Posted on 03/27/2004 2:23:45 PM PST by TripleD
A case in point unfolded in Birmingham, Michigan by the students of a private school led by their obviously Woodstock oriented teachers. As our troops were beginning the assault on Baghdad these young high school heads full of mush were allowed out of school and were picketing at the busiest corner of this community and demanding that the troops come back home.
I was reading the Congressional Record from April 24, 1935 and on page H6552, a Mr. Bryon Scott from California was addressing the House. The discussion concerned how much money should be spent on the navy. $450,000,000.00 (Many of the Congressmen I've read from the Records I found exhibit to speak like a Faulkner character, or Deerslayer maybe) He talked about:
"I want to tell you about the antiwar strike in the Los Angeles Junior College. It was just like all the rest of the strikes up to a certain point. The students left their classes and went out on campus to have a meeting. One of the professors stood in front of the student speaker and blew on a tin whistle. Now, I grant any teacher the right to make a fool of himself, but a full-grown man blowing on a tin whistle, in my opinion, turns the privilege into license...."
What do you or anyone reading this think the professor was trying to accomplish?
It discusses how, whenever socialism didn't go quite according to the "historically inevitable" plan, the elite stepped in "on behalf of the worker" to help it along. And it is this facet that, to me, characterizes the modern American socialist: the thought that they know what is best for the "little people" and wish to govern on their behalf.
And most amazing of all, to me, is how America resisted the socialist temptation in the late 1800's can pretty much be attributed to one man... Samuel Gompers, the founding US labor union leader, who (though a reader of Marx in his youth) quickly caught on that European socialism wasn't on behalf of the workers, but for the elite, with the workers as their pawns. As an organized labor leader, he opposed minimum wage, and govt. intervention in labor disputes. Most of all, he forbid non-laborers from having leadership positions in the union (which kept the socialist elite from gaining a toehold). He became an arch enemy of the commies, who worked hard to undermine him.
The book really puts into perspective what we are witnessing in terms of Kerry's internationalist support for his candidacy. I haven't quite finished the book, but I fear Muravchik was a bit premature in declaring the end of socialism. They are the zombie undead, I fear, continuing to spread turmoil wherever they go.
Their actions today could shed some light on this matter.
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