Congress Mulls Probe of Communists' Ties to Appeasement Movement, Radical Islam

NewsMax ^ | Friday, Feb. 28, 2003 | Wes Vernon

[Michaelman]

WASHINGTON – NewsMax.com has learned that preliminary inquiries are or soon will be under way on Capitol Hill exploring the possibility of investigating the link between communists and radical Islamic terrorists. Evidence mounts that this coalition orchestrated the recent appeasement demonstrations against President Bush’s policy in Iraq.

No decisions have been made on whether such a probe will go forward or what committee would be in charge. But conservatives who have seen documented evidence of that link believe now that the GOP controls the House and Senate, there is no excuse for not holding hearings.

A full-scale Senate or House probe is viewed as a means of informing an American public that is kept in the dark by a mainstream media that looks the other way on the hard-left/terrorist alliance.

The biggest question mark is whether the Justice Department, the FBI or other security agencies are paying much attention to the veteran hard-left groups backing the appeasement demonstrations. The fear is these agencies are inadequate because much of their investigative authority was defanged in the 1970s.

The post-Watergate congressional hearings by the Church and Pike committees on Capitol Hill resulted in tarnishing the CIA, FBI and other intelligence entities. That in turn prompted the legislative and executive branches of government to tie their hands. They were even forbidden to keep a file of information readily available to any citizen, such as newspaper clippings on subversive organizations.

Some of the restrictions were lifted after 9/11. For example, now they can clip newspaper stories. Still, the new policies fall short of what is needed, according to security experts talking with NewsMax.com.

The rules “were not changed enough to let the FBI do the kind of work that needs to be done watching these groups,” former congressional and executive branch security official Herbert Romerstein tells us.

When those seven men were caught breaking and entering at the Watergate Hotel in June 1972, little did anyone suspect they had set off a chain of events that years later would cripple America’s ability to protect itself at a time when this nation is under a greater threat than at any time in the memory of most citizens.

On the other hand, well-placed sources in the government have told NewsMax that “someday someone is going to write a book” about all the behind-the-scenes security efforts to protect America since 9/11.

All very assuring, and Attorney General John Askcroft’s efforts to put accused terrorists in the slammer are widely applauded. But it is not known whether the Justice Department, the FBI or any national security, intelligence, or law enforcement agency has focused specifically on the terorrist-communist connection. NewsMax has found no one in government who claims to know one way or the other.

Workers World Party, a tiny Marxist organization that admires North Korea's repressive dictatorship, has coordinated much of the anti-war activity, partly through such fronts as A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), which uses former LBJ Attorney General Ramsey Clark as its public face.

Another key player is United Justice for Peace. Leftist-turned-conservative David Horowitz has identified its leader Leslie Cagan as “a '60s Stalinist.”

In a syndicated column just this week, Mona Charen, author of the timely book “Useful Idiots,” defined A.N.S.W.E.R. as “explicitly communist.” If a journalist can make that identification, observers are asking, what is Congress waiting for? Let’s get this on the record for the American people.

If you read Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” Horowitz warns, you see “how kooky views can result in the deaths of seventy million people.” Just because the leaders of the appeasement demonstrations don’t make sense “doesn’t mean they are not [dangerous or that they will not] get hundreds of thousands and millions of followers.”

Any Capitol Hill investigation of the hard-left/Islamic terrorist alliance would require a committee chairman and Republican committee members who will stand their ground, because some Democrats on the panel are likely to try to torpedo any meaningful inquiry. That is because, as Horowitz explains to NewsMax, “the Democratic Party is deeply infiltrated and also dependent on these people.”

The “Leslie Cagans of the world” have been organizing at the local level, he adds.

Finally this warning from a man who has viewed the hard left from the inside: “I guess my greatest concern is the complacency of conservatives who think we can’t lose this country. We can.”

[nicmarlo]

Any Capitol Hill investigation of the hard-left/Islamic terrorist alliance would require a committee chairman and Republican committee members who will stand their ground, because some Democrats on the panel are likely to try to torpedo any meaningful inquiry. That is because, as Horowitz explains to NewsMax, “the Democratic Party is deeply infiltrated and also dependent on these people.”

And because many Rats are not only infiltrated, many are socialists/commies, as can be read on this thread: 59 Socialists in Congress

[HighRoadToChina]

About time BUMP!

[backhoe]

FYI, our own research:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/854062/posts
Exposing the Anti-War Movement, Part I: MoveOn.org (You Don't Know Jack!)
Citizens for Fair and Balanced Funding | 02/28/2003 | David Ware
Fantastic! I think it's very important that the American public realize that when it comes right down to it, these bozo's have no interest in peace - all they want to do is bash the Bush Administration...
It really is fascinating to research these guys - very revealing.
They hate being exposed.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Fair comment from the standpoint of definitions, but my point remains that today's groups holding "anti-whatever" rallys are largely communists.

Further, I suggest that most of the "anarchist" groups are not true to the definition either. They desire state ownership but use "no government" tactics.

[Ben Hecks]

" If Congress wants to find communists they need to start with some of these leftwing, anarchist, anti-American, anti-war, anti-Bush groups."

djreece provided a link on another thread to http://www.citiesforpeace.org. On their website, the page entitled "UFP/CFP Action Alerts" looks similar to the home page of A.N.S.W.E.R. The same Communist organizations are shown on the right side of the page. This is a major effort and is well financed.

[WOSG]

Anarchists of the lef-wing variety are a sub-set of COmmunists. Most of the Communists in the US were "anarchists" who wanted to creat 'anarchy' to precipate the beloved "dictatorship of the proletariate".
(Their mindset is just like the Hamas terrorists who keep creating violence since peace may lead to an actuall arrangement where Israel is made acceptable to Palestinians and Arabs. So make things worse so compromise is impossible.)

Noam Chomsky is a Communist, yet calls himself an anarcho-Socialist (follows Buhkarin??). It's a self-contradiction, sure, but these "anarchist" socialists are beleivers in a pack of lies anyway, so what difference is one more dollop of illogical thinking?

[nicmarlo]

FYI ping:

How Many Members Of The U.S. Congress Are Self-Declared Socialists?

Updated info: October 2002

I could no longer find a list of current membership for the Progressive Caucus on the DSA website. However, Representative Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), Chairman of the caucus, maintains such a list on his U.S. government provided website: bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp

officers
Member/Position/District	Address	Phone	Website
Dennis Kucinich (CO-CHAIR, OHIO-10)	1730 LHOB	225-5871	WEBSITE
Barbara Lee (CO-CHAIR, CALIFORNIA-09)	426 CHOB	225-2661	WEBSITE
Lynn Woolsey (VICE-CHAIR, CALIFORNIA-06)	2263 RHOB	225-5161	WEBSITE
Peter DeFazio (OFFICER, OREGON-04)	2134 RHOB	225-6416	WEBSITE
Jesse Jackson, Jr (OFFICER, ILLINOIS-02)	313 CHOB	225-0773
Major Owens (OFFICER, NEW YORK-11)	2309 RHOB	225-6231	WEBSITE
Bernie Sanders (OFFICER, VERMONT)	2233 RHOB	225-4115	WEBSITE
Hilda Solis (OFFICER, CALIFORNIA-31)	1641 LHOB	225-5464	WEBSITE

members
Member/Position/District	Address	Phone	Website
Neil Abercrombie (MEMBER, HAWAII-01)	1502 LHOB	225-2726	WEBSITE
Tammy Baldwin (MEMBER, WISCONSIN-02)	1022 LHOB	225-2906	WEBSITE
Xavier Becerra (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-30)	1119 LHOB	225-6235	WEBSITE
Corrine Brown (MEMBER, FLORIDA-03)	2444 RHOB	225-0123	WEBSITE
Sherrod Brown (MEMBER, OHIO-13)	2438 RHOB	225-3401	WEBSITE
Michael Capuano (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-08)	1232 LHOB	225-5111	WEBSITE
Julia Carson (MEMBER, INDIANA-10)	1339 LHOB	225-4011	WEBSITE
William "Lacy" Clay (MEMBER, MISSOURI-01)	415 CHOB	225-2406	WEBSITE
John Conyers (MEMBER, MICHIGAN-14)	2426 RHOB	225-5126	WEBSITE
Danny Davis (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-07)	1222 LHOB	225-5006	WEBSITE
Rosa DeLauro (MEMBER, CONNECTICUT-03)	2262 RHOB	225-3661	WEBSITE
Lane Evans (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-17)	2211 RHOB	225-5905	WEBSITE
Eni Faleomavaega (MEMBER, AMERICAN SAMOA)	2422 RHOB	225-8577	WEBSITE
Sam Farr (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-17)	1221 LHOB	225-2861	WEBSITE
Chaka Fattah (MEMBER, PENNSYLVANIA-02)	1205 LHOB	225-4001	WEBSITE
Bob Filner (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-50)	2463 RHOB	225-8045	WEBSITE
Barney Frank (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-04)	2252 RHOB	225-5931	WEBSITE
Raul Grijalva (MEMBER, ARIZONA-07)	1440 RHOB	225-2435	WEBSITE
Luis Gutierrez (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-04)	2452 RHOB	225-8203	WEBSITE
Maurice Hinchey (MEMBER, NEW YORK-26)	2431 RHOB	225-6335	WEBSITE
Sheila Jackson-Lee (MEMBER, TEXAS-18)	403 CHOB	225-3816	WEBSITE
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (MEMBER, OHIO-11)	1516 LHOB	225-7032	WEBSITE
Marcy Kaptur (MEMBER, OHIO-09)	2366 RHOB	225-4146	WEBSITE
Tom Lantos (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-12)	2217 RHOB	225-3531	WEBSITE
John Lewis (MEMBER, GEORGIA-05)	343 CHOB	225-3801	WEBSITE
Jim McDermott (MEMBER, WASHINGTON-07)	1035 LHOB	225-3106	WEBSITE
James P. McGovern (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-03)	430 CHOB	225-6101	WEBSITE
George Miller (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-07)	2205 RHOB	225-2095	WEBSITE
Jerry Nadler (MEMBER, NEW YORK-08)	2334 RHOB	225-5635	WEBSITE
Eleanor Holmes Norton (MEMBER, D.C.)	2136 RHOB	225-8050	WEBSITE
John Olver (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-01)	1027 LHOB	225-5335	WEBSITE
Ed Pastor (MEMBER, ARIZONA-02)	2465 RHOB	225-4065	WEBSITE
Donald Payne (MEMBER, NEW JERSEY-10)	2209 RHOB	225-3436	WEBSITE
Nancy Pelosi (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-08)	2457 RHOB	225-4965	WEBSITE
Bobby Rush (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-01)	2416 RHOB	225-4372	WEBSITE
Jan Schakowsky (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-09)	515 CHOB	225-2111	WEBSITE
Jose Serrano (MEMBER, NEW YORK-16)	2342 RHOB	225-4361	WEBSITE
Pete Stark (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-13)	239 CHOB	225-5065	WEBSITE
Bennie Thompson (MEMBER, MISSISSIPPI-02)	2432 RHOB	225-5876	WEBSITE
John Tierney (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-06)	120 CHOB	225-8020	WEBSITE
Tom Udall (MEMBER, NEW MEXICO-03)	502 CHOB	225-6190	WEBSITE
Nydia Velazquez (MEMBER, NEW YORK-12)	2241 RHOB	225-2361	WEBSITE
Maxine Waters (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-35)	2344 RHOB	225-2201	WEBSITE
Diane Watson (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-32)	2413 RHOB	225-7084	WEBSITE
Mel Watt (MEMBER, NORTH CAROLINA-12)	2236 RHOB	225-1510	WEBSITE
Henry Waxman (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-29)	2204 RHOB	225-3976	WEBSITE

Congressional Progressive Caucus

[MonroeDNA]

McCarthy was not disturbed in the least. Communists made it a goal to take over hollywoood, and they almost suceeded. Led by avowed marxist thugs.

Prior to McCarthy, only one man had the gumption to expose them. You may have heard of him.

Ronald Reagan.

He was a million-dollar actor at the time. And broke communist-led strikes. And brought on board many other actors, who refused to play the communist line. He was right, way early on.

Now they are back. They never really went away, just laid dormant, licking their wounds. Control freaks.

Communists know the value of owning media. It is their first target, when trying to take over a country. Fill their heads with mush.

Then take over the schools, fill thier heads with socialist mush. Then confiscate guns.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Research bump!

[MonroeDNA]

From "Reagan's War," pg 11:

"By taking the assignement, Reagan was stepping foresquare into the middle of a testy labor dispute.....After one take at a beach scene, Regan was summoned to the telephone. When he picked up the receiver, a voice he didn't recognize threatened to see to it thathe never made films again. If he continued to oppose the CSU strike, the caller said, "a squad" would disfigure his face with acid."

[MonroeDNA]

Page 7:

"The communist party had been active in Hollywood since 1935, when a secret directive was issued by CPUSA (Communist Party of the U.S.A) headquarters in New YOurk calling for the capture of Hollywood's labor unions. The party believed that by doing this, they could influence the type of pictures produced./ The directive also instructed party memebers to take leadership positions in the so-called intellectual groups in Hollywood, which were composed of directors, writers, and performers"

[edwin hubble]

Thanks.

and I do recognize Reagan for taking a courageaous stand...very early on. This prepared him for his great work decades later "Tear down this wall.".

He is probably more responsible thatn any other single person for the fall of communism. (Great man theory).

[Mmmike]

Don't forget Whittaker Chambers. :-) Lots of leftists act like Alger Hiss came out of nowhere to become the archetypal Poor Persecuted Progressive, but the road to truth begins when you understand how and why Chambers made him (in)famous.

[MonroeDNA]

Yes, you are right. Ronald Reagan was the single most person responible for the collapse of communism in our time. He has convitions, which were proved correct.

[MonroeDNA]

Alger Hiss was totally communist, a plant, and you are right.

[I Am Not A Mod]

Free Republic Highlights, 2/28/03

[Bonaparte]

"They were even forbidden to keep a file of information readily available to any citizen, such as newspaper clippings on subversive organizations."

But they sure didn't scruple at handing over 900 raw FBI files to Hillary Clinton.

[Bonaparte]

"This is a major effort and is well financed."Probably by limosine commies like the Bronfmans, by the oil sheiks and, last but not least, by the US taxpayer.

[Archimedes2000]

>>>> Communism is the twin of Nazism. Peas in a pod<<<

In the words of the (non-idiot, non-surrendering) Frenchman Furet, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were the "unidentical twins."

Truer words have never been spoken.

[Archimedes2000]

>>>> Ronald Reagan was the single most person responible for the collapse of communism in our time. He has convitions, which were proved correct.<<<

And Bill Casey. Reagan, great man that he was, would never have conceived of the economic warfare waged by Bill Casey, #2 at OSS during WWII.

I hope both these people, and Caspar Weinberger, will be recognised as the towering figures they are.