Posted on 06/07/2008 8:34:42 AM PDT by yoe
In the early '60's during the days of the "former" Soviet Union, Russian Premier Nikita Kruschev pounded his shoe on the podium of the United Nations and shouted to the West, "We will bury you!" Fearing an invasion from the Reds, America proceeded to build the most awesome military machine in history. Unfortunately, we forgot to guard our political homefront from being taken over by socialist - communist - liberal activists who would gain office and destroy American law by process of gradually installing the Communist agenda within our legal system and seperate branches of government. The Communist program from the start has been one which sees their revolution of 1917 succesful only upon total domination of the world. (See( Brain Washing, A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics)
Americans, being the most naive people among the nations, now believe that Communism is dead because the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain have been removed. The ironic truth is that Communism has just switched names to become more "politically correct". Today it is called international democracy. The reason that the Berlin Wall came crashing down is not because Communism is dead but because they have achieved the planned agenda to communize the West, including America. Washington D.C. has indeed become part of the New World Order of atheist governments. With the last vestiges of Christian law having been removed from "American government" over the last twenty years, there is no longer a threat of resistance against world Communism. In reality, "American government" became part of the Iron Curtain, thus there was no more need for the likes of a Berlin Wall.
[snip] 1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rent to public purpose.
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John McCain is an American. John McCain may have some progressive ideas but he is an American through and through. The Obama’s are not.
An oldie but goodie! I’ve had this bookmarked you years.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37ebc13801fd.htm
When Nancy Pelosi was elected, few knew her pride in Socialism and few cared just as long as she was a Democrat in name. Barack Hussein Muhammad Obama not only reflects the Communist manifesto, he actually embraces it as he does not even know what America is about having been surrounded by a taught by Marxists people all his life.
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http://cpc.lee.house.gov/index.cfm?SectionID=1&ParentID=0&SectionTypeID=1&SectionTree=1
Yes, here is your “Pelosi-fed socialist base” in our Congress — a good list to have at voting time.
They're rethinking that one. Today's commies envision us all living in highrises in central cities and using mass transit exclusively.
My server will not dish up either link.
Old stuff. Nobody’s home in Commieland anymore. The lights went out decades ago.
Read this and I think you will agree the oil industry has already been Nationalized in the US;
It was common in those days, as it is in ours, to identify the Communists as leftist and the Nazis as rightists, as if they stood on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. But Mises knew differently. They both sported the same ideological pedigree of socialism. “The German and Russian systems of socialism have in common the fact that the government has full control of the means of production. It decides what shall be produced and how. It allots to each individual a share of consumer’s goods for his consumption.”
The difference between the systems, wrote Mises, is that the German pattern “maintains private ownership of the means of production and keeps the appearance of ordinary prices, wages, and markets.” But in fact the government directs production decisions, curbs entrepreneurship and the labor market, and determines wages and interest rates by central authority. “Market exchange,” says Mises, “is only a sham.”
Mises’s account is confirmed by a remarkable book that appeared in 1939, published by Vanguard Press in New York City (and unfortunately out of print today). It is The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism by Guenter Reimann, then a 35-year old German writer. Through contacts with German business owners, Reimann documented how the “monster machine” of the Nazis crushed the autonomy of the private sector through onerous regulations, harsh inspections, and the threat of confiscatory fines for petty offenses.
“Industrialists were visited by state auditors who had strict orders to examine the balance sheets and all bookkeeping entries of the company or individual businessman for the preceding two, three or more years until some error or false entry was found,” explains Reimann. “The slightest formal mistake was punished with tremendous penalties. A fine of millions of marks was imposed for a single bookkeeping error.”
Reimann quotes from a businessman’s letter: “You have no idea how far state control goes and how much power the Nazi representatives have over our work. The worst of it is that they are so ignorant. These Nazi radicals think of nothing except ‘distributing the wealth.’ Some businessmen have even started studying Marxist theories, so that they will have a better understanding of the present economic system.
“While state representatives are busily engaged in investigating and interfering, our agents and salesmen are handicapped because they never know whether or not a sale at a higher price will mean denunciation as a ‘profiteer’ or ‘saboteur,’ followed by a prison sentence. You cannot imagine how taxation has increased. Yet everyone is afraid to complain. Everywhere there is a growing undercurrent of bitterness. Everyone has his doubts about the system, unless he is very young, very stupid, or is bound to it by the privileges he enjoys.
“There are terrible times coming. If only I had succeeded in smuggling out $10,000 or even $5,000, I would leave Germany with my family. Business friends of mine are convinced that it will be the turn of the ‘white Jews’ (which means us, Aryan businessmen) after the Jews have been expropriated. The difference between this and the Russian system is much less than you think, despite the fact that we are still independent businessmen.”
As Mises says, “independent” only in a decorous sense. Under fascism, explains this businessman, the capitalist “must be servile to the representatives of the state” and “must not insist on rights, and must not behave as if his private property rights were still sacred.” It’s the businessman, characteristically independent, who is “most likely to get into trouble with the Gestapo for having grumbled incautiously.”
“Of all businessmen, the small shopkeeper is the one most under control and most at the mercy of the party,” recounts Reimann. “The party man, whose good will he must have, does not live in faraway Berlin; he lives right next door or right around the corner. This local Hitler gets a report every day on what is discussed in Herr Schultz’s bakery and Herr Schmidt’s butcher shop. He would regard these men as ‘enemies of the state’ if they complained too much. That would mean, at the very least, the cutting of their quota of scarce and hence highly desirable goods, and it might mean the loss of their business licenses. Small shopkeepers and artisans are not to grumble.”
“Officials, trained only to obey orders, have neither the desire, the equipment, nor the vision to modify rules to suit individual situations,” Reimann explains. “The state bureaucrats, therefore, apply these laws rigidly and mechanically, without regard for the vital interests of essential parts of the national economy. Their only incentive to modify the letter of the law is in bribes from businessmen, who for their part use bribery as their only means of obtaining relief from a rigidity which they find crippling.”
Says another businessman: “Each business move has become very complicated and is full of legal traps which the average businessman cannot determine because there are so many new decrees. All of us in business are constantly in fear of being penalized for the violation of some decree or law.”
Business owners, explains another entrepreneur, cannot exist without a “collaborator,” i.e., a “lawyer” with good contacts in the Nazi bureaucracy, one who “knows exactly how far you can circumvent the law.” Nazi officials, explains Reimann, “obtain money for themselves by merely taking it from capitalists who have funds available with which to purchase influence and protection,” paying for their protection “as did the helpless peasants of feudal days.”
“It has gotten to the point where I cannot talk even in my own factory,” laments a factory owner. “Accidentally, one of the workers overheard me grumbling about some new bureaucratic regulation and he immediately denounced me to the party and the Labor Front office.”
Reports another factory owner: “The greater part of the week I don’t see my factory at all. All this time I spend in visiting dozens of government commissions and offices in order to get raw materials I need. Then there are various tax problems to settle and I must have continual conferences and negotiations with the Price Commission. It sometimes seems as if I do nothing but that, and everywhere I go there are more leaders, party secretaries, and commissars to see.”
In this totalitarian paradigm, a businessman, declares a Nazi decree, “practices his functions primarily as a representative of the State, only secondarily for his own sake.” Complain, warns a Nazi directive, and “we shall take away the freedom still left you.”
In 1933, six years before Reimann’s book, Victor Klemperer, a Jewish academic in Dresden, made the following entry in his diary on February 21: “It is a disgrace that gets worse with every day that passes. And there’s not a sound from anyone. Everyone’s keeping his head down.”
It is impossible to escape the parallels between Guenter Reimann’s account of doing business under the Nazis and the “compassionate,” “responsible,” and regulated “capitalism” of today’s U.S. economy today. At least the German government was frank enough to give the right name to its system of economic control.
Here is the link for this article:
alice,
this is from your list:
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
I went to the local Art Museum this week. I saw nothing pleasing to the eyes there. Everything was either weird or repulsive.
That's like saying an old, rusty knife can't kill you.
A friend of mine is a Christian and an artist, also an art professor in Chicago. She had a show at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. A lot of her art is commentary on society. Her Masters was called Americas Kitchen. At first glance the kitchen looked perfect but looking at it closer there were things that were destructive to American families...alcohol, porn,drugs etc....
She spoke at our church regarding art throughout the ages. She pointed out the further society gets away from God the uglier the art.....
I see so many parallels, but often wonder if the socialists in our own government are doing this out of ignorance or spite. Do they really know what they’re doing? Are they being directed by some sort of new version of the old COMINTERN?
Or are they just that STUPID? Useful idiots being manipulated by someone else?
Thanks for the read — I have seen that one before. And, I would agree that our industry has been “nationalized” from the perspective that our “government” is already controlling what they can and cannot do, and any move to do anything that would make us ENERGY INDEPENDENT is PREVENTED by the “government” so advances in that direction are non-existent (virtually) —— with the “government” working for itself and its empowerment, rather than the good of America and its citizens, this condition will not change until the people cause the needed changes to take place.
Nice post. But since nationalized education has destroyed any interest in history or facts, no one is going to notice.
There is no question that a secret organization of over-educated, egg-head, intellectual socialists and communists is working with the Democrat Party and some Republicans to corrupt our society and transform America into a Communist state. This includes capitalists in the entertainment industry who force nothing but Corruption and Porn on the American public to corrupt their souls.
This organization should be exposed and destroyed. We need another Joe McCarthy to root out the evil that is destroying America from within.
I keep that link on my “About page” for quick reference.
People are being taxed to support what we call 'public' schools, which train the young to work for the communal debt system. We also call it the Department of Education, the NEA and Outcome Based "Education" .
Communism is our nation's, and all freedom's, **MOST** serious threat. It isn't Islamofascism. And...Atheistic, communist infiltrated government schools are its **most** important weapon!
We can survive a nuclear suitcase bomb, but we will **NOT** survive if the Communists succeed in indoctrinating the next generation of voters.
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Socialism = “Compassionate Communism”
Socialism takes many forms, communism was one form and Hitler’s Nazi Germany was another.
The German model does not lead to communism, which owns all property, Nazi socialism allowed for private ownership but the state controls everything as we see here in the US.
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