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The World Can’t Wait
(WCW), an organization that opposes President Bush’s decision to send U.S.
troops to Iraq, ran a
paid advertisement
in The New York Times Monday denouncing the “fascists and religious
fanatics” responsible for the ongoing unrest and carnage in the land
formerly ruled by the iron fist of
Saddam Hussein.
WCW was not
talking about
bin Laden,
Zarqawi,
Zawahiri,
and
al-Sadr,
et. al. – the Islamists who have vowed to wage perpetual jihad
against the West until the latter is eviscerated and ultimately replaced
with an Islamic caliphate. Its condemnation was aimed exclusively
at the United States. Members of the Bush administration in Washington are
the “fascists and religious fanatics” who are “setting out to radically
remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to
come.” (Did we mention they were fascist?)
Bellowing
that the U.S. government “is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where
a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule,” WCW
vows
“to send Bush, Cheney and the rest of those fascists packing.”
According to WCW,
when people examine Bush’s policies, they “think of Hitler – and they are
right to do so.”
The WCW ad in the Times
continued:
YOUR
GOVERNMENT, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and
utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.
YOUR GOVERNMENT is openly torturing people, and justifying it. YOUR
GOVERNMENT puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them
lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the
dead of night…YOUR GOVERNMENT suppresses the science that doesn't fit
its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future
generations to pay a terrible price. YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving to deny
women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and
abortion. YOUR GOVERNMENT enforces a culture of greed, bigotry,
intolerance and ignorance.
These are just a
few of the threats posed by these “homegrown Christian fascists.” (There’s
the f-word again.)
The WCW ad was
the handiwork of
C. Clark Kissinger,
created by the Maoist radical in June 2005. Kissinger is a longtime leader
of the
Revolutionary Communist Party,
a Maoist vanguard dedicated to promoting civil unrest in the U.S., as
evidenced by the organization’s key role in initiating the deadly Los
Angeles Riots of 1992. RCP is so violent, it is considered extremist
even by other Maoists. In 1987, Kissinger
also created the rabidly anti-American group
Refuse and Resist,
which excoriates the U.S. for its alleged quest to achieve “global
dominance and superiority over other people” – a goal with “raising the
specter of a police state” and possessing “a distinctly fascist aura.”
Moreover, in 2001 Kissinger initiated the
Not In Our Name (NION)
antiwar project, which condemns “the injustices done by our government” in
its pursuit of “endless war”; its greed-driven “transfusions of blood for
oil”; its determination to “erode [our] freedoms”; and its eagerness to
“invade countries, bomb civilians, kill more children, [and annihilate]
families on foreign soil.”
“The problem in
this country,” says Kissinger, “[is] the oppressive system of capitalism
that exploits people all over the world, that destroys our planet, that
oppresses minority people, that sends people to the death chambers in
droves.”
RCP protestors
called David Horowitz a
“Christian fascist”
at Bowling Green State University and
rushed the stage
when he spoke at the Liberty Film Festival in late October.
Given his
radical, violent history, it is worth noting the names of those who chose
to endorse and sign the WCW ad that was his brainchild. Below is a partial
list of the more prominent signatories. Many of them are officially
identified as WCW supporters on the organization’s website. They know well
who Kissinger is, and they are familiar with his loathing of America. By
signing the Times
ad, these individuals (and organizations) make it clear that they share
the founder’s fiery sentiments (as if the text of the ad wasn’t badly
enough). Signatories include:
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Jane Fonda,
infamous for her Vietnam War-era trip to Hanoi, where she lauded the
Vietcong and accused American soldiers of acting as “war criminals.” “If
you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on
your knees that we would some day become communist,” Fonda told
Americans in the 1970s. She also co-founded (with her then-husband
Tom Hayden)
the Indochina Peace Campaign, which worked to cut American aid to the
governments of Saigon and Phnom Penh. Her success in this effort helped
the North Vietnamese Communists and the Cambodian Khmer Rouge take power
and ultimately slaughter 2.5 million Indochinese peasants.
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Martin Sheen,
current president on “The West Wing” and leftist actor with a long
history of condemning American anti-Communist foreign policy – and a
long arrest record. During the Cold War, he supported the Soviet-backed
Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
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Ward Churchill,
the Colorado professor who said the employees of the World Trade Center
on 9/11 were “little Eichmanns.” His prescription for healing the
world’s ills is to wipe the U.S. “off the planet.” He has fibbed about
American genocide “unparalleled in the history of humanity” and may be
guilty of plagiarism.
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Eve Ensler,
the feminist playwright behind “The Vagina Monologues,” is a member of
Refuse & Resist. While objecting to the use of the term “evil” in
defining America’s Islamist foes, she had no problem using it about
Americans.
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Cornel West,
the Marxist professor who deems the U.S. a “racist patriarchal” nation
where “white supremacy” reigns unabated.
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Cindy Sheehan,
the vapid antiwar activist who has milked her son’s heroic death for all
it’s worth. She famously quipped, “This country is not worth dying for.”
Sheehan loathes what she calls America’s “morally repugnant system.” She
has wondered aloud, “[W]e were not attacked by Iraq. We might not even
have been attacked by Osama bin Laden…9/11 was their [the U.S.
government’s] Pearl Harbor to get their neo-con agenda through.”
Sheehan, who refers to the followers of al-Zarqawi, bin Laden, and
Zawahiri as “freedom fighters,” has defended Lynne Stewart, whom she
likens to Atticus Finch in To Kill a
Mockingbird. “He did what he knew was
right, but wasn’t popular, and that’s what Lynne is doing.”
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Rabbi
Michael Lerner,
the Tikkun
magazine founder who ascribes the 9/11 attacks to the worldwide anger
aroused by the U.S. for “turn[ing] its back on global agreements to
preserve the environment, unilaterally cancel[ing] its treaties to not
build a missile defense, accelerat[ing] the processes by which a global
economy has made some people in the third world richer but many poorer,
show[ing] that it cares nothing for the fate of refugees who have been
homeless for decades, and otherwise turn[ing] its back on ethical
norms.” Apparently, the jihadists
were leftists outraged by an issue of the
Utne Reader.
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Michael Ratner,
the current president of the
Center for Constitutional
Rights and
former president of the National Lawyers Guild, who constantly accuses
American soldiers of highly imaginative barbarities. Viewing the Iraq
War as immoral and illegal, Ratner believes that the U.S. should “treat
the attacks on September 11 as a crime against humanity, establish a UN
tribunal, extradite the suspects, or if that fails, capture them with a
UN force, and try them.” He also named his hero since boyhood: Cuban
Communist murderer Che Guevara.
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Harold
Pinter, the Nobel Prize laureate who views America as “a truly
monstrous force in the world,” and as the moral equivalent of Hitler,
Stalin,
and
Mao.
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Gore Vidal,
the author, playwright, and Castro supporter, who says that 9/11 was
brought about by America’s “actions all over the world” and that the
U.S. military response is nothing more than “an imperial grab for energy
resources.”
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Ed Asner,
the well-known actor, enthusiastic supporter of Fidel Castro, and proud
member of the
Democratic Socialists of
America (DSA).
Lauding socialism as a necessary measure to“
curb the excesses of capitalism,” Asner has
supported the
9/11 Visibility Project,
which promotes the idea that the U.S. government had foreknowledge of
the September 11th attacks yet did nothing to prevent them.
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Progressive Democrats of
America (PDA)
maintains close ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, Tom Hayden
(its co-founder), Jodie Evans, and radical Congresswoman
Barbara Lee,
D-CA, whose anti-American hatred is legendary.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal,
the convicted cop-killer and alleged “political prisoner” who has become
an idol of the Left. He is passionately supported by many of the
co-signers listed in this article.
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Lynne Stewart,
the attorney convicted of aiding and abetting the “blind sheikh,”
Omar Abdel Rahman,
who masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Stewart violated
prison rules to pass on messages from Rahman to his terrorist followers
in the Islamic Group.
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Howard Zinn,
the Marxist professor and author of the tendentious
A People’s History of the United States,
who believes that socialism and Communism are systems that advance the
cause of humanity, and that America is a reactionary, terrorist state.
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Jodie Evans,
a hardcore Marxist who founded the antiwar group
Code Pink for Peace.
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National Lawyers Guild,
a pro-Communist organization that spearheads the open borders movement
and whitewashed the North Korean regime of Kim Jong-il.
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Professor
Michael Eric Dyson,
a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, who
said
that the 9/11 attacks were “predictable to a degree, due to America’s
past imperialistic practices and how it is viewed by other countries.”
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Aris Anagnos,
the billionaire creator of the
Humanitarian Law Project,
admirer of
Fidel Castro,
and funder of Marxist causes worldwide.
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Professor
Bill Ayers,
a former leader of the
Weather Underground,
a left-wing domestic terrorist group responsible for dozens of bombings
aimed at destroying the defense and security infrastructures of the
U.S., including the Pentagon. “I don’t regret setting bombs,” an
unrepentant
Ayers has said.
“I feel we didn’t do enough.”
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Bob Bossie,
the Catholic priest and antiwar activist who founded
Voices In The Wilderness
and condemns the United States for its purportedly endemic “racism,
sexism, [and] classism.”
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Carl Dix,
a co-founder of, and spokesman for, the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Dix views the United States as an oppressive, racist nation that is
“aiming for nothing less than unchallenged control of the world.” “As
long as U.S. imperialism stays in power,” says Dix, “the horrors that
come from their system will continue.”
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Leonard Weinglass,
the former co-chairman of the international committee of the National
Lawyers Guild; he has legally represented numerous communists,
terrorists, and cop-killers, and has traveled to Cuba as a guest of
Fidel Castro.
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Professor
Armando Navarro,
a Castro supporter who spent the 1970s and 1980s teaching and working
with the group
La Raza Unida,
which, like Navarro, contends that the mythical land of “Aztlan” was
stolen from Mexico by the United States. A proponent of open borders and
increased rights for illegal immigrants, Navarro is a member of Mexico’s
Socialist Party.
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Alice Walker,
the
Pulitzer Prize-winning
author and longtime admirer of Fidel Castro and Mumia Abu Jamal; she
believes that America should try to neutralize Osama bin Laden by
responding to 9/11 with contrition and “love.”
C. Clark
Kissinger’s overheated hate rhetoric cannot be masked by such left-wing
euphemisms as “peace,” “civil liberties,” and “women’s rights.” These
useful idiots’ condemnation of America has been invariable and unwavering
for decades; and the objectives they support require, if they are to be
fulfilled, the destruction of American society from the ground up. They
have, after all, willingly lent their names to publications crafted by the
Revolutionary Communist Party. That anyone would condemn Americans in such
vociferous, over-the-top ways in the middle of a war demonstrates the
mindset of the Left: Zawahiri is a hero, or at least a “people’s leader”;
the real evil is President Bush, David Horowitz, capitalists, churchgoers,
and normal Americans who love a country the undersigned thoroughly
despise. |