Posted on 07/26/2002 2:29:16 PM PDT by AmericanCompatriot
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
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.
Keep yourselves armed, Freepers. We may need it for the second revolution.
Don't forget about the U.S. They started heavily attacking our institutions at Columbia University during WWII and have been here breaking us down ever since.
They have the environmentalist's to try to grind the engine of commerce to a halt.
And since lefty's don't get their fingernails dirty they discover Islam as the tool to do their heavy lifting for them. You know, the bombthrowing, murderous types who will do THAT neccessary work. <p. Islam. The best hope since Communism to destroy the west....
Many items on the list above are done deals, but certainly this stands out as the scariest. And it, too, as been accomplished.
This one needs to be in bold:
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."
I'm not a church-going person for the simple reason that most I have visited are nothing more than social(ist) clubs. The Gospel is usually pretty watered-down, in favor of PC teachings.
It's also important to note that the first plank in the CP's platform is the elimination of all private property. Is there any of that going on here?
fact: life is unfair and people, while created in the likeness of god, have different lots in life. st. paul acknowledged as much and tells us to be content whatever our circumstances, whether as slave or master.
communist belief: the inequality in life is not man's fault since he is created in god's likeness. it therefore must be a problem with society. so society must be changes to create a fairness for all.
unfortunately, this is biblically wrong. there is inequality because of sin, and sin is the direct result of man's disobedience. man is at fault and has to live with the consequences of his actions. communism is a theologically incorrect, and hence inherently flawed, form of society.
i could go further and preach about the parable of the talents that further demonstrates that capital is to be utilized to creat wealth, but enough religion for one night.
Nevertheless, authentic Christianity manifests itself in certain intelligible and consistent ways. As James said, "true religion and undefiled before God is this: to visit widows and orphans in their affliction and to keep oneself unspotted from the world." Authentic Christians embrace this living altruism, and they embrace it quietly and without fanfare as the Holy Spirit guides them. There is no waste when the Holy Spirit directs the ministering. The gift is always perfectly appropriate to the place, person, and time.
The authentic Christian also yearns for the millennial rule of Jesus Christ who promised a peace "not as the world giveth" but a true and permanent peace in which people would experience joy--not mere transient pleasure.
These yearnings resound deeply in souls of many if not most people regardless of religious affiliation or even a belief in God. I believe we have those yearnings because our Creator programmed them into us, to draw us to Him.
Marx sought to capitalize on these yearnings while denying their source in God. He offered a human-designed atheistic society to fulfill them. His was a diablolical counterfeit that could never have succeeded. Instead, it was the cause of unparalleled misery and mass murder.
Today's liberalism is a pale and insipid version of full-blooded Marxism. It still kills and creates widespread misery, but more slowly and without nearly the fireworks.
On the other side we have atheist libertarians who champion selfishness as the greatest virtue, who despise and reject altruism as an irrational absurdity without distinguishing between the living altruism of the Holy Spirit (to which they are deaf, dumb, and blind) and the dead government-enforced counterfeit altruism of the liberals and Marxists. Their "solution" is just as evil as the Marxists' but they have not yet had an opportunity to fully implement it on a national scale. If they ever do, the deaths and misery they will loose on humanity will rival that of the Marxists.
For the atheist libertarians, Ayn Rand's mental mastications imply a society just as wicked and dangerous as that proposed by Karl Marx.
Authentic Christians (and orthodox believing Jews) are caught in the middle and will suffer first. They always have and they always will.
good to hear from you and i knew that you would add more flesh to the bones. i could not agree with you more, except that part about authentic christians desiring the millenial rule of jesus christ. however, i would agree with the statement that true christians desire peace and perfection here on earth. so let's not debate this point too heavily because we are, after all, on the same side.
your comments about today's liberalism being a pale and insipid version of marxism, in my mind, makes it more dangerous than marxism. all true capitalists despise a communist/socialist because it outlaws personal property and tries to villify the creation of wealth (see parable of the talents). too many people are attracted to the pale and insipid version of marxism, because it appeals to the goodness people want. but make no mistake about it, their ultimate goal is the same as marxism -- they have merely taken the patient route.
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