Bad fact-checking here that gives the whole article a black eye. Corliss was Ned's great-uncle, not his father.
With the newest terror threat having just come out today, anyone who votes for Lamont is foolish.
Wow! I didn't realize he was Corliss Lamont's son. That name is a blast from the past and it sure isn't a pleasant one.
"Lamont is the great-grandson of former J.P. Morgan & Co. Chairman Thomas W. Lamont, and has a self-reported net worth valued between $90 million and $300 million, [6] and the grand nephew (not the grandson, as has been widely reported) of Corliss Lamont who was a director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1932 - 1954.[7]On July 17 the Waterbury Republican-American reported the assessed value of Lamont's Greenwich home was $30 million.[6] His father, Ted (Edward M. Sr.), was an economist who worked with the Marshall Plan which helped reconstruct Europe after World War II.[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Lamont
Corliss Lamont, at least the one referred to here, is NOT Ned Lamont's father. Geez... the family is enough of a bunch of commie sympathizers as is. Lying about it does not help.
Corliss Lamont (March 28, 1902–April 26, 1995), was a humanist philosopher and civil liberties advocate. He was born in Englewood, New Jersey to Thomas W. Lamont, a Partner and later Chairman at J.P. Morgan & Co.
In addition to his leadership role in the *AHA, he served as director of the ACLU for 22 years, and taught philosophy at Columbia, Harvard, Cornell, and the New School for Social Research.
*AHA - American Humanist Association
According to humanism, it is up to us to find the truth, not wait for it to be handed to us through revelation, mysticism, tradition, or anything else that is incompatible with the application of logic to the evidence. In demanding that we avoid blindly accepting unsupported beliefs, it supports scientific skepticism and the scientific method, rejecting authoritarianism and extreme skepticism, and rendering faith an unacceptable basis for action. Likewise, humanism asserts that knowledge of right and wrong is based on our best understanding of our individual and joint interests, rather than stemming from a transcendental or arbitrarily local source.
Lamont's political views were socialist. During the 1930s he was sympathetic to Soviet communism
he served as a director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1932 to 1954, and subsequently as chairman until his death, of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, which successfully challenged Senator Joseph McCarthy's senate subcommittee and other government agencies.
He remained a peace activist all his life, protesting U.S. involvement in the Persian Gulf War at the age of 88.
* Director of the American Civil Liberties Union for 22 years
* Chairman of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee for 30 years
* Member of the pro-Communist groups Friends of the Soviet Union and the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship
* Taught at Harvard, Cornell, and Columbia Universities
* Traveled to the Soviet Union numerous times during the Cold War, and in 1993 met with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro
Corliss Lamont was the director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for 22 years. He also spent 30 years as chairman of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (NECLC), a soft, popular-front-type ally of the Communist Party USA. The NECLC's ranks were filled with Communist Party members whose primary mission was to represent individuals, groups, and ideals hostile to, and in many cases seeking the destruction of, the United States.
In addition to his work with the ACLU and the NECLC, Lamont was a key figure in another Communist organization which was established in the 1920s - "Friends of the Soviet Union." In 1943 this group was reorganized, with Lamont as its board chairman and chief incorporator, as the "National Council of American-Soviet Friendship." For his connections to such Communist and pro-Communist organizations, Lamont was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1946; he refused to produce requested documents and was eventually charged with contempt of Congress.
Lamont was educated at Columbia University and Harvard University, obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia in 1932, and went on to teach at Harvard, Cornell, and Columbia. While a student at Harvard, he was the student vice-chair of the Harvard Union and proposed that Socialist Party President Eugene V. Debs, communist labor organizer William Z. Foster, and radical economist Scott Nearing be invited to speak to the student body. Later in life (in 1982), Lamont, who described himself as "a teacher of philosophy and a worker for world peace," donated $1 million to establish a chair in Civil Liberties at Columbia Law School.
Lamont authored 16 books, including: The Philosophy of Humanism; Humanism is the Illusion of Immortality; A Lifetime of Dissent; Voice in the Wilderness: Collected Essays of Fifty Years; The Peoples of the Soviet Union; and You Might Like Socialism: A Way of Life for Modern Man. He also authored hundreds of pamphlets and thousands of letters to newspapers on significant social issues. In addition, he published intimate portraits of such luminaries as John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, and Katherine Hepburn.
Lamont made two unsuccessful bids for the U.S. Senate; in 1952, as a candidate for the American Labor Party, and in 1958, as a candidate for the Independent Socialist Party.
In 1993, two years before his death, Lamont traveled to Cuba and met with Fidel Castro, at which time he discussed with the Communist leader the feasibility of suing the U.S. government. Lamont's devotion to Cuba spanned decades. Lee Harvey Oswald was reported to have had, in his possession, Lamont's pamphlet The Crime Against Cuba prior to assassinating President Kennedy.
Lamont died of heart failure in 1995, at age 93.
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