Removed from the battlefield

 

You may have noticed the links to the right of my homepage on which I've put up as good sources for information (bias acknowledged).  

One of them is Frontpage Magazine, a long running product of Mr David Horowitz.  Mr. Horowitz died yesterday.  He was a serious and honest man.  

His son wrote a short bio of him, it included this ... 

"In his continued mission to save the world, in 1968 David became co-editor of the New Left magazine Ramparts. While at Ramparts, David developed a close friendship with Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party. As part of their work together, David helped raise money for, and assisted the Panthers with, the running of a school for poor children in Oakland. He later recommended that Newton hire his friend Betty Van Patter as bookkeeper; she was then working for Ramparts. In December 1974, Van Patter’s body was found floating in San Francisco Harbor; she had been murdered by the Panthers for knowing too much. The murder forced David to confront a truth that he had long suspected. It made clear to him that the pursuit of a Marxist utopia was a false and unachievable goal. Diabolically, the goal created a religion. The religion then cloaked the movement’s leaders with an invincible moral standing enabling them to commit atrocities with impunity for their own gain. He was horrified that he had been part of it and it caused him to rethink his entire life."

https://www.frontpagemag.com/david-horowitz-my-father/