Enemies List -- always remember

[grasswire]

The list of media and celebrities designated as enemies by Richard Nixon's WH.

Media
Jack Anderson, columnist, "Washington Merry-Go-Round"
Jim Bishop, author, columnist, King Features Syndicate
Thomas Braden, columnist, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
D.J.R. Bruckner, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Marquis Childs, chief Washington correspondent, St. Louis Post Dispatch
James Deakin, White House correspondent, St. Louis Post Dispatch
James Doyle, Washington Star
Richard Dudman, St. Louis Post Dispatch
Jules Duscha , Washingtonian
William Eaton, Chicago Daily News
Rowland Evans Jr., syndicated columnist, Publishers Hall
Saul Friedmann, Knight Newspapers, syndicated columnist
Clayton Fritchey, syndicated columnist Washington correspondent. Harpers
George Frazier, Boston Globe
Katharine Graham, editor, The Washington Post
Pete Hamill, New York Post
Michael Harrington, author and journal member, executive committee Socialist party
Sydney J. Harris, columnist, drama critic and writer of 'Strictly Personal,' syndicated Publishers Hall
Robert Healy, Boston Globe
William Hines, Jr., journalist. science education, Chicago Sun Times
Stanley Karnow, foreign correspondent, Washington Post
Ted Knap, syndicated columnist, New York Daily News
Erwin Knoll, Progressive
Morton Kondracke, Chicago Sun Times
Joseph Kraft, syndicated columnist, Publishers Hall
James Laird, Philadelphia Inquirer
Max Lerner, syndicated columnist, New York Post: author, lecturer, professor (Brandeis University)
Stanley Levey, Scripps Howard
Flora Lewis syndicated columnist on economics
Stuart Loory, Los Angeles Times
Mary McGrory, syndicated columnist on New Left
Frank Mankiewicz, syndicated columnist Los Angeles Times
James Millstone, St. Louis Post Dispatch
Martin Nolan, Boston Globe
Ed Guthman, Los Angeles Times
Thomas O'Neill, Baltimore Sun
John Pierson, Wall Street Journal
William Prochnau, Seattle Times
James Reston, New York Times
Carl Rowan, syndicated columnist, Publishers Hall
Warren Unna, Washington Post, NET
Harriet Van Horne, columnist, New York Post
Milton Viorst, reporter, author, writer
James Wechsler, New York Post
Tom Wicker, New York Times
Garry Wills, syndicated columnist, author of Nixon Agonistes
New York Times
Washington Post
St Louis Post Dispatch
Robert Manning, editor, Atlantic
John Osborne, New Republic
Richard Rovere, New Yorker
Robert Sherrill, Nation
Paul Samuelson, Newsweek
Julian Goodman, chief executive officer, NBC
John Macy, Jr, president, Public Broadcasting Corp, former Civil Service Commission
Marvin Kalb, CBS
Daniel Schorr, CBS
Lem Tucker, NBC
Sander Vanocur, NBC


Celebrities
Carol Channing, actress
Bill Cosby, actor
Jane Fonda, actress and political activist
Steve McQueen, actor
Joe Namath, professional athlete
Paul Newman, actor
Gregory Peck, actor
Tony Randall, actor
Barbra Streisand, actress
Dick Gregory, comedian

from the master list at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_list_of_Nixon_political_opponents

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[Historic NY]

2. Obama needs an enemies list, by now he should know them by their GOP names.

[DevonRex]

3. Is there a particular point or reason you mentioned this?

[IndianaGreen]

4. We don't even know if OP was old enough to remember Nixon

A lot of Democrats voted for him in 1972, and against the only war hero in that race: George McGovern.

[DevonRex]

5. McGovern was an honorable man. I still don't know the point of this OP, though. nt

[IndianaGreen]

6. Perhaps the OP will enlighten us

Nixon had the military spy on Americans, and sadly this is still going on.

Military Monitored Planned Parenthood, Supremacists

By Kim Zetter February 25, 2010 | 6:38 pm | Categories: Surveillance

The U.S. military monitored Planned Parenthood and a white supremacist group as part of the government’s security preparations for the 2002 Olympics in Utah, according to new documents released by the Department of Defense.

The U.S. Joint Forces Command liaison collected and disseminated information on U.S. citizens who were members of Planned Parenthood and the white supremacist group National Alliance regarding their involvement in protests and distributing literature, according to an intelligence-oversight report released by the Pentagon. The documents indicate that the JFC liaison was working with the FBI’s Olympic Intelligence Center at the time.

This and other intelligence-activity disclosures appear in heavily redacted documents that were released to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They came in response to an ongoing Freedom of Information Act project the organization is conducting to obtain oversight information from intelligence agencies.

Read More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/military-spied-on-plannet-parenthood/#ixzz0tyxKnsPv

Obama's Expanded Military Spying and Torture Network

by Tom Burghardt

Despite promises to the contrary, the Obama administration has consolidated, even expanded privacy- and civil liberties killing programs launched by the Bush government.

From warrantless spying and driftnet surveillance to the indefinite detention and torture of foreign suspects held in U.S. gulags, and from the murderous drone wars in Pakistan to threats to assassinate American citizens merely on the suspicion they might be terrorists, 18 months into Obama's new "change" order, facts on the ground paint a grim picture indeed.

As egregious as these central facts are in demolishing the veracity of the President's long-forgotten campaign pledges, when it comes to enlisting the services of defense and security corporations for waging America's bogus "War On Terror 2.0.1," the current regime delivers!

Spawned in Darkness, Nurtured by Corruption: the Counterintelligence Field Activity

Nearly two years ago, Antifascist Calling reported that the Pentagon shuttered its controversial spy shop, the Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), the military office launched in early 2002 in a now infamous Directive from former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and top aide, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Stephen A. Cambone.

Remember CIFA? Under Cambone's watch, the outsourced "activity" (some 70% of the office's employees were contractors) was caught in flagrante delicto spying on antiwar activists, people who attended peace rallies outside military bases, and dispatched agents provocateurs into groups opposed to military recruitment, including the Quakers.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20029

Rumsfeld's CIFA was supposed to go away after Obama became president. It is back, and it has new funding from Congress.

[bigwillq]

7. The same could be said about many threads

here on the good ole DU.
Your point? :shrug:

[DevonRex]

8. Just wanted to know if something happened that I hadn't heard about.

Got a problem with that?

[bigwillq]

9. Nope

Do you have a problem with me asking you a question to clarify something you said? :shrug:

[DevonRex]

10. I asked a very clear question to the OP. I made no statement that needed clarification. nt

[IndianaGreen]

11. The GOP of Nixon's time is not today's GOP

Nixon's Southern Strategy, which we are still paying for today, began a few years after the switch to the GOP by Strom Thurmond (1964). Today's GOP began with Ronald Reagan, when several conservative Democrats bolted to the GOP. Many more followed when Clinton got elected. Remember Democrats like Richard Shelby and Ben Nighthorse Campbell?

The GOP became even more intolerant as what had been their Eastern liberal wing came to an end. Remember when we had Republicans like Senator H. John Heinz III, or Ed Brooke, or Jacob Javitz? Today's GOP is a menagerie of extremist groups, many of which are openly racists, and some that advocate violence.

There is no comparison between today's GOP and the GOP in Nixon's time.

To be fair, there is an increasing chasm between today's Democratic Party and the one in Nixon's time.

[grasswire]

12. well....

...I went to see the enemies list because I wanted to see how many satirists had been blacklisted either on Nixon's list or by the HUAC, in which he was deeply involved. The list is a cautionary tale, as is the whole slippery slope. Today I read a newspaper article about the new repression in Russia, where citizens may be individually warned against committing crimes against the state.

Eternal vigilance.

[DevonRex]

14. Whew. Thank you grasswire. nt

[grasswire]

15. why whew?

I don't understand.

[DevonRex]

16. I thought there might have been a major story that I had missed

which prompted your OP. :hi:

[BlueIdaho]

13. Ahhh, those were good times - good times... nt.

[bvar22]

17. Every President...in fact, every politician...

...has an "Enemies List".
The only difference is that Nixon was more formal and public about his.

If you have the capacity to be honest with yourself, you will find that YOU too have an "Enemies List", though you may be more comfortable calling it something else.