Reply #180: Just so you won't sound too uninformed

[Tinoire]

whose activities here are being hijacked? ANSWER organized the majority of the protest, other groups started piggy-backing and they formed a coalition with ANSWER. So just whose activities are being hijacked here?

Seems to me like a few anti-ANSWER people, most of whom we don't know from Adam, are trying to weaken the coalition or seek to hijack it for their own purposes of just weakening Bush without attacking the machine that breeds him.

Don't like ANSWER? Don't march with them. Start your own groups and see how many people show up! The ever-increasing number of people who go to ANSWER marches are concerned with more than just Bush's handling of the war.

One moment it's complaints that ANSWER marches are nothing but Palestinian flags from front to rear, the next it's the complaint that a "few" pro-Palestinians, pro-Mumias or whatever hijacked the protest. Time for people to get their stories & their priorities straight. Nobody's been hijacking anything- it's always been like that though I understand what a shock this may be to delicate sensibilities of those who just woke up, can only handle one issue at a time and/or think that all other issues should patiently take second place even thought they've been around a lot longer than Bush or the war against Iraq.

The pervasive smell in this & similar threads seems to be moderates & conservatives getting scared. Those who don't like how ANSWER does things or what issues ANSWER is protesting against should just stay home! They did before so whence the rush to march with ANSWER if only they would repackage themselves into something more palatable for the delicate ones. The delicate ones should consider organizing their own groups and own protests if ANSWER is so repulsive to them.

Maybe the DLC or the DNC could help :shrug: