Anti-Defamation League Weighs In on McCain/World Anti-Communist League Controversy

John McCain did not disclose his position on the board even though he was required to do so as a member of Congress.
What is he hiding?

Wasn’t Obama on a honorable board of an anti-poverty group? Doing good work for American people and society?
And McCain on a board of “a gathering place, a forum, and a point of contact for extremists, racists, and anti-Semites”? Planning funds and strategies for death squadrons in South America?
Anyone notice the difference?
Jake, do you?

Jake, please explain why would call it ‘guilt-by-association’ if McCain served on a board of a group that is DIRECTLY linked to international terrorism (death squadrons, political assassinations etc)?
Guilt by guilt, would be the right term.
Obama was an perfectly respectable board with various people from different background, Republicans but also Prof. Ayers who did despicable things when he was young. These things had nothing to do with what the board/Woods foundation was about though.
Compare that to the World Anti-Communist League.
The USCWF was founded in Phoenix, Arizona in November 1981 as an offshoot of the World Anti-Communist League. The group was, from the onset, saddled with the disreputable reputation of its parent group. The WACL had ties to ultra-right figures and Latin American death squads. Roger Pearson, the chairman of the WACL, was expelled from the group in 1980 under allegations that he was a member of a neo-Nazi organization.
The U.S. Council of World Freedom claimed to be cleansed of these elements. The group’s director, retired Major General John Singlaub, said he had purged some of the more “kooky” members, including a Mexican chapter that “blamed everything on the Jews,” and “even accused Pope John Paul of being a Jew.” The Anti-Defamation League, once critical, applauded Singlaub for his efforts. Moreover, the USCWF was granted a sense of political legitimacy when President Ronald Reagan addressed the group in September 1984.
But the group’s secret activities were still controversial. It claimed to support “pro-Democratic resistance movements fighting communist totalitarianism.” And during the 1980s it became a vehicle for the Reagan administration to prop up some of the more totalitarian, anti-communist efforts in Central America.

DOES John McCain sound more and more like Joe McCarthy?
Of course, to the right wing extremists, that will be perceived as praise!

The McCain campaign has waged a hateful & yes insidious racist campaign the past few days. Its shameful & a black mark on America’s image. Rather then merely reporting on the rhetoric, isnt it time you took a stand on this? Do you really want your next President to be tarnished like this? Out of common decency , call the McCain campaign on these horrific tactics & get them back on track before it gets even further out of hand!!! They are inciting an angry mob mentality that everyone is now recognizing could get out of control Do the right thing & call it as it is!!!!!!!!

Really, why is it that Republicans can’t admit that they have really badly screwed this country over, and that, for the most part, they’re immoral, uneducated, irresponsible bums? It would be the first step towards actually becoming conservative, beginning to have respect and understanding for their country and world, and raising themselves out of the gutter. Instead – as modern Republicans tend to do – McCain and Palin lunge for the gutter, like rats lunging for garbage. But – amazingly – Americans appear to be waking up – finally – and not buying the crap anymore. McCain and Palin look more like trash with each passing day, as if someone was tearing the big green garbage-bag facade from the filth that lies inside. I would be ashamed had I supported an adminsitration that launched an unnecessary war and destroyed the economy of my country. Why can’t Republicans summon up even a tiny bit of shame for the evil they are responsible for? No Christian could support mass murder or mass-murderers – so who are the self-proclaimed religious folks consistenly voting republican? No patriot would ever support an unnecessary war. Thankfully, the republicans are going to go down hard this time, and all of the appeals to prejudice, racism, and fear mongering only reveal their sickness and evil.

“the Obama campaign is going off the deep end panicking”
HA! HAHAHA !!HHA HAHHAAAAA!
EVERY national poll shows Obama with the biggest lead in US history.
The only thing the Obama campaign is panicking about is whether they will win by a just any landslide, or by the biggest landslide in US election history.
The more McCain goes down in the polls, the stupider the republicans get when they post here!

Glad to see that the racists are out in force to defend the leader of the lynch mob, Grand Wizard McCain.

“the Obama campaign is going off the deep end panicking”
yeah I guess because he’s leading McCain by 11 points in today’s and yesterday’s Gallup tracking poll and because most of the electoral vote projection sites predict a landslide for Obama

The WACL as recently as 1978 called for the military overthrow of the US government and was composed of ex SS and other Nazis. How can you clean that up? By the time McCain joined it Reverend Moon money was already flowing into it which i guess makes it acceptable as the Washington Times?

As a freshman congressman in the early 1980s, John McCain did not disclose his connections to a controversial group that was implicated in a secretive plot to supply arms to Nicaraguan militia groups during the Iran-Contra affair.
McCain did not list his service on the board of the U.S. Council for World Freedom on mandatory congressional disclosure forms asking about positions he held outside government.
McCain’s aides said he wasn’t required to report the affiliation.
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A review of the personal financial disclosure forms McCain filed after his election to the U.S. House in 1982 show that he did not list the group in the section of his 1982, 1983 and 1984 reports in which he was required to disclose all positions he held outside of government.
The instructions on the form require filers to report “the identity of all positions held on or before the date of the filing during the current calendar year as an officer, director, trustee, partner, proprietor, representative, employee, or consultant of any corporation, firm, partnership, or other business enterprise, any nonprofit organization, any labor organization, or any educational or other institution.”

NYT: Palins Repeatedly Pressed Case Against Trooper
The NY Times is reporting tonight that Walt Monegan received over 3 dozen calls from the Palins and aides calling for the removal of Mike Wooten, Palin’s ex-brother in-law.
The bombshell which is preceding tomorrow’s release of the official report into Troopergate offers more details into the sordid affair with recollections of specific events that finger Sarah Palin’s involvement in pressuring her public safety commissioner to fire her ex-brother in law.
Ms. Palin has denied that anyone told Mr. Monegan to dismiss Mr. Wooten, or that the commissioner’s ouster had anything to do with the trooper. But an examination of the case, based on interviews with Mr. Monegan and several top aides, indicates that, to a far greater degree than was previously known, the governor, her husband and her administration pressed the commissioner and his staff to get Mr. Wooten off the force, though without directly ordering it.
The story makes it clear that there was direct contact from Gov. Palin herself regarding this case.
In all, the commissioner and his aides were contacted about Mr. Wooten three dozen times over 19 months by the governor, her husband and seven administration officials, interviews and documents show.
“To all of us, it was a campaign to get rid of him as a trooper and, at the very least, to smear the guy and give him a desk job somewhere,” said Kim Peterson, Mr. Monegan’s special assistant, who like several other aides spoke publicly about the matter for the first time.
Needless to say, this is a huge story, Jake.

Obama camp is blasting the media will everthing to bury the Ayers connection.
They did the same thing last time it came up.
Making it seem That Obama is hiding something.
Well any man who lie so much about Ayers stating he barely knew him and was just a man in his neighborhood. When he had a personal and close relationship to him for 20 years. Needs investigated.
Obama and Ayers were friends for a long long time
Obama was taken in by Thomas Ayers, Now In Chicago that was a Pretty Big thing.
Thomas Ayers was the who of who in Chicago,

Apparently the ADL thinks Obama is a better friend of Israel than McCain. But then again Foxman was always more than wiling to change his mind for a kickback or two. Some people come pretty cheap…

re:Post by: bob | Oct 9, 2008 10:13:59 PM
Really, why is it that Democrats can’t admit that they have really badly screwed this country over, and that, for the most part, they’re immoral, overeducated, irresponsible bums? It would be the first step towards actually becoming responsible, beginning to have respect and understanding for their country and world, and raising themselves out of the gutter. Instead – as modern Democrats tend to do – Obama/Biden lunge for the gutter, like rats lunging for garbage.
Best wishes.

IT’S ALWAYS THE CORRUPT REPUBLICANS WHO SCREW OVER THIS GREAT NATION WITH THEIR GREED AND LACK OF LEADERSHIP.. AND AS ALWAYS IT’S THE DEMOCRATS WHO HAVE TO COME INTO OFFICE AND CORRECT THE REPUBLICAN MESS..
OBAMA/BIDEN- CHANGE FOR GOOD

Those supporting Barack Obama knows he is so dirty that his opponents needs to be brought down to the level of the sewer where Obama presides with his anti-Americans associations. Senator Obama does not tell the truth about himself, his policies for tomorrow, or his opponents. Those supporting Obama are waiting for his free hand-outs, not changes good for the average American families or society. His changes are nothing more than socialists ideas. Take from the responsibles and give to the irresponsibles. SOCIALISM IS NOT AN AMERICAN IDEAL. INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY IS AN AMERICAN IDEAL.

IT’S ALWAYS THE CORRUPT REPUBLICANS WHO SCREW OVER THIS GREAT NATION WITH THEIR GREED AND LACK OF LEADERSHIP..
Posted by: dvine | Oct 9, 2008 11:15:30 PM
However, Fannie and Freddie were making major payoffs, “contributions” to Dodd, Dem, Obama, Dem, and a large number of other Dems.
The top guys who ran and looted Freddie and Fannie were also Dems.
Frank became a lover to a senior executive of Fannie Mae and states his consistent support for anything Fannie requested was not influenced by his personal relationship.
For the last 2 years Dems controlled the committees overseeing Fannie and Freddie. They actively blocked proposed reforms to reduce risk.
Many experts believe the current economic problem was largely due to Fannie and Freddie actions.
It appears the facts don’t support you.

The McCain / Palin rallies are frightening. Of course people have the right to free speech: that’s a fundamental right in the Constitution. But shouts of “Kill him” etc., etc.? No. The fact that both of these candidates refuse to take responsibility for the increasing fervor in rallies that are starting to look as if they were being held in Germany in 1933 is an insult to democracy.
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The only thing missing from a McCain/Palin rally are people actually wearing their hoods and sheets.

McCain is stuck in the past. He is all about war and thinks war is the solution to any disagreement. Are we not tired of this? Have we not lost enough of our precious and brave soldiers? Enough is enough. This must stop now.

PALIN-You are an idiot, you should be letting your daughter see a variety of women in power and let her make her own decisions, she will encounter many different types in her life time, knowledge is power.

Did you know James B. Fowler, McCain’s friend who was busted for smuggling heroin out of Thailand, is the same guy who shot Jimmie Johnson, an unarmed black man, and set off a movement that led to The Voting Rights Act? Ironic that McCain knows the guy whose killing of an unarmed black man led to the Voting Rights Act. Very Ironic.

The U.S. Council for World Freedom became controversial when it became the public cover for the White House’s covert operation to fund the Contras without congressional approval, with Singlaub working in secret with Oliver North to raise money from foreign governments.
McCain sat on the advisory board of this group, which subverted US laws by covertly funding the contras. This is not a tenuous guilt-by-association fallacy, but direct involvement which makes any ‘ayers’ connection pale in comparison.

Good Christian Values? Not McCain/Palin. Can not win on policy, so bring in the smear tactics. Guilty by association= McCain/Palin! Dump 1st wife for rich trophy wife=McCain! Fire Staff member because would not fire ex brother in law=Palin!

Maybe this cr issis is only a massive psychological test on how normal persons react to group financial problems? Easier ma mipolated..

America needs to be asking…
What do we really know about McCain?
and
What do we really know about Palin?
Vote Obama-Biden ’08

McCain sure is demagoguing the crisis now.

Thinking ahead.
Does it bother anybody that the various charges, slanderings, accusations, the very ability of a political party to brand an obvious American citizern as somehow foreign means that there is a large audience who are like minded? The violent lurch to the extreme right wing by the McCain , The RNC and their proxies, seems to be the beginning of a deepening of desperation, but also a troubling leadership crisis within the Republican party. The choice? Integrate the various extreme right wing fringe groups with the Party platform. McCain’s positions and lies are Hitlerite in the eerie manner in which they are endlessly repeated and drummed upon until bit by bit, in tiny increments, the absurdites are gradually allowed in discussion. It is very obvious the Hitlerite technique of repeating lies is working to a degree. If a man is a child when someone else commits a crime, does that crime infect a non participant? Yet it is repeated until it is a blemish somehow, next, there is linkage to equally unrelated topics, until, there is s solid block of misinformation to package. Damage: There is a large segment of fringe individuals to whom this type of rhetoric is inflamatory and to whom such subject matter most likely will inflame to action. I hope the secret service heard the “call” at a McCain rally that someone might “volunteer” related to Sen. Obama. What is this person supposed to step forward to do? I certainly did not imagine this. Can the Republican ticket be this extreme? To publicly make such a call for something to be done to Senator Obama? My last point is that Senator McCain will go down in history as the first candidate to have his campaign be the possible spawning event for racial warfare. Very saddening.

Hearing about & watching some of the Palin/McCain rallies is frightening. Palin and McCain are not holding a rally, THEY ARE TRYING TO INCITE A RIOT!
The only thing coming out of Palin’s mouth is HATRED AND RACISM. How dare she comment on Obama and Ayers, when her closet is full of skeletons and she is currently under investigation.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08 & 12

Why can’t McCain/Palin stick to the issues. McCain wants to bail out homeowners – where’s the money coming from? Health care – wants to put a plan through that we’ll end paying taxes on? Does this make sense? McCain says helping the homeowners mistake?? I guess so when he can’t even answer where the money is coming from. Palin can’t answer questions – as she doesn’t know the answers. This is what we need in office. She says troopergate is closed – wow still investigating. All they are doing is a dirty politics campaign, slamming others. They had better look at what they have done. Are their records clear? I think not. McCain has a lot behind him – why isn’t he answering to this” How about Palin?
Let’s not have dirty politics – issues are the key. People are worried about losing everything, unable to retire due to losing their retirement savings. Why aren’t they talking about this, just smear tactics.
McCain/Palin are not the ones to lead this country. McCain is skirting the issues, being eratic. Palin does not have the experience to lead the country. How can she be, doesn’t know anything about the economy, foreign policy and very little about energy, and unable to answer questions. More of the same with Bush – now just McCain/Palin.
What happen to facing t

Jake writes: “Because of the Ayers story, lots of folks for all sorts of reasons are looking for other “guilt by association” stories about Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.”
Yet lots of folks are looking to emulate the wacko guilt by association tactics of the Republicans. Thank heavens it is not Barak Obama, who continues to address issues related to our economic future.

That’s the problem with guilt by association… it’s BS.
It was BS when McCain uses it against Obama, it would be BS if Obama were using it against McCain.
The closest the Obama campaign has come is the Keating 5… which wasn’t so much “association” as much as it was political favors to help a criminal fleece the taxpayers.

The Repubs can dish it out, but they can’t take it! They throw mud about the association of Ayers and Obama, and make up crap in doing so. McCain’s association with WACL is a FACT! That group, headed by John Singlaub, was associated with all sorts of right-wing death squads in El Salvador and Nicaragua. I can’t believe that McCain didn’t know about that, and he probably backed it bedcasue those death squads were killing “communists,” like those Jesuit priests in El Salvador back in 1983!
Then there is the Keating Five, and can you imagine the likes of Hannity and Limbaugh going after any Democrat involved if that issue were going on today. But let’s fast forward to McCain’s ties to his campaign manager, Rick Davis, of Fannie Mae, and Phil Gram, the one Repugnantcan Senator mostly responsible for getting rid of the Glass-Steagle bill that set up the regulations that banks, insurance companies, and stock brokerage firms had to abide by for decades! Enougn said! If you now still ant to vote for McPalin, you are an un-Amerikan fascist!

What I got to know is – Who is Barack Obama?
I say bring out all the facts of all the candidates. Why does Obama react so defensively when people want to know about his past? Looks like he’s just trying to run out the clock before people find out.
McCain and Biden have been vetted for years. We know both of these ol’ guys. But who is this man who wants so bad to be the leader of the free world?

Thanks, Google! Now Perhaps Barack Can Explain His New Party Membership
Illinois: Three NP-members won Democratic primaries last Spring and face off against Republican opponents on election day: Danny Davis (U.S. House), Barack Obama (State Senate) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary).
New Party establishes that not only was the party an amalgamation of far left groups, but Barack Obama knew that when he sought the party’s endorsement.

I don’t recall reading that Palin released her own Troopergate report exonerating herself. That is ludicrous enough to discuss, don’t you think. Where is the public outrage at the race baiting at McCain’s rallys? Why won’t the networks call him on it? Why do they continue to smear Obama (Ayers) when they know the truth? Where is the integrity in journalism? Where are the real journalists? I think we should boycott all sites that do not treat both candidates equally. Not to do so is to condone the behavior. To paraphrase the adage, we must stand for something or we will fall for anything.