Posted on 03/24/2006 3:17:27 AM PST by PittsburghAfterDark
During the course of reading posts by Free Republic members yesterday an interesting point came up in the discussion of how the MSM has fallen into an anti-American malaise. This of course comes as a surprise to no members here. However what the poster in question brought up were these two points.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
Now where did this list come from? What does the rest of the list look like and just how close is America today to communism's goals set forth by "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen?
To understand the progression the modern Democratic party, self-described liberals and progressives have gone to fulfilling Communist dogma set forth in the heydey of the Cold War I introduce the complete list.
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
This was done. No one that lived through the Reagan Presidency can deny this.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
Fortunately the USSR and Eastern Bloc collapsed. However the same thing is now true if you replace those former adversaries with the current armed struggle against Islamic terrorism and Islamic states seeking atomic arms.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
This is alive and well in San Francisco.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
China has now received MFN trade satus. The Clinton technology transfers to mainland China add extra credibility to this point.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
It's really tough to summarize this without it's own thread. Many of the former satellites are now NATO members and seeking admission to the EU. However with Russia's admission to the G-8 despite not having the requisite GDP gives them increased stature in the world financial markets they don't otherwise deserve.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
Humanitarian missions resulting in hoarding of supplies by warlords, dictators and despots to be used as weapons against the citizenry they were intended to help.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
It happened in 1971 when the replaced the ROC.
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.
This was done under Kennedy's watch, fortunately the GDR no longer exists. However it was never Gorbachev's goal to re-unite Germany.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
This is still in practice. Unfortnately the ban on testing is self-imposed and held in check politically by the American left.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
This happened. East Germany was given U.N. status in 1973. Funny how during the era of Vietnam and under LBJ how the movements to give credibility to puppet states took root.
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.)
This is the centerpiece of American progressives hope to reign in the U.S. superiority economically, militarily and politically.
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
While legal it's a joke. However the Democratic party has been successfully co-opted in its stead.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
Every single Senator and Representative that passes budgets continuing entitlements has broken their loyalty oath. They are meaningless photo opportunities every 2 and 6 years.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
Replace Russia with China.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
Successfully done. The Democrat party has fully capitulated to these ideals and Republican moderates hope to drag the "knuckle dragging" Conservatives right behind them in lockstep.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
Funny how this was the entire plot of "The Devil's Advocate" and it stemmed from a communist ideal. Now the ACLU and its supporters on the American left are continuing the assault nearly unabted.
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.
Wow. Just.... wow. Forget a thread, this one could be a book.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
At the collegiate level this has been achieved.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
Achieved in the 60's and the spirit is alive and well today.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
Done.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
Done.
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."
One thing that has not come to fruition on this list. However if you replace meaningless forms with form meant to outrage the goal has been achieved.
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
Done. Ugly, repulsive art is the de facto standard. Those who criticize just don't "get it".
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
Done.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
Done.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
Done.
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."
Is there any doubt to this statement?
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."
Done.
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.
Just look at the calls of the left to ignore, frame the Constitution as a "living document" and desire to change the elctoral process as daily evidence that the ideals of the Communist movement are alive and well on the American left.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
Done.
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.
Done but the more emphaisis part is being switched to native persons, slaves and African culture and a de-emphasis of American and Western Civilization. Obviously portraying the history of the USSR now is a losing issue. Portraying the striaght up evils of America though is very much in vogue.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
Continued growth of public education dollars, lack of school choice, NEA giving 95% of their union contributions to Democrats. Welfare is dominated by Democratic politicians and now the call is to centralize control of the health care industry.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
Done but communists can't win. Since the Democratic party has been co-opted it operates as the communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Done.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
This is, hard to believe, the goal that is seemingly the hardest goal to do. Unless of course Democrats aim to "strengthen" Homeland Security by removing the alphabet agencies and have them operate under one head bureaucrat.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
The unions that are not losing membership and near or have collapsed are dominated by leaders that have exercised every socialist and communist point put forth so far.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
Thank God for capitalism. I know there are "leftist" leaning companies as identified by websites like buyblue.org however capitalist controls are truly maintained by stockholders and investors.
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].
Done.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
This is happening not so much in the psychiatric profession as in education.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
Done.
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.
Well in progress. Subject is book worthy.
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.
Done.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
The progressive solution to Iraq. Run and let the American birthed Republic collapse.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
Jimmy Carter, 1978.
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.
Another thing the progressives would love to do. Make the U.S. military accountable to a world body.
END OF LIST
This list chilled me to the bone. Not in what it set forth but how it has come true, is coming true and how our culture and political battles are still framed by goals set forth by a discredited ideology. While Communism itself may be dead it's ideals are clearly alive and well in the American left, progressives, liberals and the Democratic Party.
This is no longer up for debate.
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