Peter Camejo--green outside, red terrorist inside.(Insider Report)

"[Peter] Camejo continues to hold his socialist beliefs, jokingly calling himself a 'watermelon--green on the outside, red on the inside.'" That was from an October 22, 2002 article by Associated Press reporter Louise Chu about the California Green Party gubernatorial candidate Peter Camejo.

"I have the same views I've always had in my life in principle," Camejo told the AP reporter. That being the case, Mr. Camejo's watermelon metaphor is no joking matter. After receiving 5 percent of the vote statewide in the 2002 race against incumbent California Governor Gray Davis, Camejo jumped back into the fray a few months later in the special recall race. A few news reports in both races mentioned that Camejo is a "former" socialist, and a few noted that he had been a member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Most profiles of the Green Party candidate referred to him as an "environmental activist" or "peace activist." No major news organization bothered to mention that for many years Mr. Camejo was a top leader in the SWP, a Communist terrorist organization that is a branch of Leon Trotsky's Fourth International. In 1976, ...