I recall you recently claiming as evidence that someone was a communist that they had be accused by the un-American activities committee.
Actually, I didn't precisely say that. I said Quentin Young was "once accused by the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities of being a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA)". Now maybe he was or wasn't a communist. But one thing is for sure, he hung out with a lot of people who were or still are communists.
I do not have the time to sift through all the

that you post to figure out who it really was.
Actually, gndp, all you had to do was go back and more carefully read my original post (#38) on this thread.
My point stands: you think an accusation by McCarthy's committee is citable evidence of guilt.
Well let's look more closely at the case of Quentin Young.
Since 1983, he's been a member of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). It was formed in 1982. In 1992 that organization awarded him their highest honor, the Debs Award. And what type of people receive this award?
Well, at the 1989 Debs Award Dinner, (
http://www.chicagodsa.org/d1989/index.html ), Timuel Black presented an award to DSA member Milton Cohen. According to
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng33.html , Milton Cohen was an organizer for the Communist Party on the South Side of Chicago starting in the early 1940s. He left the Communist Party in the 1960s to later help found the DSA. Note that the featured speaker at the award dinner for Cohen was none other than Quentin Young.
Timuel Black, who presented that award, is currently (
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cach...ml+Timuel+black+ccds&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=nz ) on the advisory board of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS) which is an offshoot of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The CCDS Web site refers to the Communist Manifesto as a "stirring document" that is relevant today and the group is currently one of the largest Marxist organizations in the US. Note that along side him on the board of CCDS is former communist Angela Davis. Angela Davis was also a founding board member of MDS (an Obama supporting organization which I've mentioned on other threads to you), along with Ayers' wife, communist Bernadine Dohrn.
As an aside, note that Timuel Black has also known Barack Obama for more than a decade. In 1996, he tried to mediate the dispute between Alice Palmer and Obama, when Obama decided to go ahead and run for her seat in the Illinois Senate even though she'd changed her mind and wanted to keep it instead.
Another DSA member was communist Kurt Stand, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for communist East Germany. He is still in jail. DSA member Bill Mosley runs the “Friends of Kurt Stand” organization.
The 2008 DSA recipient of the Debs Award was Les Orear, founder of the Illinois Labor History Society, who told the audience that he tried to live by the Marxist saying, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." Les was identified by witnesses as someone who attended Communist party meetings during the House Un-American Activities Subcommittee hearings. And by the way, the 2008 dinner booklet apparently had sympathetic references to DSA founder Carl Shier, whose name was spelled as "Karl Marx Shier" by his communist parents in honor of you know who.
So I think it is clear that the separation between DSA (to which Young has long belonged) and communism isn't all that defined. And neither is Obama's separation from DSA which has supported him his entire career. One way he returned that support was to deliver a speech in 1998 at a memorial service for Saul Mendelson, who was a major figure in the Chicago DSA. Mendelson was a member of various communist groups in the 1930s and 1940s. Of course.
Now as to the specific allegations made by the House Committee On Un-American Activities against Quentin Young, Young was accused of serving with the "Medical Committee for Human Rights", an organization that provided treatment to protesters during the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention riots. Asked if he was a member of CPUSA during the hearings, he answered "irrelevant" ... which in my opinion is a non-denial. Later, the lawyer for the committee told him they had received information he had been a member of the Communist Party ... "specifically, a member of the doctors' club of the party on the North Side of Chicago, a club that was called the Bethune Club." Again, Young refused to comment. He did eventually deny he was on the executive council of the "Medical Committee for Human Rights" but didn't deny being a member.
And guess who was behind the 1968 Chicago riots? The National Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam (MOBE). According to the FBI communists were playing a "dominant" role in that group. The work of MOBE was praised by Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin. Major communist figures from North Vietnam attended MOBE meetings overseas. And in 1969, when MOBE was reorganized into the NEW MOBE, that process was controlled by CPUSA member Sidney Peck.
Again, it is clear that Young, if not a communist has certainly associated himself with a large number of communists and people who know communists over the years. And there's more.
Quentin Young was a participant in a 1969 Washington, D.C. conference seeking to abolish the House Committee on Un-American Activities/House Internal Security Committee. Featured speakers at the event included Frank Wilkinson, a CPUSA member and SDS member Mike Klonsky. Mike Klonsky, who was director of the Small Schools Workshop funded by Ayers and Obama (in fact, he and Obama appear to have shared an office for several years). In addition to saying that his parents were members of CPUSA, Klonksy said during a talk in 2007 that "I was born into the Communist Party". He was allowed a blog on Obama Presidential campaign website ... until it drew conservative attention. The wife of Klonsky's brother "wrote an article praising the work of former CPUSA member Dorothy Healey, calling her a role model.
Who else did Young hang out with? Carol Moseley Braun. Moseley has clear communist ties. In N1979 she was a co-sponsor of the founding conference of the US Peace Council, which I've already indicated had strong ties to communists. In 1987 she helped sponsor, along with CPUSA leaders Angela Davis and Herbert Aptheker, a benefit for Chicago Communist Party members Claude Lightfoot and Jack Kling.
There's more. An FBI report on the Weather Underground described Young as having met with Dohrn immediately after she returned from Cuba where she met with Communist Vietnamese officials. Bernadine Dohrn traveled to Castro's Cuba with one of the early Venceremos Brigades (
http://www.venceremosbrigade.org/ ). Several of Quentin Young's children have also been Brigade members.
In short, gdnp, there are literally dozens of communists with ties to Young, so it's hard not to believe he shares their views. You know that old saying ... "birds of a feather ..."? And you might ask yourself what Quentin Young was doing at a gathering with Palmer, Ayers and Dohrn ... all of whom openly admire communism ... when they announced Obama's entry into politics? It surely wasn't because he was the family doctor of Obama and Ayers ... although he was.
Tell you what, gdnp. This is slightly off-topic, but if you won't agree that Obama is a communist, will you at least agree he's a socialist? This is something else that Obama *fanatics* denied throughout the campaign. You see, I could add the names of hundreds of hard core socialists who directly knew or who were 1 degree of freedom from people who knew Obama. Again, "birds of a feather".
