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The Horrific Story That Prompted David Horowitz’s Conservative Transformation
The Blaze ^ | 12-3-2013 | Erica Ritz

Posted on 12/04/2013 2:32:52 AM PST by sheikdetailfeather

David Horowitz, author of The Black Book of the American Left and the founder and president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, has spoken at length about how he was raised by “card-carrying communists” who always “described themselves as progressives.” He followed in their footsteps, becoming one of the founders of the New Left in 1960′s, which he described as an organization “formed by children of communists who wanted to get away from the taint that Stalin had put on (communism), and revive the vision.”

So what made the born-and-raised communist become the staunch conservative and defender of American liberties that he is today? Among other things, he explained on the Glenn Beck Program Tuesday, it was a deadly encounter with the Black Panthers.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blackpanthers; communists; conservative; davidhorowitz; epiphany; horowitz; progressives; radicalson; story; transformation
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To: sheikdetailfeather
read his book, Radical Son..it's a really great autobiography.

21 posted on 12/04/2013 5:33:42 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi 8-)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“I really have no use for these people when they get transformed in their 40’s. I became a conservative at age 30-1984. Reagan was running for reelection and I was transformed. Something tells me it’s opportunism.”

I have been a conservative since I was 14. I dont trust anyone who converted after 18. Opportunist. :-)


22 posted on 12/04/2013 5:34:29 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: central_va
You were raised by commies....

Your comment jarred me. Why would you say such a thing? It's so gratuitous and cruel. Perhaps you should read again what donmeaker wrote: his parents are in their 80's. While you're at it, take a lesson from him; a lesson in kindness.
23 posted on 12/04/2013 5:37:41 AM PST by Shannon
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To: Shannon

A simple question. Was he raised by commies? Doesn’t reflect badly on him, not a hard question.


24 posted on 12/04/2013 5:46:28 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude
I was earlier that..Ford/Reagan in '76..
my parents; would've killed me, watching "(RWR) the Goldwater speech in '64" 8 yo...

25 posted on 12/04/2013 5:47:33 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi 8-)
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To: Agamemnon
you sir, are indeed correct.

26 posted on 12/04/2013 5:50:38 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi 8-)
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To: sheikdetailfeather
“When Lenin set out to transform, fundamentally transform Russia, he didn’t say he was going to kill 40 million people, create famines and concentration camps called gulags,” Horowitz remarked. “He said he was going to give them bread, land, and peace.”

If people would cooperate with the Master Mind Plan these measure would not be needed!

If Congress won't act, I will. We can't wait.

27 posted on 12/04/2013 6:42:32 AM PST by Ray76
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To: DIRTYSECRET

All I had to do was read a little Milton Friedman and a little Solzhenitsyn and I was “fundamentally transformed”.


28 posted on 12/04/2013 6:50:29 AM PST by No One Special
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To: central_va
You didn't ask a simple question. You made a cruel statement. But you're right about one thing; it doesn't reflect badly on him. It reflects badly on you.

Aging, infirmed parents are given a lot of leeway especially when the child is an adult able to think for themselves.
29 posted on 12/04/2013 7:01:34 AM PST by Shannon
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Bookmark


30 posted on 12/04/2013 7:02:51 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Shannon

Donmeaker is not shy about discussing his personal life, it was just a curiosity thing. He was right not to confront his aging parents. How about this, just drop it.


31 posted on 12/04/2013 7:11:05 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

So what’s your excuse?


32 posted on 12/04/2013 9:31:39 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: central_va

I agree. We drop it.........with no hard feelings.


33 posted on 12/04/2013 10:40:07 AM PST by Shannon
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To: rockrr

I am not the one proclaiming that my father was a union organizer....


34 posted on 12/04/2013 10:53:53 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

bkmk


35 posted on 12/04/2013 10:56:34 AM PST by AllAmericanGirl44 ('Hey citizen, what's in YOUR closet?')
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To: central_va; rockrr; donmeaker; Shannon; skinkinthegrass
I am not the one proclaiming that my father was a union organizer....

Actually, what you are proclaiming is how little you know.

Poster, "donmeaker," said his 80 year old dad was a "shop steward" not a union organizer. "Shop stewards" are typically elected to and serve by fellow members in their posts once a union is already established and in place. A "union organizer" by contrast is a hustler trying to establish a union where one does not exist.

By your own measure, if donmeaker's father was a "commie" then Ronald Reagan himself was a "commie" since he was at one time not a mere "shop steward," but the elected HEAD of the Screen Actor's Guild.

"central_va:" speaking as a proud VCU graduate and former Virginian myself, clearly you are today's least informed thread idiot.

Unfortunately, it's people like you who routinely fail to recognize who the REAL "commies" are.

FReegards!

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36 posted on 12/04/2013 2:49:31 PM PST by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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To: Agamemnon

Having never been in a union or really know anyone in a union, with the exception of the pilots union, I know very little about them.


37 posted on 12/04/2013 3:06:20 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Agamemnon
ummm...why are you scolding me?
he was raised as "red diaper" baby, he had an intellectual
awakening after a colleague was murdered b/c they weren't
pure enough, not too many Marxists experience that...or admit it.

38 posted on 12/04/2013 5:07:40 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi 8-)
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To: skinkinthegrass; Agamemnon

Agamemnon was scolding the turd~in~the~punchbowl cva and included you as a courtesy probably because it was your thread.


39 posted on 12/04/2013 5:31:31 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr; Agamemnon
Oh...OK... sometimes yah get so "involved", you lose sight.

40 posted on 12/04/2013 5:42:21 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi 8-)
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