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From Canadafreepress.com
Soros-funded Criminals Lobby Sparks Prison Revolt
By Cliff Kincaid
December 24, 2010
Convicted serial killer Charles Manson, whose deranged followers killed a pregnant movie actress and then stuck a fork into her stomach, was recently in the news when it was discovered that he had a cell phone that had been smuggled to him in prison. Far less attention was given to Georgia inmates who used contraband cell phones to organize and stage a “strike” in several prisons. This uprising struck a chord with members of the “progressive” community, including former Obama official and communist Van Jones.
Jones joined Noam Chomsky and Professor Michelle Alexander and others in signing a “statement of solidarity” with the prisoners.
The “strike” mainly consisted of criminals refusing to leave their cells and do prison labor. They wanted better health care, more educational opportunities, and better pay. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution warned that the next prison strike could turn violent and take lives.
The “statement of solidarity” declared that “mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow,” adding, “Like the old Jim Crow, this system serves to perpetuate institutionalized racism, economic inequality, and political disenfranchisement.” In other words, the criminals who prey on society are now the victims.
This Marxist clap-trap actually takes the form of a book, The New Jim Crow, by the aforementioned Michelle Alexander, a former ACLU official who won a 2005 “Soros Justice Fellowship,” named for the billionaire supporter of Marxist causes in the U.S. and abroad. One of these causes is that criminals deserve to be treated more leniently and that even convicted felons ought to have the right to vote. Soros has provided the bulk of the money behind a well-organized “criminals lobby” in the U.S. that is working to make “prisoners’ rights” into the next big cause of the liberal-left. The prison “strike” in Georgia is evidence that the campaign has entered a new and dangerous phase.
The acknowledgements section of the Alexander book gives special thanks to the Open Society Institute, funded by Soros.
The leading name on the “Statement of Solidarity” with the prisoners in Georgia is a controversial organization, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which usually defends accused Islamic terrorists. It is an off-shoot of the National Lawyers Guild, which was once officially designated a communist front and still remains the American affiliate of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, the old Soviet front.
To show their solidarity with the Marxist terror networks that bombed police stations and killed police officers in the 1970s and 1980s, the CCR’s board and staff recently took out a full-page ad in a “commemorative solidarity booklet” distributed at a memorial service for the dead Communist terrorist Marilyn Buck. It described her as a “fierce warrior, human rights defender and fighter for justice.”
A member of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army, which carried out a robbery of a Brinks truck in 1981 that killed two policemen and a security guard, Buck had been serving a prison term in California for her involvement in a long list of terrorist crimes. These included the Brinks heist and helping convicted killer Joanne Chesimard escape from prison. Chesimard fled to Cuba, where she is now living under the protection of the Castro brothers. She killed a New Jersey State Trooper and the FBI is offering $1 million for information leading to her apprehension.
When I inquired of the CCR, which also counts George Soros among its largest donors, why they had hailed Buck in such flattering terms, a press representative by the name of Alison Roh Park said, “We recognized her as a human rights leader,” adding, “There are hundreds of thousands of people who did celebrate her life.”
If this is true, then we have a much bigger internal security problem that anyone realizes. It means that, in addition to Islamic terrorists, revolutionary Marxism and its adherents still pose a threat. Significantly, Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn also paid tribute to Buck in the “commemorative solidarity booklet.” Several members of the Weather Underground and two Puerto Rican terrorists were at the service in person, paying tribute to their “comrade” and “sister.”
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Apologists for the inmates have blamed the securing of the cell phones by the prisoners on prison guards, who supposedly sold them for money, but an inquiry might determine there is another source—prison lawyers and/or visitors. “Revolt on the Inside, Revolt on the Outside” is now the cry of radical outside agitators.
Not surprisingly, the spokesperson for the Georgia criminals was Elaine Brown, former chair of the violent Black Panther Party, a group that labeled police officers as “pigs.” The criminal “demands” of the Georgia inmates were echoed by such outlets as The Final Call, the newspaper of the Nation of Islam, and Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now!” radio/TV show. Goodman is the recipient of a journalism award named after left-wing journalist and identified Soviet agent I.F. Stone.
The story does deserve attention, if only to highlight how Soros money is now being used for another nefarious purpose—to glorify and spread unrest in prisons.
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Van Jones is a classic agitator. He’s not interested in the welfare, or the “rights” of the prisoners, he’s only interested in stirring up violence to bring the system down. He understands that criminals give up what rights they had by committing crimes agains society, he’s just too dishonest to admit it. He’s a LIAR, a THUG, and a communist hell bent on bringing the U.S. down. He’ll do it by any means necessary. He’s a traitor, and should see the inside of a prison first hand.