Kenneth Anger: The Avant-Garde Exploitation Filmmaker

August 18, 2025 By Dan "Danny Boy" White in Uncategorized Tags: Bobby Beausoleil, Charles Manson, film, Filmaker Kenneth Anger, Fireworks (1947), Gary Hinman, history, Hollywood Babylon, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1955), Invocation of my Demon Brother, Ken Anger, Ken Anger antisemitic, Ken Anger racist, Kenneth Anger, Kenneth Anger and Adolph HItler, Kenneth Anger and Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger and Bobby Beausoleil, Kenneth Anger and Charles Manson, Kenneth Anger antisemetic, Kenneth Anger Bigot, Kenneth Anger Devil Worshiper, Kenneth Anger exploitation, Kenneth Anger Exploitation Filmmaker, Kenneth Anger gay, Kenneth Anger hated Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger hated Jews, Kenneth Anger Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger Lucifer, Kenneth Anger Lucifer Tattoo, Kenneth Anger Nazi, Kenneth Anger Racist, Kenneth Anger Rude, Kenneth Anger Satanic, Kenneth Anger Satanism, Kenneth Anger Satanist, Kenneth Anger the Manson Family, Kustom Kar Kommandos, Lucifer Rising (1972), Manson Family, Mary Brunner, movies, Puce Moment (1949), Rabbit's Moon (1950), reviews, Scorpio Rising (1964), Susan Atkins, writing Leave a comment

Kenneth Anger (1927-2023) was a gay underground filmmaker. He was also handsome, talented, cultured, intelligent, erudite, petty, narcissistic, prickly, rude, antisemitic, racist and a card-carrying Satanist as well as a prolific if not a pathological liar. When he died in 2023 at the age of 96, he hadn’t made a real film of any kind since Richard Nixon was President- over 50 years prior. So, the logical question follows, why is this guy celebrated by anyone?

Anger made only silent movies (no dialogue, just musical scores). His films were chalked with homoerotic, and Satanic themes as well as at times, Nazi imagery and symbols. He seemed to have had a gay fetish over muscular Nazi uniformed men, clad in black leather. I wonder if anyone had ever bothered to tell Mr. Anger that, had he lived in Nazi Germany and flaunted his homosexuality there as he did in America, some predatorily grinning, jack-booted, Nazi thug would have slapped a pink Star of David on his lapel and tossed him into the first open railroad cattle car destined for Treblinka?

So, let’s begin by addressing Mr. Anger’s racism and bigotry. Anger glorified Nazism in his peculiarly weird film, Scorpio Rising (1964) and others. When challenged on this, he upped the ante by making antisemitic remarks which are unfit to print here and further stated that, “on black people, I’m somewhere to the right of the KKK.” Anger was known for his antisemitic tirades. He paid the price for this once after going on a drug fueled antisemitic rant in Manhattan’s gay West Greenwich Village one evening the 1980s. His diatribe reached the ears of the wrong Jew who pummeled Anger in response. Yet, the brutal ass whipping Anger suffered would do little to deter him from making future antisemitic and racist outbursts.

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” Sir Walter Scott.

Let’s face it, we all tell lies at some point in our lives. Sometimes the lies we tell are big. Sometimes they’re small little “white lies.” As for Kenneth Anger, he had a history of telling some real whoppers. Especially so, when those lies could advance his career or reward him financially. By way of example, for most of his life he claimed to have played the role of the Changeling Prince in the major 1935 Hollywood film, A Midsummer Night Dream. Yet all associated with this motion picture who were still alive, refuted these claims. The Film’s production records including daily cast calls, time sheet logs and payroll ledgers all dispute this as well. In reality, the role of the of the Changeling Prince was played by child actress Sheila Brown. Confronted with this, Anger still refused to back down and falsely insisted to his dying day, that he played the role when he obviously did not.

If at first you don’t succeed, lie, lie again. In order to dig himself out of a financial hole, Mr. Anger wrote a book titled Hollywood Babylon (1959). The book seemed to consist primarily of unfounded rumors and yarns Anger had heard over the years, in Hollywood’s gay drinking establishments and on the bath house circuit. There would be one follow up book that was published in 1984 titled Hollywood Babylon II. Both books were full of sensationalist lies and made-up anecdotes. In its review, the New York Times said of it, “If a book such as this can be said to have charm, it lies in the fact that here is a book without one single redeeming merit.” The Daily Beast described Anger’s book as “essentially a work of fiction.” There is no doubt that many—if not all—of the stories Anger shares in his slim bible have no merit.” Film historian Kevin Brownlow repeatedly criticized the book, citing Anger lies by writing that his research appeared to have been done through “mental telepathy, mostly.”

Both books resulted in lawsuits from various celebrities named in the works. Despite this, Anger was able to secure a publisher for Hollywood Babylon III which was scheduled to be published in 2015. However, that publisher backed out and refused to print the work as Kenneth Anger couldn’t substantiate the sensationalist claims he had made in his manuscript. Further, the publisher was receiving litigation threats from law firms representing Tom Cruise and other Hollywood heavyweights. Throughout his life, Anger demonstrated an enthusiastic willingness to lie and an overarching propensity to exploit the shortcomings and tragedies of others. The Hollywood Babylon series of books were not his first nor last attempt to do so.

A little exploitation with your coffee, Mr. Anger? While filming Scorpio Rising (1964) Anger was shooting some “B-roll” of a 1963 motocross race. Then, right before his camera lens, a motorcyclist took a turn too sharply causing him to be thrown from his bike where he landed on his shoulder and neck as his family and friends looked on in horror. He likely died instantly. Yet Anger was giddy over the unanticipated development. Anger saw an opportunity to exploit the recorded death of this man à la the later unrelated film, Faces of Death (1978) made by John Alan Schwartz. This, in order to gain a larger audience for his movie. The hapless motorcyclist was not part of the motorcycle gang which Anger was documenting in his film, and he was in no way related to the film’s theme or plot. He was only included in the picture because he died, and because his death was inadvertently captured on Anger’s 16mm motion picture camera. Today, this unfortunate man’s children have the ability to relive their father’s horrific death- with the footage remastered in clear, vivid color. How classy of you, Kenneth. In response to the heavy criticism over using the man’s death in his film, Anger callously retorted, “Look, I’m sorry the guy died but, it’s not like I tripped him.”

Anger was all too happy to work with part-time musician and full-time Charles Manson “family member,” Bobby Beausoleil. Beausoleil was doing a life sentence in a California penitentiary for the 1969 murder of a small-fry drug dealer and UCLA PhD candidate, named Gary Hinman who was also a “friend of the Manson family.” In fact, Kenneth Anger was known by the Manson family as well, and he was on friendly terms with Bobby Beausoleil, who occasionally supplied Anger with drugs.

At Gary Hinman’s home on July 27, 1969, Charles Manson got the homicidal party started when he lopped off one of Hinman’s ears with a sword. He then exited the “scene” and left Beausoleil to kill Hinman with the assistance of a couple of female family members- Susan Atkins and Mary Brunner. Hinman died an anguishing, torturous death. As he was being mortality stabbed multiple times by Beausoleil, Hinman began reciting a Buddhist chant. This seemed to only fuel the bloodlust of Beausoleil and his cohorts Atkins and Brunner, who all took turns smothering Hineman with a pillow until he finally died.

After Hineman passed into the hereafter, one or more of the Manson family threesome, gruesomely used his blood to write slogans on the wall similar to what Manson family members would later do the following month, during the Tate-LaBianca murders. None of this appeared to bother Kenneth Anger in the least.

Anger was working on his own personal magnus opus in the early 1970s, Lucifer Rising (1972). At that time, Manson and his family were still as topical as ever. There were talk shows, documentaries, television interviews, magazine features and even motion pictures about the Manson family. Most people however, wouldn’t have had anything to do with Charles Manson or his sycophantic followers personally. However, the same could not be said of Kenny “Exploitation” Anger.

“What a great idea I have to get people talking about my upcoming film. I’ll use Manson family member Bobby Beausoleil to do the musical score from prison!” Anger never spoke these preceding words aloud but undoubtedly he harbored these very thoughts. To think otherwise, would be naivety personified.

There were only a thousand or so competent composers and musicians offering their services to score films at the time. Does anyone truly believe Anger went through the list and upon finding no composers to his liking, barked to his assistant, “To hell with Jerry Goldsmith and Henry Mancini! Get me that Manson family kid in prison for murder! Beausoleil is clearly the best man for the job!”

Kenny indeed offered the job to Bobby Beausoleil and in so doing, exploited the Manson family infamy to gain publicity for his film. His self-promoting gimmickry dishonored the Manson family’s victims and proverbially speaking, he spat in the face of those victims’ still grieving family members. Perhaps Anger chose Beausoleil to score his film only because Charlie Manson, also a musician, was unavailable due to his being on San Quentin’s death row at the time. As expected, there was an uproar from segments of the media and a sizable portion of the public voiced outrage over Anger’s collaboration with the convicted Manson family murderer.

Yet, apart from getting copious publicity for the film, there was no financial windfall for Anger. His type of iniquitous works were not deemed fit for screening in mainstream cinemas of the era, and the Television stations of the day wouldn’t have touched him or his revolting “art,” even while wearing rubber gloves.

The film garnered no money to speak of, and it was a financial disaster both for Anger and its luckless distributors. It would be Anger’s last real film. His swan song. Nobody was willing to give him so much as a dime for his film projects thereafter.

Bitter over the film industry’s rejection of him, Anger would express unhinged rage toward other so-called avant-garde filmmakers- particularly Andy Warhol. Anger frequently exhibited hatred and professional jealousy over Warhol’s success in the medium of unconventional filmmaking. In 1980, likely during a during what had to have been a drug-induced rage, Kenneth Anger went up to Warhol’s townhouse house in Manhattan and threw paint on the front door while screaming profanities directed at Warhol. The problem for Anger was that the house was vacant. Warhol had moved out the month before. Again, Kenny was a day late and a dollar short- a recurring theme throughout his life.

Kenneth Anger was an odd, snarky old queen who never seemed to have met a single soul that he didn’t look down on. Anger had about as much humor in him as one might expect to find in perusing the Warren Commission Report. He always seemed to have a derogatory little quip on hand about everyone he ever encountered in his life. Never willing to accept his place on the outermost fringes of Hollywood, he placed himself on high as the ill-natured Judge of every person of importance in the film industry and beyond. Yet, his own shortcomings of charter were almost always more profound than of those he criticized.

He had no friends to speak of, only those unfortunate people who came into his life and of whom he could use for money, a place to stay or for free drugs. His own siblings despised him and as Anger disclosed in a 2013 interview with The Guardian, his older sister Jean referred to him as the “BCA or Birth Control Accident” child. He died as he lived most of his adult life, financially broke. During the last two decades of his existence, he resided in a modest apartment in his beloved Hollywood, which was located at 5533 Hollywood Blvd, Apt 434, Los Angeles, CA 90028.

So, circling back to my original question, why is this guy celebrated by anyone? Why do certain young people today make this prolific liar, antisemite, bigot, racist, exploiter, and doper into a cause célèbre?

Perhaps it’s all as simple as Sun Tzu once wrote over 2,500 years ago, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Mr. Anger made controversial, homoerotic films with Nazi and Satanic symbolism. All an anathema to the large conservative, Christian segment of the American society of his time and still today. The Left is always looking for allies and heroes in their war against American culture and its large conservative Christian element. In so doing they have been consistently willing to ignore the vilest of shortcomings in the people they make alliances with or in the case of Kenneth Anger, heroes of.

Herman “The Butcher” Marks: An American Deviant Sex Offender and Violent Career Criminal who became Castro’s Chief Executioner

March 9, 2025 By Dan "Danny Boy" White in Uncategorized Tags: Americans in Castro Army, Americans in Cuban revolution, Captain Herman Marks, CHE GUEVARA, CUBA, Cuban Executions, FIDEL CASTRO, Fuego, Fulgencio Batista, Herman Marks, history, La Cabana fortress, politics, The Butcher of Havana, travel, Waupun Prison Leave a comment

Herman Marks was born into a working-class family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 1, 1921. Marks was a sexual deviant with an overriding compulsion to rape underaged girls- the younger the better, as he saw it. His propensity toward violent crime began in his early teens, and for the remainder of his life thereafter, he robbed, rapped, stole and brutally beat any hapless victim he could exploit when the opportunity presented itself. He was a loner and certified psychopath. When Herman was not committing violent felonies, he would drink, smoke, sniff, swallow or inject any illegal narcotic he could place his dirty little hands on. He had a grade school education and a creepy demeanor which repelled just about everyone he ever came in contact with. These credentials would later make him an ideal candidate for recruitment into Fidel Casto’s murderous, Communist guerrilla army in Cuba.

His last prison stretch was in Wisconsin’s Waupun State Penitentiary. A prison which was then set aside for the most violent and hardened of Wisconsin’s criminals. Upon learning of his assignment to Waupun, Herman naively assumed that he would fit right in and make fast friends among his fellow deviants. Unfortunately, Herman wasn’t particularly well received by his fellow convicts in Waupun. This was primarily for two reasons: First, the other inmates found him to be a “weirdo” in the extreme. Second, it was learned by the offender population that Herman was doing time for the rape of a sixteen-year-old girl which caused Marks to be branded in prison slang, as a “Broad Jumper.” Even prison Warden, John C. Burke would later describe Herman Marks as, “a real stinker.” This was no small distinction given the many other notorious and profoundly disturbed prisoners who were also incarcerated at Waupun then.

Marks acted like a tough guy when he was loose on the street brutalizing the elderly, women, teenaged girls and others weaker than him. In maximum-security prison, his tune changed. Once Marks’ profile was raised from his later activity in Cuba, journalists began seeking out interviews with those who knew him from before his nefarious deeds in service to Castro. One such person was Mathew “Matty” Brown who had served time with Marks in Waupun. Brown remarked:

“He (Marks) didn’t look like a punk. I mean, he had a good build. But all fish (new inmates) get tested by other Cons. He wouldn’t stand up for himself. He was a strange cat. Odd…man. Very odd… you know? Something was wrong with him… yeah, he was a punk.”

Perhaps only the infamous serial killer Ed Gein was hated more. Yet, Gein was housed in Waupun’s criminally insane ward, where the inmates couldn’t get to him. The same was not true for Marks. In Waupun, Marks quickly earned the nickname, “Frig Mouth.” In 1950’s prison slang, “Frig” means copulation. Need more be said? He survived two different attempts on his life from other inmates. Nothing about his difficult taste-of-your-own-medicine experience in Waupun changed his views on crime, criminality or the victims of the same. According to Herman Marks himself, it only reinforced his own personal ethos that, “…in this world there are only the strong and the weak. In nature, the weak are always victims of the strong or stronger.” How philosophical.

In 1956, Marks was released from the penitentiary. He had no job prospects nor a girlfriend waiting for him when he got out. In fact, Marks had never had a girlfriend. Although Marks was not an unattractive man, he had never been much of a hit with the opposite sex. Marks’ freaky weird persona tended to cause the needle on women’s internal Creep Meters to shoot deeply into the red zone. This was likely because prison psychiatrists diagnosed Marks as being both severely narcissistic and psychopathic. Thus, when not raping young girls, Marks spent most of his limited financial resources on buying encounters with prostitutes in Milwaukee’s red-light district. Even with these ladies for hire, there were still those who balked- no matter what price Marks was willing to pay. Among Milwaukee’s “working girls,” Herman Marks would became known as “Psycho Eyes.”

Marks’ release from prison in 1956, opened a host of fresh challenges for him. As it turned out, numerous people were eager to find Herman Marks so they could “talk with him.” Who were these people? Well, they included FBI agents, police detectives and other members of the law enforcement community from such far-flung places as New York, Maine, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and more. All were keen to speak with Marks about serious crimes he was alleged to have committed such as, theft, armed robbery, burglary, assault, and of course, rape. Yet they were having difficulty finding him. This was only because when not snoozing on his mother’s couch, Marks had become a wandering street itinerant, sleeping wherever he could find a roof to have over his head. Word on the street regarding the different law enforcement agencies searching for Herman Marks, soon reached old “Frig Mouth.” Upon being apprised of the authorities’ efforts to find him, Marks deduced it might be wise for him to get as far away from Milwaukee as possible. There was just one problem. Mr. Marks had not so much as the proverbial pot to piss in, let alone the money needed to relocate to a far off region of the country.

For most people, this would pose a significant obstacle. However, unlike most people, Marks would demonstrate a certain resourcefulness when faced with his dilemma. Accordingly, Marks did what any red-blooded American career criminal would do under similar circumstances. He stole a series of cars then went on a four-day, multi-state crime spree where he mugged, pillaged, robbed, burgled and stole until he had enough money to make his way south the Florida, which is almost as far from Milwaukee as one can get while still remaining in the continental United States. Once in Maimi, he went on a drinking, drugging and prostitute fueled binge of hedonistic depravity.

In Florida, he had talked his way into a job working on a shrimp boat. He had done so by claiming to have served as a sailor in the US Merchant Marine. He lasted about three days on the shrimp boat until it became apparent that he didn’t know what the hell he was doing. There never was any definitive proof that he ever did in fact serve as a merchant mariner although Marks would continue to claim as much for most of his life.

He would also claim at various times that he had either served in the Army in WWII or during the war in Korea. These claims can be disproven. Although he was of military age during WWII, Marks had dodged the draft and was arrested and later charged with draft evasion. The draft evasion charge was dismissed as the Judge determined that his extensive criminal record would have precluded him from being eligible to serve in any branch of the US military. However, Marks was well versed in the use and maintenance of various firearms, going back to his childhood. His father was a bit of a gun nut. Those skills would later serve him well both as a criminal and in other future endeavors.

It was in Miami where he made some newfound criminal friends who alerted Marks to opportunities for those with his particular skill set, in Havana. There were many Mafia controlled hotels, nightclubs and casinos to be found in Havana, Cuba and the mobsters who ran them were purportedly always looking for men who weren’t afraid of “getting their hands dirty.” With the remaining booty from his crime spree, Marks was able to secure boat passage to Cuba. Shall we generously say it was the type of travel arrangement which didn’t require Mr. Marks to present his Passport upon arrival.

Marks made the rounds of the various mob owned casinos in Havana. He made less than a favorable impression on the Mafia operators. Marks had the type of repelling personality which caused others, including fellow criminals, to adopt an unflattering opinion of him. On his second day of job hunting, he visited The Hotel Plaza, a notorious Mafia owned casino in Havana. The assistant casino manager seemed to think Herman Marks might be a good addition to the of operation’s “muscle department.” Marks was invited back for a meeting with the man in charge of the operation, notorious mobster, Joe Stassi. After speaking with an excessively weird and cocky Marks for about ten minutes, Stassi saw right through his bullshit. Having heard enough, Stassi stood up and warned Herman Marks, “I never forget a face, Pal. You’d better hope I never see yours in this casino again.”

Marks was escorted off the premises and given a final warning to never return. As Herman Marks gloomily walked through Havana’s Vedado District, he undoubtedly contemplated his limited prospects. By his own admission, he knew only ten words of Spanish. He was almost out of money but, he couldn’t return to the United States as he was a wanted man. Marks then did what was quite predictable for him. He beat a hasty path in search of an oceanfront dive bar with the intention of getting drunk.

Marks’ wild eyed and unkempt appearance was in stark contrast to the throngs of affluent American tourists he walked amongst in his search a cheap, hole-in-the-wall bar. He finally found a darkly lit, seedy little joint away from the tourists, that suited him and his limited budget. The clientele seemed to be mostly fishermen and sailors. Marks took a long swig from his ice-cold beer and contemplated the limited options available to him given the seemingly irrevocable corner his choices has painted him into.

Yet in life, as one door closes, another may open. Just as Marks ordered a second beer with a shot of whiskey, he felt a warm pat on his shoulder.

“Herman?” The voice which spoke with a Cuban accent and had a pleasantly surprised tone.

Herman Marks turned to find one of his crewmates from the ill-fated Shrimp Boat job standing next to him in the bar. The Cuban was the only member of the small crew who had tried to help him learn his job. The other crew members had exhibited contempt for Marks as his lack of qualifications ultimately caused more work for them.

As a man with few friends, Marks enjoyed his reunion with the Cuban sailor. The two men drank, joked and laughed for several hours. Marks had told his friend of his unsuccessful attempts to find work at the local casinos. His friend responded by telling him that those casinos wouldn’t be around for long in any event. The Cuban told his former shipmate about the 26^th of July Movement. A revolutionary force which he felt would ultimately succeed in overthrowing the government of Cuba because the people were allegedly opposed to the régime of Fulgencio Batista.

Marks asked the Cuban two questions: “Does the rebel army accept yanquis?” “Who would I see to join the 26^th of July Movement?”

The next day, Marks purchased a bus ticket to the town of Manzanillo, which was then a sleepy little city nearly 500 miles to the east of Havana, nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra mountain range. With nothing to lose, he decided to become a member of the Communist revolutionary army or die trying. Yet, the choice to join a Communist guerilla insurgency was a particularly odd decision for one Herman Marks.

Beginning in his late teens, Marks had developed a strong affinity for Adolph Hitler and the Italian Fascist leader, Benito Mussolini. He specifically agreed with Hitler’s warped racial dogma. He believed wholeheartedly that white people were a master race and viewed others of non-white ethnicity, particularly blacks, with disdain. He supported the idea of racial segregation and felt that as a white man, he should not have to suffer mingling with blacks. He considered Communism to be a sinister Jewish invention with the objective of world domination and Zionist supremacy. He also believed that Communism itself was a Jewish conspiracy to enslave the white race. In short, Marks was a despicable racist with a deluded if not perversely twisted, world view.

Upon arriving in Manzanillo, the man who believed that “Communism was the chosen vehicle of Jews to enslave the white, European race,” set out to ask anyone and everyone he encountered about how he would go about joining the Communist revolutionaries. It wasn’t long before Marks met two young Cubans who were also hoping to join Castro’s guerilla army. Marks and his two new companions decided to band together. They bought all the provisions that they could carry and set out into the jungle to find the rebels. After nearly three days and with their provisions waning, the trio of aspiring revolutionaries stumbled upon a guerrilla outpost

The jungle outpost was manned by a few dozen rebels and commanded by guerrilla Captain Paco Cabrera who, fortunately for Marks, spoke English. Captain Cabrera was initially suspicious of Marks’ intentions and taken aback by his strange demeanor. Cabrera spent a significant amount of time questioning the rather odd American. For his part, Marks spun some wild tales about his having served with distinction in the US Army during the Korean War where he claimed to have seen extensive combat. He also claimed to be a small arms expert. There was some truth to the latter statement as he had grown up using both pistol and rifle and was proficient in the cleaning and maintenance of many different firearms.

Marks’ two companions were welcomed into the rebel army as was Marks, despite Captain Cabrera’s reservations. Marks’ new comrades in arms within the small jungle guerilla garrison didn’t know quite what to make of him. He couldn’t speak Spanish and exhibited some peculiar behavior such as frequently talking or laughing to himself. This strange behavior prompted his fellow guerillas to label him as the “Loco Gringo.” A derisive moniker yes, but preferable to “Frig Mouth.”

Marks cachet among his fellow rebels improved considerably one day when he came upon a few of his fellow soldiers clumsily trying to disassemble a .30 Caliber M1 Carbine rifle. Newly minted guerrilla fighter Herman Marks intervened and showed his comrades how to properly disassemble, clean and maintain the weapon. Marks soon became responsible for the maintenance and repair of all firearms in his remote guerrilla base.

Marks would later be assigned to a unit ostensibly commanded by Che Guevara. Guevera was not a skilled battlefield tactician and delegated the tactical combat deployment of men to his subordinates. In Marks, Che immediately recognized a kindred spirit. Both men were diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder and both were Psychopathic. Both men avoided direct combat whenever they could, and both would become known as men who took great pleasure in executing other people.

Yet, in his journal, Che wrote that, “The American (Marks) fundamentally didn’t fit into the troop.”

Che’s guerilla underling and aid, Enrique Acevedo, told Che’s biographer, Jon Lee Anderson that Marks was, “tyrannical and arbitrary…in camp.” Acevedo also told Anderson that Marks’ “bloodthirsty ruthlessness had disturbed many of his fellow rebel fighters and that it was particularly his readiness to gleefully volunteer for execution duty which he did with an enthusiasm which was unseemly.”

After the fall of Batista and the collapse of the Cuban government, Che would be tasked by Castro with overseeing the executions of close to 49,000 Cubans. Who were these unfortunate souls slated to be snuffed out by their new Communist masters? They were those who had dared to serve in the Cuban military from the ranks of Private all the way up to General. Anyone who had ever served in the police force. Anyone of note who had previously criticized Castro or his revolution. Any wealthy individuals who hadn’t already fled the island.

Che, like Herman Marks, was a psychopath, and a sexual degenerate. Although Comrade Che would have personally enjoyed executing all 49,000 Cuban “enemies of the people” himself, it was not feasible for him to do so. Accordingly, Che naturally chose his kindred spirit Herman Marks, to assist in this task. Marks, who had recently been promoted to Captain, was given command of the La Cabana fortress and tasked with overseeing the executions of tens of thousand of these former soldiers, policemen and critics of Castro.

Thus, standing at center stage in the courtyard of the La Cabana fortress stood “Psycho Eyes,” also known as “Frig Mouth,” the Waupun Penitentiary “punk.” His evil, crooked smile beaming live on Cuban Television and before the international press while bellowing out the commands to the firing squad: “Atencion, Preparen, Aputen, Fuego!” (Attention, Ready, Aim, Fire!). After the lifeless bodies of the condemned collapsed to the stone masonry floor below, Marks would walk toward the executed men with the wicked grin of man who was thoroughly enjoying himself. Then, into each blood oozing corpse he fired a bullet into the head, which he appeared to relish.

It’s believed that old “Frig mouth” presided over the executions of some 20,000 Cubans. Many of these executions were witnessed by the loved ones of the condemned on live television. Marks took great enjoyment in mocking those condemned men who called for a Priest to give them the Last Rites or who prayed to God before their execution. Many of the men were led to the execution courtyard with their hands untied. More than a few of those men used their last moments of life to courageously taunt their Communist tormentors. Many of these men would place their index finger between their eyes and courageously deride their executioners by shouting, “Aim right here.” In the end, it was the dignity of these condemned men which demonstrated their real courage. The type of courage which had always eluded men like Che or Marks.

For the brave men who would dare the firing squad to “shoot right here,” (between the eyes) Marks would personally shoot each of these dead men in the face with six to eight bullets in order to ensure that their families would be unable to recognize them. Marks briefly became a worldwide celebrity among Leftists. He enjoyed the numerous media interviews where he would always mention how grueling his schedule was and seldom failed to mention that he was “up until 2:00 AM performing executions.” In the western media, Marks became known as “the Butcher Havana.”

After all the “people’s enemies” were executed, Marks’ Warholian fifteen minutes of fame evaporated. Even Castro seemed ever so unnerved over how much Marks seemed to enjoy executing people. News stories had made their way into Cuba from the American press detailing Marks’ extensive criminal history and prison record. That portion of his past was conveniently left out of the biography he had provided to Castro. Moreover, there was no longer much use Herman Marks in the new Castro dictatorship. Marks could barely speak Spanish. He had no education and few skills to offer the new government apart from his willingness to murder others. To his profound disappointment, he was offered no position of import in the new Communist regime. However, as a “hero of the revolution,” he was afforded a very small and modest home to live in and a meager monthly stipend to subsist on. Marks angrily scoffed at the offer. He clearly had an inflated view of his own worth to Casto’s new government. In an enraged tizzy, “Frig Mouth” stormed out of Cuba and discreetly slipped back into the United States. He was arrested soon thereafter for illegally entering the country and there was a dispute over whether or not he was still a United states citizen which was settled in his favor by the courts. Marks quickly became a societal pariah within American society.

He was unable to find gainful employment given his criminal record and status as “the Butcher Havana.” He was arrested in New York in May of 1964 for making threatening phone calls. On Friday the 13^th of August 1965 he fell from a tree and broke his right leg after using binoculars to peep at a young girl through a neighbor’s window. When the police arrived, his trousers were unzipped, and an “appendage” was protruding from the unzipped pant zipper crotch. An arrest warrant was issued for Herman Marks after his return to Milwaukee. The warrant alleged that he had engaged in “indecent sexual behavior with a six-year-old girl. Upon hearing of the arrest warrant, Marks told others that he was, “getting the hell out of dodge.”

He was last seen speeding toward the state line via what today is known as “Interstate 39. “ He was never seen again. Different theories have arisen concerning his disappearance.

Some say he went to Las Vegas, seeking “muscle work” and ended up in a hole in the desert courtesy of John “Handsome Johnny” Roselli who also had CIA contacts and had worked with the agency on Cuban related matters. For a while, the father of the six-year-old girl that Marks had molested was considered a prime suspect in his “disappearance.” Others have alleged that Marks was tortured and killed by Cuban exiles. What seems almost certainly to be the case is that a person or persons unknown did our society and the world at large a tremendous favor by dispatching “Frig Mouth” to Hell.

For Western Liberals, their Fickle Bereavement and Outrage is Limited to Injustices Committed by Non-Leftists

March 3, 2025 By Dan "Danny Boy" White in Uncategorized Tags: Crying liberal women, Guilt Tourism, history, Katyn, Katyn Massacre, Katyn Massacre Memorial, Liberal Guilt Tourism, Liberal hatred of the West, Liberal hypocrisy, Liberal Support of Communism, Liberal support of the USSR, Liberal Virtue Signaling, Liberal Women', Liberals don't care about Communist murders, Liberals support of Soviet Union, Nazi Katyn, poland, Polish village of Zdziary, politics, russia, Soviet Massacre, Soviet Massacre Katyn, ukraine, USSR Katyn Forrest Massacre, western liberal women, Zbigniew Stypułkowski Leave a comment

During WWII, the great Polish resistance leader, Zbigniew Stypułkowski made an astute observation of his nation’s two enemy occupiers Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, when he commented that there were no significant differences in the brutal way both operated. He saw both as equally evil, dictatorial systems. On September 1, 1939, Stypułkowski was a member of the Polish parliament when two of the evilest empires known known in the history of man Nazi Germany and the Communist Soviet Union, decided to divide his democratic nation up between themselves. They did so for no other reason than they could.

After the Soviet Communists and the Nazis invaded his country, Stypulkowski helped organize the anti-Nazi resistance in the western portion of Poland. The intellectual politician soon became a respected resistance leader, rising to the rank of Colonel. A large bounty was placed on Stypulkowski’s head by the Nazi occupiers who were bedazzled by his cunning as a prominent guerrilla leader. Yet, no Poles stepped forward to betray Stypulkowski. Both the Soviet Communists and the Nazis surpassed any measure of wickedness previously established in history. Both regimes practiced the mass extermination of millions of their political opponents yet, the Soviets Communists unarguably murdered far more than even Hitler’s regime. What astonished Stypulkowski was the way both regimes, though independent of each other, work identically. In the German occupied sector of Poland, the Nazi’s quickly massacred all elites and intellectuals while anyone deemed a political opponent was shipped off to a camp to be gassed or worked to death. Likewise, in the Soviet occupied sector of Poland, the Communists quickly massacred all elites and intellectuals while anyone deemed a political opponent was shipped off to a camp to be executed or worked to death. Both had secret police who worked with uncannily similar tactics.

The Soviet Communists were quick to murder anyone who even had the appearance of someone who might resist. Most notable, was the Katyn Massacre where the Soviet Communists murdered over 22,000 military and police officers as well as others deemed to be intellectuals- most of whom were Polish Jews. Yet it was the ruthless proficiency of these systematic murders in Katyn which was most shocking. The mass murder was carried out with the efficiency of an industrial slaughterhouse.

See the short video below:

In typical Communist fashion, at the end of WWII when these thousands of bodies were discovered, in shallow graves, each with bullet holes in the backs of their skulls, the Soviets blamed the massacre on their former allies, the Nazis. Yes, they did so directly on the orders from Comrade Stalin. The Nazis were defeated after all and had no historical voice in the matter. For almost 50 years, the Katyn Massacre was attributed to the Nazis. The Nazis by the way, were just as evil as the Soviet Communists and would have been all too happy to have to done the dirty work at Katyn themselves but alas, the Soviet NKDV beat them to the punch.

Each year during the cold war, on the declared anniversary of the Katyn Massacre, there was a Soviet and Polish sponsored memorial gathering to remember these “victims of the Nazis.” Although the Soviets had objected to the placement of physical monuments on the site and preferred to conduct the event in a low key fashion, some select residents of western countries and a limited number of “approved” western media sources were allowed to attend the memorial gathering. Interestingly enough, few average Poles were ever invited and the memorial seemed more like a media event. After all, average Polish citizens might have dared, given the opportunity, to raise some awkward questions such as, “The murdered Polish men were all taken into to custody by the Soviets in the Red Army sector- how were the Nazis able to get to them?”

Only Communist could pull an event like this off and keep a straight face but, wait…it gets better. Every year on the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre, limited numbers of naïve western liberals (mostly women) would make their way to Katyn, Poland in order to,” remember, mourn, and light candles for the “Nazi ‘victims.” Many of these liberal women were filmed with hot tears streaming down their checks as their lower lips quivered over the grizzly fate of these alleged victims of Nazi brutality. They certainly seemed like Norma Desmond, to be ready for their close-up.

Then suddenly, the Soviet people overthrew their Communist dictators in the USSR and those living under Communism in the Eastern Bloc Countries had just previously done likewise. The Berlin Wall came crashing down, and freedom spread beyond the Iron Curtin. Soon thereafter, the secret archives of the former Communists states were made public. Along the way it was discovered, in black and white, that the Nazis did not perpetrate the Katyn Massacre but rather it was as many had already suspected, the Communist Soviets who methodically killed these 22,000 Polish elites.

Now, try not to laugh. I dare you. After democracy was restored in Poland, the Katyn Massacre Anniversary to remember and morn, continued on. However, it took on the new tone of an anti-Communist memorial. Monuments were finally erected in the Katyn forrest to pay homage to these victims of Communism. However, after it was established that the Massacre was committed by the Communists, the crying western liberal women stopped showing up. Maybe it was because there were no longer any Communist officials for them to hug and cry in the arms of over the brutality of Nazism and US foreign policy. Yet it was historically, still a savage massacre- right? It would seem that liberals are only interested in mourning massacres that suit their political ends. Yet maybe there’s another reason. Maybe they caught wind of something.

Perhaps these western liberals heard about the little farm near the diminutive Polish village of Zdziary, not far from the location of the Katyn Massacre. Each year, during the anniversary remembrance, the small farm was cordoned off by a group of Polish and USSR Communists party officials including, Soviet KGB officers and Polish Security Service (PS) personnel. Once there and away from the prying eyes of western “liberal guilt tourists,” they could let their hair down. The liquor would flow, and these Communist officials would begin hours of mocking the western “useful idiots” in attendance- mostly liberal western women. The Communist officials would put on skits where in turn, many of the attendees would imitate the liberal useful idiots’ maudlin sorrow and tears to roars of laughter. Many of these men would entertain their comrades by recounting their sexual conquests of the sundry “loose” western women in attendance, many of whom would throw themselves at the first Communist official they encountered during the couple of days before the ceremony. The jollity and revelry would go on until the wee hours.

The annual fun abruptly ended with the collapse of Communism. Suddenly, the liberal western women lost interest in attending when they learned what was for them, the disappointing news that the massacre was actually committed by their ideological allies, the Communist.

The Reverend Billy James Hargis: A Beloved Christian Leader in America Until He Began to Criticize Communism

March 2, 2025 By Dan "Danny Boy" White in Uncategorized Tags: Billy James Hargis, Billy James Hargis Communism, Billy James Hargis scandal, General Edwin Walker Leave a comment

During the early 1960s, the New York Times reported that Reverend Billy James “Hargis appears to be on his way to rivaling the Reverend Billy Graham.” Yet at the time, millions of American evangelical Christians already considered him of equal stature to Graham. He was a household name. Reverend Hargis’ Christian Crusade program was broadcast daily on over 500 US radio stations and weekly on 250 television stations. Millions of Americans turned into his broadcasts. So, what happened?

Today, everyone knows who Billy Graham was. When Revered Graham died in 2018, condolences poured in from all over the world. American political leaders, Democrat and Republican alike praised his life and works. America mourned the passing of this “giant of a man.” However, Reverend Hargis died an obscure death in a Tulsa nursing home in 2004. There were the perfunctory newspaper obituaries yet, most people seemed to have forgotten who he was. Why? How?

It appears the good Reverend Hargis’ troubles began when he dared to begin criticizing Communism- both the Soviet state and its puppets as well as Marxism’s domestic purveyors. Isn’t taking on Communism a little outside the lane of a respected Christian evangelist? Shouldn’t he have just stuck to the Bible? Reverend Hargis felt not.

As a member of the clergy, Hargis was concerned by what he perceived as the rapid moral decline of our society in the early 1960s. He was vexed by the rising tide of illegal abortions, divorce, homosexuality, rampant drug use, pornography, and overall permissiveness coupled with attacks on our free enterprise system and Leftist infiltration of churches and seminaries. Hargis began investigating the people who were enabling these social ills. At every turn, he discovered that the path led back to either Communists, their fellow travelers or Communism’s reliably useful idiots on the liberal or progressive Left. Reverend Hargis was perplexed as to why these Communist influenced assaults on the moral fiber of our society weren’t being covered by the major American media outlets. Reverend Hargis felt that if the large media corporations wouldn’t cover these issues, he should use his sizable broadcasting platform to do so. That’s when his troubles began.

Hargis projected where all this burgeoning moral depravity would lead us as a society. He made a series of bold predictions which were mocked by the Left and their cohorts in the major media outlets. Hargis had the temerity forecast, based on where he saw our society heading, that one day in America:

Abortion would be made legal by either the courts or federal legislation.
Divorce would become widespread and there would be legislation to allow “divorce on demand.”
Homosexuality would “come out of its closet and into the public mainstream.” Author’s Note: In a free society, we should not punish or discriminate against people over their sexual orientation.
Pornography would be made legal by the federal courts.
The death penalty would be abolished and or severely limited due to expanded appeal procedures.
The drug problem would get worse, not better and become far more widespread.
Leftist would continue to infiltrate the church to change Christian doctrine and create churches which advance Leftist goals.
Television programming and Hollywood movies would ditch the Production Code and start making movies with nudity, sex, extreme violence with overtly anti-Christian themes and storylines.
Leftist would continue to infiltrate public schools and would one day turn public schools and universities into centers for Leftist indoctrination.
The major American media would ditch its pretense of fair and unbiased news and go all in to advance the Left’s objectives.
Crime would rise to unseen levels, and it will become more violent and deadly than anything we’d ever before seen.
The sanctity of human life would be cheapened.
The Left would start a full-fledged assault on the sacred constitutional right of Americans to own firearms and to exercise self-defense.
The federal government would one day become all powerful and, through its vast expansion and myriad programs, would exercise unprecedented control over our lives.
Hargis also criticized America’s abrogation of its responsibility to defend democracy against the threat of Communism at home and abroad. He criticized the Kennedy administration’s failure to take out the Communist regime in Cuba and asserted that the United States was on track to shirk its responsibility to confront and subdue the Communist threat in Vietnam.

In the early 1960s, Hargis’ predictions were derided as laughable, dystopian conspiracy theories. At least so, until they all came to pass. Yes, Hargis read the proverbial tea leaves remarkably well. The question he pondered at the time of his predictions was, what would he should do to alert the American public of these concerns? Had he decided to avoid the subject and simply continued to preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, he would have would have been remembered today as an evangelist who enjoyed and storied career. However, Hargis was not the type of man to shrink from a fight, if he felt the cause was just.

Hargis would use his media empire, which reached millions, to shine the light of truth on what he saw as the “seedy, shadowy dark enclaves of domestic Communism’s campaign to subvert the traditional values of our society.” Initially, his actions proved successful. Millions of more people began to listen to his broadcasts and donations to his ministry increased significantly. However, not everyone was pleased. Hargis’ expanded media footprint caused the establishment media and certain liberal politicians to paint a target on his back. Were that not enough, the Reverend was not afraid to name names and drew the ire of both President Lyndon Johnson and his successor, Richard Nixon. This was risky new territory for Hargis as in the pre-Watergate era, US Presidents frequently used federal agencies such as the FBI and the IRS, to go after prominent citizens who were a threat to them. Reverend Hargis became the subject of an ongoing government campaign of harassment from the IRS, FBI and even the FCC. While there was never a basis for criminal charges, the political persecution of Hargis from these federal agencies continued for years.

At every turn, the government was there to pester Hargis with investigations, tax audits and civil court actions. None of this slowed the growth in his radio and TV audience. Hargis remained as popular as ever with Christian America. In the 1960’s he began a road show with American war hero, retired Army General Edwin Walker. The road shows proved particularly popular and others, outside of the Christian faith began attending. The message was Christianity combined with populist conservatism.

In the 1960s, the new mainline conservatism advocated by Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan was in its infancy. Populist conservatism as espoused by politicians such as Donald Trump, was almost non-existent. Hargis, like General Walker, was a populist conservative. In fact, Hargis is one of the founders of the movement. Populist conservatism would remain on the fringe of the Republican Party for many decades until the era of Donald Trump. In Hargis’ roadshow, which drew tens of thousands of Americans in every city they visited, became the genesis of what is now called “Trumpism.” Apart from Hargis and Walker, there were scarcely few others prominent leaders in the new populist conservative movement which blended evangelical Christianity, with anti-Communism and an “America First” agenda that was protectionist and anti-immigration. Sound familiar? It’s safe to say that without Reverend Hargis, we might never have known “Trumpism” today.

As Reverand Hargis’ audience continued to grow, he experienced setbacks from the government but nothing that would stop his message from resonating. Having not slowed Hargis’ movement with harassment, the government seemed to escalate its tactics to discredit Hargis and Walker. Before I go any further, I would urge you to watch the embedded video below. It’s a deleted clip from the Oliver Stone film JFK, which recounts the government’s efforts to lay a trap for prosecutor Jim Garrison by setting him up with a fabricated gay sex allegation in a public bathroom with police officers conveniently standing by to nab him.

Restroom Scene (Deleted) from the Oliver Stone film, JFK (1991)

This was a common method used to destroy the credibility of certain people whom the government deemed “troublemakers.” It was unsuccessfully attempted on New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison pretty much as shown in the clip above. The same method was used against WWII hero, General Edwin Walker in a Dallas public restroom. Just as in the clip, a bunch of police were waiting right there to arrest Walker after being framed for “lewd public conduct.”

After the incident with General Walker, Hargis traveled with loyal people around him at all times. By keeping witnesses next to him everywhere he went in public, Reverend Hargis seemed to have airtight protection against government dirty tricks. That is, until he didn’t. By 1974, Hargis served as the President of the American Christian College and Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Suddenly one day, like a lightning bolt out of the blue, two young students stepped forward and claimed that Reverend Hargis had forced them into sexual relations. The allegations were made by a female student as well as a male student. How convenient. That certainly covered all of the bases. Yet no one seemed more surprised over these claims than Reverend Hargis himself, who had been married for decades with three children. For his part, Hargis vehemently denied the allegations until the day he died. Whether the allegations are true or not, we’ll never know.

What we do know is that the Tulsa District Attorney did an exhaustive investigation into the case and found no criminal wrongdoing had occurred. No charges were filed. After a thorough investigation, both of the area newspapers, The Tulsa Tribune and The Tulsa World refused to even publish the mere accusations. Unfortunately, Reverend Hargis was tried in the court of public opinion by the national establishment media. This would lead to his ruination. Donations to his ministries dwindled. The media induced scandal finished him as an effective spokesperson for his cause.

Few today draw the connection between Trumpism and the political and religious crusades of Reverend Billy James Hargis. Yet, it’s likely that without Hargis, there would not be Trumpism today. At least not as we know it. Hargis’ lived his remaining years away from the spotlight. In many ways he died a broken man but, the political movement he started would come to fruition and become the predominant dogma of the Republican party.

Below is an interview with Hargis from 1979, on the popular national television program, the Tomorrow Show, hosted by Tom Snyder.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Tom+Synder+Billy+James+Hargis

Climate Change: Marxism’s Trojan Horse

February 27, 2025 By Dan "Danny Boy" White in Alleged Climate Change Tags: 50 years of climate alarmism, Christiana Figueres, Christiana Figueres Climate Change to destroy Capitalism, Christiana Figueres UN Climate, Climate change doom, climate change hoax, Climate Change is Communism, Climate Change is Communist, Climate Change is Marxist, Climate change scam, Climate Change scare tactic, Climate Change to Destro Capitalism, Climate Change to destroy capitalism, Climate doom, Environmental Wackos, Environmentalism to destroy capitalism, global warming hoax, Global warming to destroy capitalism, goal environmentalists to destroy capitalism, Green movement destroy capitalism, Green new deal, Greens are reds, Ice Age is comming, Kenneth Watt, Kenneth Watt Climate Extremist, Kenneth Watt Ice Alarm, Mostafia Tolbia, Mostafia Tolbia quote, the environment vs. capitalism, the Green Scare, Thomas Lovejoy, Thomas Lovejoy climate alarmist, UN Environment Program Leave a comment

The Communist-Socialist-Progressive-Liberal coalition, among whom there is seldom a disagreement on anything, have been trying to sell us the idea that we’re facing a world ending “climate crisis” for the past 50 plus years. Yet, the world is still here.

These alarmist of the wacky Left would be the first to admit that they’ve frequently had to change their comical doomsday cries of “apocalypse,” over the past half-century. Like Chicken Little, they cry, “The sky is falling!” Except it isn’t and never will. Like a desperate gambler’s frantic last cast of the dice, the Communist-Socialist-Progressive-Liberal coalition is always coming up with new alarmist gimmicks in their forlorn attempts to scare us into accepting their failed policies. Yet, the people still aren’t buying their damaged goods.

In the 1960s, they warned that our oil supply would soon be depleted and if we didn’t make a “drastic change,” it would be the end of our society. In the 1970s, the headlines proclaimed that our “poor environmental stewardship” was leading us into “a new ice age” where the civilized world would “parish” if we didn’t make “drastic changes in our lifestyles and public policy.” Yet, the ice age never materialized. In the early 80’s, the new Leftist buzzword of alarm was, “Acid Rain,” caused by our “industries” or translation: our employers. That ploy didn’t work either. By the 1990s, the Left’s clarion cry was, “Global Warming.” Yet, when things didn’t get warmer, they changed the title of their con to “Climate Change.” How convenient. If temperatures drop, it’s “climate change.” If temperatures increase, it’s “climate change.” If temperatures stay the same it’s still, you guessed it, “climate change.”

Along the way, the Communist-Socialist-Progressive-Liberal coalition has given us the most dire and dystopian predictions. On August 10, 1969, an article in the New York Times: “We must realize that unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.” Really?

In 1970, prominent environmental academic Kenneth Watt, sounded the “ice alarm,” speaking in Pennsylvania at Swarthmore College: “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but 11 degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”

Time magazine asserted on June 22, 1974: “Telltale signs are everywhere, from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest. Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7”

On July 18, 1976, the New York Times predicated that the environmental crisis would end agriculture in America when it stated, “… the news for the future is not all good. The climate is going to get unreliable. It is going to get cold. Harvest failures and regional famines will be more frequent. Weather will probably make history—again.”

In 1982, Mostafia Tolbia, executive director of the UN’s Environment Program, pointed to the possibility of widespread devastation in less than 20 years. He cited “an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, and as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust.”

In February 1993, Thomas Lovejoy, assistant secretary for Environmental and External Affairs at the Smithsonian Institution, stressed the world had one remaining decade of opportunity to avoid calamity. “I am utterly convinced that most of the great environmental struggles will be either won or lost in the 1990s and by the next century it will be too late.”

Then again, maybe not.

These and literally thousands of other doomsday predictions have been made going back to the 1960s. Yet, our focus should not be on the doom and gloom forecasts but rather, on what these prognosticators of our climate demise want us to do in order to avoid “catastrophe.” These wild predictions concerning the end of civilization after all, are designed to scare us into acting. Specifically, they are seeking our acquiescence in the destruction of capitalism and individual rights. The very values that made the United States a world superpower. A system which has created the most prosperous society in the history of mankind. How do we know this?

We know this because if you listen to or read them carefully, they tell you as much. At a 2015 news conference in Brussels, Belgium, United Nations “Climate Advisor” Christiana Figueres, admitted that “the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.”

As far back as 2011, The Nation Magazine, a stalwart publication within the Communist-Socialist-Progressive-Liberal coalition proclaimed the battle is to be defined as, “the environment vs. capitalism,” and the ultimate destruction of the later. The UK’s Guardian screamed in a headline, “Dare to Declare Capitalism Dead- before it takes us down with it!”

Who would buy this you ask? In truth, not many among the average citizenry. Think about it. For the past forty years, the Communist-Socialist-Progressive-Liberal coalition has beat this drum everyday in the media. Their cohorts who run our public schools have attempted to indoctrinate our children in this Marxist dogma in the very schools we support with our tax dollars. These radical environmental themes have run rampant in Hollywood films and Television programing. The Communist-Socialist-Progressive-Liberal coalition has spent untold billions of dollars to “educate us” on the environmental crisis caused by capitalism.

So, after decades of the Communist-Socialist-Progressive-Liberal coalition trying to scare us into their way of thinking, they have some monumental achievements which they alone are entitled to take full credit for, as follows:

A 6-3 majority of conservative Supreme Court Justices who don’t buy the damaged wares they are peddling.
A Republican/Nationalist Congress who recognizes them for what that they are.
Donald Trump, an America First President who calls climate change “a big hoax,” and refers to the Communist-Socialist-Progressive-Liberal coalition as being, “scum!”
Millions of young voters who reject socialism and climate alarmism. Also known as “young Trump supporters.”
Large shifts among ethnic minority voters who continue to trend Republican.

So, we owe the Communist-Socialist-Progressive-Liberal coalition our sincere gratitude. Keep up the good work my Commie friends! Your brand is radioactive and you repel far more than you attract! Yet, you unintentionally do our country and its capitalist system a great service.

The Tragic Death of Ben Linder

February 17, 2025 By Dan "Danny Boy" White in Uncategorized Tags: Ben Linder, Contras, Death of Ben Linder, Engineer Ben Linder, Leftist Ben Linder, Nicaragua, Nicaragua War Leave a comment

Not many people really know or care who Ben Linder was, today. Ben was a kind and bright young man who studied engineering at the University of Washington from 1979 to 1983. He was a vegan, as well as an amateur clown and juggler. He’d spend his free time entertaining children. It appears that Ben was raised in a household of leftist activists. In Ben’s leftist household his parents made their own leftist/liberal political beliefs part of their children’s upbringing. But, how do we know this?

Well, we’re told by Jacobin.com and other public sources that, Ben “was steeped in activism from a young age.” His family was “politically conscious” and as a child young Ben and his siblings were taken to “anti–Vietnam War demonstrations” by his parents who would also make “their living room and spare bedroom available for meetings and traveling activists.” By the way, there is nothing wrong with parents imparting their values unto their kids.

According to Jacobin.com: “Ben followed in his parents’ footsteps. He became a vegetarian for ethical reasons and was part of a thirty-eight-hour-long sit-in outside Portland’s Trojan nuclear power plant in his final year of high school. Even his decision to study engineering was a product of his political sensibilities: Ben hoped that his skills could be used “for the benefit of the human race, particularly in developing countries. He shunned his classmates’ decisions to put their skills to work doing defense work for firms like Boeing.”

Are you getting the picture here?

We’re also told that instead of working as an engineer, for some firm that did defense work, Ben decided to move to Nicaragua, putting his skills as an engineer in service to the impoverished Nicaraguans. Ben was certainly an idealist. There is little doubt that his motives were altruistic. Yet, Ben’s selfless decision was not without risk.

At the time of Ben’s decision to relocate to Nicaragua, in the mid 1980s, the United States was engaged in a full-fledged proxy war with the Soviet Union and its allies, in Latin America. Nicaragua was ruled by a brutally repressive Communist regime- free press shut down, imprisonment of political foes, free speech stiffed, etc. The Soviet Communists were attempting to destabilize the entire region and ground zero in this war was Nicaragua. The Soviet Union provided the Communist government of Nicaragua with weapons and other military hardware such as tanks and armored personnel characters. These armored vehicles were useless in defending themselves from a US invasion- the first round of airstrikes would have taken most of them out. They also would have been near useless in fighting a guerrilla insurgency like the Contras were waging. However, these tanks and armored vehicles would have been ideal for projecting power and invading neighboring countries. Further, the Communist government of Nicaragua was training, funding and arming Communist guerrilla insurgencies in El Salvador and other Latin American countries.

The Nicaraguan government was being assailed by a guerrilla force trained and backed by the United States known as the “Contras.” In short, the Contras were attempting to overthrow the Communist dictatorship and establish a democratic form of government. The Contras were trained and backed by the United States. It was a brutal war and the young, newly minted engineer Ben Linder, would be knowingly inserting himself into this war zone. A bold decision, to be sure. Ben was no coward and showed his willingness to risk his own safety in furtherance of his convictions. In short, Ben walked his talk. He lived by a code.

Ben ended up in the Northern Nicaraguan village of El Cuá, a remote and impoverished community. Ben would focus his skills on assisting with the construction of a small hydroelectric dam which would bring much needed electricity to the local, populace. Unfortunately, El Cuá was a place where there were frequent skirmishes between the US backed rebels and the Nicaraguan Army.

According to the jacobin.com, Ben “Linder, like his companions, was carrying a rifle and wearing a cartridge belt. As they walked over the hill, the group stumbled into a contra ambush.”

If true, what was young Ben, who looked down on his classmates for taking jobs with defense contractors, doing carrying the implements of war on his person? Didn’t he not know that carrying that rifle and cartridge belt would make him a target in the war zone that he was in?

By carrying that rifle and wearing that cartridge (ammunition) belt, again if it’s true, Ben was taking a huge risk which would make him, for all intent and purposes, a combatant were he and his friends to encounter the Contras. He had to have known this- wouldn’t he? Was Ben a combatant by choice as well as an engineer or was he merely carrying someone else’s gear? We will never know.

After Ben “stumbled into a contra ambush,” he was sadly, killed. Ben’s supporters make it sound as though he was “killed in cold blood.” Maybe but, while carrying a rifle? Perhaps so, if he tossed his weapon and surrendered, only to be killed anyway. That would be a heinous example of a cold blooded murder. For their part, the Contras responded by saying they didn’t know Ben’s nationality and that they tried to take him as a prisoner but, Ben apparently wouldn’t have any of it. Hence, the Contras shot him. That’s basically the Contras’ version. We undoubtedly will never know the complete truth of what happened.

What seems clear is that this otherwise honorable and well-meaning young man tragically lost his life. Ben would use his talents as a juggler and an amateur clown to entertain children both here in the US and in Nicaragua. Ben had a big heart and although I may disagree with his some of his political views and decision to risk his life in a war zone they way he chose to, I still certainly think we all can and should, respect him as a person. Ben wasn’t a bomb thrower. He may have been misguided but, he had no shortage of personal character and courage. Two attributes few others seem to have in today’s society. When people like Ben leave us, the world becomes just a little more worse off.

Ana Montes: Convicted Communist Spy and Traitor to America

February 17, 2025 By Dan "Danny Boy" White in Uncategorized Tags: American Communist Traitors, American Left helping Communist Cuba, Ana Montes, Ana Montes CIA, Ana Montes Communist agent, Ana Montes Communist Spy, Ana Montes Traitor, Ana Montes treason, Army Green Beret Sergeant Gregory A. Fronius., Charles Manson Daddy Hangup, CIA double agents, Code Name Blue Wren, cognitive opening, Communist Spies in US, Communists in US Government, Cuban Spies, Cuban spy, Green Beret Sergeant Gregory A. Fronius, Gregory A. Fronius, Gregory A. Fronius murder, Jim Popkin, Liberal love of Cuba, Professor Kendall Myers Communist, Professor Kendall Myers spy, Sergeant Gregory A. Fronius, UVA Professor Kendall Myers Leave a comment

Ana Montes was if not still is, a disgusting Communist and traitor to her (our) country, The United States of America. The daughter of an accomplished physician, Montes came from a comfortable home with a Catholic and politically conservative upbringing. Her loving father was a strict taskmaster who pushed his children to excel. Life isn’t easy, after all. In her late teens, young Ana seemed to rebel against the high standards her good father expected of her. In college she would do a running dive off of the deep end.

Young Ana began college in the 1970s, at the University of Virgina. Far from her family and the culturally conservative environs of her youth, she undoubtedly found the UVA campus to be fertile soil for one desiring to rebel against every value their parents had instilled in them. In short, Ana appeared to have what Charles Manson called a “Daddy hangup.” Manson found these types of young women the easiest to recruit into his cult because of their desire to rebel against the values of their parents which presented what psychologists today call a “cognitive opening.” For these confused young women, Manson 1) offered a new support network. (family substitute) 2) introduced new Leftist values to replace the morals taught by their family and 3) a new life’s purpose as an activist working for advancement of these new Leftist values.

Marxist activists on the UVA campus undoubtedly recognized the “cognitive opening” with respect to Ana Montes. Soon, for this confused young woman, the Marxists on campus 1) offered a new support network. (family substitute) 2) introduced new Leftist values to replace the morals taught by her family and 3) a new life’s purpose as an activist working for the advancement of these new Leftist values. It was likely just that simple.

Ana was an articulate and unquestionably bright young women who could have been a tremendous asset to our country and society. Unfortunately, she chose a darker path. During Ana’s student years, the United States was fighting a proxy war in Latin America against Soviet sponsored terrorism, subversion and guerrilla revolution. Although nobody had voted for the Communist, they were attempting, with the assistance of their Soviet masters, to seize through the barrel of a rifle, that which they could never have hoped to achieve through the ballot box. Pretty straight forward, right? The Communist are the bad guys here, as usual- right? Apparently not so, for young Ana and her friends. She chose sides with enemies of free people everywhere when she threw her hat into the ring for the Communists.

Ana, a fluent Spanish language speaker, began joining various Leftist and Pro-Communist groups on her campus that were taking the Communist’s side concerning out adversarial relationship with Castro’s Cuba as well as in the fight against Communism within Central and South America. Large College campuses were hotbeds of activity for this type of Marxist student activism in the 1970s when Ana was a student. UVA was a center, if not a safe space for Marxist student activists. UVA Professor Kendall Myers was an active spy for the Communist Cuban government. He was charged and convicted in 2009 and the court meted out a life sentence. As for Ana Montes, she graduated UVA in 1979 and went to work for the CIA. Background check anyone? However, she maintained contact with her Leftist connections from UVA. She would eventually earn a graduate degree from Johns Hopkins University. Quite impressive!

In addition to Professor Myers, there was also a UVA graduate student named Marta Velazquez, who was a payrolled Cuban agent. Ms. Valazquez’s job was to recruit young campus Leftists to spy for the Cuban cause. The following is an excerpt from the New York Daily News article about Montes dated December 29, 2022:

“Vazquez zeroed in on Montes, who had made no secret of her government job or her disgust with American foreign policy.

At a restaurant in Washington, (Velazquez) made a soft pitch,” Popkin writes. ‘Ana, I have friends who can help you assist the desperate Nicaraguan people…. They need someone to translate Spanish-language news articles.”

Velazquez suggested a trip to New York, so Montes could meet her friends, who were Cuban intelligence officers.

On Dec. 16, 1984, Montes agreed to betray her country.”

On December 16, 1984, had Montez instead declined to betray her country and simply have walked away, we might know her today as a dedicated and prominent government official. We’ll never know for sure. By all accounts, she certainly seemed to possess the innate intelligence and competence to serve at the highest echelons of the federal government. Unfortunately, after she sold her soul to the devil on that December day in 1984, she would spiral uncontrollably downward into a black, bottomless pit of treasonous espionage on behalf of America’s Communist enemies.

Naturally, throughout the course of her service to Cuba as a spy, she was paid many millions of dollars by Castro’s government- right? Actually no, she did it all in the name of what we assume to be her Communist ideology. If not for this reason, then why at all? It is unmistakably clear that she disagreed with U.S. foreign policy with respect to Communism. “Montes accepted no money for passing classified information, except for reimbursements for some expense,” according to the New York Daily News article cited above. She more than likely could have obtained payment given her position at the CIA, but she did not. In the course of her traitorous conduct, how much damage did she really do? Unfortunately, quite a bit.

She unashamedly disclosed the names of US undercover agents working against the Communist government in Cuba. In coded communications with her Communist handlers, she alerted them to the imminent arrival of a Cuban spy working for the United States. Her Cuban Communist handler grimly replied via codes message, “We are waiting here for him with open arms.” That US spy undoubtedly met with a torturous death too horrible to discuss, thanks to Ana. Ana Montes, as a CIA officer, also visited a military base in El Salvador run by United States Special Forces. Shall we say coincidently, weeks later, Communist rebels rendered a pinpoint attacked on that camp, killing 44 US backed Salvadorian soldiers, including United States Army Green Beret Sergeant Gregory A. Fronius. A government inquiry would years later place the blame for Sergeant Fronius’ death directly on Ana Montes. I’d trade several hundred of Ana Montes’ ilk for one Gregory A. Fronius- an easy call. Ana also revealed the existence of a stealth satellite so costly and highly classified that U.S. government officials still won’t utter its name. I think you get the idea. Why go on?

Communism is a brazen cult-like religion that causes its adherents to dedicate their entire lives to the destruction of Communism’s number one enemy: The United States of America. Ana Montes oozed confidence, promise and real brilliance. Why did she throw it all away? You can ask her yourself, should you ever see her where she currently lives in Puerto Rico. That’s right, she was released from prison after doing a little over twenty years, in 2023. This, of little comfort to the family of United States Army Green Beret, Sergeant Gregory A. Fronius. Little comfort to the families of the scores of others who were brutally murdered based on her treason. The story of Ms. Montes is a tragic and depressing story. If you want to dig deeper, there is a comprehensive and excellently written book published about Ms. Montes betrayal of her country which was written by author Jim Popkin and titled, Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America’s Most Dangerous Female Spy—and the Sister She Betrayed. Apparently, it’s a good read.

A Cautionary Tale that is Still Relevant Today: The Hoaxters (1952)

February 16, 2025 By Dan "Danny Boy" White in Uncategorized Tags: 1952, American Communist, American Fifth Column, Barry Sullivan, Communist Gulags, Communist subversion in America, Communists, Dore Schary, George Murphy, Herman Hoffman, How to Identify a Communist, Howard Keel, James Whitmore, Joseph Stalin, Marilyn Erskine, Nazi and Communist similar, Robert Taylor, Ronald Reagan, Sidney Tomack, The Hoaxters (1952), The Hoaxters documentary, The Hoaxters film, Walter Pidgeon Leave a comment

The Hoaxters (1952) is a splendid documentary film from MGM, produced by the legendary writer, director and producer, Dore Schary. It used as narrators, some of the biggest names in Hollywood including, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Taylor, James Whitmore, George Murphy and several more Tinseltown heavyweights.

The studios and leading royalty of Hollywood actors set out the make The Hoaxters (1952) because of the concerns which they and the overwhelming majority of Americans harbored toward the worldwide rise of Communism. The dictatorial ideology that seemed as bad or worse than the Fascists enemies we had recently fought during WWII.

The film opens with the warning, “People who are not governed by God, will be ruled by a tyrant.” The film’s introductory scene depicts a typical mid-century American carnival. The precise territory where an average American carnival goer might encounter the garden variety huckster, hoaxster or snake oil salesman. How fitting for a film about Communism, the greatest bait-and-switch con ever perpetrated upon the human race.

The film accurately points out that there aren’t a lot of differences between Communism and Fascism. The 1952 film also labels U.S. domestic Communists as a subversive fifth column operating inside America. They still are. The problem is that today, most of these disloyal American Communists don’t join the Party or admit that they are Communist because of the overwhelming public scorn for their failed ideology. Yet the film makes the point that for its adherents, Communism is not just a cult-like religion but, a “way of life…an evil and malignant way of life. It is a lie! It is a big lie!”

The film goes on to say that “the deadly peril that faces Democracy today is the deadly parallel that exists between Communism and similar brands of totalitarianism…” This, stated in 1952, is still true today. By far, the greatest threat to American Democracy and its national security is the threat posed by internal Communist subversion within the United States. This threat of today, is far vaster than the threats posed by Islamic terrorist or even external Communism from American adversaries such as China, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela.

The film also provides a poignant comparison between Communism and Nazism with respect to those things, these similar ideologies either discouraged or outlawed. For example, Christianity. Hitler and most leading Nazis were Atheist, just like the leaders within the Soviet Union. Quoting from an official Soviet Communique, “The struggle against the Gospel and Christian legend must be conducted ruthlessly and with all the means at the disposal of Communism.” In Nazi Germany and the USSR and its satellite countries, Christians were persecuted. They are still being persecuted in the Communist world today.

Both totalitarian ideologies disallow free and fair elections, free public discourse and deny the right of citizens to own firearms. Eerily similar are how perceived political opponents were shipped off to concentration camps where in most instances, the internees who were not immediately executed, died later after being worked to death. The Nazis would gas some prisoners and work the rest until they died of starvation, exhaustion or disease. The Soviets and other Communist societies would execute some prisoners by way of a bullet and work the rest until they died of starvation, exhaustion or disease. At the time this film was made in 1952, there were over 14 million political prisoners in these types of camps within the Soviet Union. Most would never leave these internment centers.

The film devotes considerable time to the activities of domestic Communist within the United States. The film aptly identifies these UnAmericans as a “Fifth Column,” seeking the demise of our free society from within and having no less a goal than the violent overthrow of our democratic republic. It’s amazing how little has changed in the past 73 years.

Should Communists and their progressive, liberal kissing cousins ever succeed in outlawing private ownership of firearms, the American public could be defenseless against such a Leftist takeover. Should such a Communist revolution ever happen in the United States, many tens of millions of Americans would be shipped off to camps on a scale that would likely dwarf the Nazis and even the USSR.

This film was and remains a Clarion call to all loyal Americans to guard against the evils of the Liberal/Progressive/Socialist/Communist allied front in our current society. Yet, in a society where Communist actively hide behind less hated labels such as “Progressive,” “Social Democrat,” or even “Liberal,” how do you identify a true Communist believer from a mere fool or misguided individual?

There are no easy ways to identify a Crypto-Communist. However, one method is to, during conversation with a suspected Crypto-Communist, blatantly criticize, either Communism, a Communist Country or a Communist historical figure. If the suspected Communist angrily objects, the chances are, you’re dealing with a true Marxist believer. Another technique is to ask a Communist to name three things he likes about America. If he has difficulty in doing this or answers with a curt “nothing! “then, follow up and ask him to name things he like about a Communist country of your choosing. If he has nothing positive to say about America while singing the praises of Cuba or Venezuela, you have almost certainly identified a Communist.

The cautionary tale of The Hoaxters (1952) is even more valid today than it was in 1952. Everyone should watch this film and remember a concerned American actor’s warning to us back in 1964 when he cautioned, “we’re always just one generation away from losing our freedom here in America.” That concerned actor’s name was Ronald Reagan.

Bella Abzug: A Vile Communist

February 11, 2025 By Dan "Danny Boy" White in Uncategorized Tags: Battling Bella, Bella Abzug, Bella Abzug Barry Farber, Bella Abzug CIA file, Bella Abzug Columbia Law School, Bella Abzug Communist, Bella Abzug Communist Front Group, Bella Abzug family, Bella Abzug FBI file, Bella Abzug feminist, Bella Abzug Manhattan, Bella Abzug Marxist, Bella Abzug New York, Bella Abzug Soviet Union, Bella Abzug USSR, Martin Abzug Leave a comment

The late Bella Abzug was quoted as saying, “There are those who say I’m impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing.” She was all of those things, to be sure. Yet, while these characterizations of Ms. Abzug are undeniably true, she conveniently omits her most damnatory character flaw: That she was a actual Communist, at least according to her fellow Communists and the FBI. Abzug was part of the 1960’s era wave of Jewish feminists which included the likes of Gloria Steinem, Judith Plaskow, and Betty Friedan.

Let’s first authenticate her Communist bonafides. Ms. Abzug had not only a lengthy FBI file approaching 400 pages but a domestic CIA file documenting her subversive actives on behalf of her Communist cause. During the height of the Cold War, Ms. Abzug was adored by our Communist enemies throughout the world. The Links to both her FBI and CIA files can be found below. Her FBI file was the result of hundreds of man hours of surveillance, investigations, interviews and information acquired from confidential informants, including both active and former members of the Communist Party. Here are the highlights or if you will, the lowlights:

She was placed on the FBI security index for subversives who had Communist Party connections and were considered dangerous. Most domestic Communists were spared the dishonor of making this index.
FBI officials labeled her “Either an outright Communist Party member or one who follows the line of the Communist Party very closely.”
Ms. Abzug “paid tribute to attorneys for the Communist Party.”
“Surveillance of Abzug’s home reveals Soviet official contacts with Abzug and arrangements were made to meet a USSR delegation to the United Nations.” In short, she had meetings with our foreign adversaries on US soil. Further, Communist officials don’t pay mere social visits to their American sympathizers.
Abzug was “interested in travel to Soviet Union.”
Abzug was “described by reliable confidential informants as ‘out-and-out’ Communist.’”
Abzug was referenced in a letter to the FBI which describes Abzug “as a member of numerous Communist Front organizations and whose congressional campaign is a top priority in communist and Soviet diplomatic circles.” Abzug was always eager to help her fellow enemies of America whether they were foreign or domestic.

Still have doubts? Read it for yourself. Links to both her lengthly FBI file and the sanatized CIA file summary are linked below:

Abzug FBI File

Abzug CIA File Summary

Ms Abzug was born Bella Savitzky on July 24, 1920 in The Bronx, New York. Her father was a butcher by trade who operated a small neighborhood delicatessen. Bella’s parents had immigrated to the United States in 1902, after fleeing the brutal antisemitic pogroms loosed on Jews living within Russia at the time. Nobody seems to recall precisely when young Miss Bella Savitzky (Abzug) became so enamored with Communism. She attended an Orthodox Jewish Temple with her family- typically not a spawning ground for Communists. It’s reported that she was captivated by the Russian Bolshevik revolution.

What is known, is that in the closing days before start WWII, when Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact., known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 19-year-old Bella Savitzky (Abzug) become an outspoken advocate for the United States not involving itself in the war that would follow scarcely a week later, when the Communist USSR and Nazi Germany would invade Poland and divide that democratic nation up between themselves as spoils of war. While the rest of the free world looked on in horror, a teenaged Miss Savitzky (Abzug) frantically wrote Senators, Congressmen and spoke to anyone who would listen about how “wrong” it would be for the US to involve itself in “another European war.

The future Ms. Abzug continued her relentless championing of the Party line for nearly two years after the German-Russo invasion of Poland. When asked how she could support the invasion and subjugation of a democratic nation, Miss Savitzky (Abzug) intoned with a straight face, “The people of Poland were liberated by the USSR. Life is much better for them now under Communism.” Some pressed the young Communist on the half million Polish civilians branded as “socially dangerous” and as “anti-Soviet elements” who were forcibly removed from their homes and deported in cattle cars to labor camps in Siberia and Kazakhstan. Miss Savitzky (Abzug) responded with the formulaic, Party approved answer, “These are nothing more than reactionary lies!” Except, they weren’t.

Yet, her tenacious antiwar polemics changed faster than you can say Trotsky, on June 22, 1941 when Germany tossed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact aside and invaded the Communist Soviet Union. Prior to this, she had defended the Germans for their invasions of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway and even Czechoslovakia. She had previously and shamelessly brushed aside others questions about Hitler’s treatment of her fellow Jewish people in German occupied territories. Suddenly, as if on a dime, she changed her position from “the Germans are our allies,” to “Germany must be wiped from the map and this country (the United States) has a moral obligation to intervene.” In short, young Bella was happy to be a party shill for Nazi Germany up until the point when Hitler attacked her beloved Soviet Union.

Miss Savitzky (Abzug) then a student at New York’s Hunter College, later obtained a place at the Columbia University School of Law. Some have suggested she gained admission to the Ivy League law school with the help of her Communist Party colleagues. In those days, Columbia was known as a hotbed of so called “Marxist intellectualism.” Did I say “was? Bright Communist youth had an inside track to admissions at certain Ivies because of the Party network of faculty and administrators at many of these colleges who actively “assisted” with the admissions for select numbers of young and promising Party members. Still, this seems somewhat speculative as it is undeniable that. Ms. Abzug would have been a strong candidate for admission to Columbia Law given her high intellect and superior undergraduate record.

However, while a student Columbia Law, a Communist faculty member advised her to remove her name from the Communist Party membership rolls. Whether she was a member of the Communist Youth wing or the actual Communist Party of New York is unclear. Nevertheless, she was advised that her Party membership could possibly raise problems with her being admitted to the New York State Bar after graduation. She took the friendly advice but, did not end her involvement in Communist activities.

Later, after she became a licensed lawyer, she would spend the ensuing decades working for and collaborating with virtually every Communist front group in New York City. Yet alas, we are getting ahead of the story here. While still a law student, Bella volunteered for various public interest law firms and causes. She dreamed of a future as a crusading public interest lawyer, fighting for justice on behalf of the people and against their oppressors! However, she soon discovered that public interest law didn’t pay particularly well. In fact, the pay was quite lousy. This presented a bit of a conundrum for young Bella. Her family had no money to speak of, and she needed to be able to support herself after all! In the parlance of Jeff Lebowski, “…she wants more, man, she’s gotta feed the monkey, I mean–uh, hasn’t that ever occurred to you man? Sir?”

Yes, Bella’s lack of financial resources was an obstacle to her future plans. So, while still a law student, Bella set out to find herself a man or at least some have suggested as much. We’ll never know for sure but as a law student, she just happened to meet a nice you man who was from an affluent family and who didn’t share her radical political views. He was also shall we politely say, rather obsequious toward her- put a check mark in that final box! Maybe it was genuine love at first sight. We’ll never know. Yet it’s unmistakably clear that she chose a husband who openly disagreed with her politics. This is unheard of with Communists. Even mere liberals seldom marry outside their beliefs! Hence, it seems as though the great feminist of the 20th Century chose a groom with the financial resources to support her through her Communist activism. How convenient. This, from the woman who would years later crow, “all the men on my staff know how to type,” So much for, “no woman should have to depend upon a man.”

She found her man and may God have helped him. Bella’s beau was one Martin Abzug. He was by all accounts a great provider for his family and more. Here’s what we do know about Mr Abzug. First, he was a kind, decent and honorable man- a good husband and father. Second, he was not a Communist and in fact he told reporters that that he often disagreed with many of his wife’s political views. Third, he focused on his work and family and avoided the spotlight. In a July 20, 1986 Los Angeles Times article pertaining to Mr. Abzug’s marital challenges he stated , “I didn’t want to be dominated.”

Mr Abzug was an accomplished writer and novelist. He also enjoyed a successful career as a Wall Street stock broker. He came from an affluent Jewish family who operated an established and respected business in the Manhattan Garment industry. Mr Abzug died tragically from a heart attack in 1986.

If Mr. Abzug avoided the spotlight, just the opposite could be said of his wife. The joke in Washington was that the most perilous place to be in town was to be standing between Bella Abzug and a television camera. Bella Abzug was the quintessential “old Battle-axe with about as many ladylike qualities in her as one could expect to find in man like Lee Marvin. “Battling Bella,” as her Leftists admirers called her, was a profane, loud mouthed, gravely voiced, Communist who noisily flaunted her hairy, butch persona.

She had an unladylike appearance and bore an uncanny resemblance to what the late Ed Asner might have looked like in drag. She exhibited all the social graces one might witness at a chapter meeting of their local Hell’s Angels. The Los Angeles Times rather tactfully described Ms. Abzug’s, “propensity for language heard more on the street than in the hallowed halls of Congress.“

Having successfully made a name for herself as a leader in the so called “feminist movement” and as an anti-Vietnam war activist, Ms. Abzug in 1970, figured her time had arrived when she brazenly announced a primary challenge to the liberal, 14-year incumbent Democrat Leonard Farbstein, for a congressional district on Manhattan’s West Side. She defeated Farbstein in that 1970 primary- a shocking upset. Abzug would face the mild mannered Republican talk show host Barry Farber, in the general election.

After her unforeseen primary victory her Republican opponent Mr. Farber, sent the bellicose Ms. Abzug a dozen red roses and a politely worded invitation for a debate to discuss the issues. According to a New York Times article from August 25, 1970:

“The roses did not produce the usual appreciative response. Instead, an angry Mrs. Abzug, who was not at her Sheridan Square headquarters when Mr. Farber called, later charged her opponent with “cheap gimmickry.” She asserted that Mr. Fraber “should come out from behind his mike and roses.” According to a New York Times report on August 25, 1970. Link to the story below:

New York Times 082570

Although Farber was too gentlemanly to raise Abzug’s Communist past in the 1970 congressional campaign, others did. Their valid concerns and detailed evidence of Bella’s Red double-life were predictably and unashamedly, ignored by the progressive Manhattan press. In the world of liberal media dishonesty, this is what’s known as “bias by omission.”

Ms. Abzug defeated her Republican opponent Barry Farber, in a much closer general election than one usually would expect from the West Side of Manhattan. Many Democrats considered Ms. Abzug a bit too extreme for their liking and voted for her Republican rival. Ms. Abzug would serve a total of three uneventful terms in the US House until she made a long shot bid for United States Senate in 1976. She was easily dispatched in the Democratic Primary by Daniel Patrick Moynihan who went on to win the general election as well. Unfortunately for her, Ms. Abzug’s loud mouthed Lefty brand didn’t sell well outside of Manhattan. After her defeat, she fell off the political rader and into obscurity.

Ms. Abzug was a vile unAmerican Communist who as far as anyone can recall, routinely refused to stand for National Anthem and spurned reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. She hated our country, its freedoms and everything else for which it stands. Given her druthers, she would have all too happily replaced our democratic republic with a communistic, Soviet style police state, replete with reeducation gulags, work camps and Berianesque kill lists. More alarming, is that her legions of unabashed admirers from the political fringe who enjoy chanting, “This is what democracy looks like…,” are aware of all this and nevertheless consider her Marxist dogma to be virtuous. Although, it’s somewhat comforting to know that there’s still at least one Jewish person apart from Karl Marx, for whom the Left is willing to place their anti-semitism in abeyance.

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Jack Webb: Hollywood Actor, Director, Producer and Patriot

February 9, 2025 By Dan "Danny Boy" White in Uncategorized Tags: dragnet, dragnet-hippes, dragnet-lecture, dragnet-radio-show, dragnet-tv-series, jack-webb, jack-webb-career, jack-webb-communism, jack-webb-conservative, jack-webb-lapd, lapd, red-nightmare-1962, red-nightmare-movie, sergeant-friday, the-d-i-1957 Leave a comment

Jack Webb was more than merely a successful Hollywood actor, director and producer. He was an American patriot. His work was entertaining while showing us what it meant to be an American and the values that we should all strive to live by and protect.

Born in Santa Monica, California, on April 2, 1920, the son of Samuel Chester Webb and Margaret (née Smith) Webb. He grew up in the Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles. As a child, Webb worshiped at Our Lady of Loretto Catholic Church and attended Our Lady of Loretto Elementary School where he served as an altar boy. Webb would remain a devout Catholic for the rest of his life. He then attended Belmont High School near downtown Los Angeles, where he was elected student body president.

Webb served in the Army Air Corps and after his discharge, took a job as a radio announcer. This led to a long career in radio, television and motion pictures. Webb loved his country and never missed the opportunity incorporate patriotism into his shows. In the late 1940s, before televisions were widely in use, Jack started a popular radio program titled Dragnet. Rather than fabricate police noir stories, Webb then took the then novel approach of using real police cases directly from the LAPD files and making radio dramas out of them.

Dragnet became a nationally syndicated program which portrayed the day-to-day work of the LAPD in their war against crime. It was a wildly popular show. Mr. Webb would develop a decades long relationship with the dedicated officers of the Los Angeles Police Department. Dragnet showed the American people the long, thankless hours law enforcement spent tracking down criminals and protecting we the citizenry. The American publican began to develop a newfound level of respect for the police. Dragnet later would become a popular TV series starring Webb. Each week, the show would dramatize real cases handled by the LAPD and at the end, show the outcome of those cases including when the criminal was convicted, and the sentence meted out. Some of the Dragnet shows showed police addressing the subversive Communist elements in our society as well as their kissing cousins, the hippies. Dragnet is still broadcast today on the ME-TV cable channel and other networks- a testament to its enduring appeal.

While making Dragnet in the 1950s, Mr. Webb was cast to star in the popular motion picture, The D.I. (1957) playing the lead role of Gunnery Sgt. Jim Moore. The movie explained the training that went into making members of America’s toughest service branch, the United States Marine Corps. Training and dialogue were portrayed in a very realistic manner, The film showed the US Marine Corps for what it is, an exclusive organization where one must earn all that they receive including the very title of “US Marine.” The film is still revered to this day by Marines everywhere and over the years, more than one young man after watching the film, has chosen to test himself by seeing if he has what it takes to become a of the few and the proud.

In the realm of motion pictures, Webb had an impressive career which included a role in the American Classic movie, Sunset Boulevard (1950). Perhaps, Webb’s magnum opus was the film Red Nightmare (1962). The film was praised and supported by the Kennedy administration and by the President’s brother, US Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy. The film presented a nightmarish no-holds-barred look at what life might be like in the United States if the Left had their way.

This disturbing film set during the Cold War, has many striking parallels to the politically correct, DEI, cancel culture of today. The Communist message is clear, “In America you have too many freedoms. One day it will be our mission to destroy those bourgeois capitalist freedoms.” This, just as the Nouveau Left of today advocate for.

In the film, we are shown a traditional Midwestern small town which has been transformed into a hellish landscape of barbed wire fences with Communist guards securing the exit points and Marxist imagery. The once clean and vibrant small town has been transformed into a lifeless, frightening wasteland of scattered debris and near empty streets similar to communities in the Communist world. Webb appears on screen and begins his narration:

“From the looks of it, it could be Iowa, California, Tennessee. You might call this a college town, Communist style, as part of a long-range plan to destroy our free way of life.”

The film shows those typically strange people among us whom we often tend to ignore: the weird people, the eccentrics, the vocal liberals and other oddballs. Yet some of these cranks in the film had an ideologic agenda and are now among the town’s Communist overseers.

They turn the schools into Leftist indoctrination centers (sound familiar?) and one of the characters has a daughter who comes home from school and proclaims:

“It’s true, Daddy. The party convinced me that I should free myself of the lingering bourgeois influence of family life.”

This film, made over 60 years ago, presents characters whose rhetoric has an uncanny resemblance to the types of things we might hear today from Balack Lives Matter activists or other contemporary Leftist groups. I would encourage anyone who values their liberty to watch it.

Webb was a champion for police officers everywhere and a tireless fighter for the preservation of Constitutionally guaranteed American freedoms. He left a legacy of great works that people are still enjoying to this day. Our society owes Jack Webb and those like him, a debt of gratitude.