Durka-Durka-Muhammed-Jihad!!
A comment that surprisingly hasn't been quickly deleted by those fine, upstanding bastions of intellect over at San Diego Indy Media; it's located in a thread about 'Discuss SD Peace & Justice Movement April 18':
liarsFunny - they don't strike me as RACISTS, but then again they think that all Protest Warriors are out to crush all sorts of free speech so there is no accounting for logical thought with these folks.
In 1991, near the end of the so-called Persian Gulf war, it became shamefully obvious that the anti-war movement in the US had some deep problems regarding class and race.
Demonstrations were largely lily-white affairs. San Diego’s anti-war movement back then, which was led by the San Diego Coalition for Peace in the Middle East (SDCPME), was no exception.
The issue was addressed at a SDCPME open meeting toward the end of the war. To try and remedy the problem a motion to change the march route from Downtown/Balboa Park to Logan was proposed. Marches in this community of color and others would help build solidarity with working class people. The motion was voted on by the body and approved. The new march route was to take effect in the upcoming weekend protest.
But something happened that remains a stain in the anti-war movement in SD. Three or four days after the new march route was approved, leaders of the SDCPME held a secret meeting. At that meeting the new march route was overruled and the original (safe for whitey) march route was reinstated.
Democracy had been hoodwinked by the despotic leadership of the SDCPME.
The SDCPME disbanded in the 1990s for dubious reasons. The real reason may have been because its misleaders wanted to wash their hands of their treachery to the peace movement and start out with a clean slate. In other words it seems that they did what many misleaders do - disband and regroup under a different name.
The new organization’s name is the San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice (SDCPJ). The leaders of SDCPJ say they want to have an open meeting to discuss: “The Political Message” and “Movement Tactics” as “…only the beginning of a process of building a democratic movement that says no to war, so please join us to express your ideas and have your voice heard!”
Or so reads an invite to their April 18, 2005 open meeting that was suddenly placed in the SDIMC Newswire archives on April 12, 2005 after comments about the 1991 affair had been posted.
Now, after the comments have been wiped clean, the invite has reappeared as above.
To SDIMC and ne1,
You people don’t have the integrity to deal with this issue. You subverted democracy in 1991 and now you pretend to be interested in democracy. Yet when I mentioned your treachery in 1991 you censored it. You haven’t changed one bit from 1991. The lily-whiteness of your protests speaks volumes.
I doubt they'll answer but here goes: What do you folks have to say about this, hmmmm?
Of course, this comment - like most/all of mine - will be deleted as soon as they catch wind of this because we all know that they're like squirrels: chatter and scurry away at the first sign of a response.
If you're feeling funky, give them a call and see if they're willing to talk: (619) 263-9301
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