I asked Studs about the Soviet Union and he was pretty clear- they had deformed the left in America and turned it into cheerleaders for oppression around the world. He despised them. He said that communists here had much to answer for.

Studs hosted a birthday party for me, and gave me a short story about the day American capitalism failed because it put speculation ahead of profits based on human endeavours. He dared me to do a play based on the story.

Well, that’s one of the plays I’m working on now. A play based on a story by Studs Terkel adapted by a libertarian about our current economic crisis. Written years before it hit.

As for the FBI- they have botched so many cases of real espionage against this country by gathering evidence illegally I believe they have done more harm than good. They had lists of spies names in our government from 1942 to 1952 and did zip to stop them. Who is worse? The Communist Party USA that recruited spies against this country? Or the FBI who dropped the ball on getting them out AND LET THEM REMAIN.

The CIA has declassified the truth of the so called McCarthy era, which no publication dares publish. Google THE POND CIA. Everything we thought we knew about McCarthy, is wrong. Studs recognized the evil of the Soviet Union. Period.

When one group has the power and fears having it taken away, it is a long hard fight before any other group can gain any sort of equality. We have seen that here in this country, and we continue to see it today. We need to remember it any time we are feeling like someone else shouldn’t be “allowed” to share what we have.

But explain how they can not track 19 WANTED suspected terrorist, expecially the notorious ring leader, manifesting themselves on domestic airline flights at major airports on 9/11/01.

TRUTH IS?

The Stalin-Hitler pact was signed in August, 1939. The Nazis and the Soviets kept the terms of the pact until Germany’s surprise attack and invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.

To be a member of the CPUSA in 1945 was anything but pro-Nazi.

I wonder if/what the Soviet files say. Sun Times, can you find out for us ?

Studs was disappointing as a threat but splendid as an American.

Not so his robot pursuers. There could be no life in their pursuits. No freedom allowed. No depth. I feel bad for them. What dull nothingness to write “It is to be noted.” No subject at all. No plot. No person. No howl. No objection. No struggle or solution. No love. Worse, no meaning in the ending. Studs could have written so much better of them. (Maybe he did.)