Communists Orchestrated Washington "Anti-War" Rally; C-SPAN Becomes Al Jazeera For A Day
Cliff Kincaid, 01/20/03
The major media kept the American people in the dark about communist involvement in the "anti-war" demonstration in the nation´s capital on January 18 that gave aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong Il. Two leading members of the communist Workers World Party (WWP), Brian Becker and Larry Holmes, organized and orchestrated the day´s events, and several other communist and socialist groups openly participated in the rally. The WWP has achieved notoriety, even on the political left, for supporting the North Korean communist dictatorship.
Communist banners at the rally were visible and copies of communist newspapers, literature and publications were available (some for a price). Journalists who ignored communist involvement were either deaf, dumb and blind, or deliberately chose to ignore the facts in order to portray a false picture of the event to the American people.
The event featured vicious anti-American speeches, including an Imam who said, "It´s revolution time," attacks on American "imperialism," and a Korean who said a song called "F***ing USA" was gaining popularity in South Korea. Other speakers urged an American withdrawal from Colombia and the Philippines. The very first speaker of the day, an American Indian, accused Columbus of genocide. Saying that Republicans had impeached Bill Clinton "for nothing," Ramsey Clark called for the impeachment of President Bush.
The rally included representatives of the following groups: Louis Farrakhan´s Nation of Islam, Progressive Labor Party, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, World Socialist Web Site, Cuba Solidarity, Spartacist League, Revolutionary Communist Party USA, the Lyndon LaRouche Presidential Campaign, Communist Party USA and the Workers World Party.
C-SPAN ran live coverage of the rally and re-aired the event several times during the day and night. But it misled viewers into thinking that a group called International ANSWER was behind it. In fact, International ANSWER and its predecessor, the International Action Center, were started by the communist Workers World Party, of which Becker and Holmes are leading members. Holmes appeared on C-SPAN´s Washington Journal program before the rally to promote it. But C-SPAN ignored the patriotic counter-demonstration and failed to feature anyone who could rip the mask off the communist-inspired event. C-SPAN became an American version of Al Jazeera, the Arab television network which serves as a vehicle for extreme anti-American propaganda. This is an outrage.
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