CLOWNS – AT 11:12 A.M. ET:  I'm regularly angered by people who call themselves "peace activists."  Aside from being pompous and presumptuous, these people never do anything that actually advances peace.  They usually advocate policies that lead to war, and then never take any responsibility for it.  And sometimes they are simply people who are siding with the enemy, and using the word "peace" as a shield.  From CNN: 

Paju, South Korea (CNN)An international group of female activists crossed the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea on Sunday in a controversial effort to bring attention to the need for peace between the two nations.

The group of about 30 members, called WomenCrossDMZ, included feminist Gloria Steinem and two Nobel Peace laureates, Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia.

On Sunday morning, a bus picked them up from the North Korean side and ferried them across the Demilitarized Zone that has separated the two Koreas for more than half a century.

"We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible," Steinem said after the group, which had originally planned to walk across the zone, arrived in South Korea.

The activists said they acted as "citizen diplomats" in North Korea, speaking with women at a series of events during their time there.

"We can learn on paper and on screen," Steinem said. "But the ability to understand, not just learn, happens when we are together and able to empathize."

The group says women need to be involved in the peace-building process. It calls for reuniting families divided by the Korean War, and replacing the 1953 armistice with a permanent peace treaty -- demands similar to those made by the North Korean government.

Yeah, and that's the problem.  They're either dupes, or people who want to be dupes.  Sometimes they want very much to be dupes.

Other activists have criticized the event, saying the group is overlooking major problems faced by women under Kim Jong Un's authoritarian rule.

"It is absolutely outrageous that they completely ignore the suffering of the North Korean people, especially North Korean women," said Suzanne Scholte, head of the North Korea Freedom Coalition.

COMMENT:  They ignore these things because people like Gloria Steinem never really believed in human freedom.  They believe in government-controlled societies where "social justice" is delivered by those in power, whether elected or not.  "Equality" is their thing, not freedom.  As long as there's equality of misery, it's an improvement, in their narrow, authoritarian view.

May 24, 2015