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Surprise! Sandinista Stooge Jim Wallis Endorses Socialist ObamaCare Bill

Posted on | March 13, 2010 | 29 Comments

Being a student of Cold War history comes in handy when you see a misleading headline like this:

Pro-life group urges Congress
to pass Senate health care bill

“Pro-life group,” my butt. Go down the list of names on that petition, do a little research and you discover that these are all advocates of “social justice,” including notorious anti-American “liberation theology” types like Jim Wallis of Sojourners:

Writing in the November 1983 issue of Sojourners, ministry leaders Jim Wallis and Jim Rice drafted what would become the charter of leftist activists committed to the proliferation of Communist revolutions in Central America. Titled “Promise of Resistance,” this document called on activists to carry out various acts of civil disobedience in order to obstruct any attempt by the United States to invade Nicaragua. CISPES, the propaganda arm of El Salvador’s Marxist guerrilla movement, was invited by Sojourners to participate in acts of resistance in the event of American military intervention. Nearly 70,000 activists signed the document, which was sent to Congress, President Reagan, the Defense Department, and the CIA.
Steadfast advocates of the nuclear freeze movement, Sojourners members maintained that a U.S. nuclear buildup was “an intolerable evil” irreconcilably at odds with Christian teaching, and that “[t]he Reagan Administration remains the chief obstacle to the first step in stopping the arms race.” While assailing the Reagan administration’s defense buildup, Sojourners activists downplayed the threat posed by the Soviet Union, chastising U.S. policy-makers for their tendency “to assume the very worst about their Soviet counterparts.”

If you don’t know that the “nuclear freeze” movement in the West was an anti-American propaganda campaign actively supported by the Soviets — see this 2001 Accuracy in Media report for background — you may not understand the profound significance of that single data point. But you can still probably understand the significance of this:

Sojourners is a member organization of the Win Without War and United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalitions. It condemns the Guantanamo Bay detention center, where several hundred terrorist suspects are being held by the U.S. government. Said the Sojourners website on June 10, 2005:
“Guantanamo Bay has become not only a symbol of the U.S. government’s hypocrisy and dishonesty — or ‘disassembling,’ as President Bush might put it — around the war on terror. The prison camp has become one of the more egregious examples of the cost of unaccountable power. Human rights groups have long documented the abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, including desecration of the Quran. … The 540 prisoners at the facility have been held incommunicado, denied access to legal counsel, and, in fact, denied the most basic aspects of legal process. … Guantanamo should be closed. But simply closing the facility — and either moving the detainees to another location or returning them to their country of origin — is not enough. If the United States is to regain any credibility as an advocate of human rights around the world, it must begin to practice what it preaches in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Guantanamo, and everywhere else. The erosion of respect for human rights by U.S. personnel didn’t begin at Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay, and the responsibility for it goes all the way to the top.”

Sojourners also gets funding from George Soros’ “Open Society” foundation. Sojourners and Wallis were pro-Soviet during the Cold War. They are pro-Obama now. 

Their anti-American, anti-capitalist agenda remains the same.

UPDATE: Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit has more background on the signatories.

UPDATE II: Left Coast Rebel links with more.

UPDATE III: Dad29 points to the heterodox tendencies of another signatory, Marquette University professor Bryan Massingale.

Exit question: What’s up with the editors of the National Catholic Reporter publishing propaganda for these clowns? I’m not Catholic, so I don’t particularly care what the answer is, but it seems like a question worth asking.

Category: Barack Obama, Health Care, Religion

Comments

29 Responses to “Surprise! Sandinista Stooge Jim Wallis Endorses Socialist ObamaCare Bill”

  1. Thrasymachus
    March 13th, 2010 @ 7:43 pm

    That’s why I love Roberto D’Aubuisson. He knew what to do with these people.

  2. Thrasymachus
    March 13th, 2010 @ 2:43 pm

    That’s why I love Roberto D’Aubuisson. He knew what to do with these people.

  3. Patrick
    March 13th, 2010 @ 7:46 pm

    “Pro-life group,” my butt.

    Your Butt is pro-life? 😯

  4. Patrick
    March 13th, 2010 @ 2:46 pm

    “Pro-life group,” my butt.

    Your Butt is pro-life? 😯

  5. keyboard jockey
    March 13th, 2010 @ 7:50 pm

    This Graphic Michelle Malkin has up on her blog should go viral.

    http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/13/constitution-butchers-stop-pelosis-slaughter-house/

  6. keyboard jockey
    March 13th, 2010 @ 2:50 pm

    This Graphic Michelle Malkin has up on her blog should go viral.

    http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/13/constitution-butchers-stop-pelosis-slaughter-house/

  7. Gateway Pundit
    March 13th, 2010 @ 3:35 pm

    […] Stacy McCain discovered that the group includes a commie-supporting Sandinista stooge Jim Wallis as a signator. […]

  8. George Stone
    March 13th, 2010 @ 8:46 pm

    So, we have a letter signed by 25 prominent religious leaders, who describe themselves as “pro-life”. You single out ONE of the 25, don’t even contest his pro-life cred, but instead bash him for other positions he has taken.

    OK, Robert Stacy, lets give this another try, shall we. Could we see some analysis of the substantive points made in the letter? Do you agree that, whatever you may think of the bill on other grounds, it really does not risk expanding the scope and frequency of abortions? If you do not agree, I would very much appreciate some serious discussion of why you don’t agree, instead of gratuitous ad hominem attacks on a single signatory out of 25.

    You are a smart guy, you can do this.

  9. George Stone
    March 13th, 2010 @ 3:46 pm

    So, we have a letter signed by 25 prominent religious leaders, who describe themselves as “pro-life”. You single out ONE of the 25, don’t even contest his pro-life cred, but instead bash him for other positions he has taken.

    OK, Robert Stacy, lets give this another try, shall we. Could we see some analysis of the substantive points made in the letter? Do you agree that, whatever you may think of the bill on other grounds, it really does not risk expanding the scope and frequency of abortions? If you do not agree, I would very much appreciate some serious discussion of why you don’t agree, instead of gratuitous ad hominem attacks on a single signatory out of 25.

    You are a smart guy, you can do this.

  10. DaMav
    March 13th, 2010 @ 9:35 pm

    Excellent job Robert. Thank you.

  11. DaMav
    March 13th, 2010 @ 4:35 pm

    Excellent job Robert. Thank you.

  12. Mark J. Goluskin
    March 13th, 2010 @ 9:59 pm

    The “Rev.” Wallis is about as pro-life as Planned Parenthood. But he kind sort of reminds me of another so-called reverend. Al Sharpton. These are two ingrates that are now so mainstream that they even appear on Fox News. UGH! When will the American people wake up? In November!

  13. Mark J. Goluskin
    March 13th, 2010 @ 9:59 pm

    The “Rev.” Wallis is about as pro-life as Planned Parenthood. But he kind sort of reminds me of another so-called reverend. Al Sharpton. These are two ingrates that are now so mainstream that they even appear on Fox News. UGH! When will the American people wake up? In November!

  14. Mark J. Goluskin
    March 13th, 2010 @ 4:59 pm

    The “Rev.” Wallis is about as pro-life as Planned Parenthood. But he kind sort of reminds me of another so-called reverend. Al Sharpton. These are two ingrates that are now so mainstream that they even appear on Fox News. UGH! When will the American people wake up? In November!

  15. Live Free Or Die
    March 13th, 2010 @ 10:35 pm

    Richard Cizik, Jim Wallis,…The Left just keeps on trotting out the useful idiots on parade. “And the beat goes on,… and the beat drones on.

  16. Live Free Or Die
    March 13th, 2010 @ 5:35 pm

    Richard Cizik, Jim Wallis,…The Left just keeps on trotting out the useful idiots on parade. “And the beat goes on,… and the beat drones on.

  17. Jeff Weimer
    March 14th, 2010 @ 1:00 am

    George Stone
    March 13th, 2010 @ 03 46

    Well, if he was really pro-life, then he wouldn’t be for this bill. It mandates abortions are paid for by the government plan if no private plan pays. It’s held in check by the Hyde amendment – but that amendment has to be renewed every year. Once it fails, abortions are paid for by you, me, and everyone else, including those who don’t think the right to an abortion means everyone else has to pay for it.

  18. Jeff Weimer
    March 14th, 2010 @ 1:00 am

    George Stone
    March 13th, 2010 @ 03 46

    Well, if he was really pro-life, then he wouldn’t be for this bill. It mandates abortions are paid for by the government plan if no private plan pays. It’s held in check by the Hyde amendment – but that amendment has to be renewed every year. Once it fails, abortions are paid for by you, me, and everyone else, including those who don’t think the right to an abortion means everyone else has to pay for it.

  19. Jeff Weimer
    March 13th, 2010 @ 8:00 pm

    George Stone
    March 13th, 2010 @ 03 46

    Well, if he was really pro-life, then he wouldn’t be for this bill. It mandates abortions are paid for by the government plan if no private plan pays. It’s held in check by the Hyde amendment – but that amendment has to be renewed every year. Once it fails, abortions are paid for by you, me, and everyone else, including those who don’t think the right to an abortion means everyone else has to pay for it.

  20. Joe Marier
    March 14th, 2010 @ 2:02 am

    The National Catholic Reporter is a basically a leftist-dissenter rag with one phenomenal reporter — John Allen. It pretty much dissents in the places you’d expect; contraception, the all-male celibate priesthood, anti-Communism, etc. It’s not by any stretch of the imagination an organ of the Church.

  21. Joe Marier
    March 14th, 2010 @ 2:02 am

    The National Catholic Reporter is a basically a leftist-dissenter rag with one phenomenal reporter — John Allen. It pretty much dissents in the places you’d expect; contraception, the all-male celibate priesthood, anti-Communism, etc. It’s not by any stretch of the imagination an organ of the Church.

  22. Joe Marier
    March 13th, 2010 @ 9:02 pm

    The National Catholic Reporter is a basically a leftist-dissenter rag with one phenomenal reporter — John Allen. It pretty much dissents in the places you’d expect; contraception, the all-male celibate priesthood, anti-Communism, etc. It’s not by any stretch of the imagination an organ of the Church.

  23. Catholics and Fake Catholics Supporting Health Care Bill that Funds Abortion | The Lonely Conservative
    March 13th, 2010 @ 10:19 pm

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  24. What part of “intrinsic evil” don’t you understand? « DaTechguy's Blog
    March 14th, 2010 @ 7:11 am

    […] to answer Stacy McCain, we Catholics are aware of groups like this and of the National Catholic Reporter for some time. […]

  25. dad29
    March 14th, 2010 @ 5:01 pm

    What Marier said.

    IIRC, the publisher of that rag (Tom Fox) is another Milwaukee native.

    We don’t have much to brag about here.

  26. dad29
    March 14th, 2010 @ 5:01 pm

    What Marier said.

    IIRC, the publisher of that rag (Tom Fox) is another Milwaukee native.

    We don’t have much to brag about here.

  27. dad29
    March 14th, 2010 @ 12:01 pm

    What Marier said.

    IIRC, the publisher of that rag (Tom Fox) is another Milwaukee native.

    We don’t have much to brag about here.

  28. dad29
    March 14th, 2010 @ 5:17 pm

    By the way, Mr. Stone, HERE is the NRLC backgrounder on exactly WHY ObamaCare IS ‘the most pro-abortion bill in the history of the US.’

    http://dad29.blogspot.com/2010/03/for-incredulous-yes-obamacare-does.html

    Thankyouverymuch.

  29. dad29
    March 14th, 2010 @ 12:17 pm

    By the way, Mr. Stone, HERE is the NRLC backgrounder on exactly WHY ObamaCare IS ‘the most pro-abortion bill in the history of the US.’

    http://dad29.blogspot.com/2010/03/for-incredulous-yes-obamacare-does.html

    Thankyouverymuch.