IT’S NOT GREEK TO ME: AN ASTORIA/ LONG ISLAND CITY STORY. A “LEFT” NEO- FASCIST RUNS FOR THE CITY COUNCIL IN QUEENS. THE TRUTH ABOUT JERRY KANN!

UP FRONT News October 3, 2005
Published by Tom Weiss

Editorial Advisor: Willard Whittingham

“The paper that can’t be bought and can’t be sold.”

IT’S NOT GREEK TO ME: AN ASTORIA/LONG ISLAND CITY STORY.

A “LEFT” NEO-FASCIST RUNS FOR THE CITY COUNCIL IN QUEENS.

THE TRUTH ABOUT JERRY KANN!

The Green Party in this country is made up, for the most part, of Americans who are convinced that the Republican and Democratic parties are fundamentally compromised by corporate power, in, that being the case, are engaged in a systematic, often bipartisan pillaging of our national wealth, closely related to efforts to control the financial and na- tural resources of other countries. Seen here, the most visible representatives of what Ralph Nader called dupooly are Acting President George W. Bush and Acting wannabe
President and current U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton. They, along with spouses and allies, lead the de facto Blinton Administration has been in power for over 12 years.

The Green Party, however, while mounting credible electoral campaigns in, for example, California (coming close to winning the mayoralty in San Francisco) and upstate New York (winning the mayoralty in New Paltz), has also allowed itself to become a nesting ground for the kind of folks that owe their tactics – and quite possibly their ideological allegiance – to the king of “left” fascism, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Perhaps the most ob- obnoxious and noxious of these de facto Marx spouting neo-fascists is City Council can- candidate Gerald Kann. This purveyor of violence and lies, whose maneuvers I’ve ex- perienced for over a year, is banking on the unlikely scenario that the voters of the Astoria/Long island city area of Queens will not recognize the phony in their district.

Gerald Kann, nominally a member of the Green Party, worked hand in sleazy hand with neo-fascist anti-Semite Lenora Fulani in the N.Y.S. Independence Party’s hijacking of the New York City Ralph Nader campaign. Using violence against me – when, with Kann present and aiding and abetting, his thug buddy George Tatevosyan, also from Queens, assaulted me as I, waving a written invitation to the conference from Nader’s press secretary Kevin Zeese, arrived for a Nader news conference in Manhattan last January. Kann was involved in sabotaging a proposal generated in a N.Y. Times op-ed piece by a Nader supporter that recommending an electoral strategy that would have simultaneously increased Nader’s popular vote in 2004 without in any way jeopardizing John Kerry’s electoral vote totals to prevent a repeat of the Nader/Gore/Bush fiasco of 2,000. Kann accomplished this by, as I was presenting the proposal to the Nader New York City meet-up, calling 911 and asking the NYPD to arrest me. The NYPD showed up but no cop would be stupid enough to buy Gerald Kann’s tale.

Kann also managed to make a sort of Stalinist ass out of himself at a recent affordable housing rally a few feet from Mayor Bloomberg’s non-Section 8 dwelling on East 79th Street. The rally organizers, principally the New York Metropolitan Council on Housing, stipulated that no candidates would be addressing the rally. As I arrived there was the Green Party mayoral candidate loudly trying to convince organizer Larry Wood to let him speak. Mr. Wood, to his credit, stood firm. Right there was Gerald Kann, who, after the matter had been settled – no candidates! – railed at Wood, who handled the matter with admirable restraint.

Gerald Kann – whom I’ve dubbed in this newspaper as a “Kann-cer from within”, is a regular at “left” events in New York City, spouting his pseudo-Marxist drivel. When Ralph Nader came to New York well after his very feeble showing in the 2004 race, Gerald Kann was on the big stage at the Ethical Culture society as one of the introducers. Mr. Kann, like the toppling statue of Saddam Hussein, suffered a hopefully irreparable blow to his inflated ego when, as part of my question to Mr. Nader about his having depended on the racist Fulani during his presidential campaigns, Kann had to experience being exposed in public as the “left” neo-fascist that he is – before a nervously smiling Nader. Had this taken place in a dark alley, Kann would have assaulted me. Since it took place in front of a sizeable audience, and in front of Mr. Nadir, Kann could do little more than make a quickly stifled move at me from his seat on stage, and spend the rest of the evening muttering.

Any election in which Gerald Kann is a candidate should eliminate any ambivalence about “the lesser of two evils.” At least in the City Council races, Gerald Kann is the greater of any evil. UP FRONT News endorses the Democrat.

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