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THE ATHANASIAN A publication of Traditional Catholics of America + Editor: Fr. Francis E. Fenton, STL ¢ Volume XI, No. 5 + July 15, 1990

To Prove That John Paul II Is Not A True Pope — How Many Examples Are Required? Fr. Francis E. Fenton

WW it not for his paramount importance on the world rapes.” (He notes elsewhere that raisin wine “may be scene and the tremendous influence he exerts upon lawfully used for sacramental purposes.”) multitudes of people the world over in his position as the head of the Conciliar Church, I would be inclined to The. message of the above paragraph is surely self- apologize for my very frequent repetition of the subject of explanatory, is it not? While the Masses in Africa referred John Paul II in the pages of this newsletter. However, to above may have been invalid or doubtfully valid for one because I am so completely convinced not only that he is a or more other reasons, the action of John Paul II removes bogus Pope but that he is one of the most powerful forces of all doubt as to their possible validity. The Church’s teaching evil on the face of the earth, I feel that it is imperative that I is crystal clear on the subject of what constitutes valid persevere in doing my part to expose him to the best of my matter for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and no one may ability. Perhaps, I am forever hoping, there is something I make any substantive change of that matter without may write about John Paul II which will cause some readers invalidating the Mass. The fact that John Paul II did make who do not share my convictions to have second thoughts such a change comes, of course, as no surprise to us bout him and eventually (the sooner, the better) to join sedevacantists but it should provide further food for the ranks of the only authentic traditional Roman thought to those conservative, “traditional Catholic” Catholics, the sedevacantists. As I have written from time to priests and laymen who persist in their belief that he is a time in past issues of The Athanasian, if even a beginning of true Pope (Society of Saint Pius X, Tridentine Rite the restoration of the Church (humanly speaking) is to be Conference, Society of Saint Peter, Michael Davies, etc.) made, it is essential, I contend, that John Paul II first be How can they and The Wanderer and The Remnant and unmasked and identified as the counterfeit Pope he is. The Angelus and the New Jersey Catholic News and similar Unless and until this stark fact can be firmly accepted and publications possibly justify such an action on the part of ~ circulated widely enough in whatever time remains, John “His Holiness”? To suppose that an authentic Pope would Paul II will continue both his abominable charade as the render invalid the very Consecration of the Mass — is not Vicar of Christ and his nefarious “ecumenical” efforts this totally contrary to the most elementary common sense? towards the establishment of a One World Church and One Is not such a supposition utterly absurd? Assuredly it is and World Order. no theological expertise whatsoever is required to arrive at that conclusion. The writing of this particular article was prompted by yet another example of the true character of John Paul II which And so, how long more, I wonder, before those recently came to my attention. In the April 30, 1990 issue of conservative “traditional Catholics” cited above will finally The Remnant, an article by Solange Hertz quotes a French face up to reality and acknowledge the glaring fact that publication, Monde et Vie, which reads in part as follows: John Paul Il is not a true Pope. Were they to do so, they “In addition to the new _liturgically Africanized on would at long last be accepting the position of Indianized Mass rites, for over a year now in Africa the. sedevacantism. There is no other alternative. In relation to Pope has permitted bread to be replaced by cakes made of John Paul II there is but one sound, logical, realistic millet or cassava root, and grape wine by corn wine.” Nowit position that can be taken today — and that is is the clear teaching of the Roman Catholic Church that the sedevacantism. (There are a number of other priests valid matter of the Holy Eucharist is wheat bread and grape around the country who are also sedevacantists but, with wine. In his Moral Theology (1961), Father H. Jone states rare exceptions, they refrain from publicly identifying that “bread made of any other grain…is invalid matter” themselves as such. This, to my mind, is very regrettable. A and he specifically mentions millet as one of several clear declaration on their part, publicly made, that they are examples of invalid matter. As for the Mass wine, Father sedevacantists would contribute much to popularize and to Jone writes: “The wine, to be valid, must be made of ripe advance the vital truth of sedevacantism.) + ET

A Few Observations *** One of the best current examples of the exercised poor judgment or were the victims of controlled press in the USA is the lying bad advice — such excuses are futile and baseless propaganda regarding Nelson Mandela with which to those who know the score. the American public has been saturated for quite some time now. The truth about him is far *** So far gone are the American bishops of the different. In 1964, he was convicted and non-Catholic Conciliar Church that they have hired a secular public relations firm to promote imprisoned, not for his opposition to apartheid the moral law of God! but for advocating the violent overthrow of the South African government. Evidence in his trial *** While it might be a difficult decision for some included a pamphlet he wrote, “How to be a Good to make, if I had to name which one of the several Communist.” Although he never rejected violence hundred bishops of the Conciliar Church in as a political instrument and although he is a America was, in my opinion, the worst of the lot, I major force in the Communist- dominated African would name Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of National Congress, he was released from prison Detroit. While there are a number of those some five months ago by the government of South bishops who are quite abominable for one or more Africa. This is the man who was the guest of “our” reasons — and not one of them, of course, is a President George Bush last month. In July, 1988, Roman Catholic — yet I do believe that, all things John Paul II publicly praised Nelson Mandela for considered, Bishop Gumbleton is the most his “greatness” of character. And, on June 15 of repugnant of them all. this year, John Paul II had a private meeting with Mandela at the Vatican after which the “Pope” *** From time to time the observation has been again gave public praise to Mandela. Imagine a made in this newsletter that the real, the true Vicar of Christ, say, Pope Pius XI, extolling fundamental war being waged today is not before the world so disreputable a character. And Communism versus anti-Communism or freedom then there is Mandela’s wife, Winnie, a versus slavery but rather it is God against Satan, “charming” individual known to many for her Christ versus anti-Christ and militant atheism, advocacy of the “necklace” treatment for her Christianity against paganism, morality versus enemies, an especially gruesome form of torture immorality. That this conflict is now coming to a which we prefer to refrain from describing. So head is beyond all question — and the forces of much could be written about the contemptible evil are winning hands down. The ultimate Mandelas but the above will suffice here. objective of those forces is the total elimination of God and His moral law and the destruction of the +++ But how could George Bush invite such a Roman Catholic Church. While such an objective, despicable individual as Nelson Mandela to we know, can never be completely attained, yet an America as a guest and how could John Paul II era of indescribable chaos is in the making and praise such a character? Do they not know the well along towards fulfillment, an era in which truth about him? Of course they do. Here, as in Satan and his cohorts will reign supreme for some scores of other instances involving the promotion indeterminate period. Is such a nightmare of evil in one form or another, George Bush and inevitable? Apart from the always possible divine John Paul II know very well what they are doing — intervention, I am strongly inclined to answer in and any honorable person who doubts this is the affirmative — unless a massive insurgence of either uninformed or is exceedingly naive. To Christian militancy is soon forthcoming. And, by the way, don’t give up your guns! endeavor to defend this or that action of these men on the ground that they made a mistake or Fr. F. Fenton The ACLU And American Liberties e John Kenneth Weiskittel E recent issues of The Athanasian we have examined whose 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court was shot various aspects of the growth of the anti-Christian Liberal down in part through ACLU protests, targets it as the movement in our country. One article delved into the basic “primary litigating arm of the adversary culture” (described ideas put forth by Liberalism and how they are in opposition to the reign of Christ the King, while another focused upon elsewhere by the author as “the left-liberal culture” — JKW). (The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction the manner in which the controlled news media take these of the Law, Free Press, 1990, p. 243) same ideas and plant them in news reports in order to reshape the thinking of Americans into the Liberal mold. (Dis) Order In The Court Our previous studies dealt primarily with Liberalism as a sys- The ACLU has over 270,000 members (between 4,000 and tem of thought; with its chief tenets and one of the ways they 5,000 of whom are voluntary “cooperating” attorneys), 60 are being disseminated. And yet, however wicked the ideas Paid staff attorneys and 11 full-time lobbyists. It has a nation- considered, they remain but the pipe dreams of social plan- al office in New York City and a legislative office in Washing- ners in ivory towers until they are embraced by people who ton, D.C. (Walker, p. 4) “With some justification, the ACLU will give them life in the real world, This is accomplished in calls itself ‘the nation’s largest law firm.’ At any given large part by either changing the laws of the land or the way moment it is involved in an estimated one thousand cases, those laws are interpreted. The former is accomplished in and it appears before the Supreme Court more often than legislatures, from city councils all the way up to the does any organization except the federal government.” Congress, while the latter is decided by the courts. (Some (Dbid.) readers may question the notion that interpretations of the law belong to judges, arguing that those who framed the law And the ACLU is quite likely the country’s most prosperous are responsible for whatever intent is to be found in it. True “aw firm” as well. According to Daniel J. Popeo, founder as this may be, in the practical order of things such decisions and general counsel of the Washington Legal Foundation (a are‘Gommonly made by judges. We need only recall Roe vs. public interest law institution organized to go “head to head Wade.) against the American Civil Liberties Union on a continuing basis” at the national level) “the ACLU has a budget of more ev discussion of the social and political changes that have than $15 million a year.” (Not Our America… The ACLU transformed the United States in this century is complete Exposed!, Washington Legal Foundation, 1989, p. 4) In without consideration of the role the American Civil addition: Liberties Union (ACLU) has played in the process, University of Nebraska (Omaha) criminal justice professor The state affiliates, which are supposedly autonomous, Samuel Walker, a member of the ACLU’s board ofdirectors, have a combined budget of approximately another $10 states in his book, Jn Defense of American Liberties: A million. Then there’s (sic) the millions of dollars in pro History of the ACLU (Oxford U. Press, 1990): bono legal work provided by leading liberal law firms. The ACLU can legitimately claim much of the credit — or be assigned the blame, if you prefer — for the As Popeo concludes, this “adds up to a war chest that is growth of modern Constitutional law. Consult a stan- difficult, if not impossible to match.” (Some funding also dard constitutional law textbook and note the cases comes from the pornographers it regularly defends.) deemed important enough to be listed in the table of contents — the proverbial “landmark” cases. The The influence of the ACLU is, then, undeniable. The ACLU was involved in over 80 percent of them; in sev- question is: How has the group used it? Here, the answer eral critical cases, the Supreme Court opinion was depends a good deal on who is responding. ACLU director drawn directly from the ACLU brief. As even its critics Walker proudly asserts: have charged, the ACLU has exerted “an influence out of all proportion to its size.” (p. 4; at least one ACLU …the ACLU can claim to have shaped contempor member, Felix Frankfurter, has served on the Supreme values. Principles of individual freedom, protection Court.) against arbitrary government action, equal protection, and privacy have pervaded our society. When the Such a record, he writes, “has made it one of the most ACLU was founded in 1920, the promises of the Bill of important and, at times, unpopular organizations in the Rights had little practical meaning for ordinary people. country.” (p. 3) Despite its self-proclaimed position as Today, there is a substantial body of law in all major guardian of American freedoms, the ACLU has succeeded in areas of civil liberties: freedom of speech and press, eo drawing the wrath of the fundamentally conservative majority separation of church and state, free exercise of reli- lof citizens it professes to represent. Judge Robert H. Bork, Sion, due process of law, equal protection, and privacy.

eee THE ATHANASIAN — M dd LV,JULY 15, 1990 1990 The growth of civil liberties since World WarI repre- Small wonder that the Bush staff pounced at the opportunity sents one of the most important long-term develop- to collar the challenger with the ACLU label. In reviewing the ments in modern American history, a revolution in the above list of positions the group holds, we find ourselves law and public attitudes toward individual liberty. Some asking: Just who are these “ordinary people” with whom itis have called it the “rights revolution”; we prefer to call it so concerned, and why is the ACLU so keen on defending the civil liberties revolution…(p.3) them? Part of the solution will be found by exploring the organization’s background. It’s nice of Walker to provide such a “valuable” service by in- forming us of the ACLU’s crucial function in restoring unac- “(A) Supporter Of All Subversive Movements” countably lost civil liberties, since it isn’t likely that too many Americans would have any awareness of such a “hidden” When the Supreme Court in 1987 gave the ACLU what history. Frankly, few would be comfortable equating the Bill Walker calls “a particularly sweet victory” by overturning a Louisiana law permitting nonevolutionary theories of crea- of Rights with the “civil liberties revolution.” tion to be taught in public schools (“Catholic” Justice Wil- In the 1988 presidential campaign, Republican candidate liam Brennan found the law particularly odious since its aim George Bush scored points with conservative voters by “was clearly to advance the religious viewpoint that a super- charging that his Democratic opponent, Michael Dukakis, natural being created humankind”), a reporter asked ACLU was “a card-carrying member of the ACLU.” This tactic, if director Ira Glasser how long they had been fighting the case, Walker is correct, was the first time “a candidate’s member- “Sixty-two years,” replied Glasser. (Walker, p. 343) ship ina single organization (had) been a prominent issue in a campaign.” (p. 368) Dukakis’ subsequent failure to defend The “case” mentioned here is actually Glasser’s allusion to his patriotism against this attack was a key to his downfall. the ACLU’s long-standing opposition to any reference to Apparently, he failed to see the danger of his foe’s simple but God in the schools, an opposition traceable to the group’s true assertion. The result was a triumph of modern political support for a Tennessee teacher, John T. Scopes, charged know-how for, by using marketing research techniques, with introducing Darwinian evolution into the classroom. “Bush strategists had discovered that the ACLU’s name The Scopes Trial took place in 1925 and is one of the most evoked strong negative reactions among voters.” (/bid.) celebrated legal proceedings in our nation’s history. Clarence Darrow, an ACLU lawyer and self-professed athe- But if the ACLU is the guardian and savior of our freedoms, ist, defended Scopes, while fundamentalist William Jennings as it would have us believe, then why was its mere mention Bryan acted as prosecuting attorney. Although Darrow lost the kiss of death for Michael Dukakis? Consider for a mo- the case (a ruling overturned by the state supreme court in ment the following catalog of ACLU views Judge Bork has 1927), the trial proved to be “a publicity bonanza” for the compiled: ACLU which was catapulted into national prominence. (Ibid., p. 73) Popeo, commenting on the first “equal time” …The ACLU opposes laws outlawing gambling, the law (passed in Arkansas in 1981), notes that “whereas 56 use of some narcotics (marijuana use is said to be con- years earlier they had fought to defend the teaching of stitutionally protected), homosexual conduct, porno- evolution as an “alternative” theory, this time they fought to graphy, abortion, and suicide. The ACLU thinks that make evolution the only theory to teach.” (p. 11) in child custody proceedings, homosexuality may not even be considered in determining the best interests of This so-called “Monkey Trial,” however, came five years aft- the child, The organization opposes state regulation of er the forming of the organization. The ACLU actually was abortion. It thinks that while the production of child begun to replace a similar group, the National Civil Liberties pornography may be prohibited, once it is produced, Bureau (NCLB). It is worth taking a brief look at the activi- the first amendment requires its distribution free of ties of the NCLB, especially because one of its leaders, Roger state interference. The ACLU opposes laws that zone Baldwin, helped found the ACLU and played a vital role in its pomographic theatres away from churches and existence until his death in 1981 at the ripe old age of 97. schools as well as laws that allow citizens to have the Baldwin organized the NCLB in 1917 primarily to fight postmaster remove their names from mailing lists for against America’s entrance into the First World War and pornographic material. It opposes metal detectors in against a military draft. The thought of committing US. airports. It does not favor mandatory incarceration, troops to what was widely seen as a strictly European conflict without the possiblity of a sentence of probation, ex- did not meet with great public support at first. President cept perhaps for murder or treason and, of course, Woodrow Wilson recognized this by using “He kept us out contends that the death penalty is unconstitutional. of war!” as the slogan of his successful 1916 re-election The ACLU has sued to declare unconstitutional: the campaign. When, however, the nation declared war on tax exempt status of churches and synagogues; the Germany, the vast majority of citizens rallied behind our employment of chaplains by Congress, prisons, and the armed forces. armed services; all displays of nativity scenes on public property; the singing of “Silent Night” in the Those who sought the services of the NCLB were primarily classroom; and the words “under God” in the pledge of the members of far-left groups and of pacifistic religious allegiance. (p. 243n; and, we may add to this, its sects (for example, the Quakers). But make no mistake, the, opposition to private gun ownership.) radicals weve — as they later would be during the Vietna m! Sanne THE ATHANASIAN 4 ooo 915, 15,19JULY . 0199 0 War — very much in control of the anti-war movement. Communist activities that advocacy of violence, murder or Walker states: “The American Socialist party was the center assassination in general — but not the overt act — was of organized opposition.” (p. 13) In September, 1917, the constitutionally protected. See Walker, pp. 65, 120.) Justice Department staged mass raids on the offices of the In- dustrial Workers of the World (IWW), a socialist union, in- The ACLU was beginning to make quite a reputation for dicting 169 of its top leaders under the Espionage Act. The itself. In the 1920’s, the Industrial Defense Association NCLB helped raise legal funds for the IWW. (/bid., p. 25) A accused the ACLU of being “the legal agency of the little more than a year later Baldwin was himself found guilty Communist Party of Russia.” (Cited, Walker, p. 57) The of draft evasion and was jailed until July of 1919, at which ACLU and its supporters would like to have this brushed off time he joined the IWW. as merely the anti-labor rhetoric of a manufacturers’ lobby. Unfortunately, leading moderate union figures were saying The career of Roger Baldwin so shaped the organization and much the same: AFL head Samuel Gompers assailed it for subsequent operation of the ACLU that his name is virtually aiding “revolutionary” groups and United Mine Workers synonymous with the group. Born in 1884 in a Boston suburb leader John L. Lewis called it “communistic.” (/bid.) And the to a wealthy Unitarian family and educated at Harvard, Bald- first in-depth governmental investigation of Communists in win is a classic example of the radical in the pinstripe suit. He America, the New York State Legislature’s Lusk Committee, was, according to Walker, a man with prejudices, “a bit of a in its four-volume report Revolutionary Radicalism snob” and held “an elitist view of his role in society.” (p. 31) (published in 1920), called the ACLU “a supporter of all His earliest free speech defenses, while a sociology professor subversive movements,…its propaganda is detrimental to at St. Louis’ Washington University, included one for anarch- the interests of the State. It attempts not only to protect ist Emma Goldwin in 1910 and one for Planned Parenthood crime but to encourage attacks upon our institutions in every founder Margaret Sanger two years later. (Ibid., p.34) form.” (Ibid.) Some things, it seems, never change.

After his release from prison, Baldwin went to “Pittsburgh in Counsel For The Comrades the midst of a steel strike,…(and) worked in a mill at the request of strike organizer (and future Communist Party The previous section only touches upon the ties that the leader) William Z. Foster to investigate the productivity of American Civil Liberties Union has had with the Communist the strikebreakers.” (Walker, p. 46) Then, in January, 1920, movement in the United States. When the House of he reorganized the NCLB as the ACLU. Popeo writes: “His Representatives formed its Special Committee to Investigate first board of directors included Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Communist Activities (mentioned earlier) in 1930, Hamilton (Baldwin met her while supporting the IWW in 1917 — Fish, who chaired the committee, charged that the ACLU JKW) and William Z. Foster, both of whom would later head was “closely affiliated with the Communist movement in the the Communist Party in America; radical communist Scott United States and fully 90 percent of its efforts are on behalf Nearing and several others (left-wing extremists — JKW), of Communists.” (Cited, Walker, p. 120) including Socialist Party head Norman Thomas.” (pp. 8-9; Walker acknowledges Flynn as an ACLU founder but omits And what of the charges? Roger Baldwin’s long association mention of Foster in this connection). with radicals of all shades from shocking pink to blood red made such associations inevitable. There is no evidence that Today the ACLU conveys an image of lawyers in three-piece he ever was a member himself although certain of his suits but in its early days it did little to hide its militant activ- statements and activities gives one reason to wonder. He was ism for radical causes. In May, 1920, the residents of a member of the Friends of the Soviet Union (Popeo, p. 8) Duquesne, Pennsylvania, witnessed “an ACLU-sponsored and worked with Communists in organizing the Popular demonstration in support of steel workers.” (Walker, p. 52) Front, a coalition of liberals and Reds that included such Five years later in Los Angeles an ACLU attorney was groups as the American League for Peace and Democracy, “dragged” from a podium near city hall, the police chief ex- the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign plaining that he’d “not allow any man to deny the existence Bom, the North American Committee to Aid Spanish of God down there on the plaza.” (Jbid.) The formation of Democracy, the American Student Union and the National two clandestine Communist parties afforded the ACLU’s ex- Committee to Aid Striking Workers. (Walker, p. 118) ecutive committee the opportunity to issue a policy statement in 1921 that attempted to explain its relation with them. Walker’s presentation of ACLU-Communist ties is not While denouncing their secrecy and the perjury of their always convincing. For example, he writes that “(a)Il the members, it blamed “political repression” as responsible for ACLU leaders were repelled by Communist ideology and such behavior, arguing that, if the parties were “left free to tactics…” (p. 63; even Flynn and Foster?) Yet on the same express their political views in the open, there will be no page he informs us: longer any reason for underground activity.” (Cited, ibid., p. 63) On the question of whether the first amendment protects ..-Baldwin and others in the ACLU were also deeply the right to advocate revolution, Walker reports that “the sympathetic to the Soviet Union which, in the pre- ACLU hedged.” (Only one year later, in a letter to the Attor- Stalinist years, captured the imagination of many ney General, the group defended the “right” of anyone “to disaffected Americans as a bold experiment in advocate the overthrow of government by force or violence,” economic democracy (sic). Baldwin spent two months and in 1920 Baldwin testified before a House committee on there in 1927 and wrote an informative book entitled

THE ATHANASIAN JULY 15, 1990 in Liberty Under the Soviets. He also organized support Baldwin also exhibited a strange view of civil liberties e for the Kuzbas, an American industrial colony in Communist-enslaved nations. In 1934, he wrote an articl er Russia — an activity that right-wingers took as for Soviet Russia Today in which he said: “When that pow in @ only conclusive proof of his Communist affiliation. of the working class is once achieved, as it has been mean: IS the Soviet Union, I am for maintaining it by any But even with this admission, Walker isn’t telling the whole whatsoever.” (Cited, Popeo, p. 10; also Walker, p. 119) story for, as Popeo observes: Here we are confronted with an interesting problem. Both Baldwin had a special interest in and appreciation for authors have cited the same two passages, but from diametri- the Soviet Union. He made his first trip to Russia in cally opposed positions. How do they use these quotes to 1923 and was invited back for a second visit four years strengthen their respective sides? Walker, obviously, is at the later. (p. 10, emphasis added) disadvantage of defending the indefensible remarks of his group’s founder. He had no choice but to include them if he Such behavior is consistent with that of the British Fabian wanted to give his book the appearance of being balanced, Socialists who seek to bring about Marxian socialism since he noted that they “were on public record.” (p. 119) So through nonviolent change. Indeed, Rose L. Martin, in her he resorts to apologetics: true, he tells us, this was “careless comprehensive study on the subject, Fabian Freeway: High rhetoric” on Baldwin’s part but “(b)oth statements were Road to Socialism in the U.S.A. Fidelis, 1968), identifies the atypical (he made no others like them) and were apparently a ACLU and Baldwin as American Fabians. She cites a book product of the desperate conditions of 1934 — the Baldwin coauthored, Civil Liberties & Industrial Conflict, depression and the rise of Hitler.” (/bid.) Isn’t this fitting, published in 1938 by Harvard University Press, a book in coming as it does from the same people who have perfected which he calls civil liberties “ means for nonviolent progress,” the insanity defense in murder trials, for now we are asked to defining progress as “the extension of the control of social believe that Baldwin, the rich anti-Semite, was so institutions by progressively larger classes until human socie- overwhelmed by the troubling state of world affairs that he ty ultimately abolishes the violence of class conflict.” (p. 233) lost his head and made a couple of statements that sound as If this isn’t sufficiently clear, Martin includes quotes from two though they were lifted directly from a Marxist textbook! other Baldwin statements from the same decade: at a This wild grasping for straws by Walker begs the question on teachers’ conference in 1936 he upheld “the forces working some key points. First, how is it that earlier in his story for the democratization of industry by extending public own- Walker tells us that, years before these statements were ership and control, which alone will abolish the power of the made, Baldwin was “deeply sympathetic to the Soviet Union? relative few who own the wealth”; and in an article the fol- Would this not suggest a more Jasting interest in such lowing year he defined “real democracy” as “strong trade ideology? Second, he writes (in the same section in which he unions, government regulation of business, ownership by records the quotes) that in the 1930’s Baldwin’s “rhetoric the people of industries that serve the public.” (/bid., p. 234) became explicitly more Marxist.” (p. 118) Does this not at This is all nothing less than a blueprint for Big Brother so- least suggest that such remarks, far from being isolated (or, cialism behind the usual flowery platitudes about “demo- as Walker seems to want us to think, accidental), represent cracy,” “ownership by the people” and “public ownership part of an ongoing intellectual process? And third, Walker, and control.” We see this in the ACLU’s refusal to recognize while mentioning Baldwin’s Communist friends and as civil liberties the rights to property or freedom of contract. colleagues, his coalition- building with the Communist Party, Economic freedom to them seems to apply only to bureau- a visit to Russia and other similar activities, appears to want crats, welfare recipients and big labor bosses; they oppose the reader to believe that all of this shouldn’t be considered right-to-work laws. Popeo points out that the ACLU prides as relevant to his public utterances. Aren’t these, after all, the itself on its opposition to searches without warrants and then only times he made slips of the tongue, as Walker suggests? he quotes an editorial in Barron’s which stated: “Yet in 1978, it decided not to file a brief for an Idaho businessman The answer is that they are not his only comments who barred the Occupational Safety and Health Administra- supporting Communism. Even if we disallow the examples tion from performing a safety inspection of his plant until it cited by Martin as too vague (it could be argued that Baldwin obtained a search warrant.” (p. 75; what, we cannot help but only means a non-Marxist form of socialism), there is still at wonder, would have been the outcome had he been a co- least one that reinforces the others. We will let Popeo caine dealer whose crack house had been raided by police!) introduce it:

The above Baldwin remarks pale in comparison with what he In 1928, he issued a comparison of repression in wrote in his thirtieth-anniversary Harvard yearbook: democratic and socialist countries that has remained a mainstay of the ACLU’s philosophy to this very day: lam for socialism, disarmament and, ultimately, for “Repressions in Western democracies are violations of abolishing the State itself as an instrument for violence professed constitutional liberties and I condemn them and compulsion. I seek the social ownership of proper- as such. Repressions in Soviet Russia are weapons of ty, the abolition of the propertied class and sole control struggle in a transition period to Socialism.” (p. 10) of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. (Cited, Popeo, p. 9, emphasis added; Walker includes Why does Popeo consider this mentality characteristic of the quote, but without the first sentence, p. 119) today’s ACLU? It may have something to do with this opinion

THE ATHANASIAN JULY 15, 1990 he cites from attorney William Kunstler who currently serves he notes that she never witnessed her exoneration, having on its National Advisory Council: “I do not believe in public already been buried in Moscow’s Kremlin Wall. Three years attacks on socialist countries where violations of human later the ACLU gave its 50th Anniversary Civil Liberties rights may occur.” (Jbid.) And we shouldn’t forget the case of Award to the following individuals (as described by Popeo): Valter Polovcha, the twelve-year-old Ukrainian boy visiting “David Dellinger, an admitted communist; Paul Robeson, an the U.S. a few years ago with his parents who decided that he identified communist; Julian Bond, a radical legislator; and would like to stay in the decadent West despite the protests C. Willard Heckel whose claim to fame was his active defense of his parents. The ACLU, which staunchly defends the of avowed communist Angela Davis.” (p. 16) “right” of school girls to have abortions without parental consent (or even knowledge), took the case of the parents. The trend of the rejuvenated ACLU has continued to this day The final twist is that the ACLU was already involved in a in the same direction. In the Spring 1990 issue of its tabloid, similar case, but this one involved a child from Chile and this Civil Liberties, it announced that the recipient of its annual time it was on the side of the child! (See Popeo, pp. 28-30) award was Anne Braden and reported that, at the banquet honoring her, she recalled the successful fight to destroy In 1940, a purge was made of Communists from the ACLU’s HCUA and praised the ACLU’s part in creating the kind of governing committee and, as a result, Elizabeth Gurley consciousness that made it possible. This is the same Anne Flynn, a leading member of both groups, was removed from Braden who has been mentioned along with her husband her post as an ACLU director. The move was done to insure Carl in two articles in The Athanasian concerning the sordid the group’s survival after years of attack on this very issue, career of Martin Luther King, Jr. There we provided docu- and to regain acceptance with liberals who were shocked by mentary proof (sworn testimony from an FBI undercover the Nazi-Soviet accord. (Popeo, p. 14) During the next agent) that the Bradens, close associates of King, were twenty years the ACLU assumed a new posture. This members of that fine group of “liberals,” the Communist involved a temporary alliance with, of all groups, the FBI. In Party of the USA. Nowhere in the two-page Civil Liberties fact, according to William A. Donohue in The Politics of the spread is there any mention of Braden’s affiliation! American Civil Liberties Union, it “voluntarily supplied information to the bureau on suspected communists…” Verdict: Guilty of Undermining America (Cited, Popeo, p. 15; a book he also recommends) Walker naturally sees the 1950’s as dark days for the ACLU but adds “There has never been an anti-American movement in the that it offered “free legal assistance to federal employees United States that did not, in one form or another, appeal to charged with being disloyal.” (p. 178) The freewheeling the Declaration of Independence,” wrote then Monsignor 1960’s made it the “in” thing to be radical. When the House Fulton J. Sheen in 1941, Included in his list of scoundrels are Committee on Un-American Activities was abolished, the the “spurious defenders of civil liberties (who) tearfully CLU must have led the cheers — it had sought just that quote it to justify every attack on the foundations of since the committee had been formed in 1938. (/bid., p. 121) liberty…”. When the ACLU’s background and ongoing It moved in 1967 to rescind the 1940 resolution mentioned assault on the liberties it claims to protect are considered in above and voted to overturn Flynn’s expulsion, praising her this light, it is small wonder that Cardinal Richard Cushing in efforts on the “civil liberties revolution.” (Popeo, pp. 14-15; 1959 assailed it as being a “Communist Front.” Although it

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