We previously reported on how Street Spirit, a purported homeless advocacy paper that is put out by the American Friends Service Committee (aka anti-American Frauds for Saddam Committee) was using itself as a platform to advocate the surrender of Iraq to terrorism and chaos. Noting that the American Friends Service Committee is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, here are more examples of how AFSC and Street Spirit are using taxpayers’ money.

The following article shows what you get when left-wing dogma mingles with gross ignorance to produce printed words.

The American Aristocracy and the Homeless Disaster
by Robert Mills

The most recent scandal of the government was to make an effort to link homeless people with terrorists. In recent weeks, the U.S. Attorney General sent out memos to law enforcement agencies all across the nation to be on the lookout for terrorists who might be posing as homeless people. So now, as I wait for a BART train or bus to get somewhere, I wonder whether my dirty clothes are going to be suspect and I will be carted off by “special” police to some hidden jail cell.

Guess what, Mr. Mills: disguising oneself as a street person is considered to be one of the most effective ways to avoid being noticed. We recall seeing this, in fact, in a military survival manual from the United Kingdom; if you want to avoid attention, stop bathing, wear shabby clothes, pour whisky over yourself, and sleep on park benches or under bridges. (Of course, you don’t want to violate any local ordinances or argue with the police.) Readers of Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse will recall how Navy SEAL John Kelly (later Mr. Clark) pretended to be a homeless person to spy on and later kill members of a drug gang.

It is rather clear that the Attorney General’s point was not that “homeless people are terrorists”– in fact, very few genuine homeless people are even dangerous– but rather that foreign spies and terrorists might choose to pose as homeless people because most people ignore the homeless. Street Spirit is simply looking for yet another reason to proclaim (bleating like the sheep in Orwell’s Animal Farm) “George Bush baaaaaad, Saddam Hussein gooooood.”

Mills’ article does make one observation that he could have translated into a useful idea if he hadn’t been so eager to bash Bush:

Local law enforcement agencies know who the homeless people are, and the homeless themselves are aware of “new faces” on the street; and, as a community which tries to survive, they always are vigilant for themselves.

This suggests that homeless people, who do know what is going on on the streets, could be recruited to form a neighborhood watch that could call law enforcement if they saw a terrorist (e.g. someone with explosives or weapons posing as a homeless person, or someone who simply didn’t fit in with the homeless community) or for that matter a common criminal. Such activities might in fact be a way for the homeless to earn some food and pocket money while making themselves more welcome in neighborhoods. As an example, homeowners who know that the homeless guy across the street will call the police if he sees someone trying to break into houses or cars will be happy to have him around.

Now we have more “Bush baaaaaaaad, Al ‘Crown Heights Riots’ Sharpton goooooooood” bleating from Carol Harvey, who describes how a racist hurricane oppressed Black people in New Orleans
http://www.thestreetspirit.org/October2005/storm.htm

Katrina: A Perfect Storm of Classism and Racism
by Carol Harvey

Bush’s covert elitism, classism, and racism were revealed. …As Bush delayed sending the National Guard before hundreds of victims died, many black and white leaders agreed: Racism and classism factored into Katrina’s displacements and deaths.
Rev. Al Sharpton called the government’s lack of response “inexcusable,” saying that when a less violent hurricane hit Palm Beach, Jeb Bush alerted the National Guard before the storm struck.

Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean told one of the country’s largest black religious groups, the National Baptist Convention, “We must… come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and economics played a deadly role in who survived and who did not.”

http://www.thestreetspirit.org/June%202005/leonard.htm claims to “derive” the following from the teachings of Gandhi: “Western democracy as it functions today, is diluted nazism or fascism. At best it is merely a cloak to hide the nazi and fascist tendencies of imperialism.”

http://www.thestreetspirit.org/July2005/repression.htm
The points about the treatment of homeless people may be valid; the business about rounding up Jews, gays, union members, and so on is utter drivel.

Homeland Security Department round-ups, like Operation FALCON, round up the “fugitives” — but remember that fugitives are wanted, not necessarily guilty. The Chronic Homeless Initiative rounds up the mentally ill homeless with police using culturally biased standards and goals.

It is not a question of whether they will ignore their promise to “just go after the fugitives and mentally ill” and begin going after the activists, the communists, the unions, the gays, the Jews, and the real Christians, but a question of when. Just as was done with the racketeering laws and the SWAT teams, the roles of the homeless/mentally ill policies will be revised to include social engineering of a fascist order.

Now here is some poetry from Street Spirit, a publication of the 501(c)(3) tax-exempt American Friends Service Committee. We remind the writer that our “fascist” country has no walls to keep people in and he is always free to leave. http://www.thestreetspirit.org/October2005/poets.htm

CITIZEN — SLAVE
by Husayn Sayfuddiyn

I am the citizen-slave
And the flag I wave
I wave to glorify my race
Tho’ it belies the noble face I see
In the fog of my perversion of history
I am the Citizen-Slave of the Fascist State
willing feet in its Iron Boots
Its dollar’s my slave-collar
From the pockets of Fascists in three-piece suits.

We get the picture. America is the Source of All Evil and the Third World, along with Saddam Hussein and the Hamas-occupied Palestinian government, are noble savages untouched by the evil influence of the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights.

Genuine Quakers (e.g. William Penn) came to the United States to escape religious oppression in Europe but the anti-American Frauds for Saddam seem obsessed with showing why the United States is no good. AFSC is not the first left-wing political movement to disguise itself as a religion. Eric Yoffie’s Union for Reform Judiasm (formerly the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, a double oxymoron) is essentially the John Conyers/ Howard Dean wing of the Democratic Party with Jewish holidays. It is quite clear from the contents of Street Spirit and the AFSC’s other Web pages that AFSC is basically a hodge-podge of left-wing communism, anarchy, and socialism whose greatest connection to genuine Quakerism is probably the consumption of Quaker oat meal for breakfast.