Posted on 07/06/2010 8:38:40 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
(Ed's Note: Friend to the blog Leon Weinstein -- who is a US citizen that emigrated from the USSR in 1974 -- wrote this because he is alarmed that the U.S. is headed to the hell he ran from so long ago. This is important stuff, folks. Leon KNOWS what he's talking about as he lived through Russian Communism. We need to seriously think about his warnings…)
-By Leon Weinstein
Dear ex-compatriots who once lived under the socialist regimes of the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Cuba, China, Albania, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Venezuela of Chavez, the Argentina of Peron, and others of similar life experience!
I was born in the Soviet Union and was lucky to part with socialism and lucky & privileged to become the US citizen. However during last year and a half I am becoming increasingly concerned about the direction American leaders are steering our country to. More and more the US resembles the world you & I were fortunate to leave behind. More and more it now resembles the path Russia took a century ago – and we all know the devastating results this “experiment” caused. This is the very same path Greece recently chosen in trying to achieve another “just society.”
For years the United States was the island of sanity in the ocean of pain, suffering and injustice in which most of the world was drowning. The countries that were able to stand against tyrannies and make life bearable for their citizens did so in large part because the US was backing them with its might. If America falls, world as we know it will end. Without a strong America we will soon see China establishing its hegemony over Asia; Russia will strengthen its muscles and take back Eastern Europe; Hugo Chavez and brothers Castro will run Latin America; and a wide swath of the globe stretching from North Africa through the Middle East to Indonesia and perhaps the Philippines will become radically Muslim - fanatically massacring “infidels.”...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
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The Tea Party seems to be the nearest vehicle for any organized resistance, yet even we are all waiting on November. A coux by our side would be nice, but we need our soldiers home for that, and they are conveniently tied up, with no ride home.
Guy needs to get on radio and TV.
I am sure the alphabet channels and MSNBC will give him time.
/extreme sarc on
Right words, wrong place: my office scan picked up 3 threats at the site.
Again, useless rant with no apparent affect on perpetrators. I can mirror his sentiments, but what this kitchen talk will change?
“We need to heed these worries of someone that should know how bad communism really is.”
Have you been eavesdropping on our office conversations for the last year?
This is PRECISELY why we wrote Pursuing Liberty, featuring eight legal immigrants who successfully fled communist and socialist regimes just for a shot at American exceptionalism.
Our whole goal of the book is to show how tyrannies get started in the first place, and how these brave people gave up everything to come to American, still considered to be the “shining city on the hill” worldwide.
Bottom line, our featured naturalized citizens are ALL extremely concerned about the current direction of the US under Obama. One of them said “I’ve seen this movie before, and it ALWAYS ends badly!”
We really need to start paying attention to the experiences and perspectives of these people. They’ve already lived through our future, if we don’t stop this headlong plunge over the cliff. And there’s no backing up the car once that happens.
my office scan picked up 3 threats at the site.What nonsense. There are no "threats" at that site. There isn't even any advertising there!!!
No threat here.
Kitchen talk has done amazing things through history.
All complaints must be addressed to OfficeScan (trademark, I believe) ;-)
***Kitchen talk has done amazing things through history.***
Not if it stayed in the kitchen.
LOL
Well, there is a Google ad on the site but there isn’t anything else.
That's it. You never know what kind of excrement may pop up there. AdSense and WebSense are unscrupulous, unless you are very explicit with your terms when you set it up.
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