by Hugh Murray
Steve Nelson (Stjepan Mesaros), a native of Croatia had come to
the US as a teen and joined the Communist Party (CPUSA) in the 1920s. He fought in the Spanish Civil War against
the Fascists and returned to America. He
also came under federal surveillance during WWII. Nelson was then a leader of the American Communist
Party on the west coast with influence in left-wing labor unions. During war, Americans endure decreased civil
liberties, and the federal government had rounded up and interned Japanese
nationals and American citizens of Japanese heritage; the government also
rounded up and interned German and Italian nationals too. Nelson was not interned, but his home in
Oakland, California, was bugged.
On 10 April 1943
Nelson received a visitor, Vasily Zarubin, an employee of the Soviet Embassy,
who gave Nelson money. Zarubin explained
he wanted Nelson to place “reliable” workers in certain jobs that the Soviets
deemed important. Apparently, until
hearing the recordings, the FBI had no knowledge of the Manhattan Project – the
American effort to create an atomic bomb.
The Soviet employee was telling the American Communist to place
Communist spies in sensitive positions to relay information about American
progress in developing the bomb.
When FBI
Director, J. Edgar Hoover, became aware of the attempt by a Soviet Embassy
official to use the American Communist Party to create a spy network, Hoover
acted. On 7 May 1943 Hoover wrote the
White House. He wrote to Harry Hopkins,
who was then considered the chief advisor to Pres. Franklin Roosevelt,
especially on Soviet affairs. Hopkins
was so important, he literally lived in the White House and was sometimes
called Roosevelt’s Co-President.
Hopkins, alerted by Hoover to such important information, also acted
quickly. Whether Hopkins informed
Roosevelt, is still a question. But
Hopkins jumped to insure that nothing like this would occur again. Hopkins contacted the Soviet Embassy, telling
them about the bugging incident, warning them that the FBI was on to them, and
urging that they be more careful in the future!
Hollywood still
produces films like “Trumbo,”(2015) showing the persecution of an excellent
screenwriter who was blacklisted for standing up for his political beliefs. Author Diane West, in her fascinating American Betrayal, quotes Dalton Trumbo
in an article published in 1946 in the Communist Daily Worker, in which Trumbo concedes that the Hollywood “progressives”
could not always make the films they wanted, but they certainly could prevent
the anti-Communist films from ever being produced.(West, pp. 88,92) Trumbo was
boasting that he was one of those who could veto films and blacklist those who
might defame the workers’ paradise led
by Joseph Stalin.
Unfortunately, it
is not only Hollywood that distorts that time period. The academedia complex assure us that the
McCarthy era was one of paranoia, persecution, and the destruction of civil
liberties and freedom in the US. Was it
all paranoia? Why was Steve Nelson
taking the money from Soviet Embassy official Zarubin? Why did the White House try to protect the
Soviet spies?
. In January 2012 Russian leader Vladimir Putin in
a public address praised the Western scientists who provided atomic secrets to
the Soviets so that the Communist regime could develop its own nuclear
bombs. Putin emphasized that the Soviets were provided “suitcases” filled
with material; “suitcases full” he stressed.
Americans spying on behalf of the Soviets was not paranoia; it was a
reality. And the consequence of that
spying aided Stalin to develop nuclear weapons faster, and probably helped in
other areas of military advance.
Soviet coded
messages were sent from the US to the USSR, and the American Army began to keep
records of these. Eventually, the “Venona
files” would make headlines, and confirm the treason of several prominent
figures. However, even now, only some
10% of the Venona files and been
decoded. Soviet espionage against the US
was real and much more extensive than people realize. But why should they realize it? Hollywood ignores it to portray a hard-core
Stalinist as a man persecuted for free speech.
Academics are no better. Most are
liberal or “progressive,” and even if they admit the Soviet was an enemy to
American interests, they dismiss the influence of the American Communist Party
and of any spies for the Soviets. Putin
did not dismiss those who passed along information to the Soviets – Putin publicly
thanked them. Americans were not
paranoid during the McCarthy era. There
was treason in the American government, “a conspiracy so vast” as Sen. McCarthy
analyzed it. Most Americans to this day
are unaware of the extent of Communist penetration of the American government
and its consequences. And the
consequences may not have been merely atomic.
When during the Cold War, Republicans asked “Who lost China?” it was not
such a foolish question. When Japan
surrendered in 1945, war in China continued, now between Nationalists under
Chiang Kai-shek and Communists under Mao Zedong. Some in the US State Dept. demanded that
Chiang form a coalition government with Mao.
Chiang had once done so, and it had proved disastrous, so he was
determined not to become ensnared again in a coalition with the
Communists. While the Soviets began to
supply Mao, sometimes with booty from the defeated Japanese, efforts by the
Americans to supply Chiang with weapons and money were either continually delayed,
or sabotaged. Were there members of the
American State Dept. who favored Mao over Chiang; Communism over alternatives? Were they responsible for the failure of
supplies to reach Chiang?
In early morning
hours of 12 June 2016 American-born Omar Mateen entered a gay nightclub in
Orlando, Florida, and proceeded to shoot and kill at least 49 people who, till
then, had been enjoying a night out.
Omar was not shy about his motives – during the massacre he phoned 911
to announce his allegiance to the Islamic State. He also praised Allah and declared that he
was murdering because he wanted the US to “stop bombing my country.” (Wikipedia interpreted this survivor’s memory
as referring to Mateen’s allegiance to the Islamic State, whereas James Bradley
on the left-wing counterpunch.org viewed it as referring to Afghanistan, home
of Mateen’s parents. Either way, Mateen
did not identify his country as the United States.) Some days later, the national Attorney
General, Loretta Lynch told reporters that the Justice Department would not
release the full transcripts of those 911 calls. Any mention of the Islamic State would be
redacted, and Allah was now written as God.
Apparently, one was not to presume that Omar was a Muslim! Erase all such references, by US Govt. decree
(for our own good, of course). Even
before Atty Gen Lynch attempted to impose her politically correct views on the
911 tapes, pc had already entered the fray.
I think the very day after the shooting; an FBI representative came to
Orlando to provide a report. Most of it
seemed factual. But before closing, the
FBI spokesman stressed to the TV audience that Islam is a religion of
peace. Thus, PC had infected the FBI
even before FBI Director James Comey announced that no reasonable prosecutor
would indict Hillary Clinton for her email abuses.
Democrats are as
unwilling to denounce Islamic terrorism as 1948 Progressives were unwilling to
denounce Stalinsim. How could Democrats
handle the Orlando shooting? Democrats went
on a frenzied search for the motive(s) of Omar in murdering so many young
people. It was simply another “hate”
crime. Omar had been depressed, and may
have had mental problems. He may have
been secretly gay, and some alleged he had a gay lover. Omar was bi-polar. The liberal media were flooded with such
stories searching for the real motives behind Omar Mateen’s shooting
spree. But these stories invariably tried
to avoid mention of Allah and his allegiance to ISIS. Many Democrats simply refused to state the
mass murderer had anything to do with radical Islamic terrorism.
Meanwhile, the
Democrats in Congress constructed another ploy – it was the fault of guns. We need stricter gun regulations, more gun
laws. About 100 Democratic members of
Congress then planned to obstruct the work of the national House of
Representatives by having a sit-in on the floor of the House, while they
demanded gun-control laws and sang old civil rights songs. Congress had already rejected the proposed
legislation in Committee, but Democrats vowed to continue their tactics until
their minority proposals were passed into law by the majority. They were offended when one Republican
Representative shouted at them, that the issue is Islamic terrorism. The Democrats also forget that the most
deadly act of terrorism on American soil, in which over 3,000 people were
killed, was performed without a gun being used - by the terrorists who brought
down the World Trade Center in New York and part of the Pentagon in Washington.
Moreover, how
could Orlando possibly be about Islamic terrorism? Omar Mateen was born in the USA. In the summer of 1968 a dazed Democrat
emerged from a hotel in California, nearly in tears. The man was bewildered,
incomprehensible. “How could he say
that?” he asked the TV reporter. The gentleman
had left the scene where Sirhan Sirhan had just assassinated Democratic Sen.
Robert Kennedy (who had just won the California Democratic Presidential
primary). The gentleman quoted Sirhan as
saying, “I did it for my country.” “How
could he say that? How could he believe
that?” The gentleman clearly did not
understand, for the answer is simple.
Sirhan was Palestinian. A
Christian Palestinian, but Palestinian. His
country was not the US. He killed
Kennedy for what he thought would be the best interest of Palestine.
When Omar Mateen
announced he had killed many people for his country, he had identified his country
as the Islamic State. Mateen may have
been born in the US, but he did not consider himself an American. His concerns were Allah and pledging
allegiance to ISIS. Mateen was killing
Americans while simultaneously pledging allegiance to the Islamic State. And the American Attorney General tried to
prevent us from knowing that! Just as
Harry Hopkins sought to obstruct the FBI in 1943 and prevent it from doing its
job of protecting American citizens and American atomic secrets from Soviet
spies, there now seems to be another group – inside the US Govt. – intent on
preventing any exposure of Islamic terrorism and its supporters.
The Muslim
Brotherhood (hereafter MB) was founded in Egypt in 1928 as a movement to
liberate the Muslim world from the infidels.
It was a nationalist movement, and anti-colonial movement, and one mixed
with religion (like many other nationalist movements, as in Ireland, Poland,
the Balkans, etc.) The founder, Hassan
al-Banna was a 22-year-old teacher, who grew to admire Hitler, wrote to him,
and was encouraged by him. The MB grew
in the 1930s as did its hostility to Jews and Zionism. During WWII, as Gen. Erwin Rommel’s armies
pushed beyond the Libyan border into Egypt (and many Egyptian Jews prepared to
purchase tickets for South Africa), the Muslim Brotherhood readied to join the
Axis advance when Rommel routed the British. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem,
expelled from the British mandated lands for his anti-Western views, turned up
in Berlin where he met Hitler and began broadcasting to the Middle East on
Radio Berlin. Sometimes his message was
simple, “Kill the Jews!” However, when British
Gen.Bernard Montgomery defeated Rommel at el-Alemein in October 1942, that Axis
defeat would delay MB dreams for decades.
With Axis defeat, the Mufti was able to escape Allied prosecution with
the help of MB politicians.
Beginning in
December 2010 in Tunisia with the series of uprisings collectively called “the
Arab Spring,” people in many countries went into the streets to demand change,
and young people using social media, often cooperating with Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs) , began revolutions in the Arab world. The first government to fall to the change
was Tunisia in northern Africa, and the stirrings spread. Cairo’s Tahrir Square became a scene of daily
protests against the long-term leadership of Hosni Mubarak, whose authoritarian
government encouraged tourism from all over the world, and who maintained
friendly relations with the US and neighborly relations with Israel. But Tahrir Square became the center of daily
mass gatherings denouncing the government, where there were now huge pictures
of Mubarak with a Star of David scratched across his face. Both Pres. Obama and Sec. of State Hillary
showed great enthusiasm for the changes stirring in the Arab Spring The Western media portrayed the gatherings
quite sympathetically. One night CBS
correspondent Lara Logan, an attractive young blond, found herself in the
square forcibly separated from her cameramen, her clothing ripped, and she was groped
and sexually assaulted. But the general
euphoria overwhelmed reports of such unfortunate urges that managed to surface. In February 2011 Mubarak fell and free
elections would be held. Democracy would
come to Egypt!
Elections were
held, and Mohammed Morsi, the MB candidate won.
Hillary and Obama were proud of their policy that expanded
democracy. With the MB victory, Jewish
tourists and businessmen quickly departed.
The Copts, Egypt’s Christians, who comprise some 10% of the population,
suddenly found themselves under attack. Ancient
churches were set ablaze by the Muslim majority. Muslims, expressing their empowered status,
began beating Christian men and attacking Christian women. Some leaders of the new MB regime sought to
ally with Palestinians in Gaza against Israel.
All Jews were monkeys, declared some of the new clerics in power. One prominent Muslim imam urged the
government to destroy the pagan relics of old – that is, destroy the pyramids!
(When ISIS attained power elsewhere, it destroyed Jonah’s tomb and part of the
ancient ruined city of Palmyra. One
should take such talk seriously.)
Happily, this ruthless MB regime was toppled by the army led by Abdel Al-Sisi
in 2013. In response, Obama cut off aid
to Egypt’s new military government in Egypt, but Al-Sisi then sought support
from Russia’s Putin.
Col. Ghadaffi’s
Libya had become a leading terrorist nation after he had come to power in 1969 (and he helped subsidize the Black Panthers
and the Black Muslims inside the US.)
Ghadaffi’s regime was the likely source for the 1986 bombing of a Berlin
club popular with American soldiers, and Ghadaffi was behind the downing of Pan
Am flight 103 that killed the plane’s occupants over Lockerbie, Scotland in
December 1988. However, by the 21sth
century Ghadaffi’s government had moderated.
But Obama and Hillary had other plans for Libya, and decided to seek Ghadaffi’s
overthrow. In summer of 2011 Libya
joined the Arab revolutionary Spring, and by October 2011, Ghadaffi himself was
dead. Obama and Hillary next set their
sights on the dictatorship in Syria of Bashar al-Assad. It is alleged that Americans were to supply
weapons to rebels in Syria through newly liberated Libya. Indeed, some allege that American Ambassador
Christopher Stevens was in Benghazi to facilitate gun-running deals with
violent types whom he hoped would help overthrow Syria’s Assad.
The fall of
Ghadaffi left power vacuums and chaos in Libya.
Not all of the rebels were sympathetic to the West. Working in the eastern city of Benghazi,
American Ambassador Stevens was fully aware of the deteriorating situation, and
a number of times requested reinforcements for protection. The requests (to the Secretary of State,
Hillary Clinton?) were denied. As the
anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack approached, neither Obama nor Hillary
sent help. Four Americans, including our
Ambassador, were killed in a prepared attack by Muslim extremists on 9
September 2012. Then, Sec. Hillary
Clinton, Pres. Obama, and Under Sec. Susan Rice all continually lied to the
American people, blaming the attack and murders on anger as a result of a video
that mocked the Prophet Mohammad. The film was produced by an Egyptian
Christian residing in the US. Obama and
Hillary even bought time on Pakistani television to denounce the video and its
creator. Obama’s federal government soon
found grounds to imprison the Egyptian Copt.
I am less certain if he and Hillary did anything to apprehend the murderers
of the Americans in Benghazi.
Under
Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, there has been a policy that is
often sympathetic to Muslims at the expense of the American people. Recall the original 9/11 attacks in the US,
in which Muslim terrorists hijacked American civilian planes to attack the
World Trade Center twin towers and the Pentagon (and a 4th plane was
downed by passengers when they realized the Muslims were intending to use their
plane as a missile). Over 3,000 innocent
Americans were killed by the Muslim terrorists in those attacks - and not a gun
was fired. Later, an official report was
issued, but 28 pages were kept secret because they apparently showed
connections between the terrorists and high Saudi officials. Pres. Bush preferred a cover-up. And so does Pres. Obama. The cover-up continues to this day.
However, the situation grew worse
under Obama. He appointed as his first
Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, one of whose most trusted advisors is Huma
Abedin. Although Huma had married Anthony
Weiner, then a prominent Jewish Congressman from New York, she had links of a
very different kind. Her husband had
hoped to become the mayor of New York City, but Weiner’s sex texting, when it
became known, roused sufficient embarrassment, even in liberal NY, to force Weiner
to withdraw from the race. But even
after the deflation of Weiner’s political prospects, Huma retained her post as
a major advisor to one of the most influential people in America. In addition to working for Hillary, Huma had
links to the World Muslim League and the Muslim Brotherhood.
In a 2009 ruling, a Federal Judge in
the case of the Holy Land Foundation concluded that the Muslim Brotherhood was
an un-indicted co-conspirator funneling money to a terrorist organization,
Hamas. The new Obama Administration
sought to ride to the rescue. In his 22
Jun 2016 article on frontpage.com. Joseph Klein described Obama’s approach. In a
speech in Cairo in June 2009 Obama announced he would use his Presidency to “‘fight
against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear’…his administration conducted
what amounted to a censorship within the government…For example, an
anti-terrorism conference scheduled for August…2011 was cancelled after Islamic
groups protested…the content of several presentations and the speakers.”
Klein added, “Beginning in the fall
of 2011, the Dept. of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil
Liberties undertook a campaign to purge any critical references to Islamic
ideology and beliefs from intelligence and law enforcement training materials.”
Klein also reports that Patrick
Haney, a retired, senior official of the DHS claimed that he was ordered to
purge records he had accumulated in a data base that tied potential jihadists
with various Islamic groups. Haney
alleged that had those files not been purged, there would have been a greater
chance to detect and halt Mateen before he killed 49 people in Orlando. On TV Haney stated he personally did not
delete the files, but it was done by higher-ups at DHS. And consider further, Mateen worked as a
security guard for a company that was contracted to DHS! He passed their security checks. Someone wondered if he might have one day
become a guard at a nuclear plant! Is
the government doing its job of protecting us from Muslim terrorists?
National Public Radio is hardly
right-wing radio, but even its reporters had difficulties trying to explain the
failure to recognize the threat posed by Army Major Nidal Hasan.
Hasan was a psychiatrist, and some of those interviewed must have been
his colleagues. They were shocked to
hear the hatred Hasan expressed toward America’s efforts in the Middle
East. They wondered what kind of
counseling he was providing for soldiers needing psychiatric help. Yet, these fellow professionals dared not
officially complain, because they knew that doing so would be a mark against
them, showing they might be racist, or prejudiced against Muslims, and it might
cause them problems down the road in politically correct America. Hasan wanted out of the army and he sought to
avoid being sent to Afghanistan, but he could
not win the proper release. So on
5 November 2009 at Ft. Hood, Texas, a gun-free zone, Major Hasan proceeded to
kill 13 of his fellow soldiers and injure 30 more. Islamic terrorism? NO, concluded the Obama Administration. This was simply work-place violence. Just like the Obama’s Dept. of Justice is
still searching for the real motive that caused Omar Mateen to kill 49 in
Orlando. Surely it was not Islamic
terrorism.
Mateen a lone wolf? Before his mass murders, Mateen sold his home
to a relative for about $1. Did they not
ask any questions as to why? At such a
price? The mosque Omar attended was the same
one that inspired Moner Abu Salha to go to Syria as a suicide bomber in 2014. Pure coincidence, I’m sure. Mateen’s 2nd wife drove him to the
Orlando bar. She accompanied him and
helped him purchase weapons. And
Mateen’s father is an Afghan and has his own videoTV show on politics in
Afghanistan. So clearly none of this
influenced Omar Mateen; clearly he was a lone wolf who had nothing to do with
Islamic terrorism. He murdered 49 for
some other reason, all alone.
The Russians warned the Americans
about another immigrant family that we welcomed into the US, the Tsarnaevs. They came as immigrants to the US and were
soon ensconced on welfare. They were
Muslims sympathetic to radical Islam and terrorism. Before setting off bombs on 15 April 2013 at
the Boston Marathon – killing 3 and injuring 264 – the brothers had apparently
killed a Jew in a “drug” deal (or perhaps merely for the Islamist ideal of
killing a Jew). After the bombing, the
mother endorsed her sons’ actions, and she left America for her homeland. I would hope her welfare payments have been
stopped.
Why were the Russian warnings about
this family as possible terrorists ignored by the American authorities? Who is responsible for permitting such a
murderous family into America? And if not
the individual, what policies prevent America from barring such potentially
violent immigrants?
During WWII a policy of alliance with
and appeasement toward the Soviet Union was adopted by high elements in the
Administration of FDR, and possibly including Roosevelt himself; these policies
resulted in the stealing of atomic secrets, which greatly advanced the Soviet
development of its own bombs.
Furthermore, pro-Communist policies inside the US State, Treasury, and
other federal departments, sabotaged aid to Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek,
and sabotaged help to anti-Communist elements in Yugoslavia, Poland, and other
lands.
Under Pres. George W. Bush and
especially under Pres. Obama, a policy has developed so that America cannot
defend itself against Muslim terrorists.
Additionally, Obama’s, and Hillary’s association with the MB and the Council
of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) present a great danger. Those groups assert that they are simply defending civil rights and civil liberties for
Muslims, but in reality they may be out to destroy the civil rights and civil
liberties of those who expose the bigotry and history of violence and terror
and slavery and oppression and terrorism in Islam? Islam is not a religion of “peace.” It grew through conquest. It demands not equality with other groups; it
demands submission by all to Islam and to its oppressive sharia law. The Obama Administration pretends that Islam
is a religion of peace. But on this
important issue, the Obama Administration lies.
The Obama Administration declared the Major Hasan murders to be
workplace violence. The Obama
Administration lied. The Obama Adm.
demands that the FBI coordinate its anti-terror activities with groups like
CAIR. But CAIR and similar groups are notorious for
defending terrorism. It will simply
obstruct efforts to prevent terrorism. (For more on CAIR, see Daniel Pipes, “Is
CAIR a Terror Group?” National Review, 28 Nov. 2014) No wonder the Tsarnaevs were undetected until
they bombed the Boston Marathon. No
wonder the Muslim terrorists in San Bernadino, Syed Farook and his foreign-born
wife Tashfeen Malik, were allowed in the country and under the radar and
allowed to murder 14 and seriously injure 22 on 2 December 2015. They killed them, most of them his
co-workers, at a party. No wonder Omar Mateen,
even after mouthing off against this group and that, was allowed to pass
security clearances and get a job in security at a company that has contracts
with the DHS. No wonder he was allowed
to kill 49 at Pulse night club.
I do not maintain that all Muslims
are terrorists. There are peaceful
Muslims who are willing to abide by the American Constitution. But there are other Muslims who reject
America, Western civilization, our notions of freedom, and out Constitution. Our government is failing utterly to
distinguish between them. Worse, it
appears as if some inside our bureaucracies sympathize with those who would use
terrorism against us. In our efforts not
to offend Muslims, not to profile, not to track those who favor the Islamic
State or other tyrannical and terrorist groups, the US Government is betraying
the American people. Or rather, elements
of the US Govt are doing so.
The present Obama Administration
policies are killing Americans. It would
be as if FDR had ordered J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to coordinate with the Communist
Party, USA, to uncover any Soviet spies in America. The CPUSA would naturally tip off anyone
under suspicion. Indeed even the
non-Communist, co-President Harry Hopkins did that too. In the 1940s there was a vast conspiracy
inside the US government working to aid international Communism. Today, there appears to be conspirators
inside the US government working to appease and provide easy access for Muslim
terrorists. The results of such
appeasement policies will be the murder of innocent Americans and the long-term
destruction of the USA. It is time for a
change.
