The “Patriotic” Left: Wolves in Sheeps Clothing

One reason that I find the left to be contemptible is that they so often don the costumes of sheep while ravishing their unsuspecting prey like the wolves that they truly are. They’ll curse America in their heart while assuming the veneer of patriotism in order to further their efforts to destroy her.
traitors on the left

Given the propensity of leftists to appropriate the symbols, language and causes of the right, I have learned to investigate any group wearing the “red white and blue” on their sleeves and I find that all too frequently a quick google of their board of directors or staff will reveal another anti-American organization with a roster full of leftists.

Take for instance a site calling itself “In Their Boots”.

IN THEIR BOOTS is a compelling new magazine show about the dramatic impact the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are having on us - the people here at home. The show will feature our Iraq and Afghanistan service men and women, and their families, in stories that have universal appeal.

Funded by a grant from the Iraq Afghanistan Deployment Impact fund (IADIF) and produced by Brave New Foundation, IN THEIR BOOTS will be streamed exclusively online.

In Their Boots will be hosted by Jan Bender, a veteran of the war in Iraq who served as a rifleman/combat correspondent in Iraq with 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines from 2004 to 2005.

Every week a live episode will be built around a dramatic and emotional IN THEIR BOOTS “Real Story,” a non-fiction narrative about how our service people, their families, and their communities have been profoundly changed by the nation’s campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then, in a live forum, Jan Bender, our host, will interview the participants and lead a discussion that includes experts, service-providers and individual viewers in an interactive discussion of the issues raised.

Well, the first red flag is that a diarist at Daily Kos promotes it favorably. The rest of the clues are found on Brave New World’s “About” page.

Starting with the president of the organization, Robert Greenwald, co-founder of ‘Artists United to Win Without War’, and going on down the line-up, you find a host of left wing activists who have actively sought to undermine the very war that these Vets - whom they purport to give a damn about - sacrificed so much for.

Film director and producer Robert Greenwald is the co-founder along with actor
Mike Farrell, of Artists United to Win Without War (AUWWW),a political activist group formed by hundreds of Hollywood actors, directors, and industry personnel who oppose the Bush Administration’s war and liberation efforts in Iraq. Citing the “flawed case for war in Iraq,” this group calls for an investigation into claims that weapons of mass destruction were being manufactured in Iraq. AUWWW is associated with MoveOn.org, an online political activist group that has generated hundreds of millions of dollars for left wing political campaigns… (Source)


Regardless what this government is failing to provide our returning troops, to be embraced by a cadre of hypocrites like these is a deep insult to the men and women who fought. It is rather like a rapist deigning to offer comfort and care to the woman he raped.

Their list of partners include ACORN, Code Pink and CAIR. Moving on to their Board we find Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation and author of “Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical Right” . Then there is Dolores Huerta, co-founder with Cezar Chavez of the United Farm Workers of America.

Need I say more? Like vultures, the left sweeps down on any group of people that they can use in their never ending quest for victims. I find it reprehensible that they are plucking their carrion meat from the bodies of our wounded troops.

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17 Responses to “The “Patriotic” Left: Wolves in Sheeps Clothing”

Lucky Larry July 11th, 2008 at 11:00 am

Thank you, another excellent post. Deception and betrayal, the one-two punching technique of the ‘progressives’, seems to be the hallmark of this insidious effort to further destroy the will of our country.

Do you recall when this war with Islam first started, how the amoral left cried out how they opposed the war but supported the troops? The Americans in their midst would be lulled into silence with this false claim, since in reality they despise the troops. Never questioning further this claim - or applying their logic to other activities in life - the self-righteous progressive left would be given a ‘pass’ to spread their poison. Support the troops, but oppose the mission of the troops? That’s insane! That would be like me (living in Seattle) saying I hated football, but supported the Seahawks!

I propose that the reason the progressive left needs to use the tactics of ‘deception & betrayal’ to gain advantage over this country is that most people would dismiss them out-of-hand if they were transparent and honest. As cancer saps the strength of the body, so does the left sap the strength of will found in our nation, leaving us open to every sort of dangerous attack from both without and within. Cries of racism from the supporters of Obama, sharia law institutions, advanced surveillance tools developed (and deployed) - all are symptoms exampled of this betrayal gaining momentum against our sovereign nation, America. At the current speed this political virus is spreading, with it’s attendant illnesses, the life of our freedoms is starting to appear questionable.

How long before a few selected elites write up another Constitution for America, after destroying the current one in both spirit and letter? Will our country change it’s name to perhaps the “Peoples Demokratic Republik of North America”?

zee July 11th, 2008 at 12:17 pm

Hey Larry and thank you

That would be like me (living in Seattle) saying I hated football, but supported the Seahawks!

Or like a wife saying she supported her husband but not his work, and then goes about doing all she can to sabotage his job. Or she supported their marriage and then goes out and blows their bank account and has an affair.I guess that is their famous nuance again? Which is another way of saying prevarication.

most people would dismiss them out-of-hand if they were transparent and honest.

Well, Obama’s Marxist roots seem fairly evident to me. His recent attempts at playing the patriot are not really necessary - too many Americans seem ready to accept him even with his roots exposed. That is what is most frightening……these Obamanites want to suck the government teat and they seem to have no shame in wanting it.

How long before a few selected elites write up another Constitution for America…

Well, unless the Obamanite is derailed, I’d say that process will start the day he lays his lying hand on the koran to be sworn in- and quite frankly, I’d rather he not desecrate the bible by swearing on it. He can shove his supposed love of god in the same place he can shove his new found “patriotism”.

MK July 11th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

“…they so often don the costumes of sheep while ravishing their unsuspecting prey like the wolves that they truly are.”

Indeed Zee.

Generally you can tell a leftist organisation from their name, that’s the first clue telling you it’s a pile of crap.

Take, Artists United to Win Without War, only ignorant, gullible people will find nothing wrong with that. But when you think about it for say a second or two, you ask, what do they mean Artists, when last did they fight a war and win? Oh yeah, never.

The last bit, Win Without War, unless you came down in the last shower, that’s nonsense. The reality is that outside much of the western world, much of this planet is a dark and dangerous place where force and guns rule. It’s always been like that, the only thing that’s changing is that those western countries where force doesn’t always rule are now shrinking, thanks to treacherous curs like these.

Just Another Richard July 12th, 2008 at 11:57 am

Zee. You do a grave injustice to such a noble creature as a wolf, for though the wolf is indeed a dangerous animal, he is governed by the inimitable rules of the pack, in the context of a wild and harsh world; except in the “changing of the order”, he is ever faithful to the pack and its welfare.

No, the creatures of which you speak bear more than a striking resemblance to “snakes lurking in the grass”, or “a pit of venomous vipers:” having appeal only to the perverse…sadly, there does seem to be an over abundance of perversity these days :(

Good old Will Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus” is a great metaphor for our times… Where a fearless but austere and ambitious patrician, who would lead, is laid low by the designing deceit of the Tribunes (and his own ambition), who peddle deliberate lies about him in order to further their own designs. Not that Caius Martius was a character of noble stature, but that those surrounding him were of such base natures. That the people are fickle and easily swayed. It is the tragedy of our age that we are led by designing corrupt parasites. Men and women who feel no shame, nor any contradiction in furthering their latent agendas by means of mendacity and cruel deceit. Whose attachments to their hopelessly flawed ideologies, overrides all concern for the actual consequence of their actions.

“The insolence of power is stronger than the plea of necessity. The tame submission to usurped authority or even the natural resistance to it, has nothing to excite or flatter the imagination: it is the assumption of a right to insult or oppress others that carries an imposing air of superiority with it. We had rather be the oppressor than the oppressed. The love of power in ourselves and the admiration of it in others are both natural to man: the one makes a tyrant, the other a slave. Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp and circumstance, has more attraction than abstract right. Coriolanus complains of the fickleness of the people: yet, the instant he cannot gratify his pride and obstinacy at their expense, he turns his arms against his country.” - William Hazlitt

Just Another Richard July 12th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

Let me just highlight one little section of that quote which might otherwise get lost in the general assembly of words….

“it is the assumption of a right to insult or oppress others that carries an imposing air of superiority with it”

Think upon it well, what a stunning clear insight into the foibles of human nature.

Just Another Richard July 12th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

Maybe that last line would be more accurate to read ” what a stunning clear insight into one of the foibles of human nature

zee July 12th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

Hey MK,

The last bit, Win Without War, unless you came down in the last shower, that’s nonsense.

A strain of that type of thinking pervades the schools with this contempt for competition and the aversion to give credit where credit is due simply because losers will have hurt feelings. It is as if these fools imagine a world entirely populated with courtly and civilized humans who will not squash the weak But that is what comes from living in a civilized West, totally unaware of and oblivious to the barbarians that infest the rest of the world.

zee July 12th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

You do a grave injustice to such a noble creature as a wolf…

You are quite right in that JAR. I should have used a different metaphor. Perhaps snakes in the Garden of Eden saying “surely you will live” sums up their level of deception.

Not being familiar with Coriolanus, i looked it up quickly, and though it isn’t the point you are making, this struck me as how us “common folks” are viewed today.

Brutus and Sicinius scheme to undo Coriolanus, and whip up another riot in opposition to him becoming consul. Faced with this opposition, Coriolanus flies into a rage, and rails against the concept of popular rule. He compares allowing plebeians to have power over the patricians to allowing “crows to peck the eagles (Wiki)

“it is the assumption of a right to insult or oppress others that carries an imposing air of superiority with it”

Well, I’m thinking I have a right to insult. Perhaps I am misunderstanding how “insult” is used here. Those I insult have a right to reciprocate. Civility keeps such things under control, but that is fast disappearing from the scene, including my own. But I never have felt the need to oppress, though I know there are those who do, thought they wouldn’t call it that.

the instant he cannot gratify his pride and obstinacy at their expense, he turns his arms against his country.

I wonder of the returning soldiers who join the camp on the left. Not due to injured pride perhaps. Maybe anger at the government. but it isn’t America who has hurt them, but the men who now have power. I just wonder about the vets who allowed themselves to be used in this project.
As ever JAR, you give me rich food for thought.

Just Another Richard July 12th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

“it is the assumption of a right to insult or oppress others that carries an imposing air of superiority with it”

My intent was not aimed at you, but rather the marked tendency of the organs of state media, which immediately launch into a most ferocious frame of argumentative style, when confronted with opinions which deviate from the state sanctioned parameters of just what is acceptable discourse within the public arena. At present we are faced with an adversary we must not name, lest someone’s feelings are hurt, and yet lives are being destroyed and treasure is being squandered in a vainglorious attempt at diverting attention from the real issue, as if somehow this will avert the looming catastrophe. Meanwhile, the Tribunes are busily lying their way across the world stage in hopes of gaining advantage, be it monetary or political.

Humour, sarcasm, ridicule and scorn, all have their place in the scheme of discourse and argument; it is however, the mark of extreme dishonesty, when these tools are underscored almost exclusively by a pack of lies, and is a clear indicator of intellect, lacking substance.

As to Coriolanus, do not look for any parties with redeeming features…there are none, this being one of Shakespeare’s starkest plays; for here he paints everybody with a brush of self serving cynicism. Pretty much like humanity in the raw.

There is much confusion in this earthly realm, and little wisdom with which to unshroud the mists, is it any wonder men are easily led astray? We have no leaders, they have all been banished to the wastelands by a smug, sanctimonious media, naively serving the latent venal ambition of a Marxist intelligencia, born out of the fetid halls of academia. As ever, when designing minds, schorn of all human decency, conspire to serve deceitful ambition, there will be a reckoning, paid in the blood of innocence, as a sacrificial offering upon the alter of human vanity.

Just Another Richard July 12th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

Interestingly zee, my seventeen year old son read a piece by you about a week or so ago. If I recall it was one about Obama and the call to include foreign nationals within the US military, specifically Ugandans if I recall. His comment was that your article was very angry and hateful, but then he went on to admit that the subject you were writing about was insane and an idea totally without merit, thought up by fools . As I pointed out, that you were angry and with much to be angry about, and it was your perfect right to express that anger; that indeed, we have all been conditioned to hide our anger, as if it was some monstrous sin, and not a natural reaction to events and revelation of deceitful minds, destroying our world around us. I put it down to the endless conditioning of the education system…”why can’t we all get along”; he has much to learn, as do many others, but sadly, only the school of life will teach him the truth, for he has his mother’s obstinacy. :(

zee July 13th, 2008 at 3:06 am

My intent was not aimed at you

Oh, I didn’t think it was JAR, I just personalized it because of my tendency to throw insults when angry - or simply because i feel it is deserved.

Meanwhile, the Tribunes are busily lying their way across the world stage in hopes of gaining advantage, be it monetary or political.

Would Bush and Soros and Clinton be representative of such Tribunes? You must keep in mind, I am a citizen of the great unwashed :) and don’t know a lick of Shakespeare.

my seventeen year old son read a piece by you about a week or so ago. If I recall it was one about Obama and the call to include foreign nationals within the US military, specifically Ugandans if I recall.

And that was one of my tamer posts. I can honestly say such hatred was foreign to me before 9.11. It seems perfectly natural now. I would wish it were not so, but I hated cancer when it invaded my body and I hate the cancer that I have discovered permeates this country.
I am not saying it is enjoyable or comfortable. It just is.

he has much to learn

He is fortunate to have you as a father. You have much to teach him. I wish we lived in a world where hatred was an alien emotion. But it will never happen. In fact, we would be less than human if that were so.

Perhaps he will find much to ponder in Baron Bodissey’s essay In Defense of Hatred. I, at one time, was very alarmed to find myself filled with such loathing as I have for our enemies. It served to help me understand that, indeed, my hatred was “a natural reaction to events and revelation of deceitful minds, destroying our world around us”.

Just Another Richard July 13th, 2008 at 8:26 am

Hi zee. Yes hate and anger have had a bad rap from “The Crowd of the Holy Compassion”, for they really have pulled the wool over everyones eyes. Anger is a natural human response to insult and injury, for without it, we become apathetic. If one feels no emotion when assaulted, then what is there to motivate any reaction upon the part of the injured party, nothing, and so the assailant may continue merrily upon his way, free to rob, harm and impose his will upon all who cross his path.

A man who feels no emotion in the face of danger is already a dead man, or worse, a slave, he just hasn’t realized it yet, or more probably is too busy trying to cope with that strange emotion that lurks in his semi-conscious and seems to loosen his bowels every time the thought appears. In fact, I suspect, for a disconcerting number, I would speculate that fear is their overriding emotion, but of course, this must be hidden, especially from themselves. Anger, rage and hate, are the emotions which we are in desperate need of if we wish to stir ourselves to action, and so preserve our societies and civilization for our children’s’ birthright. They are the very spur to action, so necessary when confronted with danger.

The simple fact that so many are struggling with the recognition of such a simple truth is testament as to just how deep and insidious has the moral relativist brainwashing been within Western Society. Our rulers wanted a passive, bovine populace, in order to carry out their latent designs, By a combination of their conniving deceit, and our own self-indulgent complacency, they achieved it…now what(?) By their actions I would say, they either have no contingency plans for the unexpected, or, far more ominously and indeed, foolishly, they don’t care, and assume that they are beyond the reach of the consequences of their malign policies… THEY ARE NOT.

As to William Shakespeare, I’m no expert on him either zee, I find that due to the high prose of his language, that he is difficult for a mind such as mine to read. But truth be told, if we will put a little effort in, we can reveal to ourselves a world of near sublime understanding, for never was a mind more in tune with all the vagaries and nuances of human behaviour than our Will’s. His clear sighted observations upon human behaviour, stands in stark condemnation of all those fools, frauds and charlatans of academia, who have wreaked such devastation upon the social landscape of the Western mind this past century. Should the inclination so take you, when reading old Will, arm yourself with a couple of books by modern contemporary Shakespearean scholars, not the deconstructionists, but those who have an obvious love of the Bard’s perception and craft, the right ones can make the going easier and far more rewarding… people like Harold Bloom.

I’m with you zee, let the anger blossom, for if it speaks from the heart, the spirit, the passion and the soul, then truth will prevail, and that is absolutely essential if we as a society wish to survive.

zee July 13th, 2008 at 8:17 pm

The simple fact that so many are struggling with the recognition of such a simple truth is testament as to just how deep and insidious has the moral relativist brainwashing been within Western Society. Our rulers wanted a passive, bovine populace, in order to carry out their latent designs, By a combination of their conniving deceit, and our own self-indulgent complacency, they achieved it…now what(?) By their actions I would say, they either have no contingency plans for the unexpected

I would add the emphasis of “living in the moment” with absolutely no thought as to what the sum total of those moments ultimately amount to, the complete devaluation of human life, and this insidious guilt the West has over their wealth and successes, also are conducive to continuing this suicidal march over the abyss. I still marvel over a response from a lesbian defending muslims when told that their punishment for homosexuality was death. She said they had a right to their beliefs and if they win she would die. No doubt the same woman would deny a Christian the right to preach against homosexuality from the bible.

Should the inclination so take you, when reading old Will, arm yourself with a couple of books by modern contemporary Shakespearean scholars…people like Harold Bloom.

Thank you for the suggestion. There is much I wish to set straight in my mind about America’s history and other areas of study but do not know where to start, not knowing who is a revisionist and who is not.

let the anger blossom

Oh no worry there, I’ve a veritable freaking garden of blossoms. :twisted:

Just Another Richard July 13th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

” America’s history and other areas of study but do not know where to start, not knowing who is a revisionist and who is not.”

That’s really not so difficult, for, for the most part, most of those revisionists cannot constrain their enthusiasm; they let their biases out of the bag very early on as to just where their sympathies lie…watch out for the hatchet buried in the back of any famous figure, implying that the author views them with all the horror that their own hill of moral superiority grants by implied authority. The true historian has no use for moral judgments, simply stating the facts and letting events be the judge of utility.

” let the anger blossom

Oh no worry there, I’ve a veritable freaking garden of blossoms. :twisted:”

While I am in agreement with you, I offer this caution…

A Poison Tree
By William Blake

I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I water’d it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,

And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch’d beneath the tree.

A poem to the ever present dangers of allowing our own passions to consume us.

Just Another Richard July 14th, 2008 at 4:25 am

On second thought, I doubt whether Mr. Blake was ever confronted with such an act of sinister betrayal as that which has allowed large numbers of an alien and hostile ideology into the very bosom of our heartland. For surely his scorn would have been equal to the measure of such malign arrogance, as that displayed by our preening elites.

But yes, as in anything, too much anger can and will consume, but then again, maybe as Ecclesiastes so eloquently states …

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”

After a prolonged period of prosperity we are now most definitely entering the days of adversity, and a meekness of spirit and quietness of character will avail us naught when conflict erupts in our faces, and, given the degree of hate peddled by much of the world against Western civilization both from without and from within, we would simply disarm ourselves, should we not resolve to anger in our own defense.

As to the “progressives”, all I can say is that the brainwashing they have been subjected to must be very toxic and corrosive, as it really has rotted their minds.

zee July 14th, 2008 at 11:28 am

Your caution regarding bitterness is indeed wise. Were it not for the delight of my children and grandchildren, I would be completely consumed in the doom foreordained by the cancer within, or as you say so well, ” those large numbers of an alien and hostile ideology into the very bosom of our heartland.”

And that indeed is the most galling. I could handle Islamists - their threat, as malignant as it is, could easily be routed with the full assault of the West. But then to discover that the your country is itself sabotaged by and riddled with cowards and traitors, worse still, that those traitors hold high office…. that indeed is a bitter pill to swallow.

And though the kids give me joy, that joy can be easily overshadowed by the peril I know awaits them. What sends chills through me is the state’s pernicious march into the family. I can’t even find solace in the prospect of homeschooling. When it has come to the point where great britain is looking for racists amongst toddlers and Obama is planning his own brigade of brownshirts… well, one simply wants to have a means to preserve and protect..and those means are fast evaporating.

and a meekness of spirit and quietness of character will avail us naught

Exactly. As I watch the grandchildren I try to think of ways to encourage their parents to prepare for the worst while believing for the best. I want these kids to know how to survive, grow food, hunt, handle weapons, etc, while at the same time prepare themselves for a prosperous future if America should indeed stand. But to send them off to public school where they will immediately castrate their will and their spirit..that I just can not have peace with.
At any rate, my kids do yell at me when I go about too long with that angry scowl on my face, and caution me when my conversation is saturated with anger and acid……..they will not allow me to get too bitter… Now if they would only listen to me!

Just Another Richard July 14th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

“… Now if they would only listen to me!”

Ah yes, I know the problem well.

Like you, I see the forces of oppression spreading their wings with evermore confidence that their designs will inevitably succeed. While I do sense a general awareness among many, that something is rotten within our societies, due to the general stench emanating from the body politic of not just one, but of all Western governments, there does seem to be a general timidity to step forward and tear down the whole rotten structure; something the populace, when suitably aroused, could so easily do. But that would involve pitchforks and torches, something the average person seems loath to do :(

I really do believe though, that the average Joe is almost totally oblivious to just what is at stake, for believing in the innate goodness of the human spirit, he cannot conceive of the conniving deceit which motivates, the ambitious, the immoral, the true believers of hate, and above all…the committed Marxist.

I guess the Marxist poison which has been pumped into our societies for so many years, has indeed born forth bitter fruit. The moral relativist mush has totally saturated the minds of so many, that they remain powerless to resist the looming danger, or else are willfully engaged in participating in the destruction as the “useful idiots” of those nameless deceitful power brokers who lurk in the shadows, whispering endless sweet nothings to the gullible idiots.

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