179 QUESTIONS FOR LENORA FULANI AND HER MENTOR FRED NEWMAN

May 20, 2005

By DENNIS KING

PART I. INTRODUCTION: FULANI’S THREAT TO SUE THE CITY COUNCIL

PART II. SUGGESTED QUESTION FOR A FULANI DEPOSITION

A. Newmanite Views on the Jews and Israel

B. The Newmanites’ History of Sympathy for International Terrorists

C. The Newmanite Double Standard Towards the Jews

D. The Newmanite Programs for Children and Teenagers

E. Social Therapy

F. Newmanite Views on the Family and “Friendosexualism”

G. Newmanite Views on NAMBLA and Child Abuse

H. The Personality Cult of Ms. Fulani

I. The Newmanites’ Secret Revolutionary Party

J. More Questions (and More to Come!)

PART III. TO THE CITY COUNCIL: DON’T STOP WITH A MERE RESOLUTION--HOLD PUBLIC HEARINGS!

PART IV. A FORMER FOLLOWER OF NEWMAN AND FULANI SPEAKS OUT

A. COMMENTS AND FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS TO THOSE ALREADY PUBLISHED

B.
NEW QUESTIONS

PART V. AN EX-LEADER OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS PARTY SPEAKS OUT

PART I. INTRODUCTION: FULANI’S THREAT TO SUE THE CITY COUNCIL

When Councilman Lew Fidler (D-Brooklyn) proposed a council resolution to condemn Independence Party leader Lenora Fulani’s statement that the “Jews had to sell their souls to acquire Israel” and had become “mass murderers of people of color,” he was lambasted by Bloomberg aides for allegedly playing election year politics. Meanwhile, Fulani’s attorney Harry Kresky wrote an irate letter to council Speaker Gifford Miller. “It is of deep concern that the New York City Council would consider publicly condemning a citizen for exercise of First Amendment rights,” wrote Kresky, who threatened a lawsuit if the resolution is enacted.

Are Fulani and Kresky (and Fred Newman, the leader of the cult known as the “Newmanites” in which Fulani and Kresky have long been members) really serious about suing the City Council? Such a suit would lay them open to pre-trial discovery, including depositions in which Fulani and her closest associates would have to answer questions under oath and could be prosecuted if they perjured themselves.

I have compiled a list of possible questions that the defense attorneys representing the Council could ask Fulani in a pre-trial deposition. The questions are divided into categories, as would be done in real-life deposition preparation. For the benefit of the reader I have inserted explanatory phrases that would not be part of the phrasing of questions in an actual deposition. Obviously Ms. Fulani would not know the answer to every question nor would she be able to recall the circumstances of every single incident cited. But there are dozens of other Newmanites as well as ex-members of the cult who could be deposed to fill in the gaps.

On first glance some of these questions--as about the youth programs and the peculiar views once expressed by the Newmanites’ newspaper regarding the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA)--may appear to veer away from the issue of Fulani’s views about Jews. Yet I am confident that a solid foundation could be laid via pre-trial discovery and prior depositions for winning a judicial ruling that all aspects of the Newmanite cult’s activities are relevant to understanding its (and Fulani’s) anti-Semitism and political extremism and thus that Fulani should be required to answer these questions. After all, it is the Newmanites themselves who have argued for a utopian integration of the personal with the political, of education (including early childhood education) with preparation for revolution, and of the “development community” (the sum total of Newmanite entities and living arrangements) with the “performance” of revolution. And it is the Newmanites themselves who have injected the anti-Semitic aspect of their revolutionary politics into the activities of each and every entity, either directly through agitational exercises or indirectly through using the entity as a vehicle for attracting recruits to their secret “post-modern Bolshevik” party.

These are questions only. They concern statements, incidents, situations and arrangements that are open to multiple interpretations and explanations. The fact that I am suggesting a particular question should not be construed as implying that I have any proof that Ms. Fulani, Mr. Newman or any of their followers have committed an illegal act. However, I do believe that Ms. Fulani, as a major public figure in New York State and an important ally of Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Pataki, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, owes it to the public to answer the questions even if no lawsuit should emerge in which she could be asked these questions under oath.

Furthermore, I believe that her above-named allies in high places have an obligation to the people of New York to demand that these questions be answered, especially the questions concerning the strange philosophy and practices of the people running the Newmanite youth programs that Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Pataki have so generously helped with public subsidies.

PART II. SUGGESTED QUESTIONS FOR A FULANI DEPOSITION

A. Newmanite Views on the Jews and Israel

1. Ms. Fulani, in your April 13, 2005 interview on NY1 News, you were asked about a statement you made in 1995 calling the Jews “mass murderers of people of color.” You told the interviewer that you still today don’t regard this statement as anti-Semitic. I wish to ask you what you think about a statement by your associate and leader Fred Newman, in 1985 as quoted in an Anti-Defamation League report in 1990. The quote is as follows: “The Jew, the dirty Jew, once the ultimate victim of capitalism’s soul, fascism, would become [after World War Two] a victimizer on behalf of capitalism; a self-righteous dehumanizer and murderer of people of color; a racist bigot who in the language of Zionism changed the meaning of ‘Never Again’ from ‘Never Again for anyone’ to ‘Never Again for us--and let the devil take everyone else.’” Do you regard this statement as anti-Semitic?

2. In your NY1 News interview you replied to a question about your controversial statement by asserting that “it’s raising issues that I think need to be explored.” Are Mr. Newman’s statements about “the dirty Jew” and “dehumanizers” examples of the issues that you think “need to be explored”?

3. Can you think of any justification for the use of the term “dirty Jew” by Mr. Newman? Are you willing to state for the record that Mr. Newman was wrong to use that term?

4. In the same piece quoted by the ADL, Mr. Newman said that “Israel’s right to exist is actually capitalism’s might-makes-right to create whatever the hell it needs….” Do you agree with that statement? Do you believe that Israel has no right to exist?

5. In August 1990, your Castillo Center staged an event entitled “A Benefit for the Intifada” [a wave of violent Palestinian protests that was going on at the time in the West Bank and Gaza--DK]. At this event, Fred Newman described Zionism as being “as profound an ideological and social corruption as has ever inhabited the world.” Do you think Mr. Newman’s statement was anti-Semitic?

6. At the same event, Ms. Newman said, “there can be no compromise with Zionism.” Would you say that your views on Zionism have changed since then? Do you think Mr. Newman was wrong to say this?

7. Ms. Fulani, in 1992, when the late Dr. M.T. Mehdi was fired from a city commission by Mayor Dinkins for referring to New York City as “Ziontown,” you and Fred Newman held a press conference with him to denounce his firing, at which Mr. Newman referred to New York City as “jackass town.” Would you regard Dr. Medhi’s “Ziontown” statement as not being anti-Semitic? Do you think Mr. Newman’s statement accurately portrays the people of the city that you, Harry Kresky, Cathy Stewart and other supporters of Mr. Newman represent on the New York Independence Party’s state committee?

B. The Newmanites’ History of Sympathy for International Terrorism

8. Ms. Fulani, who paid for the trip of you and four other members of your New Alliance Party (NAP)--the predecessor of your current Independence Party faction--to Libya to attend Col. Gadhafi’s “Peace Gathering” on April 12-14, 1987?

9. Did any members of your underground International Workers Party (IWP), the controlling entity within NAP, subsequently travel to Libya on any other occasions? Were any members of your IWP in Libya in February 1988; if so, why? Did any members of your IWP ever receive any kind of training in weapons and explosives from the Libyan regime?

10. Ms. Fulani, a national rally was held in Washington to coincide with the final ceremonies of the Libyan conference. According to the U.S. Justice Department, the Libyan government paid $250,000 to organize this event. According to your own National Alliance newspaper (April 24, 1987), a contingent from NAP participated. Did NAP receive travel expenses or any other payment for its participation, either from the Libyan intelligence front known as the Peoples’ Committee for Students of Libyan Jamahariya or from any other source?

11. Ms. Fulani, according to an Oct. 6, 1988 article in Newsday, students and some parents from the IWP’s now-defunct Barbara Taylor School in Harlem “went in busloads to a demonstration in Washington, D.C., ‘memorializing those who suffered in the [U.S.] bombing of Libya.’” Who paid for those buses?

12. When you traveled to Libya, were you aware that Gadhafi was planning to use the conference as a springboard for setting up a pro-terrorist Tripoli-based “international” involving the IRA, the Nation of Islam, the Palestine Liberation Organization and even neo-Nazi skinheads? Did you or any other members of the NAP delegation have discussions at the conference with delegates from the IRA, the PLO, the Basque ETA or any other organization commonly regarded as terrorist?

13. Ms. Fulani, the Tripoli conference was attended by a Canadian journalist from Southam News named Christoph Halens who was working on an expose of Gadhafi’s plans for the Tripoli-based “international.” Did Mr. Halens interview you or any other member of the NAP delegation? Did you discuss Mr. Halens’ questions afterwards with any of your Libyan hosts? What did you think when Mr. Halens fell or was pushed from a hotel window to his death on April 14? Did you or any of your fellow NAP delegates accept the Libyan government’s story that Mr. Halens had became so shocked and depressed by a museum exhibit of the effects of the 1986 U.S. bombing of Libya that he committed suicide as some kind of anti-imperialist protest? Did you raise any questions about the cause of Mr. Halens’ death after you returned to safety in the United States?

14. Ms. Fulani, you were quoted in the April 24, 1987 National Alliance as saying “It was so extraordinarily moving, so powerful to be part of an entire nation’s demonstration against U.S. militarism and racism.” In the light of the Gadhafi regime’s mass murder of 270 persons (189 of them your fellow Americans) in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing on Dec. 21, 1988, are you willing to reevaluate your statement? Do you have regrets over participating in the Tripoli conference? Would you be willing to issue a public apology to the families of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 for your support of Gadhafi?

15. Ms. Fulani, you appeared at a Nation of Islam function in Chicago in November 1987 in honor of Abdul Akbar Muhammad, an aide to Louis Farrakhan. Speaking as the “national spokesperson” of the New Alliance Party you made the following remarks: “I had the honor of being in Libya with Brother Akbar as part of an international peace delegation. During that trip I often thought of the words of Malcolm X who responded to charges that he advocated violence by saying, ‘We are not a violent people. We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us. But we are not nonviolent with people who are not nonviolent with us.” Consider the context, Ms. Fulani. On Dec. 27, 1985 Palestinian terrorists sponsored by Libya launched attacks with grenades and automatic weapons at airports in Rome and Vienna that resulted in the deaths of 16 people, five of them Americans (including an 11-year-old girl). On April 5, 1986 the Libyans orchestrated a bombing attack on a Berlin disco frequented by U.S. servicemen, killing two of our soldiers and wounding 79 of them along with over 100 non-Americans. The U.S. government then bombed Libya later that month. On the anniversary of that bombing you went to Libya to protest against the U.S. attack while remaining silent about the prior Libyan actions, and toured the bombing sites. Can you see why a reasonable person might interpret your quotation of Malcolm X as an expression of support for further Libya-sponsored attacks against the United States?

16. Ms. Fulani, would you say that the killing of one American and two British citizens in Beirut two days after the U.S. bombing, by a pro-Libyan Palestinian group that announced it had committed the murders in revenge for the U.S. action, is an example of what you meant by your quotation from Malcolm X? Was the slaying of an American diplomat in the Sudan, also in retaliation, an example of what you meant by being “not nonviolent”?

17. Was the blowing up of Pan Am Flight 103 an example of what you meant about Libya being “not nonviolent” in the spirit of Malcolm X?

18. Was the blowing up of UTA Flight 772 between Brazzaville and Paris on September 19, 1989 (a crime for which a French court found six Libyans guilty, sentencing them to life imprisonment in absentia) an example of what you meant about Libya being “not nonviolent” in the spirit of Malcolm X?

19. Ms. Fulani, please cite EVEN ONE passage in the writings and speeches of Malcolm X where he EVER advocated terrorist attacks on tourists in airports, the killing of 11-year-old girls, or the bombing of jetliners filled with civilians?

20. Ms. Fulani, the Anti-Defamation League has reported on its website that when Louis Farrakhan led a Nation of Islam delegation to Tripoli in 1986, he and his followers were “offered training seminars on weapons and explosives.” Because of your close relationship to the Nation of Islam at the time, and because the NOI helped to arrange your 1987 jaunt to Tripoli, I have to ask you: Were you or any other members of the NAP/IWP ever offered training in weapons and/or explosives by the Libyans? If so, did you accept? If you accepted, where did the training take place and who was involved?

21. According to an article by David Grann in the Dec. 13, 1999 issue of The New Republic, members of your underground IWP trained with semi-automatic weapons at a farm in Pennsylvania in the late 1980s. Who trained the trainers, Ms. Fulani?

22. According to the Grann article, the IWP established a weapons stockpile and a 20-person security squad. Who taught the IWP how to run an armed squad of that type, Ms. Fulani?

23. Ms. Fulani, in April 1989, four months after the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, your Castillo Center hosted a reception in New York to show “support for the Libyan people and their revolution.” According to your National Alliance newspaper, you invited Dr. Ali A. Treiki, the Libyan government’s permanent UN representative, to this event. Did the Castillo Center, NAP or any other entity of your “development community” receive financial compensation from Libya for holding this event?

24. Ms. Fulani, at the Castillo Center reception, Fred Newman urged “unconditional support” for the Gadhafi regime. How would you today, as a state official of the Independence Party, explain Mr. Newman’s statement to the parents of the 35 Syracuse University students from upstate New York who died fiery deaths on Pan Am Flight 103?

25. Ms. Fulani, why did you hire Vernon Bellecourt as your national campaign spokesman during your 1988 New Alliance Party Presidential campaign? How much did you pay Mr. Bellecourt? Why were pictures of him constantly featured in your newspaper? Were you aware of Mr. Bellecourt’s multiple trips to Libya in pursuit of funding? What legal and political support did your organization provide to him when he was jailed in September 1988 (in the middle of your campaign) for refusing to answer questions before a federal grand jury investigating the activities of Libyan agents in the United States? Did you maintain contact with him after his supposed receipt of one million dollars from the Libyan government in 1991 for dispersal to U.S. radical groups?

26. Ms. Fulani, your ally Louis Farrakhan announced in 1985 the receipt of a $5 million interest-free loan from Gadhafi. Did you and Mr. Newman subsequently discuss the possibility of getting funding of your own from Libya?

27. What help did you receive from Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam in getting invitations for New Alliance Party members to attend Gadhafi’s 1987 “peace conference”?

28. Ms. Fulani, your presidential campaign spokesman Mr. Bellecourt was quoted in your National Alliance newspaper on August 11, 1988 as stating that: “The U.S. government obviously doesn’t like the fact that independent people of color leadership in the United States aren’t buying Reagan’s lie that Libya is a ‘terrorist state’--that we know who the real terrorists are and are reaching out and building ties with our Libyan brothers and sisters.” In the light of what is now known about Pan Am Flight 103, would you still agree with Mr. Bellecourt’s statement?

29. Would you describe the relationship between the New Alliance Party and the People’s Committee for Students of Libyan Jamahariya? Did the Libyan student group provide financial assistance to NAP or any other entity of your "development community" for pro-Libya demonstrations in this country? Did the Libyan group provide financial assistance for travel by members of NAP and its controlling organization, the IWP, to Libya in violation of Executive Orders 12543 and 12544?

30. Did you or Mr. Newman or any other representative of the IWP ever solicit money from the Libyan government or from official or secret Libyan government representatives in the United States or anywhere in the world, or from the People’s Committee for Students of Libyan Jamahariya? If so, were these efforts successful? How much money was received? How was the money transferred?

31. Was your New Alliance Party or its secret underground core, the International Workers Party, ever recognized as a fraternal organization by the Libyan regime? Did meetings ever take place between officials of the NAP/IWP and officials of the Libyan government either in Tripoli, in the United States, or anywhere else in the world?

32. Would you please name all of the foreign governments and foreign political parties and so-called liberation movements that the Rainbow Lobby, a front for your International Workers Party, represented in Washington in the 1980s and 1990s?

33. Would you name all of the foreign governments and foreign political parties and so-called liberation movements that Ross & Green, a public relations firm run by two of your IWP subordinates, represented in Washington in the 1980s and 1990s?

34. Ms. Fulani, when the terrorist Abu Jihad, the mastermind of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, was finally slain by the Israelis in 1988 your newspaper published an “In Memorium” article which stated that “the international progressive community” was mourning “the loss of one of its greatest political-military tacticians.” Ms. Fulani, do you believe that the killing of innocent civilian athletes is an example of legitimate political or military tactics? Would you explain just what you think is “great” about such an action?

35. Ms. Fulani, in an open letter to Yasir Arafat published in the Sept. 30, 1993 National Alliance, you stated: “In April 1988, after the assassination of Abu Jihad, I visited the PLO’s observer mission to the United Nations to pay my respects. (I am certain that none of the American guests in attendance at the signing of the [Oslo] peace accords did so; such a gesture of humanity and solidarity has never been permitted by the Zionist lobby.)” In the light of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001 do you now believe it was a mistake to honor the memory of Abu Jihad? And do you still stand by your remarks about the “Zionist lobby”?

36. Ms. Fulani, Dr. M.T. Mehdi was nominated by your New Alliance Party in 1992 to run for the U.S. Senate on its party line and was given much favorable publicity in your National Alliance newspaper. At what point, Ms. Fulani, did you become aware that Dr. Mehdi was an ardent supporter of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman (the mastermind of the 1993 bombings at the World Trade Center who was sentenced to life in prison for a subsequent unsuccessful plot to blow up the Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel and the George Washington Bridge)? Did you and Mr. Newman thereafter distance yourselves from Dr. Mehdi?

37. Ms. Fulani, when Mohammed Salameh became the first conspirator to be arrested in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Dr. Mehdi became his advisor and held a press conference to proclaim the arrestee's innocence. On May 20, 1993 your National Alliance newspaper quoted Dr. Mehdi as asking “why the FBI was not investigating alleged Israeli involvement in the bombing.” Today, with Mr. Salameh serving a prison sentence of 240 years, and with not the slightest shred of evidence of Israeli involvement ever having been uncovered in the ensuing 12 years, do you still think that Dr. Mehdi’s statement was reasonable? Do you still think it was correct to report Dr. Mehdi’s slur against Israel in an uncritical fashion?

38. Ms. Fulani, in April 1991, leaders of the Warrior Society of the Mohawk Nation in Quebec traveled to New York City at the invitation of your Rainbow Lobby for a weekend of meetings with top members of your International Workers Party. Two months later the Warriors received a $250,000 grant from the Libyan government. Did you or any other member of the IWP participate in discussions either with the Warriors or with representatives of the Libyan government or with the Nation of Islam regarding this grant? Was the thinking at the time in the IWP that the Warrior Society and the NAP/IWP and the Libyan regime were all part of an emerging international coalition?

39. Ms. Fulani, in 1991 your Rainbow Lobby, headed by IWP member Nancy Ross who traveled to Libya with you in 1987, announced that it would hold an international conference on “Prospects for Democracy in the Third World” in Mexico City. According to the National Alliance, March 14, 1991, the Mohawk Warriors were invited to participate. Who else was invited? Did the conference ever take place? Is so, who paid for it and where did they get the money?

40. Ms. Fulani, in a September 15, 2001 letter published on the web site of your Independence Party’s think tank, you complained that in the four days since the September 11 terror attacks “virtually no one [had] raised a single question about whether any of our policies led to this calamity.” Among the policies you cited was “U.S. support for intensified Israeli aggression against the Palestinians.” “America is made vulnerable,” you said, “by the combination of our government’s aggression and arrogance.” Do you still stand by these statements?

41. Ms. Fulani, in your letter regarding 9/11 you closed with a quote from Martin Luther King: “To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world.” Why is it, Ms. Fulani, that when Americans are killed you quote Martin Luther King but when Libyan or Palestinian terrorists are killed, you quote Malcolm X? Are you willing to admit that your support for Libya being “not nonviolent” was inconsistent with your more recent advice to your fellow Americans?

C. The Newmanite Double Standard Towards the Jews

42. Ms. Fulani, considering that the Libyan government has acknowledged its guilt in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing by agreeing to pay restitution to the families of the victims, are you now willing to condemn Col. Gadhafi as a “mass murderer of people from upstate New York”?

43. Are you willing to condemn Osama Bin Laden as a “mass murderer of downstate New Yorkers”?

44. Are you willing to condemn Saddam Hussein as a “mass murderer of people of color”?

45. Are you willing to condemn the government of the Sudan as “mass murderers of people of color”?

46. Are you willing to condemn Mao Tse-tung of China, who killed or caused the death through starvation of at least 20 million Chinese, as a “mass murderer of people of color”?

47. Are you willing to condemn Pol Pot of Cambodia, who killed or caused the death through starvation or mistreatment of approximately 1.7 million Cambodians (one-fifth of the country’s total population), as a “mass murderer of people of color”?

48. Do you have evidence that the battles between the Israelis and the Palestinians have resulted in any more than a tiny fraction of the number of deaths perpetrated by Mao Tse-tung, Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein? Why then do you never condemn such regimes but only condemn Israel and the United States?

49. Are you willing to condemn Col. Gadhafi for the hundreds of Libyan dissidents and foreign nationals his secret police have killed?

50. Are you willing to condemn President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe (a great friend of your supporter on the New York City Council, Charles Barron) as a “murderer of people of color who oppose his rule”?

51. Are you willing to condemn Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah as “mass murderers” of Israeli civilians?

D. The Newmanite Programs for Children and Teenagers

52. Ms. Fulani, why did your All Stars Project claim on its website and in correspondence, while seeking city approval of its IDA bond proposal in 2000-2002, that its talent-show program was working with 20,000 kids a year? Can you explain why, if this figure is correct, All Stars’ annual nonprofit Form 990s between 1996 and 2001 reported average annual ticket receipts of less than $100,000 a year? Given that the All Stars Talent Show Network has always charged admission to both its talent shows and its auditions (and that these shows were a “cash cow” for the IWP in previous years, according to ex-members who worked for All Stars), why are the ticket receipts so small for 1996-2001? Did your charity underreport its ticket receipts--or did it in fact work with far less kids than it claimed to have worked with?

53. Consider, Ms. Fulani: If each of 20,000 kids attracted several friends and relatives to the talent shows--and especially if the participants and their parents were given blocks of tickets to sell at $10 each as was the case in the All Stars Talent Show Network’s heyday in the 1980s--wouldn’t the ticket receipts be far greater than what you reported for the years 1996-2001? Wouldn’t the receipts in fact be a half million dollars a year or more? Did the Industrial Development Agency officials in charge of due diligence on All Stars ever ask you about this discrepancy?

54. Ms. Fulani, on August 20, 2001, you wrote to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to request a meeting to discuss the status of All Stars’ application for IDA financing. In that letter you described the All Stars Talent Show Network as a program which works with “20,000 inner city youth per year.” Your All Stars organization also used the 20,000 figure in a July 14, 2000 letter to Ms. Ann Doyle of the IDA and on numerous other occasions. Did you ever subsequently reveal to Mayor Giuliani, Ms. Doyle or anyone else involved in the bond-approval process that this figure was inflated?

55. Ms. Fulani, in your letter to Mayor Giuliani, you said the purpose of the financing was to establish an “All Stars Center for Youth Development.” Isn’t it true, however, that an equally important purpose of the new center was to provide a home for the Castillo Theater, an adult enterprise that puts on plays written by Mr. Newman and other leftist playwrights (and performed by mostly adult actors) for general audiences? Why did you misrepresent the nature of the proposed center to Mr. Giuliani by withholding this material fact in your letter?

56. Ms. Fulani, the IDA Public Hearing Notice for January 7, 2002 described the All Stars Project as “a provider of theatrical and education services for New York City youth”? Where did the IDA get this inaccurate description? Did you withhold from IDA officials the extent of All Stars’ involvement in adult programs, such as the production of Mr. Newman’s postmodern Marxist plays?

57. Ms. Fulani, if your program has really been working with 20,000 kids a year, why did the All Stars Talent Show Network--the only one of your programs that has ever worked with children in fairly large numbers--report on its national calendar of events covering the four months from February through May 2003 a total of only three talent shows? Why did it have as many fundraisers as talent shows during that period?

58. Are you aware of complaints filed earlier this year with the State Attorneys of both California and New York alleging among other things that the claims about tens of thousands of kids in the talent shows are false, and citing recent shows in Los Angeles (only 30 kids participated) and New York (only 15 kids showed up)? Do you have any evidence in the form of ticket receipts, application forms, photographs, affidavits from parents or any other tangible evidence that All Stars is still putting on large and popular talent shows as it did in the 1980s?

59. Ms. Fulani, have All Stars kids ever been encouraged to participate in street petitioning and other campaign work for any electoral campaigns that you and your associates have run? Did All Stars kids work on your 1988 Presidential campaign? On your 1990 gubernatorial campaign? On your 1992 presidential campaign? On the Tom Golisano gubernatorial campaign in 1994? On the H. Ross Perot presidential campaign in 1996? On the Patrick Buchanan campaign or the John Hagelin campaign in 2000? On the Independence Party’s campaign for Michael Bloomberg in 2001? On the Independence Party primary campaign for Governor Pataki in 2002 or any other Independence Party primary campaign?

60. Ms. Fulani, All Stars received final approval of its IDA bond only four days before the IP state convention endorsed Gov. Pataki for re-election in 2002. Did you and/or other Independence Party leaders ever promise to endorse Gov. Pataki in exchange for approval of the bond? Did the Governor or any representative of the governor promise approval of the bond in exchange for the governor receiving the IP endorsement?

61. Ms. Fulani, surely you must be aware by now that the FBI in Los Angeles has received and is looking into a complaint of serious financial malfeasance by All Stars in New York City and Oakland, Cal., and by a health clinic for inner-city children in Los Angeles run by All Stars board member (and IWP member) Jim Mangia. Have you bothered to inform Mayor Bloomberg or the non-IWP members on the All Stars board about this complaint, which was made by a former employee of Mangia's clinic who provided the FBI with documentation of her charges?

62. Do you think it was right to withhold this material fact from the Wall Street bankers and corporate executives who showed up at your April 2005 Lincoln Center fundraiser to donate one million dollars to All Stars?

63. Ms. Fulani, I would like to read to you a complaint sent by Molly Hardy, formerly an employee of the St. John’s Well Child and Family Center (Jim Mangia, CEO), to Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General on January 17, 2005. Ms. Hardy explains in the complaint that she had been sent to New York in 2004 by Mr. Mangia to observe All Stars programs as part of her training. She writes: “I witnessed emotional and verbal abuse of teenagers who were brought to New York [from Oakland, Cal.] under the auspices of being ‘program leaders.’ They were put up in a flop house, verbally intimidated and abused by Lenora Fulani and worked from 6 a.m until 11:00 p.m. or later that night. They also pan handled on the streets to earn money for the trip. I also witnessed an All Stars show in the Bronx and saw children turned away in tears because they didn’t have the $5.00 entry fee (even though only 11 children showed up--they were expecting 300 and had over 50 volunteers present).” How would you respond to these allegations?

64. Could you explain why when your IWP took over the Head Start program at the Somerset Community Action Program (SCAP) in Somerset, New Jersey, in 1987, the entire teaching staff quit in protest? And why a subsequent investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services uncovered hundreds of violations of Head Start policy?

65. Could you explain why the number of children at your Barbara Taylor School, a private primary school in Harlem, dropped from over 100 to less than 20 in only a decade? Could you explain why even IWP members became reluctant to send their kids to this school? Could you describe the discussion inside the IWP leadership that resulted in the closing of the school?

66. Ms. Fulani, I show you again the article on the Barbara Taylor School from the October 6, 1988 Newsday reporting that children from the school had gone on buses to Washington to rally in support of Libya’s Col. Gadhafi. Do you think this was an appropriate activity for primary school children? Do you think any of these children were sufficiently mature to form an independent judgment regarding the IWP’s belief that Libya’s murderous dictator was some kind of Third World hero?

67. Ms. Fulani, the Newsday article also reported that Barbara Taylor School pupils were taken to Poughkeepsie, New York, to rally in support of Tawana Brawley. Were these children ever subsequently informed by their teachers that Ms. Brawley’s allegations of rape by a white prosecutor had been proven a hoax?

68. Do you think it was appropriate for teachers at the Barbara Taylor School to discuss their sex lives with the children in their classes?

69. Do you think it was appropriate for the Barbara Taylor School to practice social therapy on the school’s children?

70. Please describe how the Barbara Taylor School taught “historical materalism” to first graders?

E. Social Therapy

71. Ms. Fulani, were you ever involved in recruiting teenage social therapy patients into the underground International Workers Party aka the “Tendency”?

72. Ms. Fulani, did you or any of the other therapists at the Harlem Institute for Social Therapy ever run group therapy sessions in which teenagers were urged by other teenagers or by adult group members to join the International Workers Party aka the “Tendency”?

73. Ms. Fulani, in an interview with the New York Times Sunday magazine published on July 9, 2000 you were asked about Fred Newman’s view that there’s nothing wrong with a therapist sleeping with patients. You replied: “What he’s challenging there is the traditional assumption of how therapy works, that there has to be some distance in order for it to be helpful. And we disagree with that, not just from the vantage point of whether or not you can sleep with somebody you’re doing therapy with, but also just how close and how open you can be.” Is this still your viewpoint today? Is it the viewpoint of the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy and other social therapy institutes around the country?

74. Ms. Fulani, have you ever urged any of your social therapy patients to donate money to your charities or political campaigns--or to volunteer to work for any of your charities or political campaigns? Did therapists at your former Harlem Institute for Social Therapy ever do so? Do therapists at the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy or other social therapy institutes around the country do so?

75. Ms. Fulani, an article in the New York Observer of Dec. 6, 1999 quoted Mr. Newman as saying he lived with nine women followers and two men followers in a house on Bank Street. The article then quoted Mr. Newman’s explanation: “These are my dearest, dearest friends and colleagues who’ve spend millions of hours to build the All Stars Talent Show Network....Many of these people are women, and in the case of some of them, but not all of them, we’ve been close in all kinds of ways, including physically, and I feel thrilled about that.” To your knowledge, how many of those people are former psychotherapy patients of Mr. Newman? How many of them are former psychotherapy patients that you yourself have treated?

76. Ms. Fulani, did the Harlem Institute for Social Therapy receive Medicaid or Medicare payments? Did it receive private insurance payments?

77. Ms. Fulani, does the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy receive Medicaid or Medicare payments? Does it receive private insurance payments?

78. Ms. Fulani, did you call yourself “Dr. Fulani” at the Harlem Institute or any other social therapy institute with which you have been associated? As your psychology doctoral degree is in developmental psychology rather than clinical psychology, on what grounds did you describe yourself to patients as “Dr. Fulani.” Did you make it clear to patients that you were not a licensed clinical psychologist?

79. Ms. Fulani, why did the Harlem Institute for Social Therapy close down? Was it under investigation by any city, state or federal agency at the time it closed?

80. Ms. Fulani, would you explain to us the links between the counseling program at Erasmus High School in Brooklyn and the social therapy movement? Have kids from Erasmus ever been recruited for All Stars programs? For Youth OnStage! programs? For Independence Party petitioning? For social therapy sex-education programs?

81. Would you explain why “Let’s Talk About It,” a social therapy program at Erasmus High School, is listed as a component part of the Newmanite “development community” [jargon word for the Newmanite cult--DK] in the Winter 2000 issue of the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy’s newsletter?

82. Ms. Fulani, do you or any of your fellow social therapists discuss the concept or practice of “friendosex” or “friendosexualism” with teenagers in social therapy treatment? With teenagers in the Youth OnStage! program? With teenagers at the Joseph A. Forgione Development School for Youth? With teenagers or children in the All Stars Talent Shows? With the parents of children or teens in any of the above programs? With adult volunteers working in any of the above programs? With students or staff members at Erasmus High School?

83. Ms. Fulani, could you explain why the All Stars Talent Show Network and the Development School for Youth (both part of the All Stars Project), as well as Erasmus High School’s “Let’s Talk About It” program, are listed in the Winter 2000 issue of the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy’s newsletter as places where education in “developmental sex” is conducted?

84. Ms. Fulani, review carefully the article from the East Side Institute newsletter. Isn’t it fair to assume from the wording of the article that “developmental sex” means sex conducted within the Newmanite “development community” and/or under the ideological influence of the development community and/or with members of the development community serving as role models?

85. Ms. Fulani, your Castillo Theater on W. 42nd Street, financed through the All Stars loan from the city’s Industrial Development Agency, offered as the first production at its new location the play "Crown Heights," by Fred Newman, which has been widely reported as having blamed the 1991 pogrom in Brooklyn on the Jews. The play ran for several weeks in early 2004 starring young people from All Stars’ Youth OnStage! program. When the play closed, All Stars announced plans to organize productions of it in the city’s high schools free of charge. Were any such productions ever staged? If so, name the high schools.

86. Ms. Fulani, you met with New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein in March 2003 to discuss participation by All Stars in after-school and supplemental education programs in the city’s public schools. You met the following month with Dr. Lester Young, at that time the senior executive of the city Department of Education’s Office of Youth Development and School-Community Services, for further discussion of this topic. What precisely did you propose to Chancellor Klein and Dr. Young, and how did they respond? Did All Stars, Youth OnStage! or any other charity or mental health program within your development community become involved in the New York City public schools as a result of these meetings or as a result of further lobbying?

87. Could you please describe to us any after-school, supplemental education, or mental health programs in the New York City public schools that All Stars, the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy or any other entity in your “development community” has operated at any time in the past? Could you describe programs that you are currently operating or plan to operate in the next school year?

88. Did you discuss the role of social therapists at Erasmus High School with Schools Chancellor Klein when you met with him in March 2003? Did you discuss this topic with Dr. Young, when you met with him in April 2003? Did you ever discuss this topic with Mayor Bloomberg?

89. Ms. Fulani, the July 2003 All Stars Project Report states that you had been working for 18 months with All Stars lobbyist Jim Capalino, a former Koch administration official, who had helped you arrange “meetings with elected officials and education administrators to explore possible ways the ASP can partner with them in confronting the crisis in the public schools.” Please list each of the officials and administrators you met with and the outcome of these meetings.

90. Please list each of the officials and administrators that you and/or Mr. Capalino have met with since then as part of this lobbying campaign, and the outcome of each meeting.

F. Newmanite Views on the Family and “Friendosexualism”

91. Ms. Fulani, did you participate in or support the decision to pressure IWP member Marina Ortiz in 1990 to put her children in foster care so they wouldn’t distract her from her full-time work for the party? When Ms. Ortiz refused to obey orders, and quit the IWP, did you participate in or support the decision to evict her and her children from the Newmanite communal apartment in which they were then living?

92. Ms. Fulani, did you participate in the decision of the IWP leadership in 1984 to order IWP member Emily Carter to move to Jackson, Miss. and organize for the party there, while leaving her eight-year-old son behind in New York to live with you? Do you agree with Ms. Carter's description (in the National Alliance, Aug. 2, 1985) of conversations between you and her in which both of you supposedly agreed that the idea of a mother having to spend most of her time with a small child or else the child will think he or she is unloved, is an "oppressive" myth? Given your busy schedule, how much time per day would you estimate you spent with Ms. Carter’s child during the year or more he was in your care? What happened to Ms. Carter and her child subsequently?

93. Ms. Fulani, I show you an article from the New York Alliance of October 17, 1983, which is the text of a speech given earlier that month by Fred Newman at Columbia Teachers’ College. In this speech is the following statement: “The destruction of the bourgeois family is in fact the progressive act of smashing an institution which has evolved more and more in recent decades into a tool of political and social reaction. Destroying the bourgeois family is no more negative than destroying the U.S. nuclear arsenal or capital punishment or apartheid. It is, indeed, a distinctly positive act.” Do you agree with this statement by Mr. Newman? Do you really believe that the “bourgeois family” is as bad as “apartheid” and must be destroyed?

94. Ms Fulani, in an article entitled “Women I Live With” (Practice, Winter 1990) Mr. Newman said, “I don’t like the institution of the family in any of its forms.” What would you and Mr. Newman replace it with?

95. Ms. Fulani, your leader Mr. Newman boasts in "Women I Live With” about his ideological control over seven different women, then refers to how he’s replaced his longtime number-one woman, Hazel Daren, with a young actress. He writes: “Hazel Daren, still the dearest comrade a person could ever have, saved my life. Gabrielle Kurlander made my life.” The essay is then followed by responses from several of the women in which they all either praise Fred or praise Fred and Gabrielle (Rie) together. Is this a good example of how life is lived in the Newmanite “development community”?

96. I don’t mean to be disrespectful, Ms. Fulani, but can you see how an outsider might, after reading this article, view Mr. Newman as a “sexist pig”?

97. Ms. Fulani, in an article responding to Mr. Newman’s “Women I Live With,” a woman named Cathy Sadell, who had been recruited into the cult through Fred’s therapy in the early 1970s when she was only 16 years old, writes to Fred and Rie: “Thank you--for leading us in this difficult, passionate, sexy process of learning how to touch you and be touched, want you and be wanted, want the revolution and be wanted by it.” Would you say this statement reflects the spirit of revolutionary friendosexualism?

98. Another of Fred’s “women I live with,” Deborah Green, wrote to Fred and Rie: “And I tell you/with all my heart/that I will learn to want you/to want you/I want to be more/than an asset to the revolution, /more than cannon fodder, /more than a sacrifice/(Jesus, till now, that was truly enough for me!)/I want to want you. /And I will!” Ms. Fulani, would you characterize this poem as an example of revolutionary friendosexualism?

99. Do you or your associates at All Stars discuss “friendosexualism” or the “development community” with teenagers in the All Stars programs?

100. Ms. Fulani, the All Stars web site claims that All Stars works with children as young as five. Do you or your associates ever discuss friendosexualism or the development community with pre-teen children in the All Stars programs?

101. Did members of the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy and Fred Newman’s Performance of a Lifetime organization ever discuss friendosexualism and the development community with the children in Growing Up Performed, their program for sexually abused six to 12 year olds?

102. Do social therapists at Erasmus High School discuss friendosexualism and the advantages of joining the “development community” in their interactions with teens in the school’s “Let’s Talk About It” program?

103. Does the social therapy movement have a policy banning discussion of friendosexualism with therapy patients who are under 16 years of age? If the answer is “no,” could you please explain why such a policy has never been instituted?

104. Ms. Fulani, I show you an article by social therapist and IWP member Freda Rosen from the August 8, 1986 National Alliance newspaper describing a sex-education session she held at the IWP’s Barbara Taylor School with girls ages seven to 11. Do your believe a discussion of the difference between “fucking” and “humping” is really appropriate for seven year olds? Did the school obtain permission from the parents for this sexually explicit session in which Ms. Rosen even talked to the children about her own sex life? Is it true that even some of your supposedly liberated IWP comrades felt this article was inappropriate?

105. Ms. Fulani, what did you say when rank and file members of the IWP complained about the appropriateness of publishing Ms. Rosen’s article. Do you think it was appropriate that the newspaper’s staff included with the article a picture of the little girls Ms. Rosen had met with?

106. Ms. Fulani, I show you an article from Freda Rosen’s “Sexually Speakin’” column in the National Alliance from September 18, 1987. It contains an interview with Barbara Taylor and Gloria Strickland of the IWP’s Barbara Taylor School. When asked about how they teach children about sex, Ms. Strickland replied: “What we really teach is sexuality--that people are sexual all the time and do sex all the time even when they think they’re not doing it…” Ms. Fulani, what in the world does this statement mean?

107. Ms. Fulani, I show you an article by social therapy advocate Christine LaCerva that appeared in the book Sexuality and the Curriculum (New York: Teachers College Press, 1992). The article is entitled “Talking About Talking About Sex: The Organization of Possibilities” and it is about the use of social therapy at the Barbara Taylor School. Do you think the systematic daily use of social therapy with primary school children is an appropriate activity?

108. Ms. Fulani, the article by Ms. LaCerva discusses how to construct a “new progressive sexuality” at the Barbara Taylor School; first, among parents and teachers; and second, among the children--with the parents and teachers serving as “role models.” Can you describe to us what social therapists mean by the term “new progressive sexuality”? Is it the same thing as “friendosex”? Does it involve joining the “development community” led by Mr. Newman?

109. Ms. Fulani, the following year Ms. Strickland--the woman quoted by Freda Rosen regarding sex education at the Barbara Taylor School--was installed as executive director of the Somerset Community Action Program (SCAP) in Somerset, New Jersey as a result of community infiltration by your NAP and IWP cadre. This put her in charge of the Somerset County Head Start. To your knowledge did Ms. Strickland continue the same approach to sex education at SCAP as at the Barbara Taylor School? In general, do you think that your development community’s style of sex education should be extended to pre-school Head Start pupils?

110. Ms. Fulani, the National Alliance newspaper of July 5, 1990 described the Somerset Community Action Program as a place where, like at the Barbara Taylor School, “the social therapeutic model of education is practiced.” But the only educational program run by SCAP was the local Head Start. Please describe to us just how one goes about practicing social therapy with pre-schoolers?

111. Ms. Fulani, I quote from Schools for Growth (1997), a book by your (and Fred Newman’s) social therapy co-thinker, Lois Holzman, Ph.D. In describing the IWP’s Barbara Taylor School as of the mid-1990s, Ms. Holzman states that it had no curriculum, no set schedule, and no separate grades. She then characterizes its educational philosophy as follows: “We have constructed an approach that is post-epistemological, by which I mean a practice that rejects the modernist belief that knowing (of any sort) is the path to a better life and/or a better world (or progress or growth). Developmental learning is an attempt to give up the alienated activity/institution of knowing in favor of the noncognitive, nondualistic activity of performing.” Could you explain to us what this means?

112. Do you think that Ms. Holzman’s no curriculum/no structure/no knowledge approach might possible be a reason why enrollment in the Barbara Taylor School dropped in a decade from almost 100 to only 20 before it closed its doors forever?

113. If the New York City Schools Chancellor allows All Stars to run after-school programs in the public schools, as you have requested, would you follow Ms. Holzman’s philosophy?

114. Ms. Fulani, the literature of All Stars is full of references to the teaching of “performance.” Ms. Holzman in her book says this involves teaching kids to “perform increasingly as nonknowers”? Is Ms. Holzman’s formulation the basis of the performance learning at All Stars?

G. Newmanite Views on NAMBLA and Child Abuse

115. Ms. Fulani, your charity’s literature says that All Stars works with children as young as five. I show you a January 10, 1983 column by a New Alliance Party (NAP) leader in NAP’s former newspaper, the New York Alliance, which is one of several articles that were generally supportive of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) during a period of several months in which the FBI was arresting NAMBLA members. Do you agree with the article’s description of NAMBLA as a support organization for “men and boys involved in consensual sex”? Do you agree with the author’s lament, in referring to NAMBLA’s call for abolishing laws that ban adult-child sex, that “what is desirable (what should be) is not always what is possible”? Do you agree with the author’s contention that liberals who refused to support NAMBLA were kowtowing to “rightwing ‘morality’” and that press coverage critical of NAMBLA had “brought out the beast in liberal ideology”? Do you agree with the author’s assertion that “the FBI has no need to protect children”?

116. Can you ever think of a time when such a controversial article was published without the express approval of Fred Newman and of the IWP leadership? Did Mr. Newman and the IWP leadership in fact make a decision to run this article?

117. Ms. Fulani, it is a matter of public record that in 1992 you became the “political advisor” (and the IWP legal team became the attorneys) for Kodzo DoBosu, the adoptive father of 44 disabled and retarded children, who had been accused by New York child welfare authorities of serious physical and sexual abuse of his charges. According to the authorities, DoBosu poured scalding water on one boy’s genitals, beat several with bed slats and paddles, encouraged the older children to torture and sexually molest the younger, and personally sexually molested three. Did you thoroughly investigate this case before deciding to hold a press conference, participate in a demonstration, and appear on a talk show in support of Mr. DoBosu?

118. When Mr. DoBosu pleaded guilty to reduced charges and the court removed the adoptees from his care while barring him from ever adopting children again, did you regard this as an unfair outcome? Do you think the children should have been returned to his care?

119. Ms. Fulani, in 1988, the law firm of Kresky and Frazier, the legal arm of the Newmanite movement, undertook to defend one Sue Simmonds, a Brooklyn daycare operator accused of child neglect and sex abuse, after a judge ordered her unlicensed childcare center closed and permanently enjoined her from operating any childcare facility in New York City. Did you participate in the IWP decision to take on this case? To your knowledge was any due diligence performed ahead of time to determine if this was an appropriate client for the legal arm of the IWP to champion? Were you aware that two of the girls, ages three and four, rescued from Simmonds’s facility had chlamydia and that the four-year-old had gonorrhea of the throat? What did you think of Simmonds’ charge that the raid on her daycare center was a plot by Catholic nuns?

120. Ms. Fulani, in the mid-1990s your IWP undertook to defend one Tony Alamo, the leader of a California-based religious cult notorious for using the children of cult members as slave labor in its clothing factory. The IWP legal team undertook to handle an appeal to get Mr. Alamo out of prison where he was serving a sentence for tax evasion. The IWP public relations squad, Ross & Green, produced a report depicting Mr. Alamo’s legal problems as the result of a plot by “anti-cult” activists. Did you participate in the IWP decision to champion Mr. Alamo?

121. In making this decision, were you and your colleagues aware that Mr. Alamo had gone into hiding in 1988 after being charged with felony child abuse? Were you aware that the charges resulted from an incident in which he allegedly ordered followers to paddle an 11-year-old child 140 times with a three-foot wooden paddle? Were you aware of the allegations that he caused a nine-year-old who worked long hours in his clothing factory to be “beaten until bloody” for showing disrespect for his elders? Were you aware of the allegations that he slept with underage girls? Did you and your colleagues really conduct a thorough investigation to determine the truth or falsity of these charges before making the political decision to defend Mr. Alamo?

122. Did you participate in the IWP decision to attempt to make a hero out of the late David Koresh, the Branch Davidian cult leader, rapist of 10-year-old girls, and all-round child abuser who fried 75 of his followers (including 25 children) in a deliberately prepared firestorm rather than surrender to federal authorities on charges of killing four federal law enforcement officers? Did you and your colleagues really conduct a thorough investigation to determine whether Koresh’s heritage was worth defending before you joined in a coalition with far-right militia types on this issue?

123. Ms. Fulani, what system would you put in place in All Stars and other development community programs to keep child molesters masquerading as charity volunteers away from small children in your care? How could you and your colleagues enforce such a system properly if you don’t recognize that individuals such as DoBosu, Simmonds, Alamo and Koresh--and organizations such as NAMBLA--are a real danger to children?

124. Ms. Fulani, in the National Alliance of January 31, 1986 you were quoted in an article about a child abuse conference in Harlem you had helped to organize. You said: “At the [Harlem Institute for Social Therapy and Research], we’re not into blaming the victim--parents or children--but we do blame the very particular social institution of the family as it is organized and used. We are very forthright in saying that what a family has to be doing now, if it is not to be an institution of abuse, is to work together to overthrow the institution of the family as currently organized.” Do I understand you to say that a child who is raped and the father or stepfather who does the raping are both to be regarded equally as victims? And that the solution to such an appalling situation is to simply forge a united front of rapee and rapist in the political struggle of the IWP to overthrow the bourgeois family?

125. In the same article you are also quoted as saying that “it’s the liberals who invented categories like ‘child abuse’ to channel people’s moral outrage into the socially acceptable form of blaming the victim…” Do I understand you to say that child abuse is only an imaginary invention? Do I understand you to say that one should not feel moral outrage at a father who rapes or beats his small daughter? Or at a father such as Mr. DoBosu who committed numerous acts of sexual and physical abuse against his houseful of adopted children?

126. Ms. Fulani, in your years as a social therapist in Manhattan you must have encountered more than one young patient who was being abused by adults in his or her household. Did you ever once exercise your responsibility as a mental health worker to notify the police or the child welfare authorities?

127. What is the policy of the social therapy institutes in such situations? Are social therapists discouraged from notifying the police or child welfare authorities? Are social therapists who belong to the IWP forbidden to contact the authorities?

128. Ms. Fulani, your East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy and another IWP entity, Performance of a Lifetime, received a $71,000 grant from the Salomon Family Foundation to work with children ages six to 12 who have experienced sexual abuse. Did you inform the foundation beforehand about your organization’s stance on NAMBLA? Of your defense of Mr. DoBosu, Ms. Simmonds, Mr. Alamo and the Koresh child-abuse cult? Did you inform the Salomon Family Foundation about social therapy’s views on sex between patients and therapists?

H. The Personality Cult of Ms. Fulani

129. Ms. Fulani, I show you a poem published in the National Alliance Party newspaper of July 20, 1989 entitled “We want you Fulani.” The author of the poem, Gabrielle Kurlander, today is the President of the All Stars Project and the live-in girl friend of Fred Newman. I quote: “We want you Fulani/lead us Fulani/people are dying/you lead us/Fulani we want power/Fulani all our love/Fulani people are dying/and we want life/Fulani.” I ask you to review this poem, Ms. Fulani, and tell us if you think it is unreasonable for people to regard you as the object of a personality cult? Did you do anything to try to stop this excessively adulatory language from appearing in your newspaper?

130. Do you or do you not believe that the poem is excessively adulatory?

131. How do you interpret the phrase “Fulani we want power” in the Kurlander poem? Is this a reference to the goals of the International Workers Party?

132. Ms. Fulani, during your New Alliance Party Presidential campaign in 1992, the National Alliance newspaper published a series of brief essays by NAP (actually International Workers Party) leaders on the meaning of the campaign slogan, “Fulani for Prez: She’s a Sexual Preference.” In one of the essays, Fred Newman wrote: “It means you can vote for her with the passion you have for having good sex with someone you love….She’s the most wonderful and sexy candidate who ever lived.” Do you believe this language was excessive? Did you do anything to try to tone down the adulatory language in this and other essays in the July 2, 1992 National Alliance?

I. The Newmanites’ Secret Revolutionary Party

133. Ms Fulani, are you a member of the International Workers Party (IWP) aka the Tendency aka the Inner Core?

134. Let me be clear, Ms. Fulani. I don’t care if you have changed the party’s formal and/or euphemistic name for security reasons. In this deposition, when I refer to the IWP, I mean the revolutionary collective--whatever you choose to call it at the present moment and even if you give it no name at all--that is the central controlling force of the entities that comprise what you yourself have described as the “development community.” Are you a member of that central controlling group? Are you part of the leadership of that central controlling group?

135. Ms. Fulani, in a scholarly essay in Postmodern Psychologies, Societal Practice, and Political Life (New York: Routledge, 2000) you referred to yourself as a “revolutionary” and then defined this to mean that you are a “postmodern” Bolshevik (p. 55). Would it be fair to describe the IWP, or whatever it calls itself today, as a postmodern Bolshevik organization?

136. Ms. Fulani, I show you a document written by Dan Friedman, a longtime IWP member who is active with All Stars and the Castillo Theater. The document is entitled “Why We Do Cultural Work.” The first three sentences read as follows: “I would like to begin by reminding us that we are revolutionaries. That may seem an odd thing to say at a theatre meeting, but I think it’s important to let in. Whether we come to this work as artists, or social therapists, or community organizers or whatever, the activity we are engaged in is first and foremost revolutionary, not aesthetic.” Was this document ever published anywhere? Was it ever put on the web page of the All Stars, of which the Castillo Theater is a part? Why not?

137. Did you ever show this document to the Industrial Development Agency staff? To Mayor Giuliani? To Mayor Bloomberg? To Governor Pataki?

138. Did you ever show this document to Hunter Hunt of the Hunt oil family or any of your other wealthy contributors?

139. Did you ever show this document to the charitable giving departments at any of the corporations or Wall Street investment houses that have contributed money to All Stars and/or have served as corporate sponsors of All Stars’ annual Lincoln Center fundraising events?

140. Please tell us which of the following people are IWP members:

  • All Stars co-founder (and until recently, artistic director) Fred Newman,

  • All Stars President Gabrielle Kurlander,

  • All Stars board chairperson Susan Massad,

  • All Stars board member Jim Mangia

  • New Jersey All Stars director Gloria Strickland,

  • All Stars director of youth programs Pam Lewis,

  • New York Independence Party leader Cathy Stewart,

  • New York Independence Party leader Jacqueline Salit,

  • New York Independence Party state executive committee member Harry Kresky.

    141. Ms. Fulani, could you tell us which of the therapists at the East Side Center for Social Therapy are IWP members?

    142. Is Murray Dabby, the director of the Atlanta Center for Social Therapy, an IWP member?

    143. Ms. Fulani, I redirect your attention to the passage in Mr. Friedman’s report in which he says that whether the individual revolutionary is an artist or a social therapist or whatnot, “the activity we are engaged in is first and foremost revolutionary, not aesthetic.” Paraphrasing this passage, would it be fair to state that the activity social therapists are engaged in is first and foremost revolutionary, not therapeutic?

    144. Ms. Fulani, former IWP member Dennis Serrette in a 1987 deposition gave a detailed description, under oath, of life inside the IWP as of the year 1984. What was your title in the party at that time? What leadership body within the party did you belong to?

    145. Ms. Fulani, what was your title in the IWP and what leadership body within the party did you belong to in the late 1980s and early 1990s when you were personally known to Bill Pleasant, Kelly Gasink, Marina Ortiz and Robert Cohen, all former IWP members, as one of their top leaders?

    146. Ms. Fulani, why were IWP members told to deny the party’s existence to outsiders if asked (by journalists, for example)?

    147. Why were therapy patients and All Stars volunteers not told upfront from the beginning that they were getting involved in activities controlled by a Marxist-Leninist party?

    148. Ms. Fulani, I have here a document by one of your development community members that is entitled “Two Year Business Plan for Long Island Center & Social Work Infiltration, 2002-04.” It appears to be a detailed plan for building the influence of social therapy and the Independence Party, and eventually of All Stars, on Long Island. Why does the author use the term “Social Work Infiltration.” Is “infiltration,” as opposed to simply “networking” or “organizing,” a concept that is generally adhered to in your development community and the secret revolutionary organization?

    149. Ms. Fulani, the social work profession in the greater New York area is known for its partiality for ultraliberal and leftwing ideas. Why in the world would a leftwing organization believe that “infiltration” is a necessary tactic with New York social workers?

    150. Ms. Fulani what do you think the response would be if you told wealthy contributors such as Hunter Hunt of the Hunt oil family that the All Stars is controlled by an underground revolutionary party?

    151. Could you list all alternate names, including euphemistic names, under which the IWP has been known over the years? Why are members expected to use euphemisms in talking about the IWP with each other?

    152. Ms. Fulani, I show you a Dec. 13, 1999 article from The New Republic about you and Mr. Newman. It quotes a former IWP member, Kelly Gasink, as saying: “Every two weeks we’d go to a cell meeting…and receive a note with instructions. After everyone read the note, the cell leader would burn it.” Could you explain why the IWP instituted such a practice?

    153. Can you name a single case when the New Alliance Party failed to carry out IWP policies?

    154. Can you name a single case in which the Barbara Taylor School failed to carry out IWP policy?

    155. Can you name a single instance in which the All Stars Project leadership failed to carry out IWP policy?

    156. Can you name a single instance in which the New York County organization of the New York State Independence Party failed to carry out IWP policy?

    157. Can you name a single instance in which any entity within your “development community” failed to carry out IWP policy?

    158. Can you name a single entity in your “development community” that is not directly run by disciplined members of the secret revolutionary core?

    159. Ms. Fulani, two former patients and a former intern at the Atlanta Center for Social Therapy say that Murray Dabby and other senior staff members told them about a revolutionary core inside the social therapy movement and All Stars and said that the existence of this core had to remain a secret to avoid persecution by the FBI. But your comrade Dan Friedman in the unpublished essay “Why We Do Cultural Work,” says that because the “enemy” totally controls television, the schools and other cultural institutions, it therefore “has no need, at this point in history, to gun us down in the streets.” If this is so, why do you and your comrades continue to need an underground collective that hides its identity from the public and from most of the people it works with?

    160. Ms. Fulani, there are at least 15 small Marxist-Leninist parties in the United States. Although some members of these groups do not publicly proclaim their membership for fear of being fired by their employer, the organizations almost universally have a public existence and proudly proclaim their ideas. Furthermore, the members who work directly for the party and thus don’t have to worry about being fired by their employer openly identify themselves as party members. What is different about the IWP that it must maintain a totally underground existence?

    161. Ms Fulani, your critics say that when IWP members reveal the secret of the party’s existence to a potential recruit and persuade him or her to keep quiet because of the supposed threat from the FBI, this is really a gimmick to ensure that the potential recruit doesn’t talk about the recruitment process to family members and friends outside of Newmanite circles, thus ensuring that these family members and friends will not be able to take steps to remove the individual from the cult’s influence before he or she has been fully indoctrinated. How would you respond to such critics?

    162. Ms. Fulani I show you again The New Republic’s Dec. 13, 1999 article about you and Mr. Newman entitled “The Infiltrators.” It quotes former IWP members as saying that in the late 1980s the IWP stockpiled semiautomatic weapons, that members underwent weapons training at a farm in Pennsylvania, and that the party set up a 20-person security squad. Does the IWP or the “development community” still hoard weapons today? Does it still have an armed security team? Do members still undergo weapons training?

    163. Did you personally undergo weapons training at the Pennsylvania farm or at any other location?

    164. What happened to the semiautomatic rifles the IWP hoarded in the late 1980s?

    165. Were any members of the IWP security team ever assigned to serve as personal bodyguards for you? Did they carry firearms while guarding you? As of now does the organization provide you with a personal bodyguard?

    166. Ms. Fulani, would you explain how you and Mr. Newman intend to bring about a “postmodern” Bolshevik revolution in the United States?

    167. Have you ever informed your ally Mayor Bloomberg about your revolutionary goals and the existence of your underground organization? Have you ever informed your ally Governor Pataki? Have you ever informed Chuck Schumer? Have you ever informed Eliot Spitzer, Joe Bruno, Carolyn Maloney or any other politician who has accepted the ballot line of the Independence Party or helped the Independence Party‘s Manhattan county organization through donations?

    168. Have you ever informed your non-IWP allies within the New York Independence Party of the existence of your secret organization and of its revolutionary goals? Have you ever informed Independence Party state chairman Frank MacKay?

    169. Why did you never inform former Queens County Independence Party chairman Michael Niebauer of the existence of the underground organization during the years you worked with him inside the Independence Party?

    170. Why did you never inform former New York County Independence Party vice chairman Michael Zumbluskas of the existence of the underground organization during the years you worked with him inside the Independence Party?

    171. Have you ever told the All Stars’ donors and volunteers from the business, entertainment and philanthropy worlds that a secret revolutionary organization controls All Stars? Did you ever tell “Sopranos” star Dominic Chianese? Did you ever tell WCBS-TV anchor Dana Tyler? Did you ever tell the vice-chairman of the All Stars board of directors, Joseph Forgione (retired managing director of Merrill Lynch & Co.)? Did you ever tell board member Judith Albert (managing director, Bear Stearns)? Did you ever tell board member Greg Fortunoff (general partner, First NY Securities)? Did you ever tell board member Ron Lissak (president, Integral PET Associates)? Did you ever tell board member Andrea Tessler (partner, Family Management Corp)? Did you ever tell board member Edward Malmstrom (managing director, Merrill Lynch & Co.)? Did you ever tell board member Hunter Hunt?

    172. Ms. Fulani, do you think it right that you have an All Stars board that is half secret IWP members and half people from the corporate world, and the people from the corporate world have no idea of the real beliefs, aims and affiliations of the people they sit across the table from at a board meeting?

    173. When you solicited millions of dollars from scores of large corporations, banks and Wall Street investment houses, did you ever tell the corporate giving departments of these firms that a secret revolutionary organization controls All Stars? Did you tell American Express? Credit Suisse First Boston? Morgan Guaranty Trust? Morgan Stanley? PriceWaterhouseCoopers? Salomon Smith Barney? Bristol-Myers Squibb Company? Lehman Brothers? J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc.? Lucent Technologies? Seagram? Dun & Bradstreet? Shell Oil Company? Marsh & McLennan?

    174. Have you ever informed the mayor’s Office of Volunteers, which strongly recommends All Stars on its web site, that a secret revolutionary organization controls All Stars?

    175. Ms. Fulani, former members of the IWP have said that you and Newman regard All Stars volunteers and social therapy patients as a pool from which to select potential recruits to the party. How do you respond to this accusation?

    176. When applying for the All Stars bond, did you ever inform the NYC Industrial Development Agency of the fact that the All Stars Project is part of your “development community” and that its officers and the chairman of its board are members of a secret revolutionary organization?

    177. Ms. Fulani, does the IWP or its successor entity have a rule that once a decision is made the entire membership is obligated to carry it out, regardless of whether they agree with it? Have you ever found yourself in the position of having to carry out a collective decision of the inner core that you did not agree with? Do the rules or procedures of the inner core obligate a member to carry out a decision even if he or she regards the resulting action as unethical? Do the rules or procedures obligate a member to carry out a decision that necessitates committing an illegal act? If the inner core should order you or any other member to commit perjury in a court of law or in an affidavit or in a pre-trial deposition, would your regard this order as taking precedence over your sworn obligation to tell the truth?

    178. Have you ever personally denied the existence of the IWP when asked by an outsider?

    179. Was your performance on New York One on April 13, 2005 discussed afterwards in meetings of the inner core’s formal or informal leadership body? Who was present? Was a decision made that you should continue not to apologize for saying that Jews are “mass murderers of people of color”? Was a decision made that all members of the core should defend your statement as being “not anti-Semitic”?

    J. MORE QUESTIONS (AND MORE TO COME!)

    180. Ms. Fulani, I show you a document entitled “The All Stars Center for Youth Development Project Summary.” Prepared in year 2000 and contained in the IDA file on All Stars, this document states that part of the projected facility will be a “40-station telemarketing area for fund-raising and outreach.” I ask you, Ms. Fulani, why should the taxpayers of New York have been asked to finance a telephone boiler room operation for Fred Newman?

    181. Ms. Fulani, for many years ex-members of the IWP have charged that they were ordered by the party leadership to spend grueling long hours without pay working the boiler room phones at All Stars’ previous headquarters on Greenwich Street, raising money for various Newmanite causes and entities. They have also charged that therapy patients and other members of the development community not yet recruited to the IWP were pressured to work the phones. Ms. Fulani, isn’t the boiler room at the new All Stars facility simply an extension of this exploitation of IWP and development-community members by Mr. Newman and you?

    182. Ms. Fulani, the project summary document from year 2000 also states that the projected facility plans to house a “Fred Newman Scholarship Program” that purportedly would “provide support and training to social service professionals on the ‘front lines’ in inner city communities.” Does this program really exist? How many scholarships have been granted? What is a scholarship recipient expected to do during the period of his or her scholarship? Could you estimate what percentage of scholarship recipients have ended up joining your development community? Could you estimate what percentage of scholarship recipients have ended up joining your underground revolutionary party?

    183. Ms. Fulani, you wrote in the your Amsterdam News column of March 31, 2005 that you were an early backer of Mayor Bloomberg’s controversial New York Jets stadium project. I note that your All Stars Center in the Armory Building on the far West Side is located near the proposed stadium. Could you please tell us how much you estimate the value of the All Stars property will go up once the new stadium is complete?

    184. Ms. Fulani, in your March 31, 2005 Amsterdam News column, you wrote: “The Jets came to me to secure my support and to establish their connection to two key constituencies-inner city youth and independent voters.” Would you please tell us what you and Mr. Newman were promised by the Jets in return for your support?

    185. Ms. Fulani, please provide us with any concrete evidence that you in fact represent the “inner city youth” of New York. How many young people are currently working as interns through your dress-for-success program? How many children and youth have actually participated in All Stars Talent Show Network programs over the past year?

    186. Ms. Fulani you write in the March 31, 2005 Amsterdam News that you represent “inner city youth” and “independent voters” as your “constituencies.” Isn’t it a fair interpretation of your column to say that All Stars (which is your primary connection to “inner city youth”) is as much a political operation as a charity?

    187. Ms. Fulani, in the same column you discuss your political support for Mayor Bloomberg and then describe U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer as “another IP partner whose stock is on the rise.” You go on to point out that Senator Schumer received 215,000 votes on the IP ballot line in 2004. You then state: “Schumer once told me and a group of IP leaders that independent politics is the wave of the future. He, for one, has figured out how to ride that wave to considerable benefit.” Ms. Fulani, Chuck Schumer is one of the most powerful Democrats in the U.S. Senate. I therefore feel it necessary to ask you: Have you ever discussed with the senator or with any aide or other close associate of the senator the possibility of receiving help regarding the FBI’s investigation of All Stars?

    188. Ms. Fulani, name the Independence Party leaders who were present when Senator Schumer allegedly told them they were the “wave of the future.” How many of the IP leaders present in the room were also members of the underground International Workers Party?

    PART III. TO THE CITY COUNCIL: DON’T STOP WITH A MERE RESOLUTION--HOLD PUBLIC HEARINGS!

    It would be intolerable if the City Council contented itself with a pro forma (and toothless) resolution condemning a single statement by a single member of the Newmanite cult, while ignoring the fact that the Mayor’s (and the Industrial Development Agency’s) support for the cult’s All Stars charity has placed children and teenagers at risk of exploitation. The City Council should not only pass a resolution but also SCHEDULE HEARINGS AND LAUNCH A FULL-SCALE INVESTIGATION to determine just how and why All Stars ended up with an $8.5 million IDA loan to purchase a center to indoctrinate young people with anti-Semitism, “post-modern” Bolshevism, friendosexualism, and an utterly mad variety of psychotherapy.

    The focus should be on finding answers to the following questions:

  • Why didn’t the IDA staff and the mayor’s office perform a thorough background investigation on the All Stars applicants prior to final bond approval on May 14, 2002, especially since daily newspapers in New York had been warning ever since the previous August about the strange extremist background of the people running All Stars and questioning the propriety of taxpayer dollars being used to support such a group’s work with young people? Why didn’t the IDA and the Mayor’s office review the revolutionary, anti-Semitic and psychosexually-charged writings of Mr. Newman (All Stars’ then artistic director) and Ms. Fulani (All Stars’ putative co-founder with Mr. Newman)? Why didn’t they review copies of Newman and Fulani’s former newspaper, the National Alliance? Why didn’t they review the many investigative pieces about the Newman cult that had appeared in The Voice, Newsday, The Nation, The New Republic and other publications over the previous 25 years? Why didn’t they interview former members of the cult?

  • Why didn’t the IDA staff or the mayor’s office inquire into the questionable history of the Newmanites’ previous forays into working with children and teenagers: the private unlicensed high school on the Upper West Side in the 1970s (used by Newman to recruit teenage girls into the cult); the Head Start program in New Jersey in the 1980s (where the entire teaching staff quit when the Newmanites announced a program of politico-sexual indoctrination); the private Barbara Taylor primary school in Harlem in the 1980s and 1990s (a vehicle for politicizing of children and for their use as subjects in social-therapy experimentation); and the still existing if largely inactive All Stars Talent Show Network (used in past years to recruit campaign workers for Fulani’s campaigns and as a cash cow for the cult’s other enterprises)?

  • Why didn’t the IDA staff and/or the Mayor’s office make inquiries about Fulani’s dubious claims circa 2001-2002 that All Stars was working with 20,000 children and teenagers a year? Why didn’t this claim trigger alarms that something about this application was not quite right?

  • Why didn’t the IDA staff and/or the Mayor’s office investigate the adult component of All Stars, the Castillo Center, which was to share (and does today share) the new facility on W. 42nd Street with the various All Stars youth programs? Why didn’t anyone scrutinize the Castillo Center’s well-publicized history of sponsoring anti-Semitic plays, pro-terrorist political events, social therapy nudie shows, group sex art exhibits and the like?

  • Did the IDA staff perform any but the most superficial due diligence before forwarding the All Stars bond proposal to the IDA board for final approval?

  • Did representatives of the mayor’s office exert pressure on the IDA staff to give the bond proposal a stamp of approval?

  • Did representatives of the mayor’s office pressure the IDA board members (most of whom were appointees of the current mayor) to approve the bond proposal?

  • What relationship if any exists between the IDA board’s final approval of the All Stars bond on May 14, 2002 and the New York State Independence Party’s nomination of Governor Pataki for its ballot line only four days later at an IP state convention controlled by Newman, Fulani and their followers?

  • Why was the All Stars Project (whose co-founder Fulani blamed 9/11 on the “arrogance” of the U.S. government) given priority in financial aid over the hero firefighters and police officers of 9/11--why couldn’t Mayor Bloomberg find the financial resources to keep open Brooklyn firehouses in 2003 after he had lavished aid on the Newmanites’ youth program?

  • And finally: What did the Mayor know about the true nature of All Stars and the Newman-Fulani cult, and when did he know it? Just how close are the personal and political relationships between the Mayor and leading members of the cult?

    Yes, let’s have full public hearings. I’m sure that many ex-Newmanites would be willing to come forward and reveal things before the TV cameras in the City Council chambers that would send shock waves through New York politics. Let all the facts emerge not only about the cult but about the cynical horse-trading that resulted in former Mayor Giuliani, Governor Pataki and especially Mayor Bloomberg joining to reward an anti-Semitic cult-racket because it controls a convenient electoral ballot line. Let it all come out, and then let the voters and taxpayers--and most important, the PARENTS of New York City--decide whether the many politicians, both Republican and Democrat, who have protected the Newman cult and promoted its youth charities are fit to remain in office.

    PART IV. A FORMER FOLLOWER OF NEWMAN AND FULANI SPEAKS OUT

    “The International Workers Party’s self-appointed task, as presented to me and to others when we were offered membership in it, was to incite and execute a Marxist-Leninist coup d’état against the government of the United States of America.”--An ex-member of the IWP cadre aka “The Tendency”

    The writer of the comments and suggested questions that appear below, Jeremiah Duboff, was a New Alliance Party activist, social therapy client, and member of the IWP cadre in the 1990s. He has since severed all ties with the IWP. His questions for Fulani are trenchant and hard-hitting; indeed, it would be difficult to imagine a question more devastating than Mr. Duboff’s Question No. 9 under “New Questions.”

    A. COMMENTS AND FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS TO THOSE ALREADY PUBLISHED

    Comments on Part I:

    While Fred Newman and Lenora Fulani are receiving special scrutiny in New York City due to the current mayoral campaign, do not let readers forget that the International Workers Party is and has always been a national enterprise. (By definition its ambitions are international, too, although that’s mostly rhetorical.) Concerns about the IWP in the New York metropolitan area should therefore always be extended to its projects now underway in other American cities. These include but are not limited to: Atlanta, Austin, Birmingham, Boston, Saratoga Springs (NY), Philadelphia, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington DC, and even Toronto, Canada.

    “Social therapy” and the All Stars youth programs are currently the IWP’s principal projects in these cities. However, you must not let readers forget that, simply put, the IWP’s current dominance of the New York State Independence Party and the influence it exerts on New York politics are just a small-scale version of the influence it has constantly intended to exert on the national body politic. The principal vehicles for this ambition were its top-down-controlled New Alliance Party (now defunct) and the factional influence it exerted in the Reform Party for much of the 1990s and through the 2000 presidential election. For several years the IWP attempted, but failed, to gain an ascendance in the Peace and Freedom Party of California similar to what it enjoys in the Independence Party of New York. Had the IWP done so, political aspirants in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, and Sacramento would conceivably be courting the IWP’s support today in a fashion similar to what goes on in New York. In recent years the IWP has tried to influence politics around the country through its New York-based Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP) and through regional front organizations such as the Alabama Independent Movement (Birmingham), Coalition for Political Reform (Los Angeles), Committee for an Independent Voice (San Francisco), and Independent Texans (Austin).

    Follow-up questions and comments for Part II:

    Question 140: Ms. Fulani, although you were Chairperson of the New Alliance Party for several years, NAP also maintained a “National Executive Board” for part or all of its existence. When, exactly, did the National Executive Board exist? What were its functions? Did it have a written charter charging it with specific tasks and providing rules for its conduct and membership? When and where did it meet? Were minutes kept of its meetings? If so, where are they now? Who exactly composed its membership? Which of its members were also members of the IWP cadre? Was membership in the IWP cadre a prerequisite to be on it? How many NAP National Executive Board members were practicing “social therapists”? Were NAP National Executive Board members among those who received weapons training? Were NAP National Executive Board members among those who traveled to Libya?

    Questions 141 and 142: Since the inception of “social therapy” in the 1970s, precisely how many individuals have completed training to become a “social therapist”? Precisely how many individuals have completed such training in the past 10 years? In the past five years? In the past one year? How many individuals are currently in training to become “social therapists”? How many “social therapists” are or have ever been members of the IWP cadre? What percentage of “social therapists” does this figure comprise? Is membership in the IWP cadre a requirement in order to become a practicing “social therapist”?

    Comment on Question 146: The IWP’s self-appointed task, as presented to me and to others when we were offered membership in it, was to incite and execute a Marxist-Leninist coup d’état against the government of the United States of America.

    Comment on Question 151: “International Workers Party” and “IWP” were terms kept hidden from me during my time of membership in the underground organization. It was, however, consistently referred to as the “cadre” and the “Tendency” (though never as the “central core” or “core collective”). Individual members were consistently referred to as “cadre” or “M-L’s” (Marxist-Leninists).

    Comment on Question 152: Directives were issued verbally, without a paper trail, at secret biweekly cadre meetings held in members’ apartments.

    Comment on Question 175: Each on-paper organization, current and defunct, is or was, from a Marxist-Leninist perspective, a “tactic”. Each organization was a tactic by which to recruit financial contributors and activists. Out of individuals thus recruited, those who demonstrated the most effective, consistent, and loyal commitment were later offered membership in the IWP cadre.

    B. NEW QUESTIONS

    1. Ms. Fulani, what in your opinion were the merits of the large 1991 “social therapy” experiment, informally called “Mob Therapy”? “Mob Therapy” consisted of approximately 100 patients and 3 “therapists” (including Fred Newman) and was held inside the Castillo Theatre. Its explicit purpose was “to be giving to Fred.” As a practicing social therapist and one of Fred Newman’s closest colleagues, Ms. Fulani, you must have had some familiarity with this “Mob Therapy” experiment. Please explain your understanding of the “mob” approach to therapy. How is joining a mob - and one dedicated to “being giving to Fred Newman” - supposed to help cure patients' emotional ills? How is concentrating on "being giving to Fred Newman" supposed to help anybody besides Fred Newman?

    2. Ms. Fulani, at least two former Black Panther Party members have worked closely with the IWP (one in Boston and New York and another in Los Angeles) and may have been members of the IWP cadre. How many other former Black Panther Party members have worked closely with the IWP? How many of these were or are IWP cadre? The Black Panther Party had a well-documented record of light and heavy weapons training. Which, if any, former Black Panther Party members either provided weapons training to or received such training from IWP cadre?

    3. In your 1993 autobiography The Making of a Fringe Candidate, Ms. Fulani, you praised a former member of the Greek Communist Party for leaving Greece to come to the United States and dedicate herself to working for the IWP front organization the Castillo Theatre. We’ve now noted that the IWP has welcomed activists with previous membership in the Black Panther Party and the Greek Communist Party. Ms. Fulani, which other current or former members of other communist or otherwise totalitarian or revolutionary political parties have enhanced the membership of the IWP cadre or of any of its front organizations? In the event that current or former members of organizations identified at any time by the United States government as terrorist organizations, such as Hezbollah or the Muslim Brotherhood, expressed a desire to work in any IWP organization, would you welcome them?

    4. In the early 1990s, around the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the governments of its European satellites, Fred Newman published an article in the IWP magazine Probe, entitled “Communism is Dead. Long Live Communism!” Ms. Fulani, do you regret the collapse of the Soviet Union? Do you support the communist governments of North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, and China today and wish for their continued existence?

    5. Ms. Fulani, the IWP’s opposition to the United States’ efforts to contain Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq is well documented. (To give just one example, the IWP’s party newspaper, the National Alliance, published an article around the time of Operation Desert Storm entitled “My Man Saddam”.) Ms. Fulani, what was the nature of the IWP’s opposition to the United States and, indeed, to broad portions of the international community in their diplomatic and military efforts to contain and later overthrow Saddam Hussein?

    6. In 1991, Ms. Fulani, around the time of Operation Desert Storm, an article appeared under your name in the IWP magazine Probe. It was entitled "Fascists Come in All Colors … Including Black." The article clearly suggests that then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell was a fascist, since photos of Chairman Powell and General Norman Schwarzkopf are featured prominently on either side of the article’s headline. COLIN POWELL BLACK FASCISTMs. Fulani, are you the actual author of the Probe article in question? Or was the author rather another IWP member, or members, and your high profile as an African-American woman in the New Alliance Party made you the right strategic choice to ascribe it to? Regardless of who the article’s author is, Ms. Fulani, when it appeared did you believe that Colin Powell, by performing his duties as America’s highest-ranking military officer, was a fascist?

    7. In August of 2000, Ms. Fulani, you signed “A Letter to Colin Powell” (Click HERE to view letter) in which you praised the retired general’s speech before that year’s Republican National Convention. You state in the letter:

    “[L]iberal political and journalistic commentary on your appearance and on the Republican Convention called it a ‘minstrel show’…. But I suspect that what is most agonizing for the liberal commentators is that you, in particular, were on that stage. Why does that upset them so? Because someone of your stature cannot easily be reduced to a ‘minstrel’ or to window dressing.”

    Ms. Fulani, are you the actual author of this letter? Or is the author rather another IWP member, or members, and your high profile as an African-American woman in the national Reform Party and the New York Independence Party made you the right strategic person to ascribe it to? How do you explain the contradiction between your attitude toward Colin Powell in 1991 and your attitude toward him in 2000? In a book published in 2000, Ms. Fulani, you described yourself as still being a “revolutionary.” Is it not reasonable to ask whether as a “revolutionary” in 2000 you still believed that the future secretary of state was a fascist? And whether your praise for his speech at the 2000 Republican convention was merely another IWP “tactic”? Do you in fact believe TODAY that Colin Powell is a fascist? If, as was once rumored, Colin Powell were to run for governor of New York on the Republican Party line, would you and/or the New York Independence Party consider endorsing his candidacy? If he were to run, and you were to endorse him, would you publicly disclose to him the 1991 article ascribed to you which suggests that he is a fascist? And if you were to publicly disclose that article, Ms. Fulani, might the voting public then be inclined to doubt not the character, judgment, and political inclinations of Colin Powell, but those of Lenora Fulani?

    8. In 1986 an unspecified number of individuals from the Castillo Cultural Center calling themselves “The Artists’ Committee” penned a manifesto entitled “Seven Theses on Revolutionary Art” which later appeared in the May/June 1989 issue of the IWP magazine Stono. In this tract, the authors state, among other things, that “THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES IS BLACK HISTORY--i.e., the history of white racist oppression against people of color and their war of resistance tempered in love and irony….” By 1986, Ms. Fulani, you had already established yourself within the IWP ranks as a leading spokesperson; in fact you ran for governor of New York that year. Did the statement by “The Artists’ Committee” reflect your conception of and understanding of American history when you presented yourself to New York voters in 1986? Did it reflect your conception and understanding of American history during your presidential campaigns of 1988 and 1992? Does it reflect your conception and understanding of American history today?

    9. The “Seven Theses on Revolutionary Art” states further:

    “If [President] George [H. W.] Bush, a former head of the CIA, a man whom Minister Louis Farrakhan described as dripping with the blood of people of color around the world, can celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, the historical King, the martyred King, then we must conclude that the Black History that Bush and his ilk FULANI SMELLS THE BLOOD OF PEOPLE OF COLOR ON BUSH'S HANDScan crow over is not the History of African American people but no more than the howl of jackals at the smell of blood.”

    On March 8, 2002, former president George H. W. Bush presented a longstanding All Stars’ personality, Nichelle “Brown Eyes” Brown (who is African-American), with a Daily Points of Light award (Click HERE for article). In your opinion, Ms. Fulani, did the former president in any way resemble a jackal howling at the smell of blood when he bestowed this award on your associate, Ms. Brown? Or when he posed with you and Ms. Brown for a picture which was then published on the All Stars website to attract wealthy donors to your charity?

    If not, then in your opinion, Ms. Fulani, what sea change could the 41st president possibly have undergone during the intervening years? Before Mr. Bush presented the award, did a representative of the All Stars or any other IWP-derived organization inform him that at one time he had been characterized in such terms by an IWP publication? In addition, did anyone from All Stars or any other IWP-derived organization ever inform Mr. Bush that the IWP theoretical magazine, Practice, once portrayed him on its cover with a picture of his face cut-and-pasted over the picture of a hooded Ku Klux Klansman brandishing a rifle? Click HERE for image. If he was not informed of either of these characterizations in IWP publications, Ms. Fulani, wouldn't it have been because you and/or All Stars feared that the former president, had he been aware of how publications closely affiliated with All Stars had characterized him, might well have reconsidered bestowing a Daily Points of Light award on any All Stars personality?

    10. Ms. Fulani, in recent presidential elections you and the IWP endorsed Pat Buchanan (2000) and Ralph Nader (2004). At the time the endorsements were granted, did you or other IWP members inform them of the Marxist-Leninist inspiration behind the IWP?

    11. On September 6, 1989, a press release issued by Vision Communications on behalf of the Castillo Cultural Center (the former having once been the in-house public relations arm of the latter) announced the center’s upcoming “Festival of Revolution,” by asking provocatively, “Can it happen here, in America?” Is this speculation, or expectation, still the guiding idea behind the Castillo Cultural Center, which today is a part of the All Stars Project, and thus a recipient of financial subsidies from the taxpayers of New York City?

    PART V. AN EX-LEADER OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS PARTY SPEAKS OUT

    QUESTION FOR LENORA FULANI: According to an Oct. 6, 1988 article in Newsday, students and some parents from the IWP's now-defunct Barbara Taylor School in Harlem "went in busloads to a demonstration in Washington, D.C. 'memorializing those who suffered in the [U.S.] bombing of Libya.'" Who paid for those buses?

    ANSWER FROM WILLIAM PLEASANT: The Libyans.

    [William Pleasant, a former top leader of the IWP, provides answers below from his own observations, experience and political viewpoint to questions 8 through 41 of the "179 Questions for Lenora Fulani." Mr. Pleasant expresses herein certain political opinions that many readers will disagree with, but I have found him to be a reliable source of on-target analysis of the psychology and dynamics of Newman's inner core--as have other journalists writing on the Newmanites over the past decade and a half. In my opinion, his far-left views render his testimony about the IWP's dealings with Libya all the more credible.--DK]

    My name is William Pleasant. I was a Central Committee Member of the IWP from 1986 to 1992--when I was expelled from the IWP for raising questions about the misuse of Party funds after the 1992 US Presidential election. I can answer some questions that have to do with the IWP, Dennis.

    In retrospect, the IWP had two trends: 1) it was a legitimate new left organization; 2) it was a cult, manipulated by Fred Newman and his groupies. The IWP existed in that social conflict during my membership. In the end, the IWP was obliterated by Newman's faux psychotherapy cult. That is my conclusion.

    8. Ms. Fulani, who paid for the trip of you and four other members of your New Alliance Party (NAP)--the predecessor of your current Independence Party faction--to Libya to attend Col. Gadhafi's "Peace Gathering" on April 12-14, 1987?

    ANS: The Libyan government, through a slush fund operated by Louis Farrakhan and administered by Akbar Muhammad of the NOI (aka Larry 2X).

    9. Did any members of your underground International Workers Party (IWP), the controlling entity within NAP, subsequently travel to Libya on any other occasions?

    ANS: Yes!

    Were any members of your IWP in Libya in February 1988; if so, why? Did any members of your IWP ever receive any kind of training in weapons and explosives from the Libyan regime?

    ANS: NO!

    10. Ms. Fulani, a national rally was held in Washington to coincide with the final ceremonies of the Libyan conference. According to the U.S. Justice Department, the Libyan government paid $250,000 to organize this event. According to your own National Alliance newspaper (April 24, 1987), a contingent from NAP participated. Did NAP receive travel expenses or any other payment for its participation, either from the Libyan intelligence front known as the People's Committee for Students of Libyan Jamahariya or from any other source?

    ANS: YES!

    11. Ms. Fulani, according to an Oct. 6, 1988 article in Newsday, students and some parents from the IWP's now-defunct Barbara Taylor School in Harlem "went in busloads to a demonstration in Washington, D.C. 'memorializing those who suffered in the [U.S.] bombing of Libya.'" Who paid for those buses?

    ANS: The Libyans.

    12. When you traveled to Libya, were you aware that Gadhafi was planning to use the conference as a springboard for setting up a pro-terrorist Tripoli-based "international" involving the IRA, the Nation of Islam, the Palestine Liberation Organization and even neo-Nazi skinheads? Did you or any other members of the NAP delegation have discussions at the conference with delegates from the IRA, the PLO, the Basque ETA or any other organization commonly regarded as terrorist?

    ANS: The IRA and ETA and elements of the PLO were present in Libya at that time. There were never any serious discussions between the IWP and these organizations. It was all a fashion show.

    13. Ms. Fulani, the Tripoli conference was attended by a Canadian journalist from Southam News named Christoph Halens who was working on an expose of Gadhafi's plans for the Tripoli-based "international." Did Mr. Halens interview you or any other member of the NAP delegation?

    ANS: NO.

    Did you discuss Mr. Halens' questions afterwards with any of your Libyan hosts? What did you think when Mr. Halens fell or was pushed from a hotel window to his death on April 14? Did you or any of your fellow NAP delegates accept the Libyan government's story that Mr. Halens had became so shocked and depressed by a museum exhibit of the effects of the 1986 U.S. bombing of Libya that he committed suicide as some kind of anti-imperialist protest?

    ANS: The central committee of the IWP did not.

    Did you raise any questions about the cause of Mr. Halens' death after you returned to safety in the United States?

    ANS: The Central Committee of the IWP did not.

    14. Ms. Fulani, you were quoted in the April 24, 1987 National Alliance as saying "It was so extraordinarily moving, so powerful to be part of an entire nation's demonstration against U.S. militarism and racism." In the light of the Gadhafi regime's mass murder of 270 persons (189 of them your fellow Americans) in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing on Dec. 21, 1988, are you willing to reevaluate your statement? Do you have regrets over participating in the Tripoli conference? Would you be willing to issue a public apology to the families of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 for your support of Gadhafi?

    ANS: Ask Fulani and Fred Newman.

    15. Ms. Fulani, you appeared at a Nation of Islam function in Chicago in November 1987 in honor of Abdul Akbar Muhammad, an aide to Louis Farrakhan. Speaking as the "national spokesperson" of the New Alliance Party you made the following remarks: "I had the honor of being in Libya with Brother Akbar as part of an international peace delegation. During that trip I often thought of the words of Malcolm X who responded to charges that he advocated violence by saying, "We are not a violent people. We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us. But we are not nonviolent with people who are not nonviolent with us." Consider the context, Ms. Fulani. On Dec. 27, 1985 Palestinian terrorists sponsored by Libya launched attacks with grenades and automatic weapons at airports in Rome and Vienna that resulted in the deaths of 16 people, five of them Americans (including an 11-year-old girl). On April 5, 1986 the Libyans orchestrated a bombing attack on a Berlin disco frequented by U.S. servicemen, killing two of our soldiers and wounding 79 of them along with over 100 non-Americans. The U.S. government then bombed Libya later that month. On the anniversary of that bombing you went to Libya to protest against the U.S. attack while remaining silent about the prior Libyan actions, and toured the bombing sites. Can you see why a reasonable person might interpret your quotation of Malcolm X as an expression of support for further Libya-sponsored attacks against the United States?

    ANS: This is a bullshit ADL question. It is nonsense.

    16. Ms. Fulani, would you say that the killing of one American and two British citizens in Beirut two days after the U.S. bombing, by a pro-Libyan Palestinian group that announced it had committed the murders in revenge for the U.S. action, is an example of what you meant by your quotation from Malcolm X? Was the slaying of an American diplomat in the Sudan, also in retaliation, an example of what you meant by being "not nonviolent"?

    ANS: Nonsense question.

    17. Was the blowing up of Pan Am Flight 103 an example of what you meant about Libya being "not nonviolent" in the spirit of Malcolm X?

    ANS: Nonsense question.

    18. Was the blowing up of UTA Flight 772 between Brazzaville and Paris on September 19, 1989 (a crime for which a French court found six Libyans guilty, sentencing them to life imprisonment in absentia) an example of what you meant about Libya being "not nonviolent" in the spirit of Malcolm X?

    ANS: Nonsense question. State Department/zionist moralism and baiting. Unprofessional.

    19. Ms. Fulani, please cite EVEN ONE passage in the writings and speeches of Malcolm X where he EVER advocated terrorist attacks on tourists in airports, the killing of 11-year-old girls, or the bombing of jetliners filled with civilians?

    ANS: Nonsense question.

    20. Ms. Fulani, the Anti-Defamation League has reported on its website that when Louis Farrakhan led a Nation of Islam delegation to Tripoli in 1986, he and his followers were "offered training seminars on weapons and explosives." Because of your close relationship to the Nation of Islam at the time, and because the NOI helped to arrange your 1987 jaunt to Tripoli, I have to ask you: Were you or any other members of the NAP/IWP ever offered training in weapons and/or explosives by the Libyans? If so, did you accept? If you accepted, where did the training take place and who was involved?

    ANS: No. Never happened. No IWP cadre were ever trained to do anything in Libya.

    21. According to an article by David Grann in the Dec. 13, 1999 issue of The New Republic, members of your underground IWP trained with semi-automatic weapons at a farm in Pennsylvania in the late 1980s. Who trained the trainers, Ms. Fulani?

    ANS: Ex-US military personnel who were members of the IWP.

    22. According to the Grann article, the IWP established a weapons stockpile and a 20-person security squad. Who taught the IWP how to run an armed squad of that type, Ms. Fulani?

    ANS: Ex-US military personnel.

    23. Ms. Fulani, in April 1989, four months after the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, your Castillo Center hosted a reception in New York to show "support for the Libyan people and their revolution." According to your National Alliance newspaper, you invited Dr. Ali A. Treiki, the Libyan government's permanent UN representative, to this event. Did the Castillo Center, NAP or any other entity of your "development community" receive financial compensation from Libya for holding this event?

    ANS: To the best of my knowledge, YES!

    24. Ms. Fulani, at the Castillo Center reception, Fred Newman urged "unconditional support" for the Gadhafi regime. How would you today, as a state official of the Independence Party, explain Mr. Newman's statement to the parents of the 35 Syracuse University students from upstate New York who died fiery deaths on Pan Am Flight 103?

    ANS: Nonsense question, unprofessional.

    25. Ms. Fulani, why did you hire Vernon Bellecourt as your national campaign spokesman during your 1988 New Alliance Party Presidential campaign? How much did you pay Mr. Bellecourt?

    ANS: Bellecourt was paid $350 per week, with perks.

    Why were pictures of him constantly featured in your newspaper? Were you aware of Mr. Bellecourt's multiple trips to Libya in pursuit of funding?

    ANS: Yes.

    What legal and political support did your organization provide to him when he was jailed in September 1988 (in the middle of your campaign) for refusing to answer questions before a federal grand jury investigating the activities of Libyan agents in the United States?

    ANS: Full IWP support was given to Vernon Bellecourt. That's why he walked free and the AAPRP's Bob Brown didn't. Just for the record. [Editor's note: The AAPRP is the All-African People's Revolutionary Party.]

    Did you maintain contact with him after his supposed receipt of one million dollars from the Libyan government in 1991 for dispersal to U.S. radical groups?

    ANS: The IWP never received any money from Vernon Bellecourt, Vernon Bellecourt was an employee of the IWP. This is a false statement and more nonsense.

    26. Ms. Fulani, your ally Louis Farrakhan announced in 1985 the receipt of a $5 million interest-free loan from Gadhafi. Did you and Mr. Newman subsequently discuss the possibility of getting funding of your own from Libya?

    ANS: Yes. Fred Newman believed that he could ride Khadafi's jock. That position was not supported by the central committee of the IWP. Newman may have made his own deals, but not with the support of the organization. That is a fact.

    27. What help did you receive from Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam in getting invitations for New Alliance Party members to attend Gadhafi's 1987 "peace conference"?

    ANS: It was a totally Farrakhan affair. Farrakhan brought the IWP to Khadafi's conference.

    28. Ms. Fulani, your presidential campaign spokesman Mr. Bellecourt was quoted in your National Alliance newspaper on August 11, 1988 as stating that: "The U.S. government obviously doesn't like the fact that independent people of color leadership in the United States aren't buying Reagan's lie that Libya is a 'terrorist state'--that we know who the real terrorists are and are reaching out and building ties with our Libyan brothers and sisters." In the light of what is now known about Pan Am Flight 103, would you still agree with Mr. Bellecourt's statement?

    ANS: Nonsense question.

    29. Would you describe the relationship between the New Alliance Party and the People's Committee for Students of Libyan Jamahariya?

    ANS: No political relationship existed.

    Did the Libyan student group provide financial assistance to NAP or any other entity of your "development community" for pro-Libya demonstrations in this country? Did the Libyan group provide financial assistance for travel by members of NAP and its controlling organization, the IWP, to Libya in violation of Executive Orders 12543 and 12544?

    ANS: The money flowed in the form of cash from the Libyan government.

    30. Did you or Mr. Newman or any other representative of the IWP ever solicit money from the Libyan government or from official or secret Libyan government representatives in the United States or anywhere in the world, or from the People's Committee for Students of Libyan Jamahariya?

    ANS: Never happened in the name of the IWP. What Newman did, I don't know.

    If so, were these efforts successful? How much money was received? How was the money transferred?

    ANS: No money was received after 1988.

    31. Was your New Alliance Party or its secret underground core, the International Workers Party, ever recognized as a fraternal organization by the Libyan regime?

    ANS: NO.

    Did meetings ever take place between officials of the NAP/IWP and officials of the Libyan government either in Tripoli, in the United States, or anywhere else in the world?

    ANS: Yes.

    32. Would you please name all of the foreign governments and foreign political parties and so-called liberation movements that the Rainbow Lobby, a front for your International Workers Party, represented in Washington in the 1980s and 1990s?

    ANS: Objectively speaking, the Rainbow Lobby represented nobody other than Fred Newman and his shakedown tactic against the white, liberal middle class. Subsequently, the IWP was a failure in respect to material support to the international anti-imperialist movements.

    33. Would you name all of the foreign governments and foreign political parties and so-called liberation movements that Ross & Green, a public relations firm run by two of your IWP subordinates, represented in Washington in the 1980s and 1990s?

    ANS: No idea. Maybe Bloomberg and Spitzer.

    Green and Ross represented Fred Newman, not the IWP, nor any liberation movement. Rainbow Lobby was a scam milked by Newman. Rainbow Lobby was Newman's moneymaker before the All-Stars shakedown of minority kids.

    34. Ms. Fulani, when the terrorist Abu Jihad, the mastermind of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, was finally slain by the Israelis in 1988 your newspaper published an "In Memorium" article which stated that "the international progressive community" was mourning "the loss of one of its greatest political-military tacticians." Ms. Fulani, do you believe that the killing of innocent civilian athletes is an example of legitimate political or military tactics? Would you explain just what you think is "great" about such an action?

    ANS: Nonsense question.

    35. Ms. Fulani, in an open letter to Yasir Arafat published in the Sept. 30, 1993 National Alliance, you stated: "In April 1988, after the assassination of Abu Jihad, I visited the PLO's observer mission to the United Nations to pay my respects. (I am certain that none of the American guests in attendance at the signing of the [Oslo] peace accords did so; such a gesture of humanity and solidarity has never been permitted by the Zionist lobby.)" In the light of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001 do you now believe it was a mistake to honor the memory of Abu Jihad? And do you still stand by your remarks about the "Zionist lobby"?

    ANS: Nonsense question.

    36. Ms. Fulani, Dr. M.T. Mehdi was nominated by your New Alliance Party in 1992 to run for the U.S. Senate on its party line and was given much favorable publicity in your National Alliance newspaper. At what point, Ms. Fulani, did you become aware that Dr. Mehdi was an ardent supporter of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman (the mastermind of the 1993 bombings at the World Trade Center who was sentenced to life in prison for a subsequent unsuccessful plot to blow up the Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel and the George Washington Bridge)? Did you and Mr. Newman thereafter distance yourselves from Dr. Mehdi?

    ANS: Dr. Muhammad Mehdi was a close family friend. He was the organizer of Malcolm X's hajj. He was a US-trained constitutional scholar. He had no connection to Omar Abdel Rahman (a CIA employee) who had no connection to the 1993 WTC bombing. Go ask the government of Sudan and the FBI.

    37. Ms. Fulani, when Mohammed Salameh became the first conspirator to be arrested in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Dr. Mehdi became his advisor and held a press conference to proclaim the arrestee's innocence. On May 20, 1993 your National Alliance newspaper quoted Dr. Mehdi as asking "why the FBI was not investigating alleged Israeli involvement in the bombing." Today, with Mr. Salameh serving a prison sentence of 240 years, and with not the slightest shred of evidence of Israeli involvement ever having been uncovered in the ensuing 12 years, do you still think that Dr. Mehdi's statement was reasonable? Do you still think it was correct to report Dr. Mehdi's slur against Israel in an uncritical fashion?

    ANS: There can be no "slur" against the US-financed colonial regime in Palestine. That's what I have said from day-one. Any takers?

    38. Ms. Fulani, in April 1991, leaders of the Warrior Society of the Mohawk Nation in Quebec traveled to New York City at the invitation of your Rainbow Lobby for a weekend of meetings with top members of your International Workers Party. Two months later the Warriors received a $250,000 grant from the Libyan government. Did you or any other member of the IWP participate in discussions either with the Warriors or with representatives of the Libyan government or with the Nation of Islam regarding this grant?

    ANS: The IWP had no relationship with the Mohawk Warrior Society. The IWP facilitated no funds exchange between the Libyan government and the Mohawk Warriors Society. Never happened. It was all Newman's hype.

    Was the thinking at the time in the IWP that the Warrior Society and the NAP/IWP and the Libyan regime were all part of an emerging international coalition?

    ANS: Hell NO! The IWP was an M/L cadre organization, not a tribal or nationalistic organization.

    39. Ms. Fulani, in 1991 your Rainbow Lobby, headed by IWP member Nancy Ross who traveled to Libya with you in 1987, announced that it would hold an international conference on "Prospects for Democracy in the Third World" in Mexico City. According to the National Alliance, March 14, 1991, the Mohawk Warriors were invited to participate. Who else was invited? Did the conference ever take place? Is so, who paid for it and where did they get the money?

    ANS: Never happened. It had no IWP support.

    40. Ms. Fulani, in a September 15, 2001 letter published on the web site of your Independence Party's think tank, you complained that in the four days since the September 11 terror attacks "virtually no one [had] raised a single question about whether any of our policies led to this calamity." Among the policies you cited was "U.S. support for intensified Israeli aggression against the Palestinians." "America is made vulnerable," you said, "by the combination of our government's aggression and arrogance." Do you still stand by these statements?

    ANS: I agree with Lenora Fulani's position, which was constructed by me in 1986.

    As a New Yorker, we reaped what was sown by 50+ years of wretched US foreign policy in Southwest Asia and North Africa. And I will stand anybody down on the topic, including you, Dennis King. Name the time and place.

    41. Ms. Fulani, in your letter regarding 9/11 you closed with a quote from Martin Luther King: "To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world." Why is it, Ms. Fulani, that when Americans are killed you quote Martin Luther King but when Libyan or Palestinian terrorists are killed, you quote Malcolm X? Are you willing to admit that your support for Libya being "not nonviolent" was inconsistent with your more recent advice to your fellow Americans?

    ANS: Nonsense question.

    There really are a lot of good questions to ask of Newman/Fulani. Sadly, they get diluted or stupified in zionist/Bushoidal gum-noise.

    Sorry, Dennis, you give these hounds too much credit. They really are junkyard dogs. They are crooks.

    --WM Pleasant

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