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Two Kinds of Terror Lowell Ponte On Tuesday, America's Left toppled one of the senior Democrats in the U.S. Senate, sending a message of intimidation to that party's moderates. On Thursday British authorities moved to pre-emptively thwart terrorist plans to bomb 10 or more U.S. airliners flying in American airspace. Both actions involved radical activists who use fear to gain their objectives. And their parallel objectives include getting the United States out of the War against Terrorism by ousting the political leaders waging this war for America's survival. As details emerge about those planning to bring down American airliners, it has been reported that at least some of the plotters were Muslims of Pakistani or Khasmiri ancestry and had been in contact with 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden's group, al-Qaida, while visiting Pakistan. On Thursday, one of those they aim to bring down, President George W. Bush, described these would-be bombers as "Islamist fascists." Like the similar term "Islamists," this described megalomaniac zealots who have twisted the religion of Islam into a political ideology bent on forcing the submission (the Arabic word "Islam") by fire and sword of every non-believer and imposing a planet-wide Muslim theocratic dictatorship under one ruler, the Caliph. Bin Laden, too, has declared that his goal is to help impose a global Caliphate. The radical Left, like its Islamist counterparts, also wants to bring down decadent Western culture, undermine the capitalist United States, and impose its own fanatical utopian ideology on all human beings. Promoting this Leftist revolution is a collection of activist groups such as MoveOn.org and radical billionaires such as George Soros. Their wealth and organizing skills have taken backstage control of the Democratic Party. David Horowitz and Richard Poe describe this far-Left takeover of one of America's two ruling parties in their splendid new book, "The Shadow Party" (Nelson Current Publishing). These radicals seized a pinnacle of power on Tuesday by beating three-term Democratic Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman, the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate only six years ago. Story Continues Below
Today the Democratic Party has been pulled so far to the extreme Left that almost none of its officeholders objected when a wealthy Shadow Party activist challenged the pro-War on Terrorism Lieberman in this month's Democratic primary election. Instead, Democratic politicians (frightened and cowed by the Left's growing power and vengefulness) and the liberal media criticized Sen. Lieberman for saying he would seek re-election this November even if the Left's money from outside Connecticut generated enough primary votes to beat him. The Shadow Party candidate against Lieberman was wealthy cable television entrepreneur Ned Lamont. The mainstream media have portrayed Lamont as a businessman, centrist, and patriot who merely wants to bring American troops home from Iraq. The media have kept remarkably quiet about Lamont's pedigree as a red diaper baby of the far Left. There's a reason Lamont is sometimes called "Red Ned." This new Democratic Senate candidate, endorsed and embraced by his party's leaders, is the grandson of famed socialist Corliss Lamont, author of "humanist" books, who from 1932 until 1954 was director of the ACLU. Corliss Lamont in 1953 wrote a booklet titled "Why I Am Not a Communist," apparently to answer questions that many were asking. The question arose because he headed the Communist front group the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, which, like the ACLU, moved heaven and earth to protect Communists and undermine those fighting against Communists. Lamont was, in the vernacular of the time, a "fellow traveler," a leader in the "popular front" against capitalism and the United States during the Cold War. He was also a key figure in the organization Friends of the Soviet Union and chairman of its renamed spinoff, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. In 1946 he was charged with contempt of Congress after refusing to comply with a subpoena to turn over the latter group's records to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Corliss Lamont denied being a Communist, but like many so-called "liberals" and "progressives" he was above all else an Anti-Anti-Communist. And as grammarians of the English language know, a double negative is essentially a positive. Corliss Lamont's father became chairman of J.P. Morgan & Co. Young Corliss graduated from elite Phillips Exeter Academy and was the roommate of Julian Huxley (brother of Aldous Huxley, author of the dystopian novel "Brave New World") during his years at Oxford University. Corliss Lamont used his family wealth to promote and advertise on behalf of the Stalinist CPUSA and assorted Communist front groups, for which he was a "financial angel." Corliss Lamont taught at Harvard and the liberal New School for Social Research in New York City. Columbia University named a Chair after him in its Humanities Department – but what is humanist or liberal about defending Stalinism, as Lamont did? Such is the lineage, genetic and intellectual, of Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Connecticut Ned Lamont. His narrow victory suggests just how extreme this political party has become – and that the Nutmeg doesn't fall far from the family tree in the Nutmeg State. Ned Lamont's grandfather called himself a socialist, not a Communist, but his every effort was directed at destroying those who opposed Communism. Lamont, likewise, today claims to oppose terrorism, but his and his comrades' entire effort is aimed at politically intimidating and defeating those who are waging the War against Terrorism. But less than 48 hours after Lamont's Connecticut victory jerked the Democratic Party far to the Left came the sobering news of a terrorist plot that would have recreated the terrorist horrors and deaths of 9/11 on the 16th of August, 2006. Corliss Lamont's sick dream of a socialist future suffered a nearly fatal setback with the collapse of the Soviet Union. For radical Shadow Party supporters of Ned Lamont, the residue of that dream survives in the Left's hatred for America and the hope that radical Islamism can blow up the Statue of Liberty and put Francis Fukuyama's triumphant liberal capitalist "End of History" up for grabs again.
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