The Frank Marshall Davis Network
AIM Report | By Andrew Walden | September 1, 2008
What about Frank Marshall Davis’s role as a mentor to the young Obama?
The “Honolulu Community Media Council” (HCMC) on July 14 denounced Accuracy in Media and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for “shoddy journalism and smear tactics.” HCMC, headed by Chris Conybeare, “finds” that “there is no substance to the claim” that “Frank Marshall Davis was a lifelong Communist and a mentor to (presidential candidate Barack) Obama.”
Conybeare may be hoping that nobody else knowing the post-WW II history of Hawaii is willing to talk. Davis, it turns out, was just one member of a network whose works continue to exert influence to this day.
Connecting The Dots
A faculty member of the UH-West Oahu Center for Labor Education and Research (CLEAR), Conybeare is a producer of the many-part PBS “Rice and Roses” series on the history of labor organizing in Hawaii, focusing on the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU). Conybeare’s “Biography Hawaii” videos include the story of ILWU Hawaii President, Jack Hall and the life of Koji Ariyoshi, founder and editor of the ILWU-funded Honolulu Record.
According to Conybeare’s videos, before hiring Frank Marshall Davis, Koji Ariyoshi joined the WW2-era Military Intelligence Service/OSS—predecessor to the CIA—and used his language skills to land himself a position as U.S. military liaison to Communist forces in China—working personally with Mao Zedong.
Ariyoshi’s Honolulu Record employed the services of Frank Marshall Davis almost immediately upon his arrival in Hawaii. Jack Hall and Ariyoshi were among the Honolulu Seven defendants identified as key leaders of the Communist Party in Hawaii and convicted in 1953 of “conspiring to teach and advocate the overthrow of the government by force and violence.” Their convictions were reversed January 20, 1958 after the Supreme Court re-interpreted the Smith Act.
From its first issue The Record dedicated massive amounts of space to defending fired Communist schoolteachers John and Aiko Reinecke, who would later become two of the Honolulu Seven. Shortly after the Honolulu Seven convictions were reversed, the paper folded. Ariyoshi then opened a flower shop and became known in Honolulu as “the Red florist.” But a decade later Ariyoshi was back in action leading the 1970 establishment of the Ethnic Studies Department at UH Manoa (slogan: Our History Our Way).
Ariyoshi’s story told in Conybeare’s video traces the unbroken ideological chain from China, to the ILWU, and to the University of Hawaii Ethnic Studies Department. In 1976, as Ariyoshi lay dying of cancer, the Democratic-controlled Hawaii State Legislature passed a resolution in his honor.
Another Mentor
The Honolulu Advertiser, reviewing Conybeare’s Ariyoshi video, describes Ariyoshi as “Mentor to a generation of Hawaii activists.” Apparently that generation is now rising to his defense.
Hawaii’s first Democratic Governor Jack Burns offered to testify at the Honolulu Seven trial as a character witness on behalf of Jack Hall, but Hall declined in order to protect Burns from exposure. Burns explained in 1975: “Every guy in the ILWU was at one time or another a member of the Communist Party of America. This is where they got their organizational information and how to organize, and how to bring groups together and how to create cells and how to make movements that are undetected by the bosses and everything else. …I know what they were about. I said this is the only way they are going to organize.” Burns was likely referring only to union officials rather than the entirety of the rank and file.
Senator Dan Inouye (D-HI) lost his right arm in WW II combat in Italy. In the 1954 electoral campaign he responded to Republican charges that the Democrats were influenced by communists with the famous quote now known by every Hawaii school kid: “I gave this arm to fight Fascists. If my country wants the other one to fight Communists, it can have it.”
But in his biography, Inouye is a little more circumspect: “No one with any sense of political reality denied that there were probably some Communists in the ILWU. ...There were those who felt that the Democrats’ Party, by logical extension, was also controlled by Communists.”
One-Party State
The story of Frank Marshall Davis, Obama’s Marxist mentor, is completely intertwined with the story of the Hawaii Democrats rise to power.
In the Star Bulletin of June 29, 2008, UH Professor of Interdisciplinary studies Dr. Kathryn Waddell Takara gives a non-denial denial: “Frank Davis loved democracy. But he was a fierce critic of racism and injustice, and in those years, anyone who was that controversial got labeled a communist.”
Takara’s implied claim that Davis was just tagged Red because he was “a critic of racism” might lead Senator Inouye to ask: Has she lost any sense of political reality?
CPUSA-Free History
But Inouye would be wrong. Takara and Conybeare are defending a carefully crafted CPUSA-free version of history promoted by the “generation of Hawaii activists” for whom Koji Ariyoshi served as “mentor.” Conybeare is Ariyoshi’s video-biographer, while Takara created the first Black Studies courses within Ariyoshi’s UH Department of Ethnic Studies.
In addition to telling the story of Frank Marshall Davis, Takara has time to write “freedom poems” such as “Mumia Abu Jamal: Knight for Justice,” honoring the ultra-leftist cause célèbre convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer over a traffic ticket. Another Takara poem is titled simply, “Angela Davis,” honoring the former Communist Party vice presidential candidate acquitted as an accessory to the 1970 murder of California judge Harold Haley.
Writes Takara:
I heard Angela was coming
to Honolulu
a real event
like Miles & his red trumpet
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Perhaps Takara would like the world to not mention Angela Davis’s Communist Party membership as well?
The Manzanar Connection
Japanese living in Hawaii were not uniformly sent to internment camps as was the case on the mainland. But Ariyoshi was in San Francisco working with the ILWU when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He was sent to Manzanar Internment Camp in the Mojave Desert. There he worked with fellow Communist Karl Yoneda to implement the CPUSA line in support of the war effort.
According to the National Parks Service Historic Resource Study on Manzanar:
“One of the most prominent evacuees at Manzanar to join the Military Intelligence Service was Karl G. Yoneda. A Kibei born in Southern California, Yoneda went to Japan with his family at the age of 11. Attracted by books as a young man, he developed an interest in Marxism and left home at the age of 16, bound for China in search of a Russian writer whose works he admired. In order to avoid being drafted into the Japanese army, he returned to the United States and quickly became involved in the labor movement in California. He joined the Communist Party, and spent the 1930s as the editor of the Communist newspaper Rodo Shimbun (Japanese Worker) and as an organizer of Japanese labor in California and Alaska.”
“On April 4, (1942) less than two weeks after arriving at Manzanar as a volunteer, Yoneda was called to the camp administration office to be questioned by two sergeants from U.S. Army Intelligence concerning his thoughts about the center and the number of Communists residing there. Yoneda reportedly told them that Japanese-American Communist Party members and supporters were participating actively in the war against the Axis Powers and were willing to enlist if the Army would take them. In the meantime, they would take the message of democracy to the evacuees to help build a livable place and would attempt to aid the war effort in every way possible. He told them the majority of the evacuees were loyal to America, but he refused to provide names of Communists in the camp. Despite his “patriotic” statements, the FBI assigned an evacuee informer, identified as “B,” to monitor and report on Yoneda’s activities at Manzanar.
“Yoneda emerged as one of the leaders of the evacuee faction at Manzanar that advocated working with WCCA and WRA administrators. On July 20, he attended the meeting in Togo Tanaka’s quarters during which the Manzanar Citizens Federation was established to press for improved living conditions in the center and help promote the war effort. The organizing group included Koji Ariyoshi….”
Shortly after Yoneda, Ariyoshi and others left for military service, pro-Japan internees rioted in an attempt to retaliate against the families of those who cooperated. This resulted in the rioters being transferred to Tule Lake and left the Communists in a Manzanar camp politically designed for receptivity to their line of supporting the war effort.
Ironically, this put the pro-Soviet Communists in alliance with those in the camp who were genuinely patriotic Americans of Japanese ancestry, created much of the strange and contradictory nature of Hawaii’s Revolution of 1954, and centralized the role of Japanese Americans in it. It also put Yoneda and Ariyoshi in China working personally with Mao Zedong. The Historic Resource Study continues:
“Koji Ariyoshi, an associate of Yoneda who was selected for the Military Intelligence Service from Manzanar, would later gain some notoriety. After training at the MIS Language School, he was also assigned to intelligence work in the China-Burma-India Office of the War Information Psychological Warfare Team. A native of Hawaii, Ariyoshi returned to Honolulu after the war and established the Honolulu Record, a progressive newspaper that he edited from 1948-58. Having become an admirer of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communists while stationed in Yenan, China, during the war, Ariyoshi promoted U.S-China relationships during the Cold War era. In 1951-52 he and six others were arrested and convicted for “conspiring to teach and advocate the overthrow of the government by force and violence,” but his conviction was overturned in 1958. [104]”
Where the Manzanar study leaves off, researcher Herbert Romerstein picks up. At a May 22, 2008 news conference sponsored by America’s Survival, Inc., Romerstein explained the connection between Koji Ariyoshi and Soviet Intelligence:
“…one of Ariyoshi’s close friends was John Stewart Service, one of the penetrations of the State Department, and the man who stole vast amounts of classified material from the State Department and gave them to a communist magazine called Amerasia. Amerasia had two Soviet Intelligence Agents working on its staff and so they, of course, had access to the material that Service provided.
“…there’s a book about Koji Ariyoshi that was written after his death and it’s in honor of him and the introduction is written by John Stewart Service, who says that when Nixon went to China, Service felt that it was time for him to go back and he did. But on his way he stopped in Hawaii to meet his friend, Aryioshi, and urge him to visit China, which he did….
“The book was published in a very small edition in San Francisco as a paperback, but it was then published in Communist China as a hardback book in English with all of the material about Koji Ariyoshi and what he had done and his work in the OSS and, of course, the introduction by John Stewart Service….”
Mao’s Communist dictatorship killed 70 million Chinese people. His successors’ one-baby-policy has resulted in the death of as many as 40 million Chinese baby girls.
Davis As Mentor
What about Frank Marshall Davis’s role as a mentor to the young Obama? This is one of the assertions that Conybeare’s media council disputes.
Merriam-Webster defines “mentor” as “a trusted counselor or guide.” Was Frank a “trusted counselor or guide” to Obama? And what “vision” did Davis give to the young Obama?
Consider these examples from Obama’s 1995 book, Dreams from My Father:
n Obama’s grandmother (Toot) and Gramps have an argument over whether Gramps should give Toot a ride to work after she had been threatened at a bus stop by a black panhandler. Obama looks to Frank to sort it out in his mind. (p. 89-91)
n When Toot is having difficulty convincing the drug-abusing young Obama to apply for college, it is again Frank who is able to convince Obama that college is necessary. (p. 96-98)
n Frank delivers to the young Obama the one key lesson which radicals have sought to inculcate in the mind of every black person whether under slavery, segregation or civil rights: “…you may be a well-trained, well-paid nigger, but you’re a nigger just the same.” (p. 97)
In his short column about Dr. Kathryn Waddell Takara’s “anger” at the “bloggers…twisting her research,” Star Bulletin columnist John Heckathorn lets slip: “In the ’70s, a by-then-elderly Davis was a friend of Barack Obama’s grandfather and would proffer advice to a young Barry, as he was called then.” Ooops.
Are “critics of racism” being unfairly tagged Red, as Takara says?
In reality, Reds often unfairly tagged other “critics of racism” who did not toe the Communist line. The echoes of Takara start with Davis himself.
In the Honolulu Record, August 11, 1949, Davis denounces black leaders who criticized Communist Party member Paul Robeson for saying, “American Negroes would never go to war against Russia.” Said Davis, “They were like faithful dogs, trying to curry favor with their masters.”
In his memoir, Livin’ the Blues, Davis writes that when author Richard Wright in 1944 left the Communist Party, “his resultant series of articles in widely read publications was an act of treason in the fight for our rights and aided only the racists who were constantly seeking any means to destroy cooperation between Reds and blacks.” (p. 243).
Stalinist Tactics
There are other “critics of racism” who got a taste of the Communists’ tactics from Davis. A 1949 letter sent to NAACP acting National Secretary Roy Wilkins by a Honolulu attorney and NAACP leader named Edward Berman:
“I was at one of the election meetings at which one Frank Marshall Davis, formerly of Chicago (and formerly editor of the Chicago Communist paper, the Star) suddenly appeared on the scene to propagandize the membership about our ‘racial problems’ in Hawaii. He had jut sneaked in here on a boat, and presto, was an ‘expert’ on racial problems in Hawaii. Comrade Davis was supported by others who had recently ‘sneaked’ into the organization with the avowed intent and purpose of converting it into a front for the Stalinist line….
“…Already, scores of Negro members were frightened away from these meetings because of the influx of this element. Only by a reorganization with a policy that will check this infiltration, can we hope to get former members back into a local NAACP branch. We are going to have to have that authority over here—otherwise you’ll have a branch exclusively composed of yelping Stalinists and their dupes—characters who are more concerned about the speedy assassination of Tito (who had just broken with the USSR) than they are about the advancement of the colored people of these United States.”
Shortly after receiving this letter, the NAACP revoked its Honolulu Chapter’s charter in order to reorganize and prevent a Communist takeover of the organization.
Wilkins Denounces Reds
NAACP leader Roy Wilkins had another view of “cooperation.” Writing to CPUSA member William Patterson on November 23, 1949, he explains:
“We remember the Scottsboro case and our experience there with the (Communist front) International Labor Defense, one of the predecessors of the Civil Rights Congress. We remember that the present Civil Rights Congress is composed of the remnants of the ILD and other groups. We remember that in the Scottsboro case, the NAACP was subjected to the most unprincipled vilification. We remember the campaign of slander in the Daily Worker. We remember the leaflets and the speakers and the whole unspeakable machinery that was turned loose upon all those who did not embrace the ‘unity’ policy as announced by the communists.
“We want none of that unity today.
“We of the NAACP remember that during the war when Negro Americans were fighting for jobs on the home front and fighting for decent treatment in the armed services we could get no help from the organizations on the extreme Left. They abandoned the fight for Negro rights on the grounds that such a campaign would ‘interfere with the war effort.’ As soon as Russia was attacked by Germany they dropped the Negro question and concentrated all effort in support of the war in order to help the Soviet Union. During the war years the disciples of the extreme left sounded very much like the worst of the Negro-hating Southerners.”
Wilkins’ final sentence should be considered when reading Frank Marshall Davis’s words to the young Obama: “…you may be a well-trained, well-paid nigger, but you’re a nigger just the same.”
Then as now, Communists see African-Americans as merely a tool with which to acquire power and are quite willing to send highly self-destructive messages in pursuit of that power.
DEAR FELLOW MEDIA WATCHDOG
RUSH LIMBAUGH HAS MENTIONED OUR WORK ON THE FRANK MARSHALL Davis-Obama connection, in the context of noting that we have taken the Associated Press apart for failing to identify Davis as a Communist Party USA (CPUSA) member. That AP story appeared in countless publications here and abroad, including the “conservative” Washington Times, and completely whitewashed Davis and his relationship with Obama. It said Davis was merely “left-leaning” and a “poet” and “journalist.” In this context, of course, his relationship with Obama was not viewed as necessarily dangerous and threatening. The AP story demonstrates, once again, the pro-Obama media bias we are trying to counter and expose. I had provided the AP reporter, Sudhin Thanawala, information proving Davis’s communist affiliations. He decided to deliberately ignore it. Please send the AP the enclosed postcard to protest their dishonest coverage.
ALSO HEAVILY DRAWING ON OUR MATERIAL, INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY PUBLISHED AN August 5 editorial, “Young Obama’s Red Mentor.” The paper noted that the “cryptic references” in Obama’s book to this communist mentor “were—and still are—designed to protect Obama’s background from the scrutiny it deserves.” This is a point that AIM has been making since February, when we broke open the story by confirming the identity of Davis with two different sources. It was New Zealand blogger Trevor Loudon who had originally discovered a communist source of information on the Obama-Davis relationship. Two recently published books, The Obama Nation by Jerome Corsi and The Case Against Barack Obama by David Freddoso, also include information about the Frank Marshall Davis story. But only Corsi, an experienced investigative reporter for WorldNetDaily, gives us the proper credit for uncovering this scandal. He also quotes our material on the Global Poverty Act. I provided material to both authors in order to get the truth out. Use the enclosed postcard to order Corsi’s book.
DAVID FREDDOSO USES OUR MATERIAL ON DAVIS AND OTHER FIGURES IN OBAMA’S LIFE, including Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer and communist terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, but fails to give us the credit for digging it up. Indeed, he writes as though he is the one who uncovered the Davis connection. At the same time, he tries to play it down, saying people shouldn’t make too much of Davis’s influence over Obama. As I mentioned to Michael Savage on the Savage Nation radio program, Davis is the key to understanding Obama because Davis’s influence over him during his high-school years in Hawaii helps explain why he would later associate with terrorists, communists and socialists.
THE JOHN EDWARDS ADULTERY AFFAIR IS A CHILLING REMINDER THAT DEMOCRATIC Party cover-ups can succeed, with the help of the media, and that even the most sophisticated “investigative” reporters are prepared to overlook potential Democratic scandals. Edwards is out of the race, but Obama is running ahead in most polls for the highest office in the land and seems confident that the media will not blow the whistle on his Marxist mentor. With Edwards now admitting the affair, reporters and commentators in the mainstream media are acknowledging that they were deceived and blew it. But why is it that they always seem to miss big scandals involving Democrats? In this context, I repeat: why haven’t they yet reported on the relationship that Obama had with Davis, a subject of an FBI investigation and several official inquiries into Soviet-sponsored activities in the U.S.? Davis was so deeply involved in the CPUSA that he recruited members for the party and had personal connections to other top party members such as Harry Bridges and Paul Robeson.
AT AIM WE DIDN’T DISMISS THE ADULTERY CHARGES AGAINST EDWARDS. ROGER ARONOFF and I noted in a January 7 column that while Edwards had denied the Enquirer story, this didn’t mean that the allegations were untrue. Our column criticized Brian Ross’s ABC 20/20 story insisting that this was shaping up as possibly the dirtiest presidential campaign in history, and that one of the dirty campaign tricks was the National Enquirer account of Edwards allegedly fathering a “love child” out of wedlock. “Grocery store check-out lines,” Ross said, showing the supermarket tabloids. “There have been National Enquirer headlines claiming a love child scandal involved Senator John Edwards or a member of his staff, forcing Edwards to issue a strong public denial.” Ross showed Edwards saying, “The story is false, it’s completely untrue, ridiculous.” It is clear that Ross believed the denials coming from Edwards, his staff and other Democrats. Now who looks ridiculous? In addition to Edwards and his lackeys, the list includes Brian Ross and all of the other reporters in the liberal media who took Edwards at his word.
IN CONTRAST TO ROSS’S EAGERNESS TO BELIEVE EDWARDS, OUR COLUMN NOTED THAT “Despite its reputation as a supermarket tabloid, the National Enquirer is the paper that broke the story, which was confirmed, of Jesse Jackson having an illegitimate child. Hence, the paper’s exclusives cannot be dismissed out of hand.” This is the approach that Brian Ross and the rest of the media should have taken. They should have admitted that they had missed a big story that the Enquirer had broken, and that the Edwards story deserved follow-up. Fortunately, the Enquirer persisted in covering this scandal in the face of the abject failure of the rest of the media to do their jobs. The lesson, which is learned and relearned every election cycle, is that the major media are easily manipulated by Democratic Party politicians. The “love child” story clearly did not belong in a report on alleged “dirty tricks” because it was not known at the time whether it was true or not and where the story had come from. It may have come from associates of Edwards’ mistress, who wanted public accountability and truth from Edwards and were astounded by the media’s eagerness to believe Edwards’ lies. By refusing to investigate the story immediately and thoroughly, the major media were covering up for an adulterer and a liar, who happened to be a major Democratic presidential candidate and could have become the Democratic presidential nominee.
ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, ROSS WAS ON ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT REPORTING ON EDWARDS’ admission of infidelity and his interview with Bob Woodruff of Nightline about his deception. It would have been appropriate at this point for Ross to have apologized for his ABC News report which claimed the Enquirer story about Edwards was a dirty trick. But no apology was forthcoming. Edwards “repeatedly lied” about the affair, Ross and his colleagues are now reporting. Yes, but seven months ago these lies were called a “strong public denial” in the face of sensational allegations from a questionable supermarket tabloid. It looks like the Enquirer has a better “nose for news” than “investigative” journalist Ross, who labeled the Edwards adultery story a political dirty trick. Please send Brian Ross the enclosed postcard about this matter.
IN ADDITION TO CLEARING UP THE EDWARDS MESS, ROSS SHOULD SUBJECT OBAMA TO THE scrutiny he deserves and bring the Frank Marshall Davis connection to national attention. Otherwise, his title of “chief investigative correspondent” will become nothing more than a joke. This AIM Report is another example of how, with your help, we continue to dig into this story. We will not let you down. Our nation is counting on the truth to come out.
18 Comments
Getting the left leaning media to tell the truth about Obama’s past is just not going to happen, and the Edwards adultury is a good case in point as evidenced in this article. It took a supermarket tabloid to out Edwards, and media watchdog groups can say and do everything they can think of to get the true story out there, but MSM is in the bag for Obama, and that is NOT going to change. Perhaps AIM and article author Andrew Walden should turn over all their evidence to the National Enquirer, and then it might actually get out to the people before the election?
It is sad in America today, that the media has become so leftist that a supermarket tabloid is the only way to get factual information to the voters so they may make an informed decision on whom they will endorse on election day - BUT that is the reality.
I believe that an effective way to get Obama’s REAL story out to the voters is to hammer on his relationship with his SDS buddies, and focusing on their actual crimes and bombings and how they have never been really brought to justice for their terrorism. I think Obama’s relationships with these terrorists has a better chance of getting through the leftist news blackout than his communist ties.
Upon posting my above comment, I see that the comment of poster Richard made it on the site first. When I first got AIM’s daily articles column, I went to the site and did not see any comments yet. Since Sullivan and Mark Davis have been commenting non-stop on these threads, MAYBE Richard is mistaken and has confused other threads with this one and actually saw their comments on another thread. It would be easy to do as both Sullivan and Davis are known to make comments that have nothing to do with the story posted they are supposed to be commenting on?
Besides everybody that is a regular poster here knows that AIM does not have a moderator, and that is why we have been subjected to the leftist rants of Obamabot Sullivan for weeks now, when his agenda has really been to stop posters here from even posting (except for himself and his aliases or manifestations), and when they do have the gall to post, then Sullivan immediately attacks them to intimidate them into shutting up and to leave the site.
“Since Sullivan and Mark Davis have been commenting non-stop on these threads, MAYBE Richard is mistaken and has confused other threads with this one and actually saw their comments on another thread.
No, Jack I wasn’t mistaken or confused. I opened this article from the daily AIM email immediately and scrolled to the bottom to see which of AIM’s active pinkos was going to lead off with his irrational diatribe against the author (instead of arguing the facts).
It was, as I expected, Brian Sullivan, spewing more insults per sentence than even he was previously capable of.
Then came Mark Davis with a very long-winded “refutation” of the Walden article in which he nit-picks” interminably about whether, in Edward Berman’s words, Frank marshall Davis snuck into an NAACP meeting or just into Hawaii.
I don’t know, or care, whether there is a moderator, editor, watchdog, or just a hacker fooling around with these postings, but the comments I mentioned were here and now they’re not.
Richard, I will have to then believe you as you seem to believe the posts were here and now they are not. You did mention hackers? Knowing what we have been subjected to with Sullivan, it would not surprise me at all that hackers got on the site? Besides, Richard, are you really going to cry yourself to sleep that Sullivan’s nasty rant is now gone? I know I am not! Maybe the hacker did us a favor? Should we send them a gift? Though I see that Davis also states his post is missing and I have no reason to not believe him.
I guess we will see, as just above this post, is a post from Davis and it is still here. And Mr Davis, you are correct, I lumped you with Sullivan and that was wrong - you DO stay on subject, where Sullivan does not.
To the contrary, Mark. Your comments consistently address the issues raised by AIM’s writers, but seem to dwell excessively (in my opinion) on minutae of the happenings at Honolulu’s NAACP chapter in the late ‘40s and do NOT address the central issue - that Barack Obama, as an impressionable high school student and son of absent parents, was under the considerably persuasive influence of an active communist for many years.
Quibbling about Davis’ longevity as a CPUSA member, or about his (and his fellow travelors’) tactics in perverting the NAACP to communism are irrelevant. Obama was mentored by a communist and later, upon arriving in Chicago, chose to associate closely with violent, leftist extremists (communist or otherwise).
He also, in his rapid scramble up the ladder of political power, chose to accept considerable financial support from a corrupt Chicago businessman who was later convicted of that corruption (Rezko), and to meet another “businessman” convicted of the same kind of corruption, Iraqi-Brit. Nadhmi Auchi.
These are facts that matter, and that powerfully demonstrate how dangerous the Obamas would be if given the opportunity to occupy the White House, whether or not Edward Berman was accurately quoted.
Well, Jack. It looks like you and I own this forum. Davis’ latest posting (to which I responded and which I’m pleased to note you also saw) is now also gone.
How about somebody at AIM looking into this and reporting back.
In answer to your question re Brian, I find his trash, being completely devoid of intellectual or even rational content, to be humorous and thoroughly indicative of the left’s inability to persuade through anything but intimidation, insuation and insult.
To those concerned:
I responded before anyone else to the above piece. It was posted for a short time, then disappeared. So, it would appear censorship has begun. Why mine was considered unacceptable I do not know. Basically, I pointed out that under both the standards of historical scholarship and of the American legal system, the Walden piece would either be rejected on the basis of sources and analysis, or declared inadmissable evidence. (I am prepared to offer “chapter and verse” in that regard.)
As to Mr. Richards comments: Why he thinks I am a pinko or a leftist amazes me. I have killed a good many Communists, both in Vietnam and in Mozambique. I doubt that he has killed any. I have spent many years working on other projects severely detrimental to both Soviet and PRC interests. Has Mr. Richards? Let’s here from him about his anti-Communist career.
More to the point, his definition of insults I have supposedly delivered are truthful statements that I can easily document.
Those who deny facts because they are unpleasant or contradict deeply-held but false opinions fall into a dangerous category in American history. Let us consider the following events in our history that resulted from such stupidity (these are only some): Pearl Harbor, the Ardennes Offensive of Dec. 1944, the Communist invasion of S. Korea in mid-1950, the Chinese intervention later that year, the Hungarian Revolution and Soviet intervention to crush same, the British-French attack on Egypt in 1956, the early Soviet Space program, the Sino-Indian war, the strength/efficiency of Cuban defenses and security measures prior to the Bay of Pigs landing, the Chinese A-Bomb, the many weaknesses of the Diem regime, the seizure of the Pueblo, the Tet Offensive, the 1973 Egyptian and Syrian attacks on Israel, several of the most notorious PLO and Libyan terrorist attacks, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Soviet-Bulgarian assassination attempt on John Paul II, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the break-up of the USSR, the disintegration of Yugoslavia, the absence of an Iraqi nuclear weapons program in 2001-02.
Some of these events were dismissed as unlikely/impossible by higher-ups in the US intelligence community, despite precise warnings from below. Others were reported to the White House and/or the Joint Chiefs but were ignored, dismissed or rejected.
Those who ignore reality usually pay a heavy price. If Master Hansen is really worried about another heart attack, he, too, should pay heed. I will have much to write that will probably send his blood pressure readings into the stratosphere.
Presto! The disappearing posts:
Mark Davis
September 2 at 11:04 am | #5 | Link
Read this quickly because my previous posts WERE deleted! I commented that this column seems to duplicate AIM’s July 29 column, and AIM’s LIE that:
“Shortly after receiving this letter, the NAACP revoked its Honolulu Chapter’s charter in order to reorganize and prevent a Communist takeover of the organization.”
In reality, according to the Congressional testimony, the NAACP revoked the Honolulu Chapter’s charter because it refused to hold required elections DESPITE the threat of a “takeover”:
[QUOTED]
Mr. Berman read the response of the NAACP to the Honolulu Branch: The board on November 14, 1949 voted to revoke the charter of the Honolulu branch for the following reasons:
“The officers of the Honolulu branch have, by their failure, refusal or neglect to complete the holding of the election of officers as required by the constitution and bylaws for branches and as ordered by the national office, been guilty of conduct inimical to the best interest of the NAACP.
The difference in the problems of racial discrimination in the continental United States and their solution as contrasted with the problems of the Territory makes difficult the applicability of techniques and methods used by branches and the national office to effect the policy of the association in the Territory.
[END QUOTATION]
JACK WROTE: “Sullivan and Davis are known to make comments that have nothing to do with the story posted they are supposed to be commenting on.”
RESPONSE: Please provide examples of my comments having nothing to do with the story.
Mark Davis
September 2 at 11:19 am | #6 | Link
RICHARD WROTE: “Then came Mark Davis with a very long-winded “refutation” of the Walden article in which he nit-picks” interminably about whether, in Edward Berman’s words, Frank marshall Davis snuck into an NAACP meeting or just into Hawaii.”
RESPONSE: “Sneaking into Hawaii” was not even a point of contention, which actually were AIM’s misrepresentations that Davis snuck into a meeting, tried to take over Honolulu meetings, tried to take over the NAACP itself, and was directly criticized by Roy Wilkins. AIM presented four false versions of Berman’s Congressional testimony cited by Romerstein. Edward Berman testified that Davis only “suddenly appeared on the scene to propagandize the membership about our “racial problems” in Hawaii.”
You are right, Richard. Davis’ comments are now gone.
I could be wrong but Sullivan has been adept at controlling comments on the threads at this site and since I now see a post from him and he is snivelling about being censored (plus also threathening to be so nasty he hopes I have more heart attacks - can this man get even more despicable or what?) - maybe he is now just starting a new manipulation scheme to create a reason to yell - censorship.
Nothing this man does would surprise me in the least - he is without shame and common decency was obviously NEVER instilled (or didn’t take) in him by his parents. In fact, if his parents are living or deceased, they deserve to go to heaven, in my mind, as they have already experienced hell on earth having him as a son.
Dear Mr. Hansen,
Does this seem familiar to you?
“Expect to hear from the FBI, Sullivan. I want you in jail where you belong.”
Dear Master Hansen,
Here’s another of your blogs:
“Sullivan, you ignorant FUC**NG IDIOT. I talked to the FBI because of your threatening, belligerant, and caustic behavior - people have a right to fear what you would do to them if you got what you want a face-to-face confrontation. And no, I do believe that something has been done, I belive you are now on record with them for this - and should you continue to make people fear you - and it comes to their attention - it is just possible they will see that you enjoy terrorizing those you disagree with and put you where you belong.
I contacted the USMC because you having been of that service, they need to know the caliber of the man that you are, and they saw it very clearly by your posts - I KNEW they could not do anything, BUT they can make a record of it, as yes you are a dishonorable man, and Marines are Honorable Men (except you and that despicable Murtha). With a record, perhaps down the road, you may need some kind of clearance - they need to know how you terrorize people so they can deny such a clearance.
As for feces - you are the one who keeps making this reference, you sick F**K. Someone saying that it scares the sh*t or shiet out of them DOES NOT mean they have some feces fettish, EXCEPT obviously you do.
And for all your education, and everyone here has heard your blowhard windbag puffing of your education, and books, etc, and how everyone here is an idiot, and psychotic EXCEPT for you, you are so butt stupid that you really can not see that liberal government has taken our rights, it is liberal government that wishes us in chains - and it is people like you and your ideas that are taking American’s freedom. America USED to be free, now liberal government has use by the balls, and they tell us more and more what they will allow us to do. That is NOT Freedom - that is totalitarianism - and if you have even a kindergarten education - you idiot - YOU KNOW THIS.
It is the mark of the TRUE liberal that they accuse those that oppose them of that which is really their mission - and boy, you are good at it.
It is your belligerence, your caustic behavior, you F**KING IDIOT!!!!!! That is why commenters on this site are fleeing - that is why they complained to AIM, and if you could actually understand what anybody else says except for your own blowing - you have heard commenters on this site repeatedly say just what I just said. But you can not hear - because you operate with closed ears - and everyone is ignorant but YOU. So yes, I was forced to talk with AIM, as they do not want to have to shut down their comments section. Their comments section is useless to them if only you are on it - they know you hate them - like big surprise.
And you KNOW that not one other site that is moderated would ever allow your belligerence and threats - you would have been banned long ago - and they certainly would not allow your scamming them with your many characters you portray on this site all coming from the same IP address if they knew it. You brought this upon yourself you idiot, you pissed everybody here off, and cowed and intimidated them and made them fear with your threats. So AIM checked things out - and found you are more than one person on this site - and you are hiding that by acting different personalities - all from the same IP.
Talk about totalitarianism - conning people by portraying people you are not, using various methods and personalities to try to cram your liberal idiot beliefs into their heads is the classic indoctrination - and that which comes under the very Communistic State that we are trying to keep your type from bringing to America.
You sir, HAVE NO HONOR, you have no shame, you have no morals, you are a liar, a con artist and a sham - how dare you talk to me about psychosis, insanity, and being psychotic - look in the mirror you worthless scumbag - if there is insanity here it comes all from YOU - you puke.
And regardless of your thinking you have a right under the First Amendment to bogard this site and drive everyone else away - you do not, and if what I suspect is in the works - your toys, at least on this site will disappear before tommorrow is out - you miserable hun.
If you are the face of liberalism, can you wonder, with all your education, why we DO NOT want what you are shoveling? Are you that obtuse?”
“As to Mr. Richards comments: Why he thinks I am a pinko or a leftist amazes me. I have killed a good many Communists, both in Vietnam and in Mozambique. I doubt that he has killed any. I have spent many years working on other projects severely detrimental to both Soviet and PRC interests. Has Mr. Richards? Let’s here from him about his anti-Communist career.”
Ok, Brian. I’m a two-tour veteran of the Vietnam War, having flown USAF F-4 Phantoms on 298 combat missions, during which I killed scores, if not hundreds, of Commies. Glad to hear you and I (and maybe Jack) were comrades in arms.
I’ve also worked (“served”) in Iraq in the last few years and, while I agree with you about the lack of imminent threat of Saddam’s WMD, we needed to squash his nasty and very dangerous regime then and there, before his international friends and arms providers - France and Russia - succeeded in having the UN sanctions turned off. Look at Iraq today; we’ve been enormously successfully, at a cost of less than one tenth of the military lives lost in Johnson’s (and Nixon’s) futile fiasco in Vietnam.
Dear Master Hansen,
And another:
“Brian - You ignorant slut!
This guy just keeps discrediting himself. Call the FBI yourself, felon. I called them and explained the situation, and emailed them your posts, and then talked again to the same agent. I truthfully do not know whether they will call you or visit you, or what - as I said in my last post - and they did say as I stated in that post.
I think I have figured it out though. The Ha Ha House in which you reside just got computers and they let all those that do not eat their checkers and chessmen, play on them every evening, and they (being a government agency) have not figured out yet that they have to supervise you. Maybe if you will let me know which Ha Ha Haven that is yours, I can help you and they can get you one of those wind-up Fisher Price Computers - I hear they got one that sings a song and then a little guy jumps up when the music stops and scares the dickens out of you - please make sure you are wearing diapers before you try that at home or have a whole lot of Toilet Paper available to clean up the mess!”
Wow!!! Now, all comments are gone. This has got to be a dirty trick from Obama supporters. Nobody else has any reason to engage in such un-American activity.
Dear Mr. Hansen,
This one of yours is one of my favorites:
“I told you that I would not be here when you got back if he was. Sorry, AIM convinced me on Friday to hang around as they were just about to lower the boom on this nasty man, but if you read posts from the weekend you will see I had little to say, and in fact there were only about 15 posts after late Saturday afternoon on all the various threads, and almost all were from Brian, or another manifestation, and all were attacking those brave enough to post.
I suspect AIM is close to taking care of the Brian problem, as they see their posters/commenters are fleeing whenever this man opens his mouth. Brian actually thinks he has a Constitutional “RIGHT” to post here and they can NOT cut him off. If he is not in for a brutal realization real soon, I will be gone.”
Dear Master Hansen,
Another one of your amazing insights:
“Hi Julie, yes BlackHat is obviously Sullivan as is probably the new poster dave and perhaps even the newer CTR.”
September 2 at 9:55 am | #1 | Link
Until about an hour ago, there were three Comments posted here - one by Brian R. Sullivan and two by the guy who claims to be a relative (son?) od Frank Marshall Davis. Sullivan’s posting was his typical leftist name-calling rant, offering no rational argument to the article above, while Davis, Jr’s comments attempted to refute the article by nit-picking at insignificant details here and there )and in past articles on his daddy).
So, where are those postings, now? Is AIM censuring our comments to suit there perception of how they want this discussion to proceed? Please respond, Kincaid (or the editor/moderator responsible for amintaining these fora). The opportunity to make a fool of yourself is one I absuolutely don’t want to be denied to leftists such as Brian and Davis, Jr.