[Sosfbay-discuss] MoveOn and others (Fwd: Re: [usgp-media] Fwd: Nat'l Security Operatives in "Peace" Movement)

[JamBoi]

--- Carl Romanelli <cjromanellii at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Carl Romanelli <cjromanellii at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [usgp-media] Fwd: Nat'l Security
> Operatives in "Peace" Movement
> To: Media US Greens <usgp-media at gp-us.org>
> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:47:56 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> Agreed.  During Nixon there was often infiltration
> by FBI, CIA, etc. into the anti war movement of the
> 1960's.  The most prominent example is Ira Einhorn. 
> During the 1980's Abby Hoffman had indicated to me
> that infiltration was the single most damaging
> factor in the demise of the peace movement's
> political momentum.  Today, I believe that
> protecting against infiltration is key to the Greens
> having a chance at viability.  A difficult task,
> considering we are an open party.  Anyway, thanks to
> Howie and Scott for posting these comments.
>   Carl Romanelli/PA
> 
> 
>    
>   
> 
> Scott McLarty <scottmclarty at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   From Howie Hawkins ...
> 
> It's not just the Democrats who are trying to
> co-opt antiwar movement. So is the national
> security apparatus. Check out this paragraph in
> Sunday's NY Times article I posted before.
> 
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/washington/06left.html?hp
> NY Times, May 6, 2007
> With New Clout, Antiwar Groups Push Democrats 
> by Michael Luo
> 
> "The National Security Network, a collection of
> liberal-leaning military and foreign policy
> experts headed by Rand Beers, former national
> security adviser to the presidential campaign of
> Senator John Kerry, has deployed former generals
> and officials to persuade individual lawmakers."
> 
> Not only was Rand Beers national security advisor
> to Kerry. Before that he was counter-terrorism
> advisor to Bush as a member of the National
> Security Council, which he had been a member of
> since Reagan. Under both Presidents Clinton and
> Bush, he was also Assistant Secretary of State
> for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
> Affairs, where he helped initiate and implement
> the genocidal coca crop aerial fumigation program
> against poor peasants in Columbia. For more
> details see
> .
> 
> Now, Beers is coordinating "antiwar" lobbying
> with Democratic leaders and the Dem-oriented
> "peace" groups like MoveOn, Win Without War,
> USAction (i.e., Citizen Action), and SEIU. It's
> not suprising that Iraqization of the occupation,
> like Nixon's Vietnamization of that occupation --
> and not US withdrawal -- is the their real
> agenda.
> 
> -- Howie Hawkins, Syracuse NY

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