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Demonstrations prolonged the Vietnam War.

JFK, “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” By succumbing to the propaganda of the “anti-war” activists, America showed that this was a hollow promise.

Demonstrations led to the imposition of  oppressive Communist state on South Vietnam; one that was far more oppressive than anything that preceded it.

Note that the first Nazi concentration camps were called “reeducation camps.”

The organizers of the demonstrations wanted the Communists to win.

I AM a former antiwar activist who helped to organize the first campus demonstration against the war in Vietnam at the University of California, Berkeley in 1962. I appeal to all those young people who participated in “antiwar” demonstrations on 150 college campuses this week, to think again and not to join an “antiwar” effort against America’s coming battle with international terrorism.

The hindsight of history has shown that our efforts in the 1960s to end the war in Vietnam had two practical effects. The first was to prolong the war itself. Every testimony by North Vietnamese generals in the postwar years has affirmed that they knew they could not defeat the United States on the battlefield, and that they counted on the division of our people at home to win the war for them. The Vietcong forces we were fighting in South Vietnam were destroyed in 1968. In other words, most of the war and most of the casualties in the war occurred because the dictatorship of North Vietnam counted on the fact Americans would give up the battle rather than pay the price necessary to win it. This is what happened. The blood of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and tens of thousands of Americans, is on the hands of the antiwar activists who prolonged the struggle and gave victory to the Communists.

The second effect of the war was to surrender South Vietnam to the forces of Communism. This resulted in the imposition of a monstrous police state, the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent South Vietnamese, the incarceration in “reeducation camps” of hundreds of thousands more, and a quarter of a century of abject poverty imposed by crackpot Marxist economic plans, which continue to this day. This, too, is the responsibility of the so-called antiwar movement of the 1960s.

I say “so-called antiwar movement,” because while many Americans were sincerely troubled by America’s war effort, the organizers of this movement were Marxists and radicals who supported a Communist victory and an American defeat. Today the same people and their youthful followers are organizing the campus demonstrations against America’s effort to defend its citizens against the forces of international terrorism and anti-American hatred, responsible for the September attacks.

Both before and after the latest round of so-called peace demonstrations, many respected liberals, leftists, and pacifists have expressed their concern over the events’ control by a tiny Stalinist cult, the “Workers World Party“ or WWP. WWP created International A.N.S.W.E.R., the umbrella group for the protests, and WWP leaders, posing as peace activists, have gained extraordinary media access in recent weeks. In addition, the group manipulates former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark as a pliable puppet, in an effort to gain respectability.

Ramsey Clark was LBJ’s attorney general; he went to Hanoi with Jane Fonda.

This article says that the WWP:

• Took the Chinese Communist side in the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

• Backs Saddam’s regime in Iraq.

• Has been a long-time supporter of the Communist regime in North Korea.

• Supported the war criminal Slobodan Milosevic.

Never mind that these Stalinist rodents see no inconsistency in acclaiming Saddam, who claims the title “sword of Islam,” and Milosevic, whose terror took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Balkan Muslims. The peace parasites of WWP are thrilled to kiss the shoes of bloodthirsty tyrants like Saddam, Kim, and Milosevic, and then have the nerve to repeat moronic chants, in the streets of our cities, charging President Bush with genocide!

Numerous liberals, leftists, and pacifists have correctly questioned the morality of joining such vermin in their parades. Nevertheless, the main question has yet to be posed: Who pays for the Workers World Party, its weekly tabloid, its website, books, speaking tours, and other extensive activities? Whose money keeps their “Korea Peace Commission,” and “Independent Commission of Inquiry to Investigate US/NATO War Crimes Against the People of Yugoslavia” going?

WWP is a minuscule Stalinist group. It does not command thousands of members or control major labor unions. Yet for many years groups of its leading members have constantly flown back and forth to Pyongyang and Baghdad, with side visits to Cuba and other isolated Stalinist territories, staying in hotels and traveling around in “solidarity.“ Who subsidizes “peace“ activities that, regardless of the apparent sincerity of many marchers, aim to defend monsters like Saddam and Kim? Who foots the bill for WWP and its acolytes to assist Milosevic in the dock?

Any normal citizen should wonder whether this “peace“ movement is not, in fact, directly funded and controlled by Saddam and Kim. Unfortunately, most Americans have forgotten that, before 1941, Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese militarists bankrolled similar “peace movements” in the U.S., and that the Soviet Communist Party paid for such propaganda for years and years.

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The “About the Revolutionary Communist Party” link says the party’s ideology is Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. Pol Pot’s “Democratic Kampuchea,” Mao’s client state, presumably had this ideology as well.

Ramsey Clark went to Hanoi with Jane Fonda. Noam Chomsky is the foremost denier of the crimes of “Democratic Kampuchea.” Note that Ed Asner of “People for the American Way” is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America; socialism is not the “American Way.”

How is it that people who can be duped into dropping their values are “superior?” How can one be “liberal” and condone monstrous tyrannies like Lenin’s and Mao’s?

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Clark Kissinger, the “spokesman,” as the Hartford Courant referred to him, is a board member of NION and is a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). The RCP is an organization that wants to replace the democratically elected government of the United States of America with a Communist dictatorship. The RCP is affiliated with such philanthropic groups as the Shining Path of Peru and the Communist Party of Nepal -so you can get an idea of what they have in mind. Their leader, Bob Avakian, is in France avoiding the FBI ( I wonder if he knows Ira Einhorn?).

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Among the other NION signers are Matef Harmachis of the All African People’s Revolutionary Party (founded by Ghanian president and Marxist Kwame Nkrumah), members of the National Lawyers Guild, International League of People’s Struggle, MeCHa, the Black Radical Congress, Ramsey Clark (I have already detailed his affiliation with the proxy of a communist terrorist organization), Noam Chomsky ( an objective voice), Mumia Abu Jamal (the great cop-killing humanitarian), Ed Asner and Barbara Ehrenreich of the Democratic Socialists of America, and the usual collection of entertainers, academicians and journalists.

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However, such people have been conned by the communist propaganda. They have been manipulated by the patina of morality used by the communists to make their cause seem noble and altruistic. The communists appealed to their sanctimony.

I have always said that liberals are the self-righteous, led by the self-important, for the benefit of the self-serving. NION is emblematic of this.

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Hanson, Victor Davis. “A Funny Sort of Empire.” National Review. November 27, 2002.

This article shows that America isn’t an “empire” like the various historical empires. A much better description can be found on the $1 bill–Novus Ordo Secularum, which is Latin for “A New Order for the Ages.” This means a world based on the principles of the American Revolution. i.e., constitutional democracies and free market economies.

Since constitutional democracies don’t have wars with each other this is the formula for world peace.

We do not send out proconsuls to reside over client states, which in turn impose taxes on coerced subjects to pay for the legions. Instead, American bases are predicated on contractual obligations — costly to us and profitable to their hosts. We do not see any profits in Korea, but instead accept the risk of losing almost 40,000 of our youth to ensure that Kias can flood our shores and that shaggy students can protest outside our embassy in Seoul.

Athenians, Romans, Ottomans, and the British wanted land and treasure and grabbed all they could get when they could. The United States hasn't annexed anyone's soil since the Spanish-American War — a checkered period in American history that still makes us, not them, out as villains in our own history books. Most Americans are far more interested in carving up the Nevada desert for monster homes than in getting their hands on Karachi or the Amazon basin. Puerto Ricans are free to vote themselves independence anytime they wish.

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Links to “Anti-war” Organizations

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Union Movement Supports U.S. Troops, Hopes for Peace.

The AFL-CIO doesn’t have any “anti-war” links, so the AFL-CIO sign at the Austin, Texas probably was a local, some of which are openly “anti-war.”

No surprise here.

Persons mentioned on “Our History”

• Machinists' Union leader William Winpisinger

• Gloria Steinem
• gay rights activist Harry Britt
• Ed Asner
• California Congressman Ron Dellums, the first avowed socialist in Congress since World War Two.

DSA Links Page

FOR National Council Members

Iraq Campaign of Conscience

Is sponsoring buses to take people to participate in the March 15, 2003 Washington rally and march.

Is sponsoring a “March for Peace and Democracy” on March 22, 2003 in midtown Manahttan. This march is sponsored by United for Peace and Justice.

Has published Code Pink’s Report from Baghdad.

An extreme Left-wing, i.e., “progressive,” site

I. F. Stone took money from the Soviets, and he thought the Hitler-Stalin pact of August 23, 1939 that started World War II was a good idea.

UndueInfluence.com Link

The Iraq Action Coalition is an online media and activists' resource center for groups and activists who are working to end the war against the people of Iraq.

Related links

Youth section of Democratic Socialists of America

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