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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:39:56 -0800
From: radtimes <resist@best.com>
Subject: 100,000 Communists March On Washington
100,000 Communists March On Washington
To Give Aid and Comfort to Saddam Hussein
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By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | October 28, 2002
In politics it is important to call things by their right names. Otherwise
you are fooling
yourself with other people's propaganda. The press is reporting Saturday's
"Stop the
War" demonstration in Washington as though it was a peace march. Of course
it was no
such thing. It was a regrouping of the Communist left, the same left that
supported Stalin
and Mao and Ho. Indeed, this Communist left, organized by Ramsey Clark and his
cohorts even supports Slobodan Milosevic, and of course Saddam Hussein.
They are
not pacifists and they are not peaceniks. They are anti-American radicals
whose dream
is a Communist revolution in America but whose immediate agenda is to force
America's
defeat in the war with terror we are now in.
Even the signs saying "Jobs Not War" are telltale signs of their Communist
roots. (And
of course this does not mean that the Communist Party itself organized the
march ----
although it supported it. That was done by the Workers World Party, a
self-styled
Marxist revolutionary organization.) "Peace, Jobs and Democracy" was the
Communist
slogan in the first May Day parade I participated in - 1948. Of course
anyone can be for
jobs and most of us want to avoid war if possible. The theme of the 1948
May Day
parade was stopping America's efforts to prevent Stalin from marching all
over Europe.
"We don't want another war" - its slogan - meant we don't want Harry
Truman's Cold
War against the Communist conquest of Eastern Europe.
The Communist left also opposed "American militarism" in the 1930s to
prevent the
West from stopping Hitler. Their tune changed of course when Hitler
attacked his ally,
the Soviet Union, in 1941. The Communist "New Left" also opposed the
Vietnam War,
not because it opposed war, but because it wanted the North Vietnamese
Communists to
win. The success of the anti-Vietnam left resulted in the deaths of two and
a half million
people in Indo-China who were slaughtered by the Marxists after the "peace
movement"
forced America's withdrawal.
The real meaning of slogans like "Jobs Not War" is that America is the axis
of evil that is
plotting war. That the "greatest terrorist state" in the world, in Noam
Chomsky's words
is the USA. We are the Great Satan and we deserve to be attacked. This is
the real
message of the so-called peace movement, often covertly and disingenuously
expressed. But it is its message nonetheless. It is a movement of by and
for America's
enemies within.
The fact that a movement of America-hating communists, who regard their own
country
as the enemy and who sympathize with America's terrorist adversaries should
be able to
marshal 100, 000 activists is a cause for concern. The communist New Left
left was not
able to organize such large demonstrations in support of the Communists in
Vietnam
until the draft was instituted in 1964. We have no draft in this country
now. The size of
these demonstrations is a reflection of the growth of a treacherous
anti-American
radicalism in this country that has no Communist Party per se, but is just
as dedicated to
America's destruction. The fact that the new technologies of war make it
possible for
terrorist groups both foreign and domestic to inflict enormous damage on
industrial
democracies like ours, and that our borders are porous and our security
capabilities
wanting, underscores the daunting dangers posed by this internal threat.
That the desire to hurt this country and its citizens is uppermost in the
protesters minds
was manifest in their reactions at the Washington march. According to the
Los Angeles
Times the demon singled out by the demonstrators for the greatest
opprobrium was
Attorney General John Ashcroft - the man responsible for the security of
300 million
Americans: "The most unpopular figure of all appeared to be John Ashcroft,
the U.S.
attorney general. The mere mention of his name prompted boos to swell from
the crowd,
followed by semi-obscene chants." The hatred of John Ashcroft reflects the
demonstrators' hatred for the American government and for the ordinary
Americans
whom our government protects. Their agenda is to weaken America's defenses
from
within. The question is: will we let them?
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David Horowitz is the author of numerous books including an autobiography,
Radical Son, which has been described as "the first great autobiography of his
generation," and which chronicles his odyssey from radical activism to the
current
positions he holds.
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