<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> Why Do Progressives Defend Communists and Terrorists?<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/why-do-progressives-defend-communists-and-terrorists/> *Scotty Starnes <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>*| October 1, 2010 at 5:30 AM | Tags: AFL-CIO <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/afl-cio/>, America<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/america/>, Big Labor <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/big-labor/>, Center for American Progress<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/center-for-american-progress/>, Communist Party USA<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/communist-party-usa/>, communists <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/communists/>, CPUSA<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/cpusa/>, Democratic Socialists of America<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/democratic-socialists-of-america/>, FBI <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/fbi/>, George Soros<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/george-soros/>, Glenn Beck <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/glenn-beck/>, liberal media <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/liberal-media/>, murder<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/murder/>, Obama Administration<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/obama-administration/>, One Nation Working Together<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/one-nation-working-together/>, President Ronald Reagan<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/president-ronald-reagan/>, Progressives <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/progressives/>, Progressivism <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/progressivism/>, propaganda <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/propaganda/>, Richard Trumpka <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/richard-trumpka/>, SEIU<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/seiu/>, socialist schemes<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/socialist-schemes/>, terrorism <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/terrorism/>, terrorists<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/terrorists/>, United States <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/united-states/>, Van Jones <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/van-jones/>, violence<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/violence/>, Weather Underground<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/weather-underground/>, Working America <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/working-america/> | Categories: Uncategorized<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/>| URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-2V9
The reason Progressives defend communists and terrorist is because they, like communist and terrorist, believe America, and all it stands for, is bad. Progressives also have the same desires, as communists and terrorist, and want to control the masses with fears and lies. It's in Progressives' history. Accuracy in Media <http://www.aim.org/aim-column/why-do-progressives-defend-communists-and-terrorists/> reports: As incredible as it may seem, the giant labor federation, the AFL-CIO, used to be run by a staunch anti-communist. George Meany had his disagreements with conservatives on domestic issues but he mostly agreed with them on foreign policy. Indeed, Meany was so anti-communist that he was dubbed a “right-winger” by liberals in the media. He criticized détente with the Soviet Union. He didn’t like communists and refused to allow them into his coalitions. All of this changed over time. When the AFL-CIO staged a “Solidarity Day” rally in 1981, in order to protest President Ronald Reagan’s domestic policies, then-AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland refused to tell communists they were not welcome. When John Sweeney, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, became president of the AFL-CIO, the communists and their fellow travelers were officially welcomed in. He hired veterans of the Venceremos Brigades such as Karen Nussbaum and Karen Ackerman. These were the groups of radical young people who had gone to Communist Cuba for indoctrination sessions back in the 1970s. Some went for training in guerrilla warfare. The trips were arranged by Bernardine Dohrn of the terrorist Weather Underground. As we noted in a recent column<http://../aim-column/will-the-truth-catch-up-to-bill-ayers-and-his-comrades/>, Nussbaum, executive director of Working America, a community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, is in charge of getting the unemployed to the ballot box on November 2 in order to prevent a conservative takeover of the U.S. Congress. Nussbaum, who served under Sweeney at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), has refused to talk about her time in Cuba and the media won’t ask her any questions about it. Ackerman, AFL-CIO political director since 2003, is also close-mouthed about her Cuba trip. *In this day and age, with the liberal media so willing to act as megaphones for the Obama Administration and left-wing labor leaders, it is not “news” that Ackerman, in charge of overall strategy and the spending of millions of dollars on behalf of liberal candidates, once went to Cuba for indoctrination. Nor is it “news” that the AFL-CIO, now under President Richard Trumpka, has joined a “One Nation Working Together” coalition staging a Saturday rally with the Communist Party USA and other openly communist and socialist groups.* Consider Thursday’s Washington Post story<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/28/AR2010092801263.html> about the “liberal” and “left-leaning” groups planning the October 2 march in Washington, D.C. Reporter Krissah Thompson says the coalition includes “environmentalists, antiwar activists, church and civil rights groups, union organizers and gay rights coalitions…” Nothing is said about the fact that the “One Nation Working Together” official list of “endorsing organizations<http://action.onenationworkingtogether.org/index.php/partners/>” includes the CPUSA, best known for receiving Soviet funding and direction during the Cold War. But the CPUSA is not the only far-left group on the list. All that a reporter has to do is read it. But to report the facts would mean that organizers of the rally, led by a veteran Democratic Party operative, might have to be asked embarrassing questions. So the facts are ignored. *The liberal media bias and dishonesty aside, the change reflects how the progressive movement has capitulated to the forces of the anti-American left, in order to swell their ranks. It is a terrible development that is ominous for the future of the United States because of the hold that the progressives now have on the White House and Congress. It makes sensational reports of a few extremists in the conservative-oriented Tea Party movement look silly by comparison.* We noted in our recent column<http://../aim-column/communists-to-be-welcomed-at-progressive-march/>that the “peace director” of the “One Nation Working Together” rally ran an organization that defends accused Army traitor Bradley Manning. He talks openly about inviting communists to the rally. It doesn’t bother him in the least. *Unfortunately, this is the continuation of a trend we have seen since Barack Obama became President and hired communist Van Jones. After Trevor Loudon broke the story about Jones’ communist background and Glenn Beck of Fox News raised a ruckus, Jones left the administration, only to return to the group in Washington, D.C. where he had previously worked—the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress. This revolving door proves that the modern-day progressive movement is willing to work with communists and tolerate their destructive ideology. It is a tragic turnaround from the days when liberal Democrats shared the anti-communism that characterized U.S. foreign policy.* These communists are people who have always put the interests of foreign countries, most of them totalitarian in nature, ahead of the United States. They may not have the Soviet Union to depend on anymore, but they continue to get inspiration and guidance from Cuba. *They represent an alien philosophy that has cost the lives of 100 million people through failed socialist schemes, violence, terrorism, and murder.* As former FBI informant Larry Grathwohl has testified, the Weather Underground itself had plans to “re-educate” 100 million Americans and eliminate the 25 million who couldn’t be converted to communism. 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