David Horowitz
Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2003

America's enemies within turned out in force on Saturday in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco under the auspices of the Communist Workers World Party operating under its front organization, A.N.S.W.E.R. Once again the demonstrators pretended to be peace activists who found violence abhorrent, and a willing media played along with the charade.

Neither the New York Times nor the Los Angeles Times nor any media I saw identified the organizers as Communists, who have a long record of support for world terror and its leaders including the Ayatollah Khomeini, Kim Jong-il, Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein.

As reported by the unfiltered cameras of C-SPAN, the pretense, in fact, was pretty thin. One of the featured speakers was a spokesman for the narco-terrorists in Colombia who opened his rant (all the speeches fell into this category) with "We have to stop America's war against the people of Iraq, and the people of Palestine, Colombia and the world." America is supporting the government of Colombia against a brutal communist guerrilla force that has been waging civil war there for half a century.

Come to think of it, America's enemies in Palestine are the terrorist organizations Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the al-Aksa Martyrs terrorist brigade. And in Iraq, there is a dictator who has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of his own people and has attempted to swallow the country of Kuwait.

The spokesman for the Colombian narco-terrorists was quite candid (and why not, since he knows that the American media will present him as a "peace activist" anyway). "As revolutionaries," he said to the crowd, "as progressives, we have to resist American imperialism."

Then came Imam Mussa from the mosque Masjid al-Islam. Like most of the cast assembled by A.N.S.W.E.R., the Imam had also been a speaker at the Millions for Reparations March last August – which was more about denouncing America as a racist, imperialist monster than making a case for compensation for any specific injustices (See my report, "Reparations Buffoons on the Washington Mall" – http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/Printable.asp?ID=2436)

Here is a sample of the rhetoric at that march from Malik Zulu Shabazz (one of the few who was not at the "peace" event):

"The president wants to talk about a terrorist named bin Laden. I don't want to talk about bin Laden. I want to talk about a terrorist called George Washington. I want to talk about a terrorist called Rudy Giuliani. The real terrorists have always been the United Snakes of America."

When he got going, the Imam Mussa dotted the i's and crossed any t's that the narco-terrorist spokesman had missed, telling the crowd that the regime change they wanted was in Washington, not Bagdhad, and that they really didn't want a regime change at all.

"We 're calling for a System change," he said. Revolution. "We won't get any justice as long as that criminal Congress is up there. We're calling for revolution. It's revolution time, brothers and sisters. We have to get rid of greedy murderers and imperialists like George Bush in the White House."

The Imam then led the crowd – are you ready for this – in the chant the suicide bombers use as they blow up innocent men, women and children: "Allahu Ahkbar! Allahu Ahkbar! Allahu Akhbar!"

Democratic New York City Councilman and former Black Panther Charles Baron was also a speaker at the Millions for Reparations March, where he announced he needed to assault a white person for his "mental health." On this occasion he kept his racism in check, but not his rhetoric.

"If you're looking for the Axis of Evil," he raved, "then look inside the belly of this beast." He went on to attack America's "monopoly capitalists" (a technical term which veterans of the left will recognize as the mark of Communist and Maoist sectarians), who of course are the puppeteers pulling the president's strings.

Damu Smith, head of Black Voices for Peace, returned to Baron's theme and made it specific. "Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld," he said, "that's the Axis of Evil."

Larry Holmes, "co-founder" of the sponsoring organization, who also hosted the Millions for Reparations March, then led the crowd in chants to free two convicted murderers, Mumia Abu Jamal and Jamin al Alamin (H. Rap Brown). This was a set piece also during the Millions for Reparations March.

It would be reassuring if one could report that a single speaker or face in the televised crowd dissented from the stew of anti-American, anti-white, anti-Jew hatred or the violent incitements, but not one did. The crowd relished the show and was in total sympathy with the message.

Another striking fact about this march in support of global terrorism was the presence of prominent Democrat officials on the platform. In San Francisco, the most powerful Democrat legislator in the state, John Burton, screamed, "The president is full of sh*t!" and said that the president is "f*cking with us," while encouraging the general sentiment that America rather than Iraq is the outlaw state.

In Washington, Democratic hopeful Al Sharpton attended and ex-congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of Georgia read a speech with the following claim: "In no other country on the planet do so many people have so little as they do in this country." This from a person who notoriously commandeered a taxpayer-funded limousine to take her from her townhouse one block to her congressional offices every morning.

More disturbing by far was the presence of two of the most powerful Democrats in Congress, the potential head of the Ways and Means Committee, Charles Rangel, and the potential head of the Judiciary Committee, John Conyers, who is of course the author of the Reparations Bill and the icon of the Communist organizers of both marches.

Rangel's appearance was especially troubling because he has been a nightly face on TV news shows presenting himself as a patriot and a veteran (he served 50 years ago in Korea) who wanted a military draft so that all America would be involved in the nation's defense. His critics thought he had other agendas, like using conscription to sabotage the war effort. Apparently his critics were correct.

Americans who care about their country and its future should think about the following. This anti-American pro-terrorist movement is now larger than the anti-Vietnam pro-Communist "peace" movement was until the very end of the sixties. Yet there is no draft.

Before the draft the anti-Vietnam movement was very, very small. Its demonstrations were numbered in the hundreds of participants, not even the thousands. The first big manifestation of the anti-American left was the Stop the Draft March in Oakland in 1965, which was four years after America's involvement in Vietnam got serious.

The second thing Americans should think about is the fact that this anti-American support movement for America's enemies has deep roots in the Democratic Party. I am a firm believer in the two-party system. I find it extremely worrying, therefore, that one party can no longer be trusted with the nation's security.

This problem will not be easily fixed. But it won't be fixed at all unless attention is drawn to it, and we cannot do that unless we stop the charade of calling this a "peace" movement and recognize instead that it is an anti-American movement to divide this country in the face of its enemies and give aid and comfort to those who would destroy us.

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