Trevor Loudon
New Zeal
4/7/2011
On February 22, 2011, self proclaimed “internationally renowned political theorist” and Distinguished Fellow at the policy center Demos, Benjamin Barber released a statement announcing his resignation from the governing board of the Gadaffi Foundation.
Barber announced his resignation from the Gadaffi International Charity and Development Foundation, headed by Libyan dictator Muammar Gadaffi’s son Saif al-Qaddafi, in protest at the “country-wide repression of protesters by the most barbaric means, and the public declaration of the Foundation’s honorary chairman, Saif Qadaffi, endorsing the repression and rationalizing the massacre of protesters“.
While Muammar Qadaffi’s brutal repression of rebel forces, may have been been too much for wee Benjamin to stomach , the “internationally renowned political theorist” had no problems taking Gadaffi’s money when the dictator’s habitual sadism was less well publicized …
…Benjamin Barber’s affiliation to Demos are significant because the New York based “think tank” is an official partner of the notorious Washington DC based Institute for Policy Studies
Once described by security expert Brian Crozier as the “perfect intellectual front for Soviet activities which would be resisted if they were to originate openly from the KGB“, I.P.S. has been strongly opposed to military action against Gadaffi’s regime.
Demos, one of the nations premier leftist “think tanks” has close ties to Democratic Socialists of America, and, until the organization morphed into a vast array of semi-disguised clones, ACORN.
Interestingly Demos’ founding 1999-2000 Board of Trustees, included an obscure Illinois State Senator named Barack Obama….
Read the entire article at New Zeal.
