BINGO! This is all right out of a VVAW playbook.
I wrote a column critical of Kerry last spring that got lots of attention. As a result, I was contacted by a guy who told me he was a VVAW activist. When I googled him, I found him on the Kerry Virginia Steering committee (along with Gen. Claudia Kennedy, who'd been commentating on the war but not publicizing her work with Kerry). Anyway, this guy told me they "didn't know how to deal with me" and that my "shot across the bow" had them "all" sweating.
I've thought this whole campaign that Kerry's VVAW thugs, including Bobby Muller (who's been so active with MTV's "Rock the Vote") have been MAJOR PLAYERS.
I also found out this particular guy had been submitting anti-war letters to college publications in swing states (The Ohio State Lantern, Oregon, etc)...trying to stir dissent on campus. In following up with the editors of these papers, I discovered he'd presented his letters as being from a student. They were quite upset when I told them he's a leftover radical activist from the Vietnam era.
You won't believe it but I googled a couple of the guys from citizen-soldier and ended up on a Leninist website,,I have been following it all afternoon and found a guy who is a native american activist, involved heavily in Miss civil rights movement back in the 60's, those links took me right into the leninist Marxist movement.
Anyway Jackson and particularly Tougaloo college are heavy into this stuff,,workers united, reparations, the bad capitalists. I wonder if some of these people esp the woman and the good Representative are off shoot of this. It was mind boggling to read, we have a subculture of Marxist/activist/labor union/ agitators in this country. And VVAW was just a part of it.