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This mass hooky was sponsored nation-wide by an organization calling itself the 21 National Youth and Student Peace Coalition; Others have already shown the links between the national front groups and shadowy Stalinist organizations like the Worker's World Party. 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 24 list of participating campuses. 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. In fact, I have a moral responsibility to speak up, for once, not so long ago, I was the one organizing. I began my career as a communist radical in Toronto in 1996, when I joined an organization called the Communist League of Canada. The Communist League was oriented towards factory workers; Both of these groups were split-offs of split-offs, tracing their lineage back through the 1960s Left to the heyday of American Communism. Although small in numbers, thanks to their activity they and other groups like them had a great deal of influence over the broader left. While in these groups, I helped organize and participated in many protests - demonstrations against 'globalization,' demonstrations against war, and demonstrations against the government. As a communist, I used people as simply means to an end. I discarded people as they ceased to be useful, and came to my senses only long after I was discarded in turn. Now, doing graduate work at Stanford, I try to avoid politics. I don't know any of the radical leftists at Stanford, and I hope I never do. But I do know the system of front groups, the 'non-violent direct action,' and the system of 'affinity groups,' all too well. This is a system that controls the individual protestor almost perfectly while giving the illusion of freedom; In theory, it's a small group of people, maybe ten to twenty, who decide to work together by consensus for a political action. In practice, it's a ruthlessly effective way of manipulating the less extreme into greater acts of extremism, all coordinated by the group's leaders, who invariably belong to the shadowy communist organizations who run things behind the scenes. These groups are nothing more that the translation of communist leader Che Guevara's armed 'military focos' to the American city, as popularized by the French radical Regis Debray. In America, they work on the same 'dictatorship of the most radical' principle as most leftist front organizations, which consist of two groups - a small core clique of fanatics, and a slightly broader group of willing stooges, with varying degrees of commitment to the cause. The fanatics obtain and control their flock through the force of their personalities - they are admired for their experience, commitment, and knowledge of authoritative-sounding leftist dogma, and generally adopt a hip, trendy, and friendly demeanor. While the communist organization of the fanatics is run by majority vote, the front organizations and affinity groups are run by consensus. On the surface, consensus sounds very open and democratic, but fans of the system fail to take into account the admiration the flock has for the fanatics, who pose as their friends. These elite members of the organization meet beforehand, in a secret and unpublicized gathering, where they make the actual decisions. They are then presented to the group as 'ideas' or 'suggestions' - suggestions that quickly find seconders. People are asked if they concur, and they almost always do, for the social consequences of dissent are great. To dissent is to issue a 'block,' which prevents the group from acting until the action is resolved. It positions the odd man out in opposition to the entire group, which is often that person's entire social network. A stubborn blocker condemns the meeting to a long, dry contest of wills, with them the twelfth man on the jury. And so the dissenter keeps quiet - or dissenters, since for every decision there are usually several people with misgivings, all unknown to each other. Pumped up by their simple slogans and the press of other bodies, these groups of radicals make their decisions relatively quickly. Here there is little debate, no time for debate - the group looks to its leader, the person with the most experience, who will offer a 'suggestion' that, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, will be accepted immediately. Reservations get swept aside as the flock fears holding the radicals back, of appearing cowardly, of letting them down. While appearing chaotic, the mash of affinity groups is always under tight control. Large numbers of people are managed efficiently through a convened central body, the 'spokescouncil,' consisting of one or two members from each group - the ultra-radical 'leaders' admired by the rest. Here they regularly sell out the desires of their adoring charges. On the one occasion I witnessed where several affinity groups rebelled against their masters, refusing to rush a barrier separating them from a meeting of the Organization of American States, the members of the spokescouncil decided to tell each and every group that they were the only dissenting group - causing each and every group to change their mind (which wound up getting some of them pepper-sprayed). The spokescouncil, of course, has its own leaders, prominent radicals and communists, who either direct the protest on site or from a distance, using cell phones. The average person, suckered into this mess, believes and is told he has complete freedom over a non-hierarchical process where everyone is equal. And in fact, they are equal, in theory - as equal as every Republic was in the Soviet Union, as equal as every party was in the Communist International. That is how a mass of students in Toronto ended up spending a night huddled miserably on the floor of the lobby of a major bank in the middle of winter, without food or water, urinating in a garbage container barely shielded by a pair of plastic plants, surrounded by riot police - when they thought, starting out, that they'd be going on a simple march. Of course, the organizers, having planned everything in advance, had brought their own supplies. That is how, should war on Iraq begin, the college students being recruited at Stanford today will become useful idiots, finding themselves in jail for committing criminal acts. Unless you are willing to bolt and run, to leave the group, to let down all your friends gathered around you, you will do exactly what your communist controllers want you to do - controllers several steps up on the radical hierarchy, controllers you probably don't even know by name. You are being wooed into crime, something easily visible from the website of the 25 Stanford Coalition for Peace and Justice. Underneath the call for recruitment to affinity groups, is one for more information about these groups, which leads to the web site 26 Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW). But why the disclaimer, right underneath a call for recruitment? No doubt the genteel professors that take part in the Stanford Coalition for Peace and Justice feel the need for a little behind-covering, for the cause they're sending you to is openly seditious. This attempt to damage the American economy in a time of crisis will hurt the largely immigrant, hard-working service staff of San Francisco hardest, as you, stu...
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