Message #162008

[Harconen]

1988–1991

 

Harvard Law School

 

In the fall of 1988, Obama begins his studies at Harvard Law School (HLS). Helping Obama gain acceptance at Harvard is a letter of recommendation from civil rights activist and Malcolm X attorney Percy Sutton. Asking Sutton to write the letter is Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour, a radical Muslim and vitriolic anti-Semite, mentor of Black Panther Party founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, close associate of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and friend of Obama. (Al-Mansour “longs for the day when Islam takes over the world” and alleges in his 1995 book, The Lost Books of Africa Rediscovered, that the United States is plotting genocide against black Americans. Mansour has called for a national “bloodbath” of white Americans, said that black “killing and mutilating” of whites and Jews is part of God’s plan, and told blacks that whatever they do to whites, “…they deserve it, God wants you to do it and that’s when you cut out the nose, cut out the ears, take flesh out of their body, don’t worry because God wants you to do it.”) Al-Mansour is believed to have been the main financial backer and planner for Obama for as long as 25 years, and is the principal financial advisor to Prince al-Waleed bin Talal—nephew of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah (the world’s 19th wealthiest person, worth $29.5 billion, who donated $20 million to Harvard to fund Islamic studies). It is unclear why a wealthy financial advisor to one of the world’s richest men would have an interest in promoting and funding the education of the young Obama, whose grades at Occidental College had been less than stellar because he was more interested in drugs than studying. [41, 43, 380, 381, 382, 408, 558, 2668, 2669]

            It has been suggested that it was William Ayers who persuaded Khalid al-Mansour to raise funds for Obama’s Harvard tuition. Ayers associated with al-Mansour when he was still known as Donald Warden. Warden was a lawyer and advisor to the Black Panther Party, whose offices were next door to his. At a marina in San Francisco where they once hid from the FBI, Ayers, Warden, Dohrn, and others had planned the overthrow of the United States. (To avoid arrest, Ayers used a variety of phony names, including Michael Charles Rafferty, Jr., Jules Michael Taylor, Anthony J. Lee, and Hank Anderson. Bernardine Rae Dohrn (not Bernadine) also went by the names Lorraine Anne Jellins, Sharon Louise Naylor (or Taylor), Christine Louise Douglas, and Karen Louise DeBelius. Ayers and Dohrn turned themselves in to authorities in Chicago in 1980. Ayers miraculously avoided conviction. Dohrn served seven months in prison for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating an October 20, 1981 robbery, which killed one Brinks guard and two police officers. [259, 380, 2271]

            A Harvard letter of recommendation for Obama is also written by John McKnight, who serves on the Gamaliel Foundation’s Board of Directors as well as the board of National People’s Action (NPA), yet another Alinsky-inspired activist group. The NPA consists of thugs and agitators who, when picketing the homes of business and government leaders to demand more welfare benefits and government handouts sing: “Who’s on your hit list, NPA? Who’s on your hit list of today? Take no prisoners, take no names. Kick ’em in the ass when they play their games.” [230, 267]

            It is unclear how, academically, Obama gets into Harvard Law School. HLS has exceptionally high admissions standards, with applicant LSAT scores expected in the 98 to 99 range, and a grade point average of 3.8 or higher. It is assumed that if Obama had such scores and grades his campaign would be bragging about them. It has not, and will not release any of his school records. One assumption is that Obama simply had connections, such as Khalid al-Mansour, who both paved and paid his way. Percy Sutton states that al-Mansour had been “raising money” for Obama. Obama denies knowing al-Mansour, but al-Mansour, in an interview with Newsmax reporter Kenneth Timmerman, admits he had spoken with Obama and told him he would keep a “low profile” during the campaign in order to avoid embarrassing the candidate. [56, 264, 315]

            It is also unclear how Obama paid for his education, especially his years at Harvard Law School. (Occidental College and Columbia are also far from being easily affordable.) He did not have high-paying steady jobs and he took several extensive and expensive trips overseas. (Obama does not mention his Pakistan trip(s) in his books.) He and his wife later say they needed many years to pay off student loans, but those loans are not recorded on the financial disclosure statements Obama was required to submit when he became a Senator.

            Attorney Percy Sutton tells reporters in 2008, “I was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him. The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour.” Gifts from al-Mansour may have funded Obama’s years at Harvard. In April of 2008, however, Obama’s wife Michelle states that Obama had “just paid off his loan debt” for his Harvard Law School education. But that statement is not consistent with a review of Obama’s financial disclosure statements, which go back to 2000 and which did not list any outstanding college loans. As a candidate for the U.S. Senate Obama was required, in 2004, to file a financial disclosure form detailing his assets, income, consulting contracts, and liabilities. Obama listed zero for liabilities in 2004 and in all subsequent U.S. Senate financial disclosure forms. (Obama had mortgage liabilities, even if he had no other debt.) [211]

            If Obama’s school loans had been paid off much earlier, then his wife’s statement that he “had just paid off his loan debt” was a lie—a pandering lie intended, no doubt, to make the Obamas appear to be “just another struggling middle class family.” If the loans had in fact just been paid off, then the candidate lied on his financial disclosure forms, which could subject him to impeachment from the Senate. Another possibility is that candidate Obama and his wife are both lying and the school loans were gifts from Khalid al-Mansour that were expected to be paid back with future political favors (such as promoting a Palestinian state at the expense of Israel). If Obama’s tuition and expenses were financed by others without any expectation of direct reimbursement, they were not loans but gifts that should have been listed on his income tax filings. Obama’s failure to do so would mean he violated income tax regulations and is subject to additional taxes, interest, and penalties—and perhaps criminal fraud charges.

            Obama is selected as one of 40 editors of the Harvard Law Review (HLR), but he apparently writes only one article for the publication. In it, he argues against placing any limits on abortion, with the remarkable statement that abortions would “…prevent increasing numbers of children born into lives of pain and despair.” (In other words, “Their lives will be miserable anyway, so why not just abort them now?”) His fellow editors elect Obama president of the HLR, partly in sympathetic response to the demands of Professor Derrick Bell that a black woman be appointed to the law faculty—a racist and sexist demand which Obama fully supported. [55, 56, 385, 2622]

            Derrick Bell is a proponent of “critical race theory,” which argues that the centuries-old underpinnings of law in the United States should be replaced by a new system of justice that takes into account past inequities like slavery. Bell argues that the law should treat people not just as individuals; it should also have different rules for different groups. Because of the injustices of slavery and past discrimination, for example, a convicted black crack **** dealer should be treated less harshly in his sentencing than a white drug dealer. Bell is among a growing group of leftists who are willing to discard American laws and traditions simply because they were the achievements of “old white men,” and whose goals are symbolized by the chanting of Jesse Jackson at a 1987 Stanford demonstration: “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western culture’s got to go!” [2622, 2623]

            While attending Harvard Obama is already planning his political career. Former Harvard classmate Christine Spurell recalls, “It was clear to me from the day I met him that he was thinking about politics.” He was perhaps being groomed for a political career by Khalid al-Mansour and others. [332]

            One of Obama’s professors at Harvard is Lawrence Tribe, a favorite of media liberals. (Tribe later argues Al Gore’s case before the Florida Supreme Court after the November 2000 election). Another Harvard professor and friend of Obama is Charles Ogletree, who is the faculty advisor to the Black Law Students Association. Ogletree is an advocate of slavery reparations (who will later become an Obama advisor). [842 pp. 67–68; 936, 1085]

            While on a break from class at Harvard, Obama spends eight days in Los Angeles taking a national training course taught by Saul Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation. [47]