While exiting the federal building at the end of a long day, I was greeted by the waft of something smelling like incense, clinging to four or five lefties standing on the sidewalk. If you’ve ever gone into a “music store” you know the odor, something so strong and pungent that it’s sure to mask the smell of weed. Anyway, the band of women were breaking up and going their separate ways…one of them in this behemoth. All sides of the truck were adorned with the same sort of level-headed wisdom you see here.

Apparently this was a Code Pink member’s truck, judging by the pink shirts they wore and the pink spray paint. There were, however, stickers for all the usual leftist wackjob causes: abortion, impeachment, feminism, environmentalism, unions…the works. That is no surprise; organizations like these tend to champion each others’ causes in a lockstep leftist way. The tie that binds is liberalism itself, and everybody’s got their agenda. I didn’t see any pro-illegal immigration or “legalize weed” stickers, but I didn’t look that closely. Maybe they were on the other side of the truck.

What these groups have in common is that they each champion their own sin, basically. You have the envy that leads to class warfare, that encompasses the communists and the pro-union folks. There’s the drug legalization crowd of course, and the pro-abortion people. There are the rabid environmentalists which worship creation rather than Creation (Romans chapter 1), which is idolatry. The ones crying racism? Well, they’re just plain liars: they don’t want racism to ever go away, because the perception of racism is their empowerment. So they all band together into the ragtag bunch we call the modern Anti-American Left.

Code Pink, by the way, is an organization started by a Wiccan witch who calls herself “Starhawk”, communist activist Medea Benjamin (who was radical enough to even be forcibly removed from a DNC convention in 2004), environmental activist Jodie Evans (who also sits on the board of an environmental activist network that teaches people how to sit in trees etc.), and career protester Diane Wilson, who got herself thrown in jail for criminal trespassing and then used it as a springboard to claim human rights violations while incarcerated. It’s quite a bunch.

Groups like this one have quite a network going; founders and board members of one group are quite likely to hold rank in others as well. A site called Discover the Networks is helpful in trying to figure out just exactly who these people are, who’s paying their bills, and what they really stand for.

This brings me back to the Eyes Wide Open exhibit that was sponsored by the ND Peace Coalition. I still have my copy of the flyer they were handing out at the event. It’s got links to Code Pink and other groups including:

American Friends Service Committee: supported Vietnamese Communists, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, and the PLO

Gold Star Families for Peace: starring that buffoon, Cindy Sheehan, who loves Hugo Chavez, the dictator currently nationalizing assets and shutting down opposition media in Venezuela

I’d list more, but these people frankly aren’t worth your time or mine. Having spoken to Karen Van Fossan, the local contact for the ND Peace Coalition, I’m convinced she’s a really nice person…just as deluded as the day is long if she believes this stuff. I asked her about Code Pink’s ties to communists, and she appeared surprised and denied it. But even casual research at all into these groups finds otherwise, so I suspect either the ND Peace Coalition folks are completely oblivious…or they’re lying.

In any case, when you see those white “PEACE” banners that NDPC members put in their yards, just think of these radical groups and remember who’s behind those little white signs. It can be said that you can tell a lot about people by their friends. The friends of the North Dakota Peace Coalition are among the most radical anti-American, anti-capitalist groups you can imagine. Before lending them any credibility, check out the people they associate with and endorse in their own flyers.