United for Peace and Justice?

Frontpage magazine has an article that claims:

The marchers will proceed west towards the river, after which, “ The plan is to attempt to turn north again as soon as we can and then turn east again as soon as we are allowed. You can see how this pattern will soon result in a circle being formed around the Garden... They are telling the police that then they will turn north again on Broadway and move away from the Garden to some "spill out" location, such as a nearby park or pier... This moving away from the Garden will, of course, never happen. They plan to move south again and join up with the marchers still coming up Broadway. This will probably work, and the police will probably shut out the people from moving around in a circle only after they realize what is going on, leaving a group of protestors cut off from the pack... That will turn into a violent confrontation... This is a planned provocation that will surely end in violence. The route and method of police negotiation will make this an absolute certainty.”

This concept - to stage a march and disrupt the convention - was developed at a national NION meeting at the offices of the Asian American Writer's Forum. This meeting was attended by – among others - Mary Lou Greenberg, a Director of NION and a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), with which NION is affiliated, Peter Laarman (a founder of NION), and Joe Urgo, who is an RCP representative. Urgo and Greenberg developed the idea for the march.

Urgo has some experience in negotiations with police. Laarman, whose role in the day to day working of the organization is extremely small, is also assisting with the application of the march and rally permits. He is coordinating this with the lawyers for United for Peace and Justice who are applying for permits as well. This particular march the night of Bush’s nomination is being sponsored by NION.

NION believes, as do the other anti-war groups, that Republicans are more of a threat than Al-Qaeda or the Baathists. Whether they are just inveterate haters of Republicans or they are treasonous is uncertain. What is certain is that peace is not even a tertiary consideration for them - destabilizing the United States is. NION, and the other “peace” groups are linked to communist, Islamist, and anti-capitalist groups.

I'm skeptical of a source coming in from the cold and divulging sensitive information to a non-mainstream journalist. But I have read in sources across the political spectrum about the links between communist groups and the early anti-war rallies, especially at the organizational level.

If the prediction made above comes to pass, then I'll be very impressed by the author's scoop. If it doesn't happen, then he'll just become another reason to not believe anything outside of the traditional newspapers.