Reply #17: c. clark kissinger's bio [View All]

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Kissinger is a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, a Maoist vanguard party, and a contributing writer for its official organ, the Revolutionary Worker. Kissinger began his public activism in the early 1960s when he was the national secretary of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the leading radical organization of its day. In 1969, SDS became the Weather Underground, America's first terrorist cult.

Kissinger also worked closely with Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party, and supported Mao Tse-tung's Communist regime in China which, according to The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, was responsible for the deaths of 65 million of its own citizens. Kissinger continues to enjoy strong support from the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM), which, in its own words, "upholds the revolutionary communist ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism," and views the Chinese Cultural Revolution as "the farthest advance of communism in human history."

MIM declares that it can only achieve its ends "by building public opinion to seize power through armed struggle." Chief among its objectives is to foment "revolution North America, as the military becomes over-extended in the government's attempts to maintain world hegemony."

Kissinger was a strong supporter of Iran's Islamic revolution and traveled to Iran in 1979 when the Ayatollah Khomeni and his Islamic radicals seized power. Four years later, he was in West Germany demonstrating against US plans to station cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe to meet the Soviet threat. Those missile deployments eventually led to the fall of the Soviet empire.

In 1987 Kissinger created "Refuse and Resist!" - on whose National Council he remains a member. R&R played a supportive role in the 1992 Los Angeles race riot, which left 58 people dead and 2,300 injured and which Kissinger referred to as a "rebellion." After 9/11, R&R opposed a specific provision of the Patriot Act requiring that all male immigrants (aged sixteen or older) from twenty Arab and Muslim countries and North Korea register with the INS. R&R warned that by such "targeting of men from specific nationalities," America was on its way to becoming "a nation behind barbed wire." The registration of Middle Eastern men, R&R claimed, was "quite possibly 'pre-registration' for internment" that would one day lead hordes of unsuspecting victims "like sheep to the slaughter."

Among the numerous ongoing crusades of Kissinger and R&R is its effort to derail the new Student Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), which requires educational institutions to furnish the INS with information on its international students who entered the US on academic visas. For each student in that category, schools must provide his or her name, country of origin, current address, field of study, visa status, and any known history of disciplinary problems or criminal activity. According to R&R, however, such measures are unreasonable: "SEVIS is a system of racial profiling that singles out and criminalizes international students in the US," and will only bring our country "one step closer to being a police state." Moreover, says Kissinger's group, SEVIS "will be used to intimidate, round-up, arrest, 'disappear' and deport targeted groups . . . in the so-called 'War on Terrorism.' "

Kissinger and his R&R allies have a grim view of American life and culture. "Domestically," they complain, "we see subway vigilantes made media heroes and a record of sympathy for white supremacy become the passport to high judicial office. . . . Against women there is escalating violence, with compulsory child bearing and domestic servitude elevated as ideals. . . . Xenophobic attacks are made on anything foreign, combined with calls for the compulsory use of English."

"The problem in this country," says Kissinger, can be traced to one root cause: "the oppressive system of capitalism that exploits people all over the world, that destroys our planet, that oppresses minority people, that sends people to the death chambers in droves. That is a problem that has to be done away with." Is there a solution? "Yes," says Kissinger. "Revolution is the solution. And the Revolutionary Worker has put out a call to people to join with them in formulating a new program for revolution in this country, a blueprint to go forward."

http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1386

So the guy is more interested in armed revolution than in taking control of Congress.