Ominous Politics John s Saloma II...

Ominous Politics

John s Saloma III was the first president of the Ripon Society, the organization of liberal Republicans that has faded from the political view as the Reaganites took direct of the GOP.

In this short volume published only in paperback, Saloma left an important legacy for everyone who is regarded about returning to a society of fairness, opportunity and progress

Saloma, who died in 1983 pieced together the interlocking relationships of rich, radical-right-wing Americans and the various organizations they have assembled to carry gone out their agenda to destroy all the best liberal reforms established in the last half-century.

Simply by the agency of consulting the index, a reader can trace the connections of of the like kind angels of the right as Richard Mellon Scaife, Joseph Coors and Roger Milliken; their hired fire-arms like Reed Larson, Richard Viguerie and Jesse Helms, and as it is instruments of their insidious power, the National Right to Work Committee, Heritage Foundation and National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC).

A major impression created from this carefully documented book is of the unlimited riches a few individuals have to invest in promoting their reactionary program for America.

Just individual example will suggest the deepness and complexity of these connections: Richard Mellon Scaife, whose fortune draw nears largely from the Mellon Bank of Pittsburgh and individual of its many coporate shoots Gulf Oil Corp.

Fre from the necessity to work for a living, Scaife has helped finance the Heritage Foundation, the reactionary center that has provided a of President Reagan's most notorious appointees; the Foundation for American Communications, created to improve business connections to the media and to prefer conservative economic policies; Accuracy in Media, the right wing's agent for intimidating pres and television, and at least 20 more organizations that dignify reactionary causes. The total impact of the Saloma investigation is to indicate that the far right is intolerant of unrestrained intellectual inquiry, a free pres a at liberty and strong trade union manner of moving diverse religious practices and any federal control action to protect these First Amendment rights.

If the bring under rules of "Ominous Politics" gain any more political and economic power, all of us who cherish freedom and believe we must continue to build a without equivocation liberal, fair society are in serious danger.

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