Conservative activist infiltrates anti-war protests

Conservative activist infiltrates anti-war protests

An Israeli-born engineer who became incensed at the intolerance of supposed "peace protests" decided to exercise his own free-speech rights and add a little balance to their gatherings.

Kfir Alfia was living in San Francisco several years ago when he happened upon an anti-war demonstration. The patriotic American said he did not want to be left out, so he and a friend made some signs of their own and decided to participate in a future rally.

Alfia says one of their signs was a real indictment against war. It read: "Except for ending slavery, Fascism, Nazism, and Communism, war has never solved anything." On the reverse side, it read: "Saddam only kills his own people. It's none of our business."

The sign he carried was little different than the other protestors as well, he explains. "The one that I had had a drawing of a Muslim woman in a burqa with a leash around her neck, and then underneath that it says 'Protect Islamic property rights against Western imperialism. So no to war.' And then on the back of that one -- this was an answer to some of the communist groups -- it said 'Communism has only killed 100 million people. Let's give it another chance.'"

Alfia says the reaction to their participation in the march was predictable. "Eventually the organizers tried to get us kicked out and they called the San Francisco police to try to remove us," he recalls. "But we cited our constitutional right to be there just like they were, and the police department refused to remove us -- and we managed to go throughout the whole march."

Alfia says out of that first protest he co-founded Protest Warrior, an international organization that exposes the truth behind liberal protests.