

How dare they disagree ?

 

[Bonnie]

How dare they disagree ?

Yes, disagreeing is one thing but to have a conserted camapign to keep the US from building up a volunteer army to protect is quite another, nice try but your sarcasm here doesn't cut it!!

 

[Gunny]

How dare they disagree ?

I think there's a difference between disagreeing and engaging in activity that ultimately can do nothing but harm to this Nation.