This Memorial Day weekend, we will all take responsibility for the country we love and the men and women who protect it. We will volunteer, we will pray, and we will speak out. In the days leading up to Memorial Day, we will take action to support our troops, end the war, and bring them home to the heroes' welcome they deserve. And on Memorial Day, we will honor and remember all those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

The problem is, if I thought John's March for Surrender would, in any way, "honor and remember all those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom," maybe I could stomach it.  However, past "peace marches" have been anything but occasions of solemn reflections about our war dead.

Instead, they've been more like this:

Protesters burn US Soldier in effigy

Congressman's Office Attacked, Rep. Threatened*

Anarchists Spray US Capitol with Graffiti

And, of course, the protestors have primarily been from groups such the Boy Scouts of America, and .... eh ... check that ... they have been from:

A.N.S.W.E.R. **

Black Bloc / Anarchists

United for Peace & Justice  ***


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* I have met Rep. Rogers, he's a nice guy.  The thing I think they missed in the piece covering the damage to his office is that, on the sidewalk outside, the perp had used paint to a person's outline with the message "YOU'RE NEXT".  So much for peaceful resistance.

** ANSWER is a front for communist organizations.  Even the dreaded anarchists think so.

*** UFPJ is a cobbling together of many other groups including the Communist Party USA, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, and others.  A little note about UFPJ's point of view:

The breadth of UFPJ's agendas extends well beyond anti-war activism. Passionately anti-American, this group condemns virtually every aspect of U.S. foreign policy and domestic life. It impugns America's "daily assaults and attacks on poor and working people, on women, people of color, lesbians/gays and other sexual minorities, the disabled, and so many others." It asserts that "the government treats all immigrants as potential terrorist threats until proven innocent, in violation of the Constitution," thereby "expanding the scope and depth of racial injustice within the U.S."

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And lots of others as the Washington Post pointed out:

The event is expected to draw groups of many stripes. The chart for the assembly site shows sections reserved for veterans and labor, gay and peace organizations, in addition to others dedicated to opposing global warming, nuclear arms and torture and a group called End Israeli Occupation of Palestine.

Ooooooookay, so "labor" and "gay" groups, oh, and ones opposing global warming, joined the protest on...our presence in Iraq.  Hmmmm.

Where was I?  Oh yeah, the point is this, John's Memorial Day protest, a day intended for solemn remembrance, is going to be made up of groups that are, generally, simply anti-American.

And he's not naive enough not to know it.  So, he'll have unclean hands as Communists, Castroists, and others who loathe this country march on Memorial Day.

Shameful.