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Apparently, he pulls names from a hat:

http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/1018/kill_list.html

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As described by Glenn Greenwald in the London Guardian (5 February): “The president’s underlings compile their proposed lists of who should be executed, and the president—at a charming weekly event dubbed by White House aides as ‘Terror Tuesday’—then chooses from ‘baseball cards’ and decrees in total secrecy who should die. The power of accuser, prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner are all consolidated in this one man, and those powers are exercised in the dark.” It is not even necessary for the intended victims to be charged as terrorists or for there to be a shred of evidence against them. Anyone deemed an “associate” of a “terrorist” can end up on the kill list, with the authorities even spared the trouble of having to concoct an imminent threat.


So, apparently the "Vanguard Party" has announced that Obama has "baseball cards" where Obama randomly picks Muslim civilians for Drone Strikes during "Terror Tuesday".

This group is so dishonest, I cannot believe they are even listened to after their verbal lashing by Noam Chomsky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKIu-JjfIXE

Here Chomsky notes, clearly on the issue of differences between Democrats and Republicans:

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"If the Spartacist League cared about working people, poor people, people elsewhere in the world who suffer and so on, they would care about the large outcomes that follow from those small differences. If you don't care about what happens to those people and you want to live in some abstract seminar somewhere, then you don't care. But it's a fact, and we can't deny it."


The fact is, just like the Monarch rulers of various supposed "Workers States", they don't care. Their only goal is to spread lies and look cool under the style over substance school of thought.

Anyways, this isn't the first goofy claim made by these guys:

-They argue that second hand smoke is a myth. What this has to do with socialism is beyond me.

-They have "doubts" on Global Warming, again pretty weird from a Party claiming to be scientific.

-They claim they are all "willing to go to jail" for "The Revolution". Why brag about something like that?

-Currently they are ganging up on and arguing with an autistic person in Canada.

I pick on this group specifically, because they specifically target disabled people for harassment (frustrated at being unable to "topple the Imperialist State" they purposely target handicapped members of our society to take out their rage on):

This a letter the President of the Sparticist League of Canada sent to an Autistic person:

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Michael,

You are flat-out wrong. The ICL's arguments against Bill Logan DO NOT hinge "on Bill Logan being a 'psychopath'," they hinge on the fact that he is a sociopath and his actual crimes; very horrendous crimes, some that I have already listed and which you can find out about by reading the Logan Dossier or three Logan Bulletins, and for which there is very extensive evidence (in the bulletins/Dossier). It is a result of these crimes that the ICL calls Bill Logan a "sociopath" (not a "psycopath", Michael). Frankly Michael, unless you consider yourself to be mentally insane there's no reason for you to be offended by that term being used to describe Logan. There is a difference between having a mental illness and being mentally insane; unfortunately those who are mentally insane can sometimes commit very real crimes, just as Logan did.

You completely cover up for Bill Logan by not addressing his crimes. Do you believe that it was right for him to try and force a woman to have an abortion? Do you believe he did a good deed in driving the woman to the verge of suicide by pressuring her to give her baby up for adoption? What about the couples he separated? What's your position on that? You do not address any of these things; you hide behind the cover of Dr. Robert Hare's definition of a psycopath (when in any case Bill Logan was referred to as a "sociopath" wink . And by the way, the few times that there were visitors to the Australian section under Logan's regime Logan isolated the visitors from the Australian/New Zealand membership as much as possible, so that visitors could not see what was happening, what he was doing, and the members wouldn't talk to them about it.

By the way, the BT's claim to be for the right of Quebec to self-determination is just a cover for their Anglo-Chauvinism. When the question was concretely posed in the referendum, they issued an English-only leaflet calling for a "no" vote. They are only for Quebec's right to self-determination if it means that Quebec choses to remain an oppressed nation under Anglo-Canadian rule. They actively oppose Quebec independence; it's not a coincidence that they were invited to a massive Anglo-Chauvinist Canadian unity rally. And Michael, I will say again that you have no right to call yourself a Marxist, revolutionary or supporter of the oppressed if you, as a person in English Canada, do not support Quebec independence. What's your position on the issue? Are you for or against Quebec independence? Which side of the class line are you on? I mentioned the British section of the BT's refusal to call for British troops out of Northern Ireland. You have not responded to this. Which side of the barricades are you on with this question? Your silence on this question speaks volumes on the BT's/your chauvinism and disregard for special oppression.
You support a group that sat back and relaxed while counterrevolution devastated East Germany and the Soviet Union. And this group has the chutzpah to call itself "Bolshevik"? The ICL fought tooth and nail for proletarian political revolution in East Germany and the Soviet Union.

By the way, one of the main reasons that the BT is outside of the worker's movement is that it is led by the monster Bill Logan (who none of the delegates at his trial defended him, including the future members of the BT - and that should say something to you). As far as hysterical denunciations go, you are the one who told me "F$*k you and the horses you came riding in on." Over the past few months, you have slandered the ICL as being "deeply insinuated in ablest bigotry" and have alleged that Jim Robertson knew of one of Bill Logans crimes, and did nothing (i.e. that he is passive towards such reactionary crimes). This is false, and echoes the BT's slanders that the Logan regime was the norm in the iSt. You and the BT do this because you dodge the main question: why is this monster leading your organization? You sent me an email with the subject heading screaming, "Tracy Latimer's blood is on your hands!" How do sleep at night? How do you have the audacity to end your letters with "sincerely" and "comradely"?
You're wrong about a number of other things. You're wrong when you say Tracy Latimer's pain was intermittent - I'd like to see your sources for that. Everything I have read on the subject suggests that she was a quadriplegic in tremendous, constant pain.

You're wrong when you say the ICL "won't recruit people with disabilities or mental illnesses." In fact, there are members who were recruited with disabilities and mental illnesses. And I'd like to ask you, what has the BT written about the disabled? I'd challenge you to find me one article; if I looked I'm sure I could find multiple articles written by the ICL.

You're also wrong when you say the ICL is "hostile towards there [sic] readers and supporters reading anything published by the BT." To prove the absurdity of that accusation, the ICL published a series of public bulletins entitled "Hate Trotskyism, Hate the Spartacist League" which included material written by the BT and IG.
And look at both sides? What does the BT have to say about what Bill Logan did? They dodge it as much as possible but they know it's true and damning given that Logan is a member of their organization and committed the crimes he did. You parade about, bragging that you're so well-informed and independent-minded (i.e. more intelligent)--as opposed to the people in the ICL who you slander as cult-members. What a joke! Your arguments are but BT arguments recycled (with a few dropped words here and there). You basically admit that Bill Logan committed crimes. Why do you support an organization of which he is leader, Michael?

Another thing: you claim that you "haven't nor will I never complain about the ICL to the following", and you include a list that includes cops, the bourgeois press, and various others. Yet you run a Spartacist Watch website from which any of those people/organizations could take your material/slanders and use it for their own vile purposes. And let me remind you that the Wall Street Journal picked up on the BT's slanders of the ICL (as defenders of Mumia Abu Jamal) as a "cult" in 1995 when whether or not Mumia would be executed was very much an undecided question.

You, Michael, and the BT, deliberately dodge Logan's crimes and my arguments because you are both politically bankrupt to the bloody core. Faced with overwhelming evidence that would put most people to shame, you and your organization resort to making hysterical anti-communist slanders and unabashed lies. The most baseless one of which is that, "I think the ICL was a cult and this type of abusive practice was common throughout the organization I think the people at the top of the organization, including James Robertson are to blame for these things as well as Bill Logan when he was in the group." This is utterly baseless; it never was the case and the BT knows it. The notion that Bill Logan's functioning was the norm in the iSt is false to the core. If it were true, why was Logan given a trial and expelled?

Andrew

P.S. ******** you too Michael, and your BT cronies


http://spartacistwatch.blogspot.com/2009/03/andrew-malienis-second-email-to-me.html

These people are liars, and goons and cowards, and I will never get tired of putting them down. I asked one their Associates (they generally use Associates, proxy members, to engage in the majority of their work activities since they know Official Party Members are under watch by the Federal Government, while their thousands of Associates may not be observed) why the President of the Sparticist League of Canada is putting down an Autistic person with nasty emails.

His response was "Well he argues with us."

"So okay, say an Autistic or Schizophrenic person argued with Obama, and Obama sent him a nasty email, would that be okay?"

"He's arguing with us."

Basically it started getting circular, and then the Associate started getting insulting so I cut the conversation short. Needless to say, I am surprised a self-proclaimed militant party is allowed to run around harassing the disabled.

In any case, they have called me a "bully" for shining the spotlight on them. Who would have thought the self-proclaimed "Vanguard Party" and "True Heirs to the Bolshevik Legacy" would be so ashamed of their own dishonest claims and cowardly actions?
Testimony from an autistic former ICL affiliate:
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A number of my emails I sent to the ICL were pretty harsh. But I am saying what I believe to be the truth and I don't claim to be impartial, I merely put forward my side of the story. Lets put it this way, practically everyone in my family and most of my friends have disabilities and/or mental illnesses. Essentially when I was with they ICL they tried to humilate, degrade and break me until I "acknowledged" that me, my family and friends are less than human and that me, my family and friends don't have the basic right to live and exist. Rights which most people take for granted. People in the ICL screamed when I tried to speak, they shouted and derided me. Essentially they were going to torture me until I confessed. Almost like the Salem Witch Trials.


http://spartacistwatch.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html

I've seen them do this before, and from what I gather, they basically brainwashed this guy and started badgering him for money. They do this regularly, harass disabled people, all while claiming to be "Champions of the Oppressed." A very, disturbing, self-proclaimed militant organization.

This person also seems to feel really bad about how he acted in the Sparts:

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First of all I'll talk about when I was a supporter of the ICL. When I supporting the ICL, I was quite nasty to other leftists and like everyone else in that group I behaved like a total a*****e. Fortunately, unlike some in that group I never physically assaulted anyone. But I made a p***k of myself all the same. I remember when an individual in the group named Andrew (who was an Electrician at the time) manhandled a person an Under the Volcano event, I remained silent. I along with everyone else in that group didn't speak out against it. The same is true when this same person talked about smashing the skulls of members of other left groups. I and everyone else remained silent. I also remained silent when Andrew lashed out at other leftists. I also remained silent when Andrew sneared at the notion of Natives wanting their land back. I don't think Natives can get their land back until Capitalism is overthrown. that being said Andrew was extremely insentive to this deeply held desire of most First Nations people. Rather than call Andrew on this I actually defended him and the ICL. I also remained silent when Andrew talked about "Revolution in MY COUNTRY" a variant of Socialism in One Country.


Note these accusations of violence are not without warrant: http://politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=93586

Also note, they do not have a Party Member defend their position but a "Supporter"- code for a member, usually in regular communication, but harder to keep track of.

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