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Witch Hunt for Conservatives
Accuracy in Academia ^ | June 9, 2015 | Malcolm A. Kline

Posted on 06/10/2015 12:33:23 PM PDT by Academiadotorg

If liberals had to endure what conservatives do on campus, or off of it, they would be screaming “witch hunt” so loudly you would think that we were all back in Salem.

Susan Dench, founder and president of the Informed Women’s Network, was named by the governor to the University of Maine’s board of regents. “I have the perfect background,” she told the audience at the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) “Women Lead” summit meeting on June 4, 2015. “I have a background in business and they are in financial difficulty.”

But first she had to get past the state assembly. She could not make it through a committee vote because Democrats on the panel were asking her such questions as, “Why do you have a picture of Allen West on your Twitter page?”

“He’s a war hero,” she told them. Moreover, “this committee asked me to recant everything I’ve said or written [on that page],” she recalled at the IWF meeting at the American Institute of Architects, the other AIA. The IWF symposium was sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Dench had another encounter that might explain the success of the political Left. She remembered, “A Democratic operative walked up to me once and said, ‘You know what the difference is between us? You have all the facts but we have all the emotions.’ That about sums it up.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: allenwest; legislature; maine; regents; susandench; twitter

1 posted on 06/10/2015 12:33:23 PM PDT by Academiadotorg
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To: Academiadotorg
You have all the facts but we have all the emotions.

You may be right but I care more about my wrong opinion.
2 posted on 06/10/2015 12:36:47 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Academiadotorg

Funny thing about that is, witches don’t really exist, communists do.


3 posted on 06/10/2015 12:41:49 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL
Edward R. Murrow, Giant-Killer, brought the New Left's Herbert Marcuse to this country from the Frankfurt School ("we'll make the West stink" - Willi Munzenburg) to corrupt 3 generations of college students.
4 posted on 06/10/2015 12:53:13 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: CharlesOConnell
"45 Communist Goals", as per "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:

Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals [1963]:

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

5 posted on 06/10/2015 1:13:05 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

William Buckley was a big supporter of this, I remember the debates, even the Great Ronald Reagan could not stop this give away. Proving great Conservatives can be absolutely wrong on occasion.

6 posted on 06/10/2015 2:32:54 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: itsahoot

Buckley had several odd positions.


7 posted on 06/10/2015 2:46:51 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

Interesting. Why should I accept a statement from an anti-Communist about what Communist goals are as fact?


8 posted on 06/10/2015 3:25:12 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Since communists and “progressives” have since achieved most of these goals, the guy obviously knew something about them.


9 posted on 06/10/2015 3:31:10 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Academiadotorg
Anyone hunting for witches would do better to look in the Democrat Party.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

10 posted on 06/10/2015 3:33:20 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: LonePalm
Anyone hunting for witches would do better to look in the Democrat Party.

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11 posted on 06/10/2015 3:43:06 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL
Buckley had several odd positions.

Libertarian Lite as I recall.

12 posted on 06/10/2015 4:06:58 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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