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		<title>50 Years After &#8216;None Dare Call It Treason,&#8217; David Horowitz Rises to the Occasion</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spyridon Mitsotakis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A veteran of the war against the Left exposes one of the Democrats' greatest betrayals of America. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/volume3cover1_1024x1024.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246381" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/volume3cover1_1024x1024-238x350.jpg" alt="volume3cover1_1024x1024" width="226" height="332" /></a>Originally published by <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/">Breitbart.com</a>. </strong></p>
<p><strong>To order &#8220;The Great Betrayal,&#8221; Volume III of David Horowitz&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.blackbookoftheamericanleft.com">Black Book of the American Left</a>,&#8221; click <a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/collections/books/products/the-black-book-of-the-american-left-volume-iii-the-great-betrayal">here</a>. </strong></p>
<p>Fifty years ago, in 1964, a Korean War veteran, electrical magazine editor, and self-taught expert on Communism named John Stormer published <em><a style="color: #0088bb;" href="http://www.amazon.com/None-Dare-Call-It-Treason/dp/0899667252">None Dare Call it Treason</a></em>. It eventually sold 7 million copies.</p>
<p style="color: #111111;">The premise of the book was fairly simple: there are high-ranking people in America that are in fact the enemies of America and as a movement do everything in their power to sabotage our battle against totalitarianism. Yet, nobody is willing to identify these people for what they are: Traitors. And no one will call what these traitors are doing for what it is: <em>Treason</em>.</p>
<p style="color: #111111;">That is no longer true, thanks to David Horowitz and his new book <em><a style="color: #0088bb;" href="http://www.blackbookoftheamericanleft.com/volume-iii/">The Great Betrayal</a></em>, Volume III of <em>The Black Book of the American Left</em>. “Treason as a moral rather than a legal issue is not difficult to define,” he writes. “Treason is when your country is at war and you want the other side to win.”</p>
<p style="color: #111111;">In an article written and posted on September 11, 2001, Horowitz threw down the gauntlet:</p>
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<p style="font-style: inherit;">Americans are unwilling to recognize that much of the world hates us, and will continue to hate us because we are prosperous, democratic and free. Today&#8217;s tragedies must be a wake up call.  It&#8217;s time to remember that the first duty of government is to provide for the common defense. …</p>
<p style="font-style: inherit;">It&#8217;s time for those on the political left to rethink their alliances with anti-American radicals at home and abroad.  It&#8217;s time for the President to identify the monsters who planned the day of infamy, and then to carry out a massive military strike against them and any government who sponsored these acts. In sum, it is time for a new sobriety in America about what is at stake in the political battles with those who condemn America as an ‘oppressor’ nation and the ‘root cause’ of the attacks on itself.  It is time for Americans who love this country to stand up in her defense.</p>
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<p style="color: #111111;">The attitude he was referring to came into clear view a few weeks later, on November 7, 2001, when Bill Clinton gave a speech at Georgetown University that, Horowitz writes, “ranks as one of the most disgraceful utterances to pass the lips of a former American president. Without any acknowledgment of his own responsibilities as commander-in-chief, Clinton joined America’s enemies in attempting to transfer the blame for the atrocities to his country. ‘Those of us who come from various European lineages are not blameless,’ he explained, reflecting sentiments made familiar by American appeasers since the [Communist-controlled Henry] Wallace campaign of 1948.”</p>
<p style="color: #111111;">The view that America is the bad guy of the world is what drove the radical Left (including Clinton and the majority of the Democrats) to dismantle America’s military and intelligence defenses in the pre-9/11 era.</p>
<p style="color: #111111;">In light of these unprecedented attacks, did the Democrats rise to the challenge? Of course not. They pretended to be hawkish patriots for two years – including voting to destroy the enemy regime of Saddam Hussein which we now know did, in fact, <a style="color: #0088bb;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/carter-andress/why-the-world-did-not-know-about-wmd-in-iraq/">have Weapons of Mass Destruction</a> and <a style="color: #0088bb;" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/212562/connected/andrew-c-mccarthy">connections to Al Qaeda</a> – but, as Horowitz recounts:</p>
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<p style="font-style: inherit;">The global protesters failed to stop the British and American military effort or save Saddam’s regime, which fell six weeks after the initial assault. This victory put an end to the filling of mass graves by the regime; it shut down the torture chambers and closed the prison that Saddam had built for four to twelve-year-olds whose parents had earned his disapproval. But Saddam’s forces were not entirely defeated. They regrouped to fight a rearguard guerilla campaign against the American “occupiers.” At the same time, the organizers of the anti-war protests continued their efforts, this time in the arena of electoral politics. Their activists marched into the Democratic presidential primary campaigns to support the candidacies of anti-war Democrats Dennis Kucinich and Howard Dean.</p>
<p style="font-style: inherit;">The enormous resources in money and manpower that the activists mobilized against the war transformed the campaign of an obscure governor of Vermont into the Democratic frontrunner. Dean condemned America’s war in Iraq; he hinted that as president he would make peace at the earliest possible opportunity and withdraw American forces from the Gulf. Electoral politics thus became the left’s rearguard attempt to produce the result their pre-war protests had failed to achieve: an American defeat in Iraq.</p>
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<p style="color: #111111;">Thus it began, in June of 2003, that the Democrats realized that their false patriotism endangered their standing with the America-hating base of the Democratic Party and (with the notable exceptions of Joe Lieberman and Dick Gephardt) turned on the war nearly all of them voted for. Without hesitating, they stabbed the troops they sent into battle in the back. “You can’t tell a 19-year old, who is risking his young life in Fallujah and is surrounded by terrorists who want to kill him, that he shouldn’t be there in the first place; that he’s with the ‘bad guys,’ the aggressors, the occupiers who have no moral right to be in Iraq,” Horowitz wrote in 2008. “You can’t do that and not threaten his morale, encourage his enemies, deprive him of allies and put him in danger. And that is exactly what the Democrats have done – and all the Democrats have done – for five years of America’s war to deny the terrorists victory in Iraq.”</p>
<p style="color: #111111;">The defining moment that proved whose side the Democrats were on came in 2007, when President Bush, recognizing the <a style="color: #0088bb;" href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/blind-liberation">errors</a> made, shifted to a Counterinsurgency plan referred to as “The Surge.&#8221; The plan was a <a style="color: #0088bb;" href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443916104578020642839807834">dramatic success</a>, accomplishing its twin goals of breaking the back of the various Islamist insurrections and creating an unprecedented atmosphere of security for the Iraqi people. But the Democrats were <a style="color: #0088bb;" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/222129/after-hill-surge/peter-wehner">desperate to undermine our military</a>, shown most infamously when General David Petraeus was preparing to testify to Congress on the progress made. A Democratic Senator told <em>Politico</em>, “No one wants to call [Petraeus] a liar on national TV… the expectation is that the outside groups will do this for us.” And within a few days, the Democrats’ activist arm, MoveOn.org, published a full-page advertisement in the <em>New York Times</em> under the blaring headline: “General Petraeus or General Betray us? Cooking the books for the White House.” In fact, the <em>Times</em> gave MoveOn.org a <a style="color: #0088bb;" href="http://nypost.com/2007/09/13/times-gives-lefties-a-hefty-discount-for-betray-us-ad/">64% discount</a> to run the smear. The Democrats knew what they were saying wasn’t true. We now know this thanks to Robert Gates in his memoir <em><a style="color: #0088bb;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Duty-Memoirs-Secretary-at-War/dp/0307959473">Duty</a></em>. In a meeting between Secretary of Defense Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Obama and other administration officials on October 26, 2009, “Hillary told the president that her opposition to the surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. She went on to say, ‘The Iraq surge worked.’ The President conceded vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political. To hear the two of them making these admissions, and in front of me, was as surprising as it was dismaying.”</p>
<p style="color: #111111;">Our troops triumphed regardless, so that once Obama came to power, he needed a way to undo these achievements without making it obvious. He did so by sabotaging the Status of Forces negotiations, <a style="color: #0088bb;" href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2012/11/iraqi_politicians_backed_into.php">orchestrating</a> parliamentary obstacles where there previously had been none. As the great Fouad Ajami <a style="color: #0088bb;" href="http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-men-who-sealed-iraqs-disaster-with.html">wrote</a> in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> before his untimely passing, “Obama&#8217;s rush for the exit and [then-Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al] Maliki&#8217;s autocratic rule ensured that much hard-won progress would not last.” America’s security position is the worst it has been in generations, and the bloodbath we see today is the fruit of the Democrats’ betrayal.</p>
<p style="color: #111111;">Fifty years ago, John Stormer wrote:</p>
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<p style="font-style: inherit;">There is much to be done if America is to block communist domination of the world. Much of the work is up to <em>you</em>. First, you must educate yourself. Determine that the facts in this book are true. Then, alert and educate others. Stay informed – and start to act. Join with others who are already well-organized for the battle against communism.</p>
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<p style="color: #111111;">In a slightly different form, these words could have fit nicely in <em>The Great Betrayal</em>. Horowitz is a veteran of the ideological wars against both the Communists and the Jihad. He knows what he’s talking about.</p>
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		<title>The Senator Who Hates Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spyridon Mitsotakis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Ed Markey's history of supporting communist speech repression. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Ed-Markey-AP.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242964" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Ed-Markey-AP-450x337.jpg" alt="Massachusetts Senate" width="279" height="209" /></a>George Will wrote a <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/09/11/democrats-embrace-of-extremism/" target="_blank">column</a> in September describing the attempt by 48 Democrats to amend the 1st Amendment:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Democrats’ amendment says: &#8220;Congress and the states may regulate and set reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by candidates and others to influence elections,&#8221; and may &#8220;prohibit&#8221; corporations — including nonprofit issue-advocacy corporations &#8230; from spending any money &#8220;to influence elections,&#8221; &#8230; Because all limits will be set by incumbent legislators, the limits deemed &#8220;reasonable&#8221; will surely serve incumbents’ interests. The lower the limits, the more valuable will be the myriad (and unregulated) advantages of officeholders.</p></blockquote>
<p>Will names those who voted for it, including Edward Markey (D-MA).</p>
<p>Markey has a history of hostility toward free expression. Back in May, Newsmax <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/hate-speech-laws-First-Amendment-Dershowitz/2014/05/08/id/570277/" target="_blank">reported</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts has introduced legislation calling for the government to investigate &#8220;hate speech&#8221; on broadcast, cable, and Internet outlets — a bill that is raising concerns from First Amendment advocates and constitutional experts.</p></blockquote>
<p>Newsmax quoted <i>The Washington Times</i> editorial board&#8217;s warning that</p>
<blockquote><p>[w]hat the congressional Democrats are targeting isn&#8217;t virtual Ku Klux Klan rallies. The left slaps the &#8220;hate speech&#8221; label on just about anything with which it disagrees. They aim to shut down conservative voices.</p></blockquote>
<p>Markey also was one of the key people who in the &#8217;80s institutionalized a Marxist, anti-Republican focus within the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Ever wonder why PBS and NPR regularly praise Fidel Castro but won&#8217;t air conservative documentaries? David Horowitz found out why. He conducted an investigation into &#8220;The Politics of Public Television&#8221; for <i>Commentary</i> magazine. <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2010/david-horowitz/the-politics-of-public-television/print/" target="_blank">Here</a> is part of his findings:</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><p>At least four of the programs on Central America which PBS chose to air  during this crucial decade before Communism’s collapse were the work of a single director and radical ideologue, Deborah Shaffer, whose “solidarity”  with the Communist dictators of Nicaragua, and their guerrilla allies in El Salvador and Guatemala, was a proudly displayed item in her curriculum  vitae. Her most celebrated documentary, Fire From the Mountain (1988), an aggressive promotion of Sandinista myths, was based on the  autobiography  of the Sandinista secret-police chief, Omar Cabezas, while her other films-El Salvador: Another Vietnam? (1981), Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements  (1986), and Nicaragua: Report From the Front (1984)-all reflected her commitment to the politics of the Central American guerrillas.</p>
<p>In 1988, the Congressional Oversight Committees for Public Television, led by  their Democratic chairmen, Representative Edward Markey and Senator Daniel Inouye, institutionalized this revolutionary front inside PBS by authorizing the transfer of $24 million of CPB monies to set up the  Independent Television Service (ITVS) as a separate fund for “independent” film-makers. Representing the independents in testimony before the  committees were Deborah Shaffer’s producer, Pam Yates of Skylight  Productions, and Larry Daressa, co-chairman of  the National Coalition of  Independent Public Broadcasting Producers. Daressa, who later turned up on  the ITVS  board, was also the president of California Newsreel, flagship of the  radical film collectives and producer of such 60′s classics as Black Panther and The  People’s War, a triumphalist view of the Communist conquest of Vietnam.</p>
<p>Biting the hand that had fed him and his ideological comrades so generously,  Daressa attacked PBS for knuckling under to “corporate interests”:</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><p>Independent  producers have found themselves progressively  marginalized in this brave new world of semi-commercial, public pay  television.  Our diverse voices reflecting the breadth of America’s  communities and opinions have no place in public television’s plans to  turn itself into an upscale version of the networks. We have found  that insofar as we speak with an independent voice we have no place in public television.</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><p>But as one veteran member of the public-television community scoffed on hearing this testimony:</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><p>These people are not “diverse,” they’re politically correct. Nor are they “independent.” These are the commissars of the political Left. These  are the people who basically owned the Vietnamese and Cuban and Nicaraguan franchises, who got so close to Communist officials and guerrilla capos that if you wanted to get access for interviews or permission even to bring camera equipment into the “liberated zone” in certain cases, you had to go through them.</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><p>Nevertheless, Congress authorized $24 million in public funds to the artistic  commissars of the ITVS, thereby providing the extreme Left with an institutional base in public television.</p></blockquote>
<p>Markey&#8217;s opposition to freedom of speech is so extreme that he is willing to excuse Stalinist censorship. <i>Literally</i>. Take for example this report from the Boston Globe of August 19, 1983, detailing his trip to see Daniel Ortega, dictator of the Communist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua:</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><p>Markey said that when he asked Ortega about censorship of the media and restriction of religious freedom in Nicaragua, &#8220;He said he would lift the restrictions if he believed there was any kind of normal situation in his country. But because the US was massing for war on his northern border and because the US had someone such as Henry Kissinger, who was a central figure in the assassination of (former Chilean President Salvador) Allende, how could he be expected to exist as though a normal situation was at hand?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Markey&#8217;s response was not to condemn the Communist dictator for (his weak attempt at) trying to justifying his repression, but to placate him by saying: &#8220;I assured him the vast majority of people in this country never want to see another Marine set foot in Nicaragua.&#8221;</p>
<p>Actually, what the vast majority of Americans wanted was true freedom in Nicaragua &#8212; which meant getting the Reds out. This is partly why Reagan won reelection in a landslide. It is also what the people of Nicaragua wanted. Markey should have gone among the people to ask them directly, like Paul Berman did. Berman <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114928/bill-de-blasios-nicaraguan-work-worries-me" target="_blank">recalls</a>:</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><p>Having bantered with me long enough, a market lady, lowering her voice, expressed a few modest reservations about the Sandinistas. Then a few more reservations, until she was whispering.</p>
<p>Finally she explained that, in her estimation, the Sandinistas stood for everything she opposed. In Masaya, a Marxist language of social class made simple sense to a great many people, and the market lady availed herself of this language. She glanced around to see if any of her neighbors were eavesdropping, and then, assured of her own privacy, she whispered that, all in all, the Sandinistas were the enemies of the workers and the peasants.</p>
<p>I asked in an equally low whisper, &#8220;Who is the friend of the workers and the peasants?&#8221;</p>
<p>She said, &#8220;No one!&#8221;</p>
<p>I persisted. &#8220;Surely someone is the friend of the workers and the peasants. The Catholic Church, maybe?&#8221;</p>
<p>She shook her head. A pause. She gathered her courage. And she whispered: &#8220;Ronald Reagan.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Reagan?&#8221; I said. &#8220;Reagan is the friend of the workers and the peasants?&#8221;</p>
<p>Solemnly she nodded to tell me, yes, I had heard her right. I was astonished, and, then again, not astonished. To hang around Masaya long enough was to enter into conversations along those lines day after day, in one fashion or another.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Sandinistas knew this &#8212; which is why they were so repressive. After the Cold War, top Sandinista officials would admit this. Alejandro Bendana, who was the Sandinistas&#8217; top diplomatic spokesman, admitted that the &#8220;<i>contra</i> army grew beyond &#8230; expectations not as a result of sophisticated recruitment campaigns in the countryside but mainly because of the impact on the small-holding peasant of the policies, limits and mistakes of the Sandinistas.&#8221;</p>
<p>If Markey was willing to support the Sandinistas&#8217; attempts to silence the Nicaraguan people, would he try to silence the American people?</p>
<p>Massachusetts is the home of the American Revolution. Let us hope they don&#8217;t tarnish their name by reelecting this thug.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2014 04:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/southworthexit.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236724" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/southworthexit.jpg" alt="southworthexit" width="311" height="230" /></a>Frontpage has learned that its reporting on the contentious ideological struggle within a mid-town Manhattan Unitarian/Universalist Church has set possible changes in motion. The original purpose of <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/spyridon-mitsotakis/community-church-of-new-york-pacifists-suspended-maoists-welcome/">the article </a>was meant to be a case study and cautionary tale of the folly of trying to work with intolerant totalitarian movements such as the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). Dr. Karen Hoover, chair of Church&#8217;s Action for Justice group, reached out to hardcore Marxist organizations beginning in the run up to the Iraq war. As a result, the RCP today enjoys large degrees of influence and partnership with sectors of the Church (Dr. Hoover has been known to direct people toward RCP’s HQ and bookstore). But because of the light that was shown on this activity, these relationships may be vulnerable to a course correction, if wisdom prevails; and an audit is in progress.</p>
<p>We now have more information regarding Church critic Robert Reiss&#8217;s <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/spyridon-mitsotakis/community-church-of-new-york-pacifists-suspended-maoists-welcome/" target="_blank">suspension</a> from the Community Church of New York, the former liberal but now increasingly Maoist and anti-Israel Unitarian/Universalist Church. Special Meetings were held on <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_580887882"><span class="aQJ">Wednesday June 11th and Sunday June 15th</span></span> to discuss Frontpage&#8217;s <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_580887883"><span class="aQJ">June 5th</span></span> <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/spyridon-mitsotakis/support-for-israel-now-grounds-for-expulsion-at-new-york-unitarian-church/" target="_blank">article</a> first detailing the ignominious influences on the Church, and what to do about Reiss, whom they falsely blamed for the unwanted attention. The meeting on the 15th resulted in a quorum of Board of Trustee members who, flouted both the letter and the spirit of the bylaws of the Church by voting to suspend Reiss for 6 months, barring him from setting foot on Church property &#8211; including attending <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_580887884"><span class="aQJ">Sunday</span></span> Services &#8211; under threat of police arrest or ejection at the hands of Church Security personnel.</p>
<p>On Sunday, June 22nd, during Church coffee hour at <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_580887885"><span class="aQJ">noon</span></span>, 3 Board of Trustee members, including the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Board, beckoned Reiss to accompany them into the intimate “Chapel of Peace.” It was here, Reiss was told of the rogue vote against his membership and was told to comply of this banishment forthwith. Immediately thereafter, Reiss returned to the coffee hour space where he announced to the Churchgoers present before him:</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><p>&#8220;Dear Church Friends, I&#8217;ve been told just now of my banishment, which is against the bylaws of this Church &#8212; simply because of my Israel advocacy. I&#8217;ve been a loyal member here since I was 7 years old and do more volunteer work here than almost anyone else &#8212; yet <i>I&#8217;m</i> to be banished from your company for half a year without any due process.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>While he was addressing the church, the cabal of trustees whispered to Reiss that &#8220;we&#8217;ve called the police who&#8217;ll arrest you if you don&#8217;t leave.&#8221; An arrangement with the local police precinct was made earlier in the week by Church administration. This was apparently necessary, as the Church&#8217;s own security personnel would not be willing to comply. &#8220;Robert Reiss tells the truth&#8230;&#8221; they said, complaining that &#8220;Rev. Southworth acts like he is the king.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rather than a confrontation escalating, Reiss took his leave.</p>
<p>In recent years there was another issue that divided the congregation – the effort of a large portion of the Church to unseat the Minister, which failed during a humiliating voting session during which his detractors vented their dislike of him and his dictatorial leadership style. Over many years Southworth never censures or chastises anyone&#8217;s articulated anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements; yet he only sought to silence, harass or intimidate the articulation of pro-Israel sentiments.</p>
<p>Dr. Hoover cheered the recent Presbyterian vote to divest from companies doing business with Israel and hoped the Community Church would follow suit. Member Jerry Forman, of the Church&#8217;s Finance Committee stated aloud at an A.F.J. forum: &#8220;I don&#8217;t like the anti-Semitism at the Church,&#8221; thus acknowledging its presence.</p>
<p>Statements that troubled these Churchgoers have become common at Church meetings. They range from the typical fringe-left canard of “In Israel, they’re committing genocide,” to the outrages of “The Ashkenazi are responsible for genocide in the Middle East … What we need is a strong man … a Stalin or a Mao Zedong,” and “In Europe, the Jews got themselves in trouble for being the capitalist masterminds.”</p>
<p>At a Church monthly meeting on or about <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_580887886"><span class="aQJ">April 10th</span></span>, It was announced: “That there will be a sign up sheet for Church members to be part of a year long study group around the Presbyterian’s booklet ‘Zionism Unsettled.’” Reiss looked askance at the announcement, which elicited his concern. “I defy you to find anything untrue in it,” yelled a leading “anti-racist” presence in the Church.</p>
<p>A Church meeting opened with affiliate minister and Church administrator Rev. Dr. Orlanda Brugnola turning to Reiss and saying: “I want to deal with ‘Right-relations’ – what are your views on Israel’s mistreatment of the Palistinians!?” Dumbfownded, Reiss responded, “What would that have to do with your concept of ‘Right-relations’ between us?” as he pointed out the minister’s double standards and implicit bias.</p>
<p>At a September meeting, hosted by Rev. Southworth, held in the Church chapel, convened to address the Syrian crisis, many Church members were saying “the Jews are behind the unrest in Syria and fomenting resistance.” Reiss, and not Rev. Southworth, corrected these big lies. (Afterwards many members privately thanked Reiss for defending the obvious.)</p>
<p>Once, Rev. Southworth lamented at his pulpit how he “felt for the anquish” over Israel, expressed by the then uptown Imam, founder of a so-called interfaith mosque. True to form, after this same Imam decamped for the Middle East, he now, overseas, blasted Jews “for starting the worldwide AIDS epidemic.” Here, now, the lachrymose Southworth became a self-caricature of the liberal minister who can’t see through the cobwebs of political correctness, a church member observed.</p>
<p>At a recent U.N. S<span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_580887887"><span class="aQJ">unday</span></span> forum, Dr. Fay Lord opened the meeting with the gratuitous remarks regarding “overturning old paradigms” she chose as an example: “like Israel’s hope of conquest of the greater Middle East,” although this had nothing whatsoever to do with the guest speaker, who was the daughter of Pakistan’s admiral of the Navy.</p>
<p>Another time a recent chair of the Board of Trustees, Robert Bobrick, in his opening remarks at the quarterly congregational meeting, made a parallel with ongoing conflict within the Church to “the original error of the founding of Israel and the legacy of consequences.”</p>
<p>The above quotations are illustrative of the ubiquitous and commonly corrosive slurs that are fashionably current among these people.</p>
<p>Additionally, Board member Rachael Stone, who voted to boot out Reiss for his opposition to the presence of RCP front groups and Israel advocacy, helps facilitate at the Church the monthly held &#8220;People&#8217;s Voice Cafe,&#8221; which is a self-constituted &#8220;collective&#8221; promoting Communist-era Folk songs and newer compositions. A quarter century ago, historian and ex-radical Ronald Radosh says,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Community Church in the 50&#8242;s and early 60&#8242;s banned political folk music. They had a folk sing and square dance every Sat night. All participants had to pledge not to sing any leftist songs.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Now, contrariwise, to cite a recent example of what&#8217;s going on in the present moment, People&#8217;s Voice Cafe, during the Jewish holiday of Purim, held an anti-Israel themed event with guests Jewish Voices for Peace (sic), distorting the Purim story to their ideological ends in opposition to the state of Israel.</p>
<p>The Community Church of New York, today, following upon Minister Southworth&#8217;s fetishization of this politically correct &#8220;anti-racism&#8221; exemplifies the doleful reality of how political correctness can metastasize into, as it were, a petri dish of garden variety anti-Semitism. Perversly, the senior minister averts his eyes from these developments burgeoning before him, undermining his own Church&#8217;s formerly distinguished history of civic engagement of a high moral standard.</p>
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		<title>Community Church of New York: Pacifists Suspended, Maoists Welcome</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2014 04:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spyridon Mitsotakis]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/CommunityChurch.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235509" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/CommunityChurch.jpg" alt="CommunityChurch" width="311" height="233" /></a>Frontpage Magazine has received documentation confirming that pacifist Robert Reiss has been suspended from the Unitarian-Universalist Community Church of New York following the publication of <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/spyridon-mitsotakis/support-for-israel-now-grounds-for-expulsion-at-new-york-unitarian-church/">an article</a> about his crusade against the Church leadership for tolerating the growing influence of the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) and extreme Israel-hating anti-Semitism. Reiss could not immediately be reached for comment, but the documentation accuses him of &#8220;working against the mission of Community Church of New York to grow as a caring, justice-making, anti-racist, diverse, spiritual community.&#8221;</p>
<p>While they accuse Reiss of such things, let&#8217;s keep in mind the character of the Church&#8217;s unofficial guests: the RCP.</p>
<p>Paul Berman wrote about the RCP in his book <em>Power and the Idealists</em>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The RCP was a California group mostly, but it was animated by an ambitious view of the proletarian revolution and a determination to cultivate fraternal ties with Maoist parties around the world. The RCP ran a curiously plush bookstore at Union Square in Manhattan, which stocked the most complete collection anywhere in New York of pamphlets from the Latin American left.  The RCP&#8217;s comrades devoted unusual energies to celebrating Stalin, and this was not as odd as it may seem. Stalin had his charms, in some people&#8217;s eyes. The mere invocation of the tyrant&#8217;s name was guaranteed to drive liberals up the wall, which meant that, from a mischievous New Left point of view, Stalin-worship could seem appealingly impudent. But mostly the cult of Stalin reflected the influence of the Chinese Communists, who regarded Stalin as the heroic predecessor to Mao-the Soviet leader who, unlike Nikita Khrushchev and his heirs, did not betray the world proletariat. The RCP dutifully set about burnishing Stalin&#8217;s reputation in the world of the American left. &#8230; The RCP took a genuine interest in Iran. In West Germany, a protest against the shah of Iran, back in 1967, helped launch the New Left. Nothing like that took place in the United States. Still, in 1973, the RCP, with its internationalist view of the world, began to agitate against the shah, and the Iranian students in America responded as might have been predicted.</p></blockquote>
<p>On the other end of the political spectrum from Paul Berman is the activist known to New York talk radio fans as &#8220;Jimmy from Brooklyn&#8221;, who for about four decades had been infiltrating Communist groups on his own initiative. He had amassed an enormous collection of Soviet-bloc literature that the Communists would share amongst themselves, including an undated pamphlet called <em>Soviet Power and Islam</em>. It tells the reader that, in Stalin&#8217;s time, &#8220;The Soviet Government showed every consideration for the way of life of the Muslims, their social psychology, and their traditions, manners and customs, while at the same time encouraging them to take part in carrying out revolutionary transformations.&#8221; So was Stalin&#8217;s example, so was the practice of the RCP toward Khomeini.</p>
<p>&#8220;Jimmy&#8221; knew the RCP. He learned from them that their ideological strategy was &#8220;politicize, radicalize and militarize&#8221;, but that they had developed a shortcut by recruiting in the prisons. They sought to convince violent criminals that their flaws are not actually their fault, but the result of a racist, capitalistic society that made them what they are and thus should be subject to their revenge. In <em>Radical Son</em>, David Horowitz writes of encountering an outgrowth of this attitude when he confronted a top RCP apparatchik named C. Clark Kissinger:</p>
<blockquote><p>Shortly after the [1992 Los Angeles] riot, I appeared on a radio talk show with Clark Kissinger, a former president of SDS. Kissinger had created a new organization in South Central, Refuse and Resist, to promote the idea that local Crip gangs were revolutionaries battling an oppressive state. On the air, Kissinger was adamant that the looters and burners were social rebels, and that anyone doubting this was a &#8220;racist.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Horowitz wrote of the riot that &#8220;Two thousand Korean businesses were burned, and fifty-seven people killed &#8212; many of them targeted, like the businesses destroyed, simply because they were not black.&#8221; Predictably, the racial bloodletting had RCP&#8217;s full endorsement.</p>
<p>When they would come by my alma mater, NYU, looking for recruits, RCP members would personally tell me of their trips to China during the Cultural Revolution &#8211; one of the <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/china-cultural-revolution-personal-memoir-45872.html">darkest episodes</a> of the 20th century &#8211; and that it was their ideal society. They would pass out propaganda on behalf of the Iraqi and Afghan/Pakistani &#8220;resistance&#8221; (Al Qaeda) and the &#8220;revolution&#8221; in Mubarak&#8217;s Egypt and Gaza. Others remember their leafleting on behalf of Shining Path, the Maoist narco-terror group in Peru who killed around 20,000 people before being put down. On the back of a <a href="http://www.revcom.us/israel/israel.html">2010 issue</a> of RCP&#8217;s newspaper is a quote from their leader, Robert &#8220;Chairman Bob&#8221; Avakian, declaring: &#8220;After the holocaust, the worst thing that has happened to Jewish people is the state of Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>If anyone deserves to be thrown out of Community Church on the grounds of &#8220;working against the mission of Community Church of New York to grow as a caring, justice-making, anti-racist, diverse, spiritual community,&#8221; it should be the Revolutionary Communist Party, and not their opponents.</p>
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		<title>Support for Israel Now Grounds For Expulsion at New York Unitarian Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2014 04:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spyridon Mitsotakis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avowed Maoist takeover at Community Church of New York roils congregation.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/CommunityChurchExt.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233982" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/CommunityChurchExt-450x337.jpg" alt="CommunityChurchExt" width="301" height="237" /></a>The Unitarian-Universalist Community Church of New York, after 10 years of cooperation with and sponsoring events of the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), is now concerned that their tax-exempt status may be threatened, internal Church sources say. It comes at a time when persistent RCP presence on the Church has led to a polarizing climate.</p>
<p>In the background is an escalating conflict between the RCP and an alliance of moderate leftists, Israel supporters and pacifist led by Robert Reiss, a church member since 1957 who grew up in the <span data-term="goog_1710227953">Sunday</span> school. The Church&#8217;s pastor, Reverend Bruce Southworth, resolutely demurs from challenging the Maoists. When a congregant complained, he said of their persistent presence: “What’s wrong with that?” And, at the May Board of Trustee monthly meeting, Chairperson Lisa Gluck turned to Reiss, who was sitting in spectators section, and said: &#8220;We demand to know exactly where you stand on Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Southworth&#8217;s first act upon coming into leadership of the Church was to take down the massive American flag from the downstairs stage where it had been for as long as anyone could remember. When asked why he did this, he said &#8220;I removed the American flag from the downstairs stage because I do not believe in nationalism. I am not a nationalist.&#8221; He also began to have speakers that reflect a reversal of the Church&#8217;s long history of support for Israel and Zionism. They include:</p>
<ul>
<li>CUNY Professor Leonard Jeffries, who infamously spoke of &#8220;a conspiracy, planned and plotted and programmed out of Hollywood, where people called Greenberg and Weisberg and Trigliani and whatnot … Russian Jewry had a particular control over the movies, and their financial partners, the Mafia, put together a system of destruction for Black people,&#8221; and how &#8220;rich Jews were involved in the enslavement process&#8221;.</li>
<li>New Alliance Party official Lenora Fulani, who once said that Jews &#8220;had to sell their souls to acquire Israel and are required to do the dirtiest work of capitalism—to function as mass murderers of people of color—in order to keep it.&#8221;</li>
<li> Alton Maddox, the Louis Farrakhan flack who was disbarred for his role in the Tawana Brawley hoax, who told Church goers: “Black babies are superior to white babies.”</li>
</ul>
<p>In the early 1990s, Southworth visited F. W. de Klerk&#8217;s post-apartheid South Africa to support the African National Congress (ANC). When he returned home, the Church pacifists asked him about the ANC&#8217;s reliance on &#8220;Necklacing&#8221; &#8212; stuffing people into the center of a gasoline filled tire and burning them to death &#8212; as a means to intimidate their black opponents. Speaking at the pulpit made from wood donated by Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s son and a yard from a pedestal with a bronze bust of Gandhi &#8212; all gifts in recognition of the prior pastors&#8217; commitment to nonviolence &#8212; Southworth said: &#8220;I am asked my opinion of the practice of necklacing. I will not take a moral stand on that.&#8221;</p>
<p>While the Church has long leaned to the Left, the ideological extremism in issue today is relatively new in the Church. The previous pastor, Rev. Donald Harrington, was chairman of the anti-communist Liberal Party. Another previous pastor, Rev. John Haynes Holmes, was on the board of the ACLU when they kicked the Communists out of the organization and cast the deciding vote to expel Communist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. One Church member said, &#8220;Harrington and Holmes would be rolling in their graves to see the Church playing footsie with the RCP.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Church used to have thousands of active members, but since Southworth and his allies took over, the Church has been reduced to around 200 members today. Jewish participation with the Church had once been 40%, but this participation has plummeted as radical anti-Zionism has gained influence, consonant with the RCP playbook. Those who stand opposed to these trends are threatened with censorship and possible banishment from the congregation – and have been subject to intimidation and intolerance.</p>
<p>Typical of RCP activities is the constant presence of Joe Urgo, one of the RCP apparatchiks who infiltrated Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in the early 1970s and took part in the infamous 1971 Kansas City meeting in which plans to assassinate pro-War members of Congress were discussed. Urgo is one of the plants RCP puts among the congregants to steer the conversation, identify potential Party recruits, and harass those who don’t agree – including browbeating a black Gulf War veteran for not being anti-American. He openly speaks of overthrowing the U.S. Constitution and sells CDs of fugitive RCP leader Robert “Chairman Bob” Avakian to Church members.</p>
<p>RCP&#8217;s grip on the Church was flaunted for all to see on <span data-term="goog_1710227954">April 2nd</span>, when their front group World Can&#8217;t Wait (WCW) was sponsored by the Church. The event aimed at encouraging an end to the use of Drones, including as a tool of Counterterrorism in Pakistan, and livestreamed it throughout the country. Members of RCP participated openly in the panel discussion, and the moderator was WCW chairwoman Debra Sweet, who at other venues has been seen taking a copy of Mao&#8217;s Little Red Book out of her bra and waving it aloft. Church money has also been funneled to the Marxist Center for Global Justice in Mexico, which coordinates closely with the Communist Cuban Government.</p>
<p>By contrast, all support for Israel &#8212; even mention of past support for the Jewish state by the Church and former attendees such as Bayard Rustin &#8212; is relentlessly suppressed by the Maoists and their Church Collaborators. And while Capitalism is a constant target of derision (Thomas Piketty&#8217;s book is being pushed at the Church), sources describe a congregational meeting on the church budget where these same loud anti-capitalists</p>
<blockquote><p>repeatedly called for greater returns and yield from their investment portfolios. They wanted to make sure the investment advisors to the Church who managed the Church&#8217;s 11 million dollars receive the &#8220;greatest quarterly yields, and dividends be maintained.&#8221; Indeed, one of the Action for Justice &#8211; a church constituent group &#8211; members, said &#8220;I hope we are using an index fund.&#8221; This particular member is the most outspoken anti-capitalist of all these people, who often couples his declarations of anti-capitalism with his very vocal attacks on American Democracy itself.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Kerry Visits the Place Israel Proved its Tolerance 23 Years Ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 04:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spyridon Mitsotakis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Ethiopian  Jews were saved by brethren they had never seen.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/eth.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225817" alt="eth" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/eth.jpg" width="304" height="202" /></a>It is ironic that, on the heels of the leaking of <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/04/29/idiot-john-kerrys-apartheid-comment-backfires/" target="_blank">his &#8220;apartheid&#8221; comments</a>, Secretary of State John Kerry started May in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was in that very city, in May of 1991, that Israel heroically demonstrated that it was nothing akin to what Kerry declared it to be.</p>
<p>As detailed by the late <i>New York Post</i> editorial page editor, Eric Breindel, on May 30, 1991:</p>
<blockquote><p>The government of Israel, having managed to gather Ethiopian Jews from around that country into the Addis Ababa vicinity over the past ten or so months, airlifted virtually the entire Ethiopian Jewish community to safety in Israel. The operation took place in utter secrecy. More than fourteen thousand Ethiopian Jews&#8211;called Falashas (outsiders)&#8211;were transported, in the course of a three-day period, to a land they had never seen.</p></blockquote>
<p>The reason?</p>
<blockquote><p>The Ethiopian government&#8211;long pro-Soviet and not itself particularly well disposed toward the Falashas&#8211;was collapsing. Rebel forces were eight miles from Addis Ababa when the airlift began.</p>
<p>Ethiopian Jews, of course, are black&#8211;as black as other Ethiopians. (And most Israelis, needless to say, are Caucasian.) But the Falashas, because they identify themselves as Jews, were likely&#8211;in the view of outside analysts, including State Department officials&#8211;to be &#8216;very vulnerable&#8217; in turbulent political circumstances.</p>
<p>This condition, historically, is nothing new for Jews. Many times throughout their history, Jews have been&#8211;to say the least&#8211;&#8221;vulnerable.&#8221; And they&#8217;ve had no safe haven to which to flee.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s different now?</p>
<p>Zionism: the existence of a Jewish state.</p></blockquote>
<p>Breindel was one of the champions of the battle to repeal the UN &#8220;Zionism is racism&#8221; Resolution of 1975. In this column, he took the occasion of this dramatic rescue and threw it in the face of Israel&#8217;s haters:</p>
<blockquote><p>In the end, the Ethiopian Jews&#8211;&#8221;black Jews&#8221; who trace their lineage to King Solomon&#8211;were saved by brethren they had never seen, some of whom risked their lives to bring the Falashas to a land of which they had only dreamed.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s only one word that describes this extraordinary endeavor: Zionism.</p>
<p>Read the news reports, look at the photos, watch the film footage&#8211;one fact is plain: Notwithstanding any UN resolutions, Zionism&#8211;whatever else it may or may not be&#8211;is not &#8220;a form of racism.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>A few months later, the Soviet Union itself collapsed. The UN, unable to withstand the rhetorical onslaught of Breindel and his allies, combined with <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/214697/boltons-bravery/ion-mihai-pacepa" target="_blank">the forcefulness of then-U.S. Assistant Secretary of State John Bolton</a>, repealed the infamous resolution.</p>
<p>However, thanks to Kerry, the battle is now going to have to be re-fought. As the <i>New York Post</i> columnist Benny Avni <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/05/01/kerry-keeps-swinging-for-the-fences-and-missing/" target="_blank">wrote</a> on May 1st:</p>
<blockquote><p>During this week’s UN Security Council debate on the Mideast, no Arab diplomat missed the opportunity to use the word &#8220;apartheid&#8221; to describe Israel. With one closed-door comment, Kerry managed to reverse Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s diplomatic heroics of more than 20 years ago: The &#8220;Zionism is racism&#8221; talk, supposedly eradicated from Turtle Bay in 1991, is back with a vengeance.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Mark Levin&#8217;s &#8216;The Liberty Amendments&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2014 05:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/MarkLevin_LibertyAmendments_Cover__33917.1373489734.251.374.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214750" alt="MarkLevin_LibertyAmendments_Cover__33917.1373489734.251.374" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/MarkLevin_LibertyAmendments_Cover__33917.1373489734.251.374-228x350.png" width="182" height="280" /></a>In her memoir of her childhood, <i>Prague Winter</i>, Madeleine Albright describes what it was like to witness the death of democracy in her native Czechoslovakia. She details how the enemies of democracy were able to elect a plurality of their followers to the parliament and, in coordination with the media that they controlled and the mobs in the streets that they themselves had orchestrated, they confused and divided the majority, which valued liberty. The nation was thus brought into a four-decade era of darkness. Years later, Czechoslovakia’s newly-installed tyrannical rulers in the Czech Communist Party would detail these tactics in an internal report called, “How Parliament Can Play a Revolutionary Part in Transition to Socialism,” which made its way to the West and was published by the United States House of Representatives in the 1960s as a warning to Americans of what can happen when the people are cowed by fear and lured by the siren song of utopia into voluntarily relinquishing their freedom.</p>
<p>The American left has learned the strategies of tyranny all too well. In the run-up to the 2012 election, the misnamed Democratic Party had their union cronies organize the malcontents of society into “Occupy Wall Street” and set them loose on the public. With the media covering up their filth, violence and rapes, “Occupy” distracted Americans from the looming threat of Obamacare and focused attention on “income inequality.” At the same time, the Obama administration turned the IRS into a weapon of political repression and used it against law-abiding citizens to suppress their peaceful voices of dissent.</p>
<p>This is where America stands today: a tyrannical president who is coldly robbing millions of Americans of their healthcare; a renegade judiciary that cannot be relied upon to faithfully follow the word of the Constitution; a power hungry, goose-stepping party that works relentlessly to drag the nation down the road to serfdom; and a castrated opposition party too afraid to fight for their principals. Faced with this bleak outlook, conservative freedom fighter and constitutional lawyer Mark Levin dedicated himself to answering the question callers to his popular radio show ask the most: “What can we do?”</p>
<p>Levin found his answers in Article V of the Constitution.  He explains that “[Article V] provides for two methods of amending the Constitution.” In the first method, “two-thirds of Congress passes a proposed amendment and then forwards it to the state legislatures for possible ratification by three-fourths of the states[.]” The second method “involv[es] the direct application of two-thirds of the state legislatures for a Convention for proposing Amendments, which would thereafter also require a three-fourths ratification vote by the states.” It is the second method he focuses on.</p>
<p>This process, it is important to point out, does <i>not</i> provide for a constitutional convention. Instead, it provides a way to offer Amendments to the Constitution over the heads of our inept political ruling class and at the same time preserves enough roadblocks to prevent a runaway caucus. Levin supplements all eleven of his proposed Amendments with the words of the Framers, showing that each of the ideas is in the tradition of their thinking, and offers examples of how these values are at risk by an ever-expanding and oppressive federal leviathan.</p>
<p>New Yorkers can appreciate and identify with many of the proposals:</p>
<blockquote><p>An Amendment to Establish Term Limits for Members of Congress: New York City had the foresight to put similar term limits on our City Council. After twelve long years we will finally be rid of Democrat Charles Barron, the loudmouthed former Black Panther who used his seat on the City Council to express his racism (“I want to go up to the closest white person and say, ‘You can’t understand this. It’s a black thing’ and then slap him, just for my mental health.”), shill for the world’s worst dictators (as long as they hate America), stunt the economy of his district (when it benefits the unions), and trash “terrorist” Israel and the “Jewish lobby” (comments which, irony of all ironies, earned him the endorsement of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke). This also means that entrenched extremists like Democrat Melissa Mark-Viverito – whose support for Puerto Rican separatism is so extreme that she advocates clemency for FALN terrorists, a group infamous for their deadly bombing campaigns against New York – will not be around forever. This block against entrenchment is good for the City, and it would be good for the Country too.</p>
<p>An Amendment to Limit the Federal Bureaucracy: In the 1960s radical academic Frances Fox Piven devised a scheme whereby the left would flood welfare rolls until “the system” (capitalism) collapses and thereafter build socialism in its wake. The idea took hold in New York and by 1975 the exploding welfare rolls bankrupted the city. In 2010, Piven told the Stalinist Brecht Forum that, “under the radar,” Obama has made appointments to the Federal Bureaucracy that meet her approval. The Bureaucracy wields enormous, and expanding, power over our lives, and the idea that it could be run by a bunch of Frances Fox Pivens should be a perfect enough example to explain why steps should be taken to reign it in:</p>
<p>An Amendment to Protect Private Property: Anyone who lived through Occupy Wall Street can testify to the importance of private property, which the Founding Fathers wisely held to be sacred. Once the malcontents convinced themselves that they had a “right” to “occupy” – or, as the Marxists would say, “expropriate” – the property of others, all semblance of civil society degenerated to the point where, as the <i>New York Post</i> reported at the time, we had “the nauseating spectacle of rapes being reported not to the police, but to the ‘Security Working Group,’ which hands down internal punishments to offenders. According to activist Channing Kehoe, those guilty of assault are punished by having their blankets taken away.” Private property is a central pillar in any decent civilization, and Levin is right to advocate its strengthening.</p></blockquote>
<p>Levin is fond of saying that Washington will not fix itself. It’s true. He has now shown us a way that we the people can save ourselves. We can take matters into our own hands with <i>The Liberty Amendments</i>, or lazily watch as our freedom is snuffed out by the specter of all-consuming centralized government.</p>
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		<title>Reds in Guatemala: 1954 Revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 05:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spyridon Mitsotakis]]></dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/guet.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-213793" alt="guet" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/guet.jpg" width="265" height="265" /></a>Rich Cohen’s <a href="http://www.expat-chronicles.com/2012/10/sam-zemurray-fish-ate-whale-rich-cohen-review/" target="_blank">biography</a> of Sam Zemurray, the legendary businessman who built the United Fruit Company into a regional king-making empire, is, to be blunt, phenomenal. To learn the story of how one man who sold bananas played a decisive role in such a world-changing event as the founding of Israel is well worth <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1250033314/pjmedia-20" target="_blank">the cheap price of this paperback</a> – and that is only one of the fascinating stories presented.</p>
<p>There is, however, one major flaw. It is his treatment of Jacobo Arbenz, the Guatemalan ruler overthrown in 1954 by rebels supported by the CIA. Here, for example, is what Cohen says of the idea of Arbenz as a Communist menace:</p>
<blockquote><p>Never mind that Arbenz claimed no allegiance to the Communist Party; never mind that Arbenz cited Franklin Roosevelt as among his heroes; never mind that many of the Arbenz policies that United Fruit found so offensive were patterned on the New Deal – the signs were evident for those who knew where to look.</p></blockquote>
<p>That last line, by the way, is meant as ridicule for those Americans who looked on Arbenz as a threat. But, ironically, it’s true – and the signs become more and more evident as time goes on.</p>
<p>A few years ago, the release of files from the FBI’s most successful counterintelligence operation of the Cold War confirmed what has been known for a long time, but has been taboo in academic and intellectual circles ever since the rise of the so-called anti-anti-Communist “New Historians.” The files from the operation code-named “Operation SOLO” confirm that the regime of Jacobo Arbenz was indeed Communist-aligned and that it was dependent on and heavily influenced by the Stalinist Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo (PGT, which is what the Guatemalan Communist Party called itself).</p>
<p>Operation SOLO, as <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/08/03/the-fbi-releases-the-operation-solo-files-showing-us-more-truth-about-american-communism/" target="_blank">described</a> by the great Cold War historian Ronald Radosh,</p>
<blockquote><p>“referred to the secret recruitment of two bitter ex-Communists, Morris and Jack Childs. The Bureau urged them to rejoin the Party, and work within its ranks to feed information to them. Before long, Morris Childs became what in effect was the CP’s Secretary of State, traveling around the world to meet top Communist leaders, including those of both the Soviet Union and China. From his perch, he passed on to the U.S. Government all he learned first hand from Moscow’s top leaders.”</p></blockquote>
<p>On March 17, 1959, a report (see <a href="http://vault.fbi.gov/solo/solo-part-06-of/view" target="_blank">here</a>, starting on page 124) was sent to FBI Director J. Edger Hoover recounting “a meeting” – attended by Morris Childs – “between Communist Party-USA delegates to the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and delegates from the Guatemalan Party of Labor, which is the Communist Party of Guatemala”, which “occurred on February 15, 1959, in Moscow, Russia.”</p>
<p>Childs reports that Peter Alvarez, described as the Secretary of the Central Committee of PGT, “said that first of all the bourgeoisie of Guatemala betrayed the cause of democracy. This was illustrated by the betrayal of the army and by the hesitancy and vacillations of the petty bourgeosie around former President ARBANZ (ph), who resigned as President. He said that the Communist Party did not agree with the resignation of ARBANZ. For a long time, ARBANZ was friendly to the Communist Party and its allies. ARBANZ is presently in Uruguay and is still friendly to the Communist Party.” (Spelling and emphasis in the original document)</p>
<p>The Orwellian, Stalinist language in Alvarez’s arguments is impeccable. The PGT’s definition of and dedication to “democracy” can be determined later on in the document when Alvarez proudly states that Communist Party supported the Soviet Union’s brutal suppression of the Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956. A lot has been made of assertion that Jocobo Arbenz was “democratically elected” in 1951 – often overlooking the fact that his opponent was assassinated shortly before the election by a man driving a car belonging to Arbenz’s wife (the late E. Howard Hunt, the CIA spymaster who oversaw the Agency’s operation in Guatemala, <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2004/10/scavenger_hunt.single.html" target="_blank">said</a> of the relation between Arbenz and his wife that “his wife was by far the smarter of the two and sort of told him what to do. She was a convinced communist.”). The assassin himself latter became Arbenz’s private secretary and then head of agrarian reform until the 1954 uprising.</p>
<p>The nature of the Arbenz regime was later exposed by some of the reds themselves. Historian Piero Gleijeses interviewed Arbenz’s widow and high-ranking members of the Guatemalan Communist Party who admitted that Communists influence reached the Guatemalan government at all levels. Carlos Manuel Pellecer, a former top official of the Arbenz government and a former leader of the Guatemalan Communist Party, detailed this relationship further in his memoir <i>Arbenz y Yo</i>. And in 2010,<i>Granma</i>, the official newspaper of Communist Cuba, published an interview  with Rodolfo Romero, a Nicaraguan and founding member of the Stalinist Sandinista National Liberation Front who were among the many Communists who “came knocking on the door of this Central American country [Guatemala]“.</p>
<p>When asked “How did a young Nicaraguan come to lead a communist brigade in Guatemala?” He responded [decoded in brackets]:</p>
<blockquote><p>“The objective of the Nicaraguan exiles [communists] was to train ourselves for overthrowing Somoza, while at the same time contributing to the just democracies [Stalinist dictatorships] of other peoples. … Immediately I made contact with the communist forces in this country [Guatemala]; I even took part in the founding Congress of its party.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Romero told another fascinating story:</p>
<blockquote><p>“It was June 24, 1954 and Guatemala City had just been terribly bombed. Che [Guaverra] arrived at the house of the Augusto César Sandino youth brigade, of which I was the leader, with a letter from a Chilean communist. He asked for Edelberto Torres, another Nicaraguan exile and the son of an eminent anti-Somoza fighter. As Edelberto was in a meeting of the Party, I asked him to come in and wait. … Without much ceremony, because in wartime everything is pressured, I gave him a Czech carbine from the guard going off duty who, incidentally, was not Guatemalan, but the Cuban Jorge Risquet Valdés. ‘And how does one handle this?’ he exclaimed…”.</p></blockquote>
<p>So, in the middle of Guatemala City, an Argentine Communist shows up at a safe house guarded by a Cuban Communist to give a letter from a Chilean Communist to a Nicaraguan Communist and is handed a weapon from Communist Czechoslovakia and is instructed by another Nicaraguan Communist on how to use it – and we are supposed to believe the United States was lying when they said:</p>
<blockquote><p>“From their European base the Communist leaders moved rapidly to build up the military power of their agents in Guatemala. In May a large shipment of arms moved from behind the Iron Curtain into Guatemala. The shipment was sought to be secreted by false manifests and false clearances. Its ostensible destination was changed three times while en route. At the same time, the agents of international communism in Guatemala intensified efforts to penetrate and subvert the neighboring Central American States. They attempted political assassinations and political strikes. They used consular agents for political warfare.” (Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Radio and Television Address of June 30, 1954)</p></blockquote>
<p>If I had to guess, I’d say the United States was more concerned with what was just described than it was with fruit companies (in fact, the United Fruit Company’s monopoly was broken up with new anti-trust laws shortly after the 1954 uprising). It’s sad that the academic well was so poisoned that we could be brought to believe the opposite.</p>
<p>Despite this flaw, however, I recommend Mr. Cohen’s book to anyone interested in great history and great storytelling. And be ready to explain the odd book cover if you start getting funny looks.</p>
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		<title>De Blasio&#8217;s Marxist Romance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 04:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spyridon Mitsotakis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sandinista literacy program admired by NYC's mayoral candidate was a Soviet creation.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/db.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-206521" alt="db" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/db.jpg" width="259" height="194" /></a>The <em>New York Times</em>, in its <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/nyregion/a-mayoral-hopeful-now-de-blasio-was-once-a-young-leftist.html?hp&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">article</a> on New York mayoral candidate Bill De Blasio&#8217;s work in Nicaragua during the Communist Sandinista dictatorship, reports that: &#8220;To this day, he speaks admiringly of the Sandinistas’ campaign, noting advances in literacy and health care.&#8221; The Sandinistas&#8217; literacy campaign was in fact a creation of the Soviet Union, according to a <a href="http://www.bukovsky-archives.net/pdfs/com-com/ct211-80.pdf" target="_blank">document</a> secretly copied from the Kremlin&#8217;s archives by dissident Vladimir Bukovsky.</p>
<p>The May 20, 1980 document, labeled &#8220;Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Central Committee&#8221; and &#8220;Top Secret,&#8221; is headlined: &#8220;Help to Nicaragua regarding the liquidation of illiteracy.&#8221;</p>
<p>The orders, according to a translation provided to FrontpageMag, were:</p>
<blockquote><p>I. Ministry of Education of the USSR together with the Department of Economic Cooperation, send in 1980-1981 to Nicaragua 15 instructors/administrators who have experience of foreign work and speaks Spanish for organization of work for liquidation of illiteracy.</p>
<p>Establish salary in foreign currency according to 5th group of salary ranks for Soviet specialist working abroad, and instructor by 6th group.</p>
<p>2. Ministry of Trade of the USSR provide funding to buy notebooks and pencils &#8212; 500,000 units in the second and third quarters and 500,000 units in the fourth quarter of 1980 as a donation.</p>
<p>The Ministry of Paper Production to produce for delivery to Nicaragua the mentioned 500,000 units of notebooks and pencils.</p>
<p>3. The Ministry of Radio to prepare and deliver in 1980 as a donation to Nicaragua the 1,000 radio transistors with the trademark &#8220;Sokol&#8221; in tropical design.</p>
<p>4. The Ministry of Foreign Trade provide delivery to Nicaragua of pencils, notebooks and radio transistors that were mentioned in Paragraph 2 and 3 of this document, and Ministry of Air Transportation deliver to Nicaragua the specialists and goods, mentioned in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 of this document, delivery will be made by Airflot by route of Moscow &#8211; Managua with payment in Soviet rubles.</p>
<p>5. Expenses related to the production and delivery of notebooks, pencils and radio transistors as well as salaries of 15 instructors for the length of 1 year including the Ruble equivalent of foreign currency, allocate to the budget of the USSR as charity help to foreign states, and in foreign currency at the expense of the foreign fund for the Department of Economic Cooperation.</p>
<p>6. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR should inform the government of Nicaragua about measure taken by Soviet Union in helping the Nicaraguan in implementation of liquidation of illiteracy.</p></blockquote>
<p>It is signed: &#8220;The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR &#8211; A. Kosygin.&#8221;</p>
<p>There was nothing benign about what the Communists were doing. According to Humberto Belli, a former Sandinista who was in charge of the editorial page of <em>La Prensa</em> before turning against the repressive regime, it was <a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/thf_media/1987/pdf/bg558.pdf" target="_blank">known</a> back in the 1980s that:</p>
<blockquote><p>Nicaragua&#8217;s educational system under the Sandinistas was designed to equate Western-style democracy and capitalist economic systems with evil U.S. &#8220;imperialism&#8221; while portraying Soviet-style Marxism-Leninism as the benefactor of mankind. The Sandinista Ministry of Education, for example, made it mandatory for all high school students to study Marx&#8217;s theory of dialectical materialism, which is officially regarded as the &#8220;basis of all scientific endeavor.&#8221; The Sandinistas stated that one of the main objectives of their &#8220;new education&#8221; was &#8220;to form new generations in the values and principles of the Sandinista people&#8217;s revolution.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>De Blasio&#8217;s enthusiasm for the Soviet-created education program stands in stark contrast to his opposition to the charter schools relied upon by the city&#8217;s poor for a quality education, which would otherwise be unavailable to those trapped in the city&#8217;s failing, unionized school system. The editors of the <em>New York Post</em> <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/09/27/de-blasio-using-public-office-to-help-out-friends/" target="_blank">report</a> that De Blasio, in a move backed by the city&#8217;s powerful teachers unions, is &#8220;threatening to end co-location. That’s the practice of giving charters — which are public schools, remember — unused space in other school buildings, because charters get no capital funds to build. End co-location, and you will kill many charters.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>In Defense of Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 04:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spyridon Mitsotakis]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pac.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-203500" alt="pac" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pac-232x350.jpeg" width="232" height="350" /></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ion-Mihai-Pacepa/e/B001JS0PBQ"><em>Disinformation</em></a>, a new book by Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the one-time Romanian spy chief turned highest Soviet-Bloc official ever to defect to the United States, was subject to a bizarre <a href="http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/disinformation-and-a-dubious-source/" target="_blank">attack</a> in the <em>National Catholic Register</em>.  The author of the article, Victor Gaetan, writes what amounts to a rehash of the criticisms of Pacepa’s 2007 article, “<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/219739/moscows-assault-vatican/ion-mihai-pacepa" target="_blank">Moscow’s Assault on the Vatican,</a>” combines it with the latest slanders against Pacepa from the remnants of Nicolae Ceausescu’s entourage, and presents it as a review of the book.</p>
<p><em>Disinformation</em> is an account of how the Soviet Union used lies to attack its enemies, a tactic known as <em>dezinformatsiya</em>.  A key part of this is “framing,” the practice of changing someone or something’s past to suit the present (an example given in the book was the <em>Washington Post</em>&#8216;s fake Mitt Romney <a href="http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2012/05/10/washington-post-story-on-romney-begins-to-unravel/">hair-cutting</a> bully story, which was meant to frame the former presidential candidate as a nasty homophobe).  The primary case study provided in the book is the campaign to discredit Pope Pius XII – providing not only a well-documented defense of the wartime Pope, but an equally well-documented exposé of his accusers (a trail of lies leading right back to the Kremlin).</p>
<p>Gaetan, however, writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>An oddity about <em>Disinformation</em> is its authorship. Two authors are listed, but only one narrates. Pacepa is an intensely controversial former communist official whose defection to the United States in 1978 is still not well understood. Pacepa, 84, never appears in public, won’t answer questions by phone and responds to email through third parties, one of whom told me, “I don’t know if he even exists!”</p></blockquote>
<p>I can confirm that Pacepa is indeed elusive. Why? Because there are people trying to hunt him down. After his defection, Pacepa’s assassination became top priority, with death squads deployed and figures like Carlos the Jackal, Yassir Arafat and Muammar Qaddafi routinely being discovered as trying to locate him.  Lt. Gen Iulian Vlad – who Ceausescu placed in charge of assassinating Pacepa – is still a free man in Romania and walks the streets with impunity.  And yes, Pacepa does exist – see, for example, Congressman Frank Wolf’s autobiograghy <em>Prisoner of Conscience</em>.</p>
<p>Gaetan then goes on to attack Pacepa&#8217;s 2007 article:</p>
<blockquote><p>In the article “Moscow’s Assault on the Vatican,” published in 2007, Pacepa claimed he convinced legendary Vatican diplomat Msgr. Agostino Casaroli — later cardinal and secretary of state under Pope John Paul II — to let three Romanian agents, posing as priests, peruse the papal archives.</p>
<p>Under scrutiny, Pacepa’s story began to unravel, with doubts expressed by historians and Vatican experts.</p>
<p>Then the reason Pacepa claimed to have credibility with the Vatican collapsed: He said he had engineered a “spy trade” in 1959, exchanging jailed Romanian Archbishop Augustin Pacha for two spies caught in West Germany. But Archbishop Ioan Robu of Bucharest showed photos of the bishop’s 1954 crypt, explaining the heroic man was already dead when Pacepa claimed to have liberated him.</p></blockquote>
<p>He left out that many of the errors the article was criticized for have been corrected in the book.  For example, it is noted that: “In his NRO article, <em>Moscow’s Assault on the Vatican</em>, Pacepa mistakenly stated that Archbishop Augustin Pacha was exchanged for the two DIE officers. In fact, Archbishop Pacha was released from jail but died in Romania shortly thereafter.” And he names the four Catholics who were swapped: Msgr. Josef Nischback, rector of the Catholic Cathedral in Timisoara; Dr. theol. Franz Kräuter, archivist of the Catholic diocese of Timisoara; Sr. Hildegardis Wulff, co-founder of the Benedictine order of St. Lioba, who had dedicated her life to working with Volksdeutsche women in Romania; and Sr. Patricia Zimmermann.</p>
<p>Gaetan then really drops the ball:</p>
<blockquote><p>One of the most startling claims Pacepa makes, in the article and the book, is that, in a one-on-one meeting in Geneva, Msgr. Casaroli agreed “in principle” to give Romania a $1-billion, interest-free loan in exchange for restoring full diplomatic relations with the Vatican — relations that had dramatically ruptured in 1950, when Romania expelled the apostolic nuncio.</p></blockquote>
<p>He then spends the next few paragraphs attacking this claim.  There is one problem – the book never says that. Gaetan just built a straw man, and proceeded to attack it.  Here is what the book actually says about the topic:</p>
<blockquote><p>I had arranged a spy exchange the year before, but now the Soviet bloc needed a new cover story. It was decided that if Romania were to seek a loan from the Vatican, that would provide a possible explanation for why that nation was changing its position vis-à-vis the Holy See.  I was instructed to tell Casaroli that Romania was ready to restore diplomatic relations with the Holy See in exchange for access to its archives and a one-billion-dollar, interest-free loan.  I was also instructed to tell the Vatican that Romania needed access to the archives in order to find historical roots that would help the Romanian government publicly justify its change of heart toward the Holy See. Of course, this was simply a ploy. Ceausescu had no intention of restoring diplomatic relations with the Holy See.</p>
<p>The loan would, of course, have been welcome, but it was never a true aim. Moscow just wanted to open Vatican doors for a few DIE [Romanian Intelligence] agents. Suggesting that Romania needed money provided a “cover” motivation for the proposal. The Vatican did agree to discuss the loan—although it was never made—and also agreed to what seemed a simple request: to allow three Romanian priests to do some research in Vatican archives. With that agreement, I had accomplished my part of the plan. …</p>
<p>[For the operation], the DIE chose three priests who were also co-opted agents. There they were given access to certain Vatican archives. … The DIE agents secretly photographed some unimportant documents, and the DIE sent the films to the KGB via special courier.  The documents were not incriminating; they were mainly things like press reports and transcripts of unclassified meetings and speeches, couched in the routine kind of diplomatic language one would expect to find in such material. Nevertheless, the KGB kept asking for more. Even if these documents did not actually provide any compromising information on Pius XII, the insinuation that his new image was based on “original Vatican documents” would dramatically improve the credibility of the whole framing operation.</p></blockquote>
<p>Pacepa writes that after his 2007 article was published, researchers in the archives of the Communist-era Romanian Secret Police were able to identify one of the three spies: Fr. Francisc Iosif Pal, SJ.  “Nothing that Pal or the other DIE agents found in Vatican archives could be used as a basis for fabricating believable evidence that made Pius seem sympathetic to Hitler’s regime or unconcerned about the Jews.”</p>
<p>Gaetan complains: “Overall, Disinformation is aggressively anti-Russian. Pacepa makes no distinction between the Soviet era and the post-communist one. Pacepa’s caustic description of Russia and the Orthodox Church today directly contradicts Vatican policy.”  Pacepa, of coarse, has good reason to be distrustful of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church. Upon taking power, Putin appointed his “former” KGB comrades to the most government posts. Russia today is nothing short of a KGB empire. And the patriarch of the Church is “Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk (a secret member of the KGB codenamed &#8216;Mikhaylov&#8217;).” His background:  “In 1971, the KGB had sent Kirill to Geneva as a representative of the Russian Orthodox Church to that Soviet propaganda machine, the World Council of Churches. In 1975, the KGB infiltrated him into the Central Committee of the WCC, which had become a Kremlin pawn. In 1989 the KGB appointed him chairman of the Russian patriarchate’s foreign relations as well. He still held those positions when he was elected patriarch.”</p>
<p>But the most bizarre part of the review is what is used to attack Pacepa himself. Gaetan writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>Larry Watts, an American historian and intelligence expert who advised the post-communist Romanian government on how to assert civilian control over its spy agencies (and bring them into NATO compliance), published a major study of the Romanian-Soviet relationship, <em>With Friends Like These: The Soviet Bloc’s Clandestine War Against Romania</em>, in 2010 based on extensive research in the East German, Soviet and Romanian archives.</p>
<p>Watts concludes that Pacepa must have been a KGB spy, in large part for the ways he tried to disrupt the U.S.-Romanian relationship when he defected to the United States in 1978, peddling the line that Romania was a Trojan horse for Soviet interests.</p>
<p>Watts’ hypothesis about Pacepa was received as a bombshell in Romania, mainly because it means he is a traitor: A Soviet agent working in Romania, especially after 1958, would be directing events against Romania’s preferences and interests.</p></blockquote>
<p>Mr. Gaetan is not telling the truth about who Larry Watts is and how he functions.</p>
<p>Watts, an American, traveled to Romania in 1980 and, for unknown reasons, began working with Ceausescu’s regime.  Not long after Ceausescu was overthrown in December 1989, Watts became an advisor to the director of foreign intelligence for the government of Ion Illiescu. According to Romanian media reports in the 1990s, Iliescu was recruited into the KGB by &#8220;Professor&#8221; Igor Botnarichuk while a student at the Moscow Engineering Institute in the 1950s, his code name was IANCU and his code number was D-KGB-90519. Furthermore, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/jamie-glazov/symposium-secrets-of-communism%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Ccollapse%E2%80%9D/print/" target="_blank">according</a> to documentation obtained by Russian dissidents Vlatimir Bukovsky and Pavel Stroilov and Polish historian Adam Burakowski, Iliescu acted on Moscow’s behalf to hijack the popular anti-communist Romanian revolution of 1989 and kept Romania functioning as a Kremlin satellite until the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.</p>
<p>It was during this time that Watts wrote <em>Romanian Cassandra: Ion Antonescu and the Struggle for Reform, 1916–1941</em> (1993).  This book was part of a semi-official campaign to rehabilitate the Nazi-puppet dictator Ion Antonescu. Watts’ way of approaching his topic is not only to ignore every smoking gun document proving Antonescu’s participation in the Holocaust, but to obscure the facts with a mass of irrelevant documents. Irina Livezeanu of the University of Pittsburgh aptly explains Watts&#8217; modus operandi: &#8220;[He operates] less by means of clear, logical arguments and a judicious use of evidence, than through bold revisionist assertions and a bewildering, almost haphazard, array of partial and inconclusive evidence. &#8230; In support of his theses, he deploys what appears to be thick documentation, but much of this turns out to be undigested or irrelevant material in terms of the main lines of argument, which are themselves less than clear.” [<em>Slavic Review</em>, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 673-674.]</p>
<p>Thus, like in <em>Romanian Cassandra</em>, in <em>With Friends Like These</em>, Watts drones on endlessly, sighting a multitude of confusing documents, then tells the bewildered reader that it somehow proves his point.  Innuendo, however, is not the same as truth.  There is nothing in that book showing Pacepa had been a KGB agent.  And the claims of a pro-American, anti-Soviet Ceausescu are easily refutable by simply referring to an extraordinary well-written and researched – and very readable – 68-page 2010 thesis of Georgetown University student Rodica Eliza Gheorghe titled <a href="http://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/553496/gheorgheRodica.pdf?sequence=1" target="_blank">“The Romanian Intelligence Services During The Cold War: How Small Powers Can Sometimes Be Strong,</a>&#8221; available at <a href="http://repository.library.georgetown.edu" target="_blank">repository.library.georgetown.<wbr />edu</a>.  Ironic, isn’t it – the stooge of a KGB stooge is calling a man who risked his life to fight the KGB’s stooges a KGB stooge.  To reiterate Chico Marx’s question: “Who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?”</p>
<p>I don’t know what drove Mr. Gaetan to write this attack, but it is very misguided.  I hope he will reconsider his view of Pacepa’s extraordinary book.</p>
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		<title>Freedom and Kate Upton’s Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/kate-upton.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-193603" alt="kate-upton" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/kate-upton-450x281.jpg" width="315" height="197" /></a>What are Kate Upton’s politics?  Who knows.  She keeps it to herself.  It is an unnoticed part of her appeal – the fact that one can be a fan of her without having to be wary of some agenda being pushed, or be insulted by arrogant political proselytizing and condescension, is something that is tremendously yet unconsciously appreciated.  She is as decent and classy as she is beautiful.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, while it is expected that she would have critics (who doesn’t?), her detractors have proven time and again to be her antithesis.  They reveal themselves to be absolute losers, and slime balls to their core.  And last week, in which she turned 21, they proved it once again.  By the simple fact of having <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/kate-upton-john-boehner-birthday-song.html" target="_blank">bumped</a> into her uncle, Michigan Congressman Fred Upton, and some of his Republican colleagues in New York, she was accused by <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/kate-upton-celebrates-21-birthday-bash-article-1.1369346?comment=true" target="_blank">anonymous left-wing commenters</a> of a) racism; b) being airheaded; c) not caring about the poor; and other things that shall go unmentioned.  (Ironically, these are – literally – the same morons who destroyed her home state of Michigan.)</p>
<p>But to celebrate her birthday is more than an appreciation of her beauty and grace. It is also a celebration of freedom – because hundreds of millions of people owe their freedom to the Upton family.</p>
<p>The many examples of how the Uptons so greatly contributed to advancement of liberty are too numerous to chronicle in one article. But I wish to highlight just one of the most dramatic – and unexpected – examples.</p>
<p>In what was, as William Safire <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/opinion/24safire.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">wrote</a>, “one of the great confrontational moments of the cold war … Nikita Khrushchev, bombastic anti-capitalist leader of the Soviet Union, and Richard Nixon, vice president of the United States with the reputation of a hard-line anti-communist, came to rhetorical grips” in the famous “Kitchen Debate” at the 1959 American exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow.  Standing inside of a model American kitchen, the Soviet dictator resorted to the debating tactic of screaming at Vice President Nixon about how much better Soviet Communism was than American Capitalism, and all Nixon had to do to win the argument was point to a Washing Machine, the <a href="http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2012/02/13/wait-kate-uptons-great-grandfather-invented-the-washing-machine/" target="_blank">invention</a> of Frederick Upton 50 years before, to show how much better our system was for the common person.  The Russians who witnessed this spread the news about it throughout the Soviet Union and <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/print/1997-03-31/news/ls-43810_1_iron-curtain" target="_blank">fueled 30 years of discontent</a> over the fact that their Communist system couldn’t produce helpful things like that – they were only able to produce missiles and guns – and they kept demanding change, which is the equivalent of a death sentence to Communist governments.</p>
<p>This is not to say that Frederick Upton, great grandfather of Kate Upton, invented the Washing Machine in 1911 for the purpose of undermining the Soviet Union (which wouldn’t even come into existence for another six years).  The man was simply doing what Americans do: building a product that makes life easier, and selling to those who wanted it.  It was the “invisible hand” of Adam Smith at work.  It just so happened that with this product, Smith’s “invisible hand” would one day be able to reach out and slowly strangle the ghost of Karl Marx.</p>
<p>The collapse of the Soviet Union happened for many reasons – especially once the fight was taken to them by Ronald Reagan (in who’s administration the other Fred Upton, Kate’s uncle, served) – but the fact that life was so demonstrably better in the West served to undercut there claim to their creation of a “worker’s paradise..  Freedom inspires genius, and genius inspires innovation, and innovation inspires a better life.  It’s what America is all about.</p>
<p>Kate herself contributes to this tradition.  When she goes to other places around the world, she becomes a representative of what our society really is – that we are more than what they see and read about coming out of Washington.  That we the people are really, really, awesome.</p>
<p>So three cheers to Kate and her family.  You make us proud.  And ignore the idiot critics – nothing defeats them more than when they see you succeed.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflections on a homage to tyranny. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/spyridon-mitsotakis/the-ghosts-of-hungarian-communism-haunt-u-s/hungary1956/" rel="attachment wp-att-149199"><img class=" wp-image-149199 alignleft" title="Hungary1956" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Hungary1956.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="213" /></a>Thomas Peterffy, who in 1965 fled Communist Hungary, recently put out <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/10/12/private_citizen_buys_airtime_to_do_job_mainstream_media_refuses_to_do">an ad</a> stating:</p>
<blockquote><p>I grew up in a socialist country, and I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom, no pride in achievement. The nation became poorer and poorer, and that&#8217;s what I see happening here. As a young boy I was fantasizing about one day going to America, making a success of myself, the American dream. America&#8217;s wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with bad-mouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy. Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer, but the poor will also be poorer. People lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs. I think this is a very slippery slope. It seems like people don&#8217;t learn from the past. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m voting Republican and putting this ad on television.</p></blockquote>
<p>Peterffy is more on the mark than he knows. This year just happens to be the 100<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the birth of Janos Kadar, the Communist dictator whose regime Mr. Peterffy had escaped from decades ago. To mark the occasion, the Central Committee of the Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party (formally knows as Hungarian Socialist Workers&#8217; Party, the Party Kadar, which ruled Hungary with an iron fist) has issued <a href=" http://munkaspart.hu/english/754.html">a statement</a> celebrating “the heritage of Janos Kadar.” At one point this homage to tyranny proclaims:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Kadar-era, the decades of socialism were the most successful period of Hungary in the 20th century. Everybody could work. All people had acceptable standard of living and one had to work for it only 8 hours a day. Nobody could become a billionaire but the majority of the people had acceptable life, secure present and calculable future.</p></blockquote>
<p>This statement is an almost perfect reflection of the ideals of our Democratic Party. No greater confirmation of Mr. Peterffy’s warning could have been as stark as the words of Hungarian Communism’s shadow.</p>
<p>It is rare to find such a concrete example of how the same subject (in this case a time period) is seen both through the eyes of a man who truly values freedom and in the appeals of the siren song of those who love tyranny.</p>
<p><em>Spyridon Mitsotakis is a history student at New York University studying the Cold War and a research assistant to Professor Paul Kengor. Professor Kengor dedicated his latest bestselling book, </em>The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obamas Mentor<em>, to Spyridon in appreciation of the invaluable assistance he provided that made the book possible.</em></p>
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		<title>Red and Black Tragedy, Part II</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the Communist Party exploited and led African-Americans to the slaughter.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/communismaa1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-140893" title="communismaa" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/communismaa1.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="474" /></a><strong>Editor’s note: The following is a background report to Paul Kengor’s <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/the-communist-frank-marshall-davis-the-untold-story-of-barack-obama%E2%80%99s-mentor/"><em>The Communist. Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor</em></a>. It is written by <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/the-communist-frank-marshall-davis-the-untold-story-of-barack-obama%E2%80%99s-mentor/">Spyridon Mitsotakis</a>, who is Professor Kengor’s research assistant. To see Part I, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/spyridon-mitsotakis/red-and-black-tragedy/">click here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>In the early 1930s, the Communist Party’s outreach toward African Americans was reaching its decade long peak. Across the South, the Party was leading a struggle against the Jim Crow system, best exemplified by their defense of nine African Americans accused (based on less-than-reliable evidence) of raping two white women on a train to Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931. On the outside, and to the ordinary Communist Party member, the Party’s anti-Jim Crow activities of the 1930s appeared noble. But the real powers behind the Communist Party had a more sinister goal. Manning Johnson, who had been a member of the Communist Party for ten years and who had served on its National Committee for three, testified:</p>
<blockquote><p>No. 3 [i.e., the third reason why Johnson left the Party] was the insincerity of the Communists in the Scottsboro case. We were constantly told by James W. Ford and others that we were not interested in saving the lives of the &#8220;damn&#8221; Scottsboro boys; that we were interested in using the Scottsboro case to penetrate Negro churches and civic organizations which we could not reach except for a cause of that kind, and in the course of the development of this campaign to raise the slogans of the Communist Party, and during our contacts with these large masses of Negroes to seek out the best elements among them and recruit them into the party.</p>
<p>Anybody who did not want to carry out that particular line was considered an opportunist. It was around this issue we had some sharp differences, and some very good people who had come into the movement because of sincerity were expelled from the party.</p></blockquote>
<p>In fact, the Communists’ involvement in the Scottsboro case was spearheaded by a Party activist named Sol Auerbach (also known by his Party name – James S. Allen), who had spent time in the Soviet Union, had traveled to the South for the purpose of starting a Party newspaper and was an advocate of the Party’s southern African American separatist strategy. And it was the Comintern who used its propaganda arm to make the Scottsboro Case an international spectacle, as was discovered in the Comintern archives after the collapse of the Soviet Union. There is no evidence that the Moscow-based Communist International cared about the fate of the Scottsboro defendants beyond propaganda purposes. In 2003, a historian, Dan Flynn, wrote of the Communist Party’s involvement in the Scottsboro case: “[I]n reality the Communists merely used the embattled youngsters. Richard Gid Powers points out in <em>Not Without Honor</em> that the Communists had raised $250,000 for the Scottsboro Boys’ defense, but had put-up a scant $12,000 for two appeals.”</p>
<p>But the campaign did attract a number of blacks to the Communist Party, and that influence lingers to this day. Barack Obama’s mentor Frank Marshall Davis credited the Scottsboro campaign for bringing him to Communism. In addition to this, Angela Davis, a former leading member of the Communist Party, in an April 15, 2009 interview conducted by Julian Bond as part of the NAACP’s “Explorations in Black Leadership” series, explained that her mother “was a member of the Southern Negro Youth Congress,” an organization completely under the control of the Communist Party and “was involved in the campaign to free the Scottsboro Nine. And as a child, I had the opportunity to spend time with black communists who had come to Birmingham to help organize there, to help organize the Southern Negro Youth Congress.” When asked by Bond “if your mother’s political activity engaged you in some sort of way,” Angela Davis replied: “Well, yes … My parents knew who was a member of the Communist Party and who was underground so I remember this kind of fear of the FBI and I also remember being— learning that you never talked to the FBI. When I was six years old, if they asked me any questions, you know, don’t answer at all.”</p>
<p>That the NAACP would be honoring Angela Davis shows how much that organization has changed since it helped lead the Civil Rights movement under the anti-Communist leadership of Roy Wilkins – a time of the organization’s greatest accomplishments, such as its victory in <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em>. The difference in attitude can be seen in a letter Wilkins wrote to the Communist Party’s William Patterson (then head of the Communist-front “Civil Rights Congress”) in 1949:</p>
<blockquote><p>We remember the Scottsboro case and our experience there with the (Communist front) International Labor Defense, one of the predecessors of the Civil Rights Congress. We remember that the present Civil Rights Congress is composed of the remnants of the ILD and other groups. We remember that in the Scottsboro case, the NAACP was subjected to the most unprincipled vilification. We remember the campaign of slander in the <em>Daily Worker</em>. We remember the leaflets and the speakers and the whole unspeakable machinery that was turned loose upon all those who did not embrace the &#8220;unity&#8221; policy as announced by the communists.</p>
<p>We want none of that unity today.</p>
<p>We of the NAACP remember that during the war when Negro Americans were fighting for jobs on the home front and fighting for decent treatment in the armed services we could get no help from the organizations on the extreme Left. They abandoned the fight for Negro rights on the grounds that such a campaign would &#8220;interfere with the war effort.&#8221; As soon as Russia was attacked by Germany they dropped the Negro question and concentrated all effort in support of the war in order to help the Soviet Union. During the war years the disciples of the extreme left sounded very much like the worst of the Negro-hating Southerners.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Communist Party’s outreach to African Americans in the 1930s were indeed dealt a serious blow by the Party’s subservience to the Soviet Union during the radical shift in policy during the Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939-1941) and a second radical shift once the Germans attacked the Soviets (mid-1941). Now the Party, which had spent much of the 1930s comparing the southern United States to Nazi Germany, was put in a position of defending the Soviet Union’s collaboration and attacking those who advocated support for anti-fascist forces and nations as “imperialists” – and pushing the line that black Americans’ true enemy is American capitalism.  Then all those efforts aimed at fighting Jim Crow were dropped once the Germans invaded the USSR because, as Party leader Earl Browder admitted in 1945, the Party’s policy in 1942 became: “the struggle for Negro rights must be postponed till after the war” to focus on supporting the war effort.</p>
<p>The single most visible Black American Communist to trumpet the Soviet Union’s cause was Paul Robeson. Harvey Klehr, reviewing the definitive biography of Robeson by Martin Duberman writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>In the early 1930s Robeson suddenly swung to the political Left. Duberman, linking his new militancy to the collapse of a three-year romance with a white Englishwoman, speculates that her decision to end the relationship reinforced Robeson’s belief that the white, Western world would always reject him. Be that as it may, in 1934 Robeson angrily announced that the &#8220;modern white American&#8221; was a &#8220;member of the lowest form of civilization in the world today,&#8221; and in the same year he accepted an invitation to the Soviet Union. Once there, he was smitten: &#8220;Nights at the theater and opera, long talks with [the director Sergei] Eisenstein, gala banquets, private screenings, trips to hospitals, children’s centers, factories . . . all in the context of a warm embrace.&#8221; Convinced that the Soviet Union had abolished racial prejudice, Robeson felt, he said, &#8220;like a human being for the first time since I grew up.&#8221; It was the start of a lifelong romance.</p></blockquote>
<p>As Ronald Radosh recounts in his memoir <em>Commies:</em></p>
<blockquote><p>By the onset of the Cold War, Robeson&#8217;s career had been cut short, as the singer squandered his early success by dedicating himself relentlessly to a vigorous defense of the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin. In particular, his statement at a Soviet-sponsored &#8220;peace congress&#8221; in Europe, that American Negroes would not fight on their own country&#8217;s side in a war between the United States and the Soviet Union, brought down the wrath of the nation upon him. The great baseball hero Jackie Robinson reluctantly appeared in public before the House Committee on Un-American Activities to let it be known that he differed strongly with Robeson, and from that point on, the singer&#8217;s career was all downhill. Of course, that meant that Robeson would become an even greater hero of the Communist Left in America, who took him to their heart and proclaimed him the nation&#8217;s single greatest public figure.</p></blockquote>
<p>While Robeson insisted black Americans would never fight for America against the Soviet Union, he actively supported those Americans, black and white, who fought for the Comintern. In an interview with the anti-American network Democracy Now!, Marxist singer Harry Belafonte recounted how “Paul Robeson, who was a mentor and a man for whom I had enormous love and admiration … went everywhere there was the opportunity to be heard, whether it was going into Spain to sing during the great Spanish revolutionary war in ’30s, whether it was going to England.”</p>
<p>In the mid-to-late 1930s, the Communist Party misled black Communists to willingly give life and limb for a cause they misunderstood – a misunderstanding resulting from an intricate web of lies and two-faced schemes woven together by the Soviet Union. One of the great rallying cries of revolutionary Pan-Africanist and Black Nationalist movements was to assist Ethiopia, which at that time was the only independent black African nation to resist the invasion it suffered at the hands of Fascist Italy. The Soviet Union and its surrogate organizations joined in these calls to defend Ethiopia – while at the same time the Soviets continued selling vital war materials to Italy, which were promptly put to use by the fascist conquerors. That did not stop the Communists from exploiting this rally cry to draw blacks into the Party and its causes – including leading their black “comrades” toward joining millions of others in suffering one of the most infamous betrayals of modern times. On July 25, 1936, the Spanish Republic, besieged by a military rebellion led by the Italy-supported General Francisco Franco, asked the Soviet Union for assistance.</p>
<p>The response was an effort by the Comintern to recruit volunteers from Communist Parties around the world to go to Spain and fight. One of the recruiting tools the Communist Party USA used to recruit more than 80 blacks to join the thousands of Americans who travelled to fight in Spain was to present the Spanish Civil War as an extension of the Italian war in Ethiopia, adopting, in early 1937, a slogan of: “Ethiopia’s fate is at stake on the battlefields of Spain.” Ultimately, the Soviet Union was able to have its agent take control of the Spanish army – resulting in a Stalinist police-state which expended most of its energy hunting down other non-communist left-wing groups then fighting Franco. In the meantime, Stalin’s agents pilfered Spain’s gold reserves in exchange for insufficient arms for the Spanish government forces and its allies – who were then sent to the front to meet certain death and defeat like cattle led to the slaughter. Weakened from within, the Spanish republic fell to Franco. Stalin’s betrayal of Spain has been well documented with material from the Comintern archives. So, not only did the Soviet Union deceivingly draw these black Americans into Communism by decrying an atrocity in Ethiopia that the Soviets themselves assisted in, but the Soviets then drew them into a battle in Spain, where they betrayed Spain as well, making the bloodshed of these black Americans in vain. And Robeson was a key participant in that deceit.</p>
<p>“It would take almost a half century more, after Robeson&#8217;s death,” Dr. Paul Kengor wrote in the <em>American Spectator</em>, “for Communist Party USA to publicly concede the obvious: Paul Robeson had been a longtime secret member.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>In May 1998, the centennial of Robeson&#8217;s birth, longtime CPUSA head Gus Hall finally, proudly revealed the truth. In this birthday tribute to &#8220;Comrade Paul,&#8221; Hall and CPUSA came bearing gifts. &#8220;We have a birthday present for Paul that no one else can give,&#8221; said Hall, &#8220;the full truth and nothing but the truth.&#8221; And what&#8217;s that truth? &#8220;Paul was a proud member of the Communist Party USA,&#8221; stated Hall unequivocally. Paul had been a man of communist &#8220;conviction.&#8221; This was &#8220;an indelible fact of Paul&#8217;s life,&#8221; in &#8220;every way, every day of his adult life.&#8221; He &#8220;never forgot he was a Communist.&#8221; A teary-eyed Hall recalled that his own most precious moments with Paul were when I met with him to accept his dues and renew his yearly membership in the CPUSA.</p></blockquote>
<p>Professor Harvey Klehr, one of the world’s leading scholars on American Communism, stated in an interview that the Communist Party was, for the most part, too busy defending itself from government scrutiny in the 1940s and 1950s to make as forceful an effort to influence black Americans as they had during the thirties. But among the most significant exceptions was that of Hunter Pitts &#8220;Jack&#8221; O’Dell. Having come to Communism in the 1940s, by the 1950s O’Dell became one of the Party’s leading activists in the South. Morris Childs, a leading member of the Communist Party and secretly an FBI agent, reported on a discussion that took place in a February 10, 1959 meeting during the &#8220;Twenty-first Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union&#8221; between some of the leaders of the Soviet Union, among them Mikhail Suslov and a CPUSA delegation consisting of Morris Childs and a black Communist Party leader named James Jackson.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Communist Party’s policy toward African-Americans revealed.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/communismaa.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-139682" title="communismaa" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/communismaa.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="592" /></a><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: The following is a background report to Paul Kengor’s <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/the-communist-frank-marshall-davis-the-untold-story-of-barack-obama%E2%80%99s-mentor/"><em>The Communist.</em><em> Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama&#8217;s Mentor</em></a>. It is written by <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/the-communist-frank-marshall-davis-the-untold-story-of-barack-obama%E2%80%99s-mentor/">Spyridon Mitsotakis</a>, who is Professor Kengor’s research assistant. To see Part II, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/spyridon-mitsotakis/red-and-black-tragedy-part-ii/">click here</a>.<br />
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<p>Despite the rhetoric, there are few, if any, ideological movements that have caused more racism, ethnic repression and ethnic bloodshed than Communism – going all the way back to Karl Marx himself. Not long before he produced the <em>Communist Manifesto</em>, Marx expressed his support for “the slavery of the Blacks” in a letter to a Russian acquaintance:</p>
<blockquote><p>There is no need for me to speak either of the good or of the bad aspects of freedom. As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of slavery. I do not mean indirect slavery, the slavery of proletariat; I mean direct slavery, the slavery of the Blacks in Surinam, in Brazil, in the southern regions of North America.</p>
<p>Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. Without slavery there would be no cotton, without cotton there would be no modern industry. It is slavery which has given value to the colonies, it is the colonies which have created world trade, and world trade is the necessary condition for large-scale machine industry. Consequently, prior to the slave trade, the colonies sent very few products to the Old World, and did not noticeably change the face of the world. Slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance. Without slavery, North America, the most progressive nation, would be transformed into a patriarchal country. Only wipe North America off the map and you will get anarchy, the complete decay of trade and modern civilization. But to do away with slavery would be to wipe America off the map. Being an economic category, slavery has existed in all nations since the beginning of the world. All that modern nations have achieved is to disguise slavery at home and import it openly into the New World.</p></blockquote>
<p>As is usually the case with Marx, his economic analysis is completely backward. As Thomas Sowell points out, societies with forced labor create an atmosphere where hard work is looked down upon, thereby ruining a society’s potential by stigmatizing the work necessary to realize that potential – something that had for a long time produced a noticeable difference in the prosperity of northern states to the poverty of former slave states.</p>
<p>In addition to his support for slavery, Marx was also a racist. Expressions of bigotry by Marx were so frequent they could fill a whole book – and in fact, they have. Former Communist Nathaniel Weyl filled 283 pages with examples of Marx’s hatred in his 1979 book, <em>Karl Marx, Racist</em>.</p>
<p>Even though American Communism itself has had limited influence, it has had lasting effects on the poor economic and social status of black Americans.</p>
<p>Communists’ efforts to draw black Americans toward Communism started shortly after American Communism’s official founding in the latter half of 1919. Not long after the creation of the Comintern in 1919, the director of its branch in the United States, Ludwig C.A.K. Martens, met with a black American named Lovett Fort-Whiteman to launch the American Communist movement&#8217;s first campaign to convince blacks that the promise of freedom from the injustices they suffered lies in revolution and the creation of a Soviet America. Documents from U.S. government intelligence that monitored the Communists during that time period speak for themselves:<strong></strong></p>
<div id="attachment_139674" style="width: 441px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Exibit-1.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-139674 " title="Exibit 1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Exibit-1.png" alt="" width="431" height="610" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Exhibit 1: “Radicalism in St. Louis. Subject: Society of technical aid of Soviet Russia. Russian Soviet Government Bureau – Martens,” October 3, 1919.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_139675" style="width: 441px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Exibit-2.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-139675 " title="Exibit 2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Exibit-2.png" alt="" width="431" height="634" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Exhibit 2: “Radicalism in St. Louis. Subject: L. Fort Whiteman (colored). The Communists. Russian Soviet Government Bureau – Martens,” October 3, 1919.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_139676" style="width: 442px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Exibit-3.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-139676 " title="Exibit 3" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Exibit-3.png" alt="" width="432" height="622" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Exhibit 3: “Radicalism in St. Louis. Subject: L. Fort-Whiteman of New York City, N.Y.,” October 7, 1919.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_139677" style="width: 441px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Exibit-4.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-139677 " title="Exibit 4" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Exibit-4.png" alt="" width="431" height="625" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Exhibit 4: “Radicalism in St. Louis. Subject: L. Fort-Whiteman of New York City, N.Y. (Speech),” October 7, 1919.</p></div>
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<p>Glenda Gilmore, who accessed the archives of the Comintern for her book <em>Defying Dixie</em> writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Lovett Fort-Whiteman, a black man from Dallas, Texas, became the first American-born black Communist. Earning the title the ‘reddest of the blacks,’ Fort-Whiteman came to Communism through socialism, radical labor activism, and race consciousness.”<sup>14</sup> When he was released from jail in1924, he officially joined the Communist Party. “In mid-June, 1924, Fort-Whiteman traveled from Chicago to Moscow as one of roughly five hundred delegates to the Fifth World Congress of the Third International. …</p>
<p>“On July 1, a long, warm summer day, Fort-Whiteman rose to educate listeners, including Joseph Stalin and Ho Chi Minh, on the Negro question. … He advised the Party to move into the South and ‘exploit’ rising dissatisfaction among sharecroppers, a strategy that would pay off, since the ‘negroes are destined to be the most revolutionary class in America.’ … Fort-Whiteman did not return immediately to the United States, but enrolled in the school for colonized peoples, the Kommunisticheskii Universitet Trudyashichsya Vostoka, the Communist University of Toilers of the East, known by the acronym KUTV … Audiences everywhere listened raptly as Fort- Whiteman told them of the racial hierarchy in the U.S. South; audiences everywhere disavowed racism in the new Soviet society. Fort-Whiteman became convinced that the USSR had become the ‘first state in the history of the world which ha[d] actually solved the problem of racial discrimination.’</p>
<p>“His studies at KUTV and experience on the ground slowly convinced Fort- Whiteman that he had been wrong when he said that African Americans were discriminated against as a race, not as a class. … ‘Race prejudice is not an inherent thing in the mental makeup of the individual,’ Fort-Whiteman discovered; it was not ‘transmitted thru the blood.’ Instead, ‘race prejudice . . . springs from the capitalist order of the society[.]’”</p></blockquote>
<p>When he returned to America, Fort-Whiteman went to work recruiting 12 other blacks to go to the Soviet Union &#8211; including James Ford, who would be the Communist Party’s Vice Presidential candidate in 1932, 1936 and 1940 – and setting up Communist front groups targeted at blacks. In the course of this effort integrated unions were created in the South. The Communists point to this as evidence of their early enlightenment, but in truth &#8211; as Glenda Gilmore explained in an interview with the Charlotte, N.C. radio station WFAE &#8211; the Comintern ultimately came to the conclusion that if only white southern workers were &#8220;organized&#8221; (presumably into unions), there would just be a &#8220;reserve&#8221; black workforce to take their place. Thus, if there was to be a communist revolution in the south, both would have to be organized at the same time.</p>
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		<title>The Marxist Roots of Feminism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spyridon Mitsotakis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why angry leftist politics are more dear to the heart of feminism than the treatment of women.]]></description>
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<p>Liberals’  treatment of Michelle Bachmann is rife with all the wonderful double  standards we have come to expect from the Left. With few exceptions,  feminists have been silent—which is nothing new for them. As David  Horowitz recalled in the early 1980s: &#8220;I once asked Leslie Harris, the  head of the ACLU task force on women, how feminists could continue their  support of a man [Ted Kennedy] who was such a prominent abuser﻿ of  women himself. &#8216;We know that,&#8217; she said, &#8216;but he&#8217;s down for the  political agenda.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>In fact, it&#8217;s a long leftist tradition to  think of and treat women this way, dating all the way back to Grandpa  Marx. As Ann Coulter wrote in Human Events:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Karl Marx kept a female  slave from the time she was 8 years old, eventually using her not only  as a servant but as his mistress, never acknowledging his child with her  or paying her at all. She waited on him hand and foot while he  explained to the world that profit is the stolen surplus value of the  laborer. Like so many liberal icons, Marx seldom bathed and left his  wife and children in poverty.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Phyllis Schlafly, who has spent a  lifetime pointing out liberal hypocrisy on issues of gender, says that  it’s no wonder liberal women think men are pigs: <em>Their</em> men are pigs.</p>
<p>So, the question is, why are angry leftist politics more dear to the heart of feminism than the treatment of women?</p>
<p>The answer may lie in the roots of the modern-day feminism, specifically the publication of the 1963 manifesto, <em>The Feminine Mystique</em>, by Betty Friedan, a book that has had a terrible effect on modern culture.</p>
<p>The story behind <em>The Feminine Mystique</em> was revealed almost 15 years ago by Daniel Horowitz (no relation to  David), professor at Friedan&#8217;s Alma mater, Smith College, in his  excessively sympathetic biography, <em>Betty Friedan and the Making of &#8220;The Feminine Mystique:&#8221; The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism</em>.  But there’s more to the story, with some answers recently provided by  the extraordinary work of another professor, Paul Kengor, author of <em>Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century</em>.</p>
<p>In <em>Dupes</em>,  Professor Kengor reproduces a December 1, 1920 letter from the American  Communist Party to the Soviet Comintern. It states: &#8220;Some time ago we  received word from the Comint [Comintern] that they wanted the names and  addresses of &#8216;liberal&#8217; college professors in this country, so as to be  able to send them literature for college libraries. Such a list is  enclosed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Among those on the list  is &#8220;Paul H. Douglas.&#8221; Paul Douglas and his wife, Dorothy Wolff Douglas,  were staunch leftists, and in 1927 Douglas traveled to the Soviet  Union, where he and his fellow progressives enjoyed a long, friendly  meeting with Stalin himself. To his credit, Douglas returned from Russia  skeptical of what he saw, but remained on the Left nonetheless—to the  left of even FDR and his New Deal. Douglas eventually moved to the  center, especially after a tour of duty in the pacific during WWII,  where he served with distinction.</p>
<p>The  pilgrimage of Dorothy Wolff Douglas, however, is not as redeeming. She  divorced Paul Douglas in 1930, and became a Professor at Smith College.  Her radicalism never waned. In 1953, the House Committee on Un-American  Activities confronted Dorothy with evidence that she had been a member  of the Communist Party. The evidence included financial transactions  that revealed her to be contributing $600 a month to the Party in  membership dues from the end of 1936 to the middle of 1939—information  she refused to confirm or deny. In the late 1940s, Wolff Douglass was a  senior member of the Congress of American Women, a communist  front-group. There is no indication that she was absent from the Party  during the intervening years.</p>
<p>How does this involve Betty Friedan?</p>
<p>Friedan  arrived at Smith College in 1938. She started taking Professor  Dorothy Wolff Douglas’s economics course in 1940, and recalls becoming  interested in literature on the Spanish Civil War and communist John  Reed’s book <em>Ten Days That Shook the World</em>. More specific, it was  in February 1941 that Dorothy Wolff Douglas was able to make a great  enough impact on Betty to convince her to adopt communism.</p>
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