The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Friday, August 04, 2006
Exposing the Shadow Party to the Light of Day
I am already about halfway through David Horowitz's new book The Shadow Party, and I must tell you: it is one of the scariest things I have read in a long time. Not only does the ex-60's radical expose George Soros and his subversive activities to the light of day; he also connects the dots between the Hard Left, Radical Islam, and the Democratic Party.
Today I had the pleasure of reading an interview with Horowitz about his new book by Bill Steigerwald of the Oregon Statesman/Journal, a couple of excerpts of which I am including below. Suffice it to say that this is one book that every thinking American should read, think about carefully, and then read again. It will frighten you--and that is exactly what it should do. Because if these people are not stopped, the United States as we know it is history. America is being stolen out from under its unsuspecting PC-masses--who do not understand or comprehend the forces behind the people they see as so "benign". This secretive effort to undermine America is lead by a highly funded conglomorate--which Horowitz calls "The Shadow Party" designed to destroy the very tenets of the US Constitution. So read the interview--and definitely buy the book. A big h/t for finding this interview goes to James Lewis, who sums up the interview thus:
Although I’m averse to conspiracy theories, the Horowitz account is certainly consistent with the public record. Of the top twenty 527 organizations (which do not have to publicly report their contributors), at least fourteen are Left-leaning, accounting for more than $300 million. Five unions are in the top twenty 527s, using compulsory members’ dues. Just two of those unions swing $66 million, plus of course a lot of union-paid campaign staff that are not counted as campaign contributions. All by itself ACT has $ 78 million.
So much for “campaign finance reform.”
The big concern is centralization of power in people like Soros, a modern robber baron who used to enjoy knocking over the currencies of countries like Malaysia. But he has gone on to bigger things. It is no surprise to see the Clintons in bed with Soros, since they instinctively go for the smell of money and power. Bill Clinton can’t be president any more, but he loves to pull strings behind the scenes. If Hillary gets into the White House the Clintons can have another eight years of power. And we know they have never stopped being Sixties radicals. They are not small-d democrats; they are elitist radicals who know what is best for all of us, and are delighted to force us do it. On top of all that, they exercise unbelievably bad judgment in terms of national security.
One straw in the wind is the fate of Congressman Curt Weldon, now in trouble for re-election in Pennsylvania. Weldon is one of the few Congress members to try to hold our sorry intelligence community to account. Weldon has been targeted by all the apoplectic has-beens of the Clinton National Security apparatus. If we lose Curt Weldon in Congress the Left would cheer, but the country would be in worse trouble than it is today.
It’s a dangerous world. The Left is in denial of danger—- or worse, they are ready to sabotage the country and damn the consequences. It might be time to pay heed to that old radical, David Horowitz.
Here are a couple of excerpts from Steigerwald's interview of Horowitz:
Q: What is the Shadow Party?
A: The Shadow Party is a George Soros conglomerate. George Soros, a billioaire, has engineered campaign finance reform, by pouring tens of millions of dollars — and getting others to do it too — into the campaign finance reform movement. What this did was it limited the ability of the political parties to raise money. As soon as the campaign finance laws came into place, they had a loophole — and naturally they would, because Soros was behind this – for private organizations like MoveOn.org, called 527s, that could collect money.
Soros managed to put together a coalition, which we call the Shadow Party, which accounted for about $300 million in the Democratic campaign. Actually, it was much more than that. He put together a group that orchestrated media ads, so that meant that his groups, since they were in place before the democratic nominee was even chosen, were able to shape the message of the John Kerry campaign and, in effect, control the campaign that way.
But through another organization they have, Americans Coming Together, they also put together the ground war. ACT was composed of big government unions, like SEIU, and teacher unions. They were able to produce 100,000 campaign workers and huge amounts of money to knock on doors and get out the vote. Because Soros and the group he put together control both the ground war and the air war of Democratic campaigns, that means that every elected Democratic official has got to pay attention to what they say.
Q: Your book is just an attempt to throw light on Shadow Party?
A: It gives the history of the Shadow Party. It gives a biography of George Soros – who this man is, how this group came about and details how they operate. There are a lot of profiles in the book. If I name the people, you won’t know the names…. You’ve probably never heard of Wade Rathke, but he’s the head of ACORN, which is the biggest radical organization in the United States. It controls many American cities. For example, one of the things they’ve done is it has gotten 359 American cities to pass resolutions that they will not cooperate with homeland security.
Q: What is new to the Shadow Party that your book adds?
A: First of all, it goes inside George Soros. You have to understand who this man is, because he can be portrayed in many ways – philanthropist, capitalist. In fact, he says that the capitalist system has replaced communism as the greatest threat. Second, he says America is the greatest obstacle to world justice and stability. His agenda is what he calls “to burst the bubble of American supremacy.” In other words, he’s a lefty.
We’ve also described the radical components of the Soros operation. This is not just something you talk about in electoral terms, as though it is the usual special interests coming together. At the base of this is a grass-roots movement which has actually bankrupted the city of New York, which they did by loading the welfare roles. The core of it was called the National Welfare Rights Organization and their strategy was to recruit people to the welfare system in order to break it.
[....]
Q: What is the Shadow Party ultimately trying to do?
A: Soros said his number one goal is to unseat Bush.” It’s social justice, is the way you describe it. What they want is a form of socialism. They don’t articulate it as such, but if you read their statements and as we show in the book, their agenda really is socialist. It is to convert the war on terror into a criminal operation. It is to withdraw from Iraq, which would let Iraq fall to the terrorists. It is to make America part of the World Court, to institute world government. Soros is technically an American but he is very hostile towards the United States.
Q: There are rightwing Republicans who try to influence elections and get bills passed, etc. What makes this more sinister than what the Republicans or right-wingers do?
A: Well, first of all, it is much more organized. There are obvious constituencies in the Republican coalition, who have different agendas, but in the end they compromise and they are part of the national party. Here, you have part of a party that is not really visible. Very few Americans, very few Democratic voters, know this even exists. It’s working behind the scenes and its agendas are quite radical in a way that I don’t think any of the Republican constituencies are. Most Republican constituencies known to me, in the end, they compromise and they vote.
Q: Is the Shadow Party getting stronger or weaker as we approach 2008?
A: In my view, it’s much stronger. This Lieberman thing even shocked me. Think of it from a political point of view. You’re an old style pol, OK? You understand that national political battles are won and lost in the center. Everybody understands that. So here you have a guy, Joe Lieberman – the one Democrat who is a really prominent supporter of the war. So he makes your party look like a big tent. About 80 percent of Democrats are against the war. But there are 20 percent who are for the war.
You want Lieberman in your party. He can’t affect your majority. He’s not going to change your vote. But these people are such zealots — they are religious in their passion — that they want to get rid of him. And they are going out to get rid of a statesman of their party.
It makes no sense in terms of ordinary American politics. It makes a lot of sense in terms of SP politics. These are people on a mission. They are not thinking straight on this issue. Soros himself is a cleverer person. I don’t want to give the idea that Soros makes every decision. It’s not that kind of party. He’s put together a coalition of forces. He does manage a lot of the money. But what he has done that is unique, in my view, in the history of American politics, is that he has put together a coalition of billionaires, of giant unions, of street radicals, and of seasoned political operatives. It’s a never-before-seen combination in American politics.
One that every thinking American should be aware of.
UPDATE: For more information on the Shadow Party and its activities, click here.
Today I had the pleasure of reading an interview with Horowitz about his new book by Bill Steigerwald of the Oregon Statesman/Journal, a couple of excerpts of which I am including below. Suffice it to say that this is one book that every thinking American should read, think about carefully, and then read again. It will frighten you--and that is exactly what it should do. Because if these people are not stopped, the United States as we know it is history. America is being stolen out from under its unsuspecting PC-masses--who do not understand or comprehend the forces behind the people they see as so "benign". This secretive effort to undermine America is lead by a highly funded conglomorate--which Horowitz calls "The Shadow Party" designed to destroy the very tenets of the US Constitution. So read the interview--and definitely buy the book. A big h/t for finding this interview goes to James Lewis, who sums up the interview thus:
Although I’m averse to conspiracy theories, the Horowitz account is certainly consistent with the public record. Of the top twenty 527 organizations (which do not have to publicly report their contributors), at least fourteen are Left-leaning, accounting for more than $300 million. Five unions are in the top twenty 527s, using compulsory members’ dues. Just two of those unions swing $66 million, plus of course a lot of union-paid campaign staff that are not counted as campaign contributions. All by itself ACT has $ 78 million.
So much for “campaign finance reform.”
The big concern is centralization of power in people like Soros, a modern robber baron who used to enjoy knocking over the currencies of countries like Malaysia. But he has gone on to bigger things. It is no surprise to see the Clintons in bed with Soros, since they instinctively go for the smell of money and power. Bill Clinton can’t be president any more, but he loves to pull strings behind the scenes. If Hillary gets into the White House the Clintons can have another eight years of power. And we know they have never stopped being Sixties radicals. They are not small-d democrats; they are elitist radicals who know what is best for all of us, and are delighted to force us do it. On top of all that, they exercise unbelievably bad judgment in terms of national security.
One straw in the wind is the fate of Congressman Curt Weldon, now in trouble for re-election in Pennsylvania. Weldon is one of the few Congress members to try to hold our sorry intelligence community to account. Weldon has been targeted by all the apoplectic has-beens of the Clinton National Security apparatus. If we lose Curt Weldon in Congress the Left would cheer, but the country would be in worse trouble than it is today.
It’s a dangerous world. The Left is in denial of danger—- or worse, they are ready to sabotage the country and damn the consequences. It might be time to pay heed to that old radical, David Horowitz.
Here are a couple of excerpts from Steigerwald's interview of Horowitz:
Q: What is the Shadow Party?
A: The Shadow Party is a George Soros conglomerate. George Soros, a billioaire, has engineered campaign finance reform, by pouring tens of millions of dollars — and getting others to do it too — into the campaign finance reform movement. What this did was it limited the ability of the political parties to raise money. As soon as the campaign finance laws came into place, they had a loophole — and naturally they would, because Soros was behind this – for private organizations like MoveOn.org, called 527s, that could collect money.
Soros managed to put together a coalition, which we call the Shadow Party, which accounted for about $300 million in the Democratic campaign. Actually, it was much more than that. He put together a group that orchestrated media ads, so that meant that his groups, since they were in place before the democratic nominee was even chosen, were able to shape the message of the John Kerry campaign and, in effect, control the campaign that way.
But through another organization they have, Americans Coming Together, they also put together the ground war. ACT was composed of big government unions, like SEIU, and teacher unions. They were able to produce 100,000 campaign workers and huge amounts of money to knock on doors and get out the vote. Because Soros and the group he put together control both the ground war and the air war of Democratic campaigns, that means that every elected Democratic official has got to pay attention to what they say.
Q: Your book is just an attempt to throw light on Shadow Party?
A: It gives the history of the Shadow Party. It gives a biography of George Soros – who this man is, how this group came about and details how they operate. There are a lot of profiles in the book. If I name the people, you won’t know the names…. You’ve probably never heard of Wade Rathke, but he’s the head of ACORN, which is the biggest radical organization in the United States. It controls many American cities. For example, one of the things they’ve done is it has gotten 359 American cities to pass resolutions that they will not cooperate with homeland security.
Q: What is new to the Shadow Party that your book adds?
A: First of all, it goes inside George Soros. You have to understand who this man is, because he can be portrayed in many ways – philanthropist, capitalist. In fact, he says that the capitalist system has replaced communism as the greatest threat. Second, he says America is the greatest obstacle to world justice and stability. His agenda is what he calls “to burst the bubble of American supremacy.” In other words, he’s a lefty.
We’ve also described the radical components of the Soros operation. This is not just something you talk about in electoral terms, as though it is the usual special interests coming together. At the base of this is a grass-roots movement which has actually bankrupted the city of New York, which they did by loading the welfare roles. The core of it was called the National Welfare Rights Organization and their strategy was to recruit people to the welfare system in order to break it.
[....]
Q: What is the Shadow Party ultimately trying to do?
A: Soros said his number one goal is to unseat Bush.” It’s social justice, is the way you describe it. What they want is a form of socialism. They don’t articulate it as such, but if you read their statements and as we show in the book, their agenda really is socialist. It is to convert the war on terror into a criminal operation. It is to withdraw from Iraq, which would let Iraq fall to the terrorists. It is to make America part of the World Court, to institute world government. Soros is technically an American but he is very hostile towards the United States.
Q: There are rightwing Republicans who try to influence elections and get bills passed, etc. What makes this more sinister than what the Republicans or right-wingers do?
A: Well, first of all, it is much more organized. There are obvious constituencies in the Republican coalition, who have different agendas, but in the end they compromise and they are part of the national party. Here, you have part of a party that is not really visible. Very few Americans, very few Democratic voters, know this even exists. It’s working behind the scenes and its agendas are quite radical in a way that I don’t think any of the Republican constituencies are. Most Republican constituencies known to me, in the end, they compromise and they vote.
Q: Is the Shadow Party getting stronger or weaker as we approach 2008?
A: In my view, it’s much stronger. This Lieberman thing even shocked me. Think of it from a political point of view. You’re an old style pol, OK? You understand that national political battles are won and lost in the center. Everybody understands that. So here you have a guy, Joe Lieberman – the one Democrat who is a really prominent supporter of the war. So he makes your party look like a big tent. About 80 percent of Democrats are against the war. But there are 20 percent who are for the war.
You want Lieberman in your party. He can’t affect your majority. He’s not going to change your vote. But these people are such zealots — they are religious in their passion — that they want to get rid of him. And they are going out to get rid of a statesman of their party.
It makes no sense in terms of ordinary American politics. It makes a lot of sense in terms of SP politics. These are people on a mission. They are not thinking straight on this issue. Soros himself is a cleverer person. I don’t want to give the idea that Soros makes every decision. It’s not that kind of party. He’s put together a coalition of forces. He does manage a lot of the money. But what he has done that is unique, in my view, in the history of American politics, is that he has put together a coalition of billionaires, of giant unions, of street radicals, and of seasoned political operatives. It’s a never-before-seen combination in American politics.
One that every thinking American should be aware of.
UPDATE: For more information on the Shadow Party and its activities, click here.
