Posted on 04/17/2003 4:48:52 PM PDT by nicmarlo
Very, very true! sweetliberty posted a great thread about voter fraud: FReepers Against Voter Fraud.....encouraging, among other things, for us to get involved as poll watchers....and what some of their tactics were this past election....incredibly awful tactics, actually.
By David Horowitz
April 22, 2003
.....What the prologue to the war and its aftermath reveal is that the facts of the war are not the issue for the “anti-war” left and neither is the war itself. The so-called “anti-war” left is a Neo-communist movement that was launched forty years ago under the pretense of being a “new left,” and it has been at war with the “American empire” ever since. During these years of struggle with Communists in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, China, Southeast Asia, Africa and Central America, and in the aftermath of America’s liberation of a billion inhabitants of the Communist empire, this left has been impervious to every good deed America has done and every bad deed its Marxist and now Islamo-fascist enemies have committed. Instead, this “antiwar” left relentlessly attributes the bad deeds of America’s enemies to America itself – hence the search for “root causes” every time America is attacked.
The Neo-communist left opposes America’s efforts to promote freedom and supports (sometimes “critically”) America’s declared enemies not because of what America does, but because of what they think America is. The Neo-communist left is impervious to facts because it is a political messianism, in essence a religious movement. Its delusions of social redemption are fed on a rich diet of anti-American myths. These myths were once generated in institutions funded by the Communist Party and other marginal radical sects. But that has all changed with the long march of the left during the last thirty years through America’s institutions of higher learning. The Neo-communist left is now entrenched on the faculties of America’s elite universities, where it is a “hegemonic” force. It has converted America’s elite universities into a political base for its radical and anti-American agendas. In the present war with radical Islam, this poses a problem Americans can continue to ignore only at their own peril, and which sooner or later they must address.
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Testimony before the House International Relations Committee in Washington, D.C., given on April 16, 2003.
Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, you are to be commended for holding this hearing to spotlight the recent crackdown in Cuba. The committee's continuing interest in the situation in Cuba is particularly well timed and welcome, given the growing international concern over the efforts of the repressive regime to stifle independent voices and a growing demand for democracy....
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG, also "the Guild") embraces every anti-America, anti-capitalist, anti-war, anti-Israel, and "anti-imperialist" cause in vogue among the far left and declares itself "dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system." If this strikes the reader as a slight hint that the Guild’s underlying ideology is not exactly laissez-faire capitalism, that is because it is not. While the Guild is not officially communist or Marxist, its membership, leadership, past internal struggles, and adopted stances consistently point to an organization whose underlying convictions could best be described as such.
Commencing about eighteen months ago the Communist Party, after languishing in relative inactivity since February 1956, picked up momentum and has steadily been gaining strength.
The disgraceful student riots attending the hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities in San Francisco in May 1960, the emergence of new and defiant student organizations on the campuses of our universities, the sudden change in the flavor of propaganda material appearing in Communist bookstores—these and other developments we shall discuss later provided unmistakable danger signals that the period of dormancy had ended and that the revisionists in the Party had been either ousted or subdued.
Interviews with students disclose an alarming indoctrination: contempt for duly constituted authority, distrust of the F.B.I., hatred for all committees of federal or state legislatures established to ascertain and report on internal subversion. We have made a careful investigation of the San Francisco riots and of the conditions in our schools and universities. These matters will be set forth shortly.
First, in order to view the situation in its proper perspective, let us examine the reasons for this sudden resurgence of activity.....
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Here are some old but interesting threads.
Houston: Local Marxists foresee a revolutionary future ***As committed Marxists, Henderson and Ferguson found themselves involved in political struggles throughout the nation. Ferguson arrived in Houston at the party's behest in 1996; Henderson followed three years later.
Today, both are employed as sewing machine operators at a Houston garment factory. "I knew several things about Texas," Henderson recalled. "I knew there was `right to work' and that unions were weak. I'm an immigrant worker myself, and I knew that Texas was one of the centers for immigrants. I felt strongly as one with them."
In their careers as activists, Henderson and Ferguson have witnessed the victory of Marxist Vietnam and the U.S.-facilitated failure of socialist regimes in Grenada and Nicaragua. Communism's collapse in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe left them unfazed.***
U.S. students help mobilize foreign workers AFL-CIO SUPPORT***ATLIXCO, Mexico -- When Dale Weaver walked into a Nike superstore on San Francisco's Union Square, he locked arms with seven other college students and demonstrated for striking workers half a continent away. Alerted by e-mail messages about a labor fight in Mexico at a factory that made clothing for Nike and Reebok, Weaver embraced the cause. In the next few months, the history major at San Jose State University and thousands of other students held teach-ins at colleges and protests at Nike stores.
……………In 1999, a student-rights organization called the United Students Against Sweatshops, which claims members at more than 150 universities, pressed Nike and other apparel makers to publish a list of those contractors. Kukdong's factory in Atlixco was on the list. When riot police broke up the wildcat strike at the factory last January, Weaver and hundreds of other students heard about it hours later via e-mails from the United Students.
The group organized a series of protests across the country. College students brandished posters at nationally televised basketball games, organized cross-country caravans for demonstrations and held sit-ins and store protests. But the group's ace in the hole was the financial agreements between the universities and Nike and Reebok. The multimillion-dollar licensing deals give the companies the right to sell clothing stamped with universities' logos.
Student protesters picketed the offices of college presidents and licensing administrators, and those officials, in turn, called the companies. "It got bigger than life," said Amanda Tucker, a Nike executive. She admits being barraged by phone calls and e-mails, many, she says, from "panicky" college administrators. "It's a kind of guerrilla warfare approach, and college students are the front line," Tucker said.***
Elections are themselves a means of social change," Ferguson said. "It's organizing and educating the masses of workers and farmers that gives us a chance to take political power through direct action, mobilizing in the streets. Elections at best are a forum to express ideas ... challenging the representatives of the ruling class."
"We think this is the best time in our history to be Marxists," said Jacquie Henderson, the Canadian-born chapter chairwoman who once played baseball against Cuba's Fidel Castro. "Our prospects have never been so good.""Today, there is a growing mood of rebellion among working people," added David Ferguson, a party member who received 20 percent of the vote in a 1999 race against City Councilman Rob Todd. "We can't make any predictions. But if the offensive by capitalists against working people continues, that anger will burst into the open."
Houston, with its large blue-collar work force, is fertile ground for radical recruitment, party members believe. And if the city is renowned for its capitalist spirit, it's the excesses of capitalism, Marxists contend, that will spell its destruction. To that end, Houston party members -- the group's size is a guarded secret -- routinely distribute their newspaper, The Militant, and other literature at shopping centers and colleges.
They join disgruntled workers on picket lines in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. Though they disdain the electoral process as a "farce," they regularly enter city elections.
The United FrontThe term "united front" came into usage after the Seventh World Comintern Congress. It simply means, in the Communist sense, that members of the party will attach themselves to some popular cause for which large groups of non-Communists have manifested a willingness to take some positive action. They will then espouse the same cause, weld the groups together, trim down the leadership to the point that it can be dominated by the Communist minority, and from that time they will control the mass movement and bend it to their own objectives. The principal objective is to whittle away opposition and transform the popular cause into a class struggle.
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Thus each Communist front organization is actually an exemplification of the Dimitroff device; for each is composed of a majority of non-Communists united together because of a common purpose on which they can take common action; for better housing, for relief of poverty, to end racial discrimination, and the like. Occasionally the Communists will move quietly in until the infiltration has managed to capture key positions and gain control. More often they will start a new organization and use it to attract others. Then several fronts will be persuaded to join forces for the common objective, and this is the classic united front of organizations as originated by the secretary of the Third Communist International.....
Can this not be said to be occurring with the Progressive Caucus and its members?
Thirteenth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities (1965)
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