Uncle Jeremiah

By now, most everyone has heard about Barack Obama’s unhinged pastor Jeremiah Wright. Wright practices what’s called a “Black Value System” at his Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. It’s an ideology that borrows heavily from the Marxist, Christian heresy called “Liberation Theology” developed in Nicaragua.

This really shouldn’t come as a big surprise to anyone, since Obama wants to socialize our health care industry, pull out of Iraq and have unconditional “talks” with our enemies. Of course, like all good politicians, Obama has been trying to throw discerning voters ‘off the scent’ by dressing up his radical agenda in nice, hope-filled rhetoric. It had been working quite well too, until this recent, unfiltered emergence of Pastor Wright.

Obama says Pastor Wright is like an uncle to him. He’s been his “spiritual advisor” for some twenty years, conducting his wedding, baptizing his two daughters and giving him the name for his book, “The Audacity of Hope.” What’s truly audacious though, is Obama’s claim that he wasn’t aware of his pastor’s controversial statements! How can you sit in a pew for twenty years, consult advice on a regular basis and not know how extreme this man is? Either Obama sympathizes with this radicalism, or he’s completely too inattentive to be president.

Wright has given the anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan a Lifetime Achievement Award, placed him on the cover of his church magazine and organized a special gala for him in Chicago to “celebrate his greatness.” He and Farrakhan traveled together to Libya in the 80s to pay homage to Qaddafi.

Last year, Pastor Wright published in his church bulletin a Hamas Manifesto written by terrorist and FBI fugitive Mousa Abu Marzook.

Pastor Wright is part of the “blame America first” crowd. This far Left malignancy goes back to the radicalism of the 60s. In fact, William Ayers- a terrorist with the counter-culture Weathermen group- is another close friend of Obama’s. Ayers, who has dinner with Obama frequently, was responsible for bombing the Pentagon, a New York police station and a Towne House complex where several innocent children and seniors were killed. He said in a New York Times interview from 9/11/2001, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Ayers is married to Benardine Dohrn, another terrorist from the 60s described by J. Edgar Hoover as “the most dangerous woman in America.”

From 1999 to 2002, Obama served as director for Ayer’s organization the Woods Fund. Woods Fund has given $75,000 to the Arab American Action Network. This anti-Israel group is led by Rashid Khalidi and is active in pro-Palestinian activities and campaigns supporting driver’s licenses for illegals. Khalidi has hosted fundraisers for Obama.

Pastor Wright’s “blame America” attitude has been expressed unabashedly from his pulpit with declarations such as “God damn America” and “the U.S. brought on 9/11 with its own terrorism” such as “Hiroshima, Nagasaki and terrorism against the Palestinians.” Obama has denounced some of these statements, but generally regards his “Uncle” as “not particularly controversial” just “provocative.” More Audacity.

One of the statements Wright made had a familiar ring to it. In an effort of excusing the brutality of 9/11, he proclaimed, “America’s chickens were coming home to roost.” That is the exact, contextual language used by David Barsamian, founder of the syndicated Left-wing “Alternative Radio” program in Boulder, CO. Barsamian, who airs on 125 radio stations, and Wright are singing out of the same Marxist songbook.

Barsamian is best known for his series of sympathetic interviews with cult figure Noam Chomsky. Chomsky has been described as the “L. Ron Hubbard of the new Left.” He is to the intellectual base of the Left what George Soros is to the financial base. It is impossible to be any farther to the Left, politically, than these folks. Barsamian has denounced even the Afghanistan military operation of the U.S. and has gone so far as to support reparations for Iraq. He advocates impeachment of Bush and Nuremberg-type trials for American “war criminals.”

In Barsamian’s most recent book, “Targeting Iran” it’s not surprising that he advocates the exact position as Obama: the U.S. should talk with our enemies with no preconditions. This approach is naïve because it would effectively place our foreign policy at the pre-emptive mercy of every tyrant and thug that hates America.

Chomsky showed his stripes in a recent interview on C-SPAN praising author Mike Davis who is a self-defined International Socialist and Marxist-Environmentalist who audaciously believes that Katrina was an effort of Ethnic Cleansing!

These misguided extremists on the Left see America as an imperialistic, militarized, racist empire that’s fundamentally evil and deserving of every defeat and indignity it can possibly acquire. Why? Because the Left wants to re-create America and turn it into a radically different place. They want an emasculated America that’s subservient to all the idealistic, utopian notions of International Socialism. It’s a bad dream, to be sure, but it’s also the only dream Secular Humanists have for a perfected world. It is “audacious,” but absent the Prince of Peace it’s also a vain exercise in futility. Despite the name you give it, there remains No Collective Means to Individual Success and No Works-based Salvation. (send comments to WFC83197@aol.com, or POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757)