Posted on 09/24/2011 5:16:15 AM PDT by IbJensen
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other House leaders paid tribute to Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) on September 22, despite the fact that he was overwhelmingly censured by the House less than a year ago for ethics violations and has a history of courtship with Soviet and Communist subversive activities.
In December 2010, when the House was controlled by the Democratic majority of the 111th Congress, Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly voted 333-79 to censure Congressman Rangel with regard to unpaid taxes on property he owned in the Dominican Republican, other hidden assets, and for improper use of the his campaign office to raise funds for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York all of which are clear violations of House rules.
Congressional leaders, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Speaker of the House John Boehner still felt it prudent to honor the former head of the Ways and Means Committee with a special reception and the unveiling of a portrait in the Longworth House Office Building.
The FEC granted Rangel permission to cover the cost of the lavish portrait estimated at $65,000 with funds from his campaign office. According to records, this is exactly what he did in 2008 as he also unethically used his campaign office to raise funds for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York.
The improper use of campaign funds, which led to his 2010 censure stripping him of the chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee, is not the only stain on his reputation. Rangel has also in the past courted Americas enemies: the KGB, the Soviet Union, and Communists.
In the book KGB Today: The Hidden Hand, published in 1983 by Readers Digest Press, author John Barron revealed that the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in a secret session in July 1982, deleted whole pages from a World Peace Council (WPC) brocuhure in order to protect the names of affiliated Democratic lawmakers including Rep. Charles Rangel of New York. The secret session was held on the subject of Soviet Active Measures and Soviet involvement in the peace movement. The WPC document was pertinent to the Intelligence Committee because of the WPCs role as a front organization for the Soviet Union within the United States. The Committee labeled 48-page brochure Exhibit XI Materials from World Peace Council Presidential Committee Meeting, Washington, D.C., [January] 25-28, 1978.
Then-FBI Assistant Director for Intelligence Edward OMalley gave testimony of the Soviet Unions involvement with the WPC:
The World Peace Council is, of course, the largest and most active Soviet front organization, with affiliates in approximately 135 countries. The WPC is one of the major Soviet instruments for political action and propaganda in the peace movement.
Barron further stated, Agent Chandra, Colonel Radomir Bogdanov of the KGB and Oleg Kharkhardin of the International Department delighted in including members of Congress to join in discussions of peace and disarmament. [Emphasis added.]
The WPC published the 48-page brochure to herald its triumphant victory in opening its then-new Information Centre in Washington, D.C. effectively giving the Soviet Union another base of operations (in addition to their official embassy) from which to conduct their active sabotage in the nations capital while at the same time influencing certain members of Congress.
Omitted from the brochures exhibition in the House Intelligence Committee were pages 3, 4, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 45, 46, 47, and 48. Omitted page 4 stated the following:
The wide interest in the work of the Bureau and the Dialogue was indicated by the participation in the sessions and also in special meetings inside the U.S. Congress itself of Bureau members with several Congressmen among which were Congressmen John Burton, Ted Weiss, Ronald Dellums, John Conyers, Jr., Don Edwards, Charles Rangel and others.
Congressman Rangel is seen on page 19 in a photograph, the caption of which reads: Congressman Charles Rangel (left) and Congressman Don Edwards addressing participants in the WPC events.
Like then-Rep. Leon Panetta (D-Calif.), now Secretary of Defense, who had ties with the pro-Sandinista Soviet-backed Institute for Policy Studies, Rep. Rangel is also documented as having collaborated with another Soviet-front organization in Washington, D.C. the World Peace Council.
Rangels courtship with Communists didnt end with the Cold War. The May 3, 1997 issue of the Peoples Weekly World newspaper a publication affiliated with the Communist Party and a member of the International Labor Communications Association published an article entitled Peoples Weekly World $400,000 fund drive begins. The article said that the New York Friends of the Peoples Weekly World hosted a Freedom Seder at the Winston Union Auditorium in New York for the purpose of raising money and that the guests included then-Communist Party USA National Chair Gus Hall and his wife Elizabeth. According to the article, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger, and city council members Gilford Miller and Tom Duane sent greetings.
Overlooking these ethics violations, censure, and courtship with communist subversive activities, Speaker Boehner and other House leaders still took the time to bestow the honors of a reception ceremony and portrait upon Rep. Rangel in Congress.
Exactly. There's nothing "questionable" about it. He's a diehard communist who has been cozying up to Americas enemies for decades. Castro, Workers World Party, etc, etc.
Good Ole boys.
Another perfect example of why legislatures (state and federal) could be part-time jobs with 1/10th pay, NO benefits, NO insurance, NO perks, NO retirement.
These POS politicians can then get a job doing something productive not progressive.
DEFUND socialist collectives (including Congress), foreign and domestic.
We become very low-taxed, productive, prosperous citizens in a republic that acts as a beacon of individual liberty.
...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
ALTER it.
And the silly Rules of the despotic government requires such false decorum and comradeship it is after all with our governemnt an US or Them proposition.
OUTSTANDING contributions (per usual) to the thread, ETL. Thanks.
OUTSTANDING contributions (per usual) to the thread, ETL. Thanks.
After reading this for some strange reason the old adage There is no honor amongst thieves cam to mind.
Another proud member of the TAX dodger club.
Thank YOU FRiend! Glad you found the info useful/interesting.
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