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COUNTER-TERRORISM: Leveraging Lawfare [Anti-Americanism by the liberals helping our enemies]
Strategy Page ^ | 2005 Jun 22

Posted on 06/22/2005 4:55:06 PM PDT by Wiz

June 22, 2005: Islamic terrorists have found powerful allies among leftist activists in the United States and Europe. These groups, which first appeared in the 1930s, providing support for the Soviet Union, evolved into “progressive,” and pro-Soviet organizations (like the National Lawyers Guild) during the Cold War. They found that lawfare was a highly effective ideological weapon in a country like the United States. When the Cold War ended, and the Soviet Union disappeared, these organizations, and people like lawyers Michael Ratner and Ramsey Clark, maintained good relations with the remaining communist dictatorships, especially Cuba, and continued their war on America. The basic drill of these groups is right out of the old Soviet playbook. That is, using support for worthy causes like civil rights, clean government and environmentalism as camouflage, plus an exaggerated sense of righteousness, to pursue a program that seeks to make their own foreign policy, counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence policy, and enact laws in the United States via the courts, rather than the legislature. Often, the only goal is to simply oppose whatever the government position is. The Soviet Union may be dead, but many of its biggest fans are not. Oppose them and you are called a racist, fascist and worse.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antiamericnism; communist; propaganda; socialist; terrorism; terrorist

1 posted on 06/22/2005 4:55:09 PM PDT by Wiz
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To: Wiz

There's a news flash.


2 posted on 06/22/2005 5:06:56 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: Wiz

Communist Party, Nazi Party, Ba'ath Party, Democratic Party...

Different names, same scumbags.


3 posted on 06/22/2005 5:08:55 PM PDT by Argus (Omnia taglinea in tres partes divisa est.)
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