WHERE WOULD YOU GET YOUR NEWS FROM IF FREEREPUBLIC WASN'T HERE? Thread 2
Posted on 09/18/2001 3:22:57 PM PDT by dd-chuk
From: john_peter maher
Date: Tue Sep 18, 2001 8:00 pm
Subject: Sincere thanks for your intelligence and bravery
September 18, 2001
The Honorable Barbara Lee
US House of Representatives
Washington DC
Dear Congresswoman Lee,
You will go down in history with the great William Pitt.
Rally 'round the flag was the order of the day in summer 1914... In Austria and Germany they were screaming "Serbia must die" -- even though it was Austro-Hungarian arrogance and brutality that really brought about the war. -- The assassination in Sarajevo was gladly sized by Austria as a pretext for a genocidal war against the oppressed Serbs, a war that had been planned long before by the chief of Austria's "defense" department, General Conrad.
We know what the outcome was; it included World War II and the Cold War.
Now, "Defense" Secretary Rumsfeld pronounces that we should "drain the swamp" where the creatures live. (This metaphor for an arid region is a ghastly hint about Mr Rumsfeld's knowledge and mental balance.) Alligators and snakes are noble creatures in comparison.
It is Foggy Bottom, with its lethal sanctions and unjust wars that needs cleaning up.
That the USA threatens to wipe out 20 million Afghans is a clone of Hitler policy. After all, it was not even Afghans that perpetrated the atrocity at the World Trade Center, but Wahabi Arabs from America's great Saudi ally, who have stolen Afghanistan from the true owners of the country.
It was Bill Casey, Bob Gates, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jesse Helms etc. who planned, then praised the USA's first war against the people of Afghanistan. Send Rumsfeld to a hospital for the criminally insane. In conclusion, intelligent Americans will praise you for braving the lynch mob.
J. P. Maher
professor
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Monday September 17 4:12 PM ET
Police Guard Lone Dissenter on Use of Force
By John Whitesides
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police on Monday stood guard at the Capitol Hill office of California Democrat Barbara Lee, the target of threats after casting the lone vote in Congress against the use of military force in response to last week's terror attacks.
Plainclothes Capitol officers first took up posts in her legislative office Saturday morning, hours after she became the only member of either the House of Representatives or Senate to oppose a military response to the attacks.
``People are grieving, people are angry and frustrated. I understand that emotions are running high,'' Lee told Reuters, saying she has been personally talking to some callers and trying to answer as many of the thousands of calls and e-mails that have swamped her office as she can.
She would not specify the threats, but said the response began to pour in immediately after she cast her vote on Friday night.
``I'm as patriotic as they are and as American as they are,'' she said of the callers. ``When I talk to them, they understand that Congress has to add its voice to this, too.''
``I really believe Congress should step back, use restraint and make sure our response does not allow the cycle of violence to sprawl out of control,'' she said.
A spokesman for Capitol police refused to discuss the threats or how long the added protection would continue.
The resolution, which authorized the use of force by President Bush (news - web sites) in response to twin attacks on the Pentagon (news - web sites) and World Trade Center that left more than 5,000 people dead or missing, passed 98-0 in the Senate and 420-1 in the House on Friday.
The vote was not out of character for Lee, who criticized former President Bill Clinton's bombing campaign against Iraq in 1998 and was the only House member to vote against a March 1999 resolution authorizing the bombing campaign in Serbia.
Her stances have not hurt her at home in California, where she represents the liberal outposts of Oakland and Berkeley.
``I really want people to understand,'' Lee said. ``I struggled, I agonized. This is a confusing time. We have to make sure we ask all the right questions.''
Lee is not the only lawmaker to feel the backlash of public outrage about last Tuesday's attacks.
Massachusetts Democratic Reps. Marty Meehan and Richard Neal both received hundreds of angry calls on Friday -- and police were forced to guard Meehan's office in Lowell, Massachusetts -- after they were quoted in the Boston Herald making mildly critical comments of Bush's leadership style.
The Herald quoted Meehan as scoffing at reports that Air Force One was a target of the attacks and Neal as saying Bush's speech delivery was bland.
The lawmakers later said the comments were taken out of context and no criticism of Bush was intended. Both pointed out that they support Bush's policies and voted for the resolution authorizing use of military force.
``He regrets giving anyone the impression he doesn't support the president,'' a Meehan aide said. ``He supports him fully.''
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DAY OF INFAMY 2001
Lone House dissenter's extremist history
Barbara Lee has extensive Communist, foreign ties
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
The lone vote in the House of Representatives opposing military action in response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. has a long history of associations with Communist Party and extremist groups and individuals, WorldNetDaily investigations show.
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., is a long-time friend of Communist Party militant Angela Davis who succeeded another radical from the city of Oakland, Rep. Ron "Red" Dellums.
The votes in the House and Senate Friday authorized military action by the executive branch and provided $40 billion to help cover the costs of retaliation and rebuilding from the devastation of Tuesday suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Lee paid her establishment political dues – first as an aide to Dellums and later as a California assemblywoman and state senator. However, less known is Lee's service on the national coordinating committee of the "Committees of Correspondence," an organization that splintered from the Communist Party USA in 1991. Davis, the three-time Communist Party candidate for vice president of the United States, served by her side.
Earlier, while working with Dellums, she joined the U.S.-Grenada Friendship Society, a front group supporting the Communist dictatorship of Maurice Bishop, a close ally of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Just months before the U.S. invasion that toppled Bishop in 1983, Lee and Dellums visited the island on official business of the House Armed Services Committee to gauge the military threat posed to the United States by an international airport being built there by Cubans. According to documents captured by U.S. military forces in Grenada, Lee personally presented Bishop's Politburo with a draft of Dellums' report before it was presented to his congressional committee.
Despite revelations about this in 1993, Dellums went on to become chairman of the committee so vital to national security. Lee went on to become a member of the California Legislature. She threatened Joseph Farah, now the editor of WorldNetDaily, with a defamation lawsuit for publishing this information during her first term as a California assemblywoman. She dropped the threat after being challenged to provide any evidence that the charges were not true.
The minutes of a Politburo meeting held in 1982 say Lee actually encouraged the Communist government to make a revision in the report to minimize the military significance of the Grenada airport.
Less than a year later, the captured documents reveal, Lee helped coordinate a tour of the West Coast for Ian Jacobs, Grenada's deputy U.N. ambassador, as part of a propaganda offensive "to counterattack President Reagan's verbal attack on Grenada." Once again, Angela Davis was by her side.
President Reagan later ordered an invasion of the island when U.S. medical students were taken hostage by the Cuban-backed regime. When U.S. Marines landed, they were met with armed resistance, not from local forces, but from Cuban infantry regulars.
Lee's friendly relations with Cuba date back even further. In 1979, while on Dellums' staff, she traveled to Havana to attend a conference of "non-aligned nations," a Cold War euphemism for countries aligned with the Soviet Union. She attended the conference not as an employee of the federal government, which she was, but rather claiming to be a journalist for the left-wing alternative San Francisco paper, the Sun-Reporter.
The San Francisco paper Lee represented in Cuba was edited at the time by the late Carlton Goodlett. On April 22, 1970, Goodlett received the Lenin Peace Prize in Moscow. It was quite an affair – attended by Leonid Brezhnev and other party notables. The date marked Lenin's 100th birthday.
Until 1956, the Lenin Prize was called the Stalin Stipend. The name was changed only after Nikita Khruschev denounced mass murderer Josef Stalin at the 20th Party Congress in Moscow. It was not just an honorary award for promoting the cause of world Communism and Soviet hegemony. The prize was established in 1928 as the socialist rival to the Nobel Prize and paid its recipients amounts ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 rubles.
When Goodlett returned with his cash, he proceeded to file as a candidate for governor of California in that year's election. He also bankrolled the first big election bids of former California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown and Dellums.
In October 1997, a Freedom of Information Act request was filed with the FBI. It sought information about Goodlett, particularly with respect to the Lenin Prize and about his backing of Dellums. A few weeks later, Dellums surprised virtually everyone on Capitol Hill, throughout his district and across the nation by resigning in the middle of his two-year term.
Nevertheless, Lee was sworn into the House of Representatives by a smiling Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1998. She glibly took her oath to defend and uphold the Constitution, and she faced only token opposition in her successful bids for her first two full terms in the House.
The votes in the House and Senate were remarkable for their gravity, urgency and absence of opposition or even debate. Discussions took a mere five hours and the final vote was 420 to 1.
"There must be some of us who say, let's step back for a moment and think through the implications of our actions today – let us more fully understand its consequences," Lee said. "Far too many innocent people have already died."
The Senate version of the resolution passed 98-0. Sens. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and Jesse Helms, R-N.C., did not vote.
-Dr. Benjamin Spock
The cycle of violence sprawled out of control on 9/11/01!
The false concept of a cycle of violence is used by anti-Americans who try to convince us that retaliation or involvement in any struggle will only lead to more violence. It is nothing but BULLSH*T. The way to prevent violence is to disable your enemy's ability to commit violence against you. If we disable the terrorist networks and their source of financial support, it will not beget more violence. It will lead to nothing more than a group of fanatics (though less than currently exist), who are unable to do anything about their fanaticism.
He may have confused William Pitt with Mr. 'peace in our time' Chamberlain.
On second thought, maybe he should have compared her to Benedict Arnold.
Professor Peter Maher
A short biography
CURRICULUM VITAE
John Peter Maher was born in New York State in 1933. In 1955 he earned his BA from Harpur College (State University of New York at Binghamton). After taking his M. A. in Greek & Latin at The Catholic University of America in Washington D. C. He served in the United States Army Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC), studying the Serbo-Croatian language at Army Language school in Monterey, California. He then served on the Yugoslav desk of the 430th Military Intelligence Battalion in northern Italy (1959-61).
After his army hitch he took a doctorate in historical linguistics at Indiana University, minoring in Latin and Slavic. He was a language teacher in New York State high schools for three years and began University teaching in 1964 in Chicago.
In 1975-77 he was awarded a tenured chair of English linguistics in the University of Hamburg, Germany, where he directed the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics. After that he returned to Chicago. He was appointed professor emeritus in 1993.
His chief research interests are the interface of language and culture, particularly the reconstruction of prehistoric language and culture in Indo-European languages, especially Greek, Latin, Germanic, and Slavic. He is one of the few original etymologists today.
In conjunction with these interests he has published critical works in theoretical linguistics. He has served on the editorial boards of several journals.
He has been Fulbright lecturer and researcher in Bulgaria, Italy, Ireland, and two countries killed by the New World Order, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
CURRICULUM VITAE for
Peter Maher
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics,
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL 60625; 1993. (appointed Instructor 1964).
Professor of Linguistics, University of Hamburg, Germany; 1975-7.
Teacher of Latin, French, English, New York Sate high schools. 1956-57; 1961-63.
Special Agent, US Army Counter-Intelligence Corps, 430th Military Intelligence Battalion, Northern Italy: Yugoslav desk, interpreter-translator, German, Italian, Serbo-Croatian languages; 1959-61.
Graduate with certificate of achievement, US Army Language School, Montery CA March 1959.
Fulbright Research Scholar:
Western Europe (especially Ireland and Italy). April - August 1984
Fulbright Lecturer:
University of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. February - June 1990. University of Sofia, Bulgaria. October 1966 - February 1967.
University of Trnava, Czechoslovakia. September 1966.
Academic degrees:
1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, major in Historical Linguistics, minors in Slavic and Latin (residence June 1963 - August 1964).
1958. Master of Arts, Greek & Latin, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC (residence September 1955 - August 1956).
1955. Bachelor of Arts, Humanities (Foreign Languages), Harpu College (State University of New York at Binghamton) 1953. Associate of of Arts, Classics, at Bernard's Seminary College, Rochester NY.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Indo-European Studies, l973-77.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Diachronica, l984-88. Associate Editor, Forum Linguisticum, l980-93.
Member, advisory Editorial board, Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistics, Series IV - Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, l974-78.
Articles related to Yugoslav civil wars written by Professor Maher:
A letter to Voice of America
In your program on Dubrovnik the Voice of America has equaled Hitler's Radio.
WHERE WOULD YOU GET YOUR NEWS FROM IF FREEREPUBLIC WASN'T HERE? Thread 2
She's a gold-plated Communist. Through and through.
.........and when I see this wench say the following:
"``I'm as patriotic as they are and as American as they are,'' she said of the callers..."
.........then all I can say is this: Representative Lee, you traitorous bitch, don't you EVER claim to be "patriotic", you aren't fit to have a b.m. in the same latrine ever used by anyone who has served in the military, and don't you EVER try to put yourself on the same level as Americans. You are beneath contempt.
That said, GO GET 'EM GEORGE W.!!!
Which explains something I have been wondering about for 34 years. Ron Dellums came out of nowhere to defeat a field of four or five candidates resoundingly for a position on the Berkeley City Council. He did not mount much of a campaign, but he took home the lion's share of the vote. I never could figure it out.
He then bought a relatively expensive house in a white neighborhood without any cash on hand. According to a realtor I knew who showed the house, he was not even aware that he needed a down payment. At closing, he came up with the cash and moved in.
He was given a welcoming party by the local Communist organizer (no one in the neighborhood was invited, just other Berkeley Communists). Shortly after that he was elected to Congress.
All this occurred around 1967-1970. I always knew he had a sponsor affiliated with the Communist Party who could provide lots of cash. Now I know who it was. And now I also know that his successor is following right in his footsteps. I'm sure glad I don't live there anymore. I just wish that they didn't still have influence over my life.
To put this in context, this is the same period that Hillary was interning in the offices of the Berkeley Communist lawyer -- name escapes me for the moment, law partner to Bertram Edises -- and David Horowitz was teaching at UC Berkeley and later working for Ramparts Magazine in San Francisco and was involved with the Black Panthers in Oakland.
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