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Wow! Not only did we have Jonathan Pollard spying on us (a man Loftus wants out of prison) but we had a member of Romanian Iron Guard in the GOP. Don't recall his name,do you? Maybe Loftus is right. We should all vote Democrat.

The name didn't stick in my head, but the guy's background did--I'd read about the Iron Guard. They even made Jochen Peiper (commander of Kampfgruppe Peiper, the folks who performed a mass execution of American prisoners at Malmedy during the Ardennes Offensive) sick to his stomach. Seems the CIA laundered his record for some reason, but not that well. And some of the other folks in the "ethnic outreach" program came under suspicion and bugged out for Eastern Europe in 1989 and 1990. The guilty flee where the righteous do not pursue and all that.

You don't have to agree with Loftus' politics (I disagree with him on Pollard--the only release he should get is from this life to the next) to admit that we shouldn't be turning a blind eye to ex-Fascists--and if the press could find that stuff out with a casual background check, the GOP sure as hell could, too.

The name was Valerian Trifa.Incidentally,Marshal Antonescu did not care for or trust the Iron Guard,and had their leader Codreanu murdered.This led to an Iron Guard uprising which was put downin a bloody battle in Bucharest.Something like Hitler purging the Brownshirts under Roehm because they presented a challenge to his power.In anyn event the Iron Guard killed numerous Jews during the uprising since they hated Jews more than anything else.The Iron Guard's actual name was the Legion of the Archangel Michael.I believe this occured during 1940.Trifa was an Iron Guard zealot who held a leadership position.