try to go back...The library and museum were both opened in 2006, and are both real gems, particularly the museum. What an amazing man and president Lincoln was, and how lucky we were to have had him...What a contrast he is to the idiotic, socialistic charlatan we are stuck with now...

It is wondeful to see the people fighting back and making themselves heard. I hope you're right about the tipping point, and I hope it works. 

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

In a report perepared for the Department of Enegy, IRISE said the following about you kum bye a Lefties.

The Communist Party of the U.S.A. continues to invite others to help in the “fight for a Socialist U.S.A.” (Communist Party of the U.S.A, 1999). The organization outlines six program basics to create a socialist nation in the United States and is supported by 27 district offices across the country. In addition, its Web site offers links to communist parties in 27 other countries and to a number of groups including the Basque solidarity site, Farabundo Marti para le Liberacion Nacional or FMLN (an El Salvador leftist guerrilla group), National Democratic Front of the Philippines, and the Zapatistas of Mexico.

THE THREAT

Extremism runs in cycles. Leftist extremists are very active for a decade or more, and as they fade, right-wing extremists become active. During the late 1960s to the middle 1980s, leftist extremism was the greatest threat in the United States. From the mid-1980s to the present, the major threat of domestic terrorism has been primarily from right-wing extremists. If the cycle theory is correct, then left-wing terrorism will increase within the next few years.

Leftist extremism presents two threats. The first threat is terrorism. Left-wing terrorists have been responsible for bombings, assassinations, robberies, and planned attacks on infrastructure targets. The second threat is their potential support of espionage conducted against the United States by supporting countries such as Cuba.

While it is important to counter the current domestic threat from right-wing groups, it would be a mistake to ignore the leftist threat. If the threat from left-wing extremism does increase, responding to it early will help to prevent similar problems the United States experienced during the 1970s and 1980s.

II. LEFTIST MOVEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES

THE CUBAN CONNECTION

The government of Cuba has provided support and sanctuary to Marxist revolutionary groups and leftist terrorists since Fidel Castro came into power. This support has included systematic training and materials (National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, 1976). Support has declined dramatically since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but Cuba still maintains close ties to Latin American revolutionaries, including both of the major groups in Columbia (U.S. Department of State, 1999).

The last fugitive from the 1981 Brinks robbery, which left two police officers and a guard dead, is living in Havana as a political fugitive, where she continues to call for black separatism in the United States. Cheri Laverne Dalton, who now calls herself Nehanda Obiodun, is a special guest of the Cuban government and receives a monthly stipend

from them equal to the amount paid a Cuban professional. She recently acknowledged that she also receives financial help from the Republic of New Afrika, a U.S.-based group that believes that black Americans should form a separate nation out of five southern states. Obiodun joined the group after graduating from Columbia University with a degree in English and Journalism in the mid-1970s. Obiodun’s job in Cuba is to speak to local citizens and foreign visitors about the plight of what she refers to as political prisoners in the United States, prisoners serving time for crimes committed to fund and support a leftist revolution (Howell, 1994).

On May 2, 1973, Joanne Chesimard, a member of the Black Liberation Army, and two of her friends were stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike by State Troopers James Harper and Werner Foerster. While being questioned, Chesimard and the driver opened fire on the troopers with automatic pistols, hitting both of them. Chesimard then took Foerster’s weapon and fired execution style into the officer’s head, killing him. She was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. She escaped in 1979 and fled to Cuba where she was granted political asylum (McCaslin, 1998).

In 1998 on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the murders, the governor of New Jersey announced that she was increasing the reward to $100,000 for the return of Joanne Chesimard (Kalb, 1998). Speaking from Havana, Chesimard claims the call for her return is a character assassination and says she is innocent of the murder charge.

According to her, she is a political activist and a victim of a U.S. government counterintelligence program set up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to neutralize political activists (Fletcher, 1998).

William Morales, a bomb maker and member of the Puerto Rican separatist group FALN, lost eight fingers when a bomb he was building exploded in his face. In 1979 he escaped while recovering from his injuries in a prison ward at Bellevue Hospital. He fled to Mexico where he was arrested again after a shoot-out with Mexican authorities. In 1988 the Mexican government allowed him to go to Cuba where he received asylum and began working on a doctorate in international relations (Howell, 1994).

Victor Gerena, a member of another Puerto Rican separatist group, Los Macheteros, also received asylum in Cuba. Gerena participated in the 1983 armored car robbery in Greenwich, Connecticut, that netted $7.2 million. An Argentine-born former spy for Cuba claims that he helped get Gerena and some of the proceeds from the robbery out of the United States and into that country. The Castro government refuses to confirm his presence there (Morrison, 1996).

Not all of the leftist revolutionaries of the 1970s and 1980s fled to Cuba. Donald Bunting, a member of the Black Liberation Army and longtime associate of Joanne Chesimard, was arrested in 1998 in Bradley Beach, New Jersey, after barricading himself in his apartment for 26 hours. He was wanted for a June 1, 1998, armed robbery. Police used tear gas and a high-pressure water hose on his residence before he surrendered.

During the siege he shot and killed a police dog that had been sent into the apartment building (Reuters, 1998).

Cuba not only provides a safe haven for leftist extremists wanted in the United States, it also provides a forum from which they can continue to espouse their political beliefs and work to inspire others still in the United States to take up the cause. Most of the people granted asylum in Cuba have one of two political agendas. Those aligned with the FALN and Los Macheteros want Puerto Rico to become an independent socialist nation aligned with Cuba. Others associated with Joanne Chesimard and the Black Liberation Army want to carve out a separate black nation in the southeastern United States. Almost all of them have been convicted of¾or charged with¾terrorist crimes, including murders and bombings.

LEFTIST AGENDAS IN THE UNITED STATES

Provisional Party of Communists

The Provisional Party of Communists is a group that was founded on Long Island, New York, in 1972 by Gerald William Doeden. The original agenda of the group was armed revolution, but this idealism spiraled downward, eventually leading to the arrest of several of its surviving members in 1996 when it was referred to as a group of “political Moonies” (U.S. Newswire, 1996). Former members of the group claim that at one time it had a military wing trained in guerrilla tactics. The group recruited young followers by offering what it claimed was progressive volunteer opportunities and then used cult brainwashing techniques to “turn them into soldiers for a revolution aimed at overthrowing the United States government” (U.S. Newswire, 1996).

Doeden claimed his name was Gino Parente-Ramos and said that he was Mexican, hoping that his false identity would attract support from certain groups and individuals.

He was actually of Norwegian descent and a native of Minnesota (Markon, 1996, November 13). The group headquarters was raided in 1984 after the FBI received a tip that it was about to launch an armed revolution against the government. However, only a few guns were found, and no charges resulted from the raid (Kessler, 1996). 

This was not the first raid on a Parente-Ramos enterprise. Before locating in New York, he ran The Little Red Bookstore in San Francisco from which he sent threatening letters to local officials. Using the name the Liberation Army Organization (LARGO), he claimed that armed guerrilla groups were about to launch attacks on public buildings. No charges were brought following the raid on the bookstore and the investigation of LARGO (Kessler, 1996).

The Provisional Party of Communists used a number of front names and organizations including the Women’s Press Collective. Recruiting literature claimed the Collective offered an opportunity to write “progressive things for our newsletters” (Markon, 1996, November 14). Irene Davidson and her 18-year-old daughter signed up after visiting a table set up at a festival in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Unfortunately, she did not become suspicious when the recruiters provided vague answers to most of her questions. The daughter moved into the cult’s headquarters where she was subjected to long lectures on everything from American politics to the Russian revolution and slogans such as “Just Do As You’re Told.” The daughter became depressed and quit the group after she had been shipped to a small field office in upstate New York (Kessler, 1996).

A Catholic church official became associated with another of the front groups, the Eastern Farm Workers, in the early 1980s believing that he would be helping collect clothing and other donated items and money for farm workers. However, when he arrived at the Eastern Farm Workers office, he was handed a manifesto that said the group's objective was to overthrow the U.S. government (Wick, 1996).

The Provisional Party of Communists came to the attention of authorities again in 1996, the year after Parente-Ramos died. Police raided their Brooklyn headquarters and found 17 handguns, five shotguns, one airgun, blackjacks, and knives. They also found dummy grenades, five pounds of black powder, three bulletproof vests, handcuffs, holsters, false identity documents, and $42,000 in cash. Three people were charged with criminal weapons possession, and another 35 members were subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury as a result of the raid (McCool, 1996).

Stream of Knowledge

In 1993 an African American who identified himself as Shayarahla said during an interview on a television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, “The white man has been killing the black man, killing the Puerto Ricans, killing the Indians, and he’s got to pay for his crime. Black men,” he said, “get ready for war!” (Southern Poverty Law Center, 1997).

Shayarahla is a member of a small group called the Stream of Knowledge, which is an offshoot of a black supremacist movement referred to as the Black Hebrew Israelite religion. They believe that God is black, that Whites are devils, and that Blacks are the true Jews—God’s chosen people (Southern Poverty Law Center, 1997).

In Albuquerque members of the group meet in a white stucco building known as the “War Zone.” The word YASHARAHLA is painted on the front window, and a gruesome mural depicting sword-bearing black men standing triumphant over bloodied white bodies is on the inside, according to law enforcement officials. Local police believe the group has been building an arsenal since 1992 and preparing for a racial war (Southern Poverty Law Center, 1997).

The group is believed to have been formed by John McGee III (who calls himself “Ya Han Na Ga”) and Carl Anthony Bennett (“Ka Ariah”). McGhee is employed in the commissary at Kirkland Air Force Base, and Bennett is a counter clerk at the Veterans Administration Medical Center. Their initial meetings were held in an apartment, but they moved to the “War Zone” in 1993. They are recruiting at military bases and in prisons, preparing for the war that will end in a black victory in the year 2000. The group owns property valued at approximately $900,000 in Albuquerque and funds itself through tithes, a security company it runs, and a product called Mid East Oils that is sold at a local flea market (Southern Poverty Law Center, 1997).

Law enforcement officials believe the Stream of Knowledge may be linked to an armed compound outside of Pueblo, New Mexico, and a faction in Tempe, Arizona. Police in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico are investigating the activities of the group (Southern Poverty Law Center, 1997).

This report doesn't include all the Anarchists' actiivities in Seattle, the shooting of a US Army soldier in Arkansas, the continuing sabatoge of lumber areas by driving spikes into trees by crazy envirionmental whackos (a practice which causes the chain on the saw to sever from its mount and vicously injure the logger) or the host of other violent attacks throughout history by Left Wing Nuts against their fellow citizens as a way to make a political statement.

Not to mention William Ayers.

ACA

Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)