Posted on 05/11/2020 6:35:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
I remember standing in my grandfather's bathroom at 12 years old and watching him put in his false teeth. He looked at me and said, "Take care of your teeth, Greg." The pain in his face conveyed much more than his words. Have you ever noticed that suffering brings a level of conviction and passion to the words of those who speak them? I have seen even deeper expressions of pain in the faces of those who have described to me what it was like living under communist regimes.
One of my best friends in my Army infantry unit was a high-speed Cuban immigrant named George Gonzales. He told me a story of his father being arrested. What was his crime? He butchered their pig without notifying the state. He was turned in by a neighbor and subsequently arrested. No due process — just a knock on the door and whisked away to jail, where he stayed for over a week. George said his family knew little about his arrest or his whereabouts. When he eventually returned home, he began to plan his family's escape from communist Cuba to America.
I'm reading a book called Escape from Communism: A True Story and Commentary, written by a Romanian who defected to America from the ruthless communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu. He speaks of fear, intimidation, and the lack of trust not only in the government, but in neighbors and co-workers as well. Those who spoke against the communist regime were often reported by informants and made examples of to establish fear in the souls of the population. He said, "Fear works like magic, and the communists were masters of its use."
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Scary.
Neighbors ratting out neighbors. We are close enough.
Glenn Beck made an excellent point, no society has ever been communist, because that means that we are willing to give up our economic efforts to society for a societal share of housing, food, education, whatever.
The most that can be done is socialism, but that means the state always has to enforce it with the gun and keep people from exercising their rights.
The moment we are free, we exercise capitalism.
That “yet” is becoming a shorter word every time it is used in this context.
I know a Chinese woman whose mother was ratted-out by a neighbor during the Cultural Revolution, because her husband (who was working overseas which already made him suspicious) had send her some silk stockings from Hong Kong.
She had to undergo a “struggle session” and demotion at work for this “crime.”
Even the Soviet Union had a huge black market, that the State basically allowed to flourish.
Even the Soviet Union wasn’t communist. It still used the gun to force people to give up their economic efforts. Capitalism is the natural state of man.
People will find a way to be free.
All Democrats are the creation of Satan. Many Republicans are toadies and spies that accommodate their Democrat bosses. They realize what they’re doing is wrong and sinful, but they signed away their souls as well and will burn in hell forever.
These creatures are weeds that sap the life out of what was once a perfectly good country. They have behaved as jackals chewing on a well-aged carcass of a gazelle. We have very short memories, a fact they count on. No penalties are assessed for their evildoing.
It’s time to bring DDT out of retirement and use it liberally!
Only the Blue states.
I don’t see it as communist vs facist, vs democracy, etc. I see it as tyranny.
In a sane world, Karens don’t have that much power. They can rat you out, but nobody cares. Where it becomes a problem is when what they are ratting you out for should not be a violation of anything.
I was in costco and they now require masks. So I’m in front of the prepared meats area (employees behind the glass putting together salads and stuff). I called my wife and pulled down the mask to talk to her. I hear a banging on the glass and turn around to see one of them pointing at my mask. I pointed at my phone. She pointed at my mask again and I just waved her off and turned my back on her.
Communism is where the state owns everything and there is no concept of private ownership. That’s really a different thing.
I don’t see it as communist vs facist, vs democracy, etc. I see it as tyranny.
In a sane world, Karens don’t have that much power. They can rat you out, but nobody cares. Where it becomes a problem is when what they are ratting you out for should not be a violation of anything.
I was in costco and they now require masks. So I’m in front of the prepared meats area (employees behind the glass putting together salads and stuff). I called my wife and pulled down the mask to talk to her. I hear a banging on the glass and turn around to see one of them pointing at my mask. I pointed at my phone. She pointed at my mask again and I just waved her off and turned my back on her.
Communism is where the state owns everything and there is no concept of private ownership. That’s really a different thing.
Communism, or its cousin, Democratic Socialism, are but two faces of what I call command-and-control economies. Both Communism and various other ideologies that call themselves Socialist in one version or another, all eventually fall to the control of a designated “strong man” or small oligarchy that makes all effective decisions, while pretending to be acting in the name of “the people”, who turn out to have not much of a say in matters. Basically, the common run of people is a commodity, to be exploited in such manner as the ruling elite so chooses, strictly as pawns in a great game of chess.
“One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.”
Personal initiative is snuffed out, or if any spark of genius arises anyway, it is even more ruthlessly exploited than mere labor of the completely fungible individuals in the masses, by one or another of the ruling elite, perhaps to gain an internal advantage in the rule from the palace. In the end, it is all top-down.
Until the masses finally erupt.
Not much need to read the book 1984, we are almost to the point of living it.
The fascism displayed through out this country is truly amazing. And even more amazing is just how fast all the sheep lined up to follow blindly every order by the government. Absolutely this country is reduced to followers, no more leaders.
Even the Commies in Russia couldn’t close all the churches...
We were smart enough to create the illusion of privacy (but the government has access to all), an illusion of due process (but the government can side step that: FISA courts, Patriot Act...), and those wielding these powers are generally benevolent (unlike the commies that were even more “boot on the neck”).
However, we are a centralized, top down, nation where when the order is given to close all the churches, we will. When we are asked to be searched at an airport without probable cause or a warrant, we will. When every electron fired off in a text, email or VoIP call is captured, we don’t question it. When we have secret FISA courts, we don’t question it.
The difference between the commies in the East was that they put a boot on the neck of folks, but we smile and do the same shit. In America folks turn in their neighbors just like in the East block, the difference being that here we think we’re being ethical, professional, or patriotic.
There is no difference except that here we do it a little more discreetly and are a bit more benevolent. The government today has given itself ALL the same powers and capabilities.
The emphasis must be on the Constitution.
And this needs to be contrasted with a course covering the history of dictatorships, and Communist regimes, and how they used police to oppress their people.
This needs to be done ASAP.
I noticed that too.
They wanted too. They were always undermining the church since they were openly athiest. But never did they dare just close all the churches by some decree like here.
The really scary things is that in the US the people go along with anything. They are told it’s your duty, you are intellectual, ethical, professional, patriotic, now go and do XYZ and they do it WITHOUT questioning it.
Seriously, when the wall came down, some of the leaders did order for the military to open fire at protestors and that was true in Romania and the DDR that I know of for sure. Folks blatantly disobeyed orders and that’s why you never heard of a massacre in the capital of Romania when the army had a stand off with protestors. But here? I truly believe you give an order to do something like that, many would follow these orders, without question and then think themselves the better for it.
Public education, government dependence (people don’t want to bite the hand which feeds them), government PR (the government spends a lot of tax dollars selling itself to the public), secrecy (folks don’t get upset about what they don’t know), and a more softer/benevolent approach has allowed this to happen, IMHO
Watch this. we are very, very close.
What BS!
Unless we can find a way of breaking the back of the Ministry of Propaganda and the Ministry of Education, we will be there soon enough.
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