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Bernie Sanders campaigned for Marxist party in Reagan era
Washington Examiner ^ | May 30, 2019 | Joseph Simonson

Posted on 02/09/2020 6:58:14 AM PST by karpov

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To: a fool in paradise

I still have my official “Sore - Loserman” Freeper shirt.


21 posted on 02/09/2020 9:23:40 AM PST by NativeSon ( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
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To: karpov



22 posted on 02/09/2020 10:43:56 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

SWP ping.


23 posted on 02/09/2020 11:30:00 AM PST by Fedora
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To: karpov; LucyT
Bernie Sanders campaigned for the Socialist Workers Party in the 1980 and 1984 presidential campaigns and was investigated by the FBI for his ties to the Marxist group.

Why aren't Bernie's FBI files being made available to the public? They have Harland David "Colonel" Sanders in the public vault, but not Bernie!

STATUS: All FBI records pertaining to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a public figure running for president whose files justify public scrutiny and analysis.
(Submitted: March 30, 2019)

Requests are processed in the order in which they are received through our multi-track processing system. Requests are divided into two primary tracks--simple (under 50 pages of potentially responsive documents) and complex (over 50 pages of potentially responsive documents). Complex requests are further divided into medium, large, and extra-large sub-tracks based upon request size. Simple track requests typically require the least amount of time to process. Currently, simple track cases average approximately 138 days from the date of receipt for processing. Our complex requests in the medium processing track are currently averaging 571 days, large processing track are currently averaging approximately 1,289 days, and extra-large processing track are currently averaging 1,649 days for processing.


24 posted on 02/09/2020 12:59:41 PM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Brown Deer; null and void; aragorn; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; bgill; bitt; ..
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PING

Bernie Sanders campaigned for the Socialist Workers Party in the 1980 and 1984 presidential campaigns and was investigated by the FBI for his ties to the Marxist group.

Why aren't Bernie's FBI files being made available to the public?

Check out # 24.

Thanks, Brown Deer.

25 posted on 02/09/2020 1:15:21 PM PST by LucyT
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To: LucyT; Fred Nerks

Bernie Sanders should not be elected president. Bernie hails from the Bolshevik Communist Jewish culture also shared by Schiff and Nadler, none of whom share the culture of people like the Kushners who have an entirely different culture supporting Zionist Israel as a matter of Jehovah and the ancient kingdom:

“Bernie Sanders campaigned for the Socialist Workers Party in the 1980 and 1984 presidential campaigns and was investigated by the FBI for his ties to the Marxist group.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3814967/posts

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/bernie-sanders-campaigned-for-marxist-party-in-reagan-era


26 posted on 02/09/2020 1:52:41 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Candor7

Solzhenitsyn on the Jews & Tsarist Russia
F. Roger Devlin

https://www.counter-currents.com/2015/07/solzhenitsyn-on-the-jews-and-tsarist-russia/


27 posted on 02/09/2020 4:15:41 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Jim Noble

Why are you posting articles pointing out the obvious?

????????

Why do you want to hide this information?

Not very Noble of you Jim.


28 posted on 02/09/2020 4:56:15 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: a fool in paradise

Yup. That assertion needs to be proven.


29 posted on 02/09/2020 5:03:15 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: karpov

If he wins the nomination that will be great material for new ads.


30 posted on 02/09/2020 5:40:46 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
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To: Cobra64

>>That assertion needs to be proven.

Politifact blurs history by focusing on claim that Brennan was a card and dues paying member of the Communist Party USA LCC in good standing.

He vote Communist for president.


https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jul/19/ron-desantis/was-john-brennan-once-member-communist-party/

Long before his appointment as CIA director in 2013, Brennan took a required polygraph test before entering the agency.

Brennan discussed the test at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual conference in September 2016, CNN reported. He was a panelist in a discussion about diversity in the intelligence community. Brennan was asked about whether past activism would create a barrier for diverse candidates seeking to enter the intelligence community later in life.

According to Brennan, the polygrapher asked him, “Have you ever worked with or for a group that was dedicated to overthrowing the U.S.?”

Brennan said he was apprehensive — he had voted for Gus Hall for president in 1976, which was while the Cold War was underway. (The Cold War is generally defined as running from 1947 to 1991.)

The New York Times reported Hall earned more support from American voters in his 1976 presidential campaign than in his other three. He won 58,992 votes, putting him in eighth place, behind candidates from the Democratic, Republican, Independent, Libertarian, American Independent, American and Socialist Workers parties.

“I froze, because I was getting so close to coming into CIA and said, ‘OK, here’s the choice, John. You can deny that, and the machine is probably going to go, you know, wacko, or I can acknowledge it and see what happens,’” CNN has quoted Brennan as saying. (We searched for video but did not find it.)

Brennan told the polygraph operator that he had voted for Hall, but added that he was never a member of the Communist Party. Speaking at the conference, Brennan said he was relieved to have been accepted into the CIA, because he worried about having compromised his chances by being forthcoming.

“I said I was neither Democratic or Republican, but it was my way, as I was going to college, of signaling my unhappiness with the system, and the need for change. I said I’m not a member of the Communist Party, so the polygrapher looked at me and said, ‘OK,’ and when I was finished with the polygraph and I left and said, ‘Well, I’m screwed.’”

Brennan used the anecdote to make a point about room for diversity in the CIA ranks.

“So if back in 1980, John Brennan was allowed to say, ‘I voted for the Communist Party with Gus Hall’ ... and still got through, rest assured that your rights and your expressions and your freedom of speech as Americans is something that’s not going to be disqualifying of you as you pursue a career in government,” CNN reported him as saying.

Does any of this make Brennan a member of the Communist Party at the time? No.


31 posted on 02/09/2020 7:02:44 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: Cobra64

it is like politifact’s spin on the KGB note that Ted Kennedy wanted to collude to defeat Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Poli-lie says the KGB made it up. no proof that they made it up. They say that one of the Rats denied it decades later and that was good enough.


32 posted on 02/09/2020 7:05:29 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: Cobra64

>>That assertion needs to be proven.

https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/politics/n_9353/
OCT. 10, 2003
Mr. Comey Goes To Washington
By Chris Smith

“In college, I was left of center, and through a gradual process I found myself more comfortable with a lot of the ideas and approaches the Republicans were using.” He voted for Carter in 1980, but in ’84, “I voted for Reagan—I’d moved from Communist to whatever I am now. I’m not even sure how to characterize myself politically. Maybe at some point, I’ll have to figure it out.”


33 posted on 02/09/2020 7:10:59 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: karpov

It’s a Trotskyist off-shoot of the Communist Party. The Trotskyites believe(d) Stalin went too far in murdering tens of millions in Russia, and that 2 or 3 million should have been sufficient.


34 posted on 02/09/2020 7:28:49 PM PST by cookcounty (Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
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To: karpov

According to Wikipedia, it is the US Trotskyite splinter-group that developed after the split between Stalin and Trotsky in the late 1920s.


35 posted on 02/09/2020 7:32:33 PM PST by cookcounty (Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
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To: karpov

Anyone still wondering why Chris Mathews, James Carville and others are freaking out.....this is why


36 posted on 02/09/2020 7:34:29 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: cookcounty

The SWP is/was a Trotskyite - ideologically oriented Marxist party aligned with the illegal Marxist “Fourth International” based in Paris (at least years ago.

Their members followed the thoughts of Trotsky, who was once for immediate revolution everywhere, as versus a more cautious Lenin/Stalin policy of consolidating power at home by eliminating all enemies, real, potential, or non-existent, while organizing Communist Parties around the world for the revolutions to come.

I knew most SWP leaders, esp. in DC, including the shown pamphlet’s “Don Gurewitz”, whose parents were CPUSA members and possibly Soviet spies. Real psychos in the leadership ranks. Some lower ranking members were social/political losers who joined because they were looking for a cause.

The Trots were big Castroites (even took over a Fair Play For Cuba Committee chapter in LA from the CPUSA. There is a govt hearing on this episode. Probably entitled “The Fair Play For Cuba Committee” hearings, House Committee on Un-American Activities, early 1960s, volume on LA as opposed to the 8 volume Sen. Internal Security Subcommittee, Sen. Judiciary Com. hearings “Castro’s Network in the U.S. (Fair Play For Cuba Committee”, 1961-1963).

Today the SWP is a shell of itself. They once had at least 1,000 or more members and dozens of chapters all over the US and on campus (late 60’s/early-mid 70’s) but today I understand they hold their convention in an outhouse.

Some of their leaders left for other Marxist groups, esp. Peter Camejo (I liked Pete for his fanaticism) who went to Crossroads and other Marxist organizations in the late 80s/early 90s. Nancy Makler is with the International Socialist Organization. Jeff Makler is still around with World Socialists or something like that.
Stephanie Coontz became a famous women’s affairs professor at Evergreen College out west.

However, back in the late 70’s and even early 80’s, the SWP was still a player of sorts in the American Marxist movement. Andrew Pulley was a member of one of the SWP instigated GI protests against VN at a military fort, something “8”, married Mathilde Zimmerman, of the SWP’s top women leaders, and general became the SWP leader. I was not impressed by his intelligence, only his psychotic devotion to communism. No idea where he is today.


37 posted on 02/10/2020 1:32:10 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
The British SWP (which is distinct from the U.S. group but often works with them) regrouped after 9/11, forming alliances with other groups such as the British CP and the Muslim Association of Britain. In 2013-2014, they had a number of resignations over rape allegations against leadership members. They currently work with the Labour Party in Britain and with the International Socialist Tendency (IST), which was until last year allied in the U.S. with the International Socialist Organization, an offshoot of the SWP's Workers Party faction (a WWII Trotskyist group that opposed the Soviet invasion of Finland) via Hal Draper's International Socialists (closely aligned with the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley).
38 posted on 02/10/2020 12:22:55 PM PST by Fedora
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