Trish and I were honored to receive a visit from Trevor Loudon and his film crew this morning.
As you may know, Trevor Loudon is a New Zealand author, speaker and political activist who maintains a blog at TrevorLoudon.com. He initially got famous here in the U.S. when he was the first to show that there was a connection between Barack Obama and his mentor, U.S. Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis.
Loudon is also
the founder and editor of keywiki.org, a website which compiles dossiers on
activists and political figures. Like me, he thinks it is important to get out
the word that Communists are still among us – often in high positions of
authority -- even though they have been discredited by the way in which the
USSR lost the Cold War and Communist China has adopted market reforms.
Loudon was mainly
interested in how I became a young Communist, how I came to meet and debate
young Barack Obama, and how my own views changed later on as I matured. It was
a somewhat draining interview that brought back a lot of memories. It was also
a remarkable moment to celebrate the way that conservatives have been able to
use social media like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and alternative websites to
bypass the mainstream media and get out stories that are considered too hot or
too controversial for the mainstream media...including the folks at Fox News.
No matter what, I
feel proud to be part of a small band of brothers who have been willing to risk
everything they have to get out the word about the radical roots of President
Obama.
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