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Posted on 01/27/2017 9:54:22 AM PST by Jim Robinson
"Communism...has infiltrated...into journalism, the press...It seeks through covert manipulation...to pervert the truth, impair respect for moral values."-General Douglas MacArthur
"Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions"-General Douglas MacArthur, Lansing, Michigan, May 15, 1952.
Douglas MacArthur was born JANUARY 26, 1880.
He commanded in France during World War I.
He was superintendent of West Point, 1919-20.
In 1930, at age 50, Douglas MacArthur became the youngest Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army.
A four-star general, he retired in 1939, but returned in 1941 to defend the Philippines.
When Japan invaded, President Roosevelt ordered him to Australia.
MacArthur left, but not before he promising "I shall return."
When General MacArthur heard of the 10,000 Filipino and American prisoners who died on the Bataan Death March, he stated, April 9, 1942:
"To the weeping mothers of its dead, I can only say that the sacrifice and halo of Jesus of Nazareth has descended upon their sons, and that God will take them unto Himself."
On October 20, 1944, General MacArthur returned with an American army and freed the Philippines, stating:
"People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil--soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
We have come, dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control ... The hour of your redemption is here ... Let the indomitable spirit of Bataan and Corregidor lead on ..."
In a radio speech broadcast from the invasion beach on returning to the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur stated, October 20, 1944:
"Strike at every favorable opportunity. For your homes and hearths, strike! For future generations of your sons and daughters, strike! In the name of your sacred dead, strike! Let no heart be faint. Let every arm be steeled. The guidance of Divine God points the way. Follow in His name to the Holy Grail of righteous victory!"
General Douglas MacArthur stated:
"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."
Promoted to Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific, he received Japan's surrender on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Harbor.
After the World War II ended, General Douglas MacArthur suggested that Youth for Christ representatives and other missionary groups go to Japan:
"(In order to) provide the surest foundation for the firm establishment of democracy."
Promoted to five-star general, MacArthur was Supreme U.N. Commander during the beginning of the Korean War, making a daring landing of troops deep behind enemy lines at Inchon and recapturing Seoul.
MacArthur became at odds with President Truman who did not want to confront the Communist Chinese, so Truman made the unpopular decision to remove him.
MacArthur stated: "It is fatal to enter a war without the will to win it,"
and
"In war there is no substitute for victory."
On April 19, 1951, following his tour of Korea, General Douglas MacArthur spoke to a Joint Session of Congress to announce his retirement:
"I am closing my fifty-two years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams.
The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the Plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have all since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of that day, which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
And, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who has tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-by."
Douglas MacArthur told West Point cadets, May 1962:
"The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training--sacrifice.
In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those Divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in His own image ...
No physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of Divine help which alone can sustain him.
However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind."
General Douglas MacArthur addressed the Michigan legislature in Lansing, Michigan, May 15, 1952, (General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964 (2000) by Edward T. Imparato, p. 206):
"Talk of imminent threat to our national security through ... external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions--those institutions we proudly called the American way of life."
On January 18, 1955, a monument was dedicated to General Douglas MacArthur at the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, which had inscribed his statement:
"Battles are not won by arms alone. There must exist above all else a spiritual impulse--a will to victory. In war there can be no substitute for victory."
In 1942, General Douglas MacArthur was named Father of the Year. He stated:
"By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder--infinitely prouder--to be a father.
A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life.
And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, 'Our Father Who Art in Heaven.'"
General Douglas MacArthur composed "A Father's Prayer" in the early days of World War II while in the Pacific:
"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Build me a son whose wishes will not take the place of deeds; a son who will know Thee-and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.
Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail ..."
General MacArthur continued:
"Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.
And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously.
Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, and the meekness of true strength.
Then, I, his father, will dare to whisper, 'I have not lived in vain.'"
General Douglas MacArthur warned in a speech to the Salvation Army, December 12, 1951, stating:
"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline.
There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster."
General Douglas MacArthur addressed Massachusetts State Legislature in Boston, July 25, 1951:
"It was the adventurous spirit of Americans which despite risks and hazards carved a great nation from an almost impenetrable wilderness ... which built our own almost unbelievable material progress ... which raised the standard of living of the American people beyond that ever before known ...
This adventurous spirit is now threatened as it was in the days of the Boston Tea Party by an unconscionable burden of taxation.
This is sapping the initiative and energies of the people and leaves little incentive for the assumption of those risks which are inherent and unescapable in the forging of progress under the system of free enterprise.
Worst of all, it is throwing its tentacles around the low income bracket sector of our society, from whom is now exacted the major share of the cost of government. This renders its paper income largely illusory ..."
General Douglas MacArthur continued:
"The so-called forgotten man of the early thirties now is indeed no longer forgotten as the Government levies upon his income as the main remaining source to defray reckless spendthrift policies.
More and more we work not for ourselves but for the State. In time, if permitted to continue, this trend cannot fail to be destructive.
For no nation may survive in freedom once its people become servants of the State, a condition to which we are now pointed with dreadful certainty ..."
MacArthur concluded:
"Nothing is heard from those in the supreme executive authority concerning the possibility of a reduction or even a limitation upon these mounting costs.
No suggestion deals with the restoration of some semblance of a healthy balance. No plan is advanced for easing the crushing burdens already resting upon the people.
To the contrary, all that we hear are the plans by which such costs progressively may be increased. New means are constantly being devised for greater call upon the taxable potential as though the resources available were inexhaustable.
We compound irresponsibility by seeking to share what liquid wealth we have with others ..."
General Douglas MacArthur also stated in his address to the Massachusetts State Legislature in Boston, July 25, 1951:
"Much that I have seen since my return to my native land after an absence of many years has filled my with immeasurable satisfaction and pride. Our material progress has been little short of phenomenal.
It has established an eminence in material strength so far in advance of any other nation or combination of nations that talk of an imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense.
It is not of any external threat that I concern myself but rather of insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions--these institutions which formerly we hailed as something beyond question of challenge--those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
Foremost of these forces is that directly, or even more frequently indirectly, allied with the scourge of imperialistic Communism. It has infiltrated into positions of public trust and responsibility--into journalism, the press, the radio and the school.
It seeks through covert manipulation of the civil power and the media of public information and education to pervert the truth, impair respect for moral values, suppress human freedom and representative government, and in the end destroy our faith in our religious teachings.
This evil force, with neither spiritual base nor moral standard, rallies the abnormal and subnormal elements among our citizenry and applies internal pressure against all things we hold descent and all things that we hold right--the type of pressure which has caused many Christian nations abroad to fall and and their own cherished freedoms to languish in the shackles of complete suppression.
As it has happened there it can happen here. Our need for patriotic fervor and religious devotion was never more impelling.
There can be no compromise with atheistic Communism, no half way in the preservation of freedom and religion. It must be all or nothing.
We must unite in the high purpose that the liberties etched upon the design of our life by our forefathers be unimpaired and that we maintain the moral courage and spiritual leadership to preserve inviolate that mighty bulwark of all freedom, our Christian faith."
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American Minute with Bill Federer JANUARY 26. MacArthur, Douglas. May 12, 1962, in a speech delivered at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. William Safire, ed., Lend Me Your Ears - Great Speeches in History (NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992), p. 76.
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It has also festered in the schools and universities for too long
They only hire teachers who are “fellow travelers”
The ONLY Republican teacher my daughters had was let got for “budgetary reasons” a couple of years ago... they hired more lefties the next year.
The General was right. And we can't say that we didn't know this would happen. Communists told us of their intentions....
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, policy-making 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."-
Since the turn of the Twentieth Century, to the point of exclusion of all others since the close of the Reagan Administration.
Just read the naked communist. Here are the 45 goals of the Communists. See which ones directly affect us.
[From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen]
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, policy-making 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.
- See more at: http://www.rense.com/general32/americ.htm#sthash.hGg4SYO7.dpuf
"I am closing my fifty-two years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams.
The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the Plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have all since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of that day, which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
And, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who has tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-by."
OMG! I remember this like it was yesterday. Our local radio station got a copy of that old ballad "Old Soldiers Never Die" and played it every 30 minutes.
They played that song so much I still remember all the words.
There’s a reason why scum like Bill Ayers went into teaching teachers rather than continue making bombs: he could do more damage.
Communism, like Islam, is an ideology of conquest, one that, like fire ants, establishes a foothold in your back yard and soon is demanding to know what right you have to be there at all.
Being a communist or a cultural Marxist should consign one to the ranks of the unemployable, to the unwanted, perpetually uninvited and disinherited.
Instead these snakes have been steadfast and stealthy. Taking a long view they placed their dry rot in seminaries and told them to keep their heads down till there was enough of them. We can see a similar effort in many fields too with aforementioned Bill Ayers teaching teachers being but one example.
Madness and insanity, apostasy and fruitlessness, these creep in not because men are so brilliant as to sustain these stealthy assaults but because the real power behind them, again like Islam for they fall from the same tree, is satanic.
One thing I really like about Trump is how much the communists have been fighting against him.
"The Open Society Foundation has even infiltrated the education systems of most nations by funding curriculum studies and implementing changes to the education courses. This has been happening for so long now that most western teachers are promoting the liberal-left agenda without even realizing they have been manipulated and conditioned to destroy their own culture from within."
If we dont fix this issue in the media and the universities, our victory wont be long lasting. We MUST address this problem now! I’m not sure what the answer is though, they’ve been imbedded for 40-5- years.
Communist propaganda has taken over what used to be called journalism.
It has also taken over academia. Universities today are Marxist indoctrination centers.
Educations schools churn out useful idiots who populate the public schools.
My daughter wants to major in history and teach at college level. Even though she is conservative, she is still young and easily influenced. We cant afford a private school but I’m about to ask my husband and tell I’d rather use part of our retirement than to subject her to communist lies the next several years!
MacArthur was a truly great general. Like the other flamboyantly egotistical general, George Patton, he understood that a good general maximizes the enemy’s losses, minimizes his own losses, wins the war decisively, and gets his soldiers home.
Many conservatives respect Harry Truman. I do not. He helped create the modern political war by preventing MacArthur and others from doing what they were trained to do: win and go home.
By the 1930s, promoting communism by propaganda was the order of the day in the media.
Eleanor took her carefully guided tour of Stalin’s deadly playground, came back, and eulogized the monster and his evil creation.
The media gleefully published her naive account. They revered Stalin, an official communist, and revered Roosevelt, an unofficial communist.
Wonderful post.
One of the history teachers in my high school was a retired Army officer. The last day of classes every year, the Colonel would spend the entire class period telling his exciting stories of fighting in the Philippines with General Douglas MacArthur.
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For 70 years the Left and academics have denied such infiltration and then in the final months of 2016 they universally decided that Russia was influencing the US presidential election by planting “fake news” stories in print and on the internet.
Stalinists lie. Always
There are not many openings for college and university history majors. And the faculty are evaluated along liberal/socialist lines once hired. I would encourage her to major in something more job-ready.
Goldwater was a Truman admirer; Nixon, a Wilson admirer; Reagan, a Coolidge admirer; Obama, an Obama admirer.
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