Posted on 11/14/2020 6:43:34 AM PST by Kaslin
Sometimes history replays itself – in strange and eerie ways. Our job is to remember, prepare for what may come, so we do not repeat what is avoidable, regrettable, tragic. Take the Venona Project. If you do not know about it, consider what it means for today.
Venona was a counter-intelligence effort launched in WWII. It lasted 40 years, helping us understand Soviet intentions and bring the Soviet Union to an end. The centerpiece – public now – was decoding that pointed to Communist ambitions inside the United States.
The significance of the project is that, while history, it validates concerns about international espionage, how communist foes attempt to penetrate civil and military life, politics, and media.
The project unearthed “assets” in unlikely places – senior posts in government and private sector. All this, of course, occurred before social media and ubiquitous cyber-activity.
The importance of remembering is that Americans are now again at odds with one another, being encouraged to divide, pushed to distrust the political, legal, and social institutions that bind us. As during Venona days, our adversaries could not be happier.
Internal disputes, democratic disfunction, public corruption, mutual distrust, growing disaffection are what they want. They would prefer we get impatient, consumed by emotion, entertain doubts about law, consider neo-communist ideas, and grow weaker from within.
This is where we must be smarter than we are being – especially now. We must understand that, like it or not, democratic processes and rule of law goes hand-in-glove. Seeking legal recourse to resolve the serious election anomalies is right and proper. Maturity and patience are needed.
True enough, peaceful transition of power is a hallmark of American democracy, but so are fair elections. We need both, assurance this election was fair, remedies if not, and a trusted outcome.
Without assurance of fairness, that is, confidence that significant errors and fraud did not occur, legitimacy of executive leadership is undermined. While our adversaries would love that, we should not. We should want legal processes to play out, following where the evidence leads.
Venona reminds us that liberty and election integrity are always under fire, internally and externally. Corruption is often reinforced by foreign interests, hoping we will doubt ourselves.
That is why we should put down our swords – stop pretending this election is over, that alleged voter fraud is irrelevant, or legal action is unwarranted. If material evidence exists of systematic error or fraud, we should know it – and remedy it. We have a legal system intended to find truth. We have a judicial branch to check material defections in elections.
Last point: Venona reminds us to be alert to socialist, communist, and other adverse foreign influences. They seek to corrupt free societies. Ours is the freest. In this, we represent their greatest threat – and so they ours.
Venona – and courage of leaders like Ronald Reagan – ended the Soviet Union. That said, communist ideology endures. It fed Soviet Bolsheviks and feeds neo-Maoist China today. To protect ourselves, we must respect ourselves – our political and legal systems, rule of law, free markets, and Bill of Rights. These live – all personalities aside – only while we defend them.
If Venona reminds us of anything, it is this: Democracy, rule of law, and respect for both – are vulnerable to disruption. Our job is to be vigilant, if necessary vocal, especially around elections.
The late Democratic Senator Daniel Moynihan co-chaired the Bipartisan Commission on Government Secrecy – which declassified Venona in 1995. His warning echoes Generals Patton and Bradley, Presidents Truman, and Reagan: “The Venona intercepts contained overwhelming proof of the activities of Soviet spy networks in America, complete with names, dates, places, and deeds." Threats from within and without remain real.
Today, the threat from Communist China out-flashes all others. China – and socialist partisans within – would hurry this election, dispose of judicial review. That is what China does; that is not what we do. We await judicial rulings. We may be impatient, but are not communist yet.
Democrat = Leftist = Communist = Chinese Communist Party.
All niceties aside.
Agreed ... Not yet .... and, hopefully, not ever.
“We await judicial rulings. We may be impatient, but are not communist yet.”
Tell that to anyone who ever said “President Elect Biden”.
I think you under state the nature and dimension of the attack.
Go read Carlos the Jackal for his opinion of how to bring down the west.
He acknowledged that Marxism by itself could not bring down the west , nor could islam; but an alliance, a coalition of the two could.
Obama was both a marxist and a muslim... and a lying radical at that.
This is death to America, death of the American constitution .
This is death to the culture who created the Magna Carta.... the white Christian Western Europeans who gave the world advancement, achievement and progress through their Magna Carta ( all the roots for rights, liberty and freedom), Patent Law, development of the sciences, the Industrial revolution.
When you attack the constitution and vary from this path then the chaos of communism can come in raiding , looting and “redistributing” the weath.
Both islam and communism have a hand in this.
We need to always refer to the democrats as the communist party. Label them with what they are. Any and every tweet, Facebook post Parler post, or email should contain the communist label of the dems. It will eventually stick.
Venona proved that Joe McCarthy was actually a hero.
Bears repeating, thank you.
“I think you under state the nature and dimension of the attack.
Go read Carlos the Jackal for his opinion of how to bring down the west.
He acknowledged that Marxism by itself could not bring down the west , nor could islam; but an alliance, a coalition of the two could.
Obama was both a marxist and a muslim... and a lying radical at that.
This is death to America, death of the American constitution.
This is death to the culture who created the Magna Carta.... the white Christian Western Europeans who gave the world advancement, achievement and progress through their Magna Carta ( all the roots for rights, liberty and freedom), Patent Law, development of the sciences, the Industrial revolution.
When you attack the constitution and vary from this path then the chaos of communism can come in raiding , looting and “redistributing” the weath.
Both islam and communism have a hand in this.”
I had always read that Joe McCarthy was the bad guy, but as I read more & more about it, I realized that he was actually the good guy. We need more like him today. So it continues today as we are so often being told the opposite of the truth.
Excellent article...
Unfortunately U.S. history has been censored, revised, rewritten, and/or fabricated to such an extent by the U.S. communists that, today, most of the sheeple have no clue about such things...
More importantly, they don’t want to know about such things, thanks to a Marxist government education system...
The following is a history of The Venona Project.
https://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A32454/datastream/OBJ/view/Introductory_history_of_VENONA_and_guide_to_the_translations.pdf
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