Our tax dollars are hard at work.
The Socialist Workers Party, another splinter group, was embarrassed a generation ago when it was revealed that at its peak (early 1970s?) one in six of its members were government agents.
I always thought World Can't Wait front group was designed to soak up energy and dissipate it safely, like a lightning rod.
I assume most of their endorsement list didn't know who sponsored the group.
Just being an "anti" group and not actually creating anything is the Old Left paradigm of failure.
The fact that the demonstrations fizzled out shows their strategy was a success, that seemed obvious from the start ...
I expect we will have similar covertly funded front groups for the Trump years.
Me? I'm a Groucho Marxist and don't trust Commie fronts.
"We're not the Judean People's Front, we're the People's Front of Judea!"
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2005
Is that your final A.N.S.W.E.R.?
And he just walked along, alone, with his guilt so well concealed.
And muttered underneath his breath, "Nothing is revealed." - Bob Dylan
Another march on Washington, and more grumbling about A.N.S.W.E.R.'s performance.
Much of the noise comes from embarrassed moderates, who are new to the demonstration game and are simply not that demonstrative. Others suggest A.N.S.W.E.R. engages in bait and switch: draw mass numbers with the cause of Iraq and then use the platform to catapult the propaganda, including wedge issues bound to alienate sizeable contingents of the crowd, and serves to categorize a generalized anti-war movement in the terms of Stalinist caricature.
Now I don't have a problem with radical politics. Those are my politics. And I do believe that mass events are good occasions to wisely shed light upon the interconnections of injustice. What I have a problem with is Ramsey Clark. I don't trust him. And so, I must have a problem with A.N.S.W.E.R. I don't trust it, either.
A.N.S.W.E.R., established by Clark's International Action Center, shows a national, organizational savvy in securing police permits and outclasses and outspends all popular opposition groups in America. (Though there's no transparency regarding the source of its funds.) While the Iraq War is its rallying cause, A.N.S.W.E.R. was founded, presciently, on September 14, 2001, even before the "War on Terror" was officially launched, even rhetorically.
Why don't I trust Clark? If LBJ's former Attorney General was ever going to win my trust, he would have repudiated his handpicked Clark Panel, its medical professionals linked to the intelligence community, and its findings a whitewash of John F Kennedy's incomplete and adulterated autopsy records. He would have apologized to history and America's thwarted justice for stating just days after the murder of Dr King, and even before a suspect was in custody, that "all of our evidence at this time indicates that it was a single person who committed this criminal act." Years later in The Nation, after his radical makeover, Clark said James Earl Ray should not be given a new trial, but rather his case ought to be studied by a government panel. As Lisa Pease asks in The Assassinations, "Did Clark really think the government, which produced the Warren Commission and the HSCA and failed to reveal the truth about either the Martin Luther King case or the Kennedy assassination, should have been given a chance to bamboozle us yet again?"
The American Left of Chomsky and Cockburn and The Nation will never touch these matters of conspiracy. So Clark is largely untouched by his legacy of abetting three of the most egregious miscarriages of modern justice - John,Martin and Bobby - which, uncorrected, have brought America to this point of low comedy and great horror.
If your intent is generational warfare, you had better give some forethought to the stage management of your opposition. As you turn up the pressure, you need to ensure people can vent some steam. It makes them feel better. Like they've done something.
