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		<title>The Berlin Wall Does Not Rest in Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/berlinwall1.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-244490" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/berlinwall1-450x270.jpg" alt="berlinwall1" width="362" height="217" /></a>Twenty-five years ago, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came crashing down. The anniversary prompts a meditation on some realities that escaped the old-line establishment press, and which may remain unknown entirely to those growing up in the Age of the Tweet.</p>
<p>The wall was a project of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), a one-party totalitarian dictatorship and the most slavish ally of the Soviet Union, which under Joseph Stalin grabbed half of Germany in the wake of World War II. The GDR was also the Communist state most involved in terrorism against the West in general and the United States in particular.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The official name of the wall was the </span><i>Antifaschistischer Schutzwall</i>, the “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,” the familiar inversion of reality. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/12/specials/sontag-communism.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">As the late Susan Sontag observed during the 1980s, “Communism is fascism.”</span></a> So the GDR was actually the fascist state, with goose-stepping troops decked out very much like those of the National Socialist regime under the <i>Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei</i>, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, also known as Nazis. Sontag was not the first to make this observation. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/hans-massaquoi-who-grew-up-black-in-nazi-germany-dies-at-87/2013/01/23/3faaa5bc-64b1-11e2-b84d-21c7b65985ee_story.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">The late Hans Massaquoi</span></a>, son of a Liberian father and German mother, who in <i>Destined to Witness</i> told of growing up black in Nazi Germany, saw no difference at all between the Nazis and Communists.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">The Communist regimes were so repressive that people fled at any opportunity, leaving loved ones behind. More than 3 million people fled the GDR and no Stalinist dictatorship could allow people to vote with their feet.  So in August 1961 the regime put up the wall, along with barbed wire and guard towers holding vigil over the “death strip,” as it came to be known, embedded with anti-personnel mines.</p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">So the GDR made emigration an exciting experience. Some 5,000 made the attempt to breach the wall, among them the Strelzyk and Wetzel families, who flew to freedom in a hot-air balloon. In the 1982 Disney film </span><i style="color: #272727;">Night Crossing</i><span style="color: #272727;">, Peter Strelzyk (John Hurt) calls GDR oppressors “pigs,” a rare case of </span>truth in <span style="color: #272727;">cinema dealing with Communism. For those who remained, life was bleak.</span></p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Marxist ideology guaranteed that the GDR would be an economic basket case, less consequential to the world economy than Hong Kong. The GDR’s crowning industrial achievement was the Trabant, doubtless the most inferior automobile ever produced. But as John O. Koehler showed in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stasi-Untold-German-Secret-Police/dp/0813337445"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police</i>,</span></a> the Stalinist regime was efficient at repression.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Beyond North Korea and Albania under Enver Hoxha, perhaps no regime has exercised such complete control over the people. Koehler documents the repressions of the “Red Gestapo” against both Germans and the West. The material on Stasi operations against the United States and NATO remains relevant, along with Stasi operations in the Third World.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">In “The Stasi and Terrorism” chapter Koehler detailed the bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin a “massacre” carried out by the Libyan regime of Moamar Qaddafi. Koehler provides the full cast of characters, including Yasser Chraidi, the Libyan terrorist who planned the attack with Musbah Albugasem Eter, Musbah El Ablani and others who were not members of the Libyan People’s Bureau. Those included Mohamed-Suleiman Benali, a Moroccan “residing in West Berlin on welfare.”</p>
<p>The GDR was also a “playground for international terrorists,” such as Abu Daoud, leader of the Black September group that masterminded the 1972 Olympic attack that claimed 11 Israelis. The regime made Daoud a “guest of honor” at a Communist Party Central Committee event and housed at the Metropole, East Germany’s most luxurious hotel. “He was also given a reception at the mission of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and met with officials at the Syrian and South Yemeni embassies” before moving on unscathed. East Germany was also a safe haven for Carlos “the jackal,” Abu Nidal, and others.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;"><i>Stasi</i> provides a thorough account of how and why the Berlin Wall came down. But on the intelligence and terrorism sides, many loose ends remain. Libya is once again a playground for terrorists, and they now understand that they can kill American diplomats and torch the diplomatic compound with impunity. Not only so, but the U.S. Secretary of State will blame everything on a video and say “what does it matter?”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, 25 years after the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, Barack Obama remains shrink-wrapped in statist superstition. Omnipotent government may have failed elsewhere, but in his view it remains precisely what America needs, along with more surveillance of the people. So no surprise if the anniversary draws no comment from the President of the United States.</p>
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		<title>NY Times Triples-Down as Communist Mouthpiece</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 04:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/new-york-times.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243524" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/new-york-times-450x320.jpg" alt="new-york-times" width="380" height="270" /></a>The past 10 days have seen <i>three</i> hysterical editorials from the New York Times <i>pleading</i> for a U.S. economic lifeline to the Castro brothers’ terror-sponsoring regime (i.e. to end the so-called embargo).</p>
<p>It’s the economy, stupid—Venezuela’s that is. Those plummeting oil prices (20% in the past few months) are playing havoc with the Cuban colony’s already-rotten economy.  Venezuelan subsidies to Cuba last year, mostly in the form of essentially free oil, were estimated to total $10 billion. That’s more than double what the Soviets used to send.</p>
<p>But Castro’s Venezuelan puppet Maduro is now on very shaky ground. The only thing keeping this pathetic satrap in power—besides the 30,000 or so Cuban military and security “advisors” essentially running Venezuela—are the bread and circuses that sitting on top of the world’s largest oil reserves allows the Venezuelan regime to put on for Venezuelans.</p>
<p>Now this oil-fueled largesse looks imperiled—and with it the subsidies to Venezuela’s colonial overlords in Havana. Hence the Castro brothers’ desperation for a rescue from U.S. tourists and taxpayers—and the SOS to their regime’s traditional agents-of-influence worldwide, among whom the New York Times features very prominently.</p>
<p>“Fidel Castro…has largely vanished from public view in Cuba,” reads the second NY Times editorial on Oct. 14. “But the 88-year-old former <i>president </i>[italics mine] has not altogether abandoned the business of telling Cubans what to think.”</p>
<p>Is the Times &#8212; at long last! &#8212; acknowledging a totalitarian streak in the longest-reigning Stalinist dictator of modern history? Sure sounds like it. Now please pay close attention as the editorial continues:</p>
<blockquote><p>On Tuesday [Oct. 14<sup>th</sup>], Mr. Castro dedicated a column to an editorial published in The [New York] Times on Sunday [Oct. 11] that called on the Obama administration to restore diplomatic ties with the Cuban government and end the <i>counterproductive </i>[italics mine]<i> </i>embargo the United States has imposed on the island for decades. His take was remarkable for one main reason…quoting nearly every paragraph in the [our] editorial…Hosts of Cuban state-run radio stations [also] read Mr. Castro’s column and discussed its content…</p></blockquote>
<p>In brief: so closely did the New York Times echo the sentiments of a Stalinist dictator that he gleefully ordered their article disseminated—almost word for word &#8211; throughout his regime’s KGB-founded and mentored media. It gets better:</p>
<blockquote><p>He [Fidel Castro] appeared to endorse the thrust of the editorial,” The second NY Times editorial boasts, “comparing it to an interview he gave in 1957 as a young rebel leader to a [New York] Times foreign correspondent at the time, Herbert Matthews…</p></blockquote>
<p>In April of 1959 &#8212; amidst an appalling bloodbath of Cubans by firing squad ordered by Fidel Castro but mostly administered by his ever-faithful Igor, <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.hfontova.com/che.html">Che Guevara</a> </span>&#8211; Castro made a special visit to the New York Times offices in New York. After a warm greeting from Arthur Hayes Sulzberger, a beaming Fidel Castro personally decorated a beaming Herbert Matthews with a specially-minted medal expressing his bloody regime’s highest honor.</p>
<p>“To our American friend Herbert Matthews with gratitude,” beamed Castro as the flashbulbs popped. “Without your help, and without the help of the New York Times, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the Revolution in Cuba would never have been.”</span></a></p>
<p>“Fidel Castro has strong ideas of liberty, democracy and social justice,” Matthews had written on the front pages of (at the time) the world’s most prestigious newspaper in February 1957. “But it amounts to a new deal for Cuba, radical, democratic, and therefore <i>anti</i>-communist.”</p>
<p>Herbert Matthews doubled-down a few months later: “This is <i>not</i> a Communist revolution in any sense of the term. Fidel Castro is not only <i>not</i> a Communist, he is decidedly <i>anti-</i>Communist” (Herbert Matthews, the <i>New York Times</i>, July 1959).</p>
<p>Reasonable people might ask: has any <i>tiny</i> little thing transpired in the intervening half-century that might cause the New York Times to regret their enabling of Fidel Castro?</p>
<p>But reasonable people will search in utter vain for any hint of such regret, especially in light of this week’s editorials, which – if anything &#8212; double-down on the New York Times&#8217; historical fondness for the Castro regime.</p>
<p>Through their unrivaled (at the time) public relations cachet and their heavy influence with their ideological cohorts and cronies in the CIA and U.S. State Department, the New York Times enabled into power a regime that:</p>
<p>*Jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin’s during the Great Terror.</p>
<p>*Murdered more Cubans than Hitler murdered Germans during the Night of Long Knives.</p>
<p>* converted a nation with a higher per-capita income than half of Europe into one that repulses Haitians.</p>
<p>* Wantonly brought the world within a whisker of nuclear war.</p>
<p>Over <i>fifty times</i> as many Cubans have died (and horribly) while attempting to flee Castro’s Cuba as Germans died trying to flee East Germany. And prior to Castroism Cuba welcomed more immigrants per-capita (primarily from Europe) than did the U.S.</p>
<p>And remember, the New York Times, like all anti-embargo propagandists (Chamber of Commerce, Hillary Clinton, Brookings Institute, Cato Institute, etc.), advocates against the so-called embargo by claiming Castro secretly favors it. The embargo &#8212; the intellectual eggheads wink and snicker at us knuckle-draggers &#8211; gives Castro a foil for his economic failures and an excuse to keep the clamps on. “Don’t you blockheads understand?”</p>
<p>We’re greatly impressed with your erudition and powers of ratiocination, think-tank eggheads. But first off, if Castro “<i>secretly</i> favors the embargo,” then why did every one of his <i>secret</i> agents campaign secretly and obsessively <i>against</i> the embargo while working as <i>secret</i> agents? Castro managed the deepest and most damaging penetration of the U.S. Department of Defense in recent U.S. history. The spy’s name is Ana Belen Montes, known as &#8220;Castro’s Queen Jewel&#8221; in the intelligence community. In 2002 she was convicted of the same crimes as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and today she serves a 25-year sentence in federal prison. Only a plea bargain spared her from sizzling in the electric chair like the Rosenbergs.</p>
<p>Prior to her visit from the FBI and handcuffing, Ana Belen Montes worked tirelessly to influence U.S. foreign policy <i>against</i> the embargo. The same holds for more recently arrested, convicted and incarcerated Cuban spies Carlos and Elsa Alvarez and Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers. All of these worked tirelessly to influence U.S. policy <i>against</i> the &#8220;embargo&#8221;&#8211; while working as <i>secret</i> agents.</p>
<p>In brief, the “reasoning” against the so-called embargo by people who fancy themselves intellectuals calls for Rod Serling introducing a Twilight Zone episode:</p>
<blockquote><p>Imagine if you will &#8230; a place where every &#8220;prestigious&#8221; think-tank (from Brookings to CATO) and every &#8220;prestigious&#8221; publication (from the New York Times to The Atlantic) denounces the Cuba &#8220;embargo&#8221; as &#8220;Castro&#8217;s best-friend, a policy he secretly favors&#8221;&#8211; even when every one of Castro’s convicted secret agents campaigned secretly and obsessively <i>against </i>the embargo while working as secret agents. On top of that, the KGB-mentored media of Castro&#8217;s totalitarian regime makes it a point to reprint every &#8220;end-the-embargo&#8221; article ever printed in the world, especially those by the New York Times&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Imagine if you will&#8230;a place where the institutions that call the embargo &#8220;Castro&#8217;s best-friend&#8221; still manage to be known as <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=otj666e8e533cb3154646a6601ccfd09ef95c#bookmark=http://babalublog.com/2014/10/16/beam-me-up-scotty-new-york-times-editorial-think-tanks-and-the-cuba-embargo/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“<i>think</i>-tanks.”</span></a></p>
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		<title>Chamber of Commerce Chief in Havana: End the Embargo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2014 04:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/chamber-of-commerce-building-thumb-436x363-7342-thumb-436x363-15416.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226699 alignleft" alt="chamber-of-commerce-building-thumb-436x363-7342-thumb-436x363-15416" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/chamber-of-commerce-building-thumb-436x363-7342-thumb-436x363-15416-420x350.jpg" width="294" height="245" /></a>U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue was barely finished calling for the further impoverishment  of American workers (i.e. “immigration reform”) when he shows up as a guest of Cuba’s Stalinist regime and gives a speech at the University of Havana calling for a further fleecing of American taxpayers (i.e. ending the so-called Cuba embargo.) </span></p>
<p>“For years, the US Chamber of Commerce has demanded that our government eliminate the commercial embargo on Cuba. It’s time for a new approach,” proclaimed Donohue this week to an ovation from communist  apparatchiks, some who in 1960 stormed into almost 6000 U.S. owned businesses (worth almost $ 2 billion at the time) and stole them all at Soviet gunpoint.</p>
<p>A few American business-owners resisted. One of these was Howard Anderson who owned a filling stations and Jeep dealership (not a casino or brothel, which were relatively rare in pre-Castro Cuba, by the way.) I’ll quote from Anderson v. Republic of Cuba, No. 01-28628 (Miami-Dade Circuit Court, April 13, 2003). &#8220;In one final session of torture, Castro&#8217;s agents drained Howard Anderson&#8217;s body of blood before sending him to his death at the firing squad.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Inter-American Law Review classifies Castro’s mass burglary of U.S. property as “the largest uncompensated taking of American property by a foreign government in history.”  Rubbing his hands and snickering in triumphant glee, Castro boasted at maximum volume to the entire world that he was freeing Cuba from &#8220;Yankee economic slavery!&#8221; (Che Guevara&#8217;s term, actually) and that &#8220;he would never repay a penny!&#8221;</p>
<p>This is the only promise Fidel Castro has ever kept in his life. Hence the imposition of the Cuba embargo, not that you’d know any of this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">from the mainstream media</a>, much less from Thomas Donohue.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The burglarized (and often brutalized) American owners filed those property claims against Castro’s regime with the U.S. government. They’re worth $7 billion today&#8211;and must be settled before the so called embargo is lifted. This settlement provision for lifting the embargo was codified into U.S. law in 1996 by the Helms-Burton act, which means only Congress can lift the embargo, obviously after a vote. But the votes are not there. </span></p>
<p>Shouldn’t the President of an outfit like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce be aware of this?  Or is Donohue calling for more of Obama’s “executive overreach?”</p>
<p>“The reforms under Raul Castro’s government demonstrate that Cuban leaders understand that direct economic investment can be a powerful tool for economic development,” proclaimed Donahue to another ovation from his communist audience.</p>
<p>Oh, Cuba’s Stalinist kleptocracy understands this alright. But this “economic development” via foreign investment exclusively benefits the tiny Stalinist nomenklatura that has run Cuba since 1959—and enthusiastically hosted Thomas Donahue this week. All foreign trade with “Cuba” is still conducted exclusively with the Stalinist regime—no exceptions. In fact private property rights still do not exist in Cuba, much less an independent judiciary and the rule of law.</p>
<p>According to figures from the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. has transacted almost $4 <i>billion</i> in trade with Cuba over the past decade. Up until four years ago, the U.S. served as Stalinist Cuba’s biggest food supplier and fifth biggest import partner. We’ve fallen a few notches recently but we’re still in the top half.</p>
<p>For over a decade the so-called U.S. embargo, so disparaged by Thomas Donahue, has mostly stipulated that Castro’s Stalinist regime pay cash up front through a third–party bank for all U.S. agricultural products; no Ex-Im (U.S. taxpayer) financing of such sales. And <i>that’s</i> the catch with Donahue’s gracious hosts. They’re <i>desperate</i> to abolish that provision.</p>
<p>Enacted by the Bush team in 2001, this cash-up-front policy has been monumentally beneficial to U.S. taxpayers, making them among the few in the world not screwed and tattooed by the Castro regime, which per capita-wise qualifies as the world’s biggest debtor nation, with a foreign debt estimated at $50 billion, a credit rating nudging Somalia’s and an uninterrupted record of defaults. Standard &amp; Poors refuses even to rate Cuba, regarding the economic figures released by its Stalinist apparatchiks as utterly bogus. Just this year the Russians wrote off almost $30 billion Castro still owed them.</p>
<p>Regarding the disconnect seen above between historic truth and Castroite propaganda, what we have here, amigos, is not a “failure to communicate.” Instead it’s <i>perfect</i> communication&#8211; between Castro’s propaganda ministry and the U.S. media (and “business leaders”) to whom they issue press bureaus and visas, after careful vetting. These latter amply live up to their side of the bargain, “reporting” exactly what Castro wants them to report.</p>
<p>A Spanish businessman named Fernandez Gonzalez has an interesting story that might serve as an education for Thomas Donahue, or for those who might fall for his siren song, as composed by the kleptocratic Castro brothers:</p>
<p>“A few years ago, I created in the Hemingway Marina, a tourist zone near Havana, a bar/restaurant…then during a farce that would not hold water in any Western judicial system &#8212; my business was taken from me and I became &#8220;an enemy of the people.&#8221; Today, I remain deprived, without recourse, of the property that I steadfastly and honorably worked to create for many years.  I don&#8217;t want other foreign investors, who travel to Cuba under some siren song to suffer the same fate as I did. Thus I recommend, I beg, that you don&#8217;t contribute with your money and knowledge to shore-up Cuba&#8217;s dictatorship…Because there is not the slightest judicial guarantee. There is no Rule of Law that protects investors, nor anyone else. In Cuba, what prevails are not rights, but the will and whim of those who govern. The same thing that happened to business owners at the beginning of the revolution can <a href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2013/07/must-read-want-to-do-business-in-cuba.html">happen, and does happen, to today&#8217;s investors and businessmen.”</a></p>
<p>One fine morning in February 2009 the Castro brothers woke up and decided to freeze $1 billion that 600 foreign companies kept in Cuban bank accounts. Another fine morning in April 2012 the Cuban regime arrested the top officers of Britain-based Coral Capital that had invested $75 million in the Castro brothers’ fiefdom and was planning four and luxurious golf resorts. These hapless (greedy, unprincipled and stupid, actually) businessmen find themselves with no more recourse to law than the millions of Cubans and Americans who had their businesses and savings stolen en<i> masse</i> in August of 1960 by Castro’s gunmen.</p>
<p>After all, Che Guevara who served as Cuba’s “Finance Minister” during the initial mass burglaries of Cuban and U.S. owned properties explained the regime’s legal guidelines very succinctly in January 1959, when he served as chief hangman. “Judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail. We execute (and jail and torture and steal) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">based on Revolutionary conviction.”</a></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: Below are the video and transcript to filmmaker Joel Gilbert&#8217;s recent speech at the American Legion Hall in Redlands, California. Gilbert&#8217;s most recent film is &#8220;There&#8217;s No Place Like Utopia,&#8221; which will be released nationwide in theaters this summer. For more information on the film, visit <a href=" http://theresnoplacelikeutopia.com/">TheresNoPlaceLikeUtopia.com</a>. </strong></p>
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<p>America, we have a problem. America has been under siege from a vast left-wing conspiracy.</p>
<p>Obama’s election was not a sudden political phenomenon. It was the result of an American socialist movement that Obama’s real father, Frank Marshall Davis, nurtured in Chicago and Hawaii, and has been quietly infiltrating the US economy, universities, and media for decades.</p>
<p>Why did Dorothy follow the yellow brick road? Is Utopia a real destination for America? Or, is the true path to happiness still faith, family, and hard work &#8212; back home in Kansas?</p>
<p>I have a film coming out this summer, its called There’s No Place Like Utopia. The title is a play on Dorothy’s conclusion in the Wizard of Oz, “there’s no place like home.”</p>
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<p>Dorothy blindly follows the yellow brick road, believing a magical wizard will fulfill her all dreams. In the end, of course, she discovers the Wizard is a charlatan, a carnival hawker, he had only worked in a circus. His promises are empty. And worse, the Wizard sends Dorothy to the witch’s castle where she is taken prisoner in a dungeon.</p>
<p>In There’s No Place Like Utopia, I travel to different parts of the country &#8211; Detroit, Chicago, Newark, Washington DC, Denver, Miami – where I meet people who have been seduced by utopian promises, only to realize they have been had, and no longer had a home left. They were stuck in Oz.</p>
<p>In this film, Barack Obama is depicted as &#8220;The Wizard.&#8221; I think the analogy is well deserved. The fundamental lesson of the Wizard of Oz is that there is no wizard. Obama has made promise after promise that have all turned out to be empty, all turned out to be lies. The people I met who supported him were literally living in dungeons in the witch’s castle, everything had changed for the worse – Detroit, South Side Chicago, Newark. Fifty years of progressive control over these cities demonstrated that no one was progressing, they were all regressing.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The analogy is obvious, throughout history, millions of people followed charlatans like Mao, Stalin, Ho Chi Mihn, Pol Pot, Castro &#8212; they all promised to create a Utopia, a paradise on earth, but instead, the people who followed them they arrived to hell on earth – they were sent to the gulag, they were starved, and mass murdered by Utopians.</span></p>
<p>The word Utopia is from the Greek, it means &#8220;no Place.&#8221; Utopia is an imaginary, perfect society, heaven on earth, where everyone is happy. In Utopia, man has been perfected, all human beings are equal, and they think and act the same.</p>
<p>The idea of a perfect society was first mentioned by Plato in his work The Republic in 380 BC. The word &#8220;Utopia&#8221; was coined by Sir Thomas More in his 1516 book Utopia, in which he depicted a fictional island paradise in the Atlantic Ocean. In 1848, Karl Marx wrote in the Communist Manifesto that it is historically inevitable for societies to pass through four stages: feudalism, capitalism, socialism, and finally communism. In communist society, Marx described a &#8220;workers paradise&#8221; where perfect happiness and universal fulfillment would be achieved though the abundance of goods and services that only a government controlled society could produce – Utopia!</p>
<p>In the modern era, socialists adopted the fictional idea of Utopia, Marx&#8217;s worker&#8217;s paradise, as a realistic blueprint for the nation state. Ruling over &#8220;paradise,&#8221; the leader of communist society was considered to be &#8220;God on earth.&#8221; However, the Marxist model was a disaster. Every country that adopted the Utopian ideology suffered economic devastation and biological destruction as 100 million human beings were killed in peacetime through starvation, gulags, political repression, and murder in an attempt to mold human beings to fit into Utopia.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the beginning, communists, progressives, used the phraseology like &#8220;we are going to organize the working man to fight and make a revolution, and overthrow the government.&#8221; Obama’s pals like Bill Ayers used this kind of rhetoric, and they acted on it. They planted bombs at the Pentagon, and murdered policemen, believing that the working classes would spontaneously join their communist revolution to destroy America.</span></p>
<p>But it didn’t work. It turned people off because it was evil. No normal person would want to bring down America and replace the constitution we were bequeathed by our founding fathers with the Communist Manifesto. So into the 1970s, and by the early 80s, progressives realized they could not overthrow the government from the outside. They decided that if they changed their rhetoric, they could trick average Americans into supporting them, take power, and then use the power to bring down America from within.</p>
<p>And since the 1980s, the progressives, which they now call themselves rather than communists, have slowly and successfully taken over the Democrat Party. Today their public terminology has become ever more benevolent. “We want to help to middle class families,” “we want fairness,” “we are problem solving” and “we want to help poor people” or just “change.” Fill in the blanks.</p>
<p>But make no mistake, today, the Democrat Party is a radical socialist party. For example, their leader is considered perfect and God-like, he cannot be criticized. There is no opposition within the Democrat Party. Any opposition from the outside the Democratic Party is considered to be evil. This is because socialism is a religion, it&#8217;s faith. If you don&#8217;t believe in their human God and their fantasy of Utopia, paradise on earth, you are the enemy. And who is God’s enemy? The devil. So, of course, you are the devil and you are evil because you oppose the one true God, the God on earth.</p>
<p>The Democrats tell this story every day. Good versus evil. They are telling and selling this story. Not our idea is better than yours because of these reasons. Good versus evil. We’re good, they’re evil.</p>
<p>I’ll give you some examples. They claim:</p>
<p>We represent all that is good and all that helps people toward progress, while the Republicans want to stop progress.</p>
<p>We want to help people with health care, and Republicans want people to die.</p>
<p>We want to help women get mammograms, and they want to prevent it.</p>
<p>We want rich Americans to pay their fair share, and Republicans are just greedy.<br />
Good and evil.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">We want to help more poor people get food stamps so they can eat, Republicans don’t mind if they starve.</span></p>
<p>We want to help black people and minorities have access to vote, and Republicans want to stop them from voting.</p>
<p>On and on. Now, if you were a progressive who believes this nonsense, it&#8217;s not difficult to feel justified in lying to the public, suppressing the votes of conservatives using the IRS, lying about your agenda, lying about your background, lying about a dead US ambassador, lying about health care, committing voter fraud &#8212; you would do anything, you would commit any crime, if you believed you were taking humanity step by step toward the perfect future, Utopia. And the Republicans were preventing it. The fantasy of Utopia is why progressives murdered 100 million people, 100 million were murdered by Utopians in power. That’s why the ideology of progressivism is so dangerous.</p>
<p>Let’s take one example of voter ID and voter fraud. Democrats have been hammering the idea it is &#8220;voter suppression&#8221; if you advocate a voter identification requirement or if you question &#8220;why did 140% of the population vote in 10 counties in 2012?’ Here’s what I would like people to start talking about. Barack Obama started his political career by exposing voter fraud! You may not know this, that’s right! Obama owes his career to his efforts to stop voter fraud in Chicago. In 1995, when he ran for state senate against Alice Palmer, he challenged her petition signatures. Why would he suspect they might not be real? Obama had worked for Project Vote in 1992 in Chicago. Two thirds of the signatures were found to be not valid and Alice Palmer was disqualified.</p>
<p>So, let’s join Barack Obama’s initiative and investigate voter registration fraud. We owe it to him to continue his good work!</p>
<p>Another example is the daily lie of Democrats: &#8220;The upper income people don’t pay their fair share of taxes.&#8221; The audacity of the lie just grows and grows, even though they know anybody can just Google it and find out that yes, the top income earners pay the highest percentage, the middle pay in the middle, and the lowest pay no taxes. All this disinformation, it&#8217;s Soviet era propaganda and they are trying to use Soviet censorship to keep anyone from speaking out against all these issues on which they want to control the narrative.</p>
<p>I hope everyone will go see There’s No Place Like Utopia this summer. Thank you very much&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Senator Tom Harkin &#8212;- Once Bitten Twice Duped</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 05:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/gty_tom_harkin_jt_130126_wg.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218289" alt="gty_tom_harkin_jt_130126_wg" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/gty_tom_harkin_jt_130126_wg-430x350.jpg" width="301" height="245" /></a>If Justin Beiber had returned from Cuba smitten with its healthcare and calling it “awesome!” most Americans would understand. But Iowa Senator and Obamacare champion Tom Harkin serves as chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. He just returned from an official tour of Stalinist Cuba hailing its healthcare as “quite remarkable.”</span></p>
<p>“Cuba’s a poor country,” he marveled. “But they have a lower child mortality rate than us….their public health system is quite remarkable.”</p>
<p>What Senator Harkin actually believes to be true or “quite remarkable” might be (implicitly) worthy of emulation. If so, this would affect the lives of millions of Americans. After all, Senator Harkin is still a few months away from retirement and still banging the drums deafeningly for Obamacare from his chairman’s seat.</p>
<p>It’s an old story with this Senator, actually. In April 1985 while president Reagan sought to aid Nicaragua’s  desperate anti-communist guerrillas, freshman Senators Tom Harkin and John Kerry visited Nicaragua, met with the Sandinista (communist) leaders and returned smitten with their dedication to democracy and  their enmity towards the Soviets. President Reagan’s obsession with Central American communism and his aid to the Contras was a manifestation of simple “Mc McCarthyism,” sneered the freshman Democratic Senators. The proof was in a “peace-proposal” signed by Sandinista leader and Castro-protégé Daniel Ortega that Kerry and Harkin “held in their hands” (Neville Chamberlain, anyone?) and read convincingly to Congress.  Its purpose was to kill President Reagan’s Contra-aid bill.</p>
<p>It worked like a charm. The U.S. Congress swallowed the Communist scam hook, line and sinker and killed the President’s bill. Then exactly three days later a snickering Daniel Ortega was in Moscow, flouting his Soviet ties for all the world to see. The Castro-protégé returned to Managua with a $200 million Soviet aid package, along with a bigger pledge of arms and Cuban advisors to crush the Contras.</p>
<p>So Congress, rotten egg dripping slowly off their face, reversed itself and finally approved Reagan&#8217;s Contra aid. Harkin and Kerry ultimately failed—but hey, it’s the thought that counts. They did go the extra mile attempting to aid and comfort communists. The original Sandinista national anthem, by the way, includes the line, “We fight the Yankees –the enemy of humanity,” lifted straight from a speech by Che Guevara. It’s nice to know such an outfit charmed the socks off the current U.S. Secretary of State.</p>
<p>Senator Harkin’s official Cuban guides last week&#8211; forgive me for reminding some readers (and perhaps even Senator Harkin and his staff!)&#8211;were apparatchiks of a regime modeled almost perfectly on Stalin’s. Most of the Soviet KGB and GRU agents and advisors who flooded Cuba from 1959-62, had actually worked for Stalin. Raul Castro had a KGB handler as early as 1954. “The solution to the world’s problem lie behind the Iron Curtain,” proclaimed the regime’s co-founder Che Guevara, who often signed his <a title="" href="http://www.hfontova.com/che.html" target="_blank">correspondence as “Stalin II.”</a></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In fairness, Senator Harkin follows in the footsteps of a long procession of (hopefully!) dupes.  But in contrast, there finally came a day when most people recognized that official tours of Stalinist Russia were pure scams. The term “Potemkin Tours” even came into common usage (even among liberals) to describe them.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Alas, such a forehead-slapping, V-8 commercial-type “revelation” about official tours of Stalinist Cuba doesn’t occur to most people, for some reason.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to The National Journal Senator Harkin also marveled at “the country&#8217;s (Cuba’s) success in reducing smoking among citizens through public health campaigns.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Oh it’s a “government campaign” alright, Senator Harkin. To wit: For the usual communist reasons a communist regime cannot stock the shelves in its stores. This –amazingly enough!&#8211;decreases the consumption of those products by the communist regime’s hapless and half-starved subjects! “Quite remarkable” how that works, Senator Harkin!</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And it’s not only for smoking. This “reduction” also applies to eating, as in items like milk, beef and bread. In fact as fully-documented in an </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" title="" href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova" target="_blank">eye-opening new book</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8211; along with infectious diseases that had been virtually eradicated in pre-Castro Cuba (Dengue-Fever, Cholera) &#8212; nutritional diseases are also rampant nowadays in the Castro family fiefdom. Marzo Fernandez, an economist who until defecting in 1996, served as Secretary General of Castro’s Ministry of Nutrition could help shatter many of Senator Harkin’s illusions.</span></p>
<p>“The average height of Cubans has decreased by 8 centimeters in the past 25 years,” he’s quoted in the eye-opening new book. “For the first time in Cuban history, thousands of macrocepahlic children (abnormally large heads in proportion to their bodies) due to protein (primarily milk) deficiencies have been found in the eastern provinces.”</p>
<p>Now regarding that vaunted Cuban infant-mortality rate, parroted by Harkin (among many others) some clarifications:</p>
<p>In 1958 (the year prior to the glorious revolution) Cuba ranked 13th from the top, worldwide with the lowest infant-mortality rate. This meant that robustly capitalist pre-Castro Cuba had the 13th lowest infant-mortality rate in the world. This put her not only at the top in Latin America but atop most of Western Europe, ahead of France, Belgium, West Germany, Israel, Japan, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Today all of these countries leave Communist Cuba in the dust, with much lower infant mortality rates.</p>
<p>And even plummeting from 13th (capitalist) to 47th (communist), Cuba&#8217;s &#8220;quite remarkable” infant mortality rate is kept artificially low by Communist chicanery with statistics and by a truly appalling abortion rate of 0.71 abortions per live birth. This is the hemisphere&#8217;s highest, by far. Any Cuban pregnancy that even hints at trouble gets &#8220;terminated.&#8221;</p>
<p>In April 2001, Dr. Juan Felipe García, MD, of Jacksonville, Fla., interviewed several recent doctor defectors from Cuba. Based on what he heard, he reported the following:</p>
<p>&#8220;Cuban pediatricians constantly falsify figures for the regime” reveals Dr Garcia. “If an infant dies during its first year, the doctors often report he was older. Otherwise, such lapses could cost him severe penalties and his job. The official Cuban infant-mortality <a title="" href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova" target="_blank">figure is a farce.</a> &#8221;</p>
<p>The late George Carlin’s “Hippy-Dippy Weatherman” had a hilarious skit: “The radar is picking up a line of thundershowers,” he says points to the map…”but it’s also picking up a squadron of Russian ICBMs&#8230; so I wouldn&#8217;t sweat the thundershowers.”</p>
<p>In brief, don’t sweat the small stuff. Perhaps that applies here? To wit: if our very Secretary of State allowed snickering communists to play him like a fiddle, why sweat the same fiddle-playing of a middling and soon-retiring Senate Committee chairman?</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/radosh1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-213237" alt="radosh" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/radosh1.jpg" width="199" height="201" /></a>Discover The Networks is proud to announce that it has newly added, to its website, a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1954">massive archive</a> of the writings of the eminent conservative historian (and former leftist) Ron Radosh. This archive includes many hundreds of articles wherein Radosh shares his deep understanding of the leftist worldview, thereby greatly enhancing the mission of Discover The Networks as the premier database on the American Left for writers and researchers. <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1954">To view the contents of the archive, click here</a>.</p>
<p>In his writings, Radosh aims “to <a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/bio/">challenge</a> those who believe they have no need to be tolerant or broad-minded, and think that anyone who sees things differently is a secret leftist, a fake conservative, or worse.” While <a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2008/10/15/introducing-myself/">characterizing</a> himself as “a center/right conservative,” Radosh takes pains to emphasize: “I differ with many conservatives on many issues.” Marty Peretz, former editor and publisher of <i>The New Republic</i>, once described him as “the myth-busting historian”—and that, says Radosh, is “a term I am rather content with.”</p>
<p>Radosh was born in New York City’s Lower East Side in 1937. His parents, Reuben Radosh and Ida Kreichman, were Jewish immigrants from Russia who raised their son in a leftist, though not Communist, home. “Neither of my parents were Communist,” <a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2011/01/24/huffpos-peter-dreier/">says</a> Radosh. “I was brought up in a Red Diaper baby milieu, but my father was a fellow-traveler who distrusted the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7511">CPUSA</a>, and my mother was an anti-Stalinist Jewish anarchist.”</p>
<p>In his youth, Radosh <a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2010/09/17/why-i-missed-my-summer-camp-reunion-camp-woodland-alumni-show-how-little-they-have-learned/">attended</a> Camp Woodland for Children, in Phoenicia, New York—first as a camper, and later as a counselor. The children at this facility were thoroughly indoctrinated with Communist and socialist propaganda under the guise of “humanitarian values” like civil rights and social justice. “The camp’s ‘progressive’ agenda that it heralded,” Radosh <a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2010/09/17/why-i-missed-my-summer-camp-reunion-camp-woodland-alumni-show-how-little-they-have-learned/">recalls</a>, “was a code-word for the politics of the Popular Front, the Communist-led coalition of liberals and Communists that formed the left-wing of FDR’s New Deal, and tried to stay together to fight the Cold War liberals in the period of Harry Truman’s presidency.”</p>
<p>In the early 1950s Radosh <a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2012/11/01/thoughts-on-my-75th-birthday/">attended</a> Elisabeth Irwin High School in New York City, an essentially communist institution that was the upper division of The Little Red Schoolhouse, an elementary school that Radosh and his peers commonly referred to as “The Little Red Schoolhouse for Little Reds.” Today, Radosh traces his decision to become a historian to “the inspiration” he received from an admired Marxist-Leninist history teacher at EI, “who told me that ‘Marx said history is the queen of the sciences.’” “My adoption of communism and a belief that it was the key to all truth,” Radosh adds, “stemmed from what I was taught by my high school teachers,” virtually every one of whom was a member of the American Communist Party. “Impressionable young people like me learned that being decent meant being a good leftist,” says Radosh.</p>
<p>During the Vietnam War, Radosh was actively involved in the peace movement, from whose platform he extolled “the heroic Vietnamese people” while denouncing the United States as “the enemy of the world’s people.” He was particularly <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=f3SgSXOofcYC&amp;pg=PA133&amp;lpg=PA133&amp;dq=">angered</a> by what he perceived as ideological betrayal by Norman Thomas, the Socialist Party of America’s six-time U.S. presidential candidate, when the latter wrote that he did not “regard Vietcong terrorism as virtuous.” “My final judgment,” Radosh recalls, “was that Thomas had ‘accepted the Cold War, its ideology and ethics and had decided to enlist in fighting its battles’ on the wrong—the anti-communist—side.”</p>
<p>During the Vietnam War era as well, Radosh served as a faculty advisor to the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6723">Students for a Democratic Society</a> (SDS), a radical organization that quickly morphed into terrorist activities as The Weather Underground. He was also a member of the Movement for a Democratic Society, SDS’s adult support group composed of young New York City faculty. In addition, Radosh joined the socialist <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7628">New American Movement</a> in its first phase, as well as the New University Conference, an alliance of leftist professors from the New York area.</p>
<p>A watershed moment in Radosh’s intellectual journey occurred when he began writing <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300072058/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pajamasmedia-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=0300072058"><i>The Rosenberg File</i></a>, published in 1983. At the outset of that undertaking, Radosh was convinced that the infamous Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were innocent of the espionage charges against them—and his objective was to use historical evidence to prove that premise conclusively. But his research led him to crucial information that he had not expected to find, and “it quickly became <a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2012/11/01/thoughts-on-my-75th-birthday/">apparent</a> that they [the Rosenbergs] were guilty as charged.” “Seeing that the evidence did not square with the views I believed,” says Radosh, “I went with the evidence, and began to reevaluate the left-wing mythologies I had always thought were true.” This, in a nutshell, has been a defining characteristic of Ron Radosh’s scholarship throughout his professional career, both as a leftist and, later, as a conservative. No belief, no icon, is so sacrosanct as to be inaccessible to the potentially withering light of reason.</p>
<p>Today Radosh finds a powerful sense of purpose in trying to help impressionable young people avoid being misled by the corrosive deceptions of the modern Left:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2012/11/01/thoughts-on-my-75th-birthday/">Although</a> the period I considered myself a communist was thankfully a very brief one, and decades ago, I realize how if someone skillful had been around to counter the misinformation I was regularly fed, I could have avoided taking such a path that led to some wasted years. Today, equally idealistic and well-meaning young people, who now as before crave a better world, join movements and organizations that espouse a totalitarian mentality because they believe they are promoting social justice. They too think their oppositional stance will lead to the utopian future they think remains possible—not understanding that no such utopia exists for them to make possible, and that their actions will only make things worse.</p></blockquote>
<p>Further, Radosh <a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2012/11/01/thoughts-on-my-75th-birthday/">seeks</a> “to hopefully provide the kind of wisdom that will allow some to avoid taking the path of utopian fantasies that can never be realized, and to write works as a historian that give my readers a real perspective on our country’s path—rather than the kind of ideologically motivated ‘history’ of an <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=628">Oliver Stone</a>, that takes material out of context to fit it to his preconceived, communist world-view.” “I find myself angry and as motivated as I ever was to try and tell what I consider to be the truth,” says Radosh, “and to take up and challenge all the charlatans that surround us.”</p>
<p>Harvey Klehr, Professor of Politics and History at Emory University, says: “Few contemporary intellectuals have been so reviled by the Left, but Ron has never flinched in his determination to tell the truth.” Historian John Earl Haynes views “Radosh’s refusal to be cowed or silenced” as “a model of how a scholar must resist the intimidation by pro-Communist partisans within and without the academic world.”</p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/History/HistoryEmeritusFaculty.html">addition</a> to his writing, Radosh has <a href="http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&amp;eid=RadoshRon">served</a> as a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Communitarian Studies at George Washington University; a Professor of History in the City University of New York’s Graduate Faculty; Research Director of a report on Radio and TV Marti, which was funded by Congress under the auspices of the United States Information Agency; Associate Director of the American Federation of Teachers’ Office of the President; Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute; and Professor of History Emeritus at Queensborough Community College.</p>
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		<title>The Book of Lies Tour by Privileged Bill Ayers</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Screen-shot-2012-05-08-at-5.37.56-PM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-208255" alt="Screen-shot-2012-05-08-at-5.37.56-PM" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Screen-shot-2012-05-08-at-5.37.56-PM.png" width="250" height="194" /></a>In his memoir about infiltrating the Weather Underground, <a href="http://bringingdownamerica.com/?p=1"><i>Bringing Down America</i></a><i>: An FBI Informer with the Weathermen, </i>Larry Grathwohl described his frustrations with having to be at two places at once: at his job on the loading dock and at the meetings organized by Weatherman, the domestic terrorist group cofounded by Bill Ayers.  It was 1969, and Grathwohl had recently returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam.  He was 22 years old and had a wife and baby to support.  After the group tried to recruit him (they had been ordered by communist higher ups to recruit from the working class), Grathwohl, with the encouragement of his father-in-law, a retired police officer, decided to infiltrate the group.</p>
<p>It’s hard to be a working class radical—or to even pretend to be one, as Grathwohl learned.  Russell Kirk in <i>Decadence and Renewal in Higher Education </i>recalls that “the higher the students’ background of prosperity, the more radical their rebelliousness.”  Mark Rudd’s attempts to shut down Brooklyn College were rejected by the students there.  But he found success at elite Columbia University.</p>
<p>Like many of the violent troublemakers during the 1960s and 1970s, Bill Ayers was the son of privilege, specifically of the politically powerful and wealthy Thomas Ayers.</p>
<p>After admittedly bombing police stations and government buildings and spending a decade in reasonable comfort on the run from the law, Bill Ayers earned two graduate degrees in education in record time, immediately obtained a teaching position in his hometown of Chicago, and swiftly rose up the tenure ladder to “Distinguished Professor.” He used his time as a professor at the public university to proselytize for the communist revolution, filling up over 40 pages of a curriculum vitae with regurgitated nonsensical agitprop.  He earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Bennington College (taking a leave from his teaching on the taxpayers’ dime) and turned his creative dissertation into the book <i>Fugitive Days</i>.  Now he is being given a public platform to promote his second memoir <i>Public Enemy</i>, speaking at public colleges as well as public events like the <a href="http://www.wisconsinbookfestival.org/events/public-enemy">Wisconsin Book Festival</a>.  <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2013/10/14/morning-joe-cant-stand-gingrich-welcomes-radical-bomber-bill-ayers-who-h">MSNBC</a> gave him a platform last week with a spin worthy of the old Soviet Union, with a lead-in of clips of Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign accusing Barack Obama of “palling around” with terrorists, namely Ayers.</p>
<p>Dressed in his customary pseudo-proletariat chic, Bill Ayers presented himself simply as a retired professor, a concerned grandfather, who had led an “antiwar group.”  There is a “collective responsibility” for the excesses of the era, he said in his fake conciliatory voice.  “We all should apologize,” he said, naming Henry Kissinger, John Kerry, Bob Kerry, Angela Davis, and Jane Fonda.  He had no regrets for destroying government property “in opposition to a genocidal war.” Presenting himself as a victim of “guilt by association,” Ayers distanced himself from Obama—no doubt making Obama very happy. The interview ended with stories about his grandchildren’s bedtime hour.</p>
<p>Ayers was given the floor on national television to lie about his terroristic past.  Larry Grathwohl, who passed away in July, <i>testified</i> in 1974 before the United States Senate subcommittee on internal security.</p>
<p>Grathwohl told the committee, “Bill [Ayers] was the person who directed the ‘focle’ that I was part of to place the bomb at the DPOA [the Detroit Police Officers Association] Building.  He designed the bomb and told me that he would get the necessary materials, the dynamite, et cetera, and 4 days later Bill broke that focle that I was part of up . . . and we were directed to go to Madison, Wis.”  This was in 1970.</p>
<p>A focle was a four-person task force, small in size to evade detection.</p>
<p>Grathwohl talked about the case again at a 2012 conference sponsored by America’s Survival:</p>
<p>“during the meeting with Bill Ayers [in 1970] we were told that our objective would be to place bombs at the Detroit Police Officers Association . . . and at the 13<sup>th</sup> precinct.  Furthermore, Bill instructed us to determine the best time to place these explosive devices that would result in the greatest number of deaths and injuries. . . .”</p>
<p>When Grathwohl pointed out to Ayers that a Red Barn restaurant next door would most likely be destroyed and the customers killed during the explosion, Ayers replied “sometimes innocent people have to die in a revolution.”</p>
<p>At the 1974 Congressional hearing, Grathwohl described another meeting where “Bill [Ayers] started off telling us about the need to raise the level of the struggle and for stronger leadership inside the Weatherman ‘focles’ and inside the Weatherman organization as a whole.  And he cited as one of the real problems was that someone like Bernardine Dohrn had to plan, develop and carry out the bombing of the police station in San Francisco. . . .”  That bomb killed Sergeant Brian V. McDonnell in 1970.</p>
<p>Larry testified that Ayers had said that the bomb was placed on the window ledge.  Ayers described the kind of bomb it was “to the extent of saying what kind of shrapnel was used in it.” That case is still open.</p>
<p>Last week, On MSNBC Ayers said, “we [Weatherman] made a decision while we were willing to engage in extreme tactics, we would not harm human life. . . . We never hurt or harmed anyone.  We destroyed property.”</p>
<p>Bill Ayers, the privileged professor, was allowed to lie on television.  Larry Grathwohl did what most working class Vietnam vets did: he worked.  His story was nearly forgotten, until Cliff Kincaid started inviting him to America’s Survival conferences a few years ago.  That was where I met Larry.  This spring my writing partner Tina Trent republished Grathwohl’s memoir and the three of us <a href="http://www.dissidentprof.com/latest-dispatches/152-the-bill-ayers-weatherman-road-show.html">toured Florida</a> in May, speaking about Grathwohl’s book, Bill Ayers, and the terroristic Weatherman.  We found a receptive audience at tea party groups, many of them military veterans.</p>
<p>On his MSNBC stage, Ayers “confessed” to past “self-righteousness.” But Ayers is such a product of privilege that he cannot see his own disregard for those not of his elite class of communists.  In 1970, he conveyed contempt for the mostly black patrons who would have been killed at the Detroit restaurant by his bomb.  During his teaching career, he cheated thousands of “urban school” students of a legitimate education.  In his self-righteous first memoir <i>Fugitive Days</i>, he presented “Celeste,” the black family maid, as a cudgel with which to beat up his parents and their generation.  He brags about kissing a black girlfriend. He writes about dining at the St. Petersburg in San Francisco, while on the run from the FBI.  The owner is described as a “cheery old lady whose family had escaped the Bolsheviks and gone to China, only to flee the Maoists en route to Cuba, and then to run from Fidel, landing right here in the U.S., where, we hoped, if the pattern held, she was merely awaiting another revolution.”</p>
<p>Larry Grathwohl repeated the story, always with amazement and disbelief in his voice, about how the well-off young adults of the Weatherman would discuss what they would do after the “revolution”: order the reeducation of an estimated 100 million Americans and the execution of the estimated 25 million who would resist reeducation.</p>
<p>Bill Ayers has Larry Grathwohl to thank to sabotaging at least one of his bombs in Detroit.  Larry Grathwohl prevented the Weathermen from doing more harm than they did.</p>
<p>But as we can see by the way Ayers is feted by the liberal media, it is those from the upper classes still who are given the stage.</p>
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		<title>Red Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 04:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]></dc:creator>
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<p><strong>To order David Evanier&#8217;s <em>Red Love</em> on Kindle, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Love-ebook/dp/B00F2ONHBI/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1381772335&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=red+love+by+david+evanier">click here</a>.</strong></p>
<p><em>David Evanier, Red Love,</em><br />
<em> (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1991), 340 pp. </em><br />
<em>New edition published as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Love-ebook/dp/B00F2ONHBI/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1381772335&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=red+love+by+david+evanier">an E-Book</a> by The David Horowitz Freedom Center, 2013</em></p>
<p>There are times when if you want to know about an era, you should turn to great literature. There are many books written about the Old Left, and about the Cold War espionage case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Rosenberg-File-Second-Edition/dp/0300072058">including one</a> of which I am co-author. But few give readers a sense of what the era of the Rosenberg’s espionage activity and the life of their comrades in the American Communist Party were really like, as does this novel by David Evanier.</p>
<p>Written as an account of the effort to write a book about the Rosenbergs by a fictional author named Gerald Lerner, a stand-in for Evanier himself, we learn from the very first page that Evanier will be anything but respectful to the doomed spying couple.  Named Dolly and Solly Rubell in the book (but clearly Ethel and Julius),  Evanier gives us his perspective in the name of Lerner:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I have f&#8211;ked the Rubells in this book. I have f&#8211;ked this gentle, peace-loving couple. And I feel very much better.”</p></blockquote>
<p>And indeed he does, and so will the reader. For the Rubells are not the tortured innocent victims of McCarthyism so familiar to readers of the other novels about the Rosenbergs, or to those who were foolish enough to see Tony Kushner’s play <em>Angels in America</em>, in which the late Rosenberg prosecutor and McCarthy associate Roy Cohn is showing dancing over the characters of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in a gleeful macabre scene.</p>
<p>As one character puts it at the start of a chapter, “Whatever they did, they didn’t do it.” So make no mistake. The Rubells are guilty of what they were charged with; they are Soviet agents who continually rationalize their fealty to the Soviet Union of Joe Stalin with gross apologetics.  As one Party activist says in the novel,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Move the clock back to the 1940s, when Stalin, the little father, the model for progressive humanity, the feeder of the hungry….What if he and the Rubell couple is allowed the opportunity to help Stalin achieve his goals? What could they be guilty of?”</p></blockquote>
<p>We know that the real Rosenbergs wrote Party manufactured letters to their children from prison &#8212; widely distributed as propaganda for their cause. And so do the Rubells. As Solly writes in one letter meant to be given to his children after he is executed,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Up to the very last minute liars have tried to convince Mommy and me that the Soviet Union is a bad place. But we know it is tops.”</p></blockquote>
<p>If you think the real Rosenbergs would never have penned anything so stupid to their sons from the death house, think again: the real letters are much, much worse, and Evanier manages to parody their style and their mundane writing brilliantly.</p>
<p>Fortunately, Evanier’s writing is anything but mundane. It is, in fact, dazzling. He can take you from broad parody and satire, often hilarious&#8212;and within a few pages move to a dark and powerful chapter that gives readers the essence of what it was like to suffer in the Soviet Gulag. Readers are introduced to a fictional character named Antonio Carelli, son of an Italian immigrant to the United States, who followed his father’s path and became an organizer for the Young Communist League in Buffalo, and who left with his father for the Soviet Union when he was arrested and deported after a short prison sentence for radical activity in Youngstown, Ohio.</p>
<p>Arriving in their beloved Soviet Union, he and his son are arrested as dangerous foreigners and sent to the Gulag. Basing his portrayal of life there on the literature of Solzhenitsyn, Evanier lets us feel the deep despair of life in hell. Mixing truth with fantasy, Carelli is placed by Evanier in the same camp when the American dupes including Vice-President Henry A. Wallace and the Asian expert and Johns Hopkins professor, Owen Lattimore, arrive in the Kolyma region in 1944. They were actually there on a trip in which Wallace described the camp as a beautiful place inhabited by happy, prosperous prisoners. What he saw, of course, were NKVD agents acting their parts, which successfully fooled the gullible American visitors.  Watching the charade and a chorus of actual prisoners perform, one of the group &#8212; this time a fictional lawyer &#8212; says,</p>
<blockquote><p>“So much caring! We Americans have so much to learn from them. I’m so ashamed of our superficial values, on things, on getting ahead and competing with the next guy. It makes me want to vomit all over again!”</p></blockquote>
<p>Carelli, we learn, was eventually freed in the period of the “thaw,” and before being rearrested, manages to leave and returns to the Buffalo he was born in. There he looks up old comrades, whom he was anxious to relate his experiences and tell them about their wasted lives in the movement. Most do not want to see him and do not return his calls. Finally, he meets an old comrade named Charlie Rosenbaum, who tells him “there is no more dream, because we found out about the Soviet Union.” But in a moment, he proudly tells him how his granddaughter has found a new dream &#8212; Castro’s Cuba &#8212; where she is cutting sugar cane with the Venceremos Brigades. “Perhaps there they’ll make the dream come true,” he tells Carelli. And soon we see how the Left perpetuates itself into the true believers of the young generation, who do not even realize that they are repeating the same foolish journey of their parents and grandparents.</p>
<p>And so in the granddaughter, we get the hint of the birth of the New Left, drawn to Cuba as her ancestors were drawn to Stalin’s paradise. The girl, named Prim Rosenbaum, offers her poetry on how great Communist Cuba is. “We prayed in the sun in front of the healthiest cows I’d ever seen.” Would someone say anything like this? I know from my own experience how true his parody is. In my trip to  Cuba with erstwhile Castroites in 1975, one member of our group, learning that the showplace psychiatric facility regularly lobotomized their patients, exclaimed: “We have to understand the difference between Communist lobotomies and capitalist lobotomies.”</p>
<p>And then there is that wonderful parody of Communist left-speak.  Speaking about his wife, Solly Rubell writes that Dolly “is the most beautiful person I have ever met…She has such revolutionary anger; she never deviates from it. She referred to Eisenhower the other day as a ‘guttersnipe in striped pants.’ And ‘a privileged fascist dog.’…she talks that way to me. I have learned so much from her integrity.”</p>
<p>At another time, Solly Rubell says that not only has “the U.S.S.R. had improved the lot of the underdog,” it actually put an end to “most death as we know it.” Another character named Strugin &#8212; someone modeled on the CP’s late top ideologue and would-be historian, Herbert Aptheker, tells the narrator Lerner that in the Soviet Union, his thin hair would grow back “as a matter of course.” The real Herbert Aptheker, when a friend asked him to explain why anti-Semitism was so prevalent in the Soviet Union, responded: “There is no anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. It is forbidden by Stalin’s Constitution.” Evanier knows the kind of apologia for terror that the American Reds regularly engaged in; he simply takes it one notch further by making it so ridiculous, that even an honest commie would realize that his own statements are just as foolish.</p>
<p>The Rosenberg case itself is actually a metaphor for the entire folly of the American Communists and their fellow-traveling brethren. The Rosenbergs are simply one of their numbers who took the extra step of service to Stalin&#8212;espionage on his terror state’s behalf. All good Reds, if asked, would have done the very same. They all believed that the Soviet Union was the future of humanity, the good regime towards which all progressives had to aspire to build an adjunct here in the United States.  They all thought that what we now know was built on terror and murder, was the only truly good society in the world- anything but a hoax. If challenged about the reality which many did know about, Stalin’s defenders would simply reply that it was capitalist propaganda, and if proven to be true, they would say it was the fault of necessary steps that had to be taken to protect it against the attempts of the U.S. to overthrow socialism.</p>
<p>As one character puts it, “there is only one Soviet Union in the world.” And those who viewed it as paradise, had but one job: to protect it, defend it, and serve its leader &#8211;Joseph Stalin. David Greenglass, Ethel’s brother who turned state’s witness and was imprisoned for fifteen years once put it to me, “We were soldiers for Stalin.” And in war, everything is fair. The horrible U.S. capitalist system was so evil, we are told, that not only did it pollute the atmosphere, but it was “turning innocent children into Zionists.” God forbid. In Stalin’s U.S.S.R., Zionists were hunted down and condemned as “rootless cosmopolitans,” dealt with by a bullet to the back of the head, or as was the fate of the Yiddish poet murdered by Stalin in his last years, victim of a supposed car crash, but actually an NKVD murder orchestrated to look like an accident.</p>
<p>The other great leftist cause of the 1930s is also not forgotten by Evanier, and that of course, is the Spanish Civil War, and the myth that only the Communists in the US and world-wide fought to give the democratic regime aid when threatened by Franco and the forces of fascism, all in the name of anti-fascism. We meet a character named Sam Kuznekow, modeled on the very real late veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, Robert Gladnick, a man I had got to know at the beginning of my own re-examination of the war, and with whom I exchanged a lengthy correspondence.</p>
<p>We learn the harsh reality of how the inexperienced soldiers were used as shock troops for Stalin’s Comintern army, left to die on the fields of Spain with no place to hide from the onslaught of the Franco army’s fusillade. As Kuznekow says to a Russian commander who sends the men out to their certain death, “This is a slaughter that no army would permit and I don’t want any part of it.” The response from the Commissar: “Soldiers must learn how to die!” Sentenced to death for their rebellious stance, the doomed men are told: “You will all be sentenced to death. And I want you to know this is nothing personal. This will be an objective trial. In fact, I can personally assure you that the balance of your subscriptions to the Daily Worker …will be transferred to your families in the States.” Sensing the dark mood in the killing chamber, the Soviet Commissar says: “Listen, this is a revolutionary necessity.”</p>
<p>The real Kuznekow, Bob Gladnick, learned the bitter truth and devoted himself to letting others know the real Soviet agenda in Spain &#8212; that of turning the leftist Republic if they only could, to what would have been the first “People’s Democracy” in the world &#8212; precisely the type of regimes the Soviets created in Eastern Europe after the end of World War II. Needless to say, he and the few others like him were savagely attacked by his former comrades as traitors and informers, cast into oblivion for their decision to tell the world the harsh truth.</p>
<p>The cause and movement for the Rosenbergs was merely one more attempt of the comrades in the United States to use their plight to gain support for Stalin’s goals during the Cold War. And in the case of the doomed couple, they were only all too willing to go to their deaths and play the part expected of them. Unlike their counterparts in Moscow’s many purge trials, they did not have to be tortured and fed a script to read in the courtroom. They lied on Stalin’s behalf all on their own, and were even willing to make their own children orphans and themselves as martyrs.</p>
<p>For years, the American left glamorized and memorialized them, even as today they declare others as guilty as the Rosenbergs to be innocent and victims of American imperialism.  Knowing this all to be false, David Evanier has brilliantly satirized the world of the gullible who made up the ranks of the Communists, and the belief of all their allies who believed that no nation was more at fault for the world’s sins than their own homeland, the United States of America.</p>
<p>I have always argued had the real Rosenbergs not been executed, the world would not have had the chance to condemn the U.S. for execution of a mother who left their children orphans. Even J. Edgar Hoover petitioned the White House not to have her put to death. Moreover, after the Khrushchev Report in 1956 and the beginning of acknowledgement of Stalin’s crimes, as well as the attempt of Stalin to destroy the entire Soviet Jewish community in the so-called “Doctor’s Plot,” the chance would have taken place that even the Rosenbergs would have had regrets about their wasted lives, and would have confessed and made public their disillusionment.</p>
<p>In the novel, Evanier has Dolly Rubell say that once the Eastern European regimes abandoned socialism, “on that day the Rubells will say they’re guilty!” That day might have occurred, and a real confession by the Rosenbergs, had they remained alive, would have completely destroyed the entire edifice of the mythical world of American Communism.</p>
<p>So read David Evanier’s Red Love, and painlessly learn about the lives and the tragedy of those who wasted their time on this earth in life dedicated to doing their part to help one of the last Century’s most tyrannical and murderous regimes.</p>
<p><em>Ronald Radosh is an Adjunct Fellow at The Hudson Institute, a columnist for PJ Media, and co-author of The Rosenberg File.</em></p>
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		<title>Young America&#8217;s Foundation Celebrates &#8216;No More Che Day&#8217;</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Flyers-no-more-che-day.1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-206725" alt="Flyers no more che day.1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Flyers-no-more-che-day.1.jpg" width="250" height="323" /></a>Editor&#8217;s note: October 9, 2013 marks the 5</i><i><sup>th</sup></i><i> anniversary of the </i><a href="http://www.yaf.org/eventdetails.aspx?id=7123"><i>YAF sponsored “No More Che Day.”</i></a><i> It also marks the 46</i><i><sup>th</sup></i><i> anniversary of Che Guevara’s death.</i></p>
<p>Good thing the college “hipsters” who wear Che T-shirts didn’t live in Stalinist Cuba under their idol.</p>
<p>“Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates!” snarled the KGB-mentored Che Guevara in 1961. “Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service! Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think of individuals! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">Individualism must disappear from Cuba!”</a></p>
<p>By the mid-&#8217;60s, the crime of a &#8220;rocker&#8221; lifestyle (blue jeans, long hair, fondness for the Beatles and Rolling Stones) or effeminate behavior got thousands of youths yanked out of Cuba&#8217;s streets and parks by Che’s KGB-trained secret police and dumped in prison camps with &#8220;Work Will Make Men Out of You&#8221; emblazoned in bold letters above the gate and with machine-gunners posted on the watchtowers. The initials for these camps were UMAP, not GULAG, but the conditions were quite similar.</p>
<p>Today, the world&#8217;s largest image of the man whom so many college hipsters sport on their shirts adorns Cuba&#8217;s headquarters and torture chambers for its KGB-trained secret police. Nothing could be more fitting.</p>
<p>The most popular version of the Che T-shirt, for instance, sports the slogan &#8220;fight oppression&#8221; under his famous countenance. This is the face of the second-in-command, chief executioner, and chief KGB liaison for a regime that jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin&#8217;s and murdered more people in its first five years in power than Hitler&#8217;s murdered in its first six.</p>
<p>Forty-six years ago today, Ernesto “Che” Guevara got a major dose of his own medicine. Without trial he was declared a murderer, stood against a wall and shot. If the saying “What goes around comes around” ever fit, it’s here.</p>
<p>“When you saw the beaming look on Che’s face as his victims were tied to the stake and blasted apart by the firing squad,” said a former Cuban political prisoner, to this writer, “you saw there was something seriously, seriously wrong with Che Guevara.”</p>
<p>As commander of the <i>La Cabana</i> execution yard, Che often shattered the skull of the condemned man (or boy) by firing the coup de grace himself. When other duties tore him away from his beloved execution yard, he consoled himself by viewing the slaughter. Che’s second-story office in La Cabana had a section of wall torn out so he could watch <a href="http://www.hfontova.com/che.html">his darling firing-squads at work.</a></p>
<p>Even as a youth, Ernesto Guevara’s writings revealed a serious mental illness. “My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any vencido that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!” This passage is from Ernesto Guevara’s famous Motorcycle Diaries, though Robert Redford somehow overlooked it while directing his heart-warming movie.</p>
<p>The Spanish word vencido, by the way, translates into “defeated” or “surrendered.” And indeed, the “acrid odor of gunpowder and blood” very, very rarely reached Guevara’s nostrils from anything properly describable as combat. It mostly came from the close-range murders of unarmed and defenseless men (and boys). Carlos Machado was 15 years old in 1963 when the bullets from the firing squad shattered his body. His twin brother and father collapsed beside Carlos from the same volley. All had resisted Castro and Che’s theft of their humble family farm, all refused blindfolds and all died sneering at their Communist murderers, as did thousands of their valiant countrymen.</p>
<p>“Viva Cuba Libre! Viva Cristo Rey! Abajo Comunismo!”</p>
<p>“The defiant yells would make the walls of <i>La Cabana</i> prison tremble,” wrote eyewitness to the slaughter, Armando Valladares.</p>
<p>The one genuine accomplishment in Che Guevara’s life was the mass-murder of defenseless men and boys. Under his own gun dozens died. Under his orders thousands crumpled. At everything else Che Guevara failed abysmally, even comically.</p>
<p>During his Bolivian “guerrilla” campaign, Che split his forces whereupon they got hopelessly lost and bumbled around, half-starved, half-clothed and half-shod, without any contact with each other for 6 months before being wiped out. They didn’t even have WWII vintage walkie-talkies to communicate and seemed incapable of applying a compass reading to a map. They spent much of the time walking in circles and were usually within a mile of each other. During this blundering they often engaged in ferocious firefights against each other.</p>
<p>“You hate to laugh at anything associated with Che, who murdered so many,” says Felix Rodriguez, the Cuban-American CIA officer who played a key role in tracking him down in Bolivia. “But when it comes to Che as &#8216;guerrilla&#8217; you simply can’t help but guffaw.”</p>
<p>So for many, the question remains: how did such an incurable doofus, sadist and epic idiot attain such iconic status?</p>
<p>The answer is that this psychotic and thoroughly unimposing vagrant named Ernesto Guevara de la Serna y Lynch had the magnificent fortune of linking up with modern history’s top press agent, Fidel Castro, who — from the New York Times’ Herbert Matthews in 1957, through CBS’s Ed Murrow in 1959 to CBS’s Dan Rather, to ABC’s Barbara Walters — always had the mainstream media anxiously scurrying to his every beck and call and eating <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">out of his hand like trained pigeons.</a></p>
<p>Had Ernesto Guevara not linked up with Raul and Fidel Castro in Mexico City that fateful summer of 1955 — had he not linked up with a Cuban exile named Nico Lopez in Guatemala the year before who later introduced him to Raul and Fidel Castro in Mexico City — everything points to Ernesto continuing his life of a traveling hobo, panhandling, mooching off women, staying in flophouses and scribbling unreadable poetry.</p>
<p>Che’s image is particularly ubiquitous on college campuses. But in the wrong places. He belongs in the marketing, PR and advertising departments. His lessons and history are fascinating and valuable, but only in light of P.T. Barnum. One born every minute, Mr. Barnum? If only you’d lived to see the Che phenomenon. Actually, ten are born every <i>second.</i></p>
<p>His pathetic whimpering while dropping his fully-loaded weapons as two Bolivian soldiers approached him on Oct. 8, 1967 (“Don’t shoot!” I’m Che!” I’m worth more to you alive than dead!”) proves that this cowardly, murdering swine was unfit to carry his victims’ slop buckets.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 04:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/west_diana.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-199883" alt="west_diana" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/west_diana.jpg" width="249" height="277" /></a><strong>Reprinted from <a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2013/08/07/why-i-wrote-a-take-down-of-diana-wests-awful-book/">PJ Media</a>. </strong></p>
<p>Yesterday, my review of Diana West’s new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008BU71BM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B008BU71BM&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=pjmedia-20"><i>American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character</i></a>, was <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ronald-radosh/mccarthy-on-steroids/">posted at FrontPageMagazine</a>, the website of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. I urge PJM readers to go and read it, and to consider the arguments I make about why I find her book to be a betrayal, but not the kind she charges existed in our past. Indeed, what I argue in the review is that her book is actually a betrayal of serious and honest history, an ideologically bound argument that ignores real evidence, distorts our past, and creates a mythical counter-narrative to understanding decisions made during WWII.</p>
<p>Here is my concluding paragraph:</p>
<blockquote><p>Conspiratorial theories of history are easy to create once you are prepared to ignore the realities on the ground, or regard those who do take them into account as part of the conspiracy too. This is the path that Diana West has taken in her misconceived and misleading book. Why did the U.S. and Britain not prevent the totalitarian USSR from taking over Eastern Europe after it had defeated the totalitarian Nazis?  It had nothing to do with the Rubik’s Cube of diplomatic and military considerations, a calculus that had to take into account the willingness of the American and British publics to continue to sacrifice and their soldiers to die.  No, it was a conspiracy so immense, as West’s hero Joe McCarthy might have said, that it allowed Western policy to be dictated by a shadow army of Soviet agents. It is unfortunate that a number of conservatives who should know better have fallen for West’s fictions.  It is even more depressing that her book perpetuates the dangerous one dimensional thinking of the Wisconsin Senator and his allies in the John Birch Society which have allowed anti anti-communism to have a field day in our intellectual culture.</p></blockquote>
<p>What I want to discuss is why I took upon myself the job of writing a lengthy and detailed critique of West’s book.</p>
<p>First, as a historian and a conservative, I believe that my responsibility is to the truth. I cannot countenance conspiracy theories, whether they come from those on the Left or those on the Right. On these pages and elsewhere, I have regularly written about the corruption of history by writers such as Howard Zinn, and the team of Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick. I have also written a great deal about Soviet espionage, the influence of Communism on American life, and the fallacies of anti anti-Communism.</p>
<p>When self-proclaimed conservatives echo the methodology and conspiratorial type thinking of those on the Left, because they consider themselves conservatives means that those of us who want a responsible, sane conservative movement, and a vibrant conservative intellectual culture, have the responsibility to speak out and to criticize, no matter what source it comes from.</p>
<p>An analogy can be made with the dilemma William F. Buckley Jr. faced when, in 1962, he decided to take on first Robert Welch, the head of the John Birch Society, and later the Society itself. At the <i>New Republic</i> last year, <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/node/102241/print">Geoffrey Kabaservice</a> wrote the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>Having spent the better part of a decade doing research in Buckley’s archives, I can attest that it was no easy matter for Buckley to take on Welch and his Society. Many of the financial backers and readers of Buckley’s <i>National Review</i> magazine admired Welch and his organization; Buckley’s own mother was a Bircher. His editorial colleagues warned that criticizing Welch risked splitting the conservative movement. Buckley’s position as movement leader would be jeopardized by the liberal plaudits that predictably would follow his editorial condemnation of the Birchers; as Buckley put it privately, “I wish to hell I could attack them without pleasing people I can’t stand to please.”</p>
<p>Nonetheless, in February 1962 <i>National Review</i> ran a six-page editorial against Welch, arguing that he was damaging the anti-Communist cause by “distorting reality” and failing to distinguish between an “active pro-Communist” and an “ineffectually anti-Communist liberal.” It would be several years before Buckley excommunicated all Birchers from the conservative movement, but his editorial emphasized that “There are bounds to the dictum, Anyone on the right is my ally.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Two years later, Buckley finally wrote his famous editorial condemning the Society. The conspiracy theories of the Society, Buckley wrote, made conservatism seem “ridiculous and pathological,” allowing liberals to portray conservatives as extremists. Conservatism, he wrote, had to expand “by bringing into our ranks those people who are, at the moment, on our immediate left…If they think they are being asked to join a movement whose leadership believes the drivel of Robert Welch, they will pass by crackpot alley, and will not pause until they feel the embrace of those way over on the other side, the Liberals.”</p>
<p>As his biographer <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743217977/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0743217977&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=pjmedia-20">John B. Judis</a> wrote in 2001, Buckley and <i>National Review,</i>“drew the line when the John Birch Society and its founder, Robert Welch, began to maintain that the American government itself was being run by Communists rather than liberals. Such a position not only ran directly counter to that of <i>National Review</i>; it also threatened to cast the Right into what [James] Burnham called ‘crackpot alley.’” As readers of Diana West’s book know, she argues that during World War II and the early Cold War, the American government was “occupied” and run by Stalin’s secret police, through its agents who controlled the White House. This is, indeed, thinking that echoes Robert Welch.</p>
<p>Of course, Buckley was talking about a movement, and not about a book. But the analogy holds. Diana West’s thought pattern indeed bears a strong resemblance to that of the Birch Society and Robert Welch. As Buckley himself wrote in <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/goldwater-the-john-birch-society-and-me/"><i>Commentary</i></a> in March of 2008, Birch thinking went like this:</p>
<blockquote><p>The fallacy is the assumption that you can infer subjective intention from objective consequence; we lost China to the Communists; therefore the President of the United States and the Secretary of State wished China to go to the Communists.</p></blockquote>
<p>Readers of Diana West’s tome will no doubt quickly see the similarity in what Buckley attacked as the method of the conspiratorial mind. West believes that since Eastern Europe was lost to the West and conquered by Stalin, it meant that the American and British leaders, including FDR and Winston Churchill, were presiding over an “occupied” and controlled government. As I write in my review, West thinks that “The Roosevelt administration [was] penetrated, fooled, subverted, in effect hijacked by Soviet agents… and engaged in a ‘sell-out’ to Stalin” that “conspirators of silence on the Left…would bury for as long as possible, desperately throwing mud over it and anyone who wanted the sun to shine in.” According to West, it was only because Washington was “Communist-occupied” that the United States aligned itself with the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany and, later, that the President allowed Stalin to gain Eastern Europe.</p>
<p>The other question I wondered about is why so many conservatives, who I believe should really know better, have responded so favorably to her book. I think the answer is that they are fed up with the leftist narrative that there was no threat from Communism in any way; that the 50s were a period of witch-hunts against non-existent enemies; and that, therefore, anyone who realizes this was not an accurate picture of that era must be correct in their analysis about what happened.</p>
<p>As I believe I show in my review, West takes this understanding one step further — to argue that not only was Communism an actual threat, and not only had Communists infiltrated the government during the New Deal, but that they actually controlled and ran the White House and made the major foreign policy decisions. She also castigates all of those, including me, who have written for decades about Soviet espionage and Communism. While she acknowledges at times that scholars like me, Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes, Alexander Vassiliev and Allen Weinstein have done a yeoman’s job of revealing the extent of Soviet espionage, she condemns all of us for not accepting her judgment and conclusion that American policy was made for the benefit of the Soviet Union, and that the spies literally ran both the American and British governments.</p>
<p>She knocks down straw men continually. For example, on the question of espionage, she argues that all of us view Soviet espionage as a matter of personal conscience and “not as an issue of national security.” This is preposterous, and I point specifically to article Steve Usdin and I co-authored  in 2011 that appeared in <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/sobell-confession_554817.html"><i>The Weekly Standard</i></a>, in which among other things we specifically reveal what real damage the Rosenberg spy ring did to our national security, above and beyond trying to obtain material pertaining to the atomic bomb. Telling the truth, however, would interfere with her narrative in which she is continually trying to show that, in essence, even those who have exposed the extent of Soviet espionage are part of the great conspiracy to cover up the truth.</p>
<p>I end by asking readers to carefully read my review, and to reconsider jumping on the Diana West bandwagon. To continue to give her very bad book credibility will only work to harm the integrity and reputation of conservative intellectuals. After all, it has been decades since William F. Buckley Jr. acted courageously to push the Birchers out of the movement he was building. Do we really want to welcome their successors into it now, after so many lessons have been learned?</p>
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		<title>Capital, Capitalists and Capitalism (Part I)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 04:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Hendrickson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reclaiming the language of freedom and prosperity. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/120905055240-money-bills-story-top.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-199359" alt="120905055240-money-bills-story-top" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/120905055240-money-bills-story-top-450x330.jpg" width="270" height="198" /></a><strong>Introduction:</strong> It is difficult to think of terms in the realm of political economy that are less understood and more controversial than<i> capital</i>, <i>capitalist</i>, and <i>capitalism</i>. For the political right, these terms connote liberty, prosperity, opportunity, and the American Dream. For the political left, these words represent evil and injustice. Indeed, so vehement and hate-filled have been the condemnations of <i>capital</i>, <i>capitalist,</i> and <i>capitalism</i> over the years that the words themselves have been stripped of their objective lexicographical definitions. This hinders honest dialogue and renders rational debate nearly impossible. It seems that libertarians and conservatives on the one side, and liberals and other statists on the other, inhabit parallel mental universes in which the same words represent vastly different concepts.</span></b></p>
<p>An erstwhile socialist, I now am firmly in the camp of those who think these three c-words are honorable and worth vigorously defending against the ignorant and/or malicious attacks against them. The political left is comprised of individuals who, for a combination of psychological and ideological reasons, crave power over others. Seeking relentlessly to expand government power over individual lives, liberty, and property, leftists employ the scurrilous tactics of caricature, distortion, and Orwellian mutilation to disgrace these terms so that they can more effectively advance their agenda.</p>
<p>What I propose to do in the following 6-part series is to rescue and rehabilitate these three important terms from those who wish to permanently discredit them. Preventing the left from neutralizing our verbal tools by redefining beyond recognition is a necessary task in the struggle to halt their attempts to replace individual rights and liberty, and its economic corollary of the “invisible hand” described by Adam Smith with the heavy hand of government tyranny implemented by taking control over human economic activity.</p>
<p>Let’s get the easy term out of the way first. In fact, since <i>capital</i> is the root of the other two terms, it is the logical starting point anyhow.</p>
<p><b>Capital</b></p>
<p>Capital. “&#8230;In political economy, the product of industry which remains&#8230;after a portion of what is produced is consumed, and which is still available for further production.”—Webster<sup>1</sup></p>
<p>“Cash or goods used to generate income”—InvestorWords.com<sup>2</sup></p>
<p>Compared to<i> capitalists</i> and<i> capitalism</i>, <i>capital</i> is a term that should be relatively uncontroversial and the easiest for us to agree upon an objective definition for it. In its fundamental economic sense, capital is simply one of the factors of production—along with land (natural resources) and labor—that entrepreneurs or managers (whether singular or plural, private or public sector) employ in the production of goods and services. <i>Capital </i>is, or at least should be, a value-free word. It is no more &#8220;good&#8221; or &#8220;evil&#8221; than nouns like &#8220;rock&#8221; or &#8220;river,”<sup>3</sup> or, more to the point, like “tools,” “machines,” or “equipment”—the various types of capital goods of which capital itself is the more liquid, elemental form.</p>
<p>Whether we are talking about financial capital or the capital goods into which financial capital is translated, capital comes from wealth that has been produced but not consumed. Economists sometimes refer to capital as the “produced means of production.”  The classic classroom example of capital is the farmer’s seed corn—the part of this year’s crop that isn’t consumed, but saved for producing future crops. Capital is the produced wealth that is saved so that it can be employed in producing goods and services for future consumption.</p>
<p>In a free society, capital comes either from the savings of individuals or the profits of business enterprises—in either case, from the surplus of income over expenses. In a society where the state controls some or all of the decisions about what and how much is produced, the state appropriates wealth from the private sector to obtain the capital for state-financed projects.</p>
<p>Regardless of the governmental system under which humans live, until we learn where to find daily manna or how to feed over 5,000 people with a few loaves and fishes, it will remain true that every society, without exception, needs capital in order to survive and prosper. It doesn’t matter whether one favors socialism or free markets or some mixture of the two; it is an inescapable fact that people either accumulate and use capital, or languish in economic primitivism and poverty.</p>
<p>The old Marxian notion that capital is the enemy of working people is belied by a simple, undeniable truism: “A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital per capita.”<sup>4</sup> Without capital at their disposal, workers’ productivity remains low. The historical record shows that increases in wages and standards of living rise are driven by increases in the productivity of labor. In turn, the primary driver of the productivity of labor is how much capital labor has at its disposal.<sup>5</sup></p>
<p>A ditch-digger who uses a backhoe not only moves more dirt per hour and consequently receives more pay, but he also is freed from the backbreaking exertions that a worker equipped only with a shovel must endure. Capital liberates labor from many forms of drudgery. A socialist regime may enforce strict economic equality and so fulfill a socialist theory of justice, but no government can legislate or decree wealth without capital and capital goods to multiply the productivity of labor, any more than a human being can travel at 75 mph or lift a ton of matter using only his own power.</p>
<p>Many critics believe that capital and labor are irreconcilable enemies—that capital evilly exploits labor and keeps workers poor. How then, does one explain the fact that the countries that have the highest capital per capita invested are the countries where the standards of living are highest or whose economies are growing at the fastest rates? The poorest countries are not those where capital is abundant, but where it is most scarce. Every year I break the “bad news”  to my Econ 101 students that we Americans have been “exploited”  by capital to a greater extent than any other people in the history of the world. It is tragicomic that leftist professors apparently can’t see the irony and idiocy of teaching their students that capital is rapacious, dehumanizing, and destructive when, in fact, more capital has been invested in the USA than any other country in the world and that the USA also happens to be the most affluent country in history.</p>
<p>Poor people in Third World countries don’t share American professors’ disdain for capital; on the contrary, although they may not understand the underlying economics, their daily hope and prayer is that they themselves some day will be “exploited”  (enriched) even one-tenth as much as we have been.</p>
<p>Just as foreign capital helped to make us the richest country in the world, so today the astounding explosion of wealth in China is turbo-charged by the jet fuel of FDI (Foreign Direct Investment), i.e., foreign capital, added to China’s considerable supply of domestically accumulated capital. Although China is still nominally a Communist state and far from being a free society, their Communist Party leaders are unmistakably—indeed, emphatically—pro-capital. This stands in marked contrast to Barack Obama’s hostility to capital formation as manifested in his hostility to profits, one of the major sources of capital accumulation. Unfortunately, the hostility and misunderstanding that surround the terms <i>capitalist</i> and <i>capitalism</i> often rubs off on the neutral, objective term <i>capital</i>. The remainder of this series will try to rescue and rehabilitate those two tortured terms.</p>
<p><strong>Read Part II of &#8220;Capital, Capitalists and Capitalism&#8221; in the next issue of FrontPage Magazine. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong></p>
<p><sup>1</sup> <i>Webster’s Deluxe Unabridged Dictionary</i>, Second Edition, (c) Simon &amp; Schuster, 1983, p. 268.</p>
<p><sup>2</sup> <a href="http://www.investorwords.com/694/capital.html">www.investorwords.com/694/capital.html</a></p>
<p><sup>3</sup> Craig Columbus &amp; Mark W. Hendrickson, <i>God &amp; Man on Wall Street—The Conscience of Capitalism</i>; New York; Brick Tower Press, 2012, p. 18.</p>
<p><sup>4</sup> Ludwig von Mises, <i>Economic Policy</i>, South Bend: Regnery/Gateway, Inc., 1979; p. 14.</p>
<p><sup>5</sup> F.A. Harper, <i>Why Wages Rise</i>, Irvington, NY: The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., 1957; pp. 14-34.</p>
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		<title>The Radical Hijacking of the Zimmerman Verdict</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/trayvonbanner.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-198267" alt="trayvonbanner" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/trayvonbanner-450x320.jpg" width="270" height="192" /></a>A number of radical groups &#8212; including Marxist, Socialist, and other groups whose goal is the overthrow of the American system &#8212; have seized on the Trayvon Martin verdict and are now organizing events and rallies trying to instigate anger over the verdict to serve their own agenda.</p>
<p>The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) organized a rally in San Francisco that drew several hundreds within hours of the verdict. PSL is also holding a number of events related to police brutality, which they’ve augmented to focus on the Trayvon Martin verdict. In Chicago, they <a href="http://pslweb.org/">held a study group </a>titled “Stand Up Against Police Brutality and Justice for Trayvon Martin” on July 23, 2013. A similar event will be held in San Francisco on July 26, 2013. A major rally against police brutality in Syracuse, New York is slated for August 21, 2013.</p>
<p>According to PSL and groups with a similar ideological bent, the police are merely tools of the capitalists, used to suppress the working class, which PSL declares has been given the shaft by America’s capitalistic system. Eugene Puryear is an organizer with PSL and <a href="http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/newspaper/vol-7-no-9/the-cops-and-the-war-on-black-america.html">he explained</a> the group&#8217;s view in the most recent issue of Liberation News, the magazine published by PSL.</p>
<blockquote><p>Militarized policing became the status quo, creating a massive apparatus that keeps itself going by always creating new “wars”. What started as a war on revolutionaries switched to the so-called “War on Drugs” and now the “War on Terror.” Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the suppression of the radical wing of the social movements of the era significantly weakened those who would have been the principal obstacles to the mass incarceration policies and police repression against Black America, trends that intensified in the 1980’s and continue to this day.</p></blockquote>
<p>PSL and groups like it see the Trayvon Martin affair as another example of misplaced priorities and inherent racism in the criminal justice system.</p>
<p>The New Black Panther Party will use the Trayvon Martin verdict as the main theme of its annual “Million Youth March,” which will be held in <a href="http://www.ezmediahost.com/MYM/trayvon.htm">Harlem, New York on</a> September 7, 2013. On its website announcing the event, the New Black Panthers proudly proclaim that they’ve been in favor of vigilante justice in this case for months.</p>
<blockquote><p>We responsibly identified our constitutional rights to offer a $10,000.00 reward for anyone that could keep up with this Zimmerman whom we fear would try to leave the country. We also, under the United States Constitution, gave the city of Sanford, Florida and the United States Attorney General, our brother, Eric Holder that we were following protocol of issuing a citizen’s arrest and that we could prove probable cause. We would make it our mission to bring in the murderer George Michael Zimmerman, who is still with his father and mother, Robert and Gladys Zimmerman.</p></blockquote>
<p>The National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression (NAARPR) issued a statement as well, condemning the verdict as another example of the racism inherent in the justice system. The NAARPR favors a total abolition of America’s prison system. <a href="http://www.enewspf.com/opinion/commentary/44312-chicago-alliance-against-racist-and-political-repression-the-murder-of-trayvon-martin-and-acquittal-of-george-zimmerman-is-another-dagger-in-the-heart-of-democracy.html">The statement</a> from the NAARPR also indicated that the verdict is another example of the inherent racism in our justice system.</p>
<blockquote><p>Two things have occurred in the past month which indicate that African Americans have no rights that white law makers, police and racist vigilantes are bound to respect. The first was the U.S. Supreme Court gutting of the Voting Rights Act, characterizing it as “perpetual racial entitlements” and thereby perpetually entitling white representatives of ruling elites to disenfranchise African Americans in an effort to bring back Jim Crow. The second was the acquittal Saturday of George Zimmerman, murderer of Trayvon Martin.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Socialist Worker, the newspaper of the International Socialist Organization, <a href="http://socialistworker.org/featured/racism">also dedicated an entire section in its last newspaper to the Martin verdict</a>.</p>
<p>At nearly every rally related to the Trayvon Martin case, one can find radical groups like the above passing out literature and hoping to ride the coattails of the controversy to advance their own agenda. Their agenda includes the complete overhaul of the USA, into something that resembles a Marxist or anarchist state. Will they gain converts to the cause?</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ObamaWhiteRedsExploitingBlacksTheWeatherUndergroundBarackObamaandtheFundamentalTransformationoftheUnitedStates.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-197968" alt="ObamaWhiteRedsExploitingBlacksTheWeatherUndergroundBarackObamaandtheFundamentalTransformationoftheUnitedStates" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ObamaWhiteRedsExploitingBlacksTheWeatherUndergroundBarackObamaandtheFundamentalTransformationoftheUnitedStates-450x310.png" width="270" height="186" /></a>A great patriot who suffered and risked everything he had to defend the United States of America by infiltrating the Weather Underground terrorist group in the late 1960s, died suddenly last week.</p>
<p>Larry Grathwohl passed away at the age of 65 in his Cincinnati apartment on July 18, apparently of natural causes. Although no cause of death has been made public, he had been in poor health for some time.</p>
<p>Born in Cincinnati on Oct. 13, 1947, Larry David Grathwohl was a highly decorated Vietnam War veteran.</p>
<p>After fighting Communists abroad, he decided to fight them at home. He returned to America after serving in the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division and took it upon himself to infiltrate the group, joining the Weatherman collective in Cincinnati. In his clandestine enterprise he rose quickly, aided by his perceived authenticity as a working class Vietnam vet, unlike the spoiled rich-kid draft resisters who ran the organization.</p>
<p>The story of Grathwohl is very much also the story of Bill Ayers.</p>
<p>For reasons that historians will argue about for decades to come, the revelation that socialist Barack Hussein Obama was close personal friends with unrepentant Weather Underground bombers Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn failed to torpedo Obama&#8217;s presidential bid. In fact, it caused little more than a ripple at the time in the mainstream media and only came up when alleged journalist George Stephanopoulos, a longtime Bill and Hillary Clinton loyalist, raised the disturbing connection during a primary-season presidential debate to hurt Obama&#8217;s campaign.</p>
<p>Grathwohl&#8217;s daring venture into the bowels of the anti-American Left showed that the subversives of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO), which grew out of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) splinter group Weatherman, worked with Cuba and the governments of other hostile foreign nations.</p>
<p>WUO bombed the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol, and various other sites of national importance throughout the 1970s. One of its key leaders, trust fund baby Ayers, now portrayed by the media as an innocuous school reformer, famously said he didn’t regret what he did and he’d do it again.</p>
<p>Ayers claims the WUO never killed anyone. If that&#8217;s true, it wasn&#8217;t for lack of trying. Sometimes bombs failed to detonate. In a Greenwich Village townhouse, one bomb that was supposed to be planted at a well-attended dance exploded prematurely, killing several terrorists including Ayers&#8217;s girlfriend at the time.</p>
<p>Ayers was obsessed with violence, Grathwohl explained. Ayers spearheaded the group&#8217;s effort &#8220;to make plans to select and destroy targets that were symbols of authority. If necessary, we would kidnap government officials for ransom and assassinate others when it was politically expedient,&#8221; according to Grathwohl.</p>
<p>In his recently reissued work, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Down-America-Weathermen-ebook/dp/B00C4JBC2U">Bringing Down America</a>, a fascinating 1976 book he co-wrote with the late Frank Reagan, Grathwohl <a href="http://crimevictimsmediareport.com/?p=6297">summed up</a> why he took the unusual step of joining the Weather Underground in order to undermine it. He feared these New Left revolutionary communists might actually make headway with their totalitarian program.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Weathermen’s government will be one of total control over each individual in the society,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;In Weathermen terminology, this new society will be &#8216;one people working in total unity.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This means an elimination of all the individual freedoms we are accustomed to having; it was my absolute belief in the freedoms offered by our form of government that drove me to fight the Weathermen in the first place. Even though I am no longer in the underground movement where I could help prevent violence before it happened, as in Dayton, Detroit, Madison, and Buffalo, while creating as much disunity as possible, I am still working against Weathermen and other radical conspiracies. Their way of life is not mine.&#8221;</p>
<p>Although plenty of largely sympathetic drivel has been written about the Weather Underground, very little scholarship has focused on the truly diabolical plans the group hoped to execute had it succeeded in its stated goal of overthrowing the elected government of the United States. <i>Time</i> magazine once boosted Grathwohl as the only successful infiltrator of the Weather Underground, but the media could only yawn when he resurfaced on a few television shows during our terrorist-friendly president&#8217;s first drive for election. It was media malpractice at its worst.</p>
<p>By contrast, media outlets are enthralled by Ayers. Few treat him as a villain. Newspaper articles typically treat him as a well-intentioned community organizer or at worst as a misguided eccentric. The headline of a particularly infamous <i>New York Times</i> softball of a profile <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/books/no-regrets-for-love-explosives-memoir-sorts-war-protester-talks-life-with.html">published</a> on Sept. 11, 2001, labeled Ayers a mere &#8220;War Protester.&#8221; This would be akin to describing racial arsonist Al Sharpton as a social worker or a motivational speaker.</p>
<p>But Grathwohl&#8217;s secret project, which put his life at risk, showed Americans that the WUO aspired to liquidate those people who stubbornly clung to the American ideals that took a daily pounding throughout the national suicide attempt known as the 1960s.</p>
<p>Grathwohl attended a kind of Wannsee Conference at which WUO members plotted the murder of 25 million Americans. At the Wannsee meeting in 1942, Hitler&#8217;s cabinet members and senior bureaucrats set in motion the “Final solution to the Jewish question,” that led to the systematic murder of six million Jews.</p>
<p>At the meeting Grathwohl attended he said the Weather Underground planned to exterminate those who resisted the communist revolution. In a discussion about internal debates within the group, he <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ&amp;feature=youtu.be">told an interviewer</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>I brought up the subject of what’s going to happen after we take over the government: we become responsible then for administrating 250 million people. And there was no answers. No one had given any thought to economics, how you’re going to clothe and feed these people.</p>
<p>The only thing that I could get was that they expected that the Cubans and the North Vietnamese and the Chinese and the Russians would all want to occupy different portions of the United States.</p>
<p>They also believed that their immediate responsibility would be to protect against what they called the counter revolution and they felt that this counter revolution could best be guarded against by creating and establishing reeducation centers in the Southwest where would take all the people who needed to be reeducated into the new way of thinking and teach them how things were going to be.</p>
<p>I asked, well, what is going to happen to those people that we can’t reeducate that are diehard capitalists and the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further they estimated that they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say eliminate I mean kill – 25 million people.</p>
<p>I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people most of which have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well known educational centers and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people and they were dead serious.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>One chilling idea WUO leaders entertained was working enemies of the revolution to death in labor camps, something many so-called progressives today would no doubt favor doing to Tea Party supporters.</p>
<p>Nearly a half century after the fact, Ayers denies Grathwohl&#8217;s allegations. Of course, Ayers is a notorious prevaricator and he&#8217;s admitted his memory is awful. As Ayers wrote in <i>Fugitive Days</i>, which one reviewer called his &#8220;self-indulgent and morally clueless&#8221; 2001 memoir:</p>
<p>&#8220;Memory is a motherf&#8212;er. I myself remember almost nothing. I don’t remember the places I’ve been in the last year, where I’ve stayed, or the people I’ve met. It’s all a blur, really, all that traveling, all that work, for what?&#8221;</p>
<p>Grathwohl also helped law enforcement officials in their efforts to deal with other Weathermen.</p>
<p>He was involved in the case of Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell, who was killed in the Feb. 16, 1970 bombing of the Park Police Station in San Francisco. (Another police officer was injured.) McDonnell lingered a while. After suffering major injuries to his neck, McDonnell succumbed two days later. The murderers have never been brought to justice.</p>
<p>Grathwohl testified under oath that Ayers informed him that Dohrn planted the shrapnel-laden explosive device. The bomb contained nails and heavy construction staples, which Grathwohl said Ayers favored as a way of maximizing deaths and injuries. A federal grand jury investigated the couple in 2003 and in 2009 the San Francisco Police Officers union formally accused them of participating in the attack. The case is still open.</p>
<p>On Oct. 18, 1974 Grathwohl testified behind closed doors before the Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee about his experiences. (Months later the subcommittee made <a href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/29285NCJRS.pdf">the transcript from his testimony</a> public.) His testimony showed that his involvement with Weatherman and the aftermath ate up years of his life.</p>
<p>The U.S. government did recognize Grathwohl&#8217;s contributions in one way. At the time he agreed to penetrate the Weather Underground, Grathwohl was using the GI bill to attend college. The time limit ran out while he was still assisting the FBI. Congress approved a special law to restore his lapsed GI educational benefits.</p>
<p>Sen. Samuel Hayakawa (R-Calif.) introduced a private bill &#8220;for the relief of Larry Grathwohl,&#8221; on March 7, 1979. After Congress approved the bill, President Carter <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/96/s576">signed it into law</a> on Dec. 16, 1980.</p>
<p>Grathwohl paid a high personal price for his service to his country, as he explained in congressional testimony and in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Down-America-Weathermen-ebook/dp/B00C4JBC2U">Bringing Down America</a>.</p>
<p>When New York City police inadvertently &#8220;made&#8221; Grathwohl in front of other Weathermen, he had to be indicted in order to preserve his cover. After the prosecution fizzled, he still had to deal with the consequences of being named in a high-profile criminal case. His name made headlines in his hometown, not as a hero, but as a dangerous fugitive waging war against his own country as a member of a high-profile terrorist group. Even his own mother didn&#8217;t believe him at first when he explained he was working undercover.</p>
<p>Grathwohl did more undercover work for the FBI for a while, but he had to be careful because Ayers and his coterie of revolutionaries had put out a &#8220;wanted&#8221; poster after sentencing him to death for crimes against the people. The FBI helped him get work but on the books he remained a fugitive. He spent years in limbo waiting around to testify at trials as other Weathermen were apprehended.</p>
<p>Grathwohl&#8217;s testimony before a grand jury in Detroit was central in the case against Ayers and led to his indictment. Ayers eventually got away scot-free and set about poisoning the minds of the young, a task at which he has been enormously successful as an education theorist.</p>
<p>After leaving the service of the FBI, Grathwohl worked as a private investigator and operations manager for various corporations. In recent years he worked for Cliff Kincaid at America&#8217;s Survival.</p>
<p>Twice divorced, Grathwohl <a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cincinnati/obituary.aspx?n=larry-d-grathwohl&amp;pid=165975440&amp;fhid=27715">leaves behind</a> his best friend and ex-wife Sandi to whom he remained very close, along with three children, three grandchildren, his mother, and five siblings.</p>
<p>Disillusioned former leftist academic Tina Trent, one of Grathwohl&#8217;s many mourning friends in the conservative movement, wrote the introduction to the recent version of <i>Bringing Down America</i>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Larry died before achieving his goal of seeing Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Jeff Jones and other Weathermen convicted for their reign of terror against innocent police and soldiers,&#8221; Trent said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Larry was a sweet and decent and very wise man,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He risked his life to protect us from murderous adolescent Marxists like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.&#8221;</p>
<p>There would be family members of police and soldiers who would be without their loved ones today had Larry &#8220;not infiltrated the Weather Underground and exposed their crimes,&#8221; Trent said.</p>
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		<title>The Rosenberg Traitors: 60 Years Later</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/rosen.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-193936" alt="rosen" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/rosen.jpg" width="263" height="239" /></a>All those who treasure America’s liberties should solemnly observe the 60th anniversary this week of the execution of Communist spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.</p>
<p>Given that the Soviet Union they spied for is no more, why are the Rosenbergs still important?</p>
<p>They continue to matter because they remain part of the Left&#8217;s anti-American mythology. The Left denied the treachery of its pseudo-martyrs for decades, arguing that they were condemned to death in a wave of anti-Communist hysteria. This lie permeates American culture even today &#8212; in movies, plays, and literature &#8212; decades after Ron Radosh&#8217;s painstaking research conclusively established the Rosenbergs&#8217; guilt.</p>
<p>Electrocuted at Sing Sing on June 19, 1953, the penalty they paid was more severe than the sentences handed down to other American traitors such as <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2278" target="_blank">Alger Hiss</a></span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/robert-hanssen" target="_blank">Robert Hanssen</a></span>, and Aldrich Ames, who similarly jeopardized the nation by passing sensitive data to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But the punishment meted out to the Rosenbergs was just because their actions led to the deaths of who knows how many Americans.</p>
<p>The Rosenberg spy ring gave the USSR sensitive information about U.S. air capabilities in the Korean War and the secrets of the A-bomb, allowing our totalitarian enemies to develop nuclear weapons years earlier than they otherwise would have. These spies helped to change the balance of power in the world and emboldened the irredentist Soviet Union as it became a superpower and went on the march enslaving tens of millions in Eastern Europe.</p>
<p>The Rosenberg saga, which cleared the way for the meteoric rise of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his high-profile investigations into anti-American activities by U.S. citizens, unfolded during the so-called Red Scare of the 1950s, a relative nonevent that gave imaginative radicals something to whine about for years as they indulged their persecution complex.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the entire Cold War period less than two hundred leaders and functionaries of the [Communist] Party ever went to prison, in most cases serving less than two years,&#8221; David Horowitz writes in <i>Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey. </i>&#8220;This was not a small number or an insignificant price to pay for their political allegiances. But, considering the Party&#8217;s organizational ties to an enemy power armed with nuclear weapons poised to attack America, it was not a large one, either.&#8221;<i></i></p>
<p>Hollywood, long a hotbed of radicalism, came to the Party&#8217;s rescue, serving as a huge Soviet echo chamber. The dream factory helped the Communist cause by churning out product that falsely depicted anti-Communists as vicious opportunists conducting politically motivated witch hunts.</p>
<p>Because the Rosenbergs were unabashed Communists who didn&#8217;t hide their admiration of Stalin&#8217;s Soviet Union, the Left ran to their defense, using rationales that shifted over time as more and more damning evidence surfaced against the couple. When the Rosenbergs&#8217; guilt could no longer be disputed, their defenders pivoted, saying they had noble intentions and that the information passed on to the Soviets was junk.</p>
<p>These are all lies.</p>
<p>It is important to understand what the Rosenbergs actually did.</p>
<p>Specifically, the Rosenbergs were &#8220;motivated by loyalty to the Soviet Union, not opposition to fascism as their defenders claim,&#8221; Radosh <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/sobell-confession_554817.html?nopager=1" target="_blank">explains</a></span>. The Rosenberg spy ring &#8220;provided vast quantities of technical data to the Soviet Union that helped it achieve near parity with the United States in the skies over Korea and Vietnam.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;When the Cold War turned hot in Korea, this technology was used to kill American soldiers,&#8221; he writes. For example, the purloined information was &#8220;probably used in the design of the Russian high-tailed MiG fighter jet that was deployed in Korea against American airmen.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Rosenberg himself gave his Soviet handler Alexander Feklisov the proximity fuse, which was used to track Francis Gary Powers’ U-2 plane and to shoot it down during the Eisenhower administration,&#8221; Radosh <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=32430" target="_blank">writes</a></span>. The Rosenberg network &#8220;passed on the 12,000 page blueprints for the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, airborne radars for nighttime navigation and bombing,&#8221; and for innovations in radar technology.</p>
<p>Radosh quotes Steven Usdin from his 2005 book, <i>Engineering Communism</i>:<i><br />
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<blockquote><p>“Rosenberg’s band of amateur spies turned over detailed information on a wide range of technologies and weapon systems that hastened the Red Army’s march to Berlin, jump-started its postwar development of nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and later helped Communist troops in North Korea fight the American military to a standoff.”</p></blockquote>
<p>In sentencing the Rosenbergs, Judge Irving Kaufman <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROS_SENT.HTM" target="_blank">was unsparing</a></span> in his criticism:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I consider your crime worse than murder. Plain deliberate contemplated murder is dwarfed in magnitude by comparison with the crime you have committed. In committing the act of murder, the criminal kills only his victim. The immediate family is brought to grief and when justice is meted out the chapter is closed. But in your case, I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb years before our best scientists predicted Russia would perfect the bomb has already caused, in my opinion, the Communist aggression in Korea, with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason. Indeed, by your betrayal you undoubtedly have altered the course of history to the disadvantage of our country.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Arguably the most insidious untruth that emerged over the years from the ever expanding crazy-quilt of rationalizations generated by Rosenberg apologists was that the U.S. government executed the couple for their political ideas. This falsehood has been regurgitated over and over and over again in popular culture, unchallenged by facts.</p>
<p>Leftists use the Rosenbergs&#8217; story to attack all mid-century efforts to counteract subversive activity. They deny that Americans were ever justified in worrying about Communist infiltration or that the U.S. government was justified in prosecuting Communist spies like the Rosenbergs. But the historical record has confirmed that, as John Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev have documented in their book,  <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Spies-Rise-Fall-KGB-America/dp/0300123906/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1245213343&amp;sr=1-1">Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America</a>, Soviet agents did in fact heavily penetrate the U.S. government, the Democratic Party, organs of culture such as Hollywood and Broadway, the news media, and the scientific research community.</p>
<p>Despite the facts, however, the Left continues to falsify history and to use its playbook to discredit its political enemies with slander and lies. But in terms of the Rosenbergs, and so many other traitors who helped to advance the Communist cause, the historical facts cannot be disputed. And despite the Left&#8217;s denial regarding these two traitors, one fact remains clear: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were guilty &#8212; and they deserved what they got.</p>
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		<title>German Left Ramps Up Attacks on Islam Critics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Harrod]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The future for free speech in Europe gets darker. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/shutterstock_3359855.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-193533" alt="shutterstock_3359855" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/shutterstock_3359855-450x300.jpg" width="270" height="180" /></a>National parliamentarians from <a href="http://www.die-linke.de/dielinke/aktuell/"><i>Die Linke</i></a>, Germany’s post-communist Left Party, recently presented the federal German government with a Minor Inquiry (<i>Kleine Anfrage</i> or KA) concerning the government’s policy towards the conservative German website <i>Politically Incorrect</i> (PI).  This is only the latest effort by left-wing multiculturalists to quash open discussion, and criticism on Islam by designating the discourse “anti-democratic”and “right-wing extremist.&#8221;</p>
<p>As the online <a href="http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/btgo_1980/index.html#BJNR012380980BJNE011600311">rules of order</a> for the German parliament or <i>Bundestag</i> explain, the KA in <a href="http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/btgo_1980/__104.html">Section 104</a> allows the <i>Bundestag</i>’s president to receive questions for the federal government about “certain delineated areas.” Normally the president calls upon the government to answer the questions in writing within 14 days, although agreement with the KA authors can extend this time limit.  As the German-language <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleine_Anfrage_(Deutschland)">KA Wikipedia entry</a> explains, this procedure serves as a means of parliamentary control over the government by calling upon it to give account of a given state of affairs.</p>
<p><i>Die Linke</i>’s May 13, 2013, KA (document 17/13573, available in PDF format <a href="http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/">here</a>) notes that “Islam-hostile internet portals” like PI with its “tens of thousands of visitors daily” and parties such as the Freedom Party (<a href="http://diefreiheit.org/home/"><i>Die Freiheit</i></a>) and Germany’s <i>Pro</i> movement (<a href="http://www.pro-nrw.net/"><i>Pro NRW</i></a><i>/</i><a href="http://www.pro-deutschland-online.de/"><i>Pro Deutschland</i></a>) “warn against a supposed ‘Islamization of Europe.’”  In PI reader comments, meanwhile, Muslims “are collectively humiliated and denigrated in a racist, xenophobic, insulting, hate-filled, and at times violence-glorifying manner.”</p>
<p>Referenced by the KA and previously reported by this author (see <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/andrew-harrod/74-year-old-german-woman-convicted-of-hate-speech-against-muslims/">here</a> and <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3619/euro-islam">here</a>), PI and <i>Die Freiheit</i>, with common members such as <a href="http://www.bayern.diefreiheit.org/michael-sturzenberger/">Michael Stürzenberger</a>, have conducted a petition drive for a referendum to stop a proposed Center for Islam in Europe-Munich (<a href="http://www.zie-m.de/"><i>Zentrum für Islams in Europa-München</i></a> or ZIE-M).  The KA references a story from the Munich-based German national newspaper <a href="http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/islamgegner-michael-stuerzenberger-der-grosse-agitator-1.1654428"><i>Süddeutsche Zeitung</i></a> discussing how Stürzenberger commonly compares the Koran with Adolf Hitler’s <i>Mein Kampf</i> and <i>Die Freiheit</i> rallies have featured signs stating “Christ is truth, Muhammad is a lie.” Previously reported by this author as well (see <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/silencing_speech_on_islam.html">here</a> and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/andrew-harrod/german-government-ramps-up-monitoring-of-conservatives/">here</a>), the KA also notes that the Bavarian Office of Constitutional Protection (<i>Verfassungsschutz</i>) has recently begun monitoring Bavarian chapters of PI/<i>Die Freiheit</i> due to “anti-constitutional” sentiments.</p>
<p>A previous August 18, 2011, <i>Die Linke</i> KA (<a href="http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/">17/6823</a>)  had also dealt with PI/<i>Die Freiheit</i> in the wake of the July 22, 2011, massacre perpetrated in Norway by <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/anders_behring_breivik/index.html">Anders Behring Brevik</a>.  This earlier KA bemoaned in Germany an “increasing hostility to Islam precisely among high earners and people with high levels of education.” In this context “populist and xenophobic campaigns against ‘Islam’” appeared to the “extreme right in Europe” as a “recipe for success for their propaganda” and an “entrance ticket into the political middle.” <i>Die Freiheit</i> was one of several attempts to found “anti-Islam parties” while PI had become a “central forum of Islam haters in the German-speaking area.”</p>
<p>Yet in citing an article from Berlin’s leftwing <a href="http://www.taz.de/!75174/"><i>Tageszeitung</i></a> (<i>taz</i>), the 2011 KA noted that the federal <i>Verfassungsschutz</i> had not deemed PI’s outlook as anti-constitutional given PI’s self-professed “pro-Israeli, pro-American” character.  The article noted additionally PI’s “emphatic profession of loyalty to the <i>Grundgesetz</i>,” Germany’s Basic Law or constitution.</p>
<p>The government’s answer on September 5, 2011, (<a href="http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/">17/6910</a>) to the various questions concerning matters such as membership and statements of PI/<i>Die Freiheit</i> and other groups in the 2011 KA continued this analysis. With respect to <i>Die Freiheit</i>, there were “not sufficient indications” to classify <i>Die Freiheit</i> as “rightwing extremist.” The “overwhelming majority of PI entries,” meanwhile, “made no use of classical rightwing extremist argumentation patterns, but rather was to be situated within the Islam-critical spectrum.” While some PI contributions had “anti-Muslim or in parts even racist content,” these were “practically exclusively” in the comments section and were “even there the exception.” Thus a “rightwing extremist effort (still) did not allow itself to be discerned” at PI.</p>
<p>Not to be deterred, <i>Die Linke</i> responded on October 31, 2011, with yet another KA (<a href="http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/">17/7569</a>) about “anti-Muslim agitation” citing several sources such as newspapers warning against PI, <i>Die Freiheit</i>, and other groups.  In this KA, <i>Die Linke</i> indicated that it was not so much interested in a “secret service surveillance of the Islam- and Muslim-hostile scene” by the federal <i>Verfassungschutz</i> as a “societal ostracism of this body of thought just like every other form of racism and anti-Semitism.” Among other questions, <i>Die Linke</i> wanted to know what connections PI had to “religious groupings from the evangelical, dogmatic-Catholic, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Catholic_Church">old Catholic</a> milieus.” The government’s response (<a href="http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/">17/7761</a>) on November 17, 2011, however, reiterated the position taken in 17/6910 and noted that “individual statements” did not suffice to define an entity as “extremist” but rather demanded an “overall observation.”</p>
<p>In 17/13573 <i>Die Linke</i> repeated many of its previous questions and inquired whether the federal government still maintains its previous outlook in light of recent Bavarian decisions.  This is the latest <i>Die Linke</i> salvo in an ongoing campaign to bring about a self-proclaimed political “ostracism” of PI/<i>Die Freiheit</i> and other groups.  Yet the irony was not lost on Stürzenberger, who pointed out to PI that <a href="http://www.pi-news.net/2013/05/anfrage-der-linke-an-den-bundestag-zu-pi-und-freiheit-wegen-antimuslimischen-rassismus/"><i>Die Linke</i></a>, with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_(Germany)">much of its roots in East Germany’s Communist Party</a>, is itself an object of federal <i>Verfassungsschutz</i> <a href="http://www.welt.de/newsticker/news1/article116739259/Linke-kritisiert-Beobachtung-durch-Verfassungsschutz.html">surveillance</a>.</p>
<p>The future of a free and open discussion of Islam in Germany seems perilous with the likes of <i>Die Linke</i>, a totalitarian-legacy group, continually demonstrating its propensity to use the German federal government as a tool of intimidation against Islam’s critiques.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/st.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-189387" alt="st" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/st.jpg" width="260" height="393" /></a>Try a word association quiz with the phrase “Cold War,” and the first two responses that are almost certain to come to the mind of the general public are “paranoia” and “McCarthyism,” which is practically a synonym for paranoia. The common assumption, thanks to decades of public school indoctrination and the influence of leftist intellectuals, is that the Cold War, at least in its early decades, was all about suspicious Republicans fearing a Red under every bed and blacklisting innocents in Hollywood. But a recent book (the paperback edition hits bookshelves next month), lays out the historical evidence for massive Communist penetration of our government beginning in the New Deal era, increasingly rapidly during World War II, and afterward leading to gaping breaches of national security and the betrayal of free-world interests.</p>
<p>Contrary to the notion that domestic Communists were simply harmless, misguided idealists, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stalins-Secret-Agents-Subversion-Roosevelts/dp/143914768X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1363213982&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Stalin%E2%80%99s+Secret+Agents"><i>Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government</i></a> by M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein shows that widespread government infiltration by Soviet spies sabotaged our foreign policy and molded the post-WWII world in favor of the Soviet Union. Evans, the author of eight previous books including the controversial revised look at Joseph McCarthy called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blacklisted-History-Senator-McCarthy-Americas/dp/1400081068/ref=pd_cp_b_0"><i>Blacklisted by History</i></a>, is a former editor of the <i>Indianapolis News</i>, a <i>Los Angeles Times</i> columnist, and a commentator for the Voice of America. Romerstein is a leading Cold War expert, formerly head of the Office to Counter Soviet Disinformation at the U.S. Information Agency from 1983 until 1989, who has served on the staff of several congressional committees including the House Intelligence Committee.</p>
<p>The early Cold War spying which resulted in the theft of our atomic secrets, radar, jet propulsion, and other military systems was serious enough, but that wasn’t the major issue. “The spying,” as the authors put it, “was handmaiden to the policy interest,” which was by far the leading problem. As President Franklin Roosevelt’s health and mental ability waned, covert Communist aides exerted pro-Soviet influence on U.S. policy, which was reflected in postwar discussions by the Big Three powers about the new shape of the world. The policy impact of such deceptive influence on the part of Soviet agents</p>
<blockquote><p>was to turn Western influence and support against the anti-Communist forces and in favor of their Red opponents, as U.S. and other Allied leaders based decisions on false intelligence from pro-Soviet agents. The effects were calamitous for the cause of freedom, as numerous countries were thus delivered into the hands of Stalin and his minions.</p></blockquote>
<p>The three leaders – FDR, Churchill, and Stalin – “would ultimately decide what political forces would prevail where and the forms of government to be installed in formerly captive nations, including those in alignment with the victors.” Unfortunately, at that time “seeking Soviet ‘friendship’ and giving Moscow ‘every assistance’ summed up American policy [in meetings] at Teheran and Yalta, and for some while before those meetings.”</p>
<p>Three notable examples of countries “pulled into the vortex of Communist power” were Yugoslavia, Poland and China. Other nations in central Europe were absorbed into the Soviet empire as well, as prelude to the Cold War struggle. Similar results occurred in Asia, where millions were slaughtered in China, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos where Communists came to power. “Red police states would in due course extend from the Baltic to the Pacific, and later to Africa and Latin America… The supposedly progressive twentieth century thus became a saturnalia of tyranny and violence, surpassing in this respect also all previous records of such horrors.”</p>
<p>The most powerful pro-Red influence was actually the President himself. He distanced himself from Churchill’s warier stance about Russian imperialism, and instead made common cause with Stalin. “His main object was to get Stalin to agree with the Rooseveltian vision of a peaceable kingdom to come via the United Nations.” FDR seemed to be “guided very heavily by his advisers and took no step independently,” as one observer noted. Harry Hopkins, FDR’s longtime and most powerful adviser, “held pro-Soviet views of the most fervent nature.” Indeed, the authors claim, “Throughout the war years, Moscow had no better official U.S. friend than Hopkins.” FDR’s wife too advocated in a pro-Red direction, and Vice President Henry Wallace was “arguably the most prominent pro-Soviet political figure of his time.”</p>
<p>But entities outside the government affected American foreign policy in these years too. The press corps, academics, lobbyists, and think tanks all helped mold a climate of opinion that paved the way for pro-Red policymakers in federal office. Media spokesmen then helped promote pro-Soviet policy “while attacking the views and reputations of people who wanted to move in other directions.” A complicit media helping to advance the Communist agenda while shutting down opposition voices – sound familiar?</p>
<p>The most famous example of infiltration was, of course, the spy Alger Hiss, whose “skill in positioning himself at the vectors of diplomatic information indicates the degree to which Soviet undercover agents were able to penetrate the U.S. government in crucial places, up to the highest policy-making levels.” Hiss rose from obscurity to become the custodian of all memoranda for the President on topics to be considered at the crucial Yalta summit. However, “he wasn’t an isolated instance, but only one such agent out of many.”</p>
<p>The authors’ conclusions are threefold: 1) Communist penetration in the American government in the WWII-era and early Cold War was deep and extensive, involving many hundreds of suspects; 2) the infiltrators wielded important leverage on U.S. foreign policy in that period; and 3) pro-Soviet penetration and the resulting policy damage occurred because Soviet agents preyed on the credulity of officials who were willfully ignorant of Communist methods. “The net effect of these converging factors was a series of free-world retreats” in the face of Marxist conquests across Europe, Indochina, Latin American states, and African nations.</p>
<p>The lessons of this highly readable and concise history are well worth taking to heart today, not merely as an historical study, but as a reflection of the subversive infiltration and influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on our current administration.</p>
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		<title>Hanoi Jane to Critics of Her Reagan Role: &#8216;Get a Life&#8217;</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/hanoi-jane-to-critics-of-her-reagan-role-get-a-life/jane-fonda-nancy-reagan/" rel="attachment wp-att-185419"><img class=" wp-image-185419 alignleft" title="Jane-Fonda-Nancy-Reagan" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Jane-Fonda-Nancy-Reagan-410x350.jpg" alt="" width="287" height="245" /></a>The Hollywood trade magazine <em>The Hollywood Reporter</em> (<em>THR</em>) <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jane-fonda-her-nancy-reagan-435064">reports</a> that conservative opposition is slowly building toward a possible boycott of the movie <em>The Butler</em>, still six months away from appearing in theaters. That’s because lifelong leftist activist <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1326">Jane Fonda</a> is slated to portray Ronald Reagan’s wife Nancy in the flick. “I figured it would tweak the right,” shrugs Fonda. “Who cares?”</p>
<p>The drama is the true story of Eugene Allen, White House butler to every president from 1952 to 1986. Jane Fonda – famously photographed straddling a Viet Cong anti-aircraft gun in North Vietnam forty years ago – as the wife of patriotic icon Reagan is a choice that hardly seems coincidental; more likely casting “Hanoi Jane” was a direct and purposeful insult to the conservative American audience, whom many Hollywood elites openly despise.</p>
<p><em>THR</em> reporter Paul Bond’s bias in the article itself is blatant – unsurprisingly, since movie biz trade magazines don’t bother to hide their leftist tilt (although <em>THR</em> is a model of neutrality compared to its online competition <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;frm=1&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CDQQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thewrap.com%2F&amp;ei=A99lUYOLKebqigKsv4DwCw&amp;usg=AFQjCNH1iCSJDStZIDKNSLyFb9QzEa4iSQ&amp;sig2=01bjCvrYQgi4xrqfQOej5w&amp;bvm=bv.45107431,d.cGE"><em>The Wrap</em></a>). In his examples of “similar dustups” over political films, Bond writes that the right “howled” about the CBS miniseries <em>The Reagans</em>, while the left only “complained” about The History channel’s proposed 2011 miniseries <em>The Kennedys</em>. The left did more than complain about the project, produced by open conservative Joel Surnow; it got the network to abandon the miniseries, although it was later picked up by the Reelz Channel and won a raft of awards including Emmys.</p>
<p>Bond also says the left merely “complained” about supposed “inaccuracies” in the 2006 miniseries <em>The Path to 9/11</em>, which I have written about before and to which I myself contributed. If you want to know just how politely the left “complained” about <em>The Path to 9/11</em>, check out the documentary <a href="http://www.blockingthepath.com/"><em>Blocking The Path to 9/11</em></a>. ABC was initially proud of the project until Clinton-era alumni feared it would blacken his legacy, because it <em>accurately</em> depicted his flaccid response to the growing threat of Islamic fundamentalism in the 90s. Then a vicious internet campaign got underway which resulted in death threats to the filmmakers, and a team of Democrat senators including Harry Reid threatened to pull ABC’s license if it aired the miniseries. ABC’s owner is a close friend of the Clintons to this day he refuses to release it on DVD.</p>
<p>As for Fonda, Bond also writes insultingly that the right “can’t get past photos of her cavorting with the enemy during the Vietnam War, no matter how many times she apologizes.” That’s because Fonda <em>has</em> never apologized to America or to the soldiers whose lives she endangered. “I have never done anything to hurt my country or the men and women who have fought and continue to fight for us,” she <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/21/jane-fonda-%e2%80%9ci-have-never-done-anything-to-hurt-my-country%e2%80%9d/">claimed</a> recently, still in denial.</p>
<p>As an example of how the right “can’t get past” it, Bond and Fonda singled out Navy veteran Larry Reyes, founder of the “<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Hanoi-Jane-Playing-Nancy-Reagan/393518640666420">Boycott Hanoi Jane Playing Nancy Reagan</a>” Facebook page. “The moviemakers are free to choose,” Reyes says “but it seems like it was their way of giving people like me the middle finger.” Exactly right, Mr. Reyes. Fonda’s classy reply to <em>THR</em> regarding Reyes’ Facebook page was, “Get a life. If he creates hoopla, it will cause more people to see the movie.”</p>
<p>Actually, as a Navy veteran, Larry Reyes not only <em>did</em> get a life, but he devoted a portion of it to honorable service to his country. Fonda, by stark contrast, has devoted a significant portion of <em>her</em> life to blame-America-first activism.</p>
<p>In the early ‘70s the privileged Fonda <a href="http://www.ussyorktown.com/yorktown/apology.htm">preached communism to college students</a> and called the Vietnam War “U.S. imperialism” and “white man’s racist aggression.” In the summer of ’72, while the war still raged, the actress traveled to North Vietnam and played the part of their puppet with Oscar-winning commitment. In addition to posing grinning for <a href="http://www.1stcavmedic.com/jane_fonda.htm">pictures</a> with our enemy, she volunteered to carry out <a href="http://www.1stcavmedic.com/jane_fonda.htm">radio propaganda</a> from Hanoi, telling American pilots that they were war criminals and urging the South Vietnamese soldiers to desert. And, arguably most reprehensibly, she met with tortured American POWs in another scripted propaganda performance, lectured them about carrying out genocide against the Vietnamese, and returned to tell the world that these guests of the Hanoi Hilton were being well-treated and they regretted their warmongering.</p>
<p>“When stories about the torture of POWs later surfaced,” <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=345">John Perazzo notes</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>Fonda called them lies. When the POWs began coming home in 1973, Fonda derided them as “liars, hypocrites, and pawns,” dismissing any charge that they had been brutalized: “Tortured men do not march smartly off planes, salute the flag, and kiss their wives. They are liars. I also want to say that these men are not heroes.”</p></blockquote>
<p>She went on to support the radical <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6149">Code Pink</a> and calls its co-founder <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1628">Jodie Evans</a> a “<a href="http://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2009/11/17/jane-fonda-obama-funder-jodie-evans-met-with-taliban-code-pink-gives-terrorists-direct-line-to-obama/">dear friend</a>.” Evans and Code Pink today are <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/21/code-pink%25e2%2580%2599s-support-of-the-enemy/">serving even more aid and comfort</a>, literally, to our enemies the Taliban, Hamas, and Iran, than even Fonda did to North Vietnam in her day.</p>
<p>On the occasion of receiving a career award at last November’s L.A. Press Club gathering, Fonda <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/conservatives-attack-jane-fonda-sunday-393089">said</a> that she’ll “go to the grave” regretting “sitting on that gun in North Vietnam.” That’s not the same as an apology. What she means is that she regrets doing it because the controversy still hounds her to this day, as it should. She was and is a traitor who did incalculable propaganda damage to this country.</p>
<p>Fonda and Nancy Reagan never met, but according to a friend of Fonda, the former First Lady “was pleased that I was playing her. Which shows how smart she is,” says Fonda. “She’s smarter than all those extreme right-wingers who are angry that I’m playing a woman whose politics are different than mine. Come on, it’s a movie!”</p>
<p>“It’s just a movie” is the defense Hollywood uses when it wants to spread its leftist hate while dismissing its critics as oversensitive. It’s curious how that excuse doesn’t fly when the left works itself into a lather over a movie that dares even hint at support for conservativism, like last year’s <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em>, a movie which suggested that Bush-era waterboarding contributed to locating the elusive bin Laden. Despite having been directed by hardcore leftist Kathryn Bigelow, she and <em>ZD30</em> were publicly shunned by the groupthink Hollywood left.</p>
<p>Fonda claims that she actually had a portion of the script changed because it made Nancy Reagan look too mean – if true, this says less about Fonda’s respect for Nancy than the writer’s mean-spirited bias (<em>The Butler</em>’s<em> </em>writer Danny Strong was also responsible for HBO’s <em>Game Change</em> and its demeaning caricature of Sarah Palin). “I might not have always agreed with Nancy Reagan, but I admire her, and I&#8217;d never try to insert my views when playing her,” says Fonda. We’ll see come October when the film hits theaters.</p>
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		<title>I Lived Through the Real ObamaCare</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Borek Volarik]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was bad in the Czech Socialist Republic -- but it wasn't as bad as in Cuba, where patients have to bring their own sheets to the hospital. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/borek-volarik/i-lived-through-the-real-obamacare/ob6/" rel="attachment wp-att-183059"><img class=" wp-image-183059 alignleft" title="ob6" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ob6.jpg" alt="" width="280" height="214" /></a>In the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic all health care was free for everybody! Oh, what a paradise….well, until you actually experienced the “worker’s paradise,” as the communists proudly called it, in real life.</p>
<p>First, everybody contributed to the cost of the health care, but in a hidden way – through the income tax. There were no tax returns to be filed at the end of year. All taxes were automatically deducted from the gross pay. There were no write offs. The only difference was in marital status and number of children. The young, single people, paid a so-called “ox tax.”  That was a bit alleviated by marriage and then every newborn child lowered the tax and generated so called “child bonuses.” The state used the money from the taxes to cover all the state’s spending &#8212; health care being one of them.</p>
<p>Well, you get what you pay for, right? Right!</p>
<p>What do you expect from a dentist on a salary set by the state’s pay scales? How about a really ugly crown and no anesthetics (Novocain was in short supply, distributed by the state to dentists  by a system of rations on monthly a basis); well, a small envelope with big money…casually left at the receptionist’s desk, would make miracles.</p>
<p>What do you expect from a doctor on a state’s salary? Don’t you worry, you always got your aspirin!</p>
<p>People were assigned to general practice health centers according their address. Nobody was allowed to veer out of his or her health care district. In the waiting rooms you would always see some elderly people, sitting on white painted benches, discussing their illnesses. The free doctor visits were welcomed opportunities for the pensioners to socialize and commiserate about life. The district doctors gave out aspirins and recommended patients to specialists, generally located in hospitals. The specialists did not have their own offices and practices. They were simply employed by hospitals on fixed salaries (the only extra pay would be generated by overtimes and shift bonuses for nights).</p>
<p>Once hospitalized, you would not have “your doctor.” You would be completely under the control of the hospital’s staff.</p>
<p>The rooms were large, with six, eight, ten….beds. It was really busy during visiting hours (Wednesday afternoon and Sundays) with visitors sitting or standing around their hospitalized family members, depending on how many chairs were scoured from halls and other rooms. Some visitors just carried a little folding stool with them and so they could always sit down.</p>
<p>It still was not as bad as in, say, Cuba, where patients have to bring their own sheets to the hospital. However, if you had to stay in the hospital for a prolonged period of time, it was customary to drop every once in a while an envelope with some money into the large pocket on the nurse’s apron. That way you would make sure that your sheets were changed on a regular basis, the cup of tea would be on your night stand without a long waiting period.</p>
<p>There were actually two health care systems. One for the ordinary mortals, one for the elites like well positioned communists and top athletes.</p>
<p>I had some problems with my lower jaw. I did not want to have a surgery in an ordinary hospital. It was a bit scary for me. So I waited till I was in the military (mandatory draft at age of nineteen, two years service). Then I started complaining about my problems and, exactly as I planned, I was sent from the small town where I was located to the Central Military Hospital in Prague. There I underwent surgery; total success, everything was hunky-dory. They used a totally new procedure on me, at the time yet unknown in the ordinary hospitals.</p>
<p>I spent about two months in that top notch hospital. Being bored, I volunteered to work as appointment clerk at the dentistry department. Folks, those machines they had there… I had never seen machines like that. All modern “painless” drills, luxurious seats, etc.</p>
<p>My duty was to pull patients&#8217; file from the file cabinet, mark his appointment time and time of arrival and then slip the file into a tray at the designated dentist’s station. Of course, I was curious about the names on the tabs sticking out from the files in hanging folders. So I looked at those names. I saw names of top communists, members of the government and the Central Committee, Politburo, famous athletes. I just shivered with excitement.</p>
<p>There was one funny episode. When my mother was leaving the hospital after visiting with me, she spotted the surgeon who performed the operation. He was digging foundations for a garage at the house where he lived. With a pick axe. My mother was totally thrown off kilt.</p>
<p>I did not understand what made her so upset. She exclaimed: He will ruin his hands!</p>
<p>You know, even at the Central Military Hospital, the salaries were not that high. Later this surgeon was delegated by the state to set up a plastic surgery center in Switzerland (that guy happened to be a real genius), so, I believe, he saved his hands and made some real money. I mean “real” money as the communist Czech Crown was not accepted for international exchange. It was basically kind of “prison money,” usable only inside the country.</p>
<p>Oh, by the way: After my arrival in America, the American dentists re-did virtually all the dental work that we brought with us inside our mouths. Some dentist just could not believe what they found in my and my wife’s and mouths. They threw it all in the garbage.</p>
<p><em>Borek Volarik defected from the communist Czechoslovakian military in 1980. </em></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/reign-of-evil-a-look-back-at-the-vicious-rule-of-hugo-chavez/0109_chavez-592x323/" rel="attachment wp-att-180319"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-180319" title="0109_Chavez-592x323" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/0109_Chavez-592x323-450x309.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="185" /></a>It is no accident that the death of Hugo Chavez, while mourned by the usual suspects on the left, was celebrated by thousands of his fellow countrymen. In the Doral section of Miami, FL, home to the <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CHAVEZ_VENEZUELANS_IN_AMERICA?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2013-03-06-05-37-20">largest</a> enclave of Venezuelans living in America, the strongman&#8217;s demise was met with unrestrained joy. Daniela Calzadilla, who moved from Caracas five years ago, due to the skyrocketing crime rate and dwindling career opportunities, expressed a common refrain. “We hope this is the path to return our democracy and that hopefully we can have the same country we once had,” she said. Mary LaBarca put it even simpler. “We are not celebrating someone’s death,” she said. “We are celebrating freedom.”</p>
<p>Hugo Chavez was <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/loco_always_knew_how_to_get_under_ow26AxyBjY7E8xoOM4uGEN">born</a> July 28, 1954. Raised largely by his grandmother in the western state of Barinas, Chavez began <a href="http://world.time.com/2013/03/05/death-comes-for-el-comandante-hugo-chavez-1954-2013/">nurturing</a> his fascination with Marxism at an early age, boosted by Castro’s revolution in Cuba in 1959. His education led him to despise &#8220;imperialist&#8221; America, even as he idolized Castro and 19th century South American liberator Simon Bolivar. He eventually joined the army, after failing to fulfill his dream of becoming a major league baseball player.</p>
<p>In 1992, after rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, Chavez led an unsuccessful coup against then President Carlos Andrés Pérez. Scores of civilians and soldiers were killed, but Chavez won a large populist following as a result. He was jailed, but then released two years later by then President Rafael Caldera. Four years later, Chavez was elected president with 57 percent of the vote. Chavez changed the nation&#8217;s name to the &#8220;Bolivarian Republic of <a href="http://www.reuters.com/places/venezuela">Venezuela</a>&#8221; and often appeared in front of huge paintings of Bolivar. The message was clear: Venezuelans were invited to think of him as the second coming of a historical hero.</p>
<p>Yet shortly after he won the vote, a lawyer from Barinas <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-chavez-legacy-in-venezuela/">told</a> <em>Newsweek Magazine</em> what had really occurred. “Venezuelans are dreaming of a savior, but Chávez is a dictator. People don’t know what they are getting.” After his inauguration in 1999, Chavez rewrote the nation&#8217;s constitution, precipitating a special presidential election in 2000, giving him a six year term.</p>
<p>1999 was the year he also began traveling around the world, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2144">ingratiating</a> himself to a number of America&#8217;s enemies. While in Communist China, Chavez put his cards on the table. &#8220;I have been very Maoist all of my life,&#8221; he declared at the time. He was also successful in getting OPEC to pump up oil prices.</p>
<p>Steadily, Chavez&#8217;s &#8220;democratic&#8221; revolution began to resemble the dictatorship his regime inevitably became. The legislative and judicial branches of the Venezuelan government were subordinated to his authoritarian rule. He stacked his government with military officers, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/world/americas/hugo-chavez-venezuelas-polarizing-leader-dies-at-58.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0">emulating</a> the juntas that ruled Peru and Panama in the 1970s. The constitution became increasingly irrelevant, a reality most recently emphasized when Chavez&#8217;s <a href="http://www.themorningsidepost.com/2013/02/18/venezuela-an-invisible-president-and-a-constitutional-crisis/">absence</a> still allowed him to win inauguration last January. That absence should have triggered certain procedures, but they were completely ignored. Chavez also politicized Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the state-owned oil company, whose output has <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/money/2013/03/06/chavezs-death-could-bring-further-turmoil-to-oil-industry/">declined</a> by almost half from 2000 to 2011.</p>
<p>This combination of factors, as well as Chavez&#8217;s interminable rants (one went on for almost ten hours), polarized the nation to the point where Chavez was himself ousted in a short-lived coup in 2002. Yet his populist supporters, angered by TV images of the nation&#8217;s former elite reveling in victory, restored him to power two days later.</p>
<p>Chavez was hardened by the coup attempt, which he blamed on George W. Bush. His hatred of America and capitalism drove him into alliances with other Latin American leftists, with whom he formed the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), an effort to counterbalance American &#8220;hegemony.&#8221; That counterbalance also included tactical support for the communist Columbian terror group, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). He formed alliances with Libya, Iraq, and Iran and Syria, and former members of his military alleged he supported Al Qaeda as well.</p>
<p>Chavez forged more dubious <a href="http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1204310378.pdf">alliances</a> during a 2006 trip. They included Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko, Vladimir Putin, who sold Chavez $3 billion worth of military hardware, and Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who awarded him Iran&#8217;s highest state honor, the Islamic Republic Medal, for supporting Tehran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions. In the same year, he referred to Israel as one of America&#8217;s &#8220;imperialistic instruments,&#8221; and President Bush as &#8220;the Devil,&#8221; an &#8220;extremist,&#8221; an aspiring &#8220;world dictator,” and the &#8220;spokesman of imperialism.&#8221; This year it was <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/02/04/3118711/venezuela-spy-agency-anne-frank-museum-is-a-mossad-spy-den">revealed</a> that Chavez was keeping Venezuelan Jews under surveillance because he considered them a &#8220;fifth column.&#8221;</p>
<p>Chavez&#8217;s ongoing relationship with Iran was despicable. He acted as their <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574400792835972018.html">banker</a> in order to help them avoid sanctions, and allowed them to open factories in remote locations, likely to pursue weapons production. According to the Israelis, he was also <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/secret-document-venezuela-bolivia-supplying-iran-with-uranium-1.276675">supplying</a> them with uranium.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, Venezuela increasingly began to resemble some of the authoritarian states Chavez admired. The Heritage Foundation&#8217;s <a href="http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking">2013 Index of Economic Freedom</a> ranked the nation as one of the most repressed in the world. Only Zimbabwe, North Korea and Cuba ranked lower. Chavez&#8217;s government also <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/05/27/us-venezuela-rctv-idUSN2723008820070527">seized</a> TV stations, numerous <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125997702608777833.html">banks,</a> the assets of 60 <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/business/energy/venezuela-seizes-60-firms">oil service companies</a>, 32 <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/11/world/fg-nationalize11">sugar plantations</a>, and foreign-owned <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/4675492/Chavez-seizes-foreign-owned-cement-plants.html">cement plants</a>, that refused to be nationalized. All privately held oil production was <a href="http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-03-07-hugo-chavez-the-21st-century-socialist-caudillo/">effectively nationalized</a> in 2007 as well.</p>
<p>Crime soared. Caracas became one of the most dangerous cities in the world, and Venezuela&#8217;s 2009 murder rate <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/world/americas/23venez.html">topped</a> that of war-torn Iraq, and Mexico&#8217;s cartel-inspired carnage. By 2012, Venezuela&#8217;s national murder rate was one of the highest in the world. Chronic food shortages and power outages as well mounting debt &#8212; leading to a 33 percent <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-15/venezuelas-double-edged-bolivar-devaluation">currency devaluation</a> last month, Venezuela’s fifth in a decade &#8212; has turned the nation into one of the Western Hemisphere&#8217;s worst economic basket cases.</p>
<p>None of this should surprise. A year after he won reelection in 2006, Chavez held a constitutional referendum whose chief purpose was the elimination of presidential term-limits. When voters defeated it, he repeated the process a year later and succeeded in eliminating them. He won another term in 2012, after lying and declaring himself cancer free. Two months later, he went back to Cuba. He was never heard from again.</p>
<p>Chavez characterized his repressive regime as “21st-century socialism.” In reality, in bore a striking resemblance to the repressive regime of Fidel Castro, a man he idolized, and whose nation he kept propped up with cheap oil in return for the training of his private army of enforcers, known as the Bolivarian Circles. Chavez&#8217;s regime, in turn, has been largely propped up by China, which has subsidized Venezuela with $36 billion in loans that are being <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-venezuela-seeks-4-billion-china-loan-2-175654734--business.html">repaid</a> in oil, not cash. And as of last September, the state-run oil company in a nation sitting on some of the largest oil reserves in the world is now paying its debt by <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-06/pdvsa-may-pay-debt-to-oil-service-providers-with-bonds">issuing</a> bonds&#8211;aka IOUs.</p>
<p>Thus, despite his bravado, his charisma, and a host of other dubious qualities that endeared him to leftists, Hugo Chavez was little more than a self-aggrandizing authoritarian thug. His grandiose schemes did little to alleviate the country’s economic woes. Yet he leaves behind a hand-picked  successor in Vice President Nicolas Maduro, and enough of a political apparatus that the constitutionally mandated election required to take place in 30 days will likely be nothing more than a formality, officially instating Maduro as president.</p>
<p>Henrique Capriles, a charismatic opposition candidate who <a href="http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Venezuela-says-election-to-be-called-within-30-days/-/688340/1712776/-/irvmydz/-/index.html">lost</a> the October election to Chavez, may mount a challenge, but it is unrealistic to expect him to coordinate a viable election campaign in the space of a month in a nation where &#8220;Chavistas&#8221; have all but eliminated opposition media.</p>
<p>Chavez is dead. Sadly, the authoritarianism he nurtured will likely live on.</p>
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		<title>How the Communist Left Killed Free Speech in the West</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/paul-gottfried/how-the-communist-left-killed-free-speech-in-the-west/hate-speech-is-not-free-speech/" rel="attachment wp-att-179797"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-179797" title="hate-speech-is-not-free-speech" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/hate-speech-is-not-free-speech.jpg" alt="" width="298" height="239" /></a>Last week a ruling by the <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/02/27/supreme-court-upholds-canadas-hate-speech-laws-in-case-involving-anti-gay-crusader/">Canadian Supreme Court</a> upheld a very broad hate speech law in the province of Saskatchewan, a law that exists in even more extreme forms in other Canadian provinces and perhaps in the most extreme form in the Canadian Human Rights Act, which makes it a criminal offense to preach something called “hate.” The Saskatchewan resident who was found guilty of this outrage was a religious Christian who had distributed pamphlets declaring homosexuality to be a sin. If this gentleman, William Whatcott, had expressed the same view over the Internet, he could have been arrested under a federal law prohibiting “homophobic” speech. In 2008 in the Canadian province of Alberta <a href="http://ezralevant.com/2008/06/what-could-mark-steyns-punishm.html">a Protestant minister</a> was arrested for delivering a sermon that was critical of gay marriage; and the same fate befell an Evangelical printer in Ontario two years ago who refused to produce invitations to a gay wedding. In Ontario it is now a punishable offense to put up a billboard that “discriminates,” a grievous offense that courts have been left to define and decide.</p>
<p>I could easily multiple such cases of the suppression of politically incorrect speech in other “liberal democracies” throughout Western and Central Europe, having already published several books on this depressing subject. And this problem is particularly disheartening because Freedom House and other agencies that are supposed to monitor the status of liberty throughout the world don’t seem to care about these PC assaults on intellectual and religious freedom in countries they consider to be democracies. For example, <a href="http://www.ifex.org/international/2012/04/27/press_freedom_2012_report/">Freedom House</a> ignores a rigorously enforced French law making “Armenian-genocide denial” a crime while railing against Turkey for prohibiting the view that Frenchmen are required to embrace.  Moreover, the suppression of free speech that we notice in Canada is proceeding even more dramatically in France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, and Sweden. In all these and other European countries EU requirements and national laws impose strict speech and writing codes in order to prevent (what else?) unauthorized hate. Needless to say, Muslim extremists are hardly ever touched by this draconian legislation and are usually quite free to rage against Christians and Jews.</p>
<p>The most extreme restrictions seem to be in Germany, which reveals an especially egregious degree of <a href="http://www.buecherquelle.at/Buchshop/Verlag-Ares/Charakterwaesche::2369.html">thought control.</a> There the present problem started in the postwar period with the misguided reeducation of the Germans undertaken by their Western conquerors. The reeducation that the Allies, starting in 1945, imposed on the post-Nazism country stressed antifascism and antinationalism. Unfortunately it totally neglected other more important values such as free inquiry and the right of dissent. A war that commenced under the Occupation against such presumed evils as “Prussianism” and even simple German patriotism goes on today in an accelerated fashion, and it has contributed to the painfully narrow limits in Germany concerning what its citizens may say about politics, morals or history. Those who go outside those limits will be investigated by special agencies as a threat to Germany’s “democratic constitutional order.” As an added disincentive for politically incorrect non-conformists, those who land up on a widely available government list of suspected anti-democrats are typically dismissed from their professional positions as “extremists.” The German <a href="http://www.pi-news.net/2010/03/kauder-die-cdu-ist-keine-konservative-partei/">“center right” chancellor</a> has openly congratulated her people for not having a rightwing party. The <a href="http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Publication/41245547/the-rise-and-fall-of-christian-democracy-in-europe">German political spectrum</a> starts somewhere on the American left-center and then moves further to the left than either of our two national parties.</p>
<p>This relates in some ways to a more general European political problem, which has been the wholesale transfer of communist cadres from sinking or collapsing communist parties into what used to be the democratic Left. In Germany, onetime communist dignitaries were treated with remarkable leniency by the government and by the generally far leftist press after the fall of the communist state, and even longtime secret police agents, like the leader of the German Party of the Left (or, what is officially called the Party of Democratic Socialists) Gregor Gysi, went from being a <a href="http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article113510031/Staatsanwaltschaft-ermittelt-gegen-Gregor-Gysi.html">Stasi-informer</a> to one of the German Republic’s rising political stars overnight. Even the Christian Democratic Chancellor Angela Merkel had been a supporter of the German communist regime (like her still ardently communist parents) almost up to the moment of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In Merkel’s continued praise of Stalin and the Red Army for “<a href="http://politikforen.net/archive/index.php/t-93572.html">liberating the Germans from fascism</a>,” one can still easily catch the echoes of her intense communist upbringing and education.</p>
<p><a href="http://ucp-bv-srv1.uchicago.edu/BV.book.epl?ISBN=9780826215970">Communists</a> who wanted to stay in politics once their formerly powerful parties in France, Italy and Germany lost their working class base and especially after the Soviet Empire imploded, had to make adjustments. Reinvented communists continued to represent “antifascism” and to call for punishing their traditional “fascist” foes. But the enemy went from being the capitalist owners of productive forces to those who expressed reactionary attitudes. One of the first steps in this transformation was getting out ahead of the crowd in tightening up or pushing through Holocaust denial prohibitions in France, Italy and other European countries. The communists or former communists invariably took the lead here, as in the Loi Gayssot, <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_Gayssot">passed in France in July 1990</a>, which made it a criminal offense to deny any part of the Nuremberg Court’s judgment concerning Nazi crimes, which was handed down in 1947. This, quite conveniently for the law’s sponsors, had the stamp of approval of Stalin’s judges, who had been involved in the trials of Nazi war criminals, and was based on evidence and testimonies that would merit historical reexamination, even from non-Holocaust-deniers.</p>
<p>The French Jewish scholar <a href="http://www.causeur.fr/author/elevy">Elisabeth Levy</a> (who at considerable social and financial cost has sustained the crusade against governmentally enforced PC in her country, mostly through her website Causeur) and before her, the genuinely disillusioned former communist and historian of the French Communist Party, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Kriegel">Annie Kriegel</a>, warned against criminalizing assumed Holocaust deniers. Such critics interpreted this move as the first step for French communists and their socialist allies in a campaign against free speech in France. After the criminalization of Holocaust-denial, the French Left demanded other restrictions on unacceptable speech, for example, making the denial of the “Armenian genocide” into a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/23/world/europe/turkey-france-genocide-bill-q-and-a/">criminal offense</a>, and then pressing (quite successfully) to punish other forms of “fascist” self-expression. (Antifascism in Europe is the equivalent of antiracism or anti-homophobia in the US or Canada.)</p>
<p>Lest I forget, I should mention another elephant that landed up in the European parlor and continues to cause havoc there: the Sixty-Eighters who turned into middle-aged European politicians without losing their taste for intimidating the bourgeois. Not only are most Western European governments full of these types but they have also ominously gone into the European media and European education. In Germany these antifascist activists have not kept the same major enemy over the decades, despite their continued disinclination for liberty for anyone but themselves. They turned their fury first against the Americans and the anti-communist side in the Cold War and then just as ferociously against their own country.</p>
<p>Indeed they have turned national masochism into a German state religion. German politicians in the Green and Socialist parties are perpetually expressing the wish that the area between France and Poland would cease to exist as a state. The new head of the Green Party, <a href="http://fakten-fiktionen.net/2011/08/jurgen-trittins-tiefrote-vergangenheit-und-seine-antideutsche-rundumschlage/">Jürgen Trittin</a>, a onetime violent socialist revolutionary, expresses impatience that Germany has taken so long to disappear, given its evil past. Personally I have no idea why Germans vote for such creeps but remarkably enough millions do. Their strength lies primarily in the support of a public sector class that is much larger than ours.</p>
<p>German-hating, aging Sixty-Eighters do bring up periodically the Holocaust as a national disgrace, and indeed the former Socialist Foreign Minister and another, onetime murderous revolutionary, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joschka_Fischer">Joschka Fischer</a>, who was involved in assassinations before his conversion to a quieter march through the institutions, averred in 1999 that “Auschwitz is [he meant, should be] the <a href="http://www.welt.de/print-wams/article120531/Auschwitz-taugt-nicht-als-Gruendungsmythos-der-Republik.html">founding myth of the German Republic</a>.” But state-supported remorse for Hitler’s crimes against the Jews was only a brief stopping point on the journey on which Fischer and his fellow Sixty-Eighters would take their country, and they would do so unfortunately with a democratic mandate. The imperative never to forget Auschwitz has led the all-powerful German Left in a number of dubious directions, including banning more and more politically incorrect speech, whitewashing communist crimes against their own people and against other nations, and favoring the creation of a “parallel society” for Muslims who are busily occupying German inner cities.</p>
<p>One might also note that the banning of “rightwing” hate speech in every form has allowed communists and their sympathizer to remove from public discussion any mention of communist mass murder. In France, Germany and Italy any awkward attempt to bring up this matter, particularly after the publication of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Book-Communism-Repression/dp/0674076087">Black Book of Communism</a> in 1997 detailing the grisly killings committed by communist governments, elicits charges from the entire left, and not just communists, about diverting attention from pressing fascist threats. In November 1997 French Socialist Premier Lionel Jospin rose in the French Assembly to commit a <a href="http://encyclo.voila.fr/wiki/Le_livre_noir_du_communisme">legally permissible genocide-denial</a>. Jospin attacked those who would dare suggest “equivalence” between Hitler’s and Stalin’s crime. As a man of the left, the premier regarded Stalin as a true “antifascist ally in the war against Nazism,” and he refused to allow right-wingers to insult his communist coalition partners.</p>
<p>Three concluding points may be appropriate here. One, the current war against politically incorrect speech throughout the Western world is ultimately far more destructive than the attempts to quiet dissenters that are pursued under authoritarian governments like China. Authoritarian states wish to shut up those who seem eager to overthrow their rule. These governments sometimes behave stupidly and even brutally, but they are understandably interested in surviving in the face of growing opposition. What we see in Western countries is an organized totalitarian force attempting through repression and state-supported social engineering to restructure human nature. And this force moves along and conquers less violently than those overt dictatorships that may be sitting on a volcano of discontent. Those warnings about the cumulative effects of “soft despotism,” which extend from the social and political critic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_tocqueville">Tocqueville</a> in the 1830s down to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nisbet">Robert Nisbet</a> in the 1950s and 1960s, apply fully to the aberrant course now being pursued by Western governments.</p>
<p>Two, almost all political attacks on intellectual and religious freedom that I’ve recorded are directed against what is perceived as the “far right.” There is no other presumed threat that the government and leftist establishments in Canada and Europe are interested in silencing. But more significantly, this allegedly rightist enemy has come to embrace anyone who dissents from the left’s program of control or imposed ideology. “Fascists” now include victims of communist regimes who depict their former captors unfavorably, those “extremists” who protest Islamicist tirades too loudly, and those who voice religious objections to the projects of the cultural left. Although there are similar forms of intolerance that are evident in our universities and media, the American government, at least for the time being, had done less than other “liberal democracies” to impose PC with a jackboot. This of course may change, despite the First Amendment.</p>
<p>Three, there is no one-to-one relation any longer between governments that permit some degree of economic freedom and those that refrain from throttling politically insensitive opinion. According to the <a href="http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking">Index of Economic Freedom</a>, Canada and Sweden rate higher than the US (Germany is just a bit lower) in their willingness to practice fiscal discipline and to keep the tax rate for corporate profits low or non-existent. Some societies with higher ratings for economic liberty have also, not incidentally, become models or cesspools of governmentally controlled Political Correctness.</p>
<p>Latvia, Lithuania and Israel, which fall in the low middle of the list, offer far more intellectual and political <a href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Invisible+fist%3a+can+capitalism+and+authoritarianism+work+together%3f-a0187496366">freedom than Singapore</a>, which is in second place on the Index. Moreover, Eastern European countries were left with communist nationalized economies when the Soviet empire collapsed; and these former satellite countries have had to denationalize their economies while taking into account a large work force that depended on inefficiently government-run industries. These countries could not organize free market economies without having to cope with a bad system already in place. In any case the economic figures in question should not be given exaggerated importance, since all Western countries, including our own, have extensive welfare states. When we talk about economic freedom, we no longer think about exceedingly low taxes and very limited commercial and banking regulations of the kinds that obtained in most Western countries a hundred years ago.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wilhelm-II-Christopher-Clark/dp/3421043582">Germans during the Second Empire</a> paid less than a sixth of their present tax load in what was then an incipient welfare state. Moreover, while the amount of intellectual freedom under the empire was probably not more than what Germans later enjoyed under the Weimar Republic, that amount vastly exceeded what is available to them in what Germans now misleadingly believe is “the freest German government of all times.” The current amount of permitted freedom is also far less than what Germans possessed under the Christian Democratic government that succeeded the Allied Occupation. But that was before the Sixty-Eighters were joined by retread communists to impose thought control on Germany’s most recent democracy. And this situation resembles, in a more advanced form, what is happening in other Western countries. As I began this essay by pointing out, it would pay for self-appointed guardians of political freedom to notice what’s going on in their backyards. Allowing the PC Left to shut up everyone else does not prove the existence of a free government.</p>
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