National Petition for a Congressional Declaration of War
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Posted on 09/14/2001 9:50:42 PM PDT by San Jacinto
No Barbie, what we should do is change the name of DOD back to the War Department.
Response: This statement assumes that this poor soul is capable of forming a "View."(Much less the plural-Views)
National Petition for a Congressional Declaration of War
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Unfortunately, Barbara Lee is an ideological clone of Dellums, having served as his senior adviser and chief of staff from 1975 to 1987. It was during that time (in 1983) that U.S. forces liberated Grenada after determining that a huge airport under construction with Cuban and Soviet financing could handle the Soviet Union’s long-range bombers. During the invasion, U.S. troops discovered nearly seven tons of documents that confirmed the Communist nature of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop’s New Jewel Movement. Included was correspondence with Dellums’ office.
In 1982, Dellums had traveled to Grenada to, he said, gain an overview of "the building of the new international airport." In a report submitted to the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee on June 14, 1982, he emphatically denied that the airport was intended for military use. A copy of the report was found among the cache of Grenadian documents, along with minutes of a December 15, 1982 New Jewel Movement Politburo meeting. At one point, the minutes assert: "Ron Dellums: His assistant — Barbara Lee is here presently and has brought with her a report on the International Airport that was done by Ron Dellums. They have requested that we look at the document and suggest any changes we deem necessary — they will be willing to make the changes." That is, Dellums, aided by now-Congressman Barbara Lee, agreed to let Grenada’s Communist government (which was merely a puppet regime run from Havana and Moscow) edit his report prior to submitting it to the chairman of his House committee.
Don't look for this duly elected traitor for any guidance anywhere.
Marx and the Democrats
by Allan H. RyskindLongtime Democrats still yearning to turn their party rightward have to be dismayed at the Democratic National Committee’s decision to make Carlottia Scott a key part of the DNC’s “new senior political/leadership team.”
The far-left Scott has just joined the DNC as “chief of politics,” where, in the words of a DNC press release, she will become one of “two individuals to lead the DNC’s political shop.” (The other is Jeff Forbes, deputy political director of the Clinton/Gore ‘96 campaign.)
Scott’s left-wing credentials can be gleaned from the political company she’s been keeping for over two decades. Until her appointment, she was serving as administrative assistant to Rep. Barbara Lee (D.-Calif.), who sports one of the most liberal voting records in Congress and, according to anti-Communist expert Herbert Romerstein, was elected in 1992 “to the National Coordinating Committee of Correspondence, a new dissident Communist organization” (see Dec. 12, 1992, Human Events).
Before that, Scott served as a top staffer to Rep. Ron Dellums (D-Calif.), Rep. Lee’s predecessor in the 9th District, who made his mark in Congress by attempting to dismantle the American military and trumpeting the “virtues” of Fidel Castro, apparently his greatest political hero. (Dellums resigned his seat in 1998.)
Scott’s radical politics came to dazzling light in 1983, when U.S. armed forces, in the wake of the Grenada invasion, captured documents revealing that Dellums and his then aides, Lee and Scott, had a unique relationship with Maurice Bishop, Grenada’s Communist ruler, who had seized power by force in 1979. The U.S. military had intervened in 1983 when Bishop was murdered, and some 800 American students were in danger of being taken hostage.
The documents disclosed that Dellums and his aides covered for Bishop and that Carlottia had even sent the Caribbean leader mash notes. Dellums’ serious effort to obscure Bishop’s attempt to communize the region began in April 1982. A member of the House Armed Services Committee, Dellums traveled to Grenada on a supposed fact-finding mission to see if the Point Salines airfield–as intelligence reports suggested–was being transformed into a military base that would accommodate Soviet bloc aircraft.
Both Lee and Scott accompanied the congressman. Instead of sending the results of his investigation directly to his House colleagues, Dellums, according to the documents, had Lee hand-deliver a draft copy of his report to Maurice Bishop and his ruling New Jewel Movement for approval. Scott was an accomplice.
Unfortunately, Barbara Lee is an ideological clone of Dellums, having served as his senior adviser and chief of staff from 1975 to 1987. It was during that time (in 1983) that U.S. forces liberated Grenada after determining that a huge airport under construction with Cuban and Soviet financing could handle the Soviet Union’s long-range bombers. During the invasion, U.S. troops discovered nearly seven tons of documents that confirmed the Communist nature of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop’s New Jewel Movement. Included was correspondence with Dellums’ office.
In 1982, Dellums had traveled to Grenada to, he said, gain an overview of "the building of the new international airport." In a report submitted to the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee on June 14, 1982, he emphatically denied that the airport was intended for military use. A copy of the report was found among the cache of Grenadian documents, along with minutes of a December 15, 1982 New Jewel Movement Politburo meeting. At one point, the minutes assert: "Ron Dellums: His assistant — Barbara Lee is here presently and has brought with her a report on the International Airport that was done by Ron Dellums. They have requested that we look at the document and suggest any changes we deem necessary — they will be willing to make the changes." That is, Dellums, aided by now-Congressman Barbara Lee, agreed to let Grenada’s Communist government (which was merely a puppet regime run from Havana and Moscow) edit his report prior to submitting it to the chairman of his House committee.
This country has no need for this kind of leadership but I guess this is about par for La La Land.
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