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February 2, 2007

Videos: Leftist Anti-War Protesters Abusing the Troops

In my report on the Freeper counter to the anti-war protest organized by United for Peace and Justice I related how the lefties insulted our soldiers time and again. One of our number, tgslTakoma, took video which proves it. She helpfully provides subtitles where it's hard to hear what's being said.

If you're not familiar with these, click the arrow in the center to play

Here's another video of a Fox News segment where Joshua Sparling is being interviewed by Alan Colmes.

Joshua describes the scene as "The most angry peace march that I've ever witnessed". I was right there with him the whole time, and I'll second that.


The leftists who participated in the "peace march" were about the most hateful crowd I've ever seen. There were thousands of them and only about forty of us, yet our mere presence drove many of them into paroxysms of rage.

Joshua, his girlfriend, and father also appeared on Fox and Friends. "I received more fingers that day than I've ever seen before." There's also a surprise at the end of the segment. Don't miss it.

Here's the original hate mail that he received that they refer to in the segment.

Caveat; no I am not lumping everyone who is against the war in Iraq into this category. As I said in my original report on the event, United for Peace and Justice and it's affiliated groups are on the extremist fringe.

But if you want to get an idea of some of the hate that is directed at the troops who served in Iraq and dare to publically say that they support our efforts there, go to YouTube and look at some of the comments that have been left under the videos I posted above. Here's a sample of what was left in response to the last video above

bloodstomper (4 hours ago) Joshua Sparling, listen up! When you proposed to your girlfriend right there on Fox television the other day, you revealed yourself to be a tactless little twit who'd do anything for a few more minutes in the national glare.

I'm surprised she didn't spit at you.

p4cific (1 day ago)
that's true,kinda crude way to "force" the girl to accept

tonelook (1 day ago)
Any videos, any pictures, any proof?

Tofucactus (1 day ago)
Attention Ho. He's whining about a protester who argued with him. Josh was standing under an effigy of Jane Fonda hanging by a noose; chanting "Code Pink Kills". It's newsworthy that somebody argued with him?

Josh says the guy spat on him. I'd believe that if Josh had also told us about the retired Army Colonel and Code Pink speaker who, over the PA system, pointed him out in the crowd, identified him by name and thanked him for his service, despite his booing and thumbs-downing.

wntoply6 (1 day ago)
well, not exactly nepatriot, the biggest outright hypocrisy THERE EVER HAS BEEN is george w bush, and his lying, ignorant bigoted neo con party. look first in the mirror before you start sharing that term with others. communist-led ha! what a stupid fool you are. do you like just throwing words around for the hell of it? you damn fool.

WwRRJJ234 (1 day ago)
"heh heh,er um,i'm the decider by god,heh heh,er uh,must stay the course,er heh heh,rummy will stay as sec def,er you'll see heh heh,dick(cheney)didn't shoot him on purpose,er uh,fool me once er um,fool me again,cause i'm still a fool. bin laden?hell i don't know where he's at,er ah,i don't think about him much heh heh,it undermines the troops heh heh"

Halo4Lyf (1 day ago)
Tell me, in what way have I lied? Lying consists of two things: a falsehood and intent to spread it. You have not presented evidence of me knowingly spreading a falshehood, so it is you who sins by making false accusations.

repsac3 (1 day ago)
Where's Ann Coulter now that this poor amputee is exploiting his victimhood in the name of right wing politics? Wonder what foul name she'll be calling him, and how soon that'll be? (If she actually ever did--which we all know will never happen--I'd defend Mr Sparling's right to speak out, just as I did Ann's other victims.)



Can we question their patriotism now?

Posted by Tom at February 2, 2007 7:41 AM

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I fear you've misunderstood my comment about the video...

I fully support Joshua's right to speak out, though I do disagree with him.
I just wondered whether Ann Coulter would be intellectually honest, and rail against Joshua the way she did Max Cleland. (All that crap about trotting out the victims, blah, blah, blah...) If she actually ever was that intellectually honest, she would be as wrong about Joshua as she was about Max. And I would be among the first to say so...

You may question my patriotism, if it'd make you feel better (I've no need for a freeper seal of approval, anyway), but if anybody's got a beef with that comment above, it oughta be Ann Coulter, not Joshua or you...

Posted by: repsac3 at February 3, 2007 11:24 PM

Tom -

It may interest you to know that this tgslTakoma person who posted the videos on YouTube has blocked people with dissenting views from posting on her videos. I know, because I was one of them.

Doesn't say much for an interest in free speech, does it?

Posted by: ZuZu at February 17, 2007 4:20 PM

Oh ZuZu. Now you're disappointing me.

Freedom of speech is inhibited only when the government takes action to stop you. What private individuals do on their own blogs has nothing to do with it.

For example, I delete comments for two reasons: One, when profanity is used, and Two, when the commenter goes way off topic. I expect all comments to be relevant to my post. I've had a few instances of people using the comments section here as their own blog and I put a stop to it.

If you want to consider that an infringement of your freedom of speech you're wrong.

Others don't allow comments on their site at all. Powerline, Instupundit, and Michelle Malkin come to mind. I'm sure there are some on the left as well. Are they limiting free speech?

You seem to think you have a right to leave comments on websites. You don't. You do have a right to start your own blog and respond. My advice is to do just that. If you're good, I'll visit.

Now, deleting comments may or may not be good policy, and you might say it limits debate. But that is an entirely different argument than saying it limits free speech.

Posted by: Tom the Redhunter at February 17, 2007 8:19 PM

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