Posted on 11/25/2009 8:37:56 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
November 26, 2009
Baroness Ashton denies taking funds for CND from Soviet Union
Baroness Ashton of Upholland’s past came back to haunt her yesterday when the European Union’s new foreign affairs chief was forced to deny taking funds from the Soviet Union during her days as treasurer for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Lady Ashton, a surprise choice for her post, was challenged to deny that she had contact with Russian sources while she was in charge of its accounts at the height of the Cold War.
The Times has learnt that concerns about her CND involvement are felt across countries from the former Iron Curtain now in the EU and that MEPs plan to question her about it when she appears before them for the hearing to confirm her in her post.
Nigel Farage, the UK Independence Party leader, raised the matter on the floor of the European Parliament yesterday, earning himself a reprimand for referring to Lady Ashton and Herman Van Rompuy, the new European President, as pygmies.
Mr Farage added: “She was treasurer during a period when CND took very large donations and refused to reveal the sources. Will Baroness Ashton deny that while she was treasurer she took funds from organisations opposed to Western-style democracy? Are we really happy that somebody who will be in charge of our overseas security policy was an activist in an outfit like CND? I do not think she is a fit and proper person to do this job.”
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Ping!
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was a KGB led and funded to protest in Europe the deployment of US cruise missiles during the Reagan era and continued some years afterwards. The leaders of the European Community are in love with socialism and statism. Omama has the same plans for the USA.
Who won the cold war again? Communism was defeated, well except for all the former Communists who now run the EU, which, amazingly enough now controls all of Europe.
On the money but that the missiles were Pershings, I believe, not cruisers ...
It was both cruise missiles and Pershings.
Yoiu are confused, the USSR was defeated. Communism is the stupid idea that refuses to die because it is an ideal vehicle for the oligarchies to monopolize power and enslave the masses.. It may take millions more victims and gereations more to defeat the oidea of socialism.. We simply aren’t there yet and we delude ourselves if we believe that we are anywhere near victory. We will have to defeat them time and time again until like cannibalism we figure out it’s a bad idea..
:I am reminded of an interview I saw years ago in 1977 after the Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky was released to the west from a Soviet prison. In a hotel room in Paris an American female reporter was interviewing him. Bukovsky had by that time spent most of his teenage years and his adult life protesting the regime. They would release him and within days he'd be protesting in front of the Kremlin. Within days he would be back languishing in the Gulag or some psychiatric hospital. The reporter asked him why after being released and knowing he would return to prison did he persist in protesting. His answer which stupefied the American reporter has remained with me to this day. "If not I, then who?"
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