Liberal Discontent And The Spies Next Door -- A Commentary

Photo: Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn.

From The Wall Street Journal:

"Occasionally, he would voice frustration with U.S. policies," noted the Washington Post of Walter Kendall Myers, the aging New Leftist recently arrested with his wife, Gwendolyn, on charges of spying for Cuba. "But to his liberal neighbors in Northwest D.C.," the story continued, "it was nothing out of the ordinary. 'We were all appalled by the Bush years,' one said."

In this account and others, the Myerses seem less like shady characters out of a spy novel than like some of the more adamant residents of the leafy, left-of-center New York suburb where I live. They, too, as the Post has it, manifest "a deep and long-standing anger toward this country," and they certainly share Mr. Myers's rage, as recorded in his diary, at America's oil companies and health-care system.

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My Comment: The best comment that I heard that describes the active liberal left and their support for left wing issues and Communists like Fidel Castro (and yes) Che, came from my father.

My father was born in the Soviet Union in 1922. Because of our family's connections and membership to the Communist Party, he was pampered and spoiled, receiving the best education and being groomed by the Party. When the Second World War broke out, he was put into the officer corp and survived till the end of the war with a high rank (the equivalent of a major). As a privileged member of the Communist Party, he was given a choice post in occupied East Germany, where he stayed until the end of 1946 when he decided to go (defect) to the West. He arrived in Canada in 1949.

The only time I was exposed to my father's Communist past was when the RCMP came to our home in Montreal during the War Measures Act of 1970. I should know, because it was I who opened the door to let them in. An unsettling experience that still is with me today.

Years later (as an adult) I got to know more about my father and his parent's (my grand parents) past, with our best conversations always on politics, in particular Russian/Soviet history. He was a fervent Russian nationalist .... but I was surprise to learn that he was also an anti-communist. I asked him what had changed his mind ... his answer .... he had never changed his mind. With a smile .... which I will never forget .... he told me that the big secret (which was common knowledge in the Soviet Communist Party when he was there) was that there were/are 100x more Communists and their sympathizers in the U.S. and Canada than in all of the Soviet Union. Years later .... being a "student" of national security and international politics and being fortunate to travel the world .... I now know that my father was 100% right.

If my father was alive today, he would classify Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn as two of those people .... and he would spit at them for the traitors to freedom that they are.