[Cincinatus' Wife]

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Washington Post columnist Michael Kelly red-baits the Workers World Party***The witch-hunting attack by columnist Michael Kelly on the Workers World Party in the Washington Post ("Marching with Stalinists," January 22, 2003) was entirely predictable. One right-wing hack or another was bound to get around to the task.

Kelly, perpetually outraged and perpetually ignorant, takes the occasion of last week's massive demonstrations in Washington and San Francisco against the imminent war on Iraq to denounce one of the protests' principal organizers, ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), as "a front group for the communist Workers World Party."

The columnist goes on to identify Workers World with the Chinese and North Korean regimes, Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, "the mullahs of Iran, and the narco-gangsters of Colombia and the bus-bombers of Hamas." The principal device employed here, one long favored by witch-hunters, is the amalgam: throw everything together in the hope of creating the maximum fear and disorientation.***

[Straight Vermonter]

My brother-in-law was an environmental activist while in college. He worked for an organization that solicited door to door to raise money for "environmental awareness".

The money that was donated went straight into the solicitors pockets. You see, by going door to door and telling you about the environment they make you more "environmentally aware" so they have achieved the goal.