Responding to WND’s report about a sign in a Seattle storefront cheering U.S. enemies, a talk-radio station mobilized listeners to gather in front of the building with flags and calls of support for American troops.
 Sidewalk debate at protest of sign urging “victory” to enemies of U.S. (Photo: Kevin A. Moore) |
The sign, urging “Victory to the Iraqi Resistance,” appears on the New Freeway Hall Community Center near the city’s downtown on multi-ethnic Rainier Avenue, home of the local branch of the Freedom Socialist Party.
John Carlson’s afternoon drive-time program on KVI in Seattle was one of at least a half-dozen local talk shows to feature the story, which lit up call-in lines.
Carlson, a former Republican candidate for Washington governor, told WorldNetDaily he sent his listeners to the site Friday to “encourage them to answer hate speech with pro-American free speech.”
 Citizens answer sign with “pro-American free speech.” (Photo: Kevin A. Moore) |
“What’s even more outrageous than the sign is the silence,” he said. “Not a single prominent Seattle pastor or politician has stood up to condemn it.”
Carlson noted, the “same ones who protest when a racist leaflet is left on a windshield are nowhere to be seen when signs encouraging the U.S. to lose in Iraq are appearing.”
While 40 or 50 of Carlson’s listeners gathered in front of the Freedom Socialist Party headquarters, a counter-demonstration, with about half as many participants, assembled in support of the sign, chanting “KKK KVI.”
At other times they could be heard chanting, “Hey, hey George Bush, how many kids did you kill today?”
Carlson added, “While the anti-war leaders may not be anti-American, they are nevertheless refusing to condemn the America haters, and that’s very revealing.”
 Signs at Seattle Freedom Socialist Party headquarters. (Photo: FreeRepublic.com) |
“Imagine,” he said, “if a group that opposed affirmative action or forced busing refused to condemn racists.”
Last week, Luma Nichol, Seattle organizer of the Freedom Socialist Party, told WorldNetDaily her group put up the sign because there has been a “distortion of the truth” about the Iraq war, and “we want to educate our neighbors.”
She said reaction to it had been much more positive than negative.
 Anti-war supporter reacts to sign protesters. (Photo: Kevin A. Moore) |
“There is a lot of opposition to the war,” she told WND. “A lot of people understand that what the U.S. government is doing is a hostile invasion that violates the sovereignty of the Iraqi people.”
When asked, Nichol acknowledged some opponents would call wishing victory for an enemy of the United States an act of sedition or treason.
“I’m sure there are some people that would see it that way, but the U.S. is the aggressor in this situation and in the wrong,” she declared.
Nichol explained her group is a “socialist, feminist political party” that has been active in the U.S. for more than 30 years.
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