"An Open Letter to Student Anti-War Protesters"

An ex-communist organizer explains how the communists influence college dupes.

By Brian Sayres at FrontPage Magazine yesterday:

On Wednesday, March 5th, a few hundred of you at Stanford University participated in a 'National Student Strike' against an attack on Saddam Hussein's murderous regime. This mass hooky was sponsored nation-wide by an organization calling itself the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition; locally, it was purportedly organized by a collection of Stanford student organizations called the Coalition of Students Against War, closely affiliated with the Stanford Community for Peace and Justice. Others have already shown the links between the national front groups and shadowy Stalinist organizations like the Worker's World Party. The same sort of thing is true locally. To find out who really ran the show at Stanford, one simply has to go to the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition's website, and search the list of participating campuses. There, the Stanford organizers are plainly listed as the Stanford Labor Action Coalition and the Young Communist League - the youth branch of the Communist Party, U.S.A. The president of the Stanford Young Communist League, a Clara Webb, is the contact person for both organizations.

That the anti-war demonstrations are led by communists, while underreported in the mainstream media, is not exactly breaking news. However, the reports from the protest indicate that a new stage of radical quislingism is about to begin. Desperate to prevent President Bush and the American military from liberating the Iraqi people, the Communists have begun openly recruiting college students like you to participate in illegal acts, designed to disrupt the lives and empty the pocketbooks of ordinary Americans. All of this took place last Wednesday with the tacit approval of many Stanford professors - a full two dozen cancelled their classes in support of the demonstration, and, according to the protest organizers, a full sixty pledged their support.

I cannot simply be silent about this. In fact, I have a moral responsibility to speak up, for once, not so long ago, I was the one organizing. I was the one manipulating others. You see, I was once a Communist....

Alas, I fear this discussion is probably over the heads of most American college students nowadays.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 03/12/03 06:39:45 AM
Categorized as Political.