WHO IS TOM LANTOS?

VANITY | 11/11/03 | ME

[Al Simmons]

O.K., Freepers. Maybe someone can enlighten me about the OTHER Hungarian immigrant (not Soros) who routinely makes the "mainstream news".

Tom Lantos is the ancient, funny-sounding accented Congressman from some G*d-forsaken liberal slimepit in Southern California someplace.

I have heard it claimed that he was an escapee from Hungary - post the crushed 1956 uprising there.

What has puzzled me for years (as I am also an escapee from another Eastern European communist-era dictatorship), are the good Congressman's frankly ( in my OPINION) socialist, anti-American views.

It is well-documented that, among the ranks of the many waves of immigrants during the cold war our enemies would infiltrate "sleepers", ie Soviet spies pretending to be anti-communists.

Now, granted, not all immigrants from behind the iron curtain are stridently anti-everything-that-even-smacks-of-totalitarian-socialism, but, like me, MOST ARE.

Can some better learned Freeper educate me on the history and philosophy of the lisping Mr. Lantos? Is it possible that, instead of being an escapee from communism, he actually came here with a different, secret, agenda, one that he is pursuing years after the Fall of Communism in Europe?

I for one would like to know.

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,

Al

[Al Simmons]

Mr. Lantos, Mr. Soros, and their ilk give ALL of us immigrants, who truly abhor everything the commies stood for, a bad name!!(But libel/slander laws prevent me from venting here :0(

[dts32041]

An American by choice, Tom Lantos was born in Budapest, Hungary, on February 1, 1928. He was 16 years old when Nazi Germany occupied his native country. As a teenager, he was a member of the anti-Nazi underground and later of the anti-Communist student movement. He is the only holocaust survivor ever elected to Congress. Tom was awarded an academic scholarship to study in the United States, and he arrived here in 1947. He received a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the University of Washington in Seattle and later earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

he is a holcaust they are all a little over the edge about individual rights.

Wouldn't you be.

[eniapmot]

Individual rights?

He votes the Democrat Party Line. Is the Democratic Party the party for individual rights?

For example, he has voted against the (individual) right to bear arms in every single vote (except one: the bill to arm pilots).

[Al Simmons]

"He received a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the University of Washington in Seattle and later earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley."

Which makes his economic views all the more puzzling. I don't think that those universities had yet gone psycho-left in those days.

"he is a holcaust they are all a little over the edge about individual rights."

From this I gather he is Jewish? Maybe changed his name a la Soros? How can anyone care about individual rights and support the Clintons, who would DEARLY love to become the "Maximum Leaders" of the USA!!!

"Wouldn't you be. "

Well Jack, as a matter of fact, I am of Serbian ancestry (remember that OTHER little holocaust perpetrated on the Serbs by the Croat Ustashi?) My grandmother's brother was a judge who was one of 7000 men women and schoolchildren summarily executed in reprisals one Spring day in 1941 in Kragujevac by the Germans. Another uncle survived Jasenovac (the Croat version of Dachau for the Serbs.) My father fought the Nazis in the mountains for 3 years, and ultimately my family lost nearly all it had because of the commies after the war.

My own experience is that all of this type of stuff makes one a RABID anti communist and rugged individualist suspicious of ANY government program/action, and positively apoplectic at the "whiff" of anything even remotely smacking of socialism.

In 1947 Hungary was already communist, and he gets picked for a "scholarship"? I'd sure like some more details on how that happened (was arranged).

Thank you for confirming to me that the good Congressman's story sounds fishy.

Al

[december12]

Tom Lantos was my Congressman when I lived in California. Although I hold very different political views than he does, I never doubted his sincerity or his foreign policy expertise.

[Al Simmons]

"I never doubted his sincerity or his foreign policy expertise."

Fed to him directly by the Comintern perhaps?

[Burlem]

Al you may want to read: America's 30 years War, "who is winning" by the late Balint Vazsonyi, he grew up under communist Hungary came to this country became a citizen, he performed as a concert pianist and eventually became involved in politics from a literary point of view, he draw parallels beteen then and todays ultra liberals.
He has a web site honoring the founders with the "papers", I believe it is still up, after his death.
www.founding.org

[Al Simmons]

Thanks! I'll check it out.

[Defender2]

I have seen Lantos on the floor many times. Old, long Grey haired, typical RAT Socialist/Communist/Enemy aider and Abetter and comfort giver to. He comes on the screen and my channel changing button goes on automatic change mode!!!!

[ought-six]

Mr. Lantos is indeed a socialist. I have no idea whether or not he was a Soviet plant, but I've not seen any evidence that he was (he sure acts like it sometimes, though!).

[Phantom Lord]

Tom Lantos, when questioning Craig Livingstone over "who hired him" suggested that Livingstone should have committed suicide.

[Consort]

Lantos, in part, is a hit-and-run driver who advocates suicide.

[alloysteel]

Perhaps there was something in the upbringing of both George Soros and Tom Lantos, a factor that keeps them from seeing the contradictory nature of how they view America and the Bush Administration. Both seem to be of the opinion that if George W. Bush is in favor of some certain view, they must, by almost involuntary reflex, take a position against that point of view. Logic and reason seem somehow suspended when they hear Republicans speak.

Despite what they may believe, Republicans share NO affinity with the Nazi point of view. Yet, that doctrine seems to be ingrained in the mindset of both Tom Lantos and George Soros. Nor are they the only people who hold this opinion.

In their eyes, Stalin was not all that bad. And it is not coincidence that Saddam Hussein has more than passing resemblance to "Uncle Joe". Therefore, anyone who would challenge Saddam, and by analogy, Joe Stalin, must be like Adolf Hitler. Thus, George W. Bush "must be" the modern analog of the leader of the Third Reich, and America is the modern Nazi Germany.

I don't believe this, not a bit, but I am just trying to trace some thought processes (or lack thereof) among those who seem to be visceral Bush-haters.

[bigfootbob]

I can't speak for California, but Seattle was very leftist in the '40's and continues today. It was during the Eisenhower administration the phrase "Soviet of Washington" was coined.

[Erik Latranyi]

My father escaped from Hungay in 1956 along with 3 friends of his.

2 of the 3 (my father being 1 of the 2) are conservative.

The third member of their "escape team" is somewhat liberal.

It goes to show you that where you come from does not always affect your political views.

Many Jews today that survived the Holocaust and being disarmed support gun control. Go figure.

Tom Lantos is just another liberal, like Soros.

Forever must we oppose their kind and educate the masses why our way is the best.

[veryone]

Mr. Lantos get money from over seas

[breakem]

and who are you?

Lantos is from the 12th Congressional District on the SF Penninsula. Hardly in that liberal slimepit, Southern California. BTW most of southern California votes moderate to conservative. Don't confuse "Hollywood" with the rest of socal. The SF area is one of the most radical liberal areas in the country. Now there's your slimepit.

Lantos has had a hard life and is a survivor.

He was edumacated in Berkeley and that probably got him off in the wrong direction.

[veryone]

can anyone say illegal campaign contribution?

[Al Simmons]

My apologies. I currently live in NoCal, am a relative newcomer, but still should have known better.

[breakem]

I just thought the question was a little arrogant. The guy is a flaming liberal, but I respect what he went through to get here.

BTW if you look at a map of Cal, some would say SF and Sacramento are in central california and that northern cal starts above Marin Co and Redding.