On Sep 24, 8:45Â*pm, "Chas. Chan" wrote:
On Sep 24, 10:32 pm, ∅baMa∅ Tse Dung wrote:





On Sep 24, 10:08 pm, "Chas. Chan" wrote:

On Sep 24, 7:52 pm, ∅baMa∅ Tse Dung wrote:

While the ruling class media have been busy casting slurs, slanders
and snide comments about Christine O'Donnell, Jeffrey Lord over at
American Spectator has been busy unearthing some rather interesting
background on Harry Reid's pet senatorial candidate, Chris Coons.

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/0...nteer-for-libe

In a brilliant piece of writing and detective work, Mr. Lord has
traced a rather involved series of links from Mr. Coons' junior year
of college abroad in Africa, and his marked change in political views,
to the Black Liberation Theology movement in South Africa, and
ultimately to Trinity UCC Church in Chicago, home of one Jeremiah
Wright and our sitting President.

The Spectator article begins by asking just what was it that Mr. Coons
encountered on his African sabbatical that changed him , as Politico
describes it, from a "proud founding member of the Amherst College
Republicans" to the "Bearded Marxist" he wrote about on his return
from abroad.

The answer appears to be that during his travels Coons did "volunteer
work" for the South African Council of Churches (SACC), which includes
a think tank called the Institute for Contextual Theology, which in
turn promotes Liberation Theology:

So what was SACC up to in this period when Chris Coons crossed the
Atlantic to South Africa and Kenya to "volunteer" and do "relief
work"? What was SACC doing that Chris Coons seems not to want to
discuss on his website? Or that leaves the Washington Post and the New
York Times so incurious?...

...there was something else going on in South Africa with those who
believed in James Cone's Black Liberation Theology that had nothing at
all to do with an agenda of freedom for South African blacks...

...Yes indeed. Liberation theology. The Marxism-as-Christianity
umbrella philosophy...

The article goes on at length to trace writings by South African
theologians to a September 16th book signing for Preaching with Sacred
Fi An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750-present, held at,
of all places, Trinity UCC Church in Chicago.

Citing the litany of radical actions, appointments and legislation
imposed by the Obama government, the Spectator column goes on to
observe:

America is right this minute in the tightening grip of "liberation
theology" -- exactly the philosophy that Delaware's Chris Coons was so
anxious to go to Africa and serve as a volunteer.

On a sourcing note, while Mr. Lord's article links Mr. Coons' Kenya
trip to the South African Council of Churches through a Wikipedia
reference, the SACC reference appears right on the Chris Coons
campaign web site, as well as in a salon.com article and elsewhere ..

The Spectator article is a long one, but well worth reading to get the
full flavor of a significant chapter in the life and ideology of
candidate Coons. Â*The article concludes

Chris Coons wants to be the newest addition to the liberation theology
zealotry in Washington -- and the people of Delaware are supposed to
be the passive yokels who agree to put him there. Even as they are
losing their jobs, their homes and their entire hard won way of life
because of the very philosophy Coons traveled thousands of miles to
Africa to support.

So, while the media mob mentality does everything possible to
denigrate and disparage Christine O'Donnell, they have been "silent on
a stunning revelation that could prove uniquely fatal to Chris Coons'
Senate candidacy," as the Washington Times quotes Mr. Lord.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/..._and_his_suppo....

Is Black Liberation Theology related to - "The Palestinian Liberation
Theology which grew out of the Liberation Theology movement
popularized in Latin America in the 1970s and 80s, a faddy form of
Christian socialism where Replacement Theology met Marxism. Â*They
emphasized oppression of the poor and encouraged political activism to
abolish perpetual class struggle. Â*The rich were against God by way of
their wealth, and the poor were privileged by way of their poverty.
The Bible was reduced to nothing more than stories about the poor and
the persecuted."

"The heyday of Liberation Theology was its inception. Â*With the fall
of the Soviet Union and the failure of Marxist revolutionary movements
in Latin America, Liberation Theology lost most of its justification
and influence. Â*The premise did appeal to Palestinians, because of its
favor for the underdog and its potential to de-Zionize the Old
Testament."

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/read...px?ARTID=26203

The influence of liberation theology diminished after proponents using
Marxist concepts were admonished by the Vatican's Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in 1984 and 1986. Â*The instructions
rejected the Marxist-based idea that class struggle is fundamental to
history.

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Benedict XVI), who was prefect of the
CDF at the time when the Instructions were issued, published his own
personal criticism of the movement in 1985. In this document Ratzinger
claims that in certain forms of Liberation Theology, the meaning of
basic theological terms is changed - e.g. terms such as "hope",
"love", and "salvation" are assigned a Marxist interpretation in terms
of "class struggle".

Ratzinger also argued that Liberation Theology is not originally a
"grass-roots" movement among the poor, but rather, a creation of
Western intellectuals: "an attempt to test, in a concrete scenario,
ideologies that have been invented in the laboratory by European
theologians" and in a certain sense itself a form of "cultural
imperialism". Ratzinger saw this as a reaction to the demise or near-
demise of the "Marxist myth" in the West.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/g...asp?grpid=7143

FBI Serves 'Terrorism' Warrants in Chicago, Minneapolis...

"They were looking for information about folks who had traveled to
Latin America or the Middle East. I've traveled in Lebanon."

A lawyer said the vaguely-worded warrant mentioned Lebanon-based
Hezbollah and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), both
of which have been designated terrorist groups by the U.S. government.

A suspect said he has traveled to both Lebanon and Colombia "in
solidarity with people who are being oppressed."

An attorney, called the raids "a probe into the political beliefs of
American citizens and any organization anywhere that opposes the
American imperial design." He said the warrants cited a federal law
making it a violation to provide or conspire to provide material
support to designated foreign terrorist organizations.

The warrant for the raid sought notebooks, address books, photos and
maps of travels to the Palestinian territories, Colombia and in the
United States on behalf of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. It
also sought materials on personal finances and those of the group,
"potential co-conspirators" and recruitment efforts for the group.

The warrant also sought any information about efforts to support FARC,
a guerrilla organization in Colombia, the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine, and Hezbollah, the political and paramilitary
organization based in Lebanon.

http://www.startribune.com/local/103716104.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100924/...urity_searches

An avowed Marxist, Stan Goff is a writer for The Freedom Road
Socialist Organization, a group whose intent is to destroy, “by any
means necessary, the whole current social order based on the rights of
the wealthy.� Goff was also a member and recruiter for the Communist
Party USA, a national organization of anti-capitalist activists
advocating a radical revolution of the U.S. working class.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/i...asp?indid=1549

Yes, Chris Coons is without a doubt a card carrying Marxist.

You've convinced me - if you yoyos think he's bad, he's gotta be
great!

He'll get several of my votes ;-)