One of Tennessee’s Anti-war groups has some strange bedfellows
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I want to preface this story with two comments. One, I typically avoid labeling anti war groups as commies or socialists unless they have content that is obviously worthy of the label. I may rethink that.
And two, this is not breaking news, this is from 2003. It was offered up as an interesting tidbit to bring Tennessee into the Peace Thugs fold by a commenter, Jay Win.
And I do find it revealing to see who these groups find as their close associates.
Hat tip then to Jay, and welcome Tennessee.
Tennessee’s Commies (emphasis mine)
Red in the antiwar movement.
Peace can make for interesting bedfellows, as citizens of Nashville and environs have recently discovered. Indeed, the state’s most revered and self-congratulatory peace activists have been exposed, by talk radio, as being deeply in bed with the Communist party.
No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
The fun began when local talk-radio sensation Phil Valentine (familiar to NRO readers for leading the anti-state income-tax movement in Tennessee) decided to have a look at the Nashville Peace and Justice Center’s website.
Those familiar with the debacle in Berkeley will recognize the name is the same as the committee the caused all the fuss. Surely not by accident.Â
The group has been sponsoring peace rallies in the area, and is also trying to send a delegation to see Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. Valentine wanted to find out exactly who’s who in the center’s pro-peace coalition.
Many of the members were hardly a surprise. The center is affiliated with clergy and laity concerned about war, so one would expect to find religious organizations on the roster. There are, including the Tennessee Conference of the United Methodist Church, Church Women United, the Greater Nashville Unitarian Universalist Congregation, the Interfaith Alliance of Middle Tennessee, and the Social Concerns Committee of the First Unitarian Universalist Church.
Nor did some of the other members seem out of place. Common Cause is listed, along with the Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation, LA CASA, the War Resisters League, the United Nations Association and Tennessee Peace Action. Not to be left out, the United Nubian Congress has joined up, along with BURNT (Bring Urban Recycling to Nashville Today).
What caught Valentine’s eye, however, was the acronym CPUSA — the Communist party. Holy cow. What are the commies doing there? After all, about the only peace they’ve provided is the peace of the grave. Valentine’s antennae were twitching as he went to the CPUSA’s main website, scrolled down to the “contact the CPUSA” section, and found the listing for the Middle Tennessee Chapter.
“I couldn’t believe it,” says Valentine. “The street address for the Tennessee chapter of the CPUSA is the exact same address as the Nashville Peace and Justice Center.” Sensing his readers might benefit from this information, Valentine took the story on air last Friday. Not everyone was happy he did so.
“Matt Leber, the peace center’s director, called in,” Valentine told me. “At first he denied any affiliation with the Communist party. He said they weren’t any Communists within ten miles of him. I pointed out they have the same address as his organization. There was stunned silence.
Wait for it…when cornered the fools have no choice but to fess up…Â
Then he admitted that the CPUSA is a member organization, but said that didn’t mean anything.”
Leber’s position didn’t fly too well. Not only were listeners outraged. Officials at the CPUSA tried to cover their tracks. A visitor to the CPUSA site now finds the street address for the Middle Tennessee Chapter of CPUSA has been dropped. Only an e-mail address is given. Anticipating a cover-up, Valentine made printed copies of the original page for those interested in pursuing the link.
Read more at the link above, then follow this link for even more Commie connections.
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I’m confused about your attacks over socialism especially when one considers the recent bailouts of various financial institutions which smacks of pure socialism at work. Thousands of tax breaks for corporations are another example of socialism, in it’s innate form, at work.
Care to comment? I’ll give you a few weeks to ponder the significance since I realize people from the right wing fanatical base have a hard time with facts and thinking. [g]
Hey Karl Marx is here. Its good to hear from such a non-partisan point of view.
Well to answer your juvenile question… the complete lack of government would be a primitive form of anarchism…
Under your definition any form of government would have to be Socialist, simply because the government intervenes in the affairs of its country.
If you want to look at things from this point of view please explain how National Socialist German Workers Party is not a militant form of Socialism. They clearly are more Socialist than the U.S.
LOL
Good stuff! Glad I found your site. I linked you to my blog. Keep up the good work!
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