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The Spectacle Blog
Researcher extraordinaire Trevor Loudon has uncovered more evidence that Leon Panetta is at ease with Communists.
Currently President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Panetta is director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Loudon discovered that at the height of tensions with the Soviet Union then-Congressman Panetta was close to a “peace activist” named Lucy Haessler. Haessler was involved with the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF).
Panetta placed a tribute in the Congressional Record on April 11, 1984, to mark Haessler’s 80th birthday. Loudon writes
Panetta noted that Lucy Haessler attended several conferences of the East German based organization, in France, the Soviet Union, Poland and East Germany.
He did neglect to mention however that the W.I.D.F. was a well documented Soviet front.
Congressman Panetta also commended Haessler for her activism in opposition to the Vietnam War and the deployment of US Cruise and Pershing II missiles in Europe. Haesslers activism in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Women Strike for Peace, are also noted. Both organizations were heavily also affiliated to another Soviet front, the World Peace Council and were heavily infiltrated by the Communist Party USA and its allies.
Congressman Panetta rounded off the tribute by hoping that Mrs Haessler would “continue her valiant efforts, and with her help, we may yet realize her 80 year old dream: Peace on Earth.”
This tribute raises an important question. In the context of the time, in what was effectively the height of the “Cold War”, why did Congressman Panetta consider it appropriate to praise an activist so clearly sympathetic to the “other side”. The Soviet affiliations of the Women’s International Democratic Federation were well known at the time. Given Panetta’s close ties to the Santa Cruz left, including to long time communist Hugh DeLacy and his own leftist views, it is inconceivable that Panetta did not understand the significance of Haessler’s activism. [emphasis added]
The Senate Armed Services Committee is expected to vote on the Panetta nomination Tuesday.
Surely Panetta should at least explain his questionable associations before put in charge of the mightiest military force on earth.
While we’re talking about Reds, I will be discussing the small-c communists of ACORN again on the Fox Business show “Follow the Money” with Eric Bolling at 10 o’clock Eastern tonight (Friday).
ACORN, President Obama’s former employer and legal client, has metastasized overseas. Venezuelan caudillo Hugo Chavez may have funded the radical group.
All these juicy tidbits and so much more are in my new book Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.
It’s approved by the rightosphere’s most eminent raconteur Robert Stacy McCain — so you know it has to be good!
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Occam's Tool| 6.17.11 @ 2:41AM
This is the Obama administration---Dhimmi Scum Central, Communists Unanimous.
2012 can't come fast enough.
Zbigniew Mazurak | 6.17.11 @ 4:25AM
The answer to the question in the title is short and obvious: HELL NO!
weddingdresses | 6.17.11 @ 5:34AM
This is the Obama administration---Dhimmi Scum Central, Communists Unanimous.
m0dulus| 6.17.11 @ 6:41AM
Are those people he was "friendly" with still alive? Nope.
Timothy L. Pennell| 6.17.11 @ 6:42AM
What's the problem?
We have a President, who's WHOLE LIFE. has been ANTI-AMERICAN.
His Father was a Marxist/Muslim. His Mother was an Atheist/Communist. His Maternal Grandparents were Communists. They introduced him to his 1st Mentor. Frank Marshall Davis. Communist. His 2nd Mentor was the White Hating/Jew Hating/ America Hating - Jeremiah Wright. Marxist. Obama "Sought out the Marxist Professors when I got to College". He began his Political Career, in the living room of Unrepentant DOMESTIC TERRORISTS: Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, They MURDERED Police Officers, BLEW UP Recruiting Stations, and BOMBED the Pentagon. (They are STILL friends) He attended Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan Rallies. He hung out with the Black Panthers. His CHURCH gave out AWARDS to Moammar Gadhafi. He surrounds himself with his CZARS. A who's who of Marxists, Socialists, Communists and Maoists, who could NEVER be confirmed by a Senate Committee. Even while he had a SUPER MAJORITY there. If you look at the Wikileak Papers, you'll find why OBAMA sided with the Hugo Chavez wannabe - Zelaya - in Honduras, and NOT our ALLY, the Constitutionally Elected Honduran Government, when the Honduran CONGRESS, SUPREME COURT, and Military, expelled him from the Presidential Palace, after he, and a mob, broke in to a Military Facility, to get Ballots for an initiative to make Zelaya, the next Hugo Chavez "President for Life.
According to Wikileaks, he was hoping to establish better relations with HUGO CHAVEZ, and send a signal to the other LEFTIST Regimes, on the Continent, that they had a FRIEND in the White House. Someone they could "work with".
I forget.
WHY are you worried about PANETTA?
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.17.11 @ 7:31AM
Well summarized, Timothy!
l5j6| 6.17.11 @ 7:35AM
Par for the course in this administration. It is chock-full of mooooslim sympathy and socialist/communist sympathy.
When can we fire this fool? Two Novembers from now........
JP| 6.17.11 @ 8:43AM
Everyone in Panetta's age group were Leftists and Communists in thier "youth". My memories of Panetta while he served in Congress was a highly partisan hack. However, he did turn out to be a rather able administrator. Now in his 70s, Panetta is considered a "safe" elder statesman. His ideological yearnings were replaced by an ability to to get things done within the Beltway. He is now part of the system that he loathed in his youth. Money, influence, and power go much further than what Fellow Travelers could ever offer.
PattyMor| 6.17.11 @ 9:40AM
And just why did the Rats confirm this closet commie as CIA Director? No wonder Rummy declined to be briefed by the CIA; he just read their reports (and probably took their advise skepticism).