Tax Money Working Against You and America (501c3 Charities)

Today’s featured Scum Bags,
National Lawyers Guild (NLG)

The National Lawyers Guild was founded in 1937 by Communist Party USA attorneys and liberal fellow-travelers.

In a 1950 report titled “Report on the National Lawyers Guild: Legal Bulwark of the Communist Party,” the House Committee on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) declared: “[I]ts actual purpose [is to serve] as an appendage to the Communist Party…”  The report accused the Guild of attacking the FBI as “part of an overall Communist strategy aimed at weakening our nation’s defenses against the international Communist conspiracy.”

The Guild defended rioters and others involved in civil unrest during the 1960s. It “helped” the US war effort in Vietnam by encouraging young men to become draft evaders and then defending them. NLG lawyers were active in defending those arrested during the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention riots and members of the Black Panther Party. Guild President Victor Rabinowitz (1967-1970) — a Communist who represented Fidel Castro’s Cuban dictatorship — openly advocated a Marxist future.

Prominent Guild member Arthur Kinoy argued that the proper role of the radical lawyer was to facilitate the coming anti-capitalist revolution by weakening the law’s ability to function effectively against law-breaking radicals. Future Guild President Paul Harris quoted Lenin in arguing that a successful revolution required a “legal struggle” that coincided alongside illegal, militant revolutionary activity.

The NLG promoted Marxist “liberation” movements in the 1970s, including the Palestine Liberation Organization; the Viet Cong; the African National Congress; pro-Soviet Angolan and Mozambican factions; the Puerto Rican FALN;. The Guild also launched an effort to end the US embargo on communist Cuba, a longtime friend of the organization.

In the 1980s the NLG supported the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the FMLN in El Salvador. It embraced the church-based Sanctuary movement and “began working systematically on immigration issues,” spurred by what it called “the need to represent Central American refugees and asylum activists fleeing US-sponsored ‘terror.’” The Guild also supported the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s.

After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the NLG “mobilized opposition” to Gulf War I. It similarly opposed the second war in Iraq as an “illegal preemptive” invasion of a sovereign state, exhorting Americans to engage in acts of “civil disobedience” to register their outrage.

The NLG today is an active affiliate of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, which in 1978 the CIA described as “one of the most useful Communist front organizations at the service of the Soviet Communist Party…”  In 2003 the NLG initiated its Korean Peace Project (KPP), which dispatched a delegation to develop “personal and professional relationships” with leaders in North Korea.

In July 2006, the NLG’s Middle East Subcommittee issued a condemnation of “Israel’s crimes against humanity and brutal aggression against Palestine and Lebanon.”

As we have noted, along with Code Pink the Guild runs anti-military-recruitment campaigns in US schools.

The NLG’s National Immigration Project seeks “to recognize the contributions of immigrants in this country, to promote fair immigration practices, and to expand the civil and human rights of all immigrants, regardless of their status in the United States.” In short, it advocates amnesty for all illegals currently residing in the US, and unchecked immigration across open borders.

In recent decades, the NLG has stood at the forefront of efforts to weaken America’s intelligence-gathering agencies. By pushing such legislation as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, the NLG helped limit US law-enforcement and counter-intelligence capabilities.

Post-9/11, the NLG launched a national campaign to repeal the Patriot Act — arguing that the Act’s provisions trample on the civil liberties of Americans. The NLG similarly opposes the Domestic Security Enhancement Act and the use of military tribunals for captured combatants in the War on Terror.

Following 9/11, the NLG released flyers, posters, and CDs entitled “Know Your Rights,” which provided legal advice — translated into several Middle Eastern languages — for immigrants contacted by the US government during its anti-terrorism initiatives. These materials advised immigrants to refuse to talk to investigators — because “[t]he FBI is not just trying to find terrorists, but is gathering information on immigrants and activists who have done nothing wrong.”

In recent years, the NLG has defended a number of notorious individuals and organizations:

* On February 17, 2005, the Guild called for a “national day of outrage” to protest the prosecution and conviction of NLG member Lynne Stewart, the self-proclaimed “radical attorney” who had illegally facilitated communication between her incarcerated client Omar Abdel Rahman and his Egypt-based terrorist organization, the Islamic Group.
* The NLG aggressively defended Sami Al-Arian, who for several years was the North American head of the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (Former NLG Executive Vice President Kit Gage replaced Al-Arian as President of the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom after al-Arian’s February 2003 arrest on a number of terrorism charges.)
* The Guild supports cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal (naming him as one of its National Vice Presidents); Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson; and Leonard Peltier, an American Indian Movement activist who was convicted of murdering two FBI agents.

A member organization of the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition, the NLG co-sponsored large-scale anti-war rallies in Washington, DC on October 26, 2002 and April 12, 2003. The Guild partially controls the Los Angeles chapter of the Workers World Party front group, International ANSWER. Additionally, the Guild co-founded the anti-war organization Not in Our Name; other co-founders included the Revolutionary Communist Party, the All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party, Refuse and Resist!, and the International League of Peoples’ Struggle.

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This is the sixth installment of a multi part series.  Most, if not all of which is attributed to tireless research by Steve Gilbert who writes at Sweetness-Light.com

This is our tax money being used AGAINST us!  THIS CRIMINALITY & TERRORISM MUST END!