Last week in Berkeley, or as the rest of the nation calls it little China, city counsel leaders flipped off the US House of Representatives and the nation's founding fathers by naming their City Hall building after known Communist Maudelle Shirek.
To catch anyone up who may have glossed over this debate between Shirek supporters and opponents, earlier this year the US House of Representatives killed a bill that would have renamed an US Post Office branch after Shirek. In the middle of the debate was Steve King (R-IA) arguing against Shirek because of her strong ties to communist organizations. In her years of political activism she traveled to Moscow, Nicaragua and Cuba, where she dined with Fidel Castro.
Quotes of support and outrage at the treatment of Shirek flowed like milk and honey:
"Maudelle is one of my political heroes," Comrade Barbara Lee, D-Oakland said. "This is fitting tribute to her leadership and all that she has given to the community."
Lee added while pounding her shoe on her desk during the debate in House chambers "that the campaign of innuendo and unsubstantiated 'concern' is better suited to the era of Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover than today's House of Representatives. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side...we will bury you!"
Ah, yes you can never attack a ultra, liberal Democrat, because in their minds it reeks of McCarthism. Barbara Stalin-Lee went on and called Shirek her "political mother."
I, for one, applaud King for his stance. I am so damn tired of people making Communism O.K. Just because we won the cold war doesn't mean we start to sleep around with Communist ideals. If Lee and Shirek believes so strongly that there is a place for socialist reform within the United States then may I suggest a history lesson on the U.S.S.R. or a new home in China.
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