Scandal: Pelosi Tied to Tony Blair

Nathan Newman nathan at newman.org
Thu Nov 14 02:56:56 PST 2002


Scandal: Pelosi Tied to Tony Blair http://www.nathannewman.org/log/archives/000558.shtml#000558 Okay, this red-baiting of Pelosi gets sort of funny, if you ignore the evil intent. (see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/788312/posts) The chain of guilt by association goes like this-- Pelosi is a member of the 47-member Progressive Caucus of Congress members. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) support policies of the Caucus (although not necessarily the other way around, notably.)

And, horrors, DSA is a member of the dreaded SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL And what is this nefarious organization. Well according to this article:

The Socialist International carries the torch for Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, V.I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Josef Stalin. Pay no attention to the desperate attempts by socialists to distance themselves from Stalin. For our purposes, it suffices to observe that every single tenet of the Socialist International is the exact opposite of the principles upon which America was founded, and which define the U.S. Constitution. And if you go to the website of the organization, you'll find this nefarious list of members of this dreaded organization:

Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Britain Gerhard Schoeder, Chancellor of West Germany Costas Simitis, Prime Minister of Greece Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister of Israel Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden Lionel Jospin, recent Prime Minister of France Milos Zeman, Prime Minister Czeck Republic Vaclav Havel, President Czeck Republic Thabo Mbeki, President South Africa Ricardo Lagos, President Chile Antonio Guterres, former Prime Minister of Portugal (Also current President of Socialist International)

The list goes on. Suffice to say that every allied center-left party in Europe and most around the world are members of the Socialist International.

What the propagandists of the Right ignore or are too stupid to know is that the Socialist International was formed as an anti-Communist alternative global network of center-left parties around the world. See this list linking to the 141 member parties and organizations around the world. And of course, Nancy Pelosi is not even a member of DSA or the Socialist International. But to paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld-- not that there'd be anything wrong if she was. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20021114/351d46a1/attachment.htm>



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