and we dare not get too opinionated or hateful at any rallies or we were branded extremist and threatened with the IRS or worse...
we all thought it but no one ever would extoll violence to end the clintonista nightmare...
and yet we have people threatening our present President, wishing death to thousands of our beloved soldiers, we have people marching with signs hoping for our officers to be shoot by the enlisted.....
its unfathomable......its utterly unfathomable.....
I give the dirtbag Nicholas De Genova credit for one thing. His logic is consistent. How many who support the left would still do so if the left didn't disguise the logical conclusions of their positions? Just as Horowitz spoke of disguising the desire for the US to lose as "bring the troops home".
De Genova at least exposes himself for the devil he is.
..and where is the money for all of this this coming from ?
I wonder if African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Asian-Americans who describe themselves as "patriotic" are also considered "white supremacists".
A socialist and longtime activist who, during the past thirty years, has mobilized millions of demonstrators in rallies denouncing our nation’s foreign policies; its military-related spending; and its purportedly virulent racism, sexism, and homophobia.
She is a die-hard, pro-Communist radical who proudly aligns her politics with those of Communist Cuba.
She was a national co-chair of NNOC in 1996.
In February 1996 at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, the National Network on Cuba (NNOC), of which Cagan was a national co-chair, sponsored a public forum that featured an address by Angela Sanbrano of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), which was affiliated with the Communist guerrilla movement in that country. Another guest speaker was the Cuban revolutionary José Luis Ponce, who appeared on stage with an admiring Cagan. Ponce extolled the enormous social gains that Castro’s revolution had brought to Cuba. As the socialist publication The Militant paraphrased it, Ponce lauded the revolution for its opposition to "the legacy of US domination - a legacy of unemployment, absence of health care for millions especially in the countryside, illiteracy, racism and the super-exploitation of women." He further predicted, quite happily, that "a fight for socialism" would re-emerge in Russia. To all these assertions, Cagan nodded with approval.
In short, Leslie Cagan candidly sides with Castro’s Communist regime rather than with the United States, which she deems the world’s foremost terrorist nation. The Venceremos Brigades with which she proudly associated were in fact organized by Castro’s Cuban intelligence agency, which went so far as to train some "brigadistas" in guerrilla warfare techniques, including the use of arms and explosives.
Cagan’s pro-Castro rallies were supported by such socialist organizations as Casa de las Americas, the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Venceremos Brigades, the Workers World Party, and the Young Socialists.
Cagan herself was an original founder of the Committees of Correspondence, a splinter group rooted in the Communist Party USA. Joining the chorus of her fellow leaders in the "peace" movement, she condemns what she calls America’s "daily assaults and attacks on poor and working people, on women, people of color, lesbians/gays and other sexual minorities, the disabled and so many others, [and] such foreign policy matters as . . . military actions and economic sanctions."
Not surprisingly, Leslie Cagan firmly opposes our government’s contemplated war against Iraq, which she characterizes as nothing more than a thinly veiled oil grab. "Oil is not worth war!" screams Cagan’s UFPJ Website. "How much is the Bush administration’s push for war with Iraq motivated by its desire to gain control of Iraq’s oil fields?"
On February 4 in Charlotte, North Carolina, UFPJ sponsored a "No War For Oil" protest held symbolically in front of a Texaco location. In attributing nefarious motives to US military ventures, Cagan continues a long Leftist tradition.
In the 1960s, for example, it was commonplace for the Left to assert that the US was sending troops to Southeast Asia merely to secure mineral rights in South Vietnam for American corporations. As Stokely Carmichael put it at the time, our 58,000 dead soldiers were sacrificed merely "to serve the economic interests of American businessmen who are in Vietnam solely to exploit the tungsten, tin, and oil."
Following President Bush’s recent State of the Union address, Cagan said, "George Bush again tried to make his case against Iraq and he failed." "Such a war [in Iraq]," she contends, "undoubtedly threatens to unleash an escalating and uncontrollable cycle of violence, death and destruction." Of course, she does not express the barest hint of concern that Saddam’s regime, which has blatantly defied the conditions of UN Resolution 1441, poses a threat to American security. In the eyes of Cagan and her ilk, the principal enemy of world peace is the United States.
She is the co-chair of United For Peace and Justice (UFPJ), which on Feb 15, 2003 organized many thousands of protesters to protest within sight of the United Nations building in New York to express their opposition to a war in Iraq. Their efforts will be duplicated in some 300 additional cities throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
In the summer of 2002 , signed the infamous "Not In Our Name" (NION) statement denouncing America’s declared war against terror, which began in Afghanistan. "Let it not be said," read the NION (Not In Our Name) document, "that people in the United States did nothing when their government declared a war without limit and instituted stark new measures of repression. The signers of this statement call on the people of the US to resist the policies and overall political direction that have emerged since September 11 and which pose grave dangers to the people of the world."
1969 - 1970 winter : (CUBA : VENCEREMOS BRIGADES : LEFTIES / BRIGADISTAS : CAGAN, BLACK PANTHERS) "In the winter of 1969-70," Leslie Cagan fondly recalls, "I spent over two months with the First Venceremos Brigade in Cuba. Just ten years into their revolution, the Cubans had taken control of their history. . . . While we were in Cuba, Fred Hampton and other Chicago Black Panthers were murdered. It was a shocking reminder of the brutality and power of the US government, and there we were in Cuba, a whole nation under attack from the US. As Brigadistas we were taking a risk traveling in defiance of Washington’s travel ban, but we knew the risk was small compared to what Cubans and so many others around the world faced every day."
I noticed De Genova is not yet a full professor. Is there any chance he will be denied tenure? I really don't understand how someone like De Genova is attracted to Columbia University given the high proportion of Jewish students and alumni there. How do students react to professors like De Genova? What do alumni say about professors like De Genova, Edward Said, etc. Is the University even further to the left now than it was twenty years ago?