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United States News Title: Horowitz Scrivener Castigates Millions of Americans as Fifth Column Traitors Let us consider FrontPage magazine, the website run by former Marxist turned neocon David Horowitz, where the old stale one-dimensional political spectrum, otherwise known as the false left-right paradigm, remains in full swing, primarily due to the fact such dialectic blather attracts neocon wannabes with checkbooks. On May 21, John Perazzo played the left-right paradigm for all it is worth—that is to say not much—and attacked your humble blogger and a handful of others, including Dave Lindorff, Jason Miller, Mark Dice, the late Edward Said, and even the venerable target of opportunity for self-described “conservatives” and “liberals” alike, Noam Chomsky, as well a favorite target of the Horowtiz clan and a target, no doubt, they have turned more than a few bucks on, not that they need the bucks considering all the money Horowitz has received from the documented CIA asset, Richard Mellon Scaife. “Consider Kurt Nimmo, a resident of Las Cruces, New Mexico and publisher of the political blog ‘Another Day in the Empire.’ Nimmo also writes for CounterPunch, a website run by Alexander Cockburn, the adoring scion of one of Stalin’s most notorious journalistic agents, a supporter of the Soviet empire to the end of its days, and in the present conflict a self-declared enemy of his adopted country in its effort to defend itself against Islamo-fascism,” writes Perazzo, after prefacing his screed by comparing dissidents to Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose. “In a June 2006 article, Nimmo predicted that the United States would soon launch a frivolous, unwarranted invasion of peaceful Iran. This warning was issued from the platform of Uruknet.info, an Italy-based, Baathist-run website that honors Saddam Hussein and depicts the United States as the world’s leading terrorist state. Nimmo describes Uruknet as ‘one of my favorite web sites… indispensable, one of the best web sites out there for news focused on Iraq and the Middle East.’” First, I no longer write for Counterpunch and have not done so for a couple years, not that I expect Mr. Perazzo to do his homework, as he is determined to link your humble blogger to Alexander Cockburn, who we are told is a Stalinist, a term about as relevant today as Luxemburgist. It is, however, interesting Perazzo would mention the political persuasion of Cockburn’s ancestors while not doing the same in regard to his boss, David Horowitz, who was begat by a couple dyed-in-the-wool Stalinists, as Mr. Horowitz has readily admitted. But never mind, the idea here is guilt by association. I have never espoused communism—although Horowitz did a few decades ago, that is before the magic went out of the “New Left” and David took note of the neocon pasture on the other side of the fraudulent left-right divide where the grass is greener, that is to say the color of greenbacks, watered by reactionary foundations and the CIA. As a reminder of this, every few days I receive a boilerplated email from David angling for cash, lest the “fifth columnists” take over the neighborhood college. I have sent several emails asking politely to be removed from this spam email list, but to no avail. Is it possible David Horowitz is like the disgraced preacher Robert Tilton, who ferreted through in-coming mail in search of checks while letters went not only unread but were unceremoniously dumped in the trash? Neocons of Perazzo’s caliber love to play the guilt by association card. As I have noted here on numerous occasions, I am not associated with Uruknet, or for that matter any other website or publication. It is true, however, that Uruknet, and in fact hundreds of other websites and blogs, repost my material, a practice I encourage, although this does not mean I support each and every website reposting my articles. Neocons seem to have a problem understanding this very easily understood concept, one practiced millions of times each and every day. It is true, as well, that Uruknet posts articles less than condemnatory on the subject of Saddam Hussein and the editor of the website disagrees with my characterization of Hussein as a dictator nurtured by the CIA and various U.S. presidents. Even so, Perazzo is correct, I have described Uruknet as indispensable and for a very good reason—as a new site, it posts articles the corporate media refuses to publish. As the neocon concentration camp apologist and Fox News regular Michelle Malkin realizes, Uruknet educates a lot of people to the truth and that’s why she spearheaded a campaign to get the site delisted over a Google, an effort that ultimately failed. As for Iran, I no longer gaze into crystal balls. I have no idea if the neocons will attack that country before the Commander Guy leaves office, although I do know, and it is public knowledge, Iran is at the top of the neocon to-do list. Mr. Perazzo spends the rest of his time lumping in Joseph Massad, Al-Ahram, Hamid Dabashi, Al Jazeera, in addition to the above enumerated, and making certain to mention “Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and other al-Qaeda terrorists” in the same breath. In fact, the whole point of Perazzo’s article is to draw attention to what he calls “the mixed bag of fifth column leftists whose pathological hatred for the United States inspires them not only to promote America’s defeat at the hands of the Islamo-fascists, but to do so from the media platforms of enemy camp. These are not critics who wish to see America find a better way to win the war and secure the peace. Rather, hatred towards their country and countrymen inspires in them a wish to see both suffer unconditional, total defeat.” People of Mr. Perazzo’s ilk, that is to say fascist neocons, are certainly not determined to find “a better way to win the war and secure the peace,” but rather promise to wage an interminable and open-ended war of destruction for generations to come—as Dick Cheney is fond of telling us—and thus harm, if not destroy more than a billion Muslims, much to the horror and disgust of the world at large, not that we should expect John Perazzo to mention such an unbecoming fact revealed continually in worldwide polls and surveys. In other words, it is the “pathological hatred” demonstrated by the neocons and their fellow travelers such as the snake oil salesman David Horowitz that pose a threat to America, not those opposed to the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Finally, if we are to use Perazzo’s yardstick to measure treason, most Americans, who overwhelmingly oppose the occupation of Iraq and continually express when asked their desire to bring the troops home, are guilty of wanting their country to “suffer unconditional, total defeat.” Apparently, John Perazzo considers the vast majority of his countrymen and women as little more than “an internal fifth column…. conducting their unpleasant business from the bowels of the enemy camp.” Talk about pathological hatred.
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