{"id":2347,"date":"2009-11-27T13:12:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T18:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2009-11-28T04:45:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T09:45:33","slug":"another-obscure-community-organizer-bursts-onto-the-world-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2347\/another-obscure-community-organizer-bursts-onto-the-world-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Obscure Community Organizer Bursts Onto The World Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

In what may be a lesson for budding progressive politicians, the career paths of President Barack Obama and the new European Union foreign minister offer insight into how to position oneself for stardom while ascending in darkness.\u00a0 It turns out that like Obama, Lady Catherine Ashton has a dodgy past full of close ties to political radicals on the Left.\u00a0 As a paid organizer for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), then Ms. Ashton rubbed shoulders with a group that Russian Communist leaders found helpful during the Cold War<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet the fact remains that the Kremlin found CND and other \u201cpeace movements\u201d useful ways of undermining the unity of NATO, weakening the West\u2019s defence posture and stoking anti-Americanism. The ex-dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, an expert in Soviet penetration of the West, says: \u201cthe worldwide disarmament campaign in the early 1980s was covertly orchestrated from Moscow. To a substantial extent it was also funded by the Soviet bloc\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like Obama\u2019s well-documented connection to ACORN<\/a>, though, the row over Lady Ashton\u2019s past affiliation with folks proclaiming \u201cbetter red than dead\u201d probably won\u2019t be enough to force her resignation as the embodiment of European foreign policy.\u00a0 Who knows; maybe she\u2019ll be able to broker a deal with a resurgent Russia to help combat the rise of an Islamic Republic inside the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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