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   From: Dev@null.net   
      
   On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:22:16 +0000 (UTC), "First-Post"   
    wrote:   
      
   >David Joel Horowitz (born January 10, 1939 in Forest Hills,   
   >N.Y.) runs the David Horowitz Freedom Center, formerly named   
   >the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, and the online   
   >magazine FrontPageMag.com. He is listed as one of America's   
   >most dangerous hatemongers.[1]   
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   >Background   
   >   
   >Horowitz is the son of two Jewish-American Communist Party   
   >members, causing him to start out radical, but he began to veer   
   >to the right later in life. He was educated at Columbia   
   >University and the University of California at   
   >Berkeley.[citation needed]   
   >   
   >Horowitz was an activist in the New Left movement in the 1960s   
   >and claims to have been "a lifelong civil rights activist".   
   >From 1969 to 1975 he was editor of an anti-Vietnam war magazine   
   >Ramparts. However, currently, Horowitz is known to side with   
   >corporate interests and conservative ideals, and is best   
   >described as a neo-con. He is now a "lapsed leftist" [1]. In   
   >the 1990s, Horowitz hosted several Second Thinkers conferences   
   >where ex-leftists who recanted or underwent epiphanies could   
   >network with fellow travelers. Several of these second thinkers   
   >are now neo-cons. Christopher Hitchens was a regular   
   >participant at these conferences, and today co-organizes events   
   >with Horowitz, e.g., tour of the UK where he features as a   
   >speaker [2].   
   >   
   >David Horowitz was a speaker at the 2003 Conservative Political   
   >Action Conference, which reads as a who's-who of the   
   >conservative and neo-conservative movement.   
   >   
   >Horowitz also created a now-defunct nonprofit campaign finance   
   >527 advocacy organization known as PoliticalWar.com Inc. prior   
   >to the 2002 election cycle.   
   >   
   >He is currently pushing to "expose" the The Leftist Campaign to   
   >Control America's Young Minds and is promoting a nationwide   
   >boycott of "old" Europe goods as a protest against French,   
   >German and Belgian opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq. Horowitz   
   >also publishes a regular column in Salon.com, and is a regular   
   >pundit on right-wing shows.   
   >   
   >In his Marxist days, Horowitz authored several books including   
   >Free World Colossus, Corporations and the Cold War, Empire and   
   >Revolution, Marx and Modern Economics, Shakespeare: An   
   >Existential View and The Fate of Midas, which he has   
   >subsequently repudiated. He has subsequently collaborated with   
   >Peter Collier on several biographies of famous American   
   >families, including The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty, The   
   >Kennedys: An American Drama, and The Fords: An American Epic.   
   >His recent books include Radical Son (an autobiography), Hating   
   >Whitey and Other Progressive Causes, Why I'm Not a Liberal, The   
   >Feminist Assault on the Military, Noam Chomsky's Jihad Against   
   >America, Liberal Racism, and How the Left Undermined America's   
   >Security.   
   >   
   >In a December 10, 2004 article for FrontPage magazine, Horowitz   
   >branded SourceWatch a 'smear site'. He included other sites   
   >such as Media Matters for America, NameBase, and Southern   
   >Poverty Law Center in the accusation. [3]   
   >   
   >Horowitz's latest project is Students for Academic Freedom   
   >which is trying to make college campuses more conservative. He   
   >speaks around the country about "leftist control" of hiring   
   >committees and promotes his own Academic Bill of Rights as part   
   >of the solution. He has also suggested starting departments of   
   >"Conservative Studies", thus allowing students to choose which   
   >point of view they'd like to get. Criticism from the left   
   >   
   >Fred Gardner, a contemporary of Horowitz's during his Ramparts   
   >days, described his political transition from the left to the   
   >right in 1991:   
   >   
   >    The phone rings and a guy in my office says, "It's David   
   >    Horowitz." I haven't spoken to David Horowitz since the end   
   >    of the '60s, when we both worked at Ramparts. Since then,   
   >    with another former Ramparts editor, Peter Collier, this   
   >    little creep has written a series of best-selling portraits   
   >    of ruling class families--The Rockefellers, The Fords, The   
   >    Kennedys--and boasted in print about voting for Ronald   
   >    Reagan. Horowitz and Collier say they once believed   
   >    fervently in left causes and institutions (from the Soviet   
   >    Union to the Black Panther Party), and when they discovered   
   >    these institutions to be corrupt and murderous they had to   
   >    denounce them and come out for the other side.   
   >   
   >    There are many flaws in this "logic." For openers, there   
   >    aren't just two sides in this world (the fake left and the   
   >    cruel right). And sure it's demoralizing to learn that the   
   >    party that supposedly stands for equality is run by   
   >    opportunists and actually stands for privilege. But that   
   >    wouldn't lead a real radical to endorse the all-out pursuit   
   >    of privilege. It should lead you to call for a movement   
   >    that's serious about establishing equality. Horowitz and   
   >    Collier were never radicals for a minute. Their goal was   
   >    and is personal success. It's no coincidence that they were   
   >    "left" in the '60s and "right" in the '80s. [2]   
   >   
   >See Robert Jensen, "Dangerous" Academics: Right-wing   
   >Distortions About Leftist Professors, CommonDreams.org,   
   >February 7, 2006; Free Exchange on Campus (in particular, see   
   >their report "Facts Count: An Analysis of David Horowitz's The   
   >Professors", May 2006). Slavery "Debate"   
   >   
   >David Horowitz’ book Uncivil Wars: The Controversy Over   
   >Reparations for Slavery (Encounter Books, 2002) caused a stir   
   >when it was first published. The contetns of this book were   
   >thoroughly rebutted in 2008 by Paul Anthony Dottin, in his   
   >article "The Hydra of Horowitzian History: The Mobilization of   
   >Scholarship against Black Reparations," Du Bois Review, 5:1   
   >(2008) 161–198. Horowitz Confessed to Treason   
   >   
   >Horowitz has openly admitted he committed treason against the   
   >United States. He confessed in an article written by him and   
   >published in his own online zine, FrontPage, on October 3,   
   >2000. In the article, titled "The Wen Ho Lee Cover-Up",   
   >Horowitz claimed that Wen Ho Lee was guilty of espionage, but   
   >the government decined to press charges because of the damage   
   >it would do to the inteligence services and William Clinton's   
   >presidential legacy. As anecdotal evidence to back-up this   
   >claim, he describes his own premeditated actions that violated   
   >the U.S. Espionage code in 1972, for which was never   
   >prosecuted.   
   >   
   >Ramparts, a magazine he was editor of, had acquired classified   
   >intelligence information from a former NSA operative and had   
   >published it, eventhough one of their own staffers, who had   
   >formerly served in Army Intelligence, had judged the   
   >information to be truthful, and refused to work on the story,   
   >and Horowitz knew this prior to the publication of the Ramparts   
   >story. Horowitz also sought the advice of a prominent   
   >Constitutional scholar before publishing it, who had explained   
      
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