clipped from sweetness-light.com Ever since the South Koreans have been taken hostage by the Taliban the wire services have been awash with photos of “protesters”: And, as usual, our media cannot be bothered to tell us who is behind these anti-American, pro-terrorism protests. But note the name in yellow at the corner on a number of these protest signs. A visit to the their website reveals what SPARK is all about: Solidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea

From their Call for the release of the Korean hostages in Afghanistan and the immediate withdrawal of the Korean troops

There are a number of points - and you can read them all at the link or at Sweetness and Light, but I want to highlight this one along with a picture that was left out…

Our wish is an end to the foreign occupation in Afghanistan and the restoration of peace by its own people. The Korean anti-war and peace movement has been exerting a collective effort for this purpose, and will continue to do so. We appeal to the international community for unreserved efforts and support for the safe release of the Korean nationals in captivity.

Oh, Gee. I wonder what groups that sounds like.

Paging my clueless commenter KIM WHO LIVED IN KOREA….who was debating me about the communist fist….in the group picture of the hostages…

Does that fist look familiar?

Okay, let’s review.

Not your grandparents clenched fist

The fist symbol shown below is that of the Students for a Democratic Society (aka SDS)–An explanation of who they were/are-From Wikipedia: The Students for a Democratic Society developed from the youth branch of a socialist educational organization known as the League for Industrial Democracy (LID) which descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, started in 1905. Tom Hayden (one of Jane Fonda’s previous husbands) played an important role in forming and organizing this movement.

and the Black Power movement (also related to the World Workers Party and the Socialist Workers)-adopted a similar symbol below, which shows they are in solidarity with one another…

Black Panthers oftentimes use that fist.

was a simplified and flattened version of the heroic fists of poster art of earlier decades.

Today the Socialist Worker’s Party still uses a fist,

although the Mitterand Socialists in France,

which like most western socialist parties renounced nationalization of industry, turned the fist into a graphic holding a rose.

But Slobodan Milosvic liked a red fist of socialist power (above), which was parodied and challenged by Otpor,

a student resistance group, in the 1990s. The Otpor group (”Resistance”) used a black fist as their symbol (above).

The clenched fist is the revolutionary fist - and is relatively famous and steeped in historical significance.

Look at all the images that come up when you google the communist fist

Even more when you google up the Revolutionary Fist

So you can be either completely unable to put the picture together, or if you’ve managed to survive the leftist indoctrination process, you might be able to connect the dots…

Unfortunately, I see this group as exactly the same as the protesters from SPARK and other socialist groups from around the world when they hold their fists in the air.

These people went there to work in a hospital, from what I understand.

But there have been Christian peace activists in the past who’ve been targeted by the Islamists for death…Tom Fox was killed in Iraq in March of 2006.

Christian peace activists, no matter what country they’re from, or what humanitarian NGO they’re working for, are bound to find trouble when they’re not facing up to reality. Fox was part of the Christian Peacemaker Team which issued this statement after Fox’s death:

We are angry because what has happened to our teammates is the result of the actions of the U.S. and U.K. governments due to the illegal attack on Iraq and the continuing occupation and oppression of its people. CPT does not advocate the use of violent force to save lives of its workers should they be kidnapped, held hostage, or caught in the middle of a conflict situation

What an interesting conflation. The Islamists kidnapped the guy, the islamists did the deed, but to CPT, it’s the US government’s fault.

Well…if that’s the way the Koreans feel about it, then…the Islamists have delivered the answer… picking off their Christian humanitarians one-by-one like sitting ducks.

It wouldn’t be radical Islamic fundamentalism that’s the problem…no. It’s the U.S.

Whether they’re India’s communists, Korea’s communists or - whatever country’s communists, they all sound exactly the same.