Convicted terrorist sits on board of charity handling Black Lives Matter fundraising

Thousand Currents, the California-based charity that manages fundraising operations for the national arm of Black Lives Matter, includes on its board a convicted terrorist whose sentence was commuted by former President Bill Clinton on his last day in office.

Susan Rosenberg was identified as the vice chair of the Thousand Currents board of directors on the charity’s website until Wednesday when the page was taken down after the conservative think tank Capital Research Center detailed her involvement with a communist terrorist group that had carried out bombings in New York and Washington, D.C., in the early 1980s.

Rosenberg’s involvement with the May 19 Communist Organization, which carried out its bombing campaign to create a contrast to former President Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America” campaign promise, earned her a spot on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, according to The Washington Examiner. She was arrested in New Jersey in 1984 while unloading 740 pounds of stolen explosives and a sub-machine gun from a truck.

Rosenberg was released from prison in 2001 after having her sentence commuted by Clinton, serving 16 years of her 58-year prison sentence.

U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White lobbied aggressively against Rosenberg’s commutation at the time, noting that she had allegedly been one of the getaway drivers in the 1981 Brink’s robbery, which resulted in the deaths of two police officers and one security guard. Rosenberg was charged with crimes in the robbery, but those charges were dropped because she was already in prison, The New York Times reported.

Rosenberg was also identified as a member of the Thousand Currents board of directors in the charity’s Form 990s submitted to the IRS for its 2016, 2017 and 2018 fiscal years, indicating that the former terrorist has been involved with the group for the entirety of its fiscal sponsorship arrangement with Black Lives Matter Global Foundation, which began in 2016.

Financial statements prepared by Thousand Currents reveal that 83.3% of BLM Global Foundation’s total spending during its 2017, 2018 and 2019 fiscal years was spent on travel, consulting and payroll, while only about 6% was put toward grants to outside organizations such as the local BLM chapters, the Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported.

BLM Global Network Managing Director Kailee Scales told the DCNF the figures “do not reflect, for example, the in kind support for chapters and fundraising directed to chapters and programmatic assistance to chapters, that would not show up as direct grants on the audited financials.”

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/06/27/convicted-terrorist-sits-on-board-of-charity-handling-black-lives-matter-fundraising-940103

David Limbaugh: America’s survival hangs in the balance

If current events aren’t enough to turn your head, please consider the following data presented by Eric Kaufmann, professor of politics at the University of London Birkbeck College.

—Kaufmann writes that the “cultural revolutionaries” who are toppling statues and renaming buildings “are changing minds, and could be in a position to enact a root-and-branch reconstruction of America into something completely unrecognizable to its present-day inhabitants.” He adds: “Imagine a country whose collective memory has been upended, with a new constitution, anthem, and flag, its name changed from the sinful ‘America’ to something less tainted. Far-fetched? Not according to data I have collected on what liberal white Americans actually believe.”

—Notice Kaufmann isn’t talking merely about the extreme left but American liberals. This is chilling stuff but unsurprising to me. In my book “Guilty by Reason of Insanity,” I warned that socialism is not the only terrible idea the left is promoting. I wrote: “The left isn’t turning to socialism just because its members think it’s more equitable than capitalism but also because they seek revenge against America’s founding generation and its successor beneficiaries. They want to eradicate the Western tradition that spawned our unique American culture because it allegedly led to continental larceny against Native Americans, is in irredeemable moral debt over slavery, and is forever culpable for oppressing minorities and women through white privilege and the inherent exploitation of capitalism.” I don’t claim to be a prophet, but is my statement not vindicated by America’s present turmoil?

—Kaufmann polled American liberals to gauge their willingness “to jettison the country’s cultural identity.” On May 7 (before the George Floyd killing), he surveyed a sample of 870 Americans who “lean young, liberal, and white.” The group was not representative of the American population at large but drawn from the Amazon Mechanical Turk and Prolific Academic survey platforms used by thousands of academics. He consciously removed conservatives and centrists to focus only on self-described liberals. He presented them with 16 “outlandish” statements and was “amazed” by their answers. He surveyed them again on June 15, after the Floyd killing and subsequent protests, and found that things “had gotten even crazier.”

—He asked them to agree or disagree that Americans should:

1. Rebalance the history taught in schools until its voices and subjects reflect the demographics of the population and heritage of Native people and citizens of color

“2. Move, after public consultation, to a new American anthem that better reflects our diversity as a people

“3. Rename our cities and towns until they match the demographics of the population

“4. Rebalance the art shown in museums across the country until an analysis of content shows that it reflects the demography of the population and perspective of Native people and citizens of color

“5. Move, after an open public process, to a new name for our country that better reflects the contributions of Native Americans and our diversity as a people

“6. Rename our states until they better reflect the heritage of Native people and citizens of color

“7. Gradually replace many older public buildings with new structures that don’t perpetuate a Eurocentric order, until a more representative public space is achieved

“8. Respectfully remove the monument to four white male presidents at Mount Rushmore, as they presided over the conquest of Native people and repression of women and minorities

“9. Allow our public parks to return to their natural state, before a European sense of order was imposed upon them

“10. Move, after public consultation, to a new American flag that better reflects our diversity as a people

“11. Consider adopting a new national language, that will be forged from the immigrant and Native linguistic diversity of this country’s past.

“12. Remove existing statues of white men from public spaces until the stock of statues matches the demographics of the population—Kaufmann reports: “Every one of these proposals represents a radical blow to American cultural nationhood. Yet … six of them carry the support of more than 50 percent of committed liberals … Eight are backed by a majority of the 40 percent of liberals who identify as ‘very liberal.’ Some 80 percent of those who have made up their mind would replace the national anthem and constitution.”

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/06/26/david-limbaugh-americas-survival-hangs-in-the-balance-939497