Posted on 04/21/2009 11:15:37 AM PDT by Jbny
Miss Coulter’s “Treason” should be mandatory reading in all American history classes IMHO.
Considering how liberal a Republican administration the Nixon Administration really was(Nixon going to China, seeking detente with the former U.S.S.R., institution of wage and price controls, creation of the EPA, appointment of Supreme Court justices who, except for Rehnquist, were pro-abortion), one would think Nixon would be thought of much more highly by the Left. But the crazies never forgave him for nailing Hiss(possibly Nixon’s greatest accomplishment).
An honest politician has the chance of snowball surviving in Hell in Chicago. There may be individuals but the Daley Machine and Timuel Black/Palmer/Obama/Axelrod/Rose leftist coalitions are too strong to overcome. Perhaps with the death of the old leftists but Obama has brought in the new Communist mafiosos of the SDS/Weathermen, Ayers, Katz, etc.
Labor has always been a target of both the Reds and the Mafia. In fact, Sidney Lens used to brag about his physically fighting off and beating the mafia in the streets while he was a communist with the Revolutionary Workers League.
Check him out. You’ll find one of the best communist organizers in the movement’s history. I’ve seen him in action. He used to write for “The Progressive” and “The Nation”. Was one of the powers behind the Vietnam Mobilization Committees, of which I was a cofounder (New Mobe).
Sid impressed me, both for his skills and for his being one of the greatest threats to American security.
I read it...GREAT book!
Wow, great developmental reflections - thank you very much for sharing all of that. I've experienced much of your journey myself, and experienced the same sort of puzzlement as I discovered the various petals of truth that were in such complete, diametrical opposition to the earnest teachings I had received for so long from various liberal sources. And like you, I finally reached a moment of epiphany where I realized the completely vile evil that liberalism actually represents, despite it's incredibly facile and numerous levels of lies about truth, light, peace, harmony and absolutely every other good thing known to the human race.
If you are going to quote the great Poets, please get the quote right.
“Oh! what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
Sir Walter Scott, (1771 - 1832)
Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.
On that last, any time I have had insider information on a news story, the media got something important wrong, often several somethings, and hugely so.
I now assume this is the case on just about every story I read, especially on politically oriented stories.
Well whaddya know? That twit is probably a fellow traveler and a red diaper baby just like Axelrod.
They'd travel around to Cleveland, Cincy, Indianapolis, Baltimore, New York, Miami, St. Louis and so forth and literally fight these guys ~ beat them up ~ drive them away.
Roosevelt made sure they were given authority to talk to members of Congress, something that'd been off-limits for federal government employees since the Pendleton Act.
I know that doesn't sound like Roosevelt (since around here we all officially believe him to have been a mind-numbed Leftwingtard robot), but he did have his interests where the domestic Commies didn't quite fit in.
So, where do you find the materials on that (you might ask) ~ well, in the newsletter/magazine produced by the United States Postal Inspection Service over the last Century+. They covered all this stuff because management would send them out to "watch" and report back. I had a chance to read through all the old stuff right up to the mid 1980s in the USPS Headquarters library. Somebody'd declassified all the "newsletters" and put them on the shelves.
Fantastic stuff, and at the time I don't believe any professional writers knew about them.
Remember, in that earlier period of our history the Inspectors were more prominant than today and had more resources than the other federal investigative bodies. As a result they ended up in every shootout and got to follow the Commies around.
I never focused on the Chicago stuff, but there's a lot of it in there as I recall.
If you get into looking at any postal related materials keep your eye on the family name "Young". As you recall a guy named Coleman Young was elected Mayor of Detroit in 1974. Later on it was revealed he was a paid agent of the CPUSA (et al).
That's not terribly important. His younger brother was the personnel director at the Post Office. That's not terribly important either.
What is important is that once KGB or GRU defectors had been "used up" after being thoroughly debriefed, if they didn't have some serious professional education they were simply sent over to the Detroit post office to work in a craft job (carrier, clerk, etc.).
Obviously the CPUSA had "coin of the realm" in the world of Commie intraparty intrigue ~ they knew where the defectors were, which ones had been neutralized, and what they were doing.
I don't believe Chicago had any defectors but if they had the Commies would have gotten someone into USPS management who could get back to them with such information.
So, how did the Young brothers get such an important position in Commie circles?
Damned if I know!
Same thing. Just a different way of saying it.
Clinton complained about the “politics of personal destruction.” It didn’t really happen to him. But it did happen to Joseph McCarthy.
Communist sympathizers within our government also led to his downfall. They accused him of “faking” photos and baited Roy Cohn by asking him what he knows of “fairies”.
“charming, smiling, and full of communist propaganda.”
He sounds like an older version of Obama;)
“I think the best way to describe Joe McCarthy is...
Right message, wrong messenger.”
Agreed. If only he had looked more like JFK instead of like a guy who breaks kneecaps for a living, he would have had a far more receptive audience...
What a stupid statement.
I thought Carl Bernstein's head was going to explode. He practically jumped out pf his chair and started screaming that Watergate could never be subtracted from Nixon! It was who the man was...and on and on he fumed. Boy, talk about being invested in something. Neither Woodward or Bernstein were about to let go of the greatest achievement in their lives.
When Katherine Graham was on Larry King's show flacking her book, she actually admitted the Washington Post went after Nixon to bring him down and destroy him and she used Woodward and Bernstein (both cub reporters for the Metro section), because if anything went wrong and the story blew up in their faces, she could blame the over-exuberance of a couple of kids. Incredible.
But writers from “The Nation,” the country’s oldest avowedly Marxist rag, still appear on cable TV as if they were not part of the communist movement since the 1800’s.
“This faction was in fact pro-Stalin and included the mother of the man behind Obama, fellow red-diaper baby, David Axelrod.”
Got a link?!!
Some day the dinosaur will die. Then we’ll have to kill all the bad ideas it inspired, starting with government education.
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