COMMUNISM and CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT --More Birch Society Myths

10-04-03 | Ernieinps@aol.com

[JohnGalt]

So they over estimated the Communist threat; that is nothing compared to the neoconservatives drumming up fear of cave dwellers.

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[Cacophonous]

fear of cave dwellers?

[JohnGalt]

(A loose attempt to relate the Soviet menace to the considerably less impressive AQ threat.)

[Cacophonous]

Ah...gotcha...sorry, not quick on the uptake today.

[Chapita]

Wonder if anyone recognizes the name Hunter Jack Odell?

[JohnGalt]

I don't recognize the name-- a Red?

[wizardoz]

How'd they manage to leave out the fact that the Highlander School was founded by, among others, Don West, the district director for the North Carolina Communist Party?

This according to the FBI Freedom of Information Act: http://foia.fbi.gov/hfschool.htm

[Chapita]

Also left out is the fact that Hunter Jack was a communist and the Communist Party USA had been instructed by the Communist International to penetrate the NAACP, Democrat Party, and the Catholic Church.

[logician2u]

Interesting.

By penetrate, you mean infiltrate? Or beyond that?

(We can only speculate on their success.)

[wizardoz]

Also left out is the fact that Hunter Jack was a communist and the Communist Party USA had been instructed by the Communist International to penetrate the NAACP, Democrat Party, and the Catholic Church.

Well, they've done what they were instructed to do and then some. The Communist Party has penetrated, ejaculated, and impregnated all three.

[BattleFlag]

Would these be the same cave dwellers who brought down the World Trade Center?

[Abcdefg]

How about the National Council of Churches? Didn't the FBI issue a report around 1975 that it was a front for Soviet Communism?

[Ernie.cal]

Since Communists attached themselves to all sorts of LEGITIMATE organizations, the bottom-line question becomes this:

Was the Communist Party able to control the activities, policies and programs of the Highlander Folk School?

The answer, according to the FBI file on Highlander, is NO!

There is one typographical error and two factual errors in the summary appearing on the FBI webpage that you cited.

The typo is in the name of the Director of HFS which was MYLES HORTON (not Miles Norton)

The factual errors are as follows:

1. DON WEST
Don West was not the "District Director of the
Communist Party of North Carolina" when he was
associated with HFS.

Horton met Don West in the Fall of 1932 and they
worked together on plans for opening Highlander on
November 1, 1932. By April 1933, West and Horton
had a falling out over staff hiring, student
admissions and use of HFS funds so they dissolved
their partnership. While West was never a member
of the Communist Party, he was a socialist and he was
sympathetic to several Communist causes during the
1930's---during the height of the "united front"
efforts by Communists to build alliances with liberals
and socialists.

2. WHY HIGHLANDER WAS CLOSED

As the FBI file makes clear, numerous charges were
made over the years about the supposed pro-Communist
nature of Highlander but those charges were based
upon the premise that being pro-integration was, by
definition, pro-Communist activity. In addition,
Highlander's pro-labor union positions antagonized
many prominent leaders in the Tennessee business
community.

No federal agency ever cited Highlander as
"subversive" and that includes FBI, HUAC, SISS,
the Subversive Activities Control Board, and the
Attorney General's list of Subversive Organizations.

The school ultimately was closed in November 1959
due to violations of its Charter with respect to
accounting practices and allegations that it
illegally stored and sold alcoholic beverages
(a raid had found 30 cases of empty beer bottles
and several bottles of whiskey).

[Ernie.cal]

It appears from your message that you are insinuating that the NAACP was successfully "penetrated" by Communists.

You make a mistake that is common among ill-informed persons---namely, you never do the careful research to determine the actual facts of the situation.

Communist infiltration or "penetration" doesn't mean much unless the infiltrators can actually accomplish some objective.

Former FBI Security Informant (and subsequently Birch Society speaker) Julia Brown mentioned in her March 1961 interview in Ebony magazine, that Communist Party officials had boasted that they successfully had infiltrated the Chicago chapter of the NAACP. However, Julia then observed that Roy Wilkins (NAACP Executive Secretary) and local Chicago leaders "moved in and cleaned up the Chapter."

Julia was instructed by Communist Party leaders to "infiltrate" her local Cleveland chapter of the NAACP--which she did! But local NAACP leaders suspected her of being Communist and they removed her from the position of leadership which she had attained within the NAACP.

After Julia surfaced as an FBI informant, she testified about her time as a "Communist infiltrator" of the NAACP:

"I tried to be fair to the NAACP and false to the Communists. I didn't intend to harm the NAACP in any way. I'm 100 percent with the NAACP and I think they are doing a wonderful job and so does the FBI. They are aware that the NAACP is legal and is working in the American way for first-class citizenship for all Americans."

FBI HQ file 100-403529, serial #167 is a May 4, 1961 FBI document which discusses Communist infiltration of the NAACP:

"The NAACP is subject of Bufile 105-18867. No information is disclosed that this group is communist-infiltrated or controlled."

[Tailgunner Joe]

Bond blasts Bush, anti-terrorism, & "J. Edgar Ashcroft at NAACP convention (Major barf alert) - "The FBI tried to disrupt the civil rights movement. They wanted to smear Martin Luther King Jr. They not only wanted him discredited, they wanted him dead, threatening him with the release of damaging information if he did not commit suicide. We thought we had put a stop to Hoover's program of spies and lies in the 1970s after its abuses were exposed. Now under the guise of fighting terrorism, the FBI is going back to spying on law-abiding citizens." - Veteran "civil rights" leader Julian Bond

MLK Rally marked by Bush, Ashcroft bashing & absence of US flags; Speaker Praises Mugabe

KING'S “DREAM” BECOMES A NIGHTMARE - Billy Thye of the American Indian Movement said the real terrorist in the world was the U.S. government, while Obi Egbuna of the Pan African Liberation Organization praised black racist Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and urged the lifting of the economic embargo of communist Cuba. He said, “We must stand behind Mugabe,” whose policies are starving half of his population. On the other hand, he branded U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell “a murderer.”

NAACP to open office, affirm 'kinship' in Cuba

NAACP hit for policy on Cuba

What about Black Cubans' Subjugation, Mr. Robinson?

[Tailgunner Joe]

Myths of Martin Luther King - King’s sympathy for communism may have contributed to his opposition to the Vietnam War, which he characterized as a racist, imperialistic, and unjust war. King claimed that America "had committed more war crimes than any nation in the world."

[nopardons]

BTT

[Tailgunner Joe]

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