Why the American Right insists on calling Obama a "communist"

Followed a link to a World Net Daily article by Jerome Corsi proving Obama was mentored by members of the Communist Party. Part of the article was based on a letter written from Frank Chapman to Peoples Weekly World:

After Iowa

Happy New Year and congratulations on a job well done. These have been trying times when the hyenas of war have again been turned loose on humanity by a greedy ruling class.

Now, beyond all the optimism I was capable of mustering, Mr. Obama won Iowa! He won in a political arena 95 percent white. It was a resounding defeat for the manipulations of the ultra-right and their right-liberal fellow travelers. Also it was a hard lesson for liberals who underestimated the political fury of the masses in these troubled times.

Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary “mole,” not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through.

The old pattern of politics as usual has been broken. It may not have happened as we expected it to happen but what matters is that it happened. The message is clear: we can and must defeat the ultra-right, by uniting the broadest possible coalition that will represent an overwhelming majority of the people in a new political dynamic. We must quickly shed yesterday’s political perspective and get in step with the march of events.

Frank Chapman
Via e-mail {boldface added}

A "dialectical leap" huh? Gee, I wonder what that means.

A keyword search of WND for "communitarian" returns 16 hits.

Henry Lamb called it An Unseen Enemy of Freedom on Septemeber 13, 2008. (This is the article where Henry told Bobby Garner that the editors at WND took out his embedded link to the ACL.)

In a September 27, 2008 article Henry Lamb explained, "During the 1960s, the United Nations produced the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Article V(e)(iii) proclaimed that all people had a "right" to housing. Both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations supported the treaty, but it was not ratified until the Clinton administration, Nov. 20, 1994. No one noticed or connected the dots to the emerging socialist, communitarian concept called "sustainable development." " and later he says: "Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were institutions that were neither purely socialist, nor purely free market – a blend that is best described as communitarian, in that they allowed private investors to buy and hold shares in the corporations, but were also guaranteed by the federal government. That is, until recently, when the federal government took over both institutions. Now, the federal government essentially owns all those properties – a result that is as socialist as had the government nationalized those properties by force." {boldface added} http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76302

In the Dangers of Overexposing Yourself, by Phil Elmore on 12/11/08, Phil explores the exposure in facebook and myspace, concluding: "It is very unlikely that this trend in social networking and public exposure will be reversed. If anything, as personal video cameras become cheaper and more common and as the Internet becomes more and more interwoven in the fabric of our day-to-day lives, we will devolve even further. Our lives will become more communitarian, not less. The only thing we can do, therefore, is remain vigilant with regard to those disclosures that are voluntary versus those that occur as a result of invasive government action. The former is a reality of popular culture. The latter is an unacceptable breach of constitutionally guaranteed freedoms and must be guarded against at all times." {boldface added}

In 2007, Illana Mercer wrote: "But Gore and his gangreens are cosmopolitans, communitarian citizens of the world. Population explosion they consider a global – not a local – problem. They'll gladly trash Americans for their lavish lifestyles, but about the imperiled quality-of-life across American communities they couldn't care less." {boldface added)http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=44330

WND published the full text of the Pope's April 2008 speech where His Holiness says, "Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer." http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=61975

In another April 2008 WND article by Bob Unruh about the Bible Curriculum, we get this very interesting assessment:

Beason criticized Haynes for writing an article, "When the Government Prays, No One Wins," "in which he infers that the National Day of Prayer should be declared illegal." Beason also charges that Hayne serves on the Board of the Pluralism Project, "along with a Wiccan high priestess, Margot Adler."

He further says Haynes authored a "Communitarian manifesto on religious education" that follows the teachings of occultist Georg Hegel, whose philosophy is used to "shape the people's thoughts and morph the masses to a new kind of community."

"It works!" Beason wrote. "This process transforms individual thinkers into group thinkers. Since the sense of belonging feels good, the threat of group disapproval inhibits members from voicing divisive views. {boldface added} http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=61247

In yet another April 2008 WND article about the Bible Curriculum Project, this one by By Sen. Scott Beason, Alabama State Senate, we learn Joseph Farah's take on communitarianism:

"Charles Haynes is the author of a Communitarian manifesto on religious education. In addition, Haynes authored "Public Schools and Sexual Orientation: A First Amendment Framework", which is endorsed by the radical Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network.

The Communitarian Network has been written about by both Joseph Farah, founder of WorldNetDaily, and Gen. Ben Partin. Farah says, "The best I can decipher of this popular new idea of Communitarianism is that it is not a new idea at all. To put it in its simplest form, I would describe it as a form of communism for people who believe in God." Partin says that the bottom line of the Communitarians is to bring in communism. Six members of the Board of Directors and Advisory Board for the Bible Literacy Project are signatories to the Communitarian Platform. {boldface added}

The Alabama Senator's article also explains how the Hegelian dialectic is used to manipulate students into consensus on the Bible, with:
"Georg Hegel was an occultist whose philosophy laid the foundation for communist brainwashing. We need to grasp the basics of his dialectic process to equip our children to resist his fast-spreading "education" method. It is used in schools and public forums to shape the people's thoughts and morph the masses to a new kind of community."

And here's Devvy (who shows up 6 times in this search) using the term back in 2004 where she casually throws it in, as if it's pefectly interchangable with communist:

One of the highest priorities in instilling the communist moral principles into a population is the joining of all human beings into a single collective (we) where the individual no longer thinks independently. The Soviets believe that the "new communist man" will become one with the state by persuading him or her to relinquish their individuality, their identity, their own self and merge into the collective (community).

This is a crucial factor in subduing a mass of people: condition them like cattle with the state as the prod. In a totalitarian state, the government, or in this instance, "Homeland Security" (Russia is called the Motherland, but the concept is identical) will be the new monitoring mechanism of every American's actions from birth, by numbering the cattle, until death. Individual liberty is incompatible with communitarian ideology.

As people become numbers with their every movement monitored and forced to show papers to travel, eventually they will accept a slave mentality and all will to resist will be gone. "For the good of the community" and "security," they will have finally surrendered their individual being. During this process, the "School to Work Act of 1994" will have conditioned the children and their parents that being forced into a particular career is good "for the community."

Not good for the individual, but for the "collective good" as promoted by Hillary Clinton, who said in a speech earlier this year, "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." If one takes the time to review Clinton's speeches over the years, you can easily see how she promotes the communist morality at every opportunity. {boldface added} http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=28079

It looks like the ONLY time Joseph Farah has written about communitarianism was back in 2001, in his Bush and the Third Way article, which was ALL about Bush's communitarianism reported by Dana Milbank in the Washington Post (an article that many people referred to after it was published, and then, like Farah, who just never mentioned again):

Maybe you're unfamiliar with this term, communitarian. It's not one we hear every day. I would suggest opening up your dictionary and looking it up. Here's what you will find under "communitarian" if you use Webster's New World, the preferred choice of U.S. newspaper people: "a member or advocate of a communistic or communalistic community."

That's it. No alternative definitions offered. But you choose any dictionary you like. I suspect you'll find a similar definition.

But we don't have to look it up in the dictionary to see the striking resemblance between communitarian thought and communist thought. Both center on the idea that the individual needs to be de-emphasized in favor of the "community" or the "state."

The best I can decipher of this popular new idea of communitarianism is that it is not a new idea at all. To put it in its simplest form, I would describe it as a form of communism for people who believe in God.

There were thousands of published books and articles on communitarianism available to Farah when he wrote that article in 2001. Etzioni and the Communitarian Network had eleven advisors inside the Bush White House (including Etzioni).

The SAME communitarian thinker who wrote Bush I's acceptance speech wrote Obama's.

Etzioni was just quoted in the Jerusalem press describing Obama as a communitarian.

If there is a "form of communism for people who believe in God," wouldn't that seem a bit like a topic worthy of further exploration by the Christian Right?

A keyword search for "communism" at WND returns 500 hits.

Henry Makow, Ph.D. put up a link to the ACL on Feb 10, 2009 with "anti communism" in brackets, as if that "explains" what anti communitarian really stands for. I wrote Henry and asked him to please take the brackets off because it is misleading and untrue. I offered to help him understand what communitarianism is, since he obviously does not know anything about the synthesis. He hasn't responded, and his false brackets, putting my ACL work in the phony dialectical capitalism versus communism box, are still there.

So why does the Right avoid the most important topic in US current affairs? Because to admit the synthesis is real they have to admit their "side" is no longer in play. with all the Ph.Ds writing for both the right and the left, it's impossible that none of them are able to comprehend our ACL thesis. I have to say I think they are purposely avoiding it because the communitarians control both "sides." Farah is the editor who took out Lamb's link to the ACL. God forbid WND readers should learn the truth about the Right's "ideology" before the ultimate synthesis is irreversible.

The Anti Communitarian Manifesto is based on our undisputed theory that Communitarianism is the synthesis in the Hegelian dialectic. We proved it is a "balance" between market capitalism and socialism. We proved it is the "balance" between the extreme religious right and the extreme non-religious left. We proved that it incorporates both communist and libertarian "principles." Anyone looking up Hegel or communitarianism easily finds our work. Our orignal thesis has been free online since 2003; thousands of people have read it and studied it. If the Right wing cannot dispute our thesis about communitarianism, then it's high time they started recognizing it for what it is. If they don't, then what is their actual goal in establishing magazines to tell the "news" to "free people?"

And why in the hell would anybody believe what the communists say? Obama, for the record, was officially mentored by the Communitarian Network! Can we at least get a few facts straight about our new president? Professor John McNight (a founding signer of the Communitarian Platform and creator of ABCD's "volunteer" community participation program, one avenue for information gathering included the global GIS mapping database) signed Obama's Harvard Law School application.

Why doesn't the WND publish anything about THAT connection? Could it have anything to do with the fact that COMMUNITARIAN LAW is the basis for all global free trade agreements and that it was introduced, Fabian style, into the USA under the Administrative Procedures Act of 1946? All POLICY law in the USA is communitarian law. All US agency regulatory law is communitarian law. It's too easily proved to exist. The communitarian lie is so flimsy all anyone has to do is learn the actual term and they can find out the whole damn plan. Yeah .. sure don't want Americans finding out anything about communitarianism, now do we? Best we keep Americans stuck in the reliable, highly successful dialectical debates so we can keep on calling them "sheeple" and ridiculing them into feeling stupid and listening only to us. Letting them in on the real game, well that could just screw everything up.

Repeat after me: There is no synthesis. There is only the thesis and the antithesis. I am too stupid to understand Hegel. I am too stupid to understand Obama. I cannot pronounce Amitai Etzioni therefore I don't need to know who he is. Communitarianism just means a communist who believes in God so I don't need to learn how to spell that either, nor do I need to know what God these communists believe in.

"Ultimately, the piper must be paid," by Henry Lamb

Henry Lamb continues to include the word communitarian in his articles. Now he calls sustainable development a "socialist, communitarian concept" that nobody noticed in the 1990s. We're in the middle of a blizzard up here, I'm working on the manifesto (it goes to print next week!) and my arctic entryway is only half-finished, so I can't comment about how I feel now that the ACL is being included in Lamb's articles. I can say that I'm happy to see the word getting out there, because it's 2008 and still so few have noticed it. The ACL is getting a lot more EU nation hits searching for "communitarian law." I wish we'd start getting those from America too.

Ultimately, the piper must be paid
By Henry Lamb, web posted September 29, 2008
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/1008/1008piperpay.htm
{take the direct link to Lamb's article for all his embedded links~ed.}

"The meltdown in the financial markets has caused the finger of blame to spin like a weathervane in a hurricane. The underlying cause of the debacle, however, has been largely ignored. Driven by "progressive" Democrats and Republicans, the cause is the relentless shift from a free market economy to a socialist economy.

"Until the Roosevelt era, the responsibility and privilege of having a home was left solely to the individual. Few people realize that Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) was created in 1938 by FDR, to provide a federal guarantee for home loans extended by local banks.

"Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) was created in 1970, during Nixon's reign. Both were designed to buy mortgages from local lenders as a way to insure an adequate supply of money for local lenders. These "secondary" mortgages were packaged into "bundles" of securities that were traded among an array of financial institutions.

"During the 1960s, the United Nations produced the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Article V(e)(iii) proclaimed that all people had a "right" to housing. Both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations supported the treaty, but it was not ratified until the Clinton administration, November 20, 1994. No one noticed, or connected the dots to the emerging socialist, communitarian concept called "sustainable development. Grassroots organizations across the nation were deeply involved in preventing ratification of another U.N. treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity which was also under consideration at the time.

"To meet its obligations under the U.N.'s Racial Discrimination Treaty, the Clinton administration instructed Fannie Mae to expand loans to low-income borrowers, according to Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae's Chairman. Thus, the "sub-prime" market was born, and government guaranteed loans were extended to millions of families who could not qualify for a mortgage in a free market economy, but easily qualified under the new socialist scheme.

"In 2005, Republican Senators saw the danger and tried to reform these institutions with the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulator Reform Act (S-190), but Democrats blocked the bill.

"Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were institutions that were neither purely socialist, nor purely free market – a blend that is best described as communitarian, in that they allowed private investors to buy and hold shares in the corporations, but were also guaranteed by the federal government. That is, until recently, when the federal government took over both institutions. Now, the federal government essentially owns all those properties – a result that is as socialist as had the government nationalized those properties by force.

"AIG, the international insurance giant, and other Wall Street and international financial institutions bought the bundles of mortgage securities that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac offered. Everybody involved made a ton of money, and housing for low income families expanded exponentially – just as the Treaty on Racial Discrimination and the proponents of sustainable development had predicted. With all the new loans being made, the home building industry flourished, the real estate industry flourished, all industries related to housing flourished – until the market became saturated.

"Home values stopped rising. Housing inventories began to rise. Home values began to decline. Foreclosures began to rise. Homebuilding slowed, housing related industries began to lay off workers. Energy prices began to rise. Paychecks fell short of family needs. Foreclosures skyrocketed. Suddenly, there was little or no value in the bundles of security that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had packaged. Financial institutions found themselves in possession of massive "assets" that had no value. Creak, crumble crash! The financial markets came tumbling down.

"The piper must be paid. The question is whether to do it now – and let the chips fall where they may, or, to kick the can down the road, and pay the piper later. The answer, of course, is to kick the can into the next generation, with another leap toward socialism. The bailout plan – whatever the particulars – is nothing short of a government takeover of the financial industry. The next president will have to sort it out and build the road toward future recovery or final disaster.

"Barack Obama's incessant drumbeat about the failure of the economic policies of the last eight years is either gross ignorance or, more likely, political blame-shifting. The cause of the current meltdown is clearly the Democrat's insistence upon giving federally-guaranteed mortgages to people who could not afford them. Even now, Democrats insist, not on the minimum government involvement possible, but on adding all sorts of give-away ornaments on the bailout Christmas tree. Obama is also promising to take over the energy industry, the health industry, and to give tax credits and even refunds to some people with money he shamelessly takes from others. This is redistribution of wealth - pure socialism.

"McCain may be only marginally better, but any deterrent to the Democrat's determined transformation of America to unabashed socialism should be welcomed. Despite the U.N.'s declaration to the contrary, no person has a "right" to housing. If Democrats prevail and continue their pursuit of the U.N'.s goal of universal socialism, America can expect to experience the same total collapse experienced by the Soviet Union.

"Ultimately, the piper must be paid."

Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO), and chairman of Sovereignty International.

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Henry Lamb's article on communitarianism softens the concept

A keyword search for "communitarian" at Henry Lamb's website, sovereignty.net gives us zero returns. Bobby Garner recently started an email discussion with Lamb regarding this glaring ommission in his well-promoted and most respected work on issues realted to preserving American freedom. So today, out of the blue, an article appears at worldnetdaily by Henry Lamb called, "An unseen enemy of freedom."

"From the highest rafters of academia comes another enemy of freedom: communitarianism. This is a belief system that opposes both authoritarianism and individualism, and promotes instead a social organization that is governed by policies designed by civil society to limit individual freedom as required for the benefit the community. Dr. Amitai Etzioni is credited with founding this communitarian movement.

"Described by Bill Clinton and Tony Blair as "The Third Way," this relatively new philosophy has actually guided design and structure of the sustainable development movement. The goals of communitarianism and of sustainable development are quite laudable. In a word, they seek to balance the rights of the individual with the needs of the community. The problems arise in the methods employed to achieve these goals." {boldface added}
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75118

The first paragraph Lamb wrote sounds like it was written by Etzioni for Wikipedia. Lamb's second graph is the big communitarian lie. Our ACL thesis, Part II: The Historical Evolution of Communitarian Thinking, proves Etzioni's theory is NOT "relatively new."

Who IS Henry Lamb? In the last email challenge to a phony debate from Fusionist Terry Hayfield on Sept 9, Hayfield wrote:

"One reality you probably are not aware of is, I am a "Ghost Writer" for several prominent "others" from the competitive world of Conspiracy Theory that do not share your opinion of me."

When I started seeking the actual facts about American history (as opposed to the British academic revisions and rewrites I had been taught to believe) I trusted Lamb, and it was mainly because of his "Timeline to Global Governance." But I found it very confusing that he wrote nothing about communitarianism, as if it were not even real.

Henry Lamb just showed me exactly why Americans don't know ANYTHING about communitarianism. Now he's going to teach them it's a "laudable" goal. What evidence does he have that communitarianism is laudable ("worthy of praise, commendable" -Websters), besides Etzioni's lofty Zionist opinion? Is Lamb serious, or did he just not do enough homework before he wrote this article? Well, as he told Bobby in an email today, his objective is ongoing.

Henry Lamb wrote:

"Two issues: "The goals are laudable…" As you pointed out, who can oppose "sustaining" resources for the future? My goal is to focus on the SD/Communitarianism cost of the method used to sustain the resources. Perhaps that was not as clear as it might have been. This is a constant, ongoing objective.

"I did, in fact, provide a link to both the Anti-communitarianism site, and to the American Policy Center, as well as to Dr. Amitai Etzioni. The WND editor chose to delete these links for some reason. This article will also appear in Canada Free Press, GOPUSA, and several other publications next week. These links are likely to appear in these publications."

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For some reason, Lamb does not use our actual name either, neither in the above email or in his article. The Anti-Communitarian League is not the Anti-Communitarianism League. Henry Lamb does such meticulous research I am astonished at the level of this mistake (twice) when referring to us specifically (because we are the ONLY possible reference he can mean to "the anti-communitarianism site"). But then again, Henry Lamb calls the communitarian goals "laudable," so obviously he wrote this article very quickly with little concern for getting his facts straight. Here's what Bobby thinks is going on:

Henry,

"The titles they have chosen, "communitarianism" and "sustainable development", and the glowing terms which they use to promote them are laudable, but those titles do not define the goals, and the glowing words are bald faced lies. They are designed to misrepresent and mislead a gullible population. The real goals do not and indeed cannot sustain anything whatsoever, except the power behind the agenda.

"If you provided the links as you said, and I believe you did, then it is no mystery why WND removed them. They want to preserve their readership by feeding them so many political opinions and viewpoint that they will continue believing in the power of their own opinions, keep up the letter writing campaigns to congress, and to keep them starved for any real truth."

Bobby