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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But we are accepting Socialism in larger and larger doses...
They’re just fat.
Yep. I’ve known Iranians here over the decades afraid to go home both for fear they wouldn’t be allowed to leave again—and also uncomfortable with the environment in which you never know what friends or neighbors might be snitching for expressing anything other than support for the government.
Waiting in line to get into a supermarket, then not knowing what you’re going to find on the shelves. Sound familiar?
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