This is all too common with Web sites that prefer to be echo chambers of approved views.  Some obvious sites that, as a result, are just propaganda outlets are:

• Free Republic
• Talking Points Memo
• Red State
• Daily Kos
• NoQuarterUSA

While it is the right of any Web site to use discretion and censor commentary they post, they should clearly state if they are open forums or that they only want concurring views.  Labeling unwanted commentators as “trolls” is disingenious at best.  These sites should show a little more honesty and maturity.

And what about The Independent View? At the moment I moderate all posts.  I do welcome thoughtful and provocative comments regardless of the viewpoint.  I will not publish, though, any comment that uses offensive language, rude or personal attacks, or are off-topic.  In the near future, once the current redesign and upgrade of the Web site is complete, I anticipate opening the Web site up for more direct posts and comments from non-anonymous writers.

As for the United States, Israel aggression, oppression, and war crimes do not reflect our values, nor serve our interests.  Enough is enough—No more money, no more weapons, and no more support.  Period.

And a thought about Palestinian resistance.  Any resistance is legitimate and is no less than I’d claim if I were in their aggrieved position.  Finally, whether Palestinians ultimately choose to recognize Israel or not is a question best left for the future as Israel does not deserve recognition today.

Update: I guess I won’t be writing any more diary entries or comments at RedState.com. It turns out that RedState.com is as opposed to discussion and differing viewpoints as are the Obama Cult (TalkingPointsMemo.com) and the PC crowd (NoQuarterUSA.net)—in their case, RedState.com editors responded with quick calls of anti-semitism instead of racism but it is equally unoriginal, untrue, and derogatory. In response to an pro-Israel propaganda post I shared that I did not agree with the writer’s knee jerk support and shared my above opinion. The result was that I was almost immediately banned. Not only that, but RedState’s editors trashed my comment. Banning is one thing as it is their Web site, but to edit and trash the comment while still leaving my name on it is not only disrespectful but shows incredible immaturity.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need–Karl Marx, 1875.

When asked on Good Morning America (October 24, around 2 minutes), Barack Obama said he did not regret his ‘spread the wealth’ comment.  Why should he?  His socialist and Marxist past and ideology is coming into sharp focus and out-of-the-closet so-to-speak (See, for example, my article, Obama is Hiding a Radical Past).  Past complaints about Obama not having any discernable ideology can now be firmly laid to rest.

In a 2001 public radio interview (see below the fold), Obama clearly faulted the Supreme Court for not reinterpreting the U.S. Constitution to force redistribution of wealth and faulted the civil rights movement for not doing more “political and community organizing and activities on the ground.…to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.”

Obama aligned himself with a socialist party in 1996 and has longstanding ties to Marxists (e.g., Bill Ayers, Mike Klonsky) who have a record of attacking the United States.

In about one week the American public will have a choice of voting for Barack Obama, a man with personal and professional ties to people espousing Marxist and socialist ideologies, or John McCain, an American patriot who has fought Marxism.

Here are some points to consider:

• Obama’s childhood friend and mentor was avowed communist Frank Marshall Davis, a Soviet agent and member of the Communist Party USA
• Obama is a self-proclaimed Marxist
• Obama has indisputable ties to groups associated with, supporting, or supported by socialist and communist organizations
• Obama is a trained agitator, a disciple of Saul Alinsky.  He in turned taught tactics to ACORN.
• Obama has close personal, professional, and political ties to terrorists (yes, plural)
• Obama has personal, professional, and business ties with a convicted and jailed felon, Antoine Rezko, and his financial patron, Auchi, a close associate of the late Saddam Hussein.
• Obama has a 20-year personal and private relationship with anti-American, hate-filled and racists preachers.
• Obama entered politics with the endorsement, funding, and support of terrorists, socialists, and others bent on undermining or overthrowing our country.

The details on each that substantiate Barack Obama’s long-held views and associations…

• Obama’s childhood friend and mentor was Frank Marshall Davis, a black revolutionary who was a well known card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA and a “key high-level operative in a Soviet-sponsored network in Hawaii” (See AIM).  Davis even gets mention in one of Obama’s books.  In refuting Jerome Corsi’s book, The Obama Nation, Barack Obama published Unfit for Publication that simply claims Davis was a poet and civil rights activist.  (Note that Obama equates ‘civil rights activist’ with being a black revolutionary, a communist, and a Soviet agent.  Nice.)
• In the 1980s after graduating from Columbia University and working in New York City for up to two years, Obama moved to Chicago to work as a “community organizer” for the Developing Communities Project (DCP).  DCP employed Saul Alinsky’s approach wherein Obama was a community agitator.  Mike Kruglik, an Alinsky desciple and Obama mentor said of Obama, “He was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation.”

At the heart of the Alinsky method is the concept of “agitation”–making someone angry enough about the rotten state of his life that he agrees to take action to change it; or, as Alinsky himself described the job, to “rub raw the sores of discontent.”—Kruglik in The New Republic.

• In a 1990 interview by Associated Press in the Daily Herald, a suburban Chicago paper, Obama discusses building organizations, as opposed to movements that dissipate.  He described the 1960s as failures for raising issues but not offering a viable alternative.  In discussing racism and sexism, he called for reshaping America to be, in apparent reference to economic redistribution and reparations, “less mean-spirited and more generous.”
• Obama is a self-proclaimed Marxist.  Spreading the wealth is Marxism, pure and simple.  It is not a casual statement on Obama’s part.  Consider his 2001 Chicago Public Radio interview (including complete transcript) where he bemoans that the Supreme Court did not reinterpret the Constitution to force redistribution of wealth in America.

As this interview becomes widely viewed on the Internet, the McCain campaign already has out a response:

“The American people continue to learn more about Barack Obama. Now we know that the slogans ‘change you can believe in’ and ‘change we need’ are code words for Barack Obama’s ultimate goal: ‘redistributive change.’ In a previously uncovered interview from September 6, 2001, Barack Obama expressed his regret that the Supreme Court hadn’t been more ‘radical’ and described as a ‘tragedy’ the Court’s refusal to take up ‘the issues of redistribution of wealth.’ No wonder he wants to appoint judges that legislate from the bench – as insurance in case a unified Democratic government under his control fails to meet his basic goal: taking money away from people who work for it and giving it to people who Barack Obama believes deserve it. Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change,” McCain senior policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin said in a statement.—From Foon Rhee, Boston Globe.

• Obama has indisputable ties to groups associated with, supporting, or supported by socialist and communist organizations.  As I wrote in Obama is Hiding a Radical Past, Obama was involved with the Illinois New Party, which was an umbrella group that included participation by the Chicago DSA, the lcoal affiliate of the Democratic Socialists of America, the communist Committees of Correspondence, ACORN, and SEIU.  Further, as noted in the DSA’s publication, New Ground, “When Obama participated in a 1996 UofC YDS Townhall Meeting on Economic Insecurity, much of what he had to say was well within the mainstream of European social democracy.”
• Obama is a trained agitator, a disciple of Saul Alinksy.  He in turned taught tactics to Public Allies and to ACORN.  In fact, contrary to Obama’s claims that he had no connection with ACORN, Ms. Foulkes, ACORN’s leader in Chicago and member of ACORN’s National Association Board, says, in the Winter 2003 issue of Social Policy (as quoted by Lynn Sweet), that “every year since 1992 until at least the winter of 2003, Mr. Obama taught a “session on power” for ACORN.”
• Barack and Michelle Obama have close personal, professional, and political ties to terrorists (yes, plural). William Ayers, along with his wife Bernadine Dohrn, and associates that include Michael Klonsky, a one-time Obama adviser, are domestic terrorists who bombed U.S. Capital, the Pentagon, and other locations. They backed up their calls for insurrection with violence against the United States.  The Obamas individual or together worked for, worked with, collaborated with, sponsored, or helped each other.  Barack helped Bill dispense $160 million on failed projects in Chicago.  The New Yorker played on Obama’s ties much the same as many Obama supporters have adopted Hussein as part of the online names to neutralize the impact.  Anyway, only Obama seems concerned about his middle name but everyone should be very concerned about what his association with terrorists suggest about his judgment.
• Obama has personal, professional, and business ties with a convicted felon, Antoine Rezko, through whom Obama has long financial dealings, including a self-proclaimed ‘boneheaded’ deal to buy a mansion in Chicago.  More importantly Rezko involved Obama with his financial patron, Nadhmi Auchi, a close associate of the late Saddam Hussein.
• Obama also has a 20-year personal and private relationship with anti-American, hate-filled and racists preachers like Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Reverend James Meeks, and Father Michael Plfeger.  His ties to Minister Farrakhan are unclear though Minister Farrakhan has mirrored his religious brethren in proclaiming Obama The One, The Messiah.

• Obama entered politics with the endorsement, funding, and support of terrorists, socialists, and others bent on undermining or overthrowing our country.  The evidence is still coming out and is documented in numerous posts.  This is no longer speculative or exceptions, it reflects the core of who Obama is and who he has chosen to surround himself with as he sought political office and sought higher office, including now the U.S. presidency.

To go so far as to vote for a socialist and Marxist as president of the United States is, in my opinion, national suicide.  The United States is a successful market-driven capitalist society.  We fought and won the Cold War, fought in Korea, and fought in Vietnam to protect our values against socialism, Marxism, and communism.  That we’d now consider voting for a candidate who actually supports the views of our enemies is unconsciousable and disrespecting everything we stand for as a nation.  This touches on the very foundations of our country and truly transcends party labels.

Senator Biden today, regarding in particular questions he got last week (See Obama, the Marxist):

Karl Marx and says in a sense, isn’t Barack Obama Karl Marx? You know, I mean, folks, this stuff you’re hearing — this stuff you’re hearing in this campaign, some of it is pretty ugly and some of the innuendo is pretty ugly.”

With all due respect, Senator Biden, it is ugly.  It is also in Obama’s own words–both to Joe the Plumber and in a 2001 interview.  Not only ugly, but this does not represent what America is all about.

There can be no more patriotic choice for all Americans than to reject Barack Obama and vote instead for John McCain.  He knows what America stands for, he has fought for America, and he believes in America.

Cross-posted at NoQuarterUSA.