Unearthed Letters Link ACLU Founders to Communist Party
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Newly discovered declassified letters found in the Soviet Comintern archives seem to link early leaders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) with the Communist Party, the Daily Caller reports.
Noted author Paul Kengor reportedly unearthed letters, including one written on ACLU stationary, dated on May 23, 1931 and signed by ACLU founder Roger Baldwin that requests help from then-American Communist Party Chairman William Z. Foster in coordinating travel arrangements for ACLU Chairman Harry Ward’s travels to the Soviet Union. The letter suggests Ward’s trip would revolve around a search for “evidence from Soviet Russia” that would undermine America’s capitalist system:
Dear Bill [Foster],
Dr. Harry ward, chairman of this organization, is going to Russia in august to make a six or seven months’ study of a type which nobody has done. Dr. Ward is, as you perhaps know, the author of several books on the profit motive. He has demolished it theoretically. Now he wants to demolish it practically by evidence from Soviet Russia.
Could you give him any letters of introduction or suggestions of persons to see who can show him exactly how non-profit incentives work?
Yours ever,
(Roger Baldwin)
According to the DC, Foster was a “key figure” in the early years of the American communist movement who also belonged to the ACLU’s National Committee in the 1920s, according to FBI documents. In 1932, he wrote a book titled “Toward Soviet America” and testified under oath before Congress that he opposed American democracy.
In addition to personal correspondence between the ACLU and the American Communist Party, Kengor also found a flier advertising “Soviet Union Day,” a 1933 event featuring ACLU board member Corlis Lamont that promised to “answer lies and slanders of enemies of the Soviet Union.”
According to Kengor, the Communist Party sent all of its correspondence to Russia to be kept in the Comintern in Moscow.
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Comments (161)
RLTW
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 12:14amIf it was legal I would line up all ACLU members and racists and…________ them
Report Post »Shoot what did I mean to say?
N37BU6
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 12:03amQuick, Jon Stewart! Put on a pair of glasses and dance around a chalkboard for 3 minutes.
Should thoroughly debunk this and make Beck look like an idiot.
Report Post »twofoot_trucker
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 12:00amIt’s news that the ACLU was founded as a means to destroy this country? And continues to work towards that same goal to this day?
Report Post »cranes
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 12:00amAnd we continue to let them destroy this country through the courts. They are obviously not about what they claim to be but are a shame and we should stand up and disregard them and basically kick them out of the courts as irrelevant.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:55pmWho da thunk it ? I am shocked & outraged !! That wasn’t very convincing was it ?I always remember the old saying better dead than red. isn’t it funny we find out Mcarthy was right about commie infiltrators.
Report Post »Sutter Buttes
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:51pmIt’s about time this was discussed. It’s certainly old news. From http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/roger_baldwin.html
“I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself… I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”
Report Post »Roger Nash Baldwin
BoilitDown
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:51pmIt is nice to have this additional and tangible conformation about this enemy within. How do we use it to dismantle their grip on America? Do our intelligence agencies investigate their subversion?
Report Post »There are a few sites on the web that archive their subversive activities but they go merrily along undermining our country with apparent impunity.
Xcori8r
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:45pmGee, I thought they were just fond of Nazi’s.
Report Post »twotwins
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:42pmI just looked at the photos of Detroit ruination! (on The Blaze). This is what liberals do . . . . .they take away all that is good and sweet and decent and leave the ruins behind them.
Report Post »People used to congregate at various churches on Sunday and “plot” to do good things for one another in the neighborhood.
These ruins are now the “churches of liberalism” . . . . . . note the “fruit of their tree” . . . . . . . ruination.
ltb
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:48pmYou are so right. Liberals are evil incarnate and the fruit of their labor is destruction.
Report Post »Liberalism
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 12:45amThey are NOT liberals nor are their ideas progressive.
In the several thousand years of recorded human history strong centralized oligarchical governments oppressing the people with burdensome laws and taxes have been the norm. This was true even in the Athenian Democracy and the Roman Republic.
Liberalism was born and grew during The Enlightenment throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.in the works of Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Hume, Rousseau, Smith, Kant, Burke, Paine, and our Founding Fathers.
In an historic context the US is a RADICAL confederation of several independent and sovereign states. The US Constitution, in its original interpretation, was (and still is) the most liberal political document ever written by man. And, as Glenn himself has suggested, it is impossible to progress beyond “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that are among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” (or property).
No, these people are neither liberal nor progressive. They are “conservative” in the worst possible way, They promote slavery and call it freedom. They promote violence and call it peace. They seek to return us not merely to conditions resembling those under King George III but, even worse, to a serfdom in a global corporate-feudal society. It is as illiberal and regressive as illiberal as regressive can get.
No, call these people what they are. Call them Socialist, Fascist, Nazi, or Communist … in the end, it’s all the same basic thing.
No, the successes of the US are the results of TRUE liberalism. The conditions in Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia are not the results of Liberalism; they are the results of Socialism.
Anyway, the ACLU being founded by a communist. Like Chris G. mentioned above, no one familiar with the John Birch Society should be surprised. JBS had been maligned by the GOP establishment since it’s founding however they have been right in nearly all of their research and predictions.
If you liked the 5,000 year leap, read Cleon Skousen’s other works, check out JBS, and have a look at the works of G. Edward Griffin.
Oh, and FWIW, an ACLU attorney in south Florida recently won a case to have someone’s guns returned to them.
Report Post »http://preview.tinyurl.com/2auzshp
LibertyWon
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 4:32amI wonder if they’ll help out the NJ guy who had his sentence commuted by Christie?
Report Post »Sounds like it is a similar case….
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/23/freed-new-jersey-man-wants-gun-conviction-overturned/
ZeitgeistBuster
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 4:33amExcellent post LIBERALISM!
I hope we are on the same page when it comes to the need for a Constitutional Convention to tighten up the chains once again on the powerful arms and legs of the Federal Government.
If you are, then like me you’ve been thinking of a package of specific amendments to put in to restore Federalism. I think that an opportunity is coming in which a Real Constitutional Convention will be a possibility, and I think that we would be the most foolish people in the world not to have put some serious thought into concrete proposals that could be offered up if/when a convention may come. It would be like not preparing yourself ahead of time and missing the opportunity of a lifetime because of negelect.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 9:38amZeitgeistBuster wrote: “If you are, then like me you’ve been thinking of a package of specific amendments to put in to restore Federalism.”
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What we need to do is repeal existing amendments like the 16th Amendment, since the progressive income tax is straight from the Communist manifesto and is nothing more than institutionalized theft. We also need to repeal the 17th Amendment, because having U.S. Senators appointed by state representatives, as our founding fathers intended, is actually a brilliant way of ensuring responsiveness to the states at the federal level by preventing nationalized senate races. Harry Reid would have never won if out-of-state unions had not provided the manpower for his ground campaign and his 2010 campaign demonstrates exactly why nationalized senate elections are a bad idea. If the Nevada state legislature had appointed Reid in 2010, Nevadans would have booted out any representatives who voted for him. That process would also have prevented Reid from using union thugs to steal the election through a corrupt ground campaign.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:40pmThis is a shock to people? I thought everyone knew Roger Baldwin was a communist. He didn’t hide his communist ties and made his intentions very clear as evidenced by the following quote: “I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the properties class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. It all sums up into one single purpose — the abolition of dog-eat-dog under which we live. I don’t regret being part of the communist tactic. I knew what I was doing. I was not an innocent liberal. I wanted what the communists wanted…”
The ACLU is a paper tiger. It has a small staff and a lot of expensive stationary that it uses to intimidate people who are ignorant about the Constitution. If small town mayors and backwater school superintendents would ignore empty threats by the ACLU and then countersue for malicious prosecution, the ACLU would disappear and America would once again become the Christian nation Our founders intended it to be.
Report Post »Tyr
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:56pmYou are EXACTLY correct, Sir! I salute you!
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 8:25amExactly….!
Report Post »Kriger
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 5:08pmYep, know this for years and since the early nineties, Roger Baldwin’s words have been emblazoned over each of my office desks as a reminder of what the ACLU truly represents.
Report Post »jdawg
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:38pmEarly on, Baldwin said “Communism is the goal” of the ACLU.
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/tea-party-nation-names-dhs-seiu-list-of-5-top-liberal-hate-groups-of-2010
Report Post »spreadcommonsensenot pc
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:28pmI new that.
Report Post »GrumpyCat
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:25pmAs with WikiLeaks, “Tell us something we didn’t already know.”
Report Post »SUPPLY_SIDE
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:24pmI’m shocked! …Oh wait…makes sense.
Report Post »bulletsinthegun
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:22pmDoesnot suprrize me a one bit, they been in the way of freedom forever. Time to take them off the map
AngryMobOfOne
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:18pmEverything now considered “Progressive” can be traced back to the Soviets. And I’m sure there are still active links. Money may have dried up, but hey, they’ve got Soros now.
Report Post »C.C.D.
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:32pmGood screen name, made me chuckle…
Report Post »Crewbot
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:18pmThey have always been a domestic enemy. So much for our politicians oath to defend us from enemies foreign and domestic.
Report Post »C.C.D.
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:16pmA.C.L.U., All Communist Liberals United..
Report Post »I would find it hard to believe that anyone in their RIGHT mind would be surprised by this…
jhaydeng
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:15pmI still can’t believe that the whole United States of America is not outraged by the numerous news reports on a daily basis. Even NBC and CBS have reported things that are extremely important to our liberties. Time to go to work sleepy heads!
Report Post »C.C.D.
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:26pmJust because certain actions are not being taken yet, doesn’t mean everyone is sleeping. Did you know that a wolf pack will organize and wait out its prey to make the right mistake. There are lots of big dogs already in position, just make sure your teeth are sharpened..
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:15pmThe ACLU is Marxist? Is that suppose to be a news flash? If we were really men and women of character we’d take everyone of them out in the street and put a ? in their heads for Treason. They commit treason day in and day out and we stand around like a bunch of morons to afraid to speak our minds or do anything about it.. They have single handedly criminalized Christianity in America for goodness sake! I say shoot and ask questions later.
Report Post »Crewbot
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:11pmA.mericas
Report Post »C.ommunism
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EZDOZIT
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:10pmIt was the ACLU that defended young american communist from the draft in WW II. They were not going to fight for the country they hated. The ACLU is always for anything that helps distroys america.
Report Post »Deuteronomy22
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 3:09amhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,108140,00.html
ACLU Comes to Rush Limbaugh’s Defense
The ACLU contends that state law enforcement officers violated Limbaugh‘s privacy rights by taking possession of his medical records as part of their criminal investigation into the commentator’s alleged “doctor-shopping” to feed his prescription-drug addiction.
MR_ANDERSON
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 3:51amThat does two things.
1. Brings up Rush’s addiction in the media, which the left is always looking to do.
2. Labels the police as corrupt and undermines their authority.
Seems like a win/win for the ACLU when trying to undermine America.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:08pmGee, whoda thunk…
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:07pmNot surprising…ACLU has been undermining America for as long as I can remember,and that’s a very long time…
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:38amI thought it was common knowledge that the ACLU is a communist organization. This country really has been asleep far too long.
Report Post »stephenb.net
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:04pmDamn Commies!
Chris G
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:20pmI would like to re-print my comments on this sbject over @ The DC here:
No one should be surprised to hear this. The John Birch Society, which is often maligned by “conservatives”, has been warning us about the Communist roots of the ACLU for decades. It really bothers me when I think about former Rep. Bob Barr joining the ACLU, considering its disgraceful history at best, & in the worst case, possibly treasonous.
How could you support these guys, Mr. Barr?
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/04/the-aclu%e2%80%99s-untold-stalinist-heritage/#ixzz1A8BxYL4t
ANY COMMENTS????
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:28pmNo shocker here!
Report Post »Okie from Muskogee
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:32pmIt’s about time they came out of the closet! Everyone already knew.
Report Post »C.C.D.
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:39pmI remember when I was a kid I had a T-Shirt that read, “Kill a Commie for Mommy” anybody remember those? The crazy thing is, you would probably get sued by the ACLU if you wore one today…
Report Post »Quad-rip-legic
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:44pm(ACLU) America’s Communist Living Undercover
Report Post »GRuss
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 12:13amThe Government Controlled Propagandist Media won’t touch this story..
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 12:31amDah! Ya think…Ties to marxists and funded by our tax dollars via our government.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 1:33amWas there really any doubt?
Report Post »Deuteronomy22
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 1:59amThis was at the start of The great Depression after the system collapsed and before the Soviets were our enemy, we were allies in WWII remember that. Actively seeking answers or solutions to our national economic crisis is no sin. Did they come back and try to subvert the capitalist system? Anyone who reads this article uses to validate their perceived socialization of America is well beyond the ability to think independently. This is pure red meat, meaningless, but perfect narcotic for the all of the ammo,silver,gold and food hoarding paranoids who frequent The Blaze.
ZeitgeistBuster
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 4:19amDeutronomy, were they ever fans of the Capitalist System?
Has the American example of the government being FORCED by a Constitution to acknowledge and respect the liberties and rights of the individual ALWAYS been a thorn in the side of tyrants and self-styled intellectuals *** heroes/saviors of society, who because of personal vanity think that they have to lord it over all the dumb sheep?
Of course! And you know it.
The elites Don’t subscribe to the notion that all men are equal, created or otherwise. They do believe that they have an edge over the guy who drives a pickup truck and who likes to drink beer and do silly things to impress his girl.
For you to play the part of the apologist here and try to tell all of us “nothing to see here folks, just move along”, tells me that you also suffer from this superiorist nonsense.
And think about it. The progressives are trying desperately to discredit the American experiment by mis characterizing and maligning the intentions and thinking of the founders, so how can you dare balk at a truthful assessment of the founding of the ACLU and the insight that that may give us as to the motivation behind their actions over their history?
Report Post »Kalshion
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 5:00amAnd this is honestly new how? Anyone with as least some form of a brain already knew that the ACLU certainly wasn’t a legitamite outfit – more already knew that they had to have ‘some’ kind of communist ties considering they really don’t DO their job.
Report Post »Uncle Sambo
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:03amAnd the pillars of the community removed the bust of Joe McCarthy out of the old county courthouse because they did not like the stigma. Apologize to Joe you spineless hacks. Apologize to the good folks of the Fox Valley for your betrayal. Pillars of the community my @$$!
Polwatcher
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:09amThis is proof of what we all knew.
Report Post »912er
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:29amHow strange, its signed by a Baldwin.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:34amSeriously. Is anyone surprised?
Report Post »oldguy48
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:03amTake a look at this; yuri bezmenov he was a KGB agent that defected in the 70″s and was trying to warn us about what they had been doing/ done. The scary part is they have thise designed so that the only way out is the old soviet way, a nugget in the head to the idiots and useful idiots.
Report Post »Stop being PC. A marxist/socialist is what he/her is. Do you call a pig a cow?
APatriotFirst
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:28amDeuteronomy22
Report Post »Yes. Check your history of commies in our own State Dept.
Just once before a lib makes a post, I wish they would research, then maybe they wouldn’t post.
Sparky101
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:31amDeutero, “Anyone who reads this article uses to validate their perceived socialization of America is well beyond the ability to think independently.” We are so tired of your constant drumbeat of how you are so much more intelligent and educated than anyone else. Pack sand. I’m sure it makes you feel better about all your self esteem issues, but it is not only stupid but it is infantile. As to Roger, it is well known about his commie links, and the anti-religion sentiment continues unabated today, even after the abject failure of the Soviet Union to eradicate religion in their country and satellites. Roger was also friends of Margaret Sanger, another commie sympathizer who like Roger were the supposed elites and intellectuals of their day that got all their eugenicist crap to Hitler. Check out Roger’s lifestile and sexual tryists. The man was terrible, and Margaret wanted to stop all the imbiciles from procreating (read that as Blacks in her parlance). She was terrible also. And Deutero probably loves these guys.
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 8:33amI always knew they were the communist liberties union. No wonder they fight against AMERICAN ideals.
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 8:51am@DEUT22
Warning: unicorn milk drinker and fairy dust snorter…move along folks, nothing to read just another circus act!
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 8:54amHow ironic. Communism is the antithesis of civil liberties.
Report Post »taskmaster78
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 9:29amHere here, this is old news, this is why I’ve been advocating to my reps and senators to stop funding the ACLU, we provide them with hundreds of millions of dollars each year. It was put in place to destroy out system from withing using our own constitution. Our freedoms can only be seen in the light of the intent. Once these people grabbed it, the found porn is free speech, that there is a wall of separation of church and state. Our tax dollars are used to defeat us in our own courts. Check out there history on what they fight for and it is completely against the liberties we hold true.
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 9:48amHere is a question:
Report Post »Do any of you actually have any idea what the ACLU does?
I thought not…
Sparky101
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 11:26amWell, you thought wrong, PubliusPencilman. The ACLU has had a constant goal to undermine America’s republic, eradicate all Christian themes, icons, private and public displays of worship, remove all vestiges of the Christian religion from all public positions (in otherwords, anyone professing a belief in Christ will not be permitted to hold office). They wish to revise the Constitution of the United States by other than Amendment, to reflect a totally Godless society. They wish to stifle the free speech of all Christians in public and in private and in print. They want to censor all books that speak of the Christian faith, and essentially rewrite history into a totally humanistic view, and portray all wars, poverty, slavery, and killings as caused by religion (primarily Christian. Next question please.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 12:02pmThey can’t deny it now. If you support the ACLU, not only are you a moron, you’re also a commie b@stard. We all know what commies are, they are the ones that are responsible for mass murders on an unimaginable scale. They are truly evil. I guess the same can be said for the ACLU now.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:15pmDeuty, hear is a more recent article for you. I just ran a search on ACLU and Communist Party.
Here is the url: http://www.thenoseonyourface.com/earaches/aclucommunist-party-make-it-official-and-merge/
Check it out. This was written in 2005. The letter just indicates it started in 1931. It was finalized in 2005. So much for us paranoid, huh. Guess you better do your research before you start throwing stones. You might want to change your name also, cause obviously you known nothing about what you spew.
Report Post »CDSDAD
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 10:51pmwhich commies? the ones in Russia or the ones at the ACLU
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