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		<title>New Left Totalitarians Celebrate Castro&#8217;s Victory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Hayden hails Obama for completing the objectives of the Cuban "Revolution." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/518024350_15_ov1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247968" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/518024350_15_ov1-406x350.jpg" alt="518024350_15_ov1" width="324" height="279" /></a>“I first went to Cuba in January 1968, during the height of revolutionary aspirations,” writes New Left celebrity Tom Hayden in “50 Years Later It’s Time for Closure,” a <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article4699068.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Dec. 21 oped piece in the <i>Sacramento Bee</i></span></a>. On recent visits Hayden hung out with Cuba’s former minister of foreign affairs Ricardo Alarcon, and that inspired Hayden to write the forthcoming <i>Listen Yankee! Why Cuba Matters</i>. Meanwhile, Tom Hayden is excited about recent moves by President Obama.</p>
<p>“The Cuban Revolution has achieved its aim,” Hayden explains, “recognition of the sovereign right of its people to revolt against the Yankee Goliath and survive as a state in a sea of global solidarity.” Further, “After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a decade of American triumphalism based on the mistaken belief that the Cuban state would collapse like East Germany. We underestimated Cuban nationalism.”</p>
<p>However, “a sticking point on the U.S. side was the persistent funding of ‘democracy promotion,’ or our secret efforts to promote a more open society.” Hayden further explains that Alan Gross “was a covert agent, not a home appliance distributor.”</p>
<p style="color: #272727;"><span style="color: #000000;">Cuban spies </span>Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez, were all tried and imprisoned in the United States for gathering intelligence on U.S. air bases. They also <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/pastors-for-peaces-shameful-visit-to-cuba/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">infiltrated Brothers to the Rescue and tipped off the Castro regime</span></a>, which scrambled MIG fighters and downed one of the Brothers’ unarmed planes, killing four people. Tom Hayden’s take is rather different: “<span style="color: #000000;">The Cuban Five were protecting Cuba’s security from us, not acting as terrorists.”</span></p>
<p>Hayden contends that key episodes in Cuban history are “best recalled” through Francis Ford Coppola’s <i>The Godfather: Part II.</i> Fortunately, American viewers can gain knowledge of Cuba in films by actual Cubans that cover events Tom Hayden and Ricardo Alarcon prefer to avoid.</p>
<p>When Cuban general Arnaldo Ochoa returned from his military campaign in Africa, “8A,” a play on his name, began to appear on walls all over the island. Long oppressed Cubans believed the popular general was the only one with a chance to topple Fidel Castro’s Communist dictatorship. Fidel knew it too. He held a show trial for Ochoa and put it on satellite television. Cuban filmmaker Orlando Jimenez Leal taped it and made the documentary “8A.”</p>
<p>Viewers can see the regime’s lawyers demanding that their clients get the death penalty. Fidel Castro agreed and on July 12, 1989 duly carried out the sentence by firing squad, just like back in the revolutionary days. No appeal process, and no more threat from Arnaldo Ochoa.</p>
<p>In “Improper Conduct” Jimenez Leal and cinematographer Nestor Almendros portrayed the Castro regime’s repressions against political dissidents, journalists, poets and homosexuals. The <i>New York Times</i> called the film “convincing” and former Castro supporter Susan Sontag said “The discovery that homosexuals were being persecuted in Cuba shows how much the Left needs to evolve.”</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see what Tom Hayden says about this in his new book <i>Listen Yankee! Why Cuba Matters</i>. In the meantime, readers might consult books written by actual Cubans.</p>
<p>In <i>Against All Hope</i>, which has been compared to Arthur Koestler’s <i>Darkness at Noon</i>, Cuban dissident Armando Valladares charts 20 years in Castro’s prisons, and the violence he and other political prisoners suffered. Arrested in 1960, Valladares was not freed until 1982. This came through the efforts of French president Francois Mitterand and human rights organizations. A ballpark figure for the number of Cuban dissidents the American New Left has supported is zero.</p>
<p>In <i>Family Portrait with Fidel</i>, Carlos Franqui charts the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1964. Franqui broke ranks over Fidel’s shift to Soviet Communism, after which “nothing worked.” The privations of the regime get extensive treatment in Heberto Padilla’s novel, <i>Heroes are Grazing in My Garden</i>.</p>
<p>In <i>The Longest Romance,</i> Humberto Fontova calculates that between 65,000 and 85,000 people have died trying to escape Cuba, 30 times the number of Berlin Wall casualties. Cuba’s prison population is 90 percent black and includes Eusebio Penlaver, “the world’s longest suffering black political prisoner.” That wasn’t a sticking point for Barack Obama.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/lloyd-billingsley/lessons-on-the-new-left-from-the-hanoi-hilton/">Tom Hayden recently showed up in <i>Leading with Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton</i>.</a></span> Author Lee Ellis was shot down over North Vietnam, imprisoned and tortured. Americans were kept in cages with their legs tied together and arms laced behind the back until the elbows touched and shoulders pulled out of joint. Some Americans were kept awake for two weeks and beaten, but the treatment wasn’t just physical.</p>
<p>As Ellis explains, the prison guards piped in propaganda broadcasts by Tom Hayden, a “regular speaker” who supported the regime and said the reports of torture were nothing but lies.  Given that record, Cuban prisons may soon ring with readings from <i>Listen Yankee! Why Cuba Matters</i>, by Tom Hayden.</p>
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		<title>The Berlin Wall Does Not Rest in Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remembering the Communism-Terrorism Axis.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/berlinwall1.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-244490" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/berlinwall1-450x270.jpg" alt="berlinwall1" width="362" height="217" /></a>Twenty-five years ago, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came crashing down. The anniversary prompts a meditation on some realities that escaped the old-line establishment press, and which may remain unknown entirely to those growing up in the Age of the Tweet.</p>
<p>The wall was a project of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), a one-party totalitarian dictatorship and the most slavish ally of the Soviet Union, which under Joseph Stalin grabbed half of Germany in the wake of World War II. The GDR was also the Communist state most involved in terrorism against the West in general and the United States in particular.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The official name of the wall was the </span><i>Antifaschistischer Schutzwall</i>, the “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,” the familiar inversion of reality. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/12/specials/sontag-communism.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">As the late Susan Sontag observed during the 1980s, “Communism is fascism.”</span></a> So the GDR was actually the fascist state, with goose-stepping troops decked out very much like those of the National Socialist regime under the <i>Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei</i>, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, also known as Nazis. Sontag was not the first to make this observation. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/hans-massaquoi-who-grew-up-black-in-nazi-germany-dies-at-87/2013/01/23/3faaa5bc-64b1-11e2-b84d-21c7b65985ee_story.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">The late Hans Massaquoi</span></a>, son of a Liberian father and German mother, who in <i>Destined to Witness</i> told of growing up black in Nazi Germany, saw no difference at all between the Nazis and Communists.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">The Communist regimes were so repressive that people fled at any opportunity, leaving loved ones behind. More than 3 million people fled the GDR and no Stalinist dictatorship could allow people to vote with their feet.  So in August 1961 the regime put up the wall, along with barbed wire and guard towers holding vigil over the “death strip,” as it came to be known, embedded with anti-personnel mines.</p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">So the GDR made emigration an exciting experience. Some 5,000 made the attempt to breach the wall, among them the Strelzyk and Wetzel families, who flew to freedom in a hot-air balloon. In the 1982 Disney film </span><i style="color: #272727;">Night Crossing</i><span style="color: #272727;">, Peter Strelzyk (John Hurt) calls GDR oppressors “pigs,” a rare case of </span>truth in <span style="color: #272727;">cinema dealing with Communism. For those who remained, life was bleak.</span></p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Marxist ideology guaranteed that the GDR would be an economic basket case, less consequential to the world economy than Hong Kong. The GDR’s crowning industrial achievement was the Trabant, doubtless the most inferior automobile ever produced. But as John O. Koehler showed in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stasi-Untold-German-Secret-Police/dp/0813337445"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police</i>,</span></a> the Stalinist regime was efficient at repression.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Beyond North Korea and Albania under Enver Hoxha, perhaps no regime has exercised such complete control over the people. Koehler documents the repressions of the “Red Gestapo” against both Germans and the West. The material on Stasi operations against the United States and NATO remains relevant, along with Stasi operations in the Third World.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">In “The Stasi and Terrorism” chapter Koehler detailed the bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin a “massacre” carried out by the Libyan regime of Moamar Qaddafi. Koehler provides the full cast of characters, including Yasser Chraidi, the Libyan terrorist who planned the attack with Musbah Albugasem Eter, Musbah El Ablani and others who were not members of the Libyan People’s Bureau. Those included Mohamed-Suleiman Benali, a Moroccan “residing in West Berlin on welfare.”</p>
<p>The GDR was also a “playground for international terrorists,” such as Abu Daoud, leader of the Black September group that masterminded the 1972 Olympic attack that claimed 11 Israelis. The regime made Daoud a “guest of honor” at a Communist Party Central Committee event and housed at the Metropole, East Germany’s most luxurious hotel. “He was also given a reception at the mission of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and met with officials at the Syrian and South Yemeni embassies” before moving on unscathed. East Germany was also a safe haven for Carlos “the jackal,” Abu Nidal, and others.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;"><i>Stasi</i> provides a thorough account of how and why the Berlin Wall came down. But on the intelligence and terrorism sides, many loose ends remain. Libya is once again a playground for terrorists, and they now understand that they can kill American diplomats and torch the diplomatic compound with impunity. Not only so, but the U.S. Secretary of State will blame everything on a video and say “what does it matter?”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, 25 years after the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, Barack Obama remains shrink-wrapped in statist superstition. Omnipotent government may have failed elsewhere, but in his view it remains precisely what America needs, along with more surveillance of the people. So no surprise if the anniversary draws no comment from the President of the United States.</p>
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		<title>Transforming America into the Killing Fields</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A murder spree in California shows what the release of criminal aliens could mean for America.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/B0wEE1lIUAA0uw0.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243899" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/B0wEE1lIUAA0uw0.jpg" alt="B0wEE1lIUAA0uw0" width="323" height="272" /></a>The Obama administration is unleashing thousands of violent criminal aliens, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/10/09/MD-Sheriff-Feds-Releasing-Criminal-Aliens-For-Political-Reasons">a purely political move according to some law enforcement officials</span></a>. A recent murder spree in California’s capital region shows what this release of violent criminal aliens could mean for the American public.</p>
<p>On Friday, October 24, a man identified as Marcelo Marquez deployed an AR-15 rifle and shot down Sacramento sheriff’s deputy Danny Oliver, 47, who later died. Marquez and a woman identified as his wife, Janelle Marquez Monroy, then shot a man who refused to surrender his car keys. The couple then hijacked another car and Marquez later that day shot and killed detective Michael Davis, 42, and wounded deputy Jeff Davis. The killer took refuge in a home but by late afternoon police arrested him.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article3348287.html">“Gun rampage kills two deputies in Sacramento region</a></span>,” read the headline in the <i>Sacramento Bee</i>. That might have puzzled those who had participated in the manhunt, along with relatives of the victims. They knew it had not been a “gun” on the rampage. Rather, it was a violent criminal who used a gun to commit two murders. In early reporting not much emerged on the shooter, who despite the Marquez surname was not even described as “Hispanic” or “Latino.” But by the next day, one reality was evident.</p>
<p>“<a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article3368389.html">Feds say Sacramento shooting suspect was deported twice</span></a>, had drug conviction,” proclaimed the front page of the <i>Sacramento Bee</i>. So he was a criminal foreign national who had entered the country illegally. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) put out a statement that Marcelo Marquez was actually Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte, a Mexican national with tattoos reading “Mexican Pride” and “Sinaloa.” He was deported in 1997 on narcotics charges. After Monroy-Bracamonte entered the United States illegally a second time, U.S. authorities arrested him and deported the criminal to Mexico in 2001. It did not emerge how or when he entered the United States the third time but he may have used another false identity, Julian Beltran. It was not clear what violent crimes he may have committed, other than the murders of Danny Oliver and Michael Davis.</p>
<p>ICE wants Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte handed over to the feds but local authorities seem intent on prosecution on their own turf. <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/%25E2%2580%259Cnothing-to-do-with-illegal-aliens%25E2%2580%259D/">As another California multiple murder case shows</span></a>, those looking for justice in local courts may be disappointed.</p>
<p>In February 2011, Saul Isidro-Aucencio and Francisco Delgado gunned down Robert Corpos, 20, Richard Ward, 16, and Jamir Miller, 15. The assailants shot Miller, an African American, in the back of the head with an AK-47. No local journalist disclosed that Delgado and Isidro-Aucencio were in fact Mexican nationals in the country illegally. Had the pair committed other crimes? Had they ever been deported? Had they ever attempted to vote in an American election? Nobody in the local media seemed at all curious, and the courts offered more obfuscation.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">In one hearing Melissa Jellison, Jamir Miller’s mother, expressed anger that her son’s killers were in the country illegally. She got no sympathy from Superior Court judge Helene Gweon, a Schwarzenegger appointee and Harvard Law School alum. “This case,” Gweon told the grieving mother, “has nothing to do with illegal aliens.” That smackdown showed the kind of cognitive dissonance not normally found in a judge but common in the Obama administration.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/lloyd-billingsley/five-years-since-the-fort-hood-massacre/">Five years ago Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan gunned down 13 American soldiers and wounded more than 30 at Fort Hood</a></span>. The federal government called this “workplace violence,” declining even to call it gun violence. The lives of American soldiers and diplomats – as in Benghazi – are also of secondary concern to the president, so ignoring the murder of two California police officers should be no problem.</p>
<p>So it’s not a stretch that in federal custody Monroy-Bracamonte could be released yet again. If deported, the violent criminal seems to have little trouble crossing America’s southern border, which the Obama administration is now encouraging foreign nationals to do, en masse.</p>
<p>Some will come in search of a better life and pose no threat to anyone. Others will be violent criminals like Saul Isidro-Aucencio, Francisco Delgado and Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte. They know they can take American lives, including those of police officers, and preserve their own. They know they can expect preferential treatment by politically correct media, lenient courts, and a federal government bent on releasing criminal aliens for political purposes.</p>
<p>These dynamics will make the nation a more dangerous place. One could hardly blame American law enforcement officers if they take down the next cop killer with a clean head shot.</p>
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		<title>Five Years Since the Fort Hood Massacre</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 04:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Half a decade of denial from the Obama administration. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/o-NIDAL-HASAN-facebook.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243529" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/o-NIDAL-HASAN-facebook-450x314.jpg" alt="Nidal Hasan" width="350" height="244" /></a>On November 5, 2009, at Ford Hood, Texas, U.S. soldiers were getting their final medical checkups before deploying to Afghanistan. Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist began gunning down the soldiers. His victims, all unarmed, included </span>Francheska Velez, a 21-year-old private from Chicago who pleaded for the life of her unborn child. The Muslim major killed two other women that day along with 10 men, more than twice as many victims as the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Hasan also wounded 33 others, including Sergeant Alonzo Lunsford, who played dead then fled the building. Major Hasan chased down Lunsford, an African-American, and shot him seven times, including one bullet in the back. <span style="color: #000000;">Firing a high-capacity handgun fitted with laser sights, </span>Major Hasan shot Sergeant Shawn Manning in the chest and pumped four rounds into <span style="color: #000000;">Sgt. Patrick Zeigler. Hasan would have killed and wounded more if civilian police officer Kim Munley had not wounded the assailant, who </span>yelled “<i>Allahu akbar</i>,” as he killed. That familiar cry was hardly the only indicator of Hasan’s motives.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Hasan had been emailing terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki about the prospect of killing infidel American soldiers, and the “Soldier of Allah,” as he called himself, did everything but take out an ad on the Super Bowl to announce his jihadist intentions. The U.S. security establishment was well aware of the communications but did nothing to stop Hasan, who claimed to be acting on behalf of the Taliban. Anwar al-Awlaki was orgasmic with joy that Hasan had done his duty.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">President Barack Obama’s first response to Hasan’s mass murder was brief, low key, and failed to ascribe any responsibility to Islamic terrorism. “We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing,” the president said. Such breathtaking denial soon <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/is-the-election-delaying-nidal-hasans-trial/"><span style="color: #6f0a00;">became official policy.</span></a> The Obama administration’s Department of Defense issued <i>Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood</i>, which contains not a single reference to jihad or jihadists. Its only mention of “Islamic” is an endnote reference to “Countering Violent Islamic Extremism,” a 2007 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">The United States Army and federal government did not call Hasan’s attack terrorism or even gun violence. Major Hasan killed African Americans, hispanics and non-Muslims, but the government did not call the attack a hate crime. Rather, the government proclaimed the murder spree a case of “workplace violence,” an absurdity for the ages with consequences for the Hasan’s victims. The refused to classify Hasan’s attack as terrorism rendered victims ineligible for medals and other benefits related to combat.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Hasan remained in the Army, retained his rank of major, and the Army continued to pay his full salary. The Army also took care of the paralyzing injuries Hasan sustained, but Alonzo Lunsford told reporters the army refused to cover an operation to remove a bullet still in his body, and docked his pay when he was undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. “We don’t get passes the way Major Hasan got passes,” Lunsford <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/us/as-trial-begins-in-fort-hood-spree-experts-see-landmark-case.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0"><span style="color: #6f0a00;">told the New York Times</span></a>. “Each one of us has gotten a raw deal somewhere down the line.” <span style="color: #000000;">In April, the White House <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/white-house-denies-09-fort-hood-victim-meeting/story?id=23288867"><span style="color: #0433ff;">declined Alonzo Lunsford’s request</span></a> to meet with the president and explain how the government mistreated victims of the 2009 attack.</span></p>
<p>In August of 2013, a panel of 13 military officers <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2404766/Fort-Hood-shooter-Major-Nidal-Hasan-sentenced-death-2009-shooting-rampage.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">handed down a death sentence</span></a> for Major Hasan, but the sentence may never be carried out. The U.S. military has not executed an active-duty soldier since 1961, a span of more than half a century. The appeal process is lengthy and the final call goes to the President of the United States. The current incumbent is Barack Obama and Major Hasan showcases the opportunities for “Soldiers of Allah” under the Obama administration.</p>
<p>They can join the U.S. Army and still get promoted. They can correspond freely with the most bloodthirsty foreign terrorists, and those conducting the surveillance will do nothing to stop them from killing 13 American soldiers on a U.S. Army base. The Army, government, and president will provide cover by calling this workplace violence instead of terrorism. So the Soldier of Allah escapes with his own life and in prison continues to inspire other jihadists.</p>
<p>The month before Major Hasan’s trial, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/lloyd-billingsley/tsarnaev-hasan-and-deadly-political-correctness/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Rudy Giuliani said, “you can’t fight an enemy you don’t acknowledge.”</span></a> The next president, who will also be Commander in Chief, will have an opportunity to acknowledge the enemy, recognize Major Hasan’s massacre as terrorism, and execute the terrorist on day one. As one of his victims said, he doesn’t deserve to live.</p>
<p><em>Lloyd Billingsley is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Exceptional-Depravity-Double-Murder-California-ebook/dp/B00OGW1WZK"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Exceptional Depravity</span></a>, a new crime book, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Party-Stalinist-Adventures-American-ebook/dp/B00MWCP900"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Hollywood Party: Stalinist Adventures in the American Movie Industry</span></a>. He has written for City Journal California, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and many other publications.</em></p>
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		<title>American ISIS Supporter Plotted to Blow Up &#8216;Zionist&#8217; Day Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nicholas-michael-teausant.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239685" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nicholas-michael-teausant-450x317.jpg" alt="nicholas-michael-teausant" width="288" height="203" /></a>In March <i>Frontpage</i> <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/lloyd-billingsley/fbi-bags-aspiring-american-assad/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">profiled Californian Nicholas Michael Teausant</span></a>, </span>indicted for attempting to support ISIS, a foreign terrorist organization. Teausant remains in custody but recently <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/08/26/6656921/lodi-area-terror-suspect-says.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">granted an enlightening interview</span></a> to Sam Stanton and Denny Walsh of the <i>Sacramento Bee</i>.</p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">In March Teausant was en route to Canada and near the border texted a friend who told him “</span>if I get myself out of the country everything will be taken care of, they’ll pay for me to go over there, they’ll give me a gun.” He had been in the National Guard but had not brought along a weapon. His friend also told him “They’ll give me everything I could possibly want. They’ll take care of my family, and that I can always come back to America when this is over.” The friend turned out to be an FBI informer, and that led to his arrest.</p>
<p>“I’m not going to say that I’m completely innocent and I have no fault in this,” Teausant told the reporters. “Some of it is my fault, yes. But then again I also feel that if the informant hadn’t come along I would have just been making idle boasts and I wouldn’t have done anything.” But there’s more to the story.</p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">Teausant told the reporters that while living in Montana he</span> met a beautiful Muslim woman who would speak only to Muslim men. That spurred his interest in Islam, but it wasn’t only romantic. The zealous convert came to believe his daughter’s day care center was “Zionist.” He wanted to blow it up but claims he told the informant he would only bomb the place when nobody was there. Teausant doesn’t recall discussing any bomb attacks in Los Angeles but on fighting overseas he showed good recall. The newly minted Muslim soon became convinced that the government of Syria needed to be taken down.</p>
<p>“I wanted to go help fight for these people because the New Hampshire slogan is ‘Live Free or Die,’” he told the <i>Bee</i> reporters. “In 1775, we rebelled against Britain because we felt we were being tyrannized and conquered, so we wanted our own freedom. So I felt like I could try and help with that, and give the people freedom that they were fighting for.”</p>
<p>In May his lawyers argued that he would <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/05/13/6402038/lodi-area-terror-suspect-renews.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">never make it to Syria</span></a> and never provide support for anyone. He now tells the <i>Bee</i> his support for ISIS was the informer’s suggestion and that “at the time they were not doing the brutal stuff that they’re doing now,” adding that he is “absolutely abhorred at that Foley thing. I did not see that coming.”</p>
<p>That is a stretch, even for someone reportedly diagnosed with schizophrenia. That “Foley thing” would be a beheading, something Islamic jihadists have been doing for centuries for such offenses as being non-Muslim. So despite claims he is “kind of like a cracked egg,” the authorities are sticking to their guns. They told reporters that they reviewed all the evidence, conducted the investigation properly, and are prosecuting the case by the book.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Teausant’s case has drawn no comment from Mohamed Abdul Azeez, leader of the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/fbi-to-honor-cair-linked-group/"><span style="color: #6b0901;">Sacramento Area League of Associated Muslims</span></a> (SALAM) Islamic Center and frequently interviewed in the local press. The SALAM center co-hosts events with CAIR and in 2009 Abdul Azeez was the recipient of the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2009/lloyd-billingsley/the-fbi-awards-by-lloyd-billingsley/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">FBI’s community service award</span></a> “for preventing violence, creating understanding, bringing people together.”</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Last year after the Tsarnaev brothers bombed the Boston Marathon Abdul Azeez <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/lloyd-billingsley/the-fbis-favorite-imam-sounds-off-on-boston/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">lamented the “explosions in Boston,”</span></a> but told reporters “I don’t want to have to apologize for any crime that’s been committed.” The California Muslim leader said “I feel similar to a gun owner worried about gun laws all the time because people are shooting people, or a Jew who has to worry about the atrocities being committed in Israel.”</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">The articulate Abdul Azeez, who holds degrees from Ohio State and the University of Chicago, has remained quiet about Boko Haram in Nigeria and the beheading of James Foley by ISIS. Meanwhile, Nicholas Teausant, who wanted to support ISIS and blow up a “Zionist” day care center, remains upbeat.</p>
<p>“Even if they gave me the maximum 15 years I’d come out of prison at 35,” he told the <i>Bee</i> reporters. “That still leaves me the rest of my life to go to college and get a Ph.D., do what I want and be with my family.”</p>
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		<title>The Stalin-Hitler Pact Turns 75</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 04:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why a memorial would be useful for Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/genocide_template_clip_image002.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239136" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/genocide_template_clip_image002.jpg" alt="genocide_template_clip_image002" width="306" height="267" /></a>In June, Western democratic leaders invited Vladimir Putin to the 70th anniversary of D-Day memorial in France, but there’s no good reason he should have been there. Putin is an autocrat, not a democrat. He laments the demise of the Soviet Union, a dictatorship that played no role in the D-Day operation. And since Putin is now conducting an incremental invasion of Ukraine, a different memorial would be more suitable. As it happens, this one is long overdue and remains shrouded in ignorance.</p>
<p>Seventy-five years ago, on August 23, 1939, the USSR and Nazi Germany became allies through the Stalin-Hitler Pact. Joachim von Ribbentrop signed for Hitler and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov signed on behalf of Stalin. Molotov said that Hitlerism was “a matter of taste,” and that it was “not only senseless, but criminal” to wage war on Hitler “camouflaged as a fight for democracy.” Though often described as a “non-aggression pact,” the reverse was true.</p>
<p>The month after the Pact, Stalin and Hitler both invaded Poland, starting World War II. The Pact also gave Stalin control of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which he retained after the war, along with other conquests such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary and what became the German Democrat Republic, the regime that made emigration an exciting experience.</p>
<p>While the pact was in effect, Soviet and Nazi intelligence agencies worked together and American Communists did everything in their power to keep the United States from coming to Britain’s aid. During the Pact, the Soviets murdered 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn forest. That came at the direct order of Stalin, as Russia now acknowledges. Less well known is the reality that Stalin also handed over German Jewish Communists to Hitler’s Gestapo. At the Nuremberg trials after the war, Joachim von Ribbentrop was convicted for signing the Pact while Molotov, who signed for Stalin, sat in the accuser’s chair. So Stalin and his gang got away with it.</p>
<p>A Nazi-Soviet Pact memorial would be a great opportunity for Putin to express his admiration for Stalin. Maybe he could provide some enlightenment on what happened to the Jews Stalin handed over to Hitler. And as a former KGB man, maybe he could bring out more details of Soviet-Nazi intelligence cooperation during the Pact. This could be a shining moment for Putin, but the memorial would also do others some good.</p>
<p>American educators, for example, could familiarize themselves with these events and gauge the depths of their ignorance and denial. Some might even decide to make the Stalin-Hitler Pact into a college course. That would tell students something they don’t know. American politicians would also benefit.</p>
<p>It’s a good bet that most of them, regardless of party, know little if anything about the Stalin-Hitler Pact. A 75th anniversary memorial would help educate them, and would be particularly relevant for Barack Obama, President of the United States. He could use the memorial to expand on one of his mentors.</p>
<p>That would be Frank Marshall Davis, an orthodox Stalinist of exceptional ferocity, with an absolutely sulfuric hatred of the United States. Davis joined the Communist Party USA after the Pact was signed, at the same time others were leaving the ranks, never to return. The Pact memorial would be an opportunity for Obama to provide a full profile of the man his handlers disguised simply as “Frank” in &#8220;Dreams From My Father.&#8221; If Frank Marshall Davis ever believed, said, or did anything with which Obama disagreed, a Stalin-Hitler Pact memorial would be the ideal time to set the record straight. After all, the Obama administration is the most transparent in history, with not a smidgeon of corruption. And of course, it would be another photo op he could use to raise funds. He could even bring along his travelling studio audience.</p>
<p>Former First Lady and current presidential candidate Hillary Clinton could also benefit. One of her mentors is Robert Treuhaft, a Stalinist lawyer who joined the Communist Party USA after the Stalin-Hitler Pact and served faithfully in the USSR’s alibi armory. Hillary Clinton, who interned for Treuhaft, could use a Pact memorial to clarify Treuhaft’s career, and explain why he left the Communist Party in 1958, as he claimed. And she could go on record if she ever disagreed with anything her Stalinist mentor believed, said or did.</p>
<p>That could prove enlightening, but as with Benghazi she might just say “what does it matter?” Actually, it matters quite a bit, especially for someone who wants to be president, and the one who already is.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Ryan shines a light on the biggest victims of federal bureaucracy.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/red-tape_2810803b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239013" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/red-tape_2810803b-450x334.jpg" alt="red-tape_2810803b" width="304" height="226" /></a>“Paul Ryan is moving to reframe the debate on regulations,” <a href="http://thehill.com/regulation/215486-paul-ryan-opens-new-front-in-war-on-poverty"><span style="color: #0433ff;">notes <i>The Hill</i></span></a>, “arguing that the nation’s poor are the real victims of the red tape spewing from Washington.” The Wisconsin Republican’s “Expanding Opportunity in America” initiative intends to address what the Obama administration calls “income equality,” which persists despite massive federal efforts.</p>
<p>According to the House Budget Committee majority staff, <a href="http://budget.house.gov/waronpoverty/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">at least 92 federal programs purport to help lower-income Americans</span></a><span style="color: #343434;">. These include dozens of education and job-training programs, 17 food-aid programs, and more than 20 housing programs. In fiscal year 2012, the federal government spent $799 billion on these programs. Ryan is hardly alone in charging that some of these programs hurt the poor. </span>He cites Creighton University economics professor Diana Thomas, who says that Department of Transportation regulations requiring rear-view cameras will impact low-income car buyers, who prefer to spend their money elsewhere.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="color: #000000;">Those in the lowest fifth of income spend the greatest share of their incomes on energy. </span>Earners in the lowest income quintile spend 24 percent of their pre-tax income on energy, as opposed to 4 percent in the highest quintile. Therefore, as this analysis from the Manhattan Institute notes, “<a href="http://budget.house.gov/waronpoverty/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">America’s poorest citizens will be hurt most by the new EPA regulations</span></a>” on emissions and “it is the poor who will have their budgets squeezed as they struggle to pay for gas and electricity.”</p>
<p>Sofie E. Miller, senior policy analyst at the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center,<i> </i>writes that federal<i> </i>regulations <a href="http://regulatorystudies.columbian.gwu.edu/opinion-paul-ryan-anti-poverty-plan-targets-regressive-regulation"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“often leave low-income Americans paying a heavier price than their neighbors.”</span></a> Energy standards for appliances “cause prices to increase and push some low-income consumers out of the market.” Likewise, Diana Thomas says “regulation has a regressive effect: It redistributes wealth from lower-income households to higher-income households by causing lower-income households to pay for risk reduction worth more to the wealthy.”</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.moneynews.com/Economy/Furchtgott-Roth-EPA-emission-carbon/2014/06/02/id/574557/">Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former chief economist for the Department of Labor</a></span> argues that new “cap and trade” environmental regulations “will reduce opportunities for the poorest Americans.” The regulations “impose real costs on the economy,” and deprive workers of  “the security of employment that comes from industrial activity.” Citing rent control, <a href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/stephanie-slade/2013/07/22/dc-and-new-yorks-real-estate-regulations-hurt-the-poor"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Stephanie Slade charges</span></a> that “<span style="color: #1a1a1a;">it’s liberals who continue to support laws that, whatever their intentions, have turned out to be disproportionately harmful to the poorest members of society.”</span></p>
<p style="color: #272727;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">As Patrick Fagan and Robert Rector observed nearly 20 years ago, it’s not exactly news that War on <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1996/06/bg1084nbsp-how-welfare-harms-kids"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Poverty programs such as Aid to Families With Dependent Children have been a bust</span></a>. </span>Welfare dependency “has a negative effect on the earnings and employment capacity of young men.” The more welfare income received in childhood, the lower the earnings as an adult, the very “income inequality” lamented by the Obama administration.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Beyond the consequences of those laws and regulations stands the regulatory establishment and its enormous cost. As the late William F. Buckley observed, a tax dollar cannot travel to Washington DC, go out on the town, and return intact to the needy in the form of benefits. Even low-income workers must support the vast bureaucratic establishment churning out regulations that Paul Ryan charges are detrimental to the poor.</p>
<p><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">His plan would require agencies to </span>conduct a “distributional analysis” on proposed regulations to see if they would have a disproportionate economic effect on low-income households or low-wage workers.  He wants block grants to replace federal welfare programs, expand the Earned-Income Tax Credit and make it work better. Ryan wants to get rid of regressive regulation and emphasize “evidence-based policy-making.”</p>
<p>Some Democrats welcome Ryan’s initiative but Chris Van Hollen, ranking Democrat on the budget committee, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/24/paul-ryan-poverty_n_5616609.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">told reporters it was “nothing more than a block grant gussied up with some bells and whistles”</span></a> and “<span style="color: #272727;">would dramatically slash the resources available to help struggling families.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">Advocates of limited government might note that Ryan did </span>not announce plans to eliminate any federal agencies, not even the federal Department of Education, which dates from 1980 and was a payoff to the National Education Association for endorsing Jimmy Carter. Ryan wants to fix federal education funding and make it more flexible, so even if given the chance, his plan might not deliver. But as it gets the hearing it deserves, Americans might recall the back story, <span style="color: #272727;">the 50-year federal War on Poverty whose strategic weapons were federal spending and federal regulation.</span></p>
<p>On January 8, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson, famously declared a “War on Poverty.”  In his State of the Union address, LBJ said, <span style="color: #343434;">“Our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.” </span>Fifty years later, those curious about how the war came out should consult Sasha Abramsky, leftist author of <i>The American Way of Poverty</i> and who also writes for the <i>Nation</i>. Abramsky concedes that LBJ’s war “failed,” and “not since the Great Depression have so many people been beaten down by vast, destructive forces.”</p>
<p>He wants Obama to do it all again, only more so, a War on Poverty Mark II.  The enemy is the anti-tax, anti-government movement that has managed to convince people “that taxes are a mugging rather than an investment.” In this vision, government regulations and government spending are always the solution, and Big Brother always knows best.</p>
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		<title>The Case for Peace in Our Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2014 04:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But will the American ruling class give peace a chance?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/51lKW4N7eLL.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235475" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/51lKW4N7eLL-233x350.jpg" alt="51lKW4N7eLL" width="179" height="269" /></a>Angelo M. Codevilla, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ourselves-Nations-Hoover-Institution-Publication/dp/0817917144"><i>To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations, </i></a>Hoover Institution Press, 2014, 209 pages, $24.95.</strong></p>
<p>The title derives from Abraham Lincoln, a noble proclamation that Angelo Codevilla finds for the most part unfulfilled. As the author notes, during the past 100 years in America peace prevailed in only two brief periods, from 1919-1941 and 1992-2001. As Codevilla sees it, peace is not only in short supply but positively endangered. Given the dynamics in play, outlined here in considerable detail, that should come as no surprise.</p>
<p>As the “precondition for enjoying the good things of life,” peace must be statecraft’s objective. The author charts Pericles and the war-weary Athenians, the Romans, and other lessons from history that will be of interest to scholars and statesmen alike. But <i>To Make and Keep Peace</i> speaks to all and deserves the broadest possible readership.</p>
<p>Angelo Codevilla, professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University, is well aware that peace has enemies, among them pacifism and the type of progressive ideology dating from Woodrow Wilson. That progressivism “has become orthodoxy” and features “a pacifism as mindless as it was frenetic and provocative,” deployed by a “united ruling class intoxicated with its own virtue and ideology.”</p>
<p>The author cites president Franklin Roosevelt’s Sept 3, 1939 speech, which came after the Munich Pact, after the Stalin-Hitler Pact, after the invasion of Poland, and after the outbreak of WWII. Yet, the villain remained impersonal, “force itself,” and no nation threatened America any more than any other. Only on December 29, 1940, after fall of France, did FDR specifically indict “the Nazi masters of Germany.” But the willful blindness did not end there.</p>
<p>For Codevilla, “no illusions were greater nor proved more fateful than those about the Soviet Union.”  Affection for the Soviet Union and Communism “deformed US foreign policy, caused WWII to end not in peace but in Cold War, and occasioned conflict among Americans the consequences of which are with us yet.” The ruling class blend of gentry and intellectuals “believed that Stalin was the <i>sine qua non</i> of perpetual peace through the United Nations,” and that “staying on his good side was job #1.”</p>
<p>The Rooseveltians “debased America’s cause by identifying it with Stalin’s.” They treated the USSR’s partnership in starting the war as a non-event and  “by using the totalitarian tactic of airbrushing to try justifying their Soviet affections, they poisoned American political life.” The ruling-class consensus was, in effect, to facilitate the Soviet Union’s hold on their empire. In that climate, Americans of the “we win, they lose” view of the Cold War, in the style of Ronald Reagan, came to be regarded as enemies of peace. Codevilla marshals evidence that Senator Edward Kennedy offered to cooperate with the Soviets to defeat such Americans.</p>
<p>By then the ruling class, “had doubled down on its Wilsonian sense of intellectual-moral entitlement” and “came to regard its domestic political opponents as perhaps the principle set of persons whose backward ways must be guarded against and reformed.” Therefore, the author says, a loss of peace abroad feeds domestic strife and results in a loss of peace at home.</p>
<p>Other Wilsonians, “were anti-anti-Communists,” who wanted America engaged in the Cold War, “but on the other side.” This “New Left thinking” eventually spread throughout America’s foreign policy establishment.</p>
<p>President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed that there was no victory in Vietnam for anybody. The strategy was socio-economic “nation building” and the enemies were poverty, ignorance, and disease. The Communists “learned that US manpower does not matter so long as Americans fight without a serious plan for defeating or destroying the enemy.” That, says Codevilla, remains the US government’s default approach and “generates contempt and violence against America.”</p>
<p>These dynamics are also in play in America’s conflict with Islamic civilization, which “had been the West’s biggest problem from eighth century until 1683” when Poland’s king Jan Sobieski turned back the Muslims at the gates of Vienna. “Now the problem is back,” explains Codevilla, and “our culturally, historically illiterate ruling class missed the fact that a whole civilization mobilized against America.”</p>
<p>The seizure of the U.S. embassy in Iran in 1979 was an act of war but drew the response of a “minor irritation.” The Islamic world “learned that it was now safe to export its warfare to the West in general and America in particular.” Codevilla finds it no coincidence that “former anti-anti-Communists were now anti-anti-Muslim.” And as during the Cold War, the “progressives” blamed America’s troubles on their fellow citizens. President Barack Obama embodies that dynamic like no other, along with historical illiteracy.</p>
<p>The president is on record that “Islam has always been a part of America’s history,” which Codevilla describes as “the reverse of the truth.” And with the president, staying on the good side of Islamic militants appears to be job one. At the UN, Codevilla notes, Obama condemned in equal terms Americans who insult Muslims and Muslims who burn and kill Americans. And he called for imprisonment of the man who made the anti-Muslim video that Muslim leaders saw “as good cause for anti-American violence.”</p>
<p>Codevilla is right about that but could have explored this theme further. The President of the United States and the Secretary of State essentially parroted the propaganda of jihadists. It is as though in 1961 President John F. Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk had agreed with East German Communist bosses that the Berlin Wall was indeed the “Antifascist Protection Rampart” and offered to help keep Germans imprisoned in a Stalinist state.</p>
<p>The menace abroad, meanwhile, is not terrorism but “extremism” and homeland security is directed against “all citizens equally rather than against plausible enemies.” This fateful error, says Codevilla, “gave civil strife’s deadly spiral its first deadly turn.” And for the ruling class, extremism is embodied in their political opponents, “the conservative side of American life.”</p>
<p>As the author shows, “The FBI infiltrates the Tea Party as it once did the Communist Party – agent of the Soviet Union that it was.” President Obama called “enemies of democracy” the very groups the IRS subjected to punitive audits. Vice President Biden and the Senate majority leader called them “terrorists.” Readers will easily verify that those in charge use every opportunity “to direct blame, distrust, and even mayhem onto those they like the least.” In these conditions Americans “must learn to trust each other less than ever, while trusting the authorities ever more, forever.” Or will it be forever?</p>
<p>“Peace among ourselves and with all nations has to be won and preserved as it ever has been here and elsewhere,” contends the author. Codevilla hopes for new statesmen who will secure the respect of other nations and understand that wars are to be “avoided or won quickly.” Those responsible for terrorism should be held responsible, but “the longer we wait, the more force will be needed.” Since nuclear weapons are easily obtained, Codevilla argues, we need the best missile defense. We won’t get that from the man now running the show.</p>
<p>In 2012, Codevilla notes, “President Barack Obama communicated to Russia confidentially that, after his expected reelection, he would forswear missile defenses more thoroughly than before, previous commitments notwithstanding.” The president came through on that one, but it did not make for peace among ourselves or with all nations.</p>
<p>Terrorists and tyrants are getting the message that the time to act is now. The “domestic state of siege” is unlikely to lighten up along with attacks on those “on the conservative side.”  So it’s probably true that, as Angelo Codevilla says in the early going, “We cannot know whether America can ever live in peace again, what kind of peace we may win for ourselves, or what peace we may end up having to endure.”</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's delusions on North Korea, Cuba, Islamists and more. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #1a1a1a;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/140617_hillary_clinton_hard_choices_ap_605.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234359" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/140617_hillary_clinton_hard_choices_ap_605.jpg" alt="HiIlary Rodham Clinton" width="259" height="209" /></a>Hillary Rodham Clinton’s new book has been in the spotlight over what she says about Benghazi. That chapter, which starts on page 382, is not the only fascinating passage in Hard Choices. Consider, for example, what Hillary says about Islamists.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">“The term Islamist generally refers to people and parties who support a guiding role for Islam in politics and government. It covers a wide spectrum, from those who think Islamic values should inform public policy decisions to those who think that all laws should be judged or even formulated by Islamic authorities to conform to Islamic law. Not all Islamists are alike. In some cases, Islamist leaders and organizations have been hostile to democracy, including some who have supported radical, extremist, and terrorist ideology and actions. But around the world, there are political parties with religious affiliations – Hindu, Christian, Jewish, Muslim – that respect the rules of democratic politics, and it is in America’s interest to encourage all religiously based political parties and leaders to embrace inclusive democracy and reject violence. Any suggestion that faithful Muslims or people of any faith cannot thrive in a democracy is insulting, dangerous and wrong.”</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Here readers see the straw man at his finest. Nobody is contending that people of any faith “cannot thrive in a democracy.” The issue is whether Islam itself has a problem with democracy, multi-party elections, free speech, women’s rights, gay rights, diversity, co-education and so forth. The evidence suggests that it does.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Islamists want more than a “guiding role” for Islamic law. They want an exclusive, dominating role. In Islamist regimes non-Islamic groups are second- or third-class citizens. In more than 600 pages Hillary includes nothing on the Islamist group Boko Haram, fond of kidnapping hundreds of girls and burning boys alive.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Some readers will be familiar with Huma Abedin, Hillary’s deputy chief of staff and her ties to Islamic supremacism. Consider how Hard Choices handles the matter.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">In one meeting in Cairo, an agitated participant brought up an “especially outrageous canard. He accused my trusted aide <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/huma-abedin-islamist-connections-and-willful-blindness/">Huma Abedin</a>, who is Muslim, of being a secret agent of the Muslim Brotherhood. This claim circulated by some unusually irresponsible and demagogic right-wing political and media personalities in the United States, including members of Congress. . .” Hillary includes no background information on Abedin and her main argument is that Sen. John McCain has publicly defended her.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">So has president Obama, who calls Abedin “an American patriot and an example of what we need in this country.” The president issued that praise “at the White House’s annual Iftar dinner to break the Ramadan fast.”</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Readers of Hard Choices are told that in North Korea the political oppression is “nearly” total. Actually, the oppression is total. “Famine is frequent,” she writes, and many of the people “live in abject poverty” but she does not tie that poverty to oppressive Marxist rule and a command economy, or compare the forced famines in China and Ukraine.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Hillary writes that “for fifty years Cuba had been ruled as a Communist dictatorship by Fidel Castro.” Fidel and brother Raul “continue to rule Cuba with absolute power.” As Humberto Fontova notes in The Longest Romance, Castro’s rule is as bad as it gets, comparable to Stalin’s. But Hillary offers no detail about the regime’s political prisoners and persecution of homosexuals. Chile, on the other hand suffered the “brutal military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.” And the coup that brought Pinochet to power, says Hillary, is “a dark chapter in our involvement in the region.”</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">The author provides no details about the coup and fails to note that the brutal Pinochet, unlike the non-brutal Castro, stepped aside to allow free elections. But readers will observe the first response to blame the United States. Hillary Clinton describes none of the episodes on her watch as Secretary of State, including the Benghazi attack, as a dark chapter in American diplomacy.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">It took a village of handlers to produce Hard Choices, dumbed down to the point of explaining that winter in the southern hemisphere occurs at a different time of year. The book is highly autohagiographical, bulked with gossipy filler such as half a page on Benazir Bhutto’s shalwar kameez, “a long flowing tunic over loose pants that was both practical and attractive. . . We wore it for a formal dinner. I wore red silk and Chelsea chose turquoise green.”</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">On page 595 Hillary says she has yet to make the decision to run for President of the United States. If Hard Choices unsettles readers about her suitability for that office, they might also read Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the 1999 book by the late Barbara Olson, a victim of the Islamist terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Readers might also consult Peter Collier’s Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick. Hillary Clinton nowhere mentions Ambassador Kirkpatrick but deciding which woman is the tougher, more intelligent and more successful diplomat should not be a hard choice.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eduardo Galeano disavows his leftist-beloved manifesto. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/6a00d8341c575d53ef0148c7f2992c970c.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233266" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/6a00d8341c575d53ef0148c7f2992c970c.jpg" alt="6a00d8341c575d53ef0148c7f2992c970c" width="297" height="292" /></a>“This brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America,” reads the <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/184668742X"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Amazon description of Eduardo Galeano’s <i>The Open Veins of Latin America</i></span></a>, the book Venezuelan leftist Hugo Chavez presented to U.S. President Barack Obama in 2009. “It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.”</p>
<p>Published in 1971, <i>The Open Veins of Latin America</i> was a bestseller and has become a keystone of the left-wing canon on American college campuses. Trouble is, the book’s 73-year-old Uruguayan author now considers the book’s rhetoric “extremely leaden” and concedes that back in the day he didn’t know much about economics or the way the world works.</p>
<p>“I know it took real courage — even gallantry — for Galeano to publicly correct himself,” wrote exiled Cuban journalist <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/379158/idiots-lose-their-religion-carlos-alberto-montaner"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Carlos Alberto Montaner in <i>National Review</i></span></a>. “It’s not easy to admit when you are wrong. And it is even more difficult when you are a hero to so many, as Galeano has been.”</p>
<p>In 1996 Montaner teamed with Peruvian author Alvaro Vargas Llosa and Colombian journalist Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Perfect-Latin-American-Idiot/dp/156833236X"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot</i></span></a>. One chapter, “The Idiot’s Bible,” Montaner says,</p>
<blockquote><p>“was devoted to explaining what Galeano himself now confirms: that the author knew very little about economics, and what little he thought he knew was totally wrong.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The authors’ summary of Galeano’s book, “We’re poor; it’s their fault” even showed up in a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/books/eduardo-galeano-disavows-his-book-the-open-veins.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>New York Times</i> piece by Larry Rohter headlined “Author Changes His Mind on ’70s Manifesto: Eduardo Galeano Disavows His Book ‘The Open Veins.’”</span></a> The article noted that <i>The Caviar Left</i> author Rodrigo Constantino had blamed Galeano’s analysis for many of Latin America’s ills and said the Uruguayan “<span style="color: #272727;">should feel really guilty for the damage he caused.”</span></p>
<p style="color: #272727;">But the caviar left thought otherwise.</p>
<p>Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, who authored a foreword for <i>Open Veins</i>, told Rohter that Galeano “may have changed, and I didn’t notice it, but I don’t think so.” Michael Yates, of the leftist Monthly Review Press, told the <i>Times</i> that “the book is an entity independent of the writer and anything he might think now.” So in the style of Hillary Clinton, “what difference does it make” if the author changed his mind about his central thesis? Several professors told the <i>Times</i> that they would take account of Galeano’s views but others discount his change of mind.</p>
<p>“Rather than disavowing the book entirely,” University of Pennsylvania graduate student <a href="http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/much-ado-about-nothing-the-times-non-story-about-eduardo-galeanos-non-apology/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Adam Goodman wrote</span></a>, “it would seem Galeano offered a critique of it and its young author, with the benefit of hindsight and forty-plus years of experience, both lived and learned.” However, discussion of the book’s limitations, <span style="color: #424242;">“whether based on content, style, or in the framing, is admirable and potentially productive for the Latin American left.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Andy Baker, political scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of <i>The Market and the Masses in Latin America</i>, weighed in with a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/06/02/latin-americans-are-embracing-globalization-and-their-former-colonial-masters/"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Washington Post</i> blog</span></a>. Baker noted that “</span>Latin America is the region that spawned dependency theory, which was the neo-Marxist body of scholarly thought that informed Galeano’s critique of international trade.” But despite Galeano, data shows that many Latin Americans are favorable toward international trade, multinational corporations, and the United States. “The most pro-American countries,” says Baker, “are those most victimized by U.S. military forays,” the Dominican Republic and El Salvador, for example.</p>
<p>When it comes to their economic ills, Baker explains, Latin Americans do not blame Spain, the IMF, Warren Buffett “or even the U.S. military, as Galeano did in his previous life.” Instead “voters in Latin America exact retribution against governments that oversee sluggish economies, and the ham-fisted attempts by Chávez’s successor, Nicolás Maduro, to continue blaming Venezuela’s downward spiral on the United States are increasingly falling on deaf ears.” So for the University of Colorado political scientist, “Galeano’s decision to recant his old work in the face of a new reality and new evidence on globalization was intellectually brave and admirable. As it turns out, Latin American citizens were way ahead of him.”</p>
<p><span style="color: #212121;">So were authors such as Carlos Alberto Montaner and Alvaro Vargas Llosa, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Latin-America-Hundred-Oppression/dp/0374185743"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression</i></span></a></span>. So was Hernando De Soto, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Other-Path-Hernando-Soto/dp/0465016103"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism</i></span></a>. American professors willing to reconsider Galeano’s <i>Open Veins</i> should open their courses to works like this.</p>
<p>President Obama has not responded to Eduardo Galeano’s critique of the book Hugo Chavez gave him in 2009. Like Galeano, Obama shows little knowledge of economic classics such as F.A. Hayek’s <i>The Road to Serfdom</i>.  Obama already believed that the United States was essentially a colonial looter but unlike Galeano the president shows the inability to change his mind based on facts and history.</p>
<p>To publicly correct oneself, as Carlos Alberto Montaner noted, takes “real courage – even gallantry.” The President of the United States just doesn’t have it.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barry Rubin’s new book reveals how the Left rose to political power and cultural dominance.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bt.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-225497" alt="bt" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bt.jpg" width="233" height="346" /></a>“The idea that tens of millions of Americans could be, in effect, turned into anti-Americans seemed insane. But it happened, didn’t it?”</p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Revolution-Political-Cultural-Dominance/dp/0062231766"><i>Silent Revolution</i><i>: How the Left Rose to Political Power and Cultural Dominance</i></a>, historian and political scientist Barry Rubin answers that question in convincing style and considerable detail. What happen was a “break from all American history” and “an ideological defacing of liberalism” on the part of the “Third Left,” the heir to both the Old Left of the 1920s-1950s and the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s.</p>
<p>As Rubin sees it, the Third Left took over liberalism, portrayed its only opponent as reactionary right-wing conservatism and claimed that their radicalism represents all that is good in America and a correction to all that is evil. The new radicalism also claims a monopoly on truth and a right to fundamentally transform America. This altered approach, Rubin explains, “was one of an unprecedented degree of statism, an imperial presidency that went far beyond Richard Nixon’s dreams: record high levels of government regulation, taxation and debt.” It was “a different system from the one through which America achieved success and prosperity. Yet the fact that such changes were occurring was everywhere denied even as it was happening.”</p>
<p>The timing was also significant. Across the globe, regimes following the Old and New Left’s model were collapsing. At the very moment in human history when it became obvious that the far left’s ideas had failed and that statist big government, ever-higher-regulation policies did not work, it became possible for the first time ever to convince Americans that these things were precisely what the country needed. And at the very time in human history when Western civilization and liberal capitalism were so obviously the most successful in history – recognized as such in the Third World and most of all in formerly Communist China – a camouflaged radical movement convinced many of those benefitting from the system that their own societies were in fact evil and failed.</p>
<p>According to Rubin, it became possible to convince Americans their society had failed because the Third Left “put its emphasis on infiltrating the means of idea and opinion production.” The Third Left shunned the factories and focused on foundations, NGOs, popular culture, publishing and journalism. Reporters “routinely used politically charged language that would have gotten them fired in earlier times” and mass media were out to “protect the image of anyone on the left side.” Rubin cites the portrayal of Ted Kennedy, involved in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, and Bill Clinton of Monica Lewinsky fame, as heroes on women’s rights while others who had done nothing were “accused of waging a war on women.” Likewise, Rubin notes that <i>Time</i> magazine ridiculed Arianna Huffington when she was a conservative in 2001 but in 2006, when she turned to the far left, the same publication extolled her. “Such lessons put across the point that those who cooperated with the Third Left would be rewarded; those who crossed it would be destroyed.”</p>
<p>The Third Left’s subversion of bedrock American institutions such as the news media has only become more emboldened. A more recent example Rubin cites is the 2009 JournoList scandal, a product of the machinations of former <i>Washington Post</i> star pundit Ezra Klein. Influential writers, academics and members of the press on the confidential JournoList list-serv spoke of how to be most effective in ensuring Obama’s election victory in 2008. They told colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Jeremiah Wright by calling Obama’s conservative critics racists. Rubin also cites Ryan Donmoyer of Bloomberg News who said, “Is anyone starting to see parallels here between the teabaggers and the rise of the Brownshirts?”</p>
<p>Yet, says Rubin, “not a single serious investigation was conducted about Obama’s earlier life.”</p>
<p>In the universities the Third Left “drew heavily on Marxist historians from the Communist era – like Howard Zinn – and the New Left generation.” History became a revolutionary tool for discrediting American society and “showing it is unworthy of continued existence.” As in Oliver Stone’s <i>Untold History of the United States</i>, the USA is responsible for Cold War and the USSR is innocent. “This is a staple of university history courses,” says Rubin, “despite the fact that the documents show a very different story.”</p>
<p>The author also notes that when Naomi Schaefer Riley of the <i>Chronicle of Higher Education</i> wrote of the low quality of Black Studies programs she was “quickly barred from the publication.”</p>
<p>From their new power centers the Third Left “sought to roll back the great liberal democratic revolution in human society. Anger, hysteria and class warfare replaced pragmatism and logic.” As Rubin observes, “the demonization of Christians, Republicans and large areas of America by an intolerant elite is one of the most absurd features of the terrible distortion of reality so powerful in the contemporary United States.”</p>
<p>The Third Left’s goal was “to convince Americans the exact opposite of what their experience proved: that the country had fundamentally failed and the old leftist solutions were the answer.” In the Third Left view, wealth was not created by individual enterprise and workers but stolen from poor foreigners and oppressed nonwhites. In a divide-and-conquer strategy, the Third Left declares America evil and “and the people are broken up into warring groups.”</p>
<blockquote><p>The United States has been transformed into a county of castes, something like a medieval society, while the goal of equal treatment of citizens and the attempt to reward individual merit were overthrown in favor of special privileges. Every male and white person becomes guilty and can only attain innocence by backing the destruction of their own “privileges” by backing the Third Left and “Progressive” liberal agenda.<i> </i></p></blockquote>
<p>Barack Obama “came to symbolize the silent revolution,” but readers of Rubin’s book will find no conspiracy theories. For Barry Rubin, Obama is “just another product of the ideology and indoctrination that grown-up 1960s radicals had systematically spread to his generation and its successors.” By radicals he means people like Bill Ayers, Van Jones and Bernardine Dohrn, who back in the day said that young Americans should “use their strategic position behind enemy lines to join forces in the destruction of empire.”</p>
<p>Rubin shows how Obama’s mentor Frank Marshall Davis called himself a “progressive” to conceal the reality that he was a Communist. Rubin charts Obama’s radical professors and finds no case of him challenging any orthodoxy of the left or criticizing any Communist regimes. Obama emerges as the Third Left’s self-hypnotized Manchurian candidate, shrink-wrapped in statist superstition, hostile to America like his spiritual mentor Jeremiah Wright, and certainly not a liberal.</p>
<p>If Obama was a liberal, asks Rubin, “why did he repeatedly denounce the greatest accomplishments of liberals and call for a completely different approach?” Obama also opposed the American priority of protecting individual liberty from government control, “something liberals had never done.” He mocked a healthy skepticism of too much government as a bumper-sticker idea that doesn’t work. Even the liberal Warren court, Rubin says, was not &#8220;radical&#8221; enough for Obama.</p>
<p>Obama’s pronouncements appear in a different light when separated from his multicultural studio audience and cheering section. For Obama, “[a] free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play.” As Rubin notes, “But it had always thrived under fewer rules than Obama wanted, while it had plummeted with the level of rules and definition of fair play Obama had imposed during his first term.” No worries, because that plays into the Third Left’s self-perpetuating system.</p>
<blockquote><p>The economy would decline, constantly adding to unemployment payments, food stamps and other government programs, which in turn gave the Third Left more reasons to blame capitalism and the greedy rich for not having met society’s needs: to demand even higher taxes; to raise taxes, and to increase government spending.</p></blockquote>
<p>Rubin believes that the radical forces and ideas of the Third Left will “continue to hold the commanding heights” even after Obama leaves office. The result “may be a very long term and even permanent change of the United States into something else, a nation far less affluent and far less free.”</p>
<p>That is the fundamental transformation the president and the Third Left want. It does seem insane and the author wonders, “Will there be a U turn?” That is, can tens of millions of people be turned back into pro-Americans? Barry Rubin passed away in February and does not chart the prospects for such a turnaround. A good place to start would be for Americans to read<i> Silent Revolution</i><i> </i>and acquaint themselves with the true nature of those who call themselves “liberals” —<i> </i>and start pushing back.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2014 04:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Racist smear of President Barack Obama is vintage Marxism.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/236712_5_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225516" alt="236712_5_" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/236712_5_.jpg" width="310" height="233" /></a>“It would be perfect for Obama to live with a group of monkeys in the world’s largest African natural zoo and lick the breadcrumbs thrown by spectators.” Barack Obama “still has the figure of a monkey while the human race has evolved through millions of years.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That may sound like a memo from the Ku Klux Klan but was actually part of a May 2 diatribe from North Korea. The Communist regime in Pyongyang also called Obama a “clown,” a “dirty fellow” and somebody who “does not even have the basic appearances of a human being.” Further, “He is a crossbreed with unclear blood,” and a separate article called Obama a “wicked black monkey.” The White House called the racist screed “particularly ugly and disrespectful” and the media response proved of interest.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Reporters did not compare it with other aspects of North Korea, easily the vilest and most repressive regime on earth and a slave state. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" title="" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/north-korea-campout/" target="_blank">As a recent book shows</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the Communist regime maintains a network of forced labor camps and aims to eliminate the “seed” of class enemies through three generations. Rather, the preferred comparison was the United States. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" title="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/north-korean-screed-against-obama-illustrates-race-based-worldview/2014/05/08/9bc7a68f-7b71-4110-b4f1-85ae05c92777_story.html" target="_blank">The Washington Post, for example,</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> said the North Koreans were “pulling language right out of the American 1850s.” That was more than 150 years ago, before the Civil War. Reporters could have found more recent examples from the true inspiration of North Korea, none other than Karl Marx himself.</span></p>
<p>As Thomas Sowell noted in Marxism: Philosophy and Economics, Marx called German socialist Ferdinand Lassalle, a “Jewish ni***r,” based on his “cranial formation” and hair growth. His paternal grandmother or mother, Marx said, was “crossed with a ni***r” and “the fellow’s importunity is also ni***r-like.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That business about “cranial formation” derives from Marx’s passion for phrenology, pseudoscientific quackery that extrapolates character from the shape of the head. The ever-superstitious Marx insisted on subjecting all new adherents to a phrenological examination, with particular attention to any bumps. In the cranial test one can hear echoes of the North Korean contention that Barack Obama lacks “the basic appearances of a human being.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">One doesn’t hear much about Marx’s phrenology, nor about the racism and anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, denied by Stalinists like Paul Robeson but described in great detail by Robert Robinson in Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union. Russians referred to Patrice Lumumba University (now renamed People’s Friendship University of Russia) as a “monkey zoo” and Robinson found Soviet racism blatant and pervasive. He escaped and wrote an anticommunist classic that journalists have avoided and which the President of the United States has doubtless never read, if he knows about it at all.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ugly and disrespectful as it was, North Korea’s racist attack on Barack Obama elicited less comment than the Donald Sterling episode. The longtime owner of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers was overheard saying he didn’t want his mistress to associate with black people nor to bring black people to his games. President Obama called the comments “incredibly offensive,” and the story took over the media, with NBA boss Adam Silver banning Sterling from the league for life.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Nobody should look for an NBA franchise in Pyongyang but the issues with that regime go to the heart of what the left is. The socialist vanguard somehow escapes the conditioning and false consciousness that afflict the masses. Then in power, the vanguard is supposed to be immune from normal human passions, along with bigotry, racism and hatred. The vanguard of course, retains all that, which empowers repression, persecution, ethnic cleansing and mass murder campaigns. Those have been the hallmark Marxist totalitarian states from Stalin’s USSR to Pol Pot’s Cambodia, to the North Korea of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong-un.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That vile Communist regime calls the President of the United States a “wicked black monkey” who belongs in a zoo and lacks the basic appearance of a human being. Despite a response from the White House, the episode draws less media attention than Donald Sterling. And the default media response is to compare North Korea’s racist attack on Barack Obama with America in the 1850s.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is what happens when journalists tacitly accept socialist superstition and remain ignorant of the actual record of Communist states. In its racist attack on president Obama, North Korea is simply being true to their Marxist roots.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2014 04:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How leaders of the American Indian Movement viewed the Black Panthers as their model -- and the death and destruction they wreaked. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ant.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-224569" alt="ant" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ant.jpg" width="222" height="262" /></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Readers of the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">New York Times</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> magazine on April 25, 2014 might have been surprised at a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/magazine/who-killed-anna-mae.html?ref=magazine&amp;_r=2">story by Eric Konigsberg</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> on the 1976 murder of Anna Aquash. The article of nearly 5,500 words came headlined “Who Killed Anna Mae?” and the answer solves the question why it took nearly forty years for such a piece to appear.</span></p>
<p>Konigsberg, a former reporter for the <i>New York Times</i> and author of <i>Blood Relation</i>, explains that a South Dakota rancher found the badly decomposed body of a woman who had been shot at close range through the back of the head. The victim was Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a key player in the American Indian Movement, a “radical” group of Native American militants founded in 1968, the same year as the Black Panthers, “the movement’s model.”</p>
<p>Konigsberg is right about that but after all this time many readers may be as unfamiliar with these groups as they are with Anna Aquash. The Black Panthers and AIM both saw America as intrinsically oppressive and racist, with racism part and parcel of government, the military and law enforcement. Both movements demonized a “white” American governing establishment and saw revolutionary violence and separatism as the only path to change.</p>
<p>“These white people think this country belongs to them,” Anna Aquash once wrote. She was a Mikmaq Indian from Canada who came south to join with AIM and fight the “raggedy-ass pilgrims” who took the land from the Indians back in the day. In 1973 at Wounded Knee, where the US Cavalry killed 200 Indians in 1890, AIM took up arms in a 10-week standoff with the National Guard, the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI. There at Wounded Knee Anna Aquash met Dennis Banks, along with Russell Means AIM’s most high-profile leader.</p>
<p>Aquash was having an affair with Banks when he was still involved in a common-law marriage with Darlene “Kamook” Nichols. That did not sit well with some movement women of different tribal affiliations, and they saw the affair as a threat to AIM’s stability. At the same time, Konigsberg notes AIM had become “a vortex of paranoia” with factions charging that some members were “pigs” and collaborators.</p>
<p>As Konigsberg has it, Aquash was aware that some thought she was a turncoat. When she and Nichols were jailed, Aquash said she feared for her life. When Aquash was swiftly released on bail, some saw that as evidence of collaboration. Then in 1976 she turned up dead, shot through the back of the head. As <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2010/arnold-ahlert/murder-in-the-american-indian-movement-30-years-later/">this piece shows</a>, it was some time before the case landed in court.</p>
<p>For AIM she was another “lost soldier” in the ongoing war against an oppressive, white racist government. The party line was that the FBI had set up the murder of Aquash to scare and destabilize AIM, but in his investigations Konigsberg found otherwise. Over the last decade, he wrote, “several teams of state and federal attorneys in South Dakota have established that her killing was in fact an inside job, orchestrated by AIM members who believed she was working as an FBI informer.”</p>
<p>Konigsberg finds no evidence that Aquash was an FBI snitch but makes a convincing case that AIM ordered the hit. The story jostles with characters like Marlon Brando and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/January%202000.pdf">Leonard Peltier</a>, now in prison for killing two FBI agents. The narrative also explains the reluctance to explore murders by militant radicals on the left. As Konigsberg shows, the nation was busy romanticizing and protecting the AIM leaders.</p>
<p>Dennis Banks and Russell Means were “telegenic spokesmen in traditional braids, buckskin fringe and cowboy boots.” They would publish memoirs, appear in Hollywood films such as <i>The Last of the Mohicans</i>, and find themselves showcased on college campuses. As Konigsberg recalls, Andy Warhol rendered a portrait of Means and the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> dubbed Means and Banks “the two most famous Indians since Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.”</p>
<p>Dennis Banks was acquitted of charges over Wounded Knee but convicted of riot and assault over a courthouse gun battle at Custer, South Dakota. Rather than serve time, Banks fled to California. There Governor <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2009/lloyd-billingsley/brown-is-back-by-lloyd-billingsley/">Jerry Brown refused to extradite him</a>. Banks took full advantage of the protection by studying at UC Davis, teaching at Stanford, and serving as <a href="http://special.pacificresearch.org/pub/cap/2005/cap_05-02-10.html">chancellor of Deganawidah-Quetzecoatl University</a> (DQU), a ramshackle outfit near Sacramento.</p>
<p>In 1983, after the election of governor George Deukmejian, Banks fled to a reservation in New York. The intrepid Konigsberg recently tracked him down at his A-frame in Minnesota. The writer asked Banks if he would have advocated killing AIM traitors? He said might not participate directly ““But I would say, ‘Take care of this.’ Or, ‘Take the guy out, and I don’t want to see him again.’”</p>
<p>Further, Banks said, “There are no secrets and questions left. If there’s a burning house, no one gives an order to put out the fire. Someone just goes and does it. It was people who fell into an idea.” That “idea” would be revolutionary violence in the style of the Black Panthers, AIM’s model as Konigsberg explains.</p>
<p>The Black Panther Party for Self Defense emerged in 1966 as a revolutionary movement led by Huey Newton, Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver (<i>Soul on Ice</i>). The Panthers duly became an icon the sixties counterculture but those who defended the group neglected their victims, such as Betty Van Patter.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.salon.com/1999/12/13/betty/">David Horowitz hired Van Patter</a> to keep the books for the Educational Opportunities Corp., which ran a school for children of the Black Panthers. Betty Van Patter soon disappeared and “by the time the police fished her battered body out of San Francisco Bay in January 1975, I knew that her killers were the Panthers themselves.” Horowitz subsequently discovered that “the Panthers had killed more than a dozen people in the course of conducting extortion, prostitution and drug rackets in the Oakland ghetto. While these criminal activities were taking place, the group enjoyed the support of the American left, the Democratic Party.” As he notes, in 1970 Hillary Rodham Clinton helped organize demonstrations to <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2010/nichole-hungerford/from-the-writings-of-david-horowitz-april-29-2010/">stop the trial of Black Panther leaders</a> “who had tortured and then executed a black youth named Alex Rackley.” His crime? The Panthers suspected he was an informer.</p>
<p>Eldridge Cleaver, the most articulate of the Panther vanguard, said in his last televised interview that “<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2010/david-swindle/from-the-writings-of-david-horowitz-march-29-2010/">if people had listened to Huey Newton and me in the 1960s, there would have been a holocaust in this country.”</a> As Horowitz noted, “Here is the beginning of any real understanding of what the radical left and its Black Panther vanguard were about in the Sixties.”</p>
<p>The AIM vanguard was about the same thing but politicians, filmmakers and journalists still miss the significance. That’s why the authorities decline to pursue murder cases involving sixties radicals and why articles about their victims are so hard to find. And that’s why the story of AIM murder victim Anna Aquash took so long to appear in the <i>New York Times</i> magazine.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 04:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inconvenient realities overlooked in a new book on the hunt for an SS doctor. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/heim_38447718.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224234" alt="heim_38447718" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/heim_38447718-447x350.jpg" width="313" height="245" /></a>Nicholas Kulish and Souad Makhennet recently appeared on CSPAN to promote their new book </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. Kulish and Makhennet did not find Dr. Heim, who died more than 20 years ago, but their relentless pursuit proved enlightening in several ways.</span></p>
<p>The authors find Dr. Heim remarkably unlike the “superhuman Nazi of popular imagination” from films such as <i>Marathon Man</i> and <i>The Boys From Brazil</i>. The Austrian Heim excelled at ice hockey and easily mastered foreign languages. He completed his medical studies in Vienna at the age of 25 and was drafted into SS. His wartime duties included service in 1941 at Mauthausen. Survivors of the concentration camp there charge that Dr. Heim killed inmates by injecting gasoline into their hearts and that he decorated his desk with the skulls of selected victims.</p>
<p>After the war Heim spent three years as a POW, treating other prisoners as a medical doctor. His record at Mauthausen somehow failed to emerge and in 1947 he was set free and soon living the good life in a resurgent West Germany. In the early 1960s, about the time the Israelis captured Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Holocaust, Heim began to get nervous. He fled, but not to South America like other Nazi war criminals.</p>
<p>He decamped for Tangier then moved on to Egypt, where German military officers received a warm welcome, a legacy of support for the Axis powers in World War II. The authors also observe that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj al-Husseini, worked with the Nazis and even visited concentration camps.</p>
<p>In Egypt Heim was able to maintain his German properties by remote control. He eventually converted to Islam and adopted the name Tarek Hussein Farid. In 1979 he made the cover of <i>Der Spiegel</i> but the authors show how sleuths such as German policeman Alfred Aedtner were unable to reel him in. So was celebrity Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who gets rough treatment in <i>The Eternal Nazi</i>. The authors show how Wiesenthal got it wrong on UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and his lies about his wartime service in areas where Jews were being deported to concentration camps. As the joke had it, he suffered from “Waldheimers Disease,” which made him forget he was a Nazi.</p>
<p>No Nazi hunter or government spy agency was able to bag “Angel of Death” Josef Mengele, the big prize, and Treblinka guard John Demjanjuk turned out not to be “Ivan the Terrible.” Likewise, nobody was able to pry SS doctor Aribert Heim out of Egypt where he died in 1992. The authors tracked down his briefcase, full of revealing documents, and put together the story. Along the way they fail to flag some key collaborators.</p>
<p>For example, during the 1939-1941 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact the authors write that Hitler and Stalin agreed to divide up Poland. The authors fail to note that during the pact the Soviets also handed over German Jewish communists to Hitler’s Gestapo. Some of these Jewish communists could have wound up in Dr. Heim’s tender care at the Mauthausen concentration camp.</p>
<p>After World War II, the authors say, “the focus of American enmity was rapidly shifting away from the defeated Nazis and toward the Soviets’ rising ambitions in Europe.” Note that the Americans had “enmity” but the Soviets only “ambitions.” Further, Eastern Europe was “slipping into the Communist camp.” Actually, Stalin grabbed it by force and the Soviet Union occupied and oppressed those countries for the next half century.</p>
<p>As a former Berlin bureau chief for the <i>New York Times</i> Nicholas Kulish should know that. Souad Mekhennet, a fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a journalist who worked for the Times, should know that the conflict between the USA and USSR was more than a “rivalry.” But this wasn’t the first time that somebody from the <i>New York Times</i> got it wrong on the Soviets.</p>
<p>In 1932-33 Josef Stalin’s Communist regime starved to death millions of Ukrainians. Walter Duranty, the <i>New York Times</i> Moscow correspondent at the time, denied that any such thing had taken place and claimed that under Stalin’s wise leadership the Ukraine flowed with milk and honey. Duranty’s articles, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, played a role in U.S. recognition of the Soviet state.</p>
<p>To unravel all that would take considerable courage. It’s easier and safer to write a book about old Nazis. Readers will hear the sound of a barrel being scraped.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 04:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2012-08-17-at-9.34.59-AM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222840" alt="Screen-Shot-2012-08-17-at-9.34.59-AM" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2012-08-17-at-9.34.59-AM-450x299.png" width="315" height="209" /></a>Steven F. Hayward is the author of </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Greatness: Reagan, Churchill and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders, Age of Reagan</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> (two volumes) and other acclaimed books. Last year the University of Colorado at Boulder brought Hayward on board as Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy, something of a breakthrough in diversity for the liberal university. But now the campus thought police have targeted the visiting scholar.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In a March interview with National Public Radio, Hayward addressed the subject of sexual harassment: “You know, my mother and my mother-in-law both said, ‘You know when those kinds of things happened to us, usually a lot worse 40 or 50 years ago when they were in the working world, they slapped people.’ Maybe we ought to get back to that.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In an October 13, 2013 </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/10/off-on-a-gender-bender.php">Powerline blog</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> about Nadine Schweigert, a North Dakota woman who married herself, Hayward wrote:</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">So why is this gender-bending diversity mandate so prominent at universities these days?  The most likely explanation is that it is simply yielding to the demands of the folks who dislike any constraint of human nature in what goes by the LGBTQRSTUW (or whatever letters have been added lately) “community.”  I place “community” in quotation marks here because the very idea of community requires a certain commonality based ultimately in nature, while the premise behind gender-bending is resolutely to deny any such nature, including especially human nature.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">These were </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.coloradodaily.com/your-take/ci_25479774/cu-boulder-conservative-scholar-steven-hayward-mock">“oppressive and discriminatory” ideas</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, according to Chris Schaefbauer, student government president of student affairs, and Caitlin Pratt, student government director of safety and inclusion. Hayward, they wrote, has engaged in “victim-blaming.” The onus should be on the harasser and “on the university to create an environment where people feel safe and supported in reporting conduct violations.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Shaefbauer and Pratt charged that Hayward’s blog comments “invalidate the lived realities of transgender individuals and mock the LGBTQ community as a whole.” Further, “The lived realities and rights of women and LGBTQ individuals should not be open to be denied, dissected, refuted or used as talking points in a conflict between liberal and conservative politics.” So in the students’ concept of free speech, some ideas “should not be open” to challenge and examination, and even discussion. Those are rather strange sentiments for a university environment but they inspired faculty assembly chairman Paul Chinowski to go after Hayward.</span></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_25489273/cu-boulder-faculty-members-support-student-criticism-steven">“I found this offensive, bordering on what I think most people would say is hate speech,”</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Chinowski told colleagues. “If any (other) faculty member said this, we would find ourselves in a dean&#8217;s office or possibly on suspension for writing this. I applaud the students for having the nerve to stand up to this. The question is, are we going to allow this or condone this from someone in our own faculty?”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Chinowski further said: “I don’t think we should allow that behavior, even if somebody is doing it for effect,” he said. “It’s offensive, and there’s no place for that in this community.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Law professor Aya Gruber said she didn&#8217;t want the faculty to become the “free speech police,” adding “I don’t like what he said, but I want the right to say that I don&#8217;t like what he said.” Hayward “has an absolute right to say what he wants, but along with that right, he has to expect this kind of backlash when you say things that are deliberately provocative and not very well thought out.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Hayward teaches Constitutional Law II and one of his students, Will Hauptman, went on record that the professor maintains a respectful and professional classroom environment, does not promote a political agenda in class, and has even included the university’s suggested statement about preferred gender pronouns in his syllabus. Hauptman said the professor had never belittled anyone’s statements or ideas and “treats students with respect and courtesy.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The ludicrous accusation of “hate speech” suggests that Hayward is not getting much respect and courtesy from politically correct student and faculty bosses who fancy themselves liberals. That should come as no surprise given the venue.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">From 1990 to 2007 the University of Colorado at Boulder was the happy hunting ground of </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1835">Ward Churchill</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, who falsely claimed to be a Native American to qualify for an affirmative action position in Ethnic Studies. Churchill also regarded the United States as a genocidal nation and denounced the victims of the 9/11 attacks as “little Eichmanns.” This hatemongering fraud held on for 17 years before the university fired him for plagiarism and fabricated research. The </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/02/ward-churchill-is-finally-all-out-of-aces/">U.S. Supreme Court upheld his dismissal</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
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		<title>Remembering Vietnam War Hero Jeremiah Denton</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2014 04:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nation loses a man who persevered against communist brutality and outwitted his captors. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/denton_jeremiah++defense.gov_.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-222279" alt="denton_jeremiah++defense.gov" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/denton_jeremiah++defense.gov_.jpg" width="317" height="238" /></a></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">When Jeremiah Denton passed away at 89 on March 28 President Obama issued a statement:  “The valor that he and his fellow POWs displayed was deeply inspiring to our nation at the time, and it continues to inspire our brave men and women who serve today. As senator, he served as a strong advocate for our national security.  He leaves behind a legacy of heroic service to his country.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That presidential tribute was certainly welcome, and perhaps something of a surprise. But the man and his story deserve more detail.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Commander Denton was shot down over North Vietnam on July 18, 1965, and held captive for nearly eight years. Senator John McCain, a POW in North Vietnam for more than five years, said, “as a senior ranking officer in prison, Admiral Denton’s leadership inspired us to persevere, and to resist our captors in ways we never would have on our own. He endured unspeakable pain and suffering because of his steadfast adherence to our code of conduct.” Denton’s heroism also emerges in </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Leading with Honor</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, a recent memoir by fellow POW Lee Ellis.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Hanoi and Haiphong were the most heavily defended areas in the world and </span>more than 70 percent of US pilots shot down in the “Rolling Thunder” campaign were pilots and crew members. Denton was one of the first and a prize for the North Vietnamese who sought to use prominent POWs as propaganda tools in staged press conferences. As Ellis describes it:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">CDR Denton endured excruciating torture before agreeing to go before the cameras. Prior to his filming, his captors prepped him for several days on what he was supposed to say about ‘America’s cruel and oppressive war.’ He said ‘whatever my government is doing, I agree with it, and I will support it as long as I live.’</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On camera, Denton blinked out TORTURE in Morse code (video below). When the video went public, Ellis notes, “it was the first time the U.S government had accurate information about the treatment of POWs.” So Denton’s valor was informative and inspiring, but he wasn’t done.</span></p>
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<p>His defiance angered the Vietnamese Communists but they remained unaware of Denton’s encoded communication and put him on display at another staged press conference two weeks later. “This time Denton stood up on camera and walked out.” His Vietnamese Communist captors “put Denton in the rope torture and then beat him until he was unconscious.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Even so, Denton’s policy remained firm: “no writing, no taping, take torture until you’re in danger of losing mental facilities, and then give a phony story. Die before giving classified information. If broken, don’t despair. Bounce back as soon as you can to the hard line. Remember: unity above self.” And Ellis notes that Denton practiced what he preached.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Denton “never hesitated to provide leadership when he was senior ranking officer of a cellblock or camp. Although that made him a prime target for abuse and exploitation by the enemy, he steadfastly pushed himself and the enemy to the limit. He deliberately kept the torture team occupied, so they would have less time to harass his fellow POWs.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">So in current parlance, he took more than one for the team, and he prevailed. After the 1973 accords, Denton was the first former POW to step off the plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. But he wasn’t done yet.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Promoted to rear admiral, Denton became commandant of the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. He remained a strong anti-Communist, supporting the Nicaraguan Contras in their fight against the Communist pro-Soviet FSLN regime. In 1980 he gained election to the U.S. Senate, the first Republican from Alabama since Reconstruction. Not bad for the son of a hotel clerk who attended 13 different elementary schools.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Jeremiah Denton wrote </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">When Hell Was in Session</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> about his POW years. In 1979 that book became a TV movie with Hal Holbrook as Denton and Eva Marie Saint as his wife Jane, who raised seven children while her husband was a POW in Vietnam. That movie deserves another shot on television and a full theatrical release. That would be a fitting tribute to Jeremiah Denton and help his valor, as President Obama said, “to inspire our brave men and women who serve today.”</span></p>
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		<title>FBI Bags Aspiring American &#8216;Assad&#8217;</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Nicholas+Michael+Teausant+FB.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222105" alt="Nicholas+Michael+Teausant+FB" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Nicholas+Michael+Teausant+FB-450x321.jpg" width="315" height="225" /></a>A federal grand jury has <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/26/6271828/san-joaquin-county-man-indicted.html">indicted Nicholas Michael Teausant</a> for attempting to support a foreign terrorist organization. In recent months, “Assad Teausant bigolsmurf,” as he called himself online, discussed his desire to train Syrian fighters, bomb the Los Angeles subway system and launch a civil war that would topple the American government.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Teausant, 20, is a student at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California, but Taj Khan, a college board member, told reporters that Teausant was not known to Muslim American students there. Some may have regarded him as an FBI informer.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Teausant was also a member of the National Guard, assigned to the 118th Maintenance Company in Stockton. The Guard recently released Teausant reportedly because he lacked minimum qualifications. The Muslim convert had little military experience but gathered information on bomb making and jihad tactics from the English-language al-Qaida magazine </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Inspire</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Teausant wanted to join the ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which the indictment explains is the new name of an organization under the control of al-Qaida, a foreign terrorist organization. Teausant said “I would love to join Allah’s army” and “I want to go fight in Syria.” He would only return to America after President Obama was dead, Congress gone, and chaos prevailing across the nation. Teausant offered to make a video for the ISIS and leave his face “wide open to the camera.” He wanted to be a “commander” and if he landed on the FBI’s 12 most wanted list “that means I’m doing something right.” The aspiring terrorist was unaware that the</span></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/17/6244452/acampo-man-arrested-on-terrorist.html">FBI had been on to him for months.</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Assad” planned to reach Syria by flying from Canada but FBI agents arrested him on March 16 in Blaine, Washington, near the Canadian border. A Seattle magistrate returned Teausant to Sacramento where he faces a maximum penalty of 15 years.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The case drew no comment from Mohamed Abdul Aziz, leader of the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/fbi-to-honor-cair-linked-group/">Sacramento Area League of Associated Muslims</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> (SALAM) Islamic Center and frequently interviewed in the local press. The SALAM center co-hosts events with CAIR and in 2009 Abdul Aziz was the recipient of the FBI’s community service award “for preventing violence, creating understanding, bringing people together.”</span></p>
<p>If convicted Teausant would join Hamid Hayat of Lodi, California, now serving 24 years for providing material support to terrorism. Hayat was born in the United States but spent half his life in Pakistan where he attended terrorist training camps. Last year the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/lloyd-billingsley/hayat-terror-conviction-upheld/">Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Hayat’s conviction</a>. His father, Umer Hayat, also of Lodi, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in a different case and served 11 months.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Teausant case confirms that California continues to serve as a farm team of sorts for foreign terrorist organizations. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/shows/walker/profile.html">John Walker Lindh</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> converted to Islam at 16 after seeing the movie </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Malcolm X</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. Lindh lived in northern California and attended mosques in Mill Valley and San Francisco. The Redwood High School student learned Arabic in Yemen and studied at a madrassa in Pakistan before decamping for Afghanistan to fight with the Taliban.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In 2001 U.S. troops in Afghanistan captured Lindh and in 2002 he pleaded guilty to supplying services and transporting explosives for the Taliban government. The “American Taliban,” as he became known, was sentenced to 20 years in a high-security federal prison in Terre Haute Indiana. Last year a judge ruled that Lindh must be allowed to pray daily in a group with other Muslim inmates. In 2019 he gains eligibility for release.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In northern California and elsewhere the FBI appears to be taking all terrorist threats seriously. Meanwhile, the Bureau has also kept busy on sting operations against corrupt state politicians.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On March 26 FBI agents raided the Sacramento offices of </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/26/6271916/fbi-california-sen-leland-yee.html">state senator Leland Yee, San Francisco Democrat</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, who faces seven charges of corruption and firearms trafficking. Among the 26 people charged is Yee’s former political consultant Keith Jackson, who served on the board of the San Francisco Unified School District. Jackson was indicted on charges of murder-for-hire and drug trafficking. Yee, a candidate for Secretary of State, could face 20 years in federal prison. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Last year the FBI raided the Sacramento offices of senator Ron Calderon, a Montebello Democrat who faces corruption charges. A Los Angeles jury recently found California state senator Rod Wright, a Baldwin Hills Democrat, guilty of voter fraud and perjury.</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Hillary evoked memories of Hitler, but not Stalin, on the Ukrainian crisis.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/9430680.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220661" alt="9430680" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/9430680-439x350.jpg" width="307" height="245" /></a>Hillary Clinton has waded into the Ukrainian crisis by invoking history. Referring to Vladimir Putin’s plans to provide passports to Russians outside the nation’s borders, she said:</span></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/03/05/hillary-clinton-says-putins-action-are-like-what-hitler-did-back-in-the-30s/">“Now if this sounds familiar, it’s what Hitler did back in the ‘30s.”</a></p>
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">She continued:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">All the Germans that were. . . the ethnic Germans, the Germans by ancestry who were in places like Czechoslovakia and Romania and other places, Hitler kept saying they’re not being treated right. I must go and protect my people, and that’s what’s gotten everybody so nervous.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The former First Lady, a likely presidential candidate in 2016, is right about Hitler’s tactics but she ignores the “back in the &#8217;30s” history most applicable to Ukraine. The shot-caller back then was Joseph Stalin, and he set out to crush all vestiges of Ukrainian nationalism, as Russian tyrants had done for ages. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/lloyd-billingsley/soft-pedaling-stalinist-genocide/">Stalin had a different plan &#8212; known as genocide</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In his forced collectivization campaign, Stalin raised Ukraine’s grain procurement quotas by 44 percent. That meant that there would not be enough grain to feed the people, but to make sure, Stalin also deployed regular troops and secret police units in a merciless war of attrition. And that condemned millions to death by starvation. That is genocide by any standard, but for Stalin it was a big success. As one of his commanders said, it showed the Ukrainians “who is the master here.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That’s what Stalin did “back in the &#8217;30s” but Hillary Clinton ignored it entirely. Neither did she mention that in 1939 Stalin signed a pact with Hitler, and that the two dictators jointly invaded Poland. Poles remember that, and Ukrainians remember Stalin all too well, unlike American politicians.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Back in the 1930s Americans were not well informed about Stalinist genocide because of deliberate deception by Walter Duranty of the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">New York Times. </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">At the very time Stalin was starving millions to death Duranty wrote that the Ukraine was a veritable cornucopia, flowing with milk and honey. In Duranty’s narrative famine was impossible under the scientific, planned economy of the USSR and the wise leadership of Stalin. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Duranty was fond of saying, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs” and “I put my money on Stalin.” Something similar is going on now.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Vladimir Putin laments the demise of the USSR and on his watch Stalin has been experiencing a revival. During the recent winter Olympics at Sochi, where Stalin’s villa has been carefully maintained, a Russian student told NBC that “Stalin took Russia to next level.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Putin doubtless believes that and, as Hillary Clinton also said, Putin “believes his mission is to restore Russian greatness,” including control of former Soviet Union countries. “When he looks at Ukraine, he sees a place that he believes is by its very nature part of Mother Russia.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That is true and imperialism is the highest stage of Putinism. Hillary Clinton won’t stop it by talking about Hitler. President Obama won’t stop it by essentially giving Putin everything he wants. And leftist Democrats like Dennis Kucinich won’t stop it by </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/russia-ukraine-covert-operations-Dennis-Kuchinich/2014/03/04/id/556082">blaming the Ukraine crisis on the United States</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. That’s why in Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, everybody is so nervous.</span></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/flag-shirt.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220278" alt="flag-shirt" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/flag-shirt-450x299.jpg" width="315" height="209" /></a>On May 5, 2010, Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill California celebrated Cinco de Mayo supposedly a Mexican holiday. That day five Live Oak students wore T-shirts bearing imagery of the American flag. School officials told the students they had to turn their shirts inside out, otherwise they would send the students home, which they did. Last week the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that action, a ruling with profound implications for freedom of speech.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In 2010 the students’ parents duly sued the district charging violation of First Amendment rights and discrimination. The school took no action against those who wore imagery of the Mexican flag. In 2011, Chief U.S. District Judge James Ware, an appointee of George H.W. Bush, sided against the students and their parents, and for the school. Ware ruled that school students have the right to engage in non-disruptive free speech, but that “does not require that school officials wait until disruption occurs before they act.” Now the Ninth Circuit has sided against the students and for the school.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Judge M. Margaret McKeown, an appointee of Bill Clinton, wrote that past events, presumably disturbances at previous Cinco de Mayo celebrations, “made it reasonable for school officials to proceed as though the threat of potentially violent disturbance was real.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">One of the five students sent home was Daniel Galli. After the ruling, his father Kendall Jones told reporters, “This is the United States of America. The idea that it’s offensive to wear patriotic clothing, regardless of what day it is, is unconscionable to me.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">McKeown’s ruling at least raised a legitimate point. “Our role is not to second-guess the decision to have a Cinco de Mayo celebration,” she wrote. That decision is indeed highly questionable.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican independence day, which falls on September 16. Cinco de Mayo recalls a Mexican military victory over French forces in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Cinco de Mayo is barely celebrated in Mexico, if at all, so American schools have even less reason to hold an official event for it.</span></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/04/6205718/bruce-maiman-its-not-un-american.html">A <i>Sacramento Bee</i> column by Bruce Maiman</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> supported the school’s decision and pointed out that the Live Oak student body was “40 percent Latino.” And </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_25240543/american-flag-removal-order-justified-u-s-court">this report</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> cited “a history of threats and campus strife between Latino and Anglo students.”</span></p>
<p>The five students Live Oak sent home were Clayton Howard, Daniel Galli, Austin Carvalho, Matthew Dariano and Dominic Maciel. The last four have as much claim to legitimate Latin extraction as anyone from Mexico. But in politically correct usage, <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35050">“Latino” is form of identity theft</a> and evasion of reality.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">At Live Oak the breakdown was between those who thought it appropriate to officially highlight a Mexican non-holiday and those who did not. Even with the potential for strife, politically correct school officials continued to recognize Cinco de Mayo and punish those students who protested by wearing American flag imagery.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Maiman’s column charged that those who protested the school’s decision were guilty of  “predictable jingoistic outrage.” So it was their problem, not anything to do with the First Amendment or free-speech rights. And Americans should be grateful to Mexico for defeating Napoleon III, who was out to supply the Confederacy. “Had the Mexican army not beaten the French, we might well be flying a very different flag today. Maybe we all ought to be celebrating Cinco de Mayo.”</span></p>
<p>In California many celebrate Cinco de Mayo by drinking lots of margaritas.  But for this non-holiday bars are restaurants are better venues than American public schools. Live Oak made bad decisions, violated students’ rights, and a liberal court agreed. But the parents of Clayton Howard, Daniel Galli, Austin Carvalho, Matthew Dariano and Dominic Maciel are not giving up.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The 9th Circuit is the most liberal appeal court and frequently overturned. The parents will ask the 9th Circuit to reconsider the case with an 11-judge panel. If they have to, the parents will take their case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.</span></p>
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		<title>Lessons on the New Left from the Hanoi Hilton</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A POW's memories of communist torture camp collaborators Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/fondapic1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-219907" alt="fondapic1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/fondapic1-450x321.jpg" width="315" height="225" /></a>C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb recently interviewed Lee Ellis, author of </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Leading-Honor-Leadership-Lessons-Hilton/dp/098387932X">Leading with Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton</a>.</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> The book is a valuable primer on history that many Americans have forgotten or know only in part. </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Leading with Honor</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> is also an introduction to characters all Americans should get to know better, such as Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda. Ellis came to know the pair under different circumstances.</span></p>
<p>In November of 1967 Ellis was shot down on a mission to destroy the guns that protected the Quang Khe ferry that supplied the Ho Chi Minh Trail. In the Hoa Lao prison, which POWs dubbed the Hanoi Hilton, Ellis learned firsthand about North Vietnam and its systematic torture of American POWs. As the author notes, the North Vietnamese tortured more than 95 percent of American POWs including eight tortured to death. Ellis describes the “Pretzel,” one of the regime’s favorite tortures:</p>
<blockquote><p>After the prisoner’s legs were tied together, his arms were laced tightly behind his back until the elbows touched and the shoulders were virtually pulled out of joint. Then the torturer would push the bound arms up and over the head, while applying pressure with a knee to the victim’s back. During the torture, the circulation is cut off and the limbs to go sleep but the joint pain continues to increase as the ligaments and muscles tear. When the ropes are finally removed, circulation surges back into the &#8220;dead&#8221; limbs, causing excruciating pain.</p></blockquote>
<p>POW Mike McGrath provides a sketch of the practice. The North Vietnamese also used handcuffs that could be ratcheted down tighter until they cut off circulation, even cut into the muscle and on some men, “deep enough to expose bone.” But the torture wasn’t all physical.</p>
<p>The captors piped in propaganda and, Ellis explains, “the afternoon broadcasts were especially disheartening because they featured Americans spouting words that could have been written for them in Moscow and Hanoi.” American <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1334">Tom Hayden</a> “was a regular speaker,” later joined by his wife “film star Jane Fonda.” For this pair, the American POWs were war criminals and their reports of torture were lies.</p>
<p>Ellis charitably calls Fonda an “anti-war activist,” but she and Hayden were not against war in general. They only opposed American participation in a war against the North Vietnamese regime they served as propagandists. Hayden was their voice in the cells of the Hanoi Hilton and Fonda partied it up with a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft squad. But unlike “Axis Sally,” Mildred Gillars, who served jail time for broadcasting Nazi propaganda, “Hanoi Jane” suffered not at all. Her money and prestige helped Hayden gain public office in California.</p>
<p>The war in Vietnam continued after the United States pulled out in 1973 and in 1975 South Vietnam fell to the Communists.  Hayden and Fonda celebrated the victory and remained uncritical of a Stalinist regime more repressive than its Soviet sponsors. Fonda even sought to slam the door on the “boat people” who fled the regime. Hayden called their defenders, such as Joan Baez, tools of the CIA.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, one of Tom Hayden’s comrades, John Froines, was recently the subject of a <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2013/11/24/5938492/dan-morain-from-an-obscure-panel.html">glowing profile in the <i>Sacramento Bee</i></a> describing him as a “social justice and civil rights advocate” but a stickler for facts and completely impartial.</p>
<p>Froines was a minor Zelig-like figure in the New Left but achieved a measure of fame for disrupting the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He was acquitted on rioting charges and, armed with a PhD in chemistry from Yale, went on to work for the federal government. He later landed in California, where his Scientific Review Panel on Toxic Air Contaminants used suspect data to impose an onerous regulatory regime that punishes California workers</p>
<p>Froines’ panel championed a study by Hien Tran of the California Air Resources Board, who claimed to have a PhD from UC Davis. Actually, Tran bought his degree from a diploma mill in a New York UPS office. Froines also fought epidemiologist James Enstrom of the UCLA School of Public Health, who exposed Tran’s fakery and pointed out problems in his study.</p>
<p>Even so, Froines was duly reappointed to the panel by Assembly Speaker John Perez who claimed to have earned a degree from UC Berkeley, a claim backed by state officials and federal Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. But that too was wrong. Perez, a “Chicano Studies” major, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Assembly-Speaker-John-Perez-a-Cal-dropout-not-2371239.php">did not earn a degree at UC Berkeley</a>. In politically correct California, a virtual one-party state, the falsehood hurt him not at all.</p>
<p>The California Environmental Protection Agency honored John Froines in a private ceremony and the Italian city of Capri gave him the prestigious Ramazzini Award as a “public health hero.” New Left hero Tom Hayden went on to teach at UCLA and Occidental College. And Jane Fonda of course remains a Big Star.</p>
<p>To find out how Tom and Jane came across from the cells of the Hanoi Hilton, and to learn what kind of regime they defended, readers might consult <i>Leading with Honor</i> by Lee Ellis. Yes, there’s a lesson or two in there somewhere.</p>
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