CrimethInc: Anarchist “Ex-Worker” Collective Makes Case for Violence

Posted on March 28, 2012 by FoolishReporter in Articles

Those lovable kids from Occupy Oakland (photo via BusinessInsider.com)

As the weather warms, and the Occupy movement prepares to re-group for their new offensive, the “99 Percent Spring”, the anarchist collective known as CrimethInc posted an article on March 27 arguing that the Occupy movement in the U.S. needs to be willing to expand it’s horizons, if you will, in how it should go about attempting to bring change to the United States.  Titled “The Illegitimacy of Violence, the Violence of Legitimacy“, the post uses the high-minded wordiness typical of anarchists to explain, and then justify, the use of violence in protest movements within the United States.

The unnamed author explains how every relationship of power within American society is “violent”:

This is further complicated by the ways our society is based on and permeated by harm or threat that violates consent. In this sense, isn’t it violent to live on colonized territory, destroying ecosystems through our daily consumption and benefitting from economic relations that are forced on others at gunpoint? Isn’t it violent for armed guards to keep food and land, once a commons shared by all, from those who need them? Is it more violent to resist the police who evict people from their homes, or to stand aside while people are made homeless? Is it more violent to throw tear gas canisters back at police, or to denounce those who throw them back as “violent,” giving police a free hand to do worse?

In this state of affairs, there is no such thing as nonviolence—the closest we can hope to come is to negate the harm or threat posed by the proponents of top-down violence.

Those crazy kids at CrimethInc go on to complain about how the Black Bloc anarchists that made their way into various Occupy camps were made outcasts after a time, thanks to two writers who apparently have some influence within the various activist communities. The one shining light, the unknown author argues, was Occupy Oakland, which embraced a “diversity of tactics”, (that beloved catchphrase of the hardcore Left):

But it often happens that the preconditions for a movement become limitations that it must transcend: Occupy Oakland remained vibrant after other occupations died down because it embraced a diversity of tactics, not despite this. Likewise, if we really want to transform our society, we can’t remain forever within the narrow boundaries of what the authorities deem legitimate: we have to extend the range of what people feel entitled to do.

So what’s the answer for the collectivist anarchists of CrimethInc? Well, it’s not a happy one, even though they use vague terms to describe what they feel needs to happen:

Making nonviolence the central tenet of our movement makes good sense if our long-term goal is not to challenge the fundamental structure of our society…But if we really want to transform our society, we have to transform the discourse of legitimacy, not just position ourselves well within it as it currently exists.

In essence, those whacky anarchists over at CrimethInc are arguing that non-violence only works if one seeks to maintain the current structure and flow of power within our society. If that’s not your goal, if the goal is to tear it all down and build something new, then actions that might be considered violent need to be legitimized, and the only way to make those possibly violent actions legitimate is to change what ARE legitimate forms of resistance within people’s minds.  The reason this is important,  the unnamed author argues, is “that’s the the point of affirming a diversity of tactics: to build a movement that has space for all of us, yet leaves no space for domination and silencing—a “people power” that can both expand and intensify.”

As the Church Lady from Saturday Night Live used to say, “Well isn’t that special?”.

Update #2: Sandra Fluke’s Boyfriend, Adam “Cutie Pants” Mutterperl, And His Radical Socialist Family

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Brooks Bayne in Articles

(Filed under: “Never mind, media, we’ll do your damned job, losers.”)

Updated: Added link to the Jewish Encyclopedia for an explanation of “traditional Jewish socialism“, amongst those who’ve chosen the socialist/marxist ideology. It’s in the first paragraph about Adam’s parents. I assumed the readers could Google something if they had questions, but I was wrong. 

Update #2: Finally, The Washington Times is now asking the right questions. Like, “Hey, Anita Dunn, what role did the White House play in having Sandra Fluke appear before congress?” This is looking bad for SKDKnickerbocker, Anita’s PR firm.

Behold! Sandra Fluke's boyfriend, Adam Mutterperl!

Recently, it was reported that Sandra Fluke is connected to none other than 1%’er, William (Bill) Mutterperl, through her boyfriend. However, it wasn’t reported who her boyfriend is. Everyone, meet Sandra’s boyfriend, wannabe producer, and amateur stand-up comic, Adam “Cutie Pants” Mutterperl, in this video audition he submitted to a “reality” show:

Cutie pants? This guy the epitome of what everyone thought Sandra Fluke’s boyfriend would be. Maybe Adam could produce a biopic titled, “Beta Males and the Progressive Chicks Who Dig Them”.

Anyway, here are some pictures of Sandra and Adam frolicking in typical ghetto places like Spain and Italy:

The caption that Adam added to one of the Barcelona pics, “Pretty drunk”. Is this the part where I’m supposed to pay for your condoms, Adam? You know, because traveling between L.A., D.C., and New York, and vacationing in Barcelona, Italy, etc., is pretty darned expensive. I get it. Did you piss off your uber-wealthy parents to get cut off from your trust fund? You and Sandra must need some government subsidies. Idea: mock hearing. Brilliant!

Awesome that Adam is so happy about Sandra making “the big time” (h/t to SooperMexican for this particular screenshot). 

Bill and Nancy Mutterperl, Adam's parents. Love the color of your hat, Bill. It's reflective of your ideals.

Anyway, on to Adam’s “typical Democrat family”. The term BIll O’Reilly used to describe Bill Mutterperl is “Democratic stalwart”. However, as soon as I heard his name in a story about Sandra Fluke, I almost choked, due to my sudden epiphany. Why? Because anyone familiar with Boston and New York political history knows about the wealthy Mutterperl family’s long tradition of supporting the traditional Jewish variant of socialism. Bill Mutterperl’s family are much more than Democratic stalwarts.

I’ll let Woody Allen give you the basic overview (if Woody introduces left-wing, Jewish socialism, it’s not anti-Semitic, AMIRIGHT?!):

(Transcript of the video clip: “What’s your name… Allison… You’re like New York Jewish, left-wing, intellectual, Central Park West, Brandeis University, socialist summer camps and the father with the Ben Shahn drawings, really strike-oriented. Stop me before I make a complete imbecile of myself… No, that was wonderful! I love being reduced to a cultural stereotype.”)

Allen’s description probably describes Adam’s childhood, right down to the Ben Shahn drawings. I wonder if Adam has ever been to a kibbutz.

The Mutterperl family, via Adam’s great grandfather Sol’s handbag fortune, established the “Mutterperl Scholarship Endowment Fund” in 1951 for Brandeis University. This school, as some people call it, is named for Louis Brandeis, a secular Jew, Zionist, and United States Supreme Court Justice appointed by Woodrow Wilson. Brandeis was a self-proclaimed socialist. Herbert Marcuse, the famous Frankfurt School Marxist, came to Brandeis in 1954, three years after the Mutterperl fund was created. Brandeis University is one of the nation’s leading petri dishes for anti-American and neo-Marxist thought. Here’s the statement from the Brandeis bulletin about the Mutterperl fund:

Traditions of charity inculcated in their children by a New York couple, who recently celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary, are being perpetuated in their honor by the children who have established a Sol and Susanne Mutterperl Scholarship Endowment Fund at Brandeis University.

Honoring the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Mutterperl, the endowment fund has been established by means  of a substantial initial grant which will be augmented from time to time.

The initial grant was made by the children through the Mutterperl Foundation, Inc., which was organized in December, 1951, by Raphael Mutterperl: his brother, Martin Mutterperl, and their sister’s husband, Ludwig S. Buckhardt. for the purpose of fostering the philanthropic ideals of their parents.

President of the Foundation is Raphael Mutterperl, prominent New Bedford (Mass.) manufacturer.

Since Sol is credited with creating the women’s handbag market, and was a wealthy manufacturer and proprietor of those goods, he and his wife, Susanne, lived at 22 Central Park West in Manhattan for a time, and then at 350 Central Park West. Not too shabby, Mutterperl! Sol was also supportive of unions and was the Director of the United Jewish Appeal (now The Jewish Federations of North America) a Jewish “social” organization. From the JFNA website:

The Federation movement, collectively among the top 10 charities on the continent, protects and enhances the well-being of Jews worldwide through the values of tikkun olam (repairing the world), tzedakah (charity and social justice) and Torah (Jewish learning).

There’s that “social justice” code word again. Jewish Socialism is linked to a very progressive concept of the above tikkun olam. New Bedford, MA, where Raphael Mutterperl ran the family’s manufacturing arm, was a hotbed of  Marxist trade-unionism in early 20th century America. Why? It was easy to “sell” radical trade-unionism to a whole people group who were brought up in the lap of Weimar Marxian ideology, because New Bedford had many new eastern-European Jewish immigrants living there at the time, including, of course, the Mutterperl family.

For some added historical context, two popular Marxists, Samuel Gompers and Daniel De Leon, agitated in New Bedford, and were instrumental in fomenting strikes amongst the workers of the textile mills there. As I wrote before, Gompers was the founder of what is now the largest Marxist union organization in America, the AFL-CIO.

In addition to the Mutterperl’s extensive history within the Jewish socialist activist/political world, and their generational wealth, they’re still doing what they can to help the 99%. An excerpt from Bill’s current Reed Smith LLP (one of the 15 largest law firms in the world) bio:

Bill is a partner in Reed Smith’s Financial Industry Group. He specializes in providing high level counseling to CEO’s, General Counsel, Boards of Directors and members of senior management of major financial institutions.

As the former Vice Chairman of The PNC Financial Services Group, he held management responsibilities for certain PNC staff functions, including legal, compliance, legislative affairs and media relations, and he was responsible for implementing best practices for corporate governance. He served on several senior management committees, including Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Re-Engineering and Consumer affairs, and also served as management liaison to a special ad hoc committee of the Board of Directors dealing with regulatory affairs and corporate governance. He also served as a PNC representative on the Board of Directors of BlackRock Investment Management, one of the largest investment management firms in the world.

Bill also had a distinguished 25-year career at FleetBoston Financial Corp. where he served as its Executive Vice President and General Counsel world-wide, responsible for all legal affairs of the company.

In addition, Bill served as Executive Director of the Independent Oversight Board for Arthur Andersen, headed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. The other members of the Independent Oversight Board included current and former CEO’s of major U.S. companies. Bill advised the Board on proposed best corporate governance practices to be adopted by Andresen in the wake of governmental investigations and criticisms of that firm.

In private practice, Bill was a partner in the business law division of Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels in Boston, specializing in corporate governance issues. He began his legal career at the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

You’ll recall that Paul Volcker, mentioned in Bill’s bio, was Obama’s bank bailout architect, advisor, and appointee. I know! Random, right?

Bill has also made nearly $90,000 in personal donations to Dems and their allies in the past 10 years, according to OpenSecrets.org. Check out the awesome Daddy Warbucks screenshots:

Adam’s mother is Nancy Mutterperl. According to the  California Secretary of State, she’s involved with a company operating in Beverly Hills, CA as Charlotte Lu, LLC. They specialize in jewelry that runs from $300, to nearly $4000. Their website has a brief bio of Nancy, listing her role as “Business Development and Display“:

Raised in West Haven, Connecticut, Nancy Mutterperl enjoyed studying art history in college, but it was her love of jewelry that led to her earning certificates from the Gemological Institute of America. While she was a stay-at-home mom, Nancy began creating her own jewelry pieces that were sold in retail stores and catalogs. Nancy’s experience with gemstones gives her the edge for selecting beautiful stones for Charlotte Lu. Nancy is married, has two sons and resides in both Manhattan and Beverly Hills.

Stay-at-home mom, indeed. You know, typical, bi-coastal, “stalwarty” kind of stuff in the Mutterperl family. I wonder if Adam lives with mom here in Beverly Hills. From the looks of Adam’s audition video above, it’s safe to assume that mom imparted some of the “art history” stuff that she enjoyed in college, unto her son.

In summary (with bold for emphatic inflection): Sandra Fluke is a 30 year old leftist activist, attending Georgetown University, whom the Dems tried to inject, via non-sequitur, into Issa’s hearing about Obamacare’s encroachment upon religious freedoms, protected by the Establishment Clause in the 1st Amendment. Her boyfriend, Adam Mutterperl, is the son of one of the most well-connected leftist Jewish families on the East Coast (add the West Coast to that, apparently), with ties to neo-Marxist Brandeis University as decades old donors… and whose father, Bill Mutterperl, worked directly for Paul Volcker, one of Obama’s pals, advisors, and Keynesian “stimulus” bill architects. Yet, we’re supposed to believe that this just boils down to a poor girl needing us to “subsidize” her birth control. RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!

We’re talking Sgt. Schultz levels of ignorance and avoidance if you buy that load of schmutz.

Some have claimed that Sandra’s reps (Anita Dunn’s PR firm – Anita’s the Mao lover, and former Obama Communications Director) are lying about the Mutterperl “boyfriend”. I’ve posted the Facebook photos, above, of them, that are dated, and go back a few years – but you never see them kiss in their photos. To me, it’s obvious that she’s in bed with him, literally, or figuratively. Either way, Sandra’s connection to this particular Jewish-American socialist dynasty is a “little” secret that they don’t want you to know. Which begs the question… if you’re so connected to the Mutterperl family, Sandra, why not go to Brandeis, a school much more aligned with your worldview, instead of Georgetown University, a Catholic Jesuit school? Are you admitting that a Christian school is better than a neo-Marxist school, or is there some other agenda? Now *that’s* funny when you think about it.

Based on all this random connectedness, I’d love it if Miss Fluke would sue Georgetown for “subsidized” birth control. The Georgetown lawyers would have a field day with discovery. Do it, Sandra. I dare you.

Oh, as a complete aside, check out Adam’s grandpappy, Martin Mutterperl, hanging out with Cass Sunstein’s, (another Obama appointee, Regulatory Czarina, and overall radical leftist) great-uncle, Alexander Cass Sunstein, and Samuel “Subway Sam” Rosoff, the guy who killed one of his detractors over a labor union spat, in Palm Beach back in 1965, at the Ambassador Hotel (see: photo below). Purely coincidence, I’m sure, since they’re all associated with Marxists, socialists, and trade-unionists of Eastern-European, Jewish, descent. There are some other interesting names in this list. Can you spot them?! Just kidding. Move along. Nothing to see here, hobbits.

Derrick Bell’s Connections To Socialism, Frances Fox Piven, The Black Panthers, And Anti-Christian Activism

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Brooks Bayne in Articles, Video

The Educator’s Educator Likes To Call Women He Disagrees With “Conservadouche”

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Brooks Bayne in Articles

What does an assistant professor call a woman with whom he disagrees? A “conservadouche” (I was nice and corrected the professor’s typo). At least that’s what one assistant professor of education at Towson University called Dana Loesch, a radio talk show host, award winning editor for BigJournalism.com, and conservative contributor for CNN. His name is Shaun Johnson, and from his blog, At The Chalk Face, he states that he’s providing, “An education from an educator about education, in several ways [my emphasis]“. This latest engagement with Mrs. Loesch, a wife and mother, must be an education for Dana via one of these uncited “several ways“.

Here’s how our good teacher, @thechalkface, comported himself last night in response to a Twitter conversation Dana was having with a couple other women about her piece on Virginia’s new sonogram law:

Shaun has since deleted that tweet and a few others because he knows that this behavior is in violation with his employer’s code of conduct, and could get him fired. In part: “The President [of the university] may terminate the appointment of a tenured or tenure-track appointee for moral turpitude, professional or scholarly misconduct, incompetence, or willful neglect of duty, provided that the charges be stated in writing…”

Earlier today, I spoke with Shaun’s supervisor, Karen Robertson, the chair of his department, after I spoke with someone in the Towson University Provost’s office about this matter. I told Ms. Robinson about the incident, and her first words were, “Oh dear, this is very unfortunate”, and she asked me if there was any proof of the profs purposely pitiful poltroonery. I told her that Shaun had deleted his tweet, but I had anticipated such, and had taken a screenshot of it. She asked me to email the screenshot to her and I did. Ms. Robertson has since responded via email stating, “I have passed your information and email on to the Dean of the College of Education, Dr. Ray Lorion.  He is working with upper administrators at Towson to determine the next steps in this situation.  I will keep you posted about what transpires and how this situation is settled.” 

Why would a teacher be so concerned about what a political talk show host and commentator thinks? Well, it seems Mr. Johnson is a bit of a political activist. He’s one of the administrators of “Occupy DOE“, another Marxist “equal outcomes” group that pledges to, “end the reign of fear and terror promoted by the high stakes testing agenda” (I believe we call statements like this hyperbole… and moronic). I don’t believe anyone is surprised that someone, who claims that tests are terrifying, would feel he needs to take a sexist swipe at a woman. Also, Occupy DOE touts that they’re “In solidarity with Occupy Movements everywhere”. Yes, the same Occupy movement engaging in rape, murder, illegal drug use, assault, and destruction of property. Of course, these Occupy rapes are the latest crimes against women to escape proper scrutiny and rejection by the supporters of Occupy. This turn-a-blind-eye support of Occupy rapes is another reason I can see for why a man would attack a woman, being “in solidarity with Occupy” and all. Let’s hope that Assistant Professor Shaun Johnson, or any other members of Occupy DOE, don’t actually rape women in said Occupy solidarity.

Ironically, Shaun has this statement posted in his bio on the Occupy DOE website: “He earned his PhD from Indiana University and researches and publishes on elementary social studies and masculinity in education, particularly the lack of male teachers…” I hope that didn’t cause your head to explode.

Here is Shaun’s “demand” for the Occupy movement (those evil terrorist tests again):

Professors and teachers who push this type of namby pamby nonsense are precisely why many, like this author, homeschool their children.

In my opinion, there’s good reason that women are called the “better half”, the “fairer sex”, and even the “weaker sex”. This is to drill a sense of care for women into men’s brains – a “handle with care” sign, if you will. Men are dumb, and we need instruction when dealing with things more fragile than ourselves. In the bible, Peter instructs men thusly, “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel…” In fact, our own military prohibits women from serving in frontline combat infantry positions. Men should be protectors of women, not assaulters of women, verbally, or otherwise, and especially not one who claims to be a teacher of teachers. A woman’s frame may be more fragile than a man’s, but that’s where the male advantage usually ends.

I’ll freely admit that the people I’ve known with the strongest fortitude, and the strongest character were, and are, women. One of the greatest minds in history would agree with me. Socrates taught Plato, and he’s often referred to as the teacher’s teacher, but what would Socrates have been without his own teachers, Diotima, Pythia, and Asphasia? That’s right, the teacher’s teachers were women. Socrates wrote, “Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior”, and this makes me wonder what lesson, Shaun Johnson, the educator’s educator, will learn from the woman, Dana, he interacted with in this situation. Although, since Shaun has lived his life terrorized by tests, and Socrates, one of the world’s best teachers, had issued such an ominous warning about women, maybe this just isn’t Shaun’s fault.

New York Supreme Court Tells Marxist Vagrants Of Occupy Wall Street To Beat It

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Brooks Bayne in Articles

No Camping, Marxist Vagrants!

I’m surprised it took the court as long as it did to rule. There was already a Supreme Court of the United States decision that differentiates between assembly and camping/sleeping. There you have it, kids: vagrancy ≠ assembly. Now, go occupy a job fair.

New York State Supreme Court Rules Against Occupy Wall Street

A Not-So-Surprising Word Cloud From the #OccupyWallStreet Email Archive

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Brooks Bayne in Articles

I had fun poking around the socialist, Marxist, and anarchist #owslist (a Twitter hashtag I’m using) email archives after Andrew Breitbart published them here. For those who don’t know, this is the mailing list that the original Occupy Wall Street leftist organizers have been using for their left-wing vagrant parties, that they refer to as “occupying”.

Let’s see what a word cloud of the 300,000 lines of leftist email looks like, shall we?

Violence, Marxism, socialism, revolution, class, warfare, labor, union, and… liberty? Huh? One of these things is not like the other.

Same tired old collectivist tropes, different day.

The Union Song “Solidarity Forever” – What It Really Represents

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Brooks Bayne in Articles

The left would have you believe that the teachers union protests in Wisconsin and elsewhere are simply about “the people” and “the middle class”. The union supporters have denied that these protests have anything to do with socialism or Marxism, even though we know that America’s unions were created by socialists and Marxists. What is the “Solidarity Forever” song that the unionists all sing about? Who wrote it? Who published it? Here are the unionists singing “Solidarity Forever” in the Wisconsin capitol building:

And here they are singing the same song as they’re being dragged out of the capitol one-by-one:

SOLIDARITY FOREVER!
By Ralph H. Chaplin, 1915
(Tune: “John Brown’s Body”)
When the Union’s inspiration through the worker’s blood shall run,
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun.
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one?
But the Union makes us strong.

CHORUS
Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
But the Union makes us strong.

Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite
Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush you with his might?
Is there anything left for us but to organize and fight?
For the Union makes us strong.
(Chorus)

It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade.
Dug the mines and built the workshops; endless miles of railroad laid.
Now we stand, outcast and starving, ‘mid the wonders we have made;
But the Union makes us strong.
(Chorus)

All the world that’s owned by idle drones, is ours and ours alone.
We have laid the wide foundations; built it skywards, stone by stone.
It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own,
While the Union makes us strong.
(Chorus)

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn.
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power; gain our freedom when we learn
That the Union makes us strong.
(Chorus)

In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold;
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand fold.
We can bring to birth the new world from the ashes of the old,
For the Union makes us strong.
(Chorus)

Cute, the songwriter, Ralph Chaplin, calls capitalists, “greedy parasites” and then goes on to regurgitate rehashed Marx and Engels in the style of the typical, self-entitled, collectivist everyman – hence why the song is so appealing to the Wisconsin unionists – they can relate to it. What would one expect from unionists living in Wisconsin, “the birthplace of American progressivism”?

Chaplin was originally a communist who would later work for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organization, which was created by two hundred socialists, anarchists, and radical trade unionists. The IWW’s members are known as Wobblies… fitting. Later, Chaplin became a socialist, because his communist paradigm was shaken by the fact the Marxist revolutionaries killed people to meet their goals in the Russian Revolution. Ralph was yet another collectivist idealist ignorant to history and human nature.

The IWW had a newspaper named, “Solidarity” and Chaplin, a poet, was one of their leaders and he worked as an editor,  “journalist”, and illustrator. Chaplin illustrated his first Solidarity cover (top below) in 1915, and he also created the widely used IWW “wildcat strike” icon (middle below). Note the IWW’s recent “general strike” illustration (bottom below), in Arabic, marketed to those participating in the socialist uprisings in the Middle East.

“Solidarity Forever” was originally published in IWW’s “Little Red Songbook” (songs from which are embedded in a Scribd document at the bottom of the article), the purpose of which is to “fan the flames of discontent” – red being the color of socialists and communists. The song has been recorded by Pete Seeger, Joe Glazer, and the Almanac Singers – all communists. The song has also been performed numerous times by lefty fave, Utah Phillips, another communist. Other songs in the “Little Red Songbook” hail socialism and Sam Gompers, a Marxist,  who created the AFL (now the AFL-CIO, America’s largest union organization). The IWW’s Preamble (which is on the inside cover of every Little Red Songbook) states:

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system. We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers. These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries, if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lookout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all. Instead of the conservative motto, “A fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work,” we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, “Abolition of the wage system.” It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for the every day struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old. Knowing, therefore, that such an organization is absolutely necessary for our emancipation, we unite under the following constitution:

The IWW’s preamble is straight-up Marxism. And these words are the basis for many legal actions taken against the group because it proves that the IWW is a subversive organization and a threat to American liberty.

Chaplin was arrested in 1917 under the Espionage Act. He, along with 117 others were all charged with 100 crimes, including conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government and impeding America’s war effort . The jury returned a guilty verdict for all charged within an hour.

Ironically, there was a minor point of agreement between Chaplin and conservatives. Chaplin, and his hardcore leftist counterparts, were against the industrial union mandates in the Wagner Act, passed in 1935, and not for the same reasons conservatives would obviously be against Marxist ideology (add to the reason conservatives would be against the Marxist inspired Act… the Wagner Act is also racist!), but because Chaplin felt the Act didn’t give unions enough control over the means of production.

Now when you hear the word “solidarity” in relation to unions, or hear the song “Solidarity Forever”, you’ll know what’s really going on. The agenda of those who support “solidarity” is at the heart of the battle between supporters of American liberty (conservatives, libertarians, independents) and collectivists (socialists, Marxists, progressives). As the IWW preamble says, the unionists want to overthrow America (they were arrested for such) and give workers control of production.

Please share this article with a union worker. Chances are, he or she only knows part of this story, if any – ironically, this applies to many teachers. Friends don’t let friends join unions.

Sound off below! Comments from trolls will be deleted.

You Are What You Read? Tucson Killer Favors Hitler And Marx

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Brian Reilly in Articles

The shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona that severely wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others was a horrible event. Like everyone, I want the person or persons responsible to be brought to justice as soon as possible.

Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged killer was a fan of couple of ideological books: Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler and The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. I made a simple diagram to help describe where these books and philosophies are politically.

You’ll notice I didn’t accent the left vs. right, rather the amount of government control based on a particular political philosophy. Many people make the mistake that fascism is a product of the right. Not so. Fascism and Marxism are closely aligned since they are both based on socialism, a society where there is no private property.

American Exceptionalism – Igor Sikorsky and the Practical Helicopter

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Ben Froland in Articles

Igor Sikorsky on the Cover of Time Magazine Circa 1953

If Igor Sikorsky had been remembered solely as the father of the practical helicopter his place in history would have surely been secured. Sikorsky, however, had already realized tremendous success in the areas of multi-engine fixed wing flight and flying boats as well. His successes spanning multiple fields of aviation and several continents make Sikorsky a truly unique individual in the annals of aviation history and ultimately an example of American exceptionalism.

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was born in Kiev, Imperial Russia (now the Ukraine) in 1889. As a child his mother told him stories about Leonardo Da Vinci’s designs for a helical “aerial screw” flying machine. As he grew older he was fascinated by the dirigibles of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin and the historic flight of the Wright brothers in America and decided to pursue aviation as his passion and career.

Sikorsky never forgot his mother’s story about Da Vinci and started by attempting to build what would later become known as a helicopter. He traveled to France, then the capital of European aviation, to source an engine and parts for his helicopter. In 1909 Sikorsky finished his first prototype but the underpowered engine and other design flaws prevented the twin counter-rotating blade creation from lifting. In 1910 he completed his second helicopter which did lift off slightly but was still incapable of carrying a pilot. Discouraged but not defeated, he left the field of vertical flight and elected to concentrate on fixed wing aircraft for the short term.

His early fixed wing efforts were single engine affairs which were the standard during the fledgling years of aviation. A subsequent fuel problem and emergency landing however, gave Sikorsky the idea to design a multi-engine aircraft to increase reliability. In 1913 he flew a lavish four-engine design dubbed The Grand. It was the world’s first four engine plane and was resplendent with an enclosed cabin, upholstered seats, a washroom, and an exterior balcony. This was followed by an even larger four-engine aircraft that was called the Ilia Mourometz. This design was later converted for work as a bomber for the Russians during World War I.

The Bolshevik revolution, led by Marxists, and the subsequent Civil War made Sikorsky flee Russia. Legend has it that an admirer of his talent tipped him off that his name was on the terror list due to his links with the Russian Czar Nicholas II. He immigrated to the United States in 1919 after brief stays in France and England. He entered the United States with only $600 to his name and no contacts or friends to speak of but he believed America was a place that provided him great opportunity. He later wrote “As a youth, I was impressed by the skyscrapers that were taller than anywhere else, by the railroad system that included more miles of rails than the total of the rest of the world. I was inspired by the achievements of such men as Edison, Ford, and others, and in my case particularly, the Wright Brothers.”

In 1923 he founded Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation and began the second phase of his illustrious career in aviation. After several setbacks and financial difficulties, Sikorsky designed a twin-engine, amphibious transport plane that Pan American Airlines used to pioneer new routes to Central and South America where runways were unavailable. In 1928 Sikorsky’s company became a subsidiary of the United Aircraft Corporation. In that same year he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Sikorsky went on to build several other “flying clippers” as they became known, the most prolific of which was the S-42 first built in 1934. This giant, four-engine amphibian set eight records in the areas of cargo, speed, and distance all in just one day.

Sikorsky at the Controls of the VS-300

Sikorsky never forgot his passion for vertical flight and had kept notes of various design inspirations over the years. Rather than two counter-rotating main rotors, Sikorsky was determined to use a single main rotor and a smaller secondary rotor mounted vertically to control torque.  On September 14, 1939 Sikorsky first lifted off in his VS-300 and this established the fundamental design of helicopters that continues to this day. He continued to tinker with the design and several iterations were tested. Finally, in 1943, a model dubbed the R-4 became the world’s first production helicopter. It was this model in 1944 that became the first helicopter to perform a combat rescue. The R-4 and the subsequent R-6 had the distinction of being the only helicopters to serve the military during World War II.

Over the next several decades, helicopters bearing the Sikorsky name continued to break records, serve valiantly in times of war, and save lives domestically. It was a Sikorsky SH-3D that picked up the astronauts after splashdown following their mission to the moon. The mighty Sikorsky Sky Crane, once used to lift heavy cargo for the military, has been converted in some cases to fight forest fires by dumping thousands of gallons of water from above.  Sikorsky CH-53 Super Stallions rescued downed Air Force Pilot Scott O’Grady in Bosnia in 1995.  And in the ultimate tribute to Igor Sikorsky, it is the Sikorsky VH-60N Blackhawk and VH-3D Sea King, known as Marine One, which transports the President of his adopted country.

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky passed away on October 26, 1972. He had been at his desk working just the day before as he did for so many years. Sikorsky leaves a legacy behind for all of us to follow as he epitomizes the spirit that founded America. He was a man with dreams and the ambition and drive to make those dreams a reality. He was an immigrant who sought the freedom and liberty that only this great country could provide him to pursue greatness and utilize his talents. America truly is the land of opportunity for those willing to take advantage of its blessings.

Sikorsky Sea King (top) and Blackhawk (bottom) as Marine One

“The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.” – Igor Sikorsky

“The helicopter approaches closer than any other [vehicle] to fulfillment of mankind’s ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.” – Igor Sikorsky

“According to the laws of aerodynamics, the bumblebee can’t fly either, but the bumblebee doesn’t know anything about the laws of aerodynamics, so it goes ahead and flies anyway.” – Igor Sikorsky

“Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality – a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.” – Igor Sikorsky

Notable awards and accomplishments by Igor Sikorsky and his machines:

1913 S-9 First monocoque fuselage constructed in Russia

1913 S-10 establish a Russian Aviation Record flying 500 kilometers in 4 hrs and 56 min

1913 S-12 First Russian designed aircraft capable of a loop

1913 S-12 Established a Russian Altitude Record of 3,680m

1913 Igor Sikorsky flew the S-21 “Grand” the World’s First successful four-engine plane

1913 S-21 set a World’s Record for duration and literally set one World’s Record after another for a four-engine plane with each flight

1913 S-10 & S-11 won First and Second place in the Petrograd Military Competition

1914 S-27 set two World Records for payload and flight duration

1914 S-27 with pontoons was the largest seaplane built in the World

1916 S-27G with 880 horsepower was the largest plane produced in the World

1924 S-29A the First twin-engine airplane capable of flying on one engine and First all metal aircraft

1925 S-29A the World’s First airplane to broadcast a radio musical program in-flight

1926 S-29A the World’s First airplane to show a motion picture in-flight

1929 S-37 First airplane to fly over the Andes Mountains

1929 S-38 extensively used in pioneering Central and South American air routes by Pan American Airways

1929 S-38 Piloted by Charles Lindbergh inaugurated air mail service between the United States and the Panama

1931 S-40 “American Clipper” was the Worlds largest airliner produced

1934 S-42 First production aircraft with wing flaps which allowed high flight speeds and low landing speeds.

1934 S-42 Established ten World Records, of which eight were set on one flight. This flight of August 1st vaulted the United States into First place holder of World Aviation Records

1935 S-42 inaugurated the First transoceanic air service, flying the first airmail from Honolulu to the mainland.

1937 S-42 made the First regular airline crossing of the North Atlantic Ocean and pioneered the transpacific route to Asia

1936 S-43 Established four World Altitude Records

1937 S-44 is the World’s longest-range commercial aircraft. Only aircraft to have flown commercial scheduled non-stop across the north and south Atlantic. This was the last fixed-wing aircraft built by Sikorsky

1965 S-61 made the First nonstop, transcontinental, flight setting a World’s record for distance of 2,105 miles

1965 S-61N made the First transatlantic crossing by a commercial helicopter

1965 S-64 claimed three World’s Altitude Records

1966 S-64 First helicopter with engine inlet particle separator

1968 S-65 First large helicopter to loop and roll

1968 S-65 First titanium-spar rotor blade

1969 S-65 First helicopter with an infrared suppressor system

1970 S-65 First helicopter transpacific crossing

1970 S-67 First prototype gunship with wings and dive brakes

1970 S-67 set a World Speed Record

1970 S-67 First helicopter with swept-tip rotor blades

1971 S-70 First helicopter with a canted tail rotor

1973 S-69 First to fly the Advancing Blade Concept (ABC)

1973 S-70 First successful flight of an all composite, bearingless tail rotor

1973 CH-53E First three-engine helicopter

1973 CH-53E First seven-blade main rotor helicopter

1977 S-76 First helicopter designed for civil transportation

1980 S-70 first helicopter qualified to fly into know moderate icing conditions

1984 S-75 First all-composite airframe (ACAP)

1985 First helicopter with single-pilot research cockpit, fly-by-wire, sidearm controls, voice interaction (SHADOW)

Personal Honors:

National Defense Transportation Award 1952

Man of the Year by the Air Force Association 1966

Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy of the National Aeronautical Association 1967

National Aviation Hall of Fame Enshrined 1968

Inventor Hall of Fame Inducted 1987

There’s No Doubt, Socialists and Marxists Created America’s Unions

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Brooks Bayne in Articles

While engaging in a few recent pre-midterm election Twitter/Facebook skirmishes, I pointed out that American labor unions aren’t American in origin at all. The concept of labor unions was imported from Germany, via socialists and Marxists over 100 years ago. Whenever you assert this truth in the presence of American leftists, you will likely encounter the familiar unionist apologist caterwaul, “American unions aren’t socialist, they’re here to protect the workers!” I suppose their sideways admission is that socialism doesn’t actually help workers. However, the eagerness to which they enjoin a fight with someone who is critical of labor unions makes me believe the charge hits too close to home,  but maybe they’re simply ignorant.

My eyes were opened to this issue when I read a book a few years ago titled, “The Double Edge of Labor’s Sword; Discussion and Testimony on Socialism and Trade-Unionism Before the Commission on Industrial Relations“. This book was originally published by the Socialist Party in Chicago (of course) in 1914, and was co-authored by Morris Hillquit (founder and leader of the Socialist Party of America), Samuel Gompers (Marxist and founder of the AFL, now known as the AFL-CIO, which, according to their website, represents 15 million American union workers – the largest collective of unionists in America), and Max Hayes (union activist, and socialist politician). These weren’t men whose socialist and Marxist leanings would be the least bit ambiguous.

After reading the bios of this trio and their collaborative work embedded below, the only people who could claim American unions don’t owe their former and current station to socialist and Marxist ideology, are flirting with the limits of ingenuousness. The following book is the compiled testimony from the 3 authors before the Commission on Industrial Relations, a commission set up to assuage the public after unionists began wreaking havoc across America with bombings, riots, and other violence.

It’s plainly laid out for you, America. These men who created the unions weren’t hiding their anti-American, collectivist worldview. They were open about it. Unions are indeed socialist vehicles, imported from Germany to pollute our continent. This book should be required reading in school, but as a warning, and definitely not as a guide. Enjoy your read, kids!

america 1914: testimony on socialism and trade-unionism – commission on industrial relations