http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/sds/ en-us Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:47:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041937/posts First we had the New Black Panther Party, then Che Guevara. Now it’s the radical SDS and “By Any Means Necessary” Recall that the Obama campaign exercises editorial control over my.barackobama.com, and is quite capable of finding and removing “objectionable” material within a couple of days. This entry, which has been there for more than two months, is clearly not “objectionable,” at least not until it becomes yet another scandal that requires Obama to throw the writer under the bus. http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/kjoftherock/gGCSzQ Progressive Action Plan By ! ?kjoftherock?A New & Better Day! - May 1st, 2008 at 2:58 pm EDT Also... IsraPundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041937/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:47:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035906/posts Where do you suppose Barack Obama's first public speech was given? 1. Chamber of Commerce? 2. Woman's Club? 3. Jaycees? 4. Toastmasters? Sorry. None of the above. According to Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, Barack Obama gave his first speech before an offshoot of the Students for Democratic Society (SDS) which had morphed into the Weather Underground. Barack Obama's first public speech was at an Occidental College event sponsored by the Students for a Democratic-Society a militantly leftist organization. 60's radical Tom Hayden played a pivotal role both as founder and as principal author of this student group's basic manifesto,... americanthinker.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035906/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:05:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2020373/posts Of Barack Obama’s contacts and associations with anti-American political figures, none is more controversial than Frank Marshall Davis, a writer an poet identified as a member of the Communist Party USA by several sources, including some sources sympatheitic to him. Obama and Davis met in Hawaii, at a time when a young Obama was in need of a black role model and mentor. Obama’s relationship with Davis, including subsequent associations with radical, communist and socialist figures in Chicago, should be investigated for the benefit of promoting the public interest and the public’s right to know. Indeed, America’s Survival, Inc. believes... America's Survival http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2020373/posts#comment Fri, 23 May 2008 19:19:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2020374/posts On February 22, 2008, Ben Smith of Politico reported a story that ran under the headline, “Obama once visited ‘60s radicals.” It concerned how, “In 1995, [Illinois] State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to few of the district’s influencial liberal at the home of two will known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.” Dr. Quentin Young, described as “a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payers health care,” [1] was quoted as saying “I can remember being one of small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that... America's Survival http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2020374/posts#comment Fri, 23 May 2008 19:19:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020261/posts Weather Underground Organization (Weatherman) [420 pages in all on pdf] In 1976, the FBI's Chicago Field Office prepared a summary which described the activities of the Weather Underground Organization, also known as Weathermen. This organization described itself as a revolutionary organization of communist men and women. The FBI's analysis of its motivations, beliefs, and international travels are outlined in this summary. Some excerpts from the 1976 report linking the organization to foreign governments... From the moment in October, 1967, when Radio Hanoi announced the formation of the South Vietnamese Peoples Committee for Solidarity with American People (by the National Liberation... FBI via Freedom of Information Act http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020261/posts#comment Fri, 23 May 2008 16:02:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009522/posts Students for a Democratic Society leader now webmaster for Progressives for Obama April 29, 2008 WASHINGTON – He didn't bomb the Capitol or rob banks like his contemporaries in the Weather Underground. But Carl Davidson, a former vice president of the Students for a Democratic Society who traveled to Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro and still praises the dictator today, is another proud radical for Barack Obama, serving faithfully as webmaster for "Progressives for Obama." He joins his old SDS collaborator, Tom Hayden, who traveled with Jane Fonda to meet with Vietnamese communist leaders during the height of the... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009522/posts#comment Thu, 1 May 2008 03:37:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005901/posts (CNSNews.com) - Self-described anarchists and "anti-authoritarians" are planning to "shut down" the Republican National Convention, which will take place in St. Paul, Minn., on Sept. 1-4. Mindful of the upcoming protests, the city's police force said it will quintuple its numbers to deter possible aggressive action by the activists. Last month, the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) reported that over the past year, protest planning for the GOP event had grown at a "considerable pace" since the SDS endorsed disrupting the proceedings at its 2007 national convention. At that time, the SDS adopted a... CNSNEWS.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005901/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:05:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003591/posts Sen. Barack Obama was asked during a televised debate about his links to a former member of the Vietnam-era militant Weather Underground organization, Bill Ayers, who is now a professor of education at the University of Chicago. The Illinois senator running for the Democratic nomination for president served with Ayers on the board of an anti-poverty foundation in Chicago. Obama said he was only eight-years-old when the Weather Underground committed its best known bombing and was being falsely linked with "detestable acts". He noted that Bill Clinton, husband of his opponent Hillary Clinton, pardoned two members of the group during... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003591/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:38:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991681/posts Honor roll of Freepers and FRiends: trooprally; Cindy_True_Supporter; Angelwood; rongkirby; Just A Nobody; Prezusa222; kburi; Basil; Jimmy Valentine's brother; Christopher Lincoln; Trueblackman; kristinn; a young lurker (HS Student that intends to join the Marines upon graduation ); another Second Amendment Sister (WI) and Coby (Vets for Freedom, OIF).The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) must enforce local law and the rights afforded to every person under the United States Constitution. The law allows MPD personnel to make arrests only when there is probable cause to do so. The MPD cannot arrest every peaceful demonstrator for the sake of a few rowdy participants.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991681/posts#comment Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:35:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1989773/posts About 50 members of the Students for a Democratic Society club at Shaker Heights High School poured out of Terminal Tower and joined another 30 students already at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. Thursday's protest against the war was the first for the "new" SDS in Cleveland. This is not your grandfather's SDS from the '60s - but it kind of looked like it. Josh Davidson, a leader of the Shaker Heights SDS, said students are drawn to the SDS for one reason: "The war is the focal point, definitely the focal point," he said. The group was reconstituted in... Cleveland Plain Dealer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1989773/posts#comment Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:09:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988908/posts Military Families Voice of Victory got a very interesting comment from an article about recruiting center attacks yesterday from coast to coast. One of the cities reported about was DC "SDS threw paint bombs, rocks and damaged police cars. Witnesses have reported that MPDC Chief Cathy Lanier has ordered the police to do nothing if the center was attacked." This was from a report phone in which was also reported here at FR. Today a response was made by Communications at MPD. "The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) must enforce local law and the rights afforded to every person under the... Contact with MFVOV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988908/posts#comment Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:01:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988583/posts A few months ago, a day before one of the occasional marches the Capital sees demanding an end to the Iraq War, I began the descent into the Metro stop near my office, looked up, and saw a number of representatives of Code Pink standing at the railing overlooking the escalator. Or rather, I heard them first. They were screaming at the parade of commuters, at the top of their lungs and in a tone somewhere between simple frustration and righteous anger, "End the war!!!" Well, I thought, that ought to take care of things. Good work, hippies! I kid... The American Prospect http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988583/posts#comment Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:39:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982273/posts As a resident of New York City, I just wanted to remark that this really 'smells' of a Revolutionary-Left type action. Some leftist schmuck possibly inspired by the recent publicity given to Obama associate, and former leader of the communist terrorist group, The Weather Underground, William 'Bill' Ayers. --LC (Eye On The Left) Fri, Mar 7, 2008. This short message/warning? right below appeared on a blog on the NY Daily News website this morning, Friday, March 7, 2008: blogger: JahLuv Mar 7, 2008 6:00:23 AM: "I do not believe this was the work of a foreigner or some foreign national.... Various http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982273/posts#comment Sat, 8 Mar 2008 02:10:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974550/posts Last week’s Vietnam flashback was courtesy of the mixed nuts in Berkeley who took it upon themselves to label the local Marine recruiters “intruders” and “unwelcome.” Some people will do anything for a feelgood liberal headline. But we were heartened by the overwhelming numbers of proud and patriotic Americans standing by our defenders. And, typically for liberals, Berserkely kinda backed down under their pressure. (Hey, Mrs. Obama: plenty of folks manage to find lots to be proud of in America.) While we were distracted by the Berserkely street theater, a much more disturbing scene was unfolding in our Nation’s Capital.... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974550/posts#comment Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:29:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973519/posts A Border Patrol agent fired his gun at a suspect Monday afternoon. The agent shot in self-defense, and does not know whether he hit the man, who fled across the Rio Grande to Mexico, leaving behind his Chevy Suburban packed with illegal immigrants, said Oscar Saldana, a spokesman for the agency. The suspected coyote tried to run over the agent, Saldana said. CBP is investigating the circumstances of the shooting in a rural area south of Donna, and have not yet determined whether the rounds hit their target, he said. "The agent defended himself and there were no injuries to... The Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973519/posts#comment Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:50:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973406/posts On February 15th 2008, the leftist terrorist group called The Student Democrat Society(SDS) took it upon themselves to attack the Armed Forces Recruiting Station at 13th and L Streets N.W. at 18:00(6 p.m.). The violent leftists terrorists entered the recruiting station and proceed to trash the place of their own free accord as DC Police simply stoodby and did nothing about it. The terrorists took joy in reporting and recording their terrorist actions(http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/142455/index.php). This is the second time that DC Police have stoodby as the terrorists who call themselves the SDS have runamuck in the city, this past summer they... myself http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973406/posts#comment Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:22:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973391/posts An anonymous, rabid, property destroying, leftwing poster on Indymedia has leveled threats of violence against me and Trooprally. Seems they take exception to people standing up and exercising their Constuttionally protected rights to speech, assembly, and association. I did post a response. http://concretebob.vox.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973391/posts#comment Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:52:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956969/posts Hillary Clinton said that if she became president, the federal government would take a more active role in the economy, in an effort to address what she said were the excesses of the market and the Bush administration. She told the New York Times she would put her emphasis on issues like inequality and the role of institutions like government, rather than market forces, in addressing them. She said that economic excesses -- including executive-pay packages she characterized as often "offensive" and "wrong" and a tax code that had become "so far out of whack" in favoring the wealthy --... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956969/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:14:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936902/posts Critics have long believed environmentalists were planning global domination. The problem with making a credible case against such an ambitious plan was simple: no environmental leader had published one. Yet conflicts over global warming, world trade, multinational corporations, population control, sustainable futures, and transnational government left little doubt that environmentalists in fact shared the unspoken aim of wielding supreme power over a green future. But there was no proof. For years, critics, lacking hard evidence, were reduced to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle of suspicious environmentalist actions - funding from huge charitable trusts, ties to the broader "progressive" community, and... Sovereignty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936902/posts#comment Sun, 9 Dec 2007 12:51:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926386/posts ANALYSIS: Protesters took to the streets in past conflicts; today their presence may be strongest online. In May, saddened that she had failed to stop the war in Iraq that took her son's life and made her the face of opposition, Cindy Sheehan tearfully quit the anti-war movement. She had concluded that her son Casey, a 24-year-old Army specialist killed in an April 2004 battle in Baghdad, had "died for nothing." "Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next 'American Idol' than how many people will be killed in the next few months," Sheehan... The Long Beach Press-Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926386/posts#comment Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:54:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893742/posts Mrs. Trooprally called me this evening to tell me that she and her husband, as well as Concretebob, saw damage along almost the entire length of the Vietnam Memorial Wall. They found this damage this morning, when they walked through the area before participating in the September 11th Freedom Walk. Concretebob was told by a National Park Service employee that the damage was done on Friday night. There was no police report taken or written about the vandalism, apparently. And the damage was still very much there today. Here are a few of the photos that Mrs. Trooprally took this... Eyewitnesses to the damage, Concretebob, Mr. and Mrs. Trooprally http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893742/posts#comment Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:55:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883325/posts Veteran actress and feminist Jane Fonda has been slammed for not paying her female employees working in the actress' radio network Green Stone Media. The twice Oscar winner and the radio network's co-founder Gloria Steinem have been accused of "putting their own reputations above their female employees' finances." According to the New York Post, Fonda and Steinem are 'refusing to pay severance, and the founders won't file for bankruptcy protection because it would publicly embarrass Jane and Gloria.' However, the 'Klute' star's spokesperson has denied the reports and said that the accusations are unfounded. "This is pure speculation. There is... Yahoo! Movies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883325/posts#comment Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:52:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873875/posts SILVERDALE — A college student was arrested Sunday in the slashing of 42 tires on 13 government vehicles in an Army recruiting office parking lot, saying he was angry about the war in Iraq, authorities said. Following a number of calls about a man wearing black and slashing tires, two deputies stopped a 19-year-old college student from Colorado as he tried to run from the lot shortly after midnight Sunday, a Kitsap County sheriff's office report said The Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873875/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:34:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865692/posts A little over a week ago, Vladimir Putin tested a weapon deadlier than anything developed by the Soviet Union. A missile launched from a submarine in the White Sea entered the stratosphere and returned precisely on target 3,800 miles away in the Russian Far East — the other side of the world. Such tests are meant to send messages. The target could just have easily been Tehran, Los Angeles or London. It signalled that Russia means business. After a hiatus of two decades, the arms race is back. ...The Russian military is once again treating Nato as the glavny protivnik,... spectator.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865692/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:14:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840981/posts The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has taken down a Web site it operated that included gay rights and anti-war organizations in a list of groups that could include terrorists. The Web site identified different types of terrorists, and included a list of groups it believed could spawn terrorists. The list also included environmentalists, animal rights advocates and abortion opponents. The director of the department, Jim Walker, said his agency received a number of calls and e-mails from people who said they felt the site unfairly targeted certain people just because of their beliefs. He said he plans to put... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840981/posts#comment Mon, 28 May 2007 16:59:46 GMT