Voice of America Silent as Terrorist Threat Looms South of the Border

WASHINGTON-A Castroite with extensive ties to international terrorism is leading in the polls in Brazil’s current presidential campaign, and thanks to Clinton holdovers in Washington, the U.S. is not able to reach the Brazilian people with the truth about the front runner and the dangers he represents to his country and the entire Western Hemisphere.

If Luis Inacio da Silva is elected next month, it will add Brazil to Fidel Castro’s Cuba and Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela as nations right in our own backyard who pose a threat to the security of the post-9/11 United States.

What’s more ironic is that several months ago, the Voice of America’s governing board made a decision to cut its broadcasts to Brazil in Portuguese, the dominant language in that country. That means that just as terrorist-friendly regimes increase in this hemisphere, the U.S. voice is muted.

"It was a preposterous decision,” stormed Robert Schadler, a onetime chief of staff at the U.S. Information Agency, predecessor to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), now dominated by Clintonites, which presently oversees VOA. Schadler also formerly held a variety of responsible positions at VOA itself.

"Brazil, I think, is the seventh largest country in the world,” added Schadler, now a leader of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, "It’s clearly the dominant country in South America.”

In an interview with NewsMax.com, Schadler said, "A Voice of America that gives an American perspective on America and international issues [in Brazil] is absolutely vital and very inexpensive.”

Writing in the Washington Times August 7, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Constantine C. Menges said if da Silva is elected, "the results could include a radical regime in Brazil re-establishing its nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs, developing close links to state sponsors of terrorism such as Cuba, Iraq, and Iran, and participating in the destabilization of neighboring democracies.”

Menges, a former member of the National Security Council, points out that this could lead 300 million people in six countries coming under the control of radical anti-U.S. regimes and the possibility that thousands of newly indoctrinated terrorists might try to attack the United States from Latin America.

"With Mr. Castro’s support,” Menges writes, "Mr. da Silva founded the Sao Paulo forum in 1990 as an annual meeting of communist and other radical terrorist and political organizations from Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. This has been used to coordinate terrorist and political activities around the world and against the United States.”

The Sao Paulo Forum is still very much in business and pursuing its goals. Its last meeting was held in Havana, Cuba in December 2001. That meeting sharply condemned the Bush administration’s leadership in the war against international terrorism after 9/11.

When Menges talks about the threat from a Brazil under da Silva’s leadership, he is not merely theorizing. The Brazilian presidential candidate has said Brazil should have nuclear weapons and move closer to China, which has actively courted the Brazilian military.

Free Congress Foundation President Paul Weyrich notes that the Clinton loyalists dominating the BBG have persistently thwarted the objectives of the Bush administration. "even deciding to practically shut down broadcasting in Latin America without consulting Assistant Secretary of State Otto Reich, who argued it was important to maintain a U.S. presence on the airwaves there.”

Schadler told NewsMax that he has good reason to suspect that budget considerations drove this move.

"I believe…. that this issue was tied to the idea that they need to have a major initiative in the Middle East with music [programming],” he said.

That raises another issue that can backfire against the U.S. that NewsMax.com will deal with it in separate report.

Suffice it to say that the terrorist threat against the United States is increasing in Latin America, and the U.S. voice is missing in action, so to speak.

On Thursday, NewsMax.com e-mailed the International Broadcasting Bureau—the sister organization of VOA with an inquiry. The spokesman was referred to us by the State Department under whose umbrella both the VOA and IBB operate at the direction of the Broadcasting Board of Governors. The question read as follows:

"It is my understanding Portuguese language broadcasts to Brazil were cancelled due to budget constraints. Now that a Castroite is up in the polls to lead that country in the upcoming election …. in hindsight, should those broadcasts to Brazil have been given a greater priority? Will they be reinstated?”

We gave the IBB a deadline to respond, with over 24 hours to come up with an answer. As we went to press late Friday, no reply had been received.

And the New World Order marches on. Brazil has been sold down the river by the powers that be, just because the people do not fit inside the neat little regional boxes and political boundaries the new "Masters" have decreed is only an inconvenience. Governments can be changed. The people only have the choice to follow along or die. Not a problem for the demographical masters, they want population reduction anyway.

Africa after all is a wonderful example. It is destined to be a winter playground for the elite. The fact that Africans are in the way of the new theme park full of elephants and lions is only a temporary inconvenience. Marxism which has been forced down South Africa and Rhodesia's throat is the perfect poison pill. It always reduces population levels by the millions. Why in a few short years all the blacks will kill themselves off with starvation and disease and the theme park will be just right. Just enough little Marxists left to clear the tables and cook the dinners for the visiting NWO dignitaries on their safaris...

America is coming along nicely, they are more socialist than Israel now, but the Jews, while more free are being systematically destroyed by the Arabs, one of the easiest rabble to control on earth. Lets see, at this point if we can get America to thin out the Arabs and the Arabs to thin out America things should fall in place quite nicely...

The Europeans are the most promising group to set up as a home base, for all history their countries have been for sale to the highest bidder. Lets give them a Euro and dally in their beds. Besides, what would the world be without German beer and Swiss chocolate.

The NWO is real and quite the evil that the Bible said it would be. How happy we could all be without the ones among us that crave power and wealth beyond their ability to create it. When the Voice of America can be silenced, America is no longer free. The chains are transparent, but try to cut a tree in your own backyard. Free people can do that. Americans cannot.

Somehow, one doubts the consequences will be this dire.

First, lacking superpower support, communist regimes are self-correcting. If they get in, they commit suicide and take their host, the society they represent, with them. This would be a catastrophe for Brazil. Strategically, it doesn't mean squat.

Second, the author of the article hasn't polled the Brazilian military what they think of this development. They would be the folks who would have to fight the United States. The armed forces have a 200-year history of removing governments they don't like on both the left and right. Tell me who the chief of staff of the Brazilian army is, and I'll tell you who the next president of Brazil will be if the communists get in.

Third, the Chinese. Personally, I think Mainland China will be a democracy within a generation. Meanwhile, China could not deliver an order of chow-mein to Brazil, much less support a local dictator. Anyone expecting support from China against the U.S. in a military showdown 10,000 miles from China has been abusing airplane glue. This is a country that doesn't control Quemoy and Matsu, a mile off its coast.

Fourth, Cuba. Brazilians of all political persuasions take Cuba about as seriously as we take...Monaco. Last time I looked, Cuba had three modern operational fighter aircraft. Compared to the army and navy, the air force is in good shape. This is the country that is supposed to challenge the United States for military control of the Southern Cone, 6,000 miles from Cuba. I can envision the Cuban armada setting sail for Brazilian waters -- on inner tubes.
Please pass the sunblock. Anybody have a fishing line? Wilson. Oh, Wilson. Where are you? Tom Hanks would qualify as grand admiral of the Cuban fleet.

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