Code Pink

I was surfing one of the bulletin boards devoted to the tactical and special operations communities today when I came across this gem: http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?list=type&type=96

In short, in case that link is broken someday, CodePink is advocating a boycott on "war toys", with slogans such as "Dont let your child be a victim of G.I. Joe!" and "Violent Toys = Violent Boys". They are also advocating disruptng commerce by sticking labels on "war toys" in stores that carry such slogans.

This directly relates to the post I made earlier - where I said if we continue fighting so hard to supress the harder truths of human nature, in the end we will also destroy the beauty of things like love.
Movements such as Code Pink, for all their attempts at sounding educated and backed up by science, are actually going directly against the grain of nature. War toys dont make violent anyone... Look at wolf pups or lion cubs in the wild, they play fighting games.
Look at non-carnivorous species, such as big horn sheep, or elk, or even cattle. They too play fighting games in youth.
Fighting is a part of the world. It is biology. We will never overcome biology.

It is a waste of resources, at the very least, to create such advocacy as CodePink. Its junk science, holier-than-thou, message does more to harm positive causes than anything else.
The idea such groups promote is on the same level as saying that if you stop feeding a lioness meat, she will become a vegetarian. Its not a realistic effort to affect change... its a feel-good movement for yuppies and middle America to cling to, and get their "superiority" fix off of for awhile. Its not radical, its trendy... and thats all its trying to be.
To affect change we must change the way the world understands violence.
Our tolerance for un-neccessary violence, for cruelty, torture, tyranny and human rights abuses, must be absolutely zero. The consequences for such behavior should be swift, and very very permanent.
But we must also re-draw the lines between the small bit of violence that is truly necessary, and everything else. Necessity should be allowed... as a measure against the hateful, the cruel, the unnecessary, un-tolerable sorts of violence.
So long as men are willing to take what is not theirs, by force, the need for violence to defend against that will be there. We must set the world straight on this reality, once again. To bring an end to all the evils, we have to be honest about violence.
CodePink is not honesty... far far from it. And that hurts us all.