Embrace Peace or I'll Kill You! More Violent Peace Lovers

There's an interesting post, a sort of backgrounder for yesterday's Times Square bombing: "Make Incendiary Devices, Not War" Iraq War News (March 6, 2008).

What stands out in the post is the recounting of previous attacks by, ah, "anti-war" demonstrators. The ways of the peacenik are strange.

Since these events are related to the War on Terror, and aren't getting much attention, I've taking the liberty of making a list of events the Iraq War News blogger referred to. While I was at it, I added little extra information:

• Chicago, March 20, 2003:
  Molotov cocktails www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kBvNdR-H7U
• Athens, Greece, March 21, 2003:
  Molotov cocktails at an anarchist rally www.ainfos.ca/03/mar/ainfos00474.html
• Athens, Greece, April 16, 2003:
  More Molotov cocktails at another anarchist rally findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030417/ai_n12683014
• San Francisco, March 21, 2003:
  12 Molotov cocktails, unused, found in a backpack while cleaning up debris from an anti-war demonstration www.ktvu.com/news/2056452/detail.html (Credit where credit is due: whoever dumped them didn't use them - although odds are that the bombs were dropped to avoid arson charges.)
• New York City area recruiting centers, 2005:
  • Smashed windows
  • A cracked door with anarchist symbols, a burning rag thrown into an Army recruiting station, and door locks glued shut¹
  • More, across America: including manure in Toledo, Ohio
  "For Recruiters, Antiwar Protests Raise Perils on the Home Front" The New York Times (February 21, 2005) is a rich source of information www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/nyregion/21recruit.html
• Olympia, Washington, May 29, 2006:
  Attempting to pry open a fence. Gateway Pundit blog post, gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/05/after-fence-assault-anti-war-port-mob.html
• Ottawa, Canada, March, 2007:
  A soldier, back from Afghanistan, was introduced at a bar as a war hero. Then four men blindsided him, saying "What kind of hero are you now?"
  "Soldier calls nasty bar beating a 'sneak attack'" CTV (March 13 2007) www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070313/ottawa_soldier_070313/20070313?hub=TopStories

Each of these incidents might be written off as a fairly minor act of some overwrought person. Put together like this, they show a pattern of violence in "anti-war" circles that's disturbing.

I made it through the sixties: I'd just as soon not repeat the experience.

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¹the 19-year old Manhattan College student who was arrested for making a third-rate Molotov cocktail and gluing a door shut had a handwritten note promising a "wave of violence" throughout the Northeast, aimed at the "military industrial complex." "Military industrial complex?" I haven't heard that phrase since the sixties and seventies. I suppose it's been cherished over the decades, by people who didn't want the spirit of the sixties to die out.