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Congress Mulls Probe of Communists' Ties to Appeasement Movement, Radical Islam
NewsMax.com ^ | Feb.28, 2003 | Wes Vernon

Posted on 02/28/2003 6:35:58 AM PST by conservativecorner

See part one of series, "Useful Idiots: Marxists Exploit the Appeasement Movement." Part two: 'Hate-America Leftists' Lead the Appeasement Movement. WASHINGTON – NewsMax.com has learned that preliminary inquiries are or soon will be under way on Capitol Hill exploring the possibility of investigating the link between communists and radical Islamic terrorists. Evidence mounts that this coalition orchestrated the recent appeasement demonstrations against President Bush’s policy in Iraq.

No decisions have been made on whether such a probe will go forward or what committee would be in charge. But conservatives who have seen documented evidence of that link believe now that the GOP controls the House and Senate, there is no excuse for not holding hearings.

A full-scale Senate or House probe is viewed as a means of informing an American public that is kept in the dark by a mainstream media that looks the other way on the hard-left/terrorist alliance.

The biggest question mark is whether the Justice Department, the FBI or other security agencies are paying much attention to the veteran hard-left groups backing the appeasement demonstrations. The fear is these agencies are inadequate because much of their investigative authority was defanged in the 1970s.

The post-Watergate congressional hearings by the Church and Pike committees on Capitol Hill resulted in tarnishing the CIA, FBI and other intelligence entities. That in turn prompted the legislative and executive branches of government to tie their hands. They were even forbidden to keep a file of information readily available to any citizen, such as newspaper clippings on subversive organizations.

Some of the restrictions were lifted after 9/11. For example, now they can clip newspaper stories. Still, the new policies fall short of what is needed, according to security experts talking with NewsMax.com.

The rules “were not changed enough to let the FBI do the kind of work that needs to be done watching these groups,” former congressional and executive branch security official Herbert Romerstein tells us.

When those seven men were caught breaking and entering at the Watergate Hotel in June 1972, little did anyone suspect they had set off a chain of events that years later would cripple America’s ability to protect itself at a time when this nation is under a greater threat than at any time in the memory of most citizens.

On the other hand, well-placed sources in the government have told NewsMax that “someday someone is going to write a book” about all the behind-the-scenes security efforts to protect America since 9/11.

All very assuring, and Attorney General John Askcroft’s efforts to put accused terrorists in the slammer are widely applauded. But it is not known whether the Justice Department, the FBI or any national security, intelligence, or law enforcement agency has focused specifically on the terorrist-communist connection. NewsMax has found no one in government who claims to know one way or the other.

Workers World Party, a tiny Marxist organization that admires North Korea's repressive dictatorship, has coordinated much of the anti-war activity, partly through such fronts as A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), which uses former LBJ Attorney General Ramsey Clark as its public face.

Another key player is United Justice for Peace. Leftist-turned-conservative David Horowitz has identified its leader Leslie Cagan as “a '60s Stalinist.”

In a syndicated column just this week, Mona Charen, author of the timely book “Useful Idiots,” defined A.N.S.W.E.R. as “explicitly communist.” If a journalist can make that identification, observers are asking, what is Congress waiting for? Let’s get this on the record for the American people.

If you read Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” Horowitz warns, you see “how kooky views can result in the deaths of seventy million people.” Just because the leaders of the appeasement demonstrations don’t make sense “doesn’t mean they are not [dangerous or that they will not] get hundreds of thousands and millions of followers.”

Any Capitol Hill investigation of the hard-left/Islamic terrorist alliance would require a committee chairman and Republican committee members who will stand their ground, because some Democrats on the panel are likely to try to torpedo any meaningful inquiry. That is because, as Horowitz explains to NewsMax, “the Democratic Party is deeply infiltrated and also dependent on these people.”

The “Leslie Cagans of the world” have been organizing at the local level, he adds.

Finally this warning from a man who has viewed the hard left from the inside: “I guess my greatest concern is the complacency of conservatives who think we can’t lose this country. We can.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: activists; answer; blackshirts; communistsubversion; culturewar; enemywithin; fifthcolumn; jihadinamerica; lesliecagan; marxists; ramseyclark; traitorlist; usefulidiots; workersworldparty
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To: Sabertooth
US Conservatives dispute Bush’s portrayal of Islam

41 posted on 03/01/2003 12:21:33 PM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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42 posted on 03/01/2003 12:29:54 PM PST by dware (Help expose the anti-war organizations: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/844750/posts)
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43 posted on 03/01/2003 12:31:58 PM PST by CDHart
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47 posted on 03/01/2003 2:07:48 PM PST by blackie
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48 posted on 03/01/2003 3:05:33 PM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: Vets_Husband_and_Wife; conservativecorner; Alamo-Girl; onyx; SpookBrat; Republican Wildcat; ...
Congress Mulls Probe of Communists' Ties
to Appeasement Movement, Radical Islam



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49 posted on 03/01/2003 3:21:40 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
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To: Vets_Husband_and_Wife
A full-scale Senate or House probe is viewed as a means of informing an American public that is kept in the dark by a mainstream media that looks the other way on the hard-left/terrorist alliance.

Agreed! I also agree with David Horowitz when he said, "how kooky views can result in the deaths of seventy million people." Just because the leaders of the appeasement demonstrations don't make sense "doesn't mean they are not [dangerous or that they will not] get hundreds of thousands and millions of followers."

50 posted on 03/01/2003 3:22:27 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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51 posted on 03/01/2003 3:23:25 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
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52 posted on 03/01/2003 3:25:02 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
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53 posted on 03/01/2003 3:28:07 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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"I doubt if CON-gress actually looks into this since 30% of them are Communists, too."

Must really be nice to be so paranoid!

54 posted on 03/01/2003 3:38:43 PM PST by Redleg Duke (Stir the pot...don't let anything settle to the bottom where the lawyers can feed off of it!)
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Would there be anything left after exposing how far the ignorance and anti-Americanism has spread?

We should start at the source...sue the NEA out of existence.

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55 posted on 03/01/2003 4:05:17 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl ("Ramsey Clark: A voice of (T)reason" - gridlock)
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56 posted on 03/01/2003 4:06:08 PM PST by BraveMan
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To: conservativecorner
This is an important article and something that Freepers should be pro-active about. We need to make people aware of the danger of these communists. They are everywhere, especially in our schools and universities. I have been thinking about this alot and I am beginning to feel overwhelmed and little like a conspiracy theorist, but I don't think this is my imagination.
57 posted on 03/01/2003 4:16:56 PM PST by Eva
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59 posted on 03/01/2003 5:06:00 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
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To: Vets_Husband_and_Wife
Thanks for the ping, Vets_Husband_and_Wife. Let's bump this important information to the top.
60 posted on 03/01/2003 5:29:11 PM PST by octobersky
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