FIRE ALL These 75 COMMUNIST

DEMOCRATS.. THEY Represent

you??
DEMOCRAT SOCIALISTS OF AMERIKA (DSA)                 NATIONAL
SOCIALISTS OF GERMANY (NAZI)

Principles: DSA’s  “Progressive Challenge”                         Principles:  Excerpts of

“25” Nazi party principles

Dignified Work                            Everyone must Work

Environmental Justice               Abolition of unearned income
Economic Redistribution          Division of Profits
Democratic Participation           Nationalization of Industry
Community Empowerment        Formation of National Army
Global Non-Violence                   Land Reform
Social Justice                 Duty of State to Provide for it’s
Volk

75 OF CONGRESS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF

DEMOCRAT SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA (names appearing
in BOLD also ARE SUPPORTERS OF TERRORIST group
HAMAS)
1  Neil Abercrombie (HI-01) * 
2  Tammy Baldwin (WI-02) *
3  Xavier Becerra (CA-31) 40 Barbara Lee (CA-09)
 4  Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL) 41 Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
5  Robert Brady (PA-01) 42 John Lewis (GA-05)
6  Corrine Brown (FL-03) 43 David Loebsack (IA-02)
7  Michael Capuano (MA-08) 44 Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
8  André Carson (IN-07)> 45 Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
9  Donna Christensen (VI-AL) 46 Ed Markey (MA-07)
10  Yvette Clarke (NY-11) 47 Jim McDermott (WA-07)
11  William "Lacy" Clay (MO-01) 48 James McGovern (MA-03)
12  Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05) 49 George Miller (CA-07)
13  Steve Cohen (TN-09) 50 Gwen Moore (WI-04)
14  John Conyers (MI-14) 51 Jerrold Nadler (NY-08) >
15  Elijah Cummings (MD-07) 52 Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
16  Danny Davis (IL-07) 53 John Olver (MA-01)
17  Peter DeFazio (OR-04) 54 Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
18  Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) 55 Donald Payne (NJ-10)
19 Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04) 56 Chellie Pingree (ME-01) >
20  Keith Ellison (MN-05) a Muslim 57 Laura Richardson (CA-37)
21  Sam Farr (CA-17) 58 Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
22  Chaka Fattah (PA-02) 59 Bobby Rush (IL-01)
23  Bob Filner (CA-51) 60  Linda Sánchez (CA-47)
24  Barney Frank (MA-04) 61  Bernie Sanders (VT)
25  Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11) 62  Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
26  Alan Grayson (FL-08) 63  José Serrano (NY-16)
27  Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07) 64 Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
28  Luis Gutierrez (IL-04) 65 Pete Stark (CA-13)
29  John Hall (NY-19) 66  Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
30  Phil Hare (IL-17) 67 John Tierney (MA-06)
31  Maurice Hinchey (NY-22) 68 Nydia Velazquez (NY-1)
32  Michael Honda (CA-15) 69 Maxine Waters (CA-35)
33  Mazie Hirono (HI-02) 70 Diane Watson (CA-33)
34  Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02) 71 Mel Watt (NC-12)
35  Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30) 72 Henry Waxman (CA-30)
36  Hank Johnson (GA-04) 73 Peter Welch (VT-AL)
37  Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) 74 Robert Wexler (FL-19)
38  Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13) 75 Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)
39  Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)>

*****
Obama and the Marxist Socialist radical
members of Congress
October 22, 2008 by Brenda J. Elliott

See James Simpson’s Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured

Crisis at American Thinker, 09/28/08.
Ever heard of the House Progressive Caucus? You
won’t find it on James Simpson’s chart but a lot of
the connections you will read about in this article
are.
The House Progressive Caucus (HPC) is just
another name for the Progressive Caucus
(Democratic), which, according to Discover the
Networks, is a “radical caucus of nearly six-dozen
members of the House of Representatives. Until
1999, the HPC “worked in open partnership” with
Democratic Socialists of America, the “largest
Socialist organization in the U.S.”
Update: According to the January/February 1999
issue of DSA’s New Ground, DSA “helped to
organize” the Caucus.
The March 29, 1999, issue of The New American
describes the House Progressive Caucus (HPC) as
… a consortium of radical congressional
collectivists whose stunning success in November
remains one of the most under-reported stories of
the election. Fifty-five of the 58 members on last
year’s HPC roster ran for re-election; every one of
them was re-elected.
This success occurred in spite of the fact that there
is a symbiotic relationship between the HPC and
the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — a
relationship that has been ignored by the major
media. The DSA is the principal U.S. affiliate of
the Socialist International, the world’s oldest and
largest hodgepodge of socialist, social democratic,
and labour parties. The Socialist International
proudly boasts that it is the successor to the so-
called “First International” of Karl Marx,
founded in London in 1864.
HPC/DSA “goals”
The New American informs:
According to one DSA position paper, its
collectivist agenda includes “massive
redistribution of income from corporations and
the wealthy to wage earners and the poor and the
public sector”; “a massive shift of public resources
from the military … to civilian uses”; and
“expanding [Medicare] eligibility to people of all
ages and income regardless of health or
employment status” so that “the federal
government can serve as the single payer” for the
nation’s health care. After all, the DSA contends,
“Free markets or private charity cannot provide
adequate public goods and services. [...]
The HPC’s list of legislative goals includes “a
more progressive tax system” (Karl Marx
would be pleased), deep cuts in the
military budget, and a “cradle-to-grave”
single-payer health care plan. In the
following pages we survey a rogues’ gallery of
HPC congressmen and others with a similar
ideological bent.
The Wikipedia article on the Congressional
Progressive Caucus says:

According to their website, the CPC

advocates
“universal access to affordable, high
quality healthcare,” fair trade
agreements, living wage laws, the right of
all workers to organize into labor unions
and engage in strike actions and collective
bargaining, the abolition of significant
portions of the USA PATRIOT Act, the
legalization of gay marriage, strict
campaign finance reform laws, a complete
pullout from the war in Iraq, a
crackdown on free trade and corporate
welfare, an increase in income tax on the
wealthy, tax cuts for the poor, and an
increase in social welfare spending by the
federal government.
Anything sounding familiar? It should. We’ve
certainly been hearing a lot of sound bytes on the
evening news and in political TV and radio ads
that sound just .. like .. this:

 redistribution of wealth? – √

 increase income tax on wealthy? – √
 tax cuts for the poor? – √ Note: 40%
of Americans pay zero taxes now.
 more progressive tax system? – √
 crackdown on corporate welfare? – √
 increased social welfare spending? – √
 “cradle-to-grave” health care? – √
 complete pullout from Iraq? – √
 cuts in military budget? – √
Must read: John Batchelor’s October 22, 2008,
article Keynes Again, which will put all of these
goals in a chilling perspective.
CPC founding
The New American continues:

The House Progressive Caucus was

founded in 1992 by Representatives
Bernard Sanders (Independent-VT),
Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Lane Evans (D-
IL), Maxine Waters (D-CA), and then-
Congressman Ron Dellums (D-CA).
Although Congressman Sanders, who currently
chairs the HPC’s executive committee, is a self-
avowed socialist, he is one of the group’s more
“moderate” members. During the previous
Congress, 51 of his HPC colleagues scored lower
than he did on this magazine’s “Conservative
Index” voting guide!
Sanders, DeFazio, and Waters are members of
what is now called the Congressional Progressive
Congress.
DSA hosted CPC
Would it surprise you to know that the
Democratic Socialists of America hosted the CPC
on its website?
For this latter piece of information we turn to a
May 24, 2008, post at Theodore’s World blog:
Until 1999, DSA hosted the website of the
Progressive Caucus. Following a subsequent
expose of the link between the two entities, the
Progressive Caucus established its own website
under the auspices of Congress. But DSA and the
Progressive Caucus remain intimately linked. All
58 Progressive Caucus members also belong to
DSA.

The CPC’s “own website” for the current

75-member CPC is an extension of that
maintained for its co-chairwoman, Rep.
Barbara Lee (Calif.) — cpc.lee.house. The
other CPC co-chairwoman is fellow
Californian, Rep. Lynn Woolsey.
The CPC-DSA relationship was confirmed by
Trevor Loudon in his November 12, 2006, article
The Socialists Behind the “Progressive Caucus”:
As the Congressional Progressive Caucus is the
most powerful and radical group in the new US
Congress, it might be useful to find out who is
behind the organisation.
The most obvious backers of the CPC are the
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Loudon cited the Wikipedia article on the DSA:
During the 1990s, DSA began looking to the
Religious Right’s activism within the Republican
Party as a model for how the Left could gain a
greater foothold within the Democratic Party…
The result was the “Congressional Progressive
Caucus, a group of 65 Democratic legislators in
the U.S. House of Representatives anchored by US
Rep. Bernie Sanders, a DSA sympathizer….DSA’s
website included commentary supportive of the
legislative caucus throughout much of the late
1990s.
CPC supporters
The Wikipedia article on the CPC also provides
the names of a number of organizations which
support the CPC.
Included in the “array of national progressive
organizations” that “work to support the efforts of
the caucus” we find a few that top the list.
 Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)
 The Nation magazine
 Progressive Democrats of America (PDA)

_____________________________________________________________________
Sunday, November 12, 2006

The Socialists Behind the "Progressive

Caucus"
As the Congressional Progressive Caucus is the
most powerful and radical group in the new US
Congress, it might be useful to find out who is
behind the organization.

The most obvious backers of the CPC are the

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
DSA is the principal US affiliate of the Socialist
International, a federation of socialist, social
democratic and labour parties.

"We are socialists," says the organization

"because we reject an international economic order
sustained by private profit, alienated labor, race and
gender discrimination, environmental destruction,
and brutality and violence in defense of the status
quo.... To achieve a more just society, many
structures of our government and economy must be
radically transformed. ...

Formed in 1983, DSA brought together what it

calls "former Socialists and Communists, former
old leftists and new leftists, and many who had
never been leftists at all."

According to Wikipedia

During the 1990s, DSA began looking to the

Religious Right's activism within the Republican
Party as a model for how the Left could gain a
greater foothold within the Democratic Party...

The result was the "Congressional Progressive

Caucus, a group of 65 Democratic legislators in the
U.S. House of Representatives anchored by US Rep.
Bernie Sanders, a DSA sympathizer....DSA's
website included commentary supportive of the
legislative caucus throughout much of the late
1990s.

According to US commentator and former leftist,

David Horowitz's website, Discover the Network,
DSA seeks to increase its political
influence not by establishing its own
party, but rather by working closely with
the Democratic Party to promote leftist
agendas.
"Like our friends and allies in the feminist, labor,
civil rights, religious, and community organizing
movements, many of us have been active in the
Democratic Party... We work with those movements
to strengthen the party's left wing, represented by
the Congressional Progressive Caucus. ... Maybe
sometime in the future ... an alternative national
party will be viable. For now, we will continue to
support progressives who have a real chance at
winning elections, which usually means left-wing
Democrats."

Horowitz goes on to say:

"Until 1999, DSA hosted the website of the
Progressive Caucus. Following a subsequent expose
of the link between the two entities, the Progressive
Caucus established its own website under the
auspices of Congress. But DSA and the Progressive
Caucus remain intimately linked. All 58 Progressive
Caucus members also belong to DSA."

DSA is open about its aims and its support for the
Progressive Caucus. From DSA's 2000 Election
Statement.

"DSA recognizes that some insurgent politicians

representing labor, environmentalists, gays and
lesbians, and communities of color may choose to
run under Democratic auspices, as in the 1988
Jesse Jackson campaign, or operate as Democrats
like Senator Paul Wellstone, and the 59 Democratic
members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus,
one-half of whom are Black and Latino and all of
whom possess strong labor backing and operative
social democratic politics.

Electoral tactics are only a means for DSA; the

building of a powerful anti-corporate and ultimately
socialist movement is the end. Where third party or
non-partisan candidates represent significant social
movements DSA locals have and will continue to
build such organizations and support such
candidates. DSA honored independent socialist
Congressperson Bernie Sanders of Vermont at our
last convention banquet, and we have always raised
significant funds nationally for his electoral
campaigns.

At the same time, we were pleased to have

Democratic Congressperson and Progressive
Caucus member Bob Filner of San Diego introduce
Sanders at the convention, and note that
Progressive Caucus member Jan Schakowsky (D-
IL) will be honored at our annual Debs-Thomas-
Harrington dinner this Spring in Chicago."

According to US writer David Farah, DSA is quite

cynical about using the Democratic Party as a
cover for their socialist activism. He quotes from a
DSA youth organising document.

"Stress our Democratic Party strategy and electoral

work... "The Democratic Party is something the
public understands, and association with it takes
the edge off. Stressing our Democratic Party work
will establish some distance from the radical
subculture and help integrate you to the milieu of
the young liberals."
As of August 2005, DSA has 5-6,000 members,
in 24 chartered "locals". Many are influential
and well known, including literary critic
Irving Howe, feminist activist and journalist
Gloria Steinem, actor Ed Asner, author
Barbara Ehrenreich, 1997 New York City
mayoral candidate Ruth Messinger, United
Auto Workers co-founder Victor Reuther,
leading African-American Studies professor
Cornel West, linguist Noam Chomsky,
political scientist Stephen Rosskamm Shalom,
political columnist Harold Meyerson and
AFL-CIO president, John Sweeney.

It also has more than 60 US Congressmen

and Senators in its pocket.
posted by Trevor Loudon at 11/12/2006 04:15:00 PM

http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2006/11/socialists-behind-progressive-caucus.html

____________________________________________________________________
 TOTALLY RADICAL!!
These congressmen wrote the book on
extreme
January 21st marked the 75th anniversary of the
death of Soviet despot Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The
most powerful Bolshevik leader at the time of
Lenin’s demise was Leon Trotsky, the regime’s
commissar for war. Yet during the ensuing
power struggle, Josef Stalin emerged the victor,
and Trotsky was forced into exile and eventually
assassinated.
What gave Stalin the edge? By far the most
important factor was his control of the media. It
enabled him to manipulate public opinion by
smearing (or ignoring) his opponents while
glorifying himself and his objectives. Historian
Boris Souvarine writes in Stalin: A Critical
Survey of Bolshevism (1939) that "the entire
press belonged to [Stalin] and praised his
foresight unblushingly.... No despot in any age
or in any country has ever enjoyed such powers
of deceiving public opinion or, if that failed, of
suppressing it." The ability to guide and
manipulate what "the masses" see and hear is
arguably the most potent weapon in any
revolutionary movement’s political arsenal.
Consider, for instance, the extent to which the
most influential elements of the major media
here in the U.S. have marched in lockstep
during the past year to tag President Clinton’s
most outspoken congressional critics with such
pejorative labels as "extremists," "far rightists,"
"ultra-conservatives," and "fringers." Yet even
the most radically left-wing apologists for the
President are passed off as mere "liberals" or
"moderates."
When Representative Dan Burton (R-IN),
chairman of the House Government Reform and
Oversight Committee charged with investigating
Clinton campaign fundraising abuses, referred to
the President during a newspaper interview as a
"scumbag," he was vilified about it for weeks.
Ditto for former Senator Al D’Amato (R-NY)
when he referred to Democratic opponent (and
successor) Charles Schumer as a "putzhead"
during a private conversation picked up by the
press. The offhand remark was transformed into
a vicious attack, and the subsequent media
barrage became a significant factor in the
Senate race.
On the other hand, when former Senator Carol
Mosely-Braun (D-IL), who lost to Peter
Fitzgerald, implied that columnist George Will
was a racist, the matter was only briefly covered
and then dropped. As were intemperate
assertions by House Democrats comparing their
GOP opponents to Klansmen (Charles Rangel)
and fascists (George Miller).
Congressmen Rangel (NY) and Miller (CA) both
belong to the House Progressive Caucus (HPC),
a consortium of radical congressional
collectivists whose stunning success in
November remains one of the most under-
reported stories of the election. Fifty-five of the
58 members on last year’s HPC roster ran for
re-election; every one of them was re-elected.
This success occurred in spite of the fact that
there is a symbiotic relationship between the
HPC and the Democratic Socialists of America
(DSA) — a relationship that has been ignored by
the major media. The DSA is the principal U.S.
affiliate of the Socialist International, the world’s
oldest and largest hodgepodge of socialist,
social democratic, and labour parties. The
Socialist International proudly boasts that it is
the successor to the so-called "First
International" of Karl Marx, founded in London in
1864. According to one DSA position paper, its
collectivist agenda includes "massive
redistribution of income from corporations and
the wealthy to wage earners and the poor and
the public sector"; "a massive shift of public
resources from the military … to civilian uses";
and "expanding [Medicare] eligibility to people of
all ages and income regardless of health or
employment status" so that "the federal
government can serve as the single payer" for
the nation’s health care. After all, the DSA
contends, "Free markets or private charity
cannot provide adequate public goods and
services."
The House Progressive Caucus was founded in
1992 by Representatives Bernard Sanders
(Independent-VT), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Lane
Evans (D-IL), Maxine Waters (D-CA), and then-
Congressman Ron Dellums (D-CA).
Although Congressman Sanders, who currently
chairs the HPC’s executive committee, is a self-
avowed socialist, he is one of the group’s more
"moderate" members. During the previous
Congress, 51 of his HPC colleagues scored
lower than he did on this magazine’s
"Conservative Index" voting guide!
The HPC states that it "works with a coalition of
organizations, called the Progressive Challenge,
to bring new life to the progressive voice in U.S.
politics." Sponsors of the Progressive Challenge
include the aforementioned DSA and such other
far-left entities as Americans for Democratic
Action, Friends of the Earth, Institute for Policy
Studies, National Organization for Women,
National Council of La Raza, Center for Defense
Information, Council for a Livable World,
Amnesty International, National Education
Association, and the National Rainbow Coalition.
The HPC’s list of legislative goals includes "a
more progressive tax system" (Karl Marx would
be pleased), deep cuts in the military budget,
and a "cradle-to-grave" single-payer health care
plan. In the following pages we survey a rogues’
gallery of HPC congressmen and others with a
similar ideological bent.
Erstwhile Congressman Ron Dellums was a
DSA official when he helped launch the HPC.
During nearly three decades in the House he
worked closely with the hardcore Marxists and
Soviet KGB agents at the Institute for Policy
Studies (IPR), the Soviet-front World Peace
Council, and sundry Marxist-Leninist dictators
around the world, including Fidel Castro, the
Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and Grenada’s late
dictator Maurice Bishop.
Dellums announced his retirement from
Congress in late 1997 and endorsed California
State Senator Barbara Lee in the race to
succeed him. Lee easily captured the special
election, joined the HPC, and garnered more
than 86 percent of the vote in November to
secure her first full term.
Unfortunately, Barbara Lee is an ideological
clone of Dellums, having served as his senior
adviser and chief of staff from 1975 to 1987. It
was during that time (in 1983) that U.S. forces
liberated Grenada after determining that a huge
airport under construction with Cuban and
Soviet financing could handle the Soviet Union’s
long-range bombers. During the invasion, U.S.
troops discovered nearly seven tons of
documents that confirmed the Communist
nature of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop’s New
Jewel Movement. Included was correspondence
with Dellums’ office.
In 1982, Dellums had traveled to Grenada to, he
said, gain an overview of "the building of the
new international airport." In a report submitted
to the chairman of the House Armed Services
Committee on June 14, 1982, he emphatically
denied that the airport was intended for military
use. A copy of the report was found among the
cache of Grenadian documents, along with
minutes of a December 15, 1982 New Jewel
Movement Politburo meeting. At one point, the
minutes assert: "Ron Dellums: His assistant —
Barbara Lee is here presently and has brought
with her a report on the International Airport that
was done by Ron Dellums. They have requested
that we look at the document and suggest any
changes we deem necessary — they will be
willing to make the changes." That is, Dellums,
aided by now-Congressman Barbara Lee,
agreed to let Grenada’s Communist government
(which was merely a puppet regime run from
Havana and Moscow) edit his report prior to
submitting it to the chairman of his House
committee.
In July 1992, while a member of the California
State Assembly, Lee attended a conference of
the Committees of Correspondence (CoC) and
was elected to its national coordinating
committee. The CoC was spawned by members
of the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) who had
a falling-out with CPUSA leader Gus Hall.
Others elected to the coordinating committee
with Lee included Charlene Mitchell, erstwhile
member of the Communist Party’s Central
Committee and its nominee for U.S. President in
1968, and longtime Communist functionary
Angela Davis, who was on three occasions the
Party’s vice presidential nominee. Mitchell was
also elected co-chair of the group. In an essay
currently posted on the CoC’s website, former
CPUSA national organizations secretary Danny
Rubin states that "it is the Committees of
Correspondence that has become a continuer of
the best traditions and history of the CPUSA...."
Congressman John Conyers (MI), ranking
Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee
and a key player on the President’s
congressional defense team, is also a member
of the HPC. First elected in 1964, when he won
by a scant 128 votes, he was re-elected to a
19th term in November with 89 percent of the
vote.
As a member of the Judiciary Committee during
Watergate, Conyers urged the impeachment of
President Richard Nixon. During the Clinton
impeachment effort, however, he regularly
appeared on television talk shows and news
programs to vilify Republicans as "right-wing
extremists" engaged in a "partisan witch hunt"
against Bill Clinton. And in doing so, he has
been portrayed as merely a responsible liberal
or moderate.
Due to the silence of the media lambs, many
Americans remain unaware of Conyers’
incredibly subversive record of support for a
litany of Marxist movements (including the
Soviet-front World Peace Council and the pro-
Communist Institute for Policy Studies) and the
enthusiasm with which he has backed the likes
of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Ghana’s Kwame
Nkrumah, and other Red despots.
In Covert Cadre: Inside The Institute for Policy
Studies (1987), author S. Steven Powell
describes how the IPS sought to directly
influence Washington policymakers by
establishing its Washington School, whose
seminars served to "provide a forum at which
the leftist community can meet on a regular
basis" and "influence government policy
making." John Conyers, described by Powell as
"one of IPS’s strongest supporters in Congress,"
was among the House participants in
Washington School programs. Indeed, Powell
asserts, Conyers "taught ‘American Politics:
Who Gets What, When and How’ at the
Washington School with IPS fellow Michael
Parenti, and served as a moderator for the IPS
budget conference on Capitol Hill, February 2,
1983." In a June 1, 1979 New York Times op-ed
piece co-authored with IPS co-founder Marcus
Raskin, Conyers claimed that "government’s
responsibility is to revitalize the nation’s
economy through creative forms of public
ownership" — i.e., socialism.
On May 10, 1974, Conyers addressed an
audience of 500 at the Trinity Methodist Church
in Detroit during the opening rally of the
convention of the Communist-front National
Alliance Against Racism and Political
Repression. The confab was chaired by then-
Communist Party luminary Charlene Mitchell.
Another speaker was Angela Davis. Conyers
lauded the organization for "building a great
coalition" as he had long proposed. The late
labor columnist Victor Riesel subsequently
scolded Conyers for taking "the trouble to fly into
Detroit May 10 to join a member of the
Communist Party U.S.A. Central Committee and
others to whip up a typical radical rally." Two
years later, on June 27, 1976, more than 600
persons attended a salute and tribute to the
congressman sponsored by the Coalition for
Economic Survival. A message from Communist
Angela Davis, then co-chair of the National
Alliance Against Racism and Political
Repression, was subsequently quoted in a
glowing account of the event published in the
Communist newspaper People’s World for July
3, 1976. Davis wrote: "At a time when
corruption, immorality, and undisguised disdain
for the people of the country are the
distinguishing marks of those in government, it is
particularly important for us to know that we can
rely on a man like Conyers to articulate our
outrage and our will to effect radical changes in
the political and economic scene."
John Conyers served on the national executive
board of the notorious National Lawyers Guild
(NLG), which a congressional committee
described as "the foremost legal bulwark of the
Communist Party, its front organizations, and
controlled unions." Throughout all of the most
violent and tumultuous episodes of riots,
demonstrations, subversion, agitation, and
espionage of the past half century, it has always
been Conyers’ barrister comrades of the NLG
who could be counted on to provide legal cover
and assistance to the enemies of America. And
in a letter published in the New York Times for
March 7, 1986, Conyers defended Nicaragua’s
Communist Sandinista regime, claiming that
"there is more freedom and less brutality in
revolutionary Nicaragua than in Central
American countries supported by the
Administration."
Then there is also Conyers’ longtime connivance
with the KGB-created and -funded World Peace
Council (WPC). Instigated by the Soviets in the
late 1940s, the WPC served as a key
component of Moscow’s "peace" and
"disarmament" campaigns for nearly four
decades. It was identified by U.S. intelligence
authorities as "the largest and most active Soviet
front organization."
On September 30, 1975, members of the WPC
were guests of honor at a Capitol Hill luncheon
hosted by Conyers and Congressmen Ron
Dellums and Philip Burton. A few days later, on
October 6th, Conyers was listed as a sponsor of
a meeting in Detroit to welcome the WPC
delegation headed by Romesh Chandra. In KGB
Today: The Hidden Hand (1983), Reader’s
Digest senior editor John Barron describes how
"American Communists joined by non-
Communists formed a ‘National Committee’ to
welcome Romesh Chandra [general secretary of
the WPC] and the World Peace Council
Presidential Bureau to a ‘Dialogue on
Disarmament and Détenté’ in Washington,
January 25-28, 1978. U.S. Rep. John Conyers,
Jr., heartily welcomed the group. ‘You have
joined us to give us courage and inspiration in
our fight for disarmament and against the
neutron bomb,’ he declared."
Needless to say, Chandra, a member of the
central committee of the Communist Party of
India, was delighted. In the wake of that 1978
meeting, the WPC information center in Helsinki
published a 48-page brochure describing the
events, including a reference to "special
meetings inside the U.S. Congress itself" with
WPC operatives and "several Congressmen
among which were … Ronald Dellums, John
Conyers, Jr. … Charles Rangel and others."
One photograph was captioned: "Congressman
John Conyers, Jr. addressing a luncheon for
participants in the Dialogue on Disarmament
and Détenté. The luncheon was given at the
restaurant of the U.S. House of
Representatives."
When the WPC formed its official American
branch, the U.S. Peace Council (USPC), in
1979, Conyers was there. As one of the main
speakers at the founding conference of the
USPC, Conyers faithfully parlayed the Moscow
line, calling on activists to work for passage of
the Transfer Amendment to take funds from the
defense budget and transfer them to "social
programs."
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) is
another member of the House Judiciary
Committee whose fulminating visage continually
graced the nation’s television screens during the
Clinton impeachment proceedings. A more
bellicose congressional apologist for Mr. Clinton
would be difficult to name. Or one more radical.
But "Mad Maxine’s" ultra-extremist, left-wing
record is regularly glossed over by the liberal
media. First elected to Congress in 1990, she
was re-elected to a fifth term in November,
receiving 89 percent of the ballots. In 1992 she
seconded Bill Clinton’s nomination at the
Democratic National Convention and was a co-
chair of the Clinton-Gore campaign.
In 1992 Representative Waters sided with the
"Rodney King" rioters and looters who
rampaged in her district and its environs
following the jury verdict acquitting police
officers involved in the King incident. During one
television interview she blurted that the "anger
out there is a righteous anger, and it’s difficult for
me to say to the people, ‘Don’t be angry....’ We
know that some of the things we are going to
see may be senseless, but that’s a kind of anger
that says, ‘I’m fed up and I’m not going to take it
anymore.’"
On May 1, 1982, the so-called "People’s College
of Law," an unaccredited "college" launched in
1974 by sundry pro-Marxist entities (including
the National Lawyers Guild), hosted a salute to
Waters and two other leftists (including actor Ed
Asner, a longtime member of Democratic
Socialists of America). An advertisement in the
printed program stated: "National Lawyers Guild
of Los Angeles salutes … Maxine Waters …
with whom we are proud to be associated."
The Communist newspaper People’s World for
September 27, 1980 included a photograph of
Waters with "Mother of the civil rights
movement" Rosa Parks and Communist Party
official Charlene Mitchell. They were described
as among those present at a "Tribute to
Charlene Mitchell" that had been held in Los
Angeles on September 13th. Six years later, on
May 1, 1986 (the Communist holiday known as
May Day), the Bonaventure Hotel in Los
Angeles was the site of the 29th annual
People’s World banquet. Ed Asner was there.
And so was Assemblywoman Maxine Waters.
On September 14th of last year the House
approved a Concurrent Resolution calling on
Fidel Castro’s government to extradite back to
the U.S. escaped murderess Joanne Chesimard
and "all other individuals who have fled the
United States to avoid prosecution or
confinement for criminal offenses...." The
measure passed 371 to 0 and was later
approved by the Senate. But although even
Waters voted for it, as we will see there is more
to the story.
On May 2, 1973, Chesimard and two friends
were stopped in their car by New Jersey State
Troopers James Harper and Werner Foerster on
the New Jersey Turnpike. While being
questioned, Chesimard and the driver opened
fire, striking Trooper Foerster twice in the chest
and Trooper Harper in the left shoulder. They
then used Trooper Foerster’s own gun to fire two
additional bullets into his head. In 1977 a jury
found Chesimard guilty of first-degree murder for
the slaying, and she was sentenced to life in a
New Jersey state prison. But in 1979 she
escaped from her maximum security cell and
fled to Cuba, where she was granted political
asylum.
Once in Cuba she assumed the name Assata
Shakur. When Representative Waters found out
that Chesimard and Shakur were one and the
same, she became livid, claiming that she had
been duped into voting for the resolution calling
for Chesimard’s extradition.
On September 29th Waters penned a letter of
explanation and groveling apology to Fidel
Castro. The People’s World was sufficiently
impressed to reprint the missive in full in its
October 10, 1998 issue. Writing as chair of the
Congressional Black Caucus, Waters stated that
had she known who Chesimard was, she "would
have voted against the legislation." She
portrayed Chesimard as a victim of "political
persecution," and stressed her respect for "the
right of Assata Shakur to seek political asylum."
After all, the convicted cop-killer "has maintained
that she was persecuted as a result of her
political beliefs and political affiliations." Wailing
that "the most vicious and reprehensible acts [by
the FBI during the 1960s and 1970s] were taken
against the leaders and organizations
associated with the Black Power or Black
Liberation Movement," Waters recalled how
Chesimard had been "a member of the Black
Panther Party, one of the leading groups
associated with the Black Liberation Movement."
Waters closed by telling Castro: "I hope to see a
new era of U.S.-Cuban relations in the future."
Waters’ special solicitude for Comrade Fidel and
"U.S.-Cuban relations" is particularly telling
inasmuch as she has made a moral crusade of
her effort to "expose" CIA involvement in
narcotics trafficking. What is so disturbing about
Waters’ labors in this regard is her single-
minded determination to pin all the myriad
problems associated with the devastating drug
scourge in our inner cities on CIA drug-running,
while ignoring the overwhelming evidence that it
is her dear Havana soul mate who has been
chiefly responsible for pumping narcotics into
the African-American, Hispanic — and White —
communities of America. She cannot claim
ignorance of this indisputable fact because she
certainly has been made aware of the massive
documentation from official sources compiled by
Dr. Joseph D. Douglass, Jr. in his authoritative
1990 book, Red Cocaine: The Drugging of
America.
In 1998, Waters told a congressional committee
that her own sleuthing had produced ironclad
proof of U.S. government drug trafficking from a
top-level source: Tomas Borge. Tomas Borge?
The Cuban-trained Communist thug who
headed Nicaragua’s secret police under the
Ortega brothers during the Sandinistas’ Red
dictatorship? Yes, that Tomas Borge.
As Dr. Douglass explains in Red Cocaine:
"Nicaragua’s participation in drug and narcotics
trafficking into the United States sprang from
Raul Castro’s [Fidel’s brother] meetings with
Humberto Ortega [Daniel’s brother]. The
narcotics operation itself was placed under the
Nicaraguan intelligence service, with Tomas
Borge, the Minister of Interior and head of the
intelligence service, in charge of the operation,
and his deputy, Frederico Vaughan, the chief of
staff of the operation."
Nevertheless, Maxine Waters met with Borge
and accepted his evidence, which (surprise!)
absolved him and his fellow Reds of any
complicity in the dirty drug trade she claims to
abhor, while laying all blame for the deadly
trafficking on the U.S. government. Or, to be
more precise, on white Republicans in the U.S.
government. Which, of course, fits perfectly with
the Communists’ revolutionary agenda of stirring
up racial distrust and hatred.
It is worth noting that for all of her self-righteous
blathering about CIA drug running, Mrs. Waters
has pointedly ignored the most solid and
damning evidence — that which implicates Bill
Clinton, the man she has aggressively
defended. Besides Mr. Clinton’s longstanding
connections to Little Rock cocaine kingpin Dan
Lasater and the evidence of Governor Clinton’s
involvement in the infamous "cocaine highway"
through Mena, Arkansas, there is the
embarrassing fact (documented in White House
photos) of Cuban drug lord Jorge "Gordito"
Cabrerra’s support for the Clinton-Gore
campaign. But Maxine Water’s ideological
blinders never seem to have trouble screening
out such inconvenient facts.
Sharing Marxist Maxine’s ideological affinity for
Sandinistas and Fidelistas is Representative
David Bonior (D-MI), whose potentially
treasonous activities in "Managuagate" were
hushed up as neatly as Clinton’s Chinagate
perfidies. On January 14, 1988, Bonior led a
group of Democratic congressmen to meet with
Nicaragua’s Communist "El Presidente," Daniel
Ortega. They advised Ortega on cosmetic
policies he needed to adopt so that Congress
would scuttle Republican proposals for more aid
to the Contras. Ortega followed their counsel,
paying lip service to "human rights reform," even
as his Sandinista security police in Managua
arrested leaders of the opposition and instituted
new rounds of repression. Bonior and his
colleagues praised Ortega for his
statesmanship. At the time, Bonior was chief
Deputy Majority Whip and a member of the
House Intelligence Committee, with access to
classified information. Four years earlier, on
March 20, 1984, Bonior and nine other
congressmen wrote the infamous "Dear
Commandante" letter to Daniel Ortega,
apologizing for American foreign policy in
Central America and expressing support for the
Sandinista narco-terror regime.
Like Waters and Conyers, Bonior not only toes
the Marxist policy line, but is also a reliable and
highly vocal propagandist of the left-wing cause
du jour. And no matter how grievous the sin, he
has proved himself always ready to find an
excuse to offer total absolution for his party
chief, Bill Clinton.
Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL) was first
elected to the House in 1992 after serving eight
years as an Alderman in Chicago’s South Side.
At the time of his election to the House he was
deputy chairman of the Illinois State Democratic
Party. He has not, to date, affiliated with the
House Progressive Caucus, though his leftist
credentials are impeccable.
In 1966 Rush joined the revolutionary and pro-
Marxist Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC), remaining a member until
1968 when he co-founded the Illinois branch of
the Black Panther Party (BPP). He became its
deputy minister of defense. As the IPS-launched
Marxist weekly In These Times noted in 1992
after Rush announced for Congress, he "has
continued to support progressive policies and
has never disavowed his Panther past."
On April 8th of last year, Rush attended a
"Friends of Kwame Ture Testimonial Dinner" in
Washington to pay tribute to the ailing former
SNCC and Black Panther leader Stokely
Carmichael. Comrade Stokely had assumed the
name Kwame Ture (in honor of former Marxist
dictators Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Sekou
Toure of Guinea) after moving to Ghana in 1969.
It was Carmichael who initially urged the
establishment of an Illinois chapter of the
Panthers and enlisted Rush in the effort. Rush
described his revolutionary compatriot, who died
in Ghana on November 15th, as "probably the
last prominent Pan-Africanist who is
philosophically pure," by which he meant that
Carmichael "has not compromised with the
forces of capitalism." Rush told reporters that he
attended the event "because I want to honor and
celebrate Stokely Carmichael and thank him for
all he has done for myself and Africans all over
the world."
The Black Panther Party was founded in 1966
by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. It was
Seale’s view that "Negroes in America should
oust racist pigs from their communities and work
for establishment of a socialist state." Newton
advised that "every time you execute a white-
racist, Gestapo cop, you are defending yourself."
Although Newton was subsequently convicted of
killing a policeman during a shootout, the
conviction was overturned and the case was
eventually dismissed after two later juries
deadlocked.
When Rush announced his candidacy for
Congress in 1992, the Associated Press
inaccurately reported that he had "quit the
Panthers in 1969 after a police raid killed two
members." The two were Fred Hampton and
Mark Clark, who died during a shootout with
police. Their deaths quickly became a
Communist cause célèbre. Bobby Rush had
himself recruited Fred Hampton into the Panther
Party. AP’s claim that Rush had "quit the
Panthers in 1969" was shown to be false by a
full-page notice in The Black Panther for
November 29, 1971, announcing an upcoming
"rally for survival" "in commemoration of Fred
Hampton and Mark Clark." Listed as one of the
main speakers was "Bob Rush," who was
identified as "Deputy Minister of Defense, Illinois
Chapter Black Panther Party." That event took
place only days after Rush was released from
prison after serving most of a six month
sentence for a 1969 weapons violation.
The same AP dispatch that misled readers
about Rush’s departure from the Panthers
quoted the congressman-to-be as saying that
the Panthers were not as anti-establishment as
some might think. He stated that they "always
viewed themselves as being part of the system,
although a highly critical part of the system." In a
biographical sketch posted on the
congressman’s website, Rush does not hide his
past affiliation with SNCC and the Black
Panthers. He simply whitewashes it. His only
reference to his activity in the Panthers, for
instance, is to his operation of "the Panther
Party’s Free Breakfast for Children program"
and his work at a medical clinic which
"developed the nation’s first mass sickle cell
anemia testing program."
For the record, in 1969, the year that Rush was
apprehended on the weapons charge, about 350
Panthers were arrested for such serious crimes
as murder, armed robbery, rape, bank robbery,
and burglary. The killings of four policemen, and
wounding of nearly two dozen others, were
attributed to party members. Panther leaders
openly called for the assassination of President
Richard Nixon, and the FBI labeled the Panthers
"the most notorious and dangerous of current
militant groups." In short, Congressman Rush’s
compatriots were doing more than feeding
hungry children.
Representative John Lewis (D-GA) was first
elected to the House in 1986. He seconded the
nomination of Al Gore for Vice President at the
1992 Democratic National Convention and was
selected in 1996 to serve as one of seven
honorary co-chairs of the Clinton-Gore
campaign. He has been a fierce defender of the
President, lamenting on the day that Mr. Clinton
was impeached that "today is a very sad day for
America. Today, when I got up, I wanted to cry."
Congressman Lewis’ biographical sketch notes
that "during the height of the Civil Rights
Movement, from 1963 to 1966, Lewis was the
Chairman of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which he
helped form." Lewis was defeated for re-election
as SNCC chairman by Stokely Carmichael in
1966, after which he left the organization.
Newsweek for February 10, 1969, quotes him as
saying he dropped out because "there was less
emphasis on nonviolence, less commitment to
programs that I thought would bring about
change." Yet Newsweek also noted that "Lewis
admits that an escalation of methods and
demands may be necessary for the black
movement today...."
Indeed, based on the evidence it is reasonable
to question Lewis’ commitment to nonviolence.
On December 7, 1963, the San Francisco
Chronicle reported that the SNCC leader felt that
"the possibility of violence is justified … because
‘out of this conflict, this division and chaos, will
come something positive.’" After all, the
objective was "to precipitate a crisis in
Mississippi of such magnitude that ‘the Federal
Government will have to take over the State.’..."
In February 1964, Lewis proclaimed in a
brochure that "the struggle for Freedom in
Mississippi can only be won by a combination of
action within the state and a heightened
awareness through the country of the need for
massive federal intervention to ensure the voting
rights of Negroes." And according to the Boston
Globe for April 15, 1964, Lewis "quite frankly
believes in quasi-insurrectionary tactics."
Lewis’ biography notes that he "was one of the
planners and keynote speakers at the historic
‘March on Washington’ in August 1963."
Investigative reporter Alan Stang writes in It’s
Very Simple: The True Story of Civil Rights
(1965) that Lewis’ speech on that occasion "was
marred when he was forced to delete the ripest
passages, which included such ‘non-violent’
rhetoric as: ‘We will march through the South,
through the heart of Dixie, the way Sherman did.
We shall pursue our own "scorched" earth policy
and burn Jim Crow to the ground — non-
violently.’"
And on February 20, 1964, during a speech at a
"freedom rally" in Nashville, Tennessee, Lewis
called for action that "would turn this Southland
upside down" to rid it of "the evil of segregation."
Specifically, he urged "those of us involved in
the freedom fight to bring about confrontations
between the federal government and the state
governments of the South."
Yet the New York Times once labeled Lewis "a
priest of nonviolence," and Time included a
profile of the congressman in an article
captioned "Saints Among Us."
On the Senate side during the impeachment
proceedings,Tom Harkin (D-IA) appeared to be
vying for the dubious honor of top Clinton
apologist and Republican basher. Or perhaps he
was merely indulging his penchant for
ideological gasbaggery disguised as
constitutional profundity with his numerous press
conferences and appearances on national
television programs to attack the House
impeachment effort. Harkin first came to national
attention in 1970 when, as a staff aide to the
House Select Committee on United States
Involvement in Southeast Asia, he accompanied
a fact-finding mission to South Vietnam and
worked with two radically leftist committee
members to develop sensational charges
regarding so-called "tiger cages" being used at
the Con Son prison complex in South Vietnam.
The alleged mistreatment of the pro-Marxist and
terrorist prisoners in the "tiger cages" was
effectively propagandized to undermine
sympathy in the U.S. for the government of
South Vietnam at a crucial point in that nation’s
struggle against Communist aggression and
subversion. Subsequent investigation revealed
that the conditions at the prison, and the
charges leveled by Harkin, were grossly
exaggerated.
The infamous "tiger cage" incident was
bolstered by photographs taken by Harkin during
a half-hour "investigation" of prison conditions.
He subsequently refused to turn the
photographs over to the House committee on
grounds that he had "a higher obligation to those
500 human beings who are jammed in those
cages." He then sold them to Life magazine for a
reported $10,000. Harkin even granted an
interview to the Daily World, official newspaper
of the Communist Party, USA, in which he made
additional charges regarding the prison situation
in South Vietnam. The Red propaganda organ
promptly put them to good use in its own
campaign to enhance the Communist position in
Southeast Asia by undermining the Saigon
government.
After losing a congressional bid in 1972 (as a
George McGovern backer), Harkin took
advantage of the Watergate scandal and won a
House seat in 1974. When the Institute for
Policy Studies threw its 20th anniversary
celebration in 1983, Harkin was one of 14
members of Congress who served on its
anniversary committee. In 1984, with IPS
network help, he won his Senate seat. Over the
past quarter century he has racked up one of the
most radical voting records in Congress. Early
that year, Harkin gave the opening remarks at a
reception hosted by the IPS concerning Central
American policy. "Now I am here to basically
thank the Institute for Policy Studies and the
people who have worked so hard over the past
couple or three years," he noted, and then
outlined his (and IPS’) agenda for our southern
neighbors. Which, not surprisingly, were
identical to the Soviet-Cuban agenda. One key
feature being to force the government of El
Salvador "to enter into real negotiations with the
FDR and FMLN," the Moscow-aligned terrorist
groups.
The following year, Harkin and Senator John
Kerry (D-MA) took one of the most scandalous
and treacherous "diplomatic" junkets ever. Forty-
eight hours before a crucial congressional vote
on a bill authorizing $14 million in aid to the
Contras, they went to Nicaragua for an agitprop
tour that helped sway Congress to kill the aid.
Lavishly attended by the major media, their
expedition garnered favorable press coverage of
supposed Sandinista reforms. The trip was
arranged by IPS staffer Peter Kornbluh. Several
days after defeating the Contra aid bill, Daniel
Ortega flew to Moscow to pick up $200 million in
aid. After witnessing this blatant deception,
Congress reversed its decision and voted for
Contra aid — but Harkin held fast to his
"principled" pro-Marxist position.
In April 1985, Senators Kerry and Harkin were
back again stumping for revolution in Latin
America, releasing a study that listed 77
instances in which the Reagan Administration
had allegedly misled Congress about its policies
in Central America. Turns out the study was
written by their Soviet disinformation friends at
IPS.
As visible and vociferous as Senator Harkin has
been in defending the indefensible outrages of
Bill Clinton, he is "moderate" compared to
Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT). As with
Harkin and the others we have profiled in the
rogues’ gallery above, Dodd knows that when he
appears on CNN, CBS, or other networks he will
not have to worry about explaining his radical
politics or being greeted with modifiers like
"extremist," "vindictive," or "partisan" that are
reserved for the President’s opponents. No
reference will be made, for instance, to his
January 1982 trip to Nicaragua with
Representatives Michael Barnes (D-MD) and
George Miller (D-CA) to meet with El Supremo
Daniel Ortega. In preparation for their visit, the
Sandinista Foreign Ministry drafted a
memorandum for Ortega. The document,
obtained by the Council for Inter-American
Security, details how the Sandinistas sought to
manipulate sympathetic members of the U.S.
Congress.
"In the first place," the Foreign Ministry
document began, "we should remember that
these persons are friends of our revolution. Both
Congressman Barnes and Senator Dodd have
questioned and continue to question seriously,
firmly and insistently the policies of the
Administration with respect to Central America in
general, and El Salvador and Nicaragua in
particular."
Long an ardent activist in the IPS congressional
network, Dodd joined Senator Harkin in
sponsoring the 20th anniversary fundraising gala
for the Marxist institute in 1983. He is also at the
center of the Chinagate scandal. When the
Thompson Committee in the Senate began
investigating Clinton’s Chinagate connections,
Dodd was there to derail the effort. Of course,
he had a personal stake in halting that inquiry: It
would likely lead to his own doorstep and his
connection to Beijing agent John Huang.
Senator Dodd, remember, was general
chairman of the Democratic National Committee
in the 1996 election cycle, when John Huang
was brought over from the Commerce
Department to become one of the DNC’s
principal fundraisers. Connecticut businessman
and DNC contributor James Belcher, for
example, has stated that it was Dodd who put
him together with Huang. Records show that
Belcher’s $120,000 in contributions to the DNC
— in several installments — match closely his
meetings with Dodd, Huang, and Clinton. But,
employing the familiar defense adopted by the
Clintons, Dodd has claimed barely to know John
Huang.
Thomas Jefferson once observed that "it is a
melancholy truth that a suppression of the press
could not more completely deprive the nation of
its benefits than is done by its abandoned
prostitution to falsehood." His personal
experience with the media led him to conclude
that the "man who never looks into a newspaper
is better informed than he who reads them,
inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to
truth than he whose mind is filled with
falsehoods and errors." We suspect that
Jefferson would include today’s electronic media
in that evaluation were he here.
The media have ignored the extremism of
congressmen who have openly allied
themselves with a subversive network seeking
to supplant our form of government with
totalitarian socialism. Yet the same media have
branded as extremists congressmen who
supported the impeachment of our corrupt
President. The problem, in short, extends far
beyond the President to the media and
Congress and the other citadels of power. But
the problem can be solved — if only sufficient
numbers of grassroots Americans will become
involved.
The truth about the congressmen profiled above,
if widely enough known, could destroy their
effectiveness and electability. That is why the
major media, which supports their vision of a
Socialist America, cover up their records — and
that is why we must circumvent the major media.

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House Progressive Caucus Members
The following 58 members of the U.S. House of
Representatives also belonged to the House
Progressive Caucus during the 105th Congress.
All, save Independent Bernard Sanders of
Vermont, are Democrats. States and districts
represented are listed in parentheses:
Neil Abercrombie (HI-1)
Xavier Becerra (CA-30)
David Bonior (MI-10)
Corrine Brown (FL-3)
George E. Brown, Jr. (CA-42)
Sherrod Brown (OH-13)
Julia Carson (IN-10)
John Conyers (MI-14)
William Coyne (PA-14)
Danny Davis (IL-7)
Peter DeFazio (OR-4)
Diana DeGette (CO-1)
Julian Dixon (CA-32)
Lane Evans (IL-17)
Eni Faleomavaega (AS)†
Chaka Fattah (PA-2)
Bob Filner (CA-50)
Barney Frank (MA-4)
Elizabeth Furse (OR-1)*
Luis Gutierrez (IL-4)
Alcee Hastings (FL-23)
Earl Hilliard (AL-7)
Maurice Hinchey (NY-26)
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (IL-2)
Marcy Kaptur (OH-9)
Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)
John J. LaFalce (NY-29)
Barbara Lee (CA-9)
John Lewis (GA-5)
Jim McDermott (WA-7)
James P. McGovern (MA-3)
Cynthia McKinney (GA-4)
Carrie Meek (FL-17)
George Miller (CA-7)
Patsy Mink (HI-2)
Jerry Nadler (NY-8)
Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC)‡
John Olver (MA-1)
Major Owens (NY-11)
Ed Pastor (AZ-2)
Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Nancy Pelosi (CA-8)
Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Lynn Rivers (MI-13)
Carlos Romero-Barcelo (PR)#
Bernard Sanders [Independent] (VT-At Large)
Bobby Scott (VA-3)
José Serrano (NY-16)
Pete Stark (CA-13)
Louis Stokes (OH-11)*
Bennie Thompson (MS-2)
John F. Tierney (MA-6)
Esteban Torres (CA-34)*
Nydia Velázquez (NY-12)
Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Mel Watt (NC-12)
Henry Waxman (CA-29)
Lynn Woolsey (CA-6)
* Did not run for re-election in 1998
† Delegate, American Samoa
‡ Delegate, District of Columbia
# Delegate, Puerto Rico

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Who is directly responsible for the
biggest assault on American freedom
and liberty in US history
Democratic Socialists of Congress: Meet the
Members
 By JB Williams  Thursday, August 13, 2009

Now that Americans are awake and confronting their

tyrannical employees in the federal
government, who are clearly hell-bent
upon forcing a Marxist agenda, it’s time
to name names so that the people easily
identify who is directly responsible for the
biggest assault on American freedom and
liberty in US history., Thugs, Obama’s
citizen army
After decades of failed attempts to take over America
via their third party initiatives that couldn’t break
America’s two party system, leaders of both the
Communist Party USA and Socialist Party USA
chose a new strategy.
Both being the ultimate “party of the working class
stiff,” they joined forces in a new venture that
would work within the US two party system, by
hijacking control of one of the two primary
parties. As the Democrat Party had already spent
years identifying itself as the “party of the working
class,” engaging in socio-economic class warfare as
its primary method for expanding its political
power, it was ripe for the hijacking.
Together, Communist Party and Socialist Party
leaders established the Democratic Socialists of
America, and they share a common ideology
which is now the platform and mantra of today’s
DNC - CPUSA

Insert the word “Democrats” where

“Communists” appears in this statement,
and you have the central message of
today’s Democrat leadership.
To gain full control of the Democrat Party, DSA
leadership established two congressional
legislative bodies, headed by DSA/CPUSA/SPUSA
members. Today, these are the two congressional
bodies in control of congress.

They are the Congressional

Progressive
Caucus established by Socialist Party
member Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and
the Congressional Black Caucus
established by Communist Party member
John Conyers of Michigan.
ALL members of these two congressional
committees represent the Democratic
Socialists of America, as both committees
are the creation of, and operate under the
control of DSAUSA.
If you want to know who
is behind the full-
court press to nationalize or socialize
health care, the auto industry, banking
and insurance, here they are…. Is YOUR
congress member on these lists?
Members of the Congressional Progressive
Caucus
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus
Every member of these two congressional
committees is a problem for every American. To
fully understand the related facts, please take the time
to study this DSAUSA document - What is
Democratic Socialism. Then take a moment to review
their current newsletter, The Red Letter to DSA
members - ***HERE***
If you still have no clue what we are up against, go
one step further and take a look at their
theactivist.org: designed to attract and indoctrinate
the youth of America.
To be sure, they are not the only problem is congress
or Washington DC today, but every anti-American
policy initiative coming out of Washington DC
today, is rooted in this organization and proposed
by their members of congress, the members of
their two committees.
As American citizens wake up to the reality that their
nation, their personal freedom and liberty are under
attack on many fronts today, they must focus on the
root of that evil, Americans who have lost their
faith in freedom and liberty, and bought the false
promise of secular socialism and the right of the
Fed to confiscate the freedom of one, to purchase
the
voting power of another.
Ten minutes of history research will quickly confirm
that communism, socialism, Marxism,
totalitarianism, are all systems by which the
governing few are empowered, not the masses.
Even though many Americans have been tricked into
thinking that their lives are better off in the hands of
Washington DC elitists, the vast majority of
Americans
inherently know better!
If your members of congress appear on either of the
two member lists above, they ARE part of the
“conspiracy” to destroy everything America has
ever been, or was ever intended to be. They are
opponents of freedom, plain and simple.
Being “democrat” or “black” is not their unforgivable
offense. Being black or democrat does not make one
un-American or a threat to American freedom. But
being a communist or socialists in a position of
power, or today, a position of unbridled power, is
indeed both un-American and a threat to every
American citizen.
Even Liberals are Waking up to this Reality!
Its common knowledge that Americans are showing
up at congressional town hall meetings across the
country today, and are on the verge of turning them
into public lynching of their overtly arrogant
legislative tyrants.
What’s NOT common knowledge is that many of
these citizens are Democrats. DSA secular
socialists in government and the press
are working around the clock to paint
all patriotic dissent as some act of
“extremism” or “organized mob
thuggery” and when all else fails,
“racism.”
- “who would have thought that the sober,
deliberative Barack Obama would have nothing
to propose but vague and slippery promises—or
that he would so easily cede the leadership clout
of the executive branch to a chaotic, rapacious,
solipsistic Congress? House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, whom I used to admire for her smooth
aplomb under pressure, has clearly gone off the
deep end with her bizarre rants about legitimate
town-hall protests by American citizens. She is
doing grievous damage to the party and should
immediately step down.”
This sounds like something I would write, not to
mention a lot like what thousands of citizens are
trying to tell legislators at town hall meetings across
the country. But this was written by liberal Obama
supporter Camille Paglia in her Salon.com opinion
piece titled Obama’s healthcare horror.
On the heels of Obama’s town hall pep rally in New  
Hampshire, Paglia writes—“You can keep your
doctor; you can keep your insurance, if you’re happy
with it, Obama keeps assuring us in soothing, lullaby
tones. Oh, really? And what if my doctor is not the
one appointed by the new government medical
boards for ruling on my access to tests and
specialists? And what if my insurance company goes
belly up because of undercutting by its government-
bankrolled competitor? Face it: Virtually all
nationalized health systems, neither nourished nor
updated by profit-driven private investment,
eventually lead to rationing.”
Now here’s an American liberal who demonstrates
the true art of critical thinking. Unlike most
American liberals who still haven’t put the
Communist Party Manifesto along side of the current
DNC talking points and made the obvious
connections, Paglia gets it!
Which explains the Need for his Citizen Army…
“What looked like smooth coasting to the 2010
election has now become a nail-biter. Both major
parties have become a rats’ nest of hypocrisy and
incompetence.”—said Paglia
Even MSNBC and CNN reporters were forced to
note that despite video footage of angry citizens
confronting members of congress about Obama’s
Health Scare Scam in every city where a member of
congress is brave enough to step into a town hall -
Obama’s New Hampshire dog-n-pony show was
glaringly void of any opposition. Maybe that has
something to do with the fact that the tickets to the
event were distributed by Democrat members of
congress, via their local union offices???
Now that even liberals who voted for leftist
leaders in the last two election cycles are
being shaken from their blind DNC loyalty by
the overt extreme left insanity that defines just
how bad life can be the leadership of the Democratic
Socialists of America, desperate times call for
despotic measures…
Who thought that Paglia and I would ever see eye to
eye? - “And what do Democrats stand for, if they are
so ready to defame concerned citizens as the
"mob"—a word betraying a Marie Antoinette
delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought
my party was populist, attentive to the needs and
wishes of those outside the power structure.”
“Obama’s aggressive endorsement of a healthcare
plan that does not even exist yet, except in five
competing, fluctuating drafts, makes Washington
seem like
Cloud Cuckoo Land.” - Paglia
I’m a sucker for such a fact-based common sense
approach to opinion writing, even if it does come
from a liberal. I just can’t help but agree with her
here. I never saw that coming! I bet Salon editors
didn’t either… Better read the column before they
issue a retraction after a phone call from Obama’s
Department of Homeland Security who
undoubtedly considers Paglia to be a “potential
domestic terrorist” now…
So, here come the Thugs!
In a sad but true commentary titled Obama Rent-A-
Thug Program moves into High Gear from
conservative writer Sher Zieve at Canada Free Press,
the Obama propaganda machine is now deeply
engaged in the very activity they falsely accuse
their dissenters of…
As Zieve chronicles, Team Obama is engaged in
hiring PAID counter-protesters via ACORN,
MoveOn.org, the labor unions and many other
leftist front groups, offering up to $500 per week
on a CraigsList ad looking for people willing to
confront little old lady’s angry with Obama and
AARP for trying to shove them into an early
grave.
A Cameraman Caught in Middle When Town Hall
Erupts Into Violence in Tampa Florida, tapes
Obama union thuggery taking place all across
America, as Obama hosts a well controlled pep
rally in New Hampshire. Make sure to watch the
video…
Where are we Headed Here?
The American people opposed Obama spending
the nation to more than $12 TRILLION in debt
in his first year in office, but Obama did it
anyway.
The American people opposed government
confiscation of the auto industry, and Obama’s
“cash for clunkers” scam which is being used to
create false auto sales propped up by more
taxpayer funds, while gaining federal control
of every computer that logs into the
federal website. But Obama did it
anyway.
The people oppose federal control of the
banking and insurance industries and
violently oppose government control of
individual health care. But Obama intends to do it
anyway, even if he has to send ACORN and SEIU
union thugs out to town hall meetings across the
country in order to create a TV appearance that
everyone in America is for his plan.
Where are we headed here?
We are headed towards a second American
revolution, in which real American patriots will
have to put tyrants out of business, or give up
their freedom and liberty, for a temporary false
sense of peace.
Once Obama and the Democratic Socialists of
America gained control of all three branches of the
Fed, they are NOT going to turn loose of that power
without a fight. They will use every tool available to
retain their long awaited new-found power. They
have the numbers in congress to ram through
anything they want and bi-partisanship is an
unnecessary restraint on their anti-American agenda.
So, where do we go from here?

The American people were robbed at the

ballot box. They have been turned away by
the courts, as “not having proper
standing” to ask who this person is in the
White House, or what he is up to. They
are being beaten into submission at town
all meetings and crucified by the leftist
press for daring to speak out against the
media supported march to Marxism.
What options are left?
Officials see rise in militia groups across US
Another leftist front organization calling itself the
Southern Poverty Law Center has just released a
research paper on “right-wing militia groups” on the
rise across the country.
Working with Obama’s Department of Homeland
Security and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms, the organization seeks to further label all
dissenting voices as “potential domestic
terrorists”—likening all dissenting Americans to
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, Ruby
Ridge militant Randall Weaver and the Branch
Dividian Cult murdered by Clinton AG Janet Reno in
Waco Texas.
If you think push hasn’t already come to shove in
America, you must be deaf, dumb and blind.
The leftists in control of Washington DC can not
make it any clearer… They have an agenda
and they don’t care how many American
citizens, Republicans, Democrats or
Independents, are opposed to that agenda
- nor do they care what they have to do to
advance that agenda.
They are prepared to rob you of assets, earnings,
health care, and even life itself if need be, to push
through their anti-American global agenda.
But the good news is - the American people are
finally awake and taking note. Despite Obama’s
repeated claims that he is not hawking socialized
death care, the people are reading the
congressional proposals themselves and are able
to quote chapter and verse of their proposals
better than they can.
Still, the bold faced lies continue and the heavy
handed rush to Marxism is on track, no matter
how much shouting is taking place across the
nation.

Now you know why… The people behind it

all are in fact Communist and Socialists.
It’s not some silly crackpot “theory,” it’s a fact. It’s
not a figment of your imagination it’s actually
happening.
Now that you know where we’re headed, find a way
to do something about it. The future of this nation is
only in the hands of elected officials if the
American citizens leave it in their hands.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13696

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/members/13696/Williams/
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http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html
READ THIS CURRENT DSA LETTER
TO ITS MEMBERS
To understand DSA USA or What is Democratic Socialism

. By David Duhalde
The Employee Free Choice Act may be voted on this
summer
in the US Senate. The legislation would allow
workers to form
unions via majority signup, implementing binding
arbitration if
labor and management cannot reach a first contract,
and increase
penalties for illegal labor practices like
firing union supporters. The bill’s
chances of passing are far from certain;
hence, grassroots support is critical to
the bill’s success.
The Young Democratic Socialists
(YDS) mobilized for EFCA with local
and national activism. YDS collaborated
with the Democratic Socialists of America
(DSA, our parent organization), Jobs
with Justice, and the Student Economic
Justice Action Coalition (SEJAC) in this
effort. The labor movement needs outside
allies like these organizations to
push reforms like Employee Free Choice.
Otherwise, organized labor will continue to be
viewed as a “special
interest,” not a social movement creating good
beyond its membership.
Together with DSA, YDS produced two fliers on the
bill
(available at dsausa.org). The documents stressed that
labor unions
play a huge role in making societies more equitable.
The economic
inequality and deregulation that facilitated current
economic crisis
directly correlates to the weakness of trade unionism.
The literature also articulated that trade unions - at
their best -
bring democracy to the workplace. Our belief in
economic and
workplace democracy coincides with our support of
this legislation.
We favor unions to balance power between labor and
capital.
This spring, YDS National Organizer Erik Rosenberg
spoke to
seven chapters about Employee Free Choice and how
it can help
mitigate this economic crisis and prevent others in
the future. Stops
on the tour included Colorado, with its undecided
senators, and
Michigan & Ohio with their deep union history. In
Boulder, he
spoke on a panel with a worker who’d been fired for
attempting to
form a union.
The nonprofit he worked for was convicted for
twelve unfair
labor practices. The punishment: an apology posted
in the form of
a flyer. With EFCA, the employer would have been
fined up to
$25,000 per violation and the worker would have
been entitled to
up to triple-back pay. Rosenberg also visited chapters
at Oak Park
River Forest High School in Oak Park,
IL, The Meadows School in Las Vegas,
NV, Indiana University at Bloomington,
and University of California at Berkeley.
In a separate event, the University of
Colorado at Boulder YDS chapter
teamed with Jobs with Justice to bring
AFL-CIO organizing director Stuart
Acuff for a talk. Stuart jazzed up the
crowd of forty, saying EFCA potentially
might return labor to the strength it once
enjoyed. The group also worked with the
nation’s biggest union SEIU to canvass
and letter write to pressure US senators
Udall and Bennett. Their worked pushed
Sen. Udall into supporting the bill.
The Wooster College YDS chapter of Ohio, in
alliance with
Jobs With Justice, also pressured their senators. They
sent 130 pro-
EFCA letters to GOP Senator George Voinovich.
While their
hopes to push Sen. Voinovich have come up short,
chapter President
Dan Buckler said their action was an excellent way to
move
beyond “the converted” and reach a wider audience
to talk about
labor law reform.
Unions are under constant attack in “right-to-work”
Kansas.
Wichita State YDS played a critical role in building
community
support for EFCA. Wichita State YDS Vice-President
Jackie
Sewell said “outside of YDS, only the unions were
pushing EFCA”
in Wichita. She added they came up against a “lack
of knowledge
about the good unions do for the economy and
people’s lives.”
They also successfully lobbied their student
government to endorse
a statement in support of campus workers’ right to
organize.
In Arkansas, former YDS Coordinating Committee
member
and current Working America staffer Kenny Grand,
facilitated the
coming together of community and labor.
Continued on 3
YDS and DSA members rally for EFCA in Boston
By David Duhalde and Erik Rosenberg
From February 27th to March 1st, Young Democratic
Socialists
held its national outreach conference, “Beyond the
Ballot: Making the
Movement Matter,” at the Academy of
Environmental Science in
New York City. The event focused on developing
strategies for building
progressive and radical social movements to pull the
Obama administration
to the left. This year, YDS successfully increased the
prominence of socialist politics in workshops and
plenaries while articulating
why building a democratic socialist organization is
necessary
to achieve even moderate reforms, let alone serious
power shifts.
Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, spoke on
the plenary
“Now, the Hard Part: Movement Building Under
Barack Obama,”
with Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
member Bill Fletcher
Jr., a veteran radical trade unionist, and DSA Vice-
Chair and Temple
University Professor, Joseph Schwartz. Reminding
the audience of the
important role that media play in making and
breaking progressive
change, Goodman encouraged activists to use
grassroots forms of
communication, while admitting the limitation of
mainstream media
in promoting anti-establishment viewpoints, even
when they are
popular. Fletcher reminded the audience that
socialism is more than
just a topic for study groups and spoke about the need
to critically
examine social movements and organizations in order
to better the
movement we already have. Schwartz proclaimed
that there is social
democracy in the United States – but that it is
restricted to affluent
American suburbs with their excellent public schools
and services. He
added that a key goal of democratic socialists is to
expand such social
benefits to all. All speakers agreed that the Obama
administration
offered an opening to social movements but that we
need to have one
foot in the system and one in the streets.
The next plenary, “Student Debt: The New
Indentured Servitude,”
reflected YDS’ national priority of expanding access
to education.
The panel featured academics Christine Kelly and
Jeffery J. Williams.
Kelly, a historian of student activism, discussed the
fight
against tuition increases in the days of Roosevelt and
afterward, noting
that only organized student bodies could successfully
fight against
raises in fees and for increased funding. Williams, in
a popular experiment,
asked the audience how many had graduate school
debt, then
undergraduate debt. Combined, a good portion of the
auditorium
raised their hands. Then he asked how many had high
school debt. No
one raised a hand.
Williams used this moment to highlight that our
society views
education as a right until the age of 18. He said that
skyrocketing debt
is a new phenomenon born over the past few decades.
He and Kelly
connected the dominance of neoliberalism to the shift
from grants to
loans in subsidizing individuals’ higher education.
When asked by an
audience member about the need to increase funding
for technical
schools because higher education is “a privilege,”
both answered that
the role of socialists and progressives is to spread the
idea
that college education is a right for those who
qualify. Kelly,
who recently joined DSA, ended by telling the
audience how
her family directly benefited from the GI Bill, which
enabled
her father to attend college. Young socialists, she
urged,
must remind a generation that grew up with anti-
government rhetoric
that the state can be a force for good.
On Sunday, DSA Youth Section (YDS’s former
name) veterans
addressed America’s weak economy and imperial
wars. Mark Levinson,
the first DSA-YS chair and current chief economist
for labor
union UNITE-HERE, and Joseph Schwartz, the first
DSA-YS national
organizer, spoke on “The Economic Crisis and the
Wars: Seeing
Through the Misdirection.” Levinson told the
students that only
starry-eyed conservative economists did not predict
the housing crisis
and the stock market collapse. He added that growing
income inequality
contributed to the crisis, as stagnating working-class
wages forced
people into debt while higher wages at the top and
deregulation of
financial instruments led to more economic
speculation. This proved
to be a dangerous combination as the economy
tanked largely due to
bad debts and poor investments. Schwartz, who filled
in for an injured
Frances Fox Piven, told the audience the “dirty little
secret” that the
U.S. could be perfectly safe with a drastically cut
military budget, as
the United States currently outspends all other
nations combined on
“defense.” Most current foreign policy dilemmas
faced by the U.S.
are not solvable by the brute use of armed force, he
argued; rather, a
sane U.S. foreign policy requires sophisticated multi-
lateral diplomacy,
sound economic policy, and intelligent “intelli-
gence” gathering.
Schwartz also said socialists should push for more
democratic
control of the capital that our government invests. He
reasoned that
since it’s our tax money, we ought to have control
over how it is used.
The closing panel was “We are an Intergenerational
Movement!”
with DSA Vice-Chair and Midwest Academy trainer,
Steve Max, and
journalist and author, Liza Featherstone. Though he
would offer no
advice to student activists on how to organize
themselves, Max did
explain that the socialist movement had helped
change the U.S. for
the better. While not always featured prominently in
textbooks, socialist
organizations have helped activists become smarter
and more
organized movement builders. Featherstone stressed
the critical role
socialist organizations play in building organic
activists and intellectuals. Both speakers
reminded us that there is a strong antiintellectual
current in American politics on
both the right and left and agreed that being active in
YDS is a great
way to build an educated democratic left. Continued
on 3
A captivated audience at the “Beyond the Ballot”
Employee Free Choice Act continued from 1
In the home state of Wal-Mart, Grand organized town
hall meetings
and canvassing, uniting unions with groups such as
ACORN
and people of faith. Grand’s efforts have elevated the
nascent
Conway, Arkansas DSA local into a serious force for
EFCA.
New members have gone door-to-door and phone
banked for the
legislation. They also distributed the Economic
Justice Agenda,
DSA’s topical political vision for short-term
economic change, to
connect EFCA with broader social justice issues.
Boston DSA’s work has focused on intergenerational
activity
to build local support for the Employee Free Choice
Act. I organized
a panel with Jobs With Justice and United for a Fair
economy in February. The discussion featured
speakers Elaine
Bernard, who proclaimed the importance of unions to
democracy,
and Steve Schnapp, who addressed the correlation
between unions
and social equality. After the event, DSA recruited
several
young activists. Our group has gotten dozens of
signatures for the
EFCA petition and participated in rallies for the bill
with labor.
This success has increased DSA’s profile with the
labor movement
and community groups.
This major battle for worker rights is far from over.
We’ll keep you posted on further efforts by YDS on
the legislation.
Please contact us to see how you can get involved!
By Jason Schulman
On August 13, 2008, over 135 members of the
Bakers, Confectionary,
Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union (BCTGM)
local
50 in the Bronx—most of them Latina women and
immigrants from
Asia and Africa—went on strike. As of this writing,
nearly nine
months later, they remain on strike.
Stella D’Oro, the historic New York biscuit
company, was
bought out in 2006 by the private equity firm
Brynwood Partners.
Brynwood forced the workers at the Stella D’Oro
factory out on strike
through the extraordinary concessions demanded by
the company:
wage reduction by as much as 25 percent; the
imposition of crushing
premiums on health insurance; the elimination of
holidays, vacations,
and sick pay; and the elimination of extra pay for
working Saturdays.
Stella D’Oro management bargained in bad faith,
refusing to
consider the union’s proposals and compromises.
They proceeded to
replace the striking workers with scab labor, who are
paid a fraction
of the unionized workers’ wages and with none of
their benefits.
A strike support committee—comprised almost
entirely of members
of socialist organizations —was pulled together in
January and
has assisted the strikers in raising funds and planning
rallies and
marches, as well as publicizing the existence of the
strike and calling
for New Yorkers to boycott Stella D’Oro goods. The
Young Democratic
Socialists fundraised for the strikers at our national
conference,
“Beyond the Ballot: Making the Movement Matter”,
at the end of
February. New York YDS members have been active
on the solidarity
committee and the picket lines, too.
In March, the National Labor Relations Board ruled
in favor of
the union with regards the Unfair Labor Practice
charges filed months
before. Other New York unions have offered
solidarity and monetary
support, most notably the Professional Staff Congress
(PSC) and the
New York State United Teachers (NYSUT). Also,
activist students at
City College of New York (CCNY), faced with the
threat of budget
cuts and $1,200-a-year tuition hikes, organized a
mass walk-out of
students and faculty in April (on the anniversary of
the 1969 CCNY
Open Admissions Strike) and proceeded to stand
alongside the strikers,
connecting the right to an education to the fight for
workers to be
treated with respect.
But Brynwood, though it is feeling pressure, has yet
to agree to
negotiate in good faith. Moreover, the local police
precinct has essentially
acted as a wing of management. Most recently, at a
multi-union
picket outside the Stella D’Oro factory on April 27,
the police confiscated
a bull horn and issued tickets to some of the
supporters. Repeatedly,
the police have harassed the strikers along with their
supporters,
and protected the scabs. Perhaps most outrageously,
when strike
leader Mike Fillipo was assaulted with a car by a
scab and attempted
to file a complaint at the police station where he was
accused of being
responsible for the incident.
They have also refused the workers the right to
display a huge
inflatable plastic rat that unions use to denounce
abuse by management.
Amazingly, no striking worker has crossed the picket
line despite
the length of the strike and the hostility of the police.
The strikers and
their support committee remain determined to win
this strike. In the
meantime, the struggle continues.
Jason Schulman is a longtime DSA member and is
part of the Stella
D’Oro strikers’ support committee.
For more information see:
http://stelladorostrike2008.com/
Beyond the Ballot continued from 2
The conference also featured fourteen workshops on
labor, immigration;
gender, sexuality, and race; healthcare; the economy;
the
environment; the antiwar movement; and more. One
of the most
successful workshops was “Strike While the Iron is
Hot: How to
Build a YDS chapter.” Over twenty chapter activists
and people
interested in starting chapters from ten schools came
together to
discuss how to build a socialist organization through
political programming
and intellectual development. The attendance of
younger
chapter activists, including high school students,
showed that there
is a new generation ready to grow YDS.
The atmosphere of that workshop and the entire
conference was
one of hope – even if that hope was cautious. Gone is
the anger and
resentment of youth activism under
Bush. YDS is ready to play a strong
and visible role in building progressive
social movements and a democratic
left under Obama. We know that
we are socialists and Obama is not –
no matter what the right wing says.
“Beyond the Ballot: Making the
Movement Matter” only emphasized
our belief that elections play an important
but limited role in social change. Obama’s election
created
many opportunities for social change. Now our job is
not only to
convince him that our ideas are right but also to build
the movements
to make him enact them.

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You ask WHAT is

Democratic Socialism?
Questions and Answers from the
Democratic Socialists of America
Democratic socialists believe that both the economy
and society should be run democratically--to
meet public needs, not to make profits for a few. To
achieve a more just society, many structures of our
government and economy must be radically
transformed through greater economic and social
democracy so that ordinary Americans can
participate in the many decisions that affect our lives.
Democracy and socialism go hand in hand. All over
the world, wherever the idea of democracy has
taken root, the vision of socialism has taken root as
well--everywhere but in the United States.
Because of this, many false ideas about socialism
have developed in the US. With this pamphlet, we
hope to answer some of your questions about
socialism.
Q
Doesn't socialism mean that the government will
own and run everything?
Democratic socialists do not want to create an all-
powerful government bureaucracy. But we do not
want
big corporate bureaucracies to control our society
either. Rather, we believe that social and economic
decisions should be made by those whom they most
affect.

Today, corporate executives who answer only to

themselves and a few wealthy stockholders make
basic
economic decisions affecting millions of people.
Resources are used to make money for capitalists
rather than
to meet human needs. We believe that the workers
and consumers who are affected by economic
institutions
should own and control them.

Social ownership could take many forms, such as

worker-owned cooperatives or publicly owned
enterprises managed by workers and consumer
representatives. Democratic socialists favor as much
decentralization as possible. While the large
concentrations of capital in industries such as energy
and steel
may necessitate some form of state ownership, many
consumer-goods industries might be best run as
cooperatives.

Democratic socialists have long rejected the belief

that the whole economy should be centrally planned.
While we believe that democratic planning can shape
major social investments like mass transit, housing,
and
energy, market mechanisms are needed to determine
the demand for many consumer goods.
Q
Hasn't socialism been discredited by the collapse of
Communism in the USSR and Eastern Europe?
Socialists have been among the harshest critics of
authoritarian Communist states. Just because their
bureaucratic elites called them "socialist" did not
make it so; they also called their regimes
"democratic."
Democratic socialists always opposed the ruling
party-states of those societies, just as we oppose the
ruling
classes of capitalist societies. We applaud the
democratic revolutions that have transformed the
former
Communist bloc. However, the improvement of
people's lives requires real democracy without ethnic
rivalries and/or new forms of authoritarianism.
Democratic socialists will continue to play a key role
in that
struggle throughout the world.
Moreover, the fall of Communism should not blind
us to injustices at home. We cannot allow all
radicalism to be dismissed as "Communist." That
suppression of dissent and diversity undermines
America's
ability to live up to its promise of equality of
opportunity, not to mention the freedoms of speech
and
assembly.

Q
Private corporations seem to be a permanent
fixture in the US, so why work towards socialism?
In the short term we can't eliminate private
corporations, but we can bring them under greater
democratic control. The government could use
regulations and tax incentives to encourage
companies to act
in the public interest and outlaw destructive activities
such as exporting jobs to low-wage countries and
polluting our environment. Public pressure can also
have a critical role to play in the struggle to hold
corporations accountable. Most of all, socialists look
to unions make private business more accountable.
Q
Won't socialism be impractical because people will
lose their incentive to work?
We don't agree with the capitalist assumption that
starvation or greed are the only reasons people work.
People enjoy their work if it is meaningful and
enhances their lives. They work out of a sense of
responsibility
to their community and society. Although a long-
term goal of socialism is to eliminate all but the most
enjoyable kinds of labor, we recognize that
unappealing jobs will long remain. These tasks would
be spread
among as many people as possible rather than
distributed on the basis of class, race, ethnicity, or
gender, as
they are under capitalism. And this undesirable work
should be among the best, not the least, rewarded
work
within the economy. For now, the burden should be
placed on the employer to make work desirable by
raising
wages, offering benefits and improving the work
environment. In short, we believe that a combination
of
social, economic, and moral incentives will motivate
people to work.
Q
Why are there no models of democratic socialism?
Although no country has fully instituted democratic
socialism, the socialist parties and labor movements
of other countries have won many victories for their
people. We can learn from the comprehensive
welfare
state maintained by the Swedes, from Canada's
national health care system, France's nationwide
childcare
program, and Nicaragua's literacy programs. Lastly,
we can learn from efforts initiated right here in the
US,
such as the community health centers created by the
government in the 1960s. They provided high quality
family care, with community involvement in
decision-making.
Q
But hasn't the European Social Democratic
experiment failed?
For over half a century, a number of nations in
Western Europe and Scandinavia have enjoyed both
tremendous prosperity and relative economic equality
thanks to the policies pursued by social democratic
parties. These nations used their relative wealth to
insure a high standard of living for their citizens--
high
wages, health care and subsidized education. Most
importantly, social democratic parties supported
strong
labor movements that became central players in
economic decision-making. But with the
globalization of
capitalism, the old social democratic model becomes
ever harder to maintain. Stiff competition from low-
wage
labor markets in developing countries and the
constant fear that industry will move to avoid taxes
and strong
labor regulations has diminished (but not eliminated)
the ability of nations to launch ambitious economic
reform on their own. Social democratic reform must
now happen at the international level. Multinational
corporations must be brought under democratic
controls, and workers' organizing efforts must reach
across
borders.
Now, more than ever, socialism is an international
movement. As socialists have always known, the
welfare of working people in Finland or California
depends largely on standards in Italy or Indonesia. As
a
result, we must work towards reforms that can
withstand the power of multinationals and global
banks, and we
must fight for a world order that is not controlled by
bankers and bosses.
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What Is Democratic Socialism?
Q
Aren't you a party that's in competition with the
Democratic Party for votes and support?
No, we are not a separate party. Like our friends and
allies in the feminist, labor, civil rights, religious,
and community organizing movements, many of us
have been active in the Democratic Party. We work
with
those movements to strengthen the party's left wing,
represented by the Congressional Progressive
Caucus.
The process and structure of American elections
seriously hurts third party efforts. Winner-take-all
elections instead of proportional representation,
rigorous party qualification requirements that vary
from state
to state, a presidential instead of a parliamentary
system, and the two-party monopoly on political
power have
doomed third party efforts. We hope that at some
point in the future, in coalition with our allies, an
alternative
national party will be viable. For now, we will
continue to support progressives who have a real
chance at
winning elections, which usually means left-wing
Democrats.
Q
If I am going to devote time to politics, why
shouldn't I focus on something more immediate?
Although capitalism will be with us for a long time,
reforms we win now--raising the minimum wage,
securing a national health plan, and demanding
passage of right-to-strike legislation--can bring us
closer to
socialism. Many democratic socialists actively work
in the single-issue organizations that advocate for
those
reforms. We are visible in the reproductive freedom
movement, the fight for student aid, gay, lesbian,
bisexual
and transgendered organizations, anti-racist groups,
and the labor movement.
It is precisely our socialist vision that informs and
inspires our day-to-day activism for social justice. As
socialists we bring a sense of the interdependence of
all struggles for justice. No single-issue organization
can
truly challenge the capitalist system or adequately
secure its particular demands. In fact, unless we are
all
collectively working to win a world without
oppression, each fight for reforms will be
disconnected, maybe
even self-defeating.
Q
What can young people do to move the US
towards socialism?
Since the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s, young
people have played a critical role in American
politics. They have been a tremendous force for both
political and cultural change in this country: in
limiting
the US's options in the war in Vietnam, in forcing
corporations to divest from the racist South African
regime,
in reforming universities, and in bringing issues of
sexual orientation and gender discrimination to
public
attention. Though none of these struggles were
fought by young people alone, they all featured youth
as
leaders in multi-generational progressive coalitions.
Young people are needed in today's struggles as well:
for
universal health care and stronger unions, against
welfare cuts and predatory multinational
corporations.
Schools, colleges and universities are important to
American political culture. They are the places where
ideas are formulated and policy discussed and
developed. Being an active part of that discussion is a
critical
job for young socialists. We have to work hard to
change people's misconceptions about socialism, to
broaden
political debate, and to overcome many students' lack
of interest in engaging in political action. Off-
campus,
too, in our daily cultural lives, young people can be
turning the tide against racism, sexism and
homophobia, as
well as the conservative myth of the virtue of "free"
markets.
What Is Democratic Socialism?
Q
If so many people misunderstand socialism,
why continue to use the word?
First, we call ourselves socialists because we are
proud of what we are. Second, no matter what we call
ourselves, conservatives will use it against us. Anti-
socialism has been repeatedly used to attack reforms
that
shift power to working class people and away from
corporate capital. In 1993, national health insurance
was
attacked as "socialized medicine" and defeated.
Liberals are routinely denounced as socialists in order
to
discredit reform. Until we face, and beat, the stigma
attached to the "S word," politics in America will
continue to be stifled and our options limited. We
also call ourselves socialists because we are proud of
the
traditions upon which we are based, of the heritage of
the Socialist Party of Eugene Debs and Norman
Thomas, and of other struggles for change that have
made America more democratic and just. Finally, we
call
ourselves socialists to remind everyone that we have
a vision of a better world.

Join Us!
Democratic Socialists of America
75 Maiden Lane, Suite 505
New York, NY 10038
212-727-8610
dsa@dsausa.org
www.dsausa.org
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Obama Rent-A-Thug Program moves

into High Gear
 By Sher Zieve  Tuesday, August 11, 2009
As Obama already had SEIU (Service Employees
International Union) in his back pocket, it was
easy for him to have his union management
friends pay overtime to SEIU rent-a-thugs at
several recent Democrat Town Hall meetings. 
Interestingly, as appears on one of the videos of
the ObamaThugs referenced below, after one of
the SEIU purple-shirted thugs beats Ned Gladney
the thug pretends he has been injured.  Note:  This
is part of the Obama and Alinsky Chicago Way—
attack another unmercifully then claim to be the
real victim.
Obama has his union Rent-A-Thug program in
place to attack and silence We-the-People who do
not want the slavery, loss of freedoms and liberty
and the increasingly likely imprisonment
(GoArmy Internment/Resettlement Specialist Ads
are still running) Obama is attempting to force
upon us.  Note:  For those of you who were not
aware, Tyranny is now the form of government in
our land. 
Therefore, in order to further suppress and
oppress the American people, Obama is now
advertising nationally on Craig’s List for paid
pro-ObamaCare protesters.  The payment portion
of the Ad (see link below) states:  “Earn $350-500
per week. To apply for a job, visit our website or
call Chris at (916) 455-5000.”  Obama has now
thrown down the gauntlet at the feet of the
American people and is telling us, in
extraordinarily certain terms, ’My police force is
coming to get you!  Comply—or else’! 
We-the-People who do NOT want to be forced to
plan our own deaths (see HR 3200 Section 1233)
by having to comply with Mandatory End of Life
Consultation (for the “elderly” and the disabled)
are now targeted as “terrorists” and “Nazis” by
Obama and his minions.  We-the-People who do
not want to be forced to give the government
access to our private bank accounts (see Page 59
“electronic finds transfers”) are labeled “right-
wing extremists’ by Obama and his growing
group of paid Czar-thugs.  We-the-People who do
NOT want a forced single-payer plan (see Page 16
—after ObamaCare is passed private insurance is
outlawed) are told to SHUT UP!  And we who do
not want to have the government to bleed us dry
and take over the raising of our children (see Page
838) are to be silenced by Obama and his thugs at
any and all costs. 
Obama has already shown that he have his
“Brown and now Purple shirts” beat us up if we
dare to voice our opposition to destroying us.  His
new scapegoat du jour is the Health Insurance
companies.  And now the tyrant has also included
us—the American people.  Note:  Pharmaceutical
companies are—for the moment—safe as they
made a back-door deal with Obama.
But, there may be some hope on the horizon. 
Now, whenever and wherever Obama speaks,
ONLY those who support him (apparently most
or all of these are paid—our tax dollars at work!)
are allowed.  That’s desperation, folks.  But, with
intense desperation comes equally intense
desperate measures.  There are growing rumors
that ’something big’ is being planned by Obama
adherents to blame and, therefore, shut the
American people up—once and for all—so that
the dictator will be able to fully implement his
Socio-fascist government. 
However, We-the-People have become more and
more well-read and articulate on the Government
Domination Bills—ObamaCare and Cap ’N Tax. 
We are challenging the progressively more and
more corrupt and power-mad overseers—with
intelligence and logic.  What a tragedy that the
ones we elected to govern (NOT to rule) are not
equally well-informed.
Every time one of the elected officials lies
(including dear Dictator-in-Chief Obama), we will
counter them with facts—page number and line—
and the truth!  With God’s blessing and through
our continued efforts we will win and oust the
tyrant—and ALL of the tyrants—from office. 
After decades of increasing progressivism and
creeping tyranny—that is now manifesting itself
in almost total power over We-the-People—the
time has finally come for Americans to take their
country back.  And a growing number of us are
actually doing it!  Keep it up and remember
Ghandi’s famous statement: “First they ignore
you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
then you win.”
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Obama Rent-A-Thug Ads for ObamaCare:

ObamaThugs Attack Black Conservative (Video):
Internment/Resettlement Specialists Ad:
Obama’s Secret Deal with the Drug Makers:
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August 14, 2008

Communist Party USA's Obama Endorsement

Obama just keeps racking up those endorsements. Here's one from
the Communist Party USA:

A broad multiclass, multiracial movement is

converging around Obama's "Hope, change
and unity" campaign because they see in it
the thrilling opportunity to end 30 years of
ultra-right rule and move our nation forward
with a broadly progressive agenda.
This diverse movement combines a variety
of political currents and aims in a working
coalition that is crucial to social progress at
this point. […] The struggle to defeat the
ultra-right and turn our country on a positive
path will not end with Obama's election. But
that step will shift the ground for successful
struggles going forward.
The CPUSA used to take money from the Soviet Union to advance
the objective of overthrowing the American government and
replacing it with a totalitarian police state allied with the USSR
against remaining democracies. In those days, Frank Marshall
Davis was an active member. He was also mentor and father figure
to a racist, drug-addled, left-wing punk who grew up (sort of) to be
the presumptive Democrat nominee for president. So the
endorsement isn't much of a surprise.

With Putin apparently trying to resurrect the Soviet empire,

CPUSA's funding might pick up again. No doubt this would be
good news for the Obama campaign.

THE CLASS ENVY CZAR, BARACK

OBAMA
Not since the 1930's and FDR have the
politics of class envy, class warfare,
resentment, and covetousness been used
with such effectiveness than during the
current health care debate. Barack
Obama, the czar of many czars, is the
self-appointed Class Envy Czar.
It's the same Democrat party which
preaches that, "you can't legislate
morality," that is now describing passing
health care reform as even being a "moral
obligation." The same party that
sermonizes the principle of "separation of
church and state," now desperately
invokes the Bible to try to hustle their
socialized medicine message.
From the Founding Fathers to
philosophers, to religion, we've been
instructed that coveting others property,
wealth, paycheck, or healthcare insurance
policy, is wrong. In his book, Envy, author
Joseph Epstein writes: "Envy clouds
thought, clobbers generosity, precludes
any hope of serenity, and ends in
shriveling the heart."
Since he has brought religion and morality
into the health care discussion, it's fair
and appropriate to point out that
President Obama, a self-described
Christian, violates two of the Bible’s Ten
Commandments, "Thou shalt not steal,"
and "Thou shalt not covet".
If a person, even a "needy" person, steals
cash from one of his "rich" neighbors,
then goes down to the local shopping mall
to spend it, or "redistribute" the cash, do
we classify that as "fairness," or "leveling
the playing field"? Or, do we call it theft?
Do we demonize the rich neighbors for
being "greedy".
Suppose the same needy person robs
from six of his rich neighbors. Is this now
considered healthy "wealth
redistribution"?
Suppose 51% of the population of the
United States votes, using the power,
force and thuggery of the IRS, and
ultimately the point of a gun, to confiscate
cash from their "rich" neighbors, and to
"spread the wealth around". After all,
"they" (the rich) don't need it, right? Is
this considered charity somehow? Is the
theft lessened because it was sanctioned
by majority vote?
In recent decades, more Americans have
been bamboozled by politicians to depend
on "benevolent" federal government
bureaucrats to solve their problems. This
is how poverty pimps and demagogues
like Barack Obama have long operated.
They demonize "the rich," implying they
obtained their wealth by exploiting the
poor; they endlessly clobber business and
CEOs as evil; they promise, using Marxist
deception, "equality," "fairness," and
"social justice," if only we will vote them
into power.
Politicians do all this continually, by
appealing to the emotions of envy,
resentment, jealousy, and anger. They
know intuitively that if they can fire up
enough of these poisonous passions in
enough of us, they will manufacture a
sizable and loyal voting bloc of people
dependent on them, thus guaranteeing
perpetual victories at election time. This
phenomenon enlists class envy, and the
spread thereof, which creates a seductive
and addictive anchor of "cradle-to-grave
security" through wealth redistribution.
Obama's "morality" is based a principle
which asserts that government owns not
only you, but what you have earned. And,
as the owner of you, they have the right
to decide which others are more deserving
of the fruits of your labor than you are.
There is nothing more immoral.
"We have no government armed with
power capable of contending with human
passions unbridled by morality and
religion . . . Our Constitution was made
only for a moral and religious people. It is
wholly inadequate to the government of
any other." -- John Adams
Barack Obama's invoking religion and
morality, in order to deceive the American
people into supporting his destructive
policies, is shameful, unethical, insulting,
and desecrating. There is no morality in
class envy:
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's
house, thou shalt not covet thy
neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor
his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass,
nor any thing that is thy neighbour's."
Exodus 20:17
"The Utopian schemes of leveling [wealth
redistribution] and a community of goods,
are as visionary and impractical as those
which vest all property in the crown.
These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and,
in our government, unconstitutional". --
Samuel Adams
"If we can prevent the government from
wasting the labors of the people, under
the pretense of taking care of them, they
must become happy." -- Thomas
Jefferson
"That is not a just government … where
the property which a man has in his
personal safety and personal liberty, is
violated by arbitrary seizures of one class
of citizens for the service of the rest."
-- James Madison
"My attitude is that if the
economy's good for folks
from the bottom up, it's
gonna be good for everybody
... I think when you spread
the wealth around, it's good
for everybody." -- Barack
Obama.
YOUR FAVORITE COMMUNIST MADAME
AT WORK…on more taxes for all you lemmings
to fund your socialist utopia where all bums get to
use your credit cards for all of their jollies while
you slave away at the new plantation……ENJOY.
We know she sure is enjoying it as she has the big
hammer to prove it.
HERE SHE GOES..MOVIN UP TO THAT
BIG HOT COMMUNIST PAD IN HELL.
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Democratic Leadership
 Democratic Leadership

Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House

Steny Hoyer
Office of the Majority Leader

Jim Clyburn
Office of the Majority Whip

John B. Larson
Democratic Caucus Chair

Health Care Reform

 Health Care Reform

CPC Releases Health Care Principles

< read more >

 Quad Caucus Letter to Speaker Pelosi

< read more >

 Article: Progressive Rep. Grijalva On Public Option: We Won't
Blink First (Huffington Post)

< read more >

 Op-Ed: CPC Co-Chair Raul M. Grijalva - "Public option - accept

nothing less" (The Hill)

< read more >

 Health Care Guide For Seniors

< read more >

 Article: Pelosi nixes healthcare deal with Blue Dogs (The Hill)

< read more >

 Co-Chairs' Letter to Speaker Pelosi (Sept. 20th)

< read more >

 Article: Obama Works Phones For Health Care Bill (CQ TODAY)

< read more >

 CPC Co-Chairs' Letter to President Obama In Advance of Joint

Session Address

< read more >

 Article: House Progressives to Obama: No Public Option, No

Support (Daily Kos)

< read more >

 CPC Co-Chair Raul M. Grijalva - Statement on White House's Call

to Cease Support for Public Option

< read more >

 Article: Progressive Caucus Finds Itself In A Strange Place: Power

(Huffington Post)
 < read more >

 Article: Why We Need the Public Option, and Why Co-ops Don't Fit
the Bill (Daily Kos)

< read more >

 Article: House Liberals Claim Momentum in Health Debate (Roll

Call)

< read more >

 Article: Left flexes muscles on healthcare reform

< read more >

 Interview: Progressive Dems Refuse to Back Healthcare Reform

Without Public Option (Democracy Now)

< read more >

 Article: Liberals revolt over public option (Politico)

< read more >

 Letter to Secretary Sebelius

< read more >

 Congressman Raul M. Grijalva Statement on Public Option

< read more >

 Sen. Sanders Answers Your Questions About Healthcare Reform

< read more >

 Interview w/ Rep. Grijalva: No Public Option, No Vote for Health

Reform

< read more >

 Article: Liberals protest Pelosi's comments on health deal (The Hill)

 < read more >

 Article: Liberal House Democrats hold their ground on health care

(Politico)

< read more >

 Article: Progressives Slam Pelosi on Health Care Remark (CQ

Politics)

< read more >

 Article: Left is miffed at Pelosi over her comment (The Hill)

< read more >

 Article: Health Reform Is Messy Business (Washington Post)

< read more >

 Links to Quad Caucus Press Conference on Healthcare Reform

< read more >

 Article; Liberal Democrats threaten to reject House healthcare

compromise (LA Times)

< read more >

 Article: Key House committee passes health care bill (CNN)

< read more >

 Article: Liberal Dems have 57 votes against Blue Dog plan (The Hill)

< read more >

 Advisory PRESS CONFERENCE ON HEALTHCARE REFORM

< read more >

 60 Members of Congress Oppose Weakening of Public Option -

Letter to Leadership & Committee Chairs
 < read more >

 Article: Progressive Dems Push For House Vote On Single-Payer

Health Care (Huffington Post)

< read more >

 Op-ed by CPC Co-Chair, Rep. Lynn Woolsey: Public plan should

build on Medicare (Politico)

< read more >

 Op-ed by CPC Co-CHair, Rep. Raul Grijalva: Single-payer plan

would fix the system (AZ Daily Star)

< read more >

 Congressional Progressive Caucus Urges Speaker Pelosi Not to

Delay Health Care Reform

< read more >

 Article: House Progressives: We Can Not Tolerate Further

Weakening Of The Public Option (TPM)

< read more >

 CPC's letter to President Obama reiterates firm stance on a public

option

< read more >

 Article: Health Care Stand by ‘Blue Dogs’ Might End Up a Cash

Cow (CQ)

< read more >

 CPC Press Release: Congressional Progressive Caucus Reacts to

Release of America’s Affordable Health Choices Act

< read more >

 Article: Healthcare reform advances (The Hill)

 < read more >

 Article: Reps. Mike Honda & Raul M. Grijalva - A Public Option

Must Be Part of Health Care Plan (Roll Call)

< read more >

 CPC Co-Chair Rep. Grijalva Warns Obama Against Dropping

Public Health Care Option

< read more >

 Article: Emanuel Reassures Democrats on Public Insurance Option

(Roll Call)

< read more >

 Article: Progressives Warn Obama Against Dropping Public Health

Care Option (Roll Call)

< read more >

 CAPAC, CBC, CHC, CPC: A ROBUST PUBLIC OPTION A

MUST

< read more >

 Press Conference - Caucuses Declare: Public Health Plan Option A

Must

< read more >

 Op-ed by Reps. Mike Honda & Raul M. Grijalva: Public Option is

Key to Health Reform

< read more >

 Congressional Progressive Caucus Insists on Strong Public Plan

< read more >

 Progressive Caucus Committed to Opposing Any Health Care Bill

Without Robust Public Option
 < read more >

 Principles for a Public Health Care Option

< read more >

 Congressional Progressive Caucus Lays Out Criteria for Public

Option

< read more >

 CPC Press Release: Caucuses Unite Behind Public Health Insurance

Plan Option

< read more >

 Article: Progressive Caucus Plans Health Care Pitch for White

House Meeting (CQ)

< read more >

 Quad Caucus Letter to President Obama

< read more >

 Quad Caucus Letter to Speaker Pelosi

< read more >

 CPC Insists on Public Plan Option in Health Care Reform

< read more >

 House liberals insist on public health plan option (The Hill)

< read more >

 CPC Co-Chairs' Letter to House and Senate Leadership

< read more >

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members of the communist

progressive party contact numbers are
available here…should you feel like
asking them few questions about their
patriotism…
Office of U.S. Representative Neil Abercrombie
1502 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/abercrombie
Phone: 202-225-2726

Office of U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin

2446 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://tammybaldwin.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-6942

Office of U.S. Representative Xavier Becerra

1119 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D. C. 20515
Website: http://becerra.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-6235
Office of U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer
2267 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://blumenauer.house.gov/
Phone: 202-225-4811

Office of U.S. Representative Robert Brady

206 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.brady.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-4731

Office of U.S. Representative Corrine Brown

2336 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/corrinebrown
Phone: 202-225-0123

Office of U.S. Representative Michael Capuano

1530 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/capuano
Phone: 202-225-5111

Office of U.S. Representative André Carson

425 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://carson.house.gov/
Phone: 202-225-4011

Office of U.S. Representative Donna Christensen

1510 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/christian-christensen
Phone: 202-225-1790

Office of U.S. Representative Judy Chu

2421 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://chu.house.gov/
Phone: 202-225-5467

Office of U.S. Representative Yvette Clarke

1029 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://clarke.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-6231

Office of U.S. Representative William "Lacy" Clay

434 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/clay
Phone: 202-225-2406

Office of U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver

1641 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/cleaver
Phone: 202-225-4535

Office of U.S. Representative Steve Cohen

1004 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://cohen.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-3265

Office of U.S. Representative John Conyers

2426 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/conyers
Phone: 202-225-5126

Office of U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings

2235 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/cummings
Phone: 202-225-4741

Office of U.S. Representative Danny Davis

2159 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/davis
Phone: 202-225-5006

Office of U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio

2134 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://defazio.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-6416

Office of U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro

2262 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/delauro
Phone: 202-225-3661

Office of U.S. Representative Donna Edwards

318 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://donnaedwards.house.gov/
Phone: 202-225-8699

Office of U.S. Representative Keith Ellison

1130 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://ellison.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-4755

Office of U.S. Representative Sam Farr

1221 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/farr
Phone: 202-225-2861

Office of U.S. Representative Chaka Fattah

2301 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/fattah
Phone: 202-225-4001

Office of U.S. Representative Bob Filner

2428 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/filner
Phone: 202-225-8045

Office of U.S. Representative Barney Frank

2252 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/frank
Phone: 202-225-5931

Office of U.S. Representative Marcia Fudge

1513 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://fudge.house.gov/
Phone: 202-225-7032
Office of U.S. Representative Alan Grayson
1605 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://grayson.house.gov/
Phone: 202-225-2176

Office of U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva

1440 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/grijalva
Phone: 202-225-2435

Office of U.S. Representative Luis Gutierrez

2266 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/gutierrez
Phone: 202-225-8203

Office of U.S. Representative John Hall

1217 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://johnhall.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-5441

Office of U.S. Representative Phil Hare

1118 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://hare.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-5905

Office of U.S. Representative Alcee Hastings

2353 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.alceehastings.house.gov/
Phone: 202-225-1313

Office of U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey

2431 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/hinchey
Phone: 202-225-6335

Office of U.S. Representative Mazie Hirono

1229 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://hirono.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-4906

Office of U.S. Representative Mike Honda

1713 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://honda.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-2631

Office of U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr.

2419 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/jackson
Phone: 202-225-0773

Office of U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee

2435 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.jacksonlee.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-3816

Office of U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson

1511 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/ebjohnson
Phone: 202-225-8885

Office of U.S. Representative Hank Johnson

1133 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://hankjohnson.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-1605

Office of U.S. Representative Marcy Kaptur

2186 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.kaptur.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-4146

Office of U.S. Representative Carolyn Kilpatrick

2264 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/kilpatrick
Phone: 202-225-2261

Office of U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich

2445 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://kucinich.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-5871

Office of U.S. Representative Barbara Lee

2444 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://lee.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-2661

Office of U.S. Representative John Lewis

343 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/johnlewis
Phone: 202-225-3801

Office of U.S. Representative Dave Loebsack

1513 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.loebsack.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-6576

Office of U.S. Representative Ben R. Lujan

502 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://lujan.house.gov/
Phone: 202-225-6190

Office of U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney

2331 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://maloney.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-7944

Office of U.S. Representative Ed Markey

2108 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/markey
Phone: 202-225-2836

Office of U.S. Representative Eric Massa

1208 Longworth Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://massa.house.gov/
Phone: 202-225-3161
Office of U.S. Representative Jim McDermott
1035 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/mcdermott
Phone: 202-225-3106

Office of U.S. Representative James McGovern

438 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/mcgovern
Phone: 202-225-6101

Office of U.S. Representative George Miller

2205 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/georgemiller
Phone: 202-225-2095

Office of U.S. Representative Gwen Moore

1239 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/gwenmoore
Phone: 202-225-4572

Office of U.S. Representative Jim Moran

2239 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://moran.house.gov/
Phone: 202-225-4376

Office of U.S. Representative Jerry Nadler

2334 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/nadler
Phone: 202-225-5635

Office of U.S. Representative Eleanor Holmes-Norton

2136 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/norton
Phone: 202-225-8050

Office of U.S. Representative John Olver

1111 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/olver
Phone: 202-225-5335

Office of U.S. Representative Frank Pallone

237 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/pallone/
Phone: 202-225-4671

Office of U.S. Representative Ed Pastor

2465 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/pastor
Phone: 202-225-4065

Office of U.S. Representative Donald Payne

2209 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/payne
Phone: 202-225-3436

Office of U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree

1037 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://pingree.house.gov/
Phone: 202-225-6116

Office of U.S. Representative Jared Polis

501 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://polis.house.gov/
Phone: 202-225-2161

Office of U.S. Representative Charles Rangel

2354 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://rangel.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-4365

Office of U.S. Representative Laura Richardson

2233 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://richardson.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-7924

Office of U.S. Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard

2330 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/roybal-allard/index.shtml
Phone: 202-225-1766

Office of U.S. Representative Bobby Rush

2416 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/rush
Phone: 202-225-4372

Office of U.S. Representative Linda Sanchez

1222 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://lindasanchez.house.gov/index.cfm
Phone: 202-225-6676

Office of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders

332 Dirksen Senate Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Website: http://sanders.senate.gov
Phone: 202-224-5141

Office of U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky

1027 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/schakowsky
Phone: 202-225-2111

Office of U.S. Representative Jose Serrano

2227 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/serrano
Phone: 202-225-4361

Office of U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter

2469 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.slaughter.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-3615

Office of U.S. Representative Pete Stark

239 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/stark
Phone: 202-225-5065
Office of U.S. Representative Bennie Thompson
2432 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://benniethompson.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-5876

Office of U.S. Representative John Tierney

2238 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/tierney
Phone: 202-225-8020

Office of U.S. Representative Nydia Velazquez

2466 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/velazquez
Phone: 202-225-2361

Office of U.S. Representative Maxine Waters

2344 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/waters
Phone: 202-225-2201

Office of U.S. Representative Diane Watson

125 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/watson
Phone: 202-225-7084

Office of U.S. Representative Mel Watt

2236 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.house.gov/watt
Phone: 202-225-1510

Office of U.S. Representative Henry Waxman

2204 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.henrywaxman.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-3976

Office of U.S. Representative Peter Welch

1404 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://www.welch.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-4115

Office of U.S. Representative Robert Wexler

2241 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Website: http://wexler.house.gov
phone: (202) 225-3001

Office of U.S. Representative Lynn Woolsey

2263 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website: http://woolsey.house.gov

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Obama Gets The Communists

By California Yankee Posted in 2008 | Communists | Obama —
Comments (22) /

"The American people will never knowingly adopt

socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,'
they will adopt every fragment of the socialist
program, until one day America will be a socialist
nation, without knowing how it happened." -
Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential
candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948
It's one thing when Obama, the Democrats' standard
bearer to be, is identified as the most liberal senator.
It is something else, something quite extreme, when
Obama is recognized as the darling of the Communist
Party USA.

That's right, Joelle Fishman -- chair of the

Communist Party USA Political Action Commission
and the Connecticut Communist Party -- backs
Obama.
Perhaps it is no surprise. After all, except for public
financing of campaigns, Obama's positions are
very similar to those of the Communist
Party USA:
Among the points in the party's "Immediate
Program" are a $12/hour minimum
wage; for all workers, universal health
care, and opposition to privatization of
Social Security; economic measures
such as increased taxes on "the rich
and corporations," strong regulation
of the financial industry, "regulation
and public ownership of utilities," and
increased federal aid to cities and
states; opposition to the Iraq War and
other military interventions;
opposition to free trade treaties such
as NAFTA; nuclear disarmament and
a reduced military budget; various
civil rights provisions; campaign
finance reform including public
financing of campaigns; and election
law reform, including Instant Runoff
Voting
This may not be a shock to the few who bother to do
appropriate due diligence on Obama. Nevertheless, it
is too much out of the mainstream -- too much
socialism -- for me.
http://www.cpusa.org/

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September 8, 2009 5:18 PM

In His Own Words: Obama's

Communist Manifesto
Posted by Charles Cooper 64 comments

(CBS)
Earlier today, President Barack Obama spoke to the
nation's students in a widely-awaited address. In the runup
to the speech, some Republicans had expressed qualms that
the president was seeking to indoctrinate America's
children to his socialist agenda." The White House
ridiculed the claims, saying President Obama wanted to
send a message to students to assume responsibility for
their education. Now there's no more mystery. With the text
finally in hand, we can uncover the socialist subtext hidden
within. (I've annotated the more revealing excerpts.)

The President: "Hello everyone – how's everybody doing

today? I'm here with students at Wakefield High School in
Arlington, Virginia. And we've got students tuning in from
all across America, kindergarten through twelfth grade. I'm
glad you all could join us today. I know that for many of
you, today is the first day of school. And for those of you in
kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it's your
first day in a new school, so it's understandable if you're a
little nervous. I imagine there are some seniors out there
who are feeling pretty good right now, with just one more
year to go. And no matter what grade you're in, some of
you are probably wishing it were still summer, and you
could've stayed in bed just a little longer this morning."

Translation Afavorite Marxian approach.

Dates back to Engels' days in Manchester,
England. The implicit message to
impressionable minds: It's fine to laze away
the day. Don't worry about not being a
productive part of society. Mom and Dad
(and then the state) will be there to support
your lack of initiative.
The President "I'm here today because I have something
important to discuss with you. I'm here because I want to
talk with you about your education and what's expected of
all of you in this new school year."

Translation What's "expected of you?" No dice.

Encouraging kids to accept top-down
directives - that's a prescription for trouble, if
ever I heard one. Not to push it too far, but
the Soviets used to sell a similar line of
mumbo jumbo. Remember all that claptrap
about the dictatorship of the proletariat? We
should steer clear. Let's uphold Jeffersonian
principles and leave local communities to
decide.
The President: "I've talked about your parents'
responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and get
your homework done...but at the end of the day, we can
have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive
parents, and the best schools in the world – and none of it
will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities."

Translation "Unless all of you fulfill your

responsibilities....?" Pardon but what if we
decide we'd rather not? Some education czar
sics a couple of apparatchik goons? That's
why the lib-left is so intent on watering down
the Second Amendment. (BTW: Notice that
"czars" came out of Russia. So did
Bolshevism. Purely circumstantial? Don't be
so sure. But since the MSM is utterly brain
dead, we'll have to wait for Glenn Beck to
unearth the full story.)
The President: "And that's what I want to focus on today:
the responsibility each of you has for your education. I
want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself."
Translation Individual responsibility. OK, a
plank that all sides of the political spectrum
can rally around. Now if Obama could only
shake free of Pelosi and Reid, maybe we
would hear more of that. Probably a
pipedream, but hey, you never know.
The President: "Now I know it's not always easy to do
well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your
lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your
schoolwork. I get it. I know what that's like. My father left
my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a
single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and
wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had.
There were times when I missed having a father in my life.
There were times when I was lonely and felt like I didn't fit
in."

Translation Tell
it to Hillary. We've already
heard how it takes a village. Look, Dan
Quayle warned everyone about Murphy
Brown, but did you listen? Now we're reaping
what your Hollywood fellow traveler friends
sowed.
The President: "So I wasn't always as focused as I should
have been. I did some things I'm not proud of, and got in
more trouble than I should have..."

Translation SoSarah was right all along.

Wonder who else he was palling around with
besides Bill Ayers?
The President: "But I was fortunate. I got a lot of second
chances and had the opportunity to go to college, and law
school, and follow my dreams.... Some of you might not
have those advantages."

Translation Of
course you had opportunities.
That's what happens when the state doles out
rewards based upon politically correct
diktats.
The President: "But at the end of the day, the
circumstances of your life – what you look like, where you
come from, how much money you have, what you've got
going on at home – that's no excuse for neglecting your
homework or having a bad attitude. That's no excuse for
talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping
out of school. That's no excuse for not trying...."

Translation Let'sset rules of behavior. Also, get

a load of the unsubtle warning: Come to
school - or work - with a bad attitude and the
state will deal with transgressors. You don't
get more socialist than that!
The President: "That's why today, I'm calling on each of
you to set your own goals for your education – and to do
everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be
something as simple as doing all your homework, paying
attention in class, or spending time each day reading a
book. Maybe you'll decide to get involved in an
extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community.
Maybe you'll decide to stand up for kids who are being
teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look,
because you believe, like I do, that all kids deserve a safe
environment to study and learn. Maybe you'll decide to
take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to
learn. And along those lines, I hope you'll all wash your
hands a lot, and stay home from school when you don't feel
well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall
and winter."

Translation Vladamir Lenin would have been

proud. It's Big Brother with a capital B with
the gall to instruct our kids on the niceties of
personal hygiene. Par for the course coming
from a confirmed statist.
The President: "Some of the most successful people in the
world are the ones who've had the most failures. JK
Rowling's first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times
before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut
from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds
of games and missed thousands of shots during his career.
But he once said, "I have failed over and over and over
again in my life. And that is why I succeed." These people
succeeded because they understand that you can't let your
failures define you – you have to let them teach you."

Translation Impressionable young minds won't

pick up on this, but follow what's going on.
Remember the trillions spent by Obama and
Bernanke since January? When he bankrupts
the economy and then nationalizes the means
of production, the president can cop a plea.
"Oops, sorry. But we won't let failure keep us
from trying." Puh-leez.
The President: "The story of America isn't about people
who quit when things got tough...It's the story of students
who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a
revolution and found this nation...students who sat where
you sit 20 years ago who founded Google, Twitter and
Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each
other."

Translation Comparing the Founding Fathers

to a motley crew of relativistic, anything-goes
libertines out in San Francisco and Silicon
Valley? Well, Google this: Bite me.
The President: "So today, I want to ask you, what's your
contribution going to be? What problems are you going to
solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a
president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred
years say about what all of you did for this country?"

Translation: Could it be any clearer? Socialist,

socialist, socialist.

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FELLOW AMERICANS, IS THIS
WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO
SEE HAPPEN TO AMERICA ??
Looks like Kruschev was right on
target.
*****
TELL ALL OF THEM TO
SHUT UP & THEY ARE
ALL FIRED IN
NOVEMBER 2010 !!
WE ARE MAD AS HELL
and WE ARE NOT GOING
TO TAKE ANYMORE
CRAPS FROM THESE
GANG OF COMMUNIST !!
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