Barbara Lee (D-CA) has extensive Communist, foreign ties

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 Helm, R-N.C., did not vote.

While Rep Lee may be a "relic from the past." She is currently a "hero" here in the nut case capital of the US. You see, I live here in the SF bay area. Most of the people who live here exist in some kind of yogurt induced fantasy world.

Did any of you folks have to suffer through the horror of seeing or hearing today's "A Day Of Remembrance" in San Francisco? It should have been named "A Day Of Terminally Dense Idiots Blaming Everyone Else Except The Terrorists" for the atrocities committed against America on 9/11/01. If this event was meant to remember the victims of this crime, it failed miserably.

I am thoroughly disgusted at some of the speakers' total disregard of "reality" as to why this horrific attack has occurred. The letters to the editor contained in all of the SF bay area's newspapers immediately following this senseless act of violence, should have clued me in to how this event was going to unfold.

The Reality of 9/11/01? I don't think it happened because the US pulled out of the UN conference on racism as one speaker claimed.

Reality Check! The UN conference itself turned into a racist event because of countries attending (who are themselves racist) hypocritically screaming racism at the other countries.

And Tuesday didn't happen because the US would not sign the Kyoto Accords as was also implied.

Reality Check Again! In truth, only one of the European countries signed it, yet all of Europe and our own U.S. media whined and complained because the US wouldn't sign it. And none of those European countries were attacked.

No, neither of those two events caused the deaths of thousands of innocent American lives on 9/11/01 as Minister Amos Brown had incredulously "ranted" at the audience today. And like good little tree hugging socialists, the crowd including "Da Mayor" Willie Brown, Senator Feinstein, Rep Pelosi, and a slew of other well know Socialist Democrats wildly cheered back at him in return . And anytime a speaker mentioned justice or punishment for the true perpetrators of the act, the response from the audience was mild applause, or even NONE at all. Simply amazing.

Do any of these people realize or admit that this attack was planned years before either of these other two events had even occurred? Well hey! Why let the facts get in the way of someone's preconceived notion of reality?

So there I sat today, with my head hung in shame, and my mouth on the floor. Feeling like some kind of Alien who had just crash landed on another world, as the words born of blind ignorance and partisan political ideology that were spoken by my fellow bay area citizens, echoed across the state through millions of TV sets, and mercilessly hammered at my heart and soul.

I just wanted to scream, NEWS FLASH YOU IDIOTS! America was attacked because a bunch of religious fanatics disagree with us. No more, no less. Yet these killers greedily accept millions of US dollars in foreign aid (Thanks Democrats and "moderate" Republicans), and hold us all hostage with their oil supplies (Drill In Alaska? God No!). All of the excuses given today at this "event" are completely ignorant of reality.

I think it's high time (no pun intended) that these people learned how to deal with "reality" instead of ignore it... which they do because ignoring the cold hard truth somehow makes them "feel" better.

The hard cold reality of this terrible situation is, TERRORIST CANNOT BE REASONED WITH! The bay area needs to deal with that reality. Or else they choose to live in ignorance AND terror, as those evil terrorist hope and pray the bay area will choose to do.

And as for one Mr. Jones' closing advice to the huge gathering (which was broadcast on every local television and radio station) to "forget" what happened Tuesday. (Yes, incredibly he said to "forget it.") No sir, I choose not to forget anything. For those who forget, will NEVER.... EVER.... LEARN.

What Fools!

Pray for my family and I as we have to live here at least until next summer.

Whew! I think I feel better now....

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