Posted on 06/26/2015 6:25:30 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW
That infamy won’t be “forgotten on the internet” any time soon.
As others have said, the “goals” certainly seem quite prophetic.
I’ve also seen and heard lists of those publicly espousing Communism in the 1960s. And while I haven’t hunted down the quotes for each of those names, I do mentally check them off when I find supportive statements here and there.
John Lennon hemmed and hawed both sides of the coin.
I seem to recall Mick Jagger talking about heading out to some riot/protest in 1968 (and I’m not referring to the lyrics of some song).
Scratch the surface of the so-called anti-war movement and you’ll find proud Communists who embraced Soviet, Cuban, and North Vietnamese Communism. They weren’t anti-war. They never demanded the North Vietnamese end their aggression nor did they criticize their genocide of the opposition “after the war”.
Yes, leftist “anti-war” movements are always one-sided; the non-leftist entity has to stop the war and surrender, but not the leftist “freedom fighters”.
FWIW, if you want to look into other published works of Skousen, you’ll find some remarkably nutty stuff.
For instance, the 10 Tribes of Israel are still a discrete group and live under the ice in Antarctica. And the Saxons of England were really “Isaac’s sons” and therefore Jews. Which of course ties in with his Mormon beliefs. They find Jews in the oddest places.
He also believed Eisenhower was a concious agent of Communism.
IOW, the guy was a nut. Doesn’t mean he was wrong about Communism, of course, but I would certainly not consider anything he says enhanced in credibility by his saying it.
Figured you’d attack the man based on his religious beliefs and/or what liberals said about him.
I haven’t done much digging (and his mormon beliefs don’t hold credibility with me) but he was a witness within FDR’s government. And some on the left still want to deny any Soviet espionage within the State Department, Executive Branch, etc. even with KGB files opened to review.
I’ve seen a lot of socialist justice warrior attacks on the writings of dead white (American) males. Some of the observations still hold water.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/05/the-homophobia-of-jack-paar.html
Ugh. Sorry! I dunno why it posted like this.
Skousen’s religious beliefs were considered bizarre and extreme by the Mormon Church itself, which prohibited official church meetings or publications from promoting them.
All I’ve ever said here is that the list is intentionally misleading as to provenance, which is indisputably true. I don’t believe in fake but accurate, even when it is by chance actually accurate.
Thanks. That certainly lists what we’ve been seeing!
Skousen’s personal beliefs are irrelevant. Trying to imply that they influenced his work while at the FBI or when he was writing his book is specious.
Do you apply the same standard to books written by liberals? Or are the author’s personal beliefs only irrelevant if you agree with him?
You did not say religious. You said personal.
As far as liberals having religious beliefs, perhaps you might want to take a look at the current pope.
Parsing language now. Significant difference between the personal beliefs of Skousen and those of liberals—the latter of whom bring such into every aspect of their lives the whole time and have no religious aspect besides.
As for “the current pope”, I would not call his liberal dogma “religious”.
It’s really in the Record, but there’s no evidence that it actually came from communists. As far as anyone can find, it was made up by Cleon Skousen in his 1958 book The Naked Communist.
If nothing else, it proves he could see into the future.
You’re welcome.
The thing that makes me bang my head against the wall is that the “termites” (known communists, subversives, & “activists”) were able to entrench themselves in academia & government/ quasi-government organizations (Pah. I know of no “NGO” that doesn’t have a political agenda attached to it. The credits after almost every PBS program are a laundry list of anti American foundations & individuals.).
There were FBI records.
The president is up to his neck in communists & anti American terrorists- people who actually blew stuff up, multiple times, who have called & are publicly calling for mass murder. WTH?
They took over MSM (TV) at it’s inception and influenced people. Combine that with, as you said, academia and we didn’t stand a chance to fight them.
Yes, they did this via a culture war. Looking back, you can see where it happened with tv (mid to late 70s, imo)
I’ll never accept that. Making a grave mistake is not the same as losing a battle. Right now (& for too long), we are handing it over to them nearly by default. You (general “you”, not you, personally, DJ) cannot deal with dishonorable people in good faith. They’ll use it to destroy you. Which they’ve almost accomplished.
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