Posted on 03/30/2002 9:34:54 AM PST by forest
NOTE: This was originally written and published back in 1999. Unfortunately, it is still very pertinent.
What an interesting development this is! Forty-one years after publication, an article titled "Current Communist Goals", which is an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” written by Cleon Skousen in 1958, is beginning to receive national prominence.
W. Cleon Skousen, we should add, was an FBI agent, the police chief of Salt Lake City and a full professor at Brigham Young University. Skousen was also the head of the National Center for Constitutional Studies and the author of a number of other books and publications. Interestingly enough, the Skousen family is also directly related to Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.
The first time around, this text was generally greeted with snickers and yawns. Much of the text accurately identified things to come. It's just that few in the United States believed it back around 1960. But, Rep. A.S. Herlong, Jr. of Florida believed. And he read part of it into the Congressional Record in 1963, where future Americans would be able to find it.
And find it people have. Because of the good works of Forest Glen Durland, a semi-retired California teacher who realized the historical significance of the piece and posted it on his uhuh.com web site, the text has recently been extensively discussed in a wide variety of forums, from the Dr. Laura national radio program to the FreeRepublic.com web site.
Back in the 1960s, few Americans realized exactly how active the communist operation was in the United States. Now that some of the old KGB records are becoming public, we see that there were massive communist disinformation operations designed to divide the American people and stir the forces of social and political discontent. As we published previously, a handful of communist agitators were actually responsible for instigating many of the riots and anti-Vietnam demonstrations back then.
In fact, the 1958 text's item #19 actually mentions "use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack." And so they did. Quite successfully, too.
"Down with the establishment" is but one memorable chant that had its origin with communist trained agitators. The useful idiots of the drug culture were but one of their tools of disruption back then.
The "Current Communist Goals" text identifies many orchestrated mutations of American society. Most of these changes are so entrenched today that younger Americans actually think that is how our culture was intended to be. That is, some Americans do not fully understand the concept of freedom and liberty. They have been, what was called back then, "fully indoctrinated."
For instance, one communist goal currently under debate in presidential campaign news is item #4 in the "Current Communist Goals" text: "Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war."
Numbers 5, 6 and 7, respectively, call for: "Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites." "Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination." And, "grant recognition of Red China -- admission of Red China to the U.N."
Another item continually in the news is #9: "Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress."
Item #11 has received great discussion on the Internet, even before the text was again discovered: "Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one- world government with its own independent armed forces."
Due to the Clinton administration, #14 catches the eye of most people: "Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office."
Not only did Russia have access to our patent office back then, the Clinton administration recently gave a computerized copy of all American patents to communist China.
Item #15 suggests that the communists "capture one or both of the political parties in the United States." They didn't get both parties. But, as we look at the ever expanding federal bureaucracy, we see that the communist model has captured nearly one and a half of the two major political parties.
The 16th says to "use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights." We see that in many court actions, from civil rights to school desegregation.
Item #17 is where it's at, though. This item was accomplished so well that today's students are completely confused about what the Founding Fathers intended as our rights of life, liberty and property: "Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks."
And so they did.
By the time a careful reader gets down to #20 and #21 they may realize that a very workable plan was described: #20 states: "Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions." #21 rounds it off with: "Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures."
There's more, of course. There are forty-five articles in the plan. Most have been implemented, and that is exactly why there have been so many ominous changes in society these past thirty years. That is also why so many of our freedoms have evaporated.
See the complete text at: http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
Doing a great job of it, too. I have had the goals in my purse for years to remind me of what I'm fighting against.
I won't put up with PC in my presence anymore either.
Awww!
Well will ya look at that.
How dare they desegregate the schools.
Tut, tut, tut.
Those damn desegregationists, pretending to do the right thing when all along they're really just commies bent on world domination.
Can anyone say Pinky and the Brain?
Well gee RLK, if your "RIGHTS" impinge on those of others, then you forfeit those rights (for example, you don't have the right to shoot someone if you don't like what they're saying).
It's created a gestapo state licensed to subject everyone's to review for evidence of conforming to social servitude.
Well one group of people was already living under Gestapo conditions.
To be quite honest, if people aren't smart enough or enlightened enough to do the right thing, they need to be "bull whipped" into doing it.
That's why the state "forces" every child to have an education, even if some parents may think that "it ain't necessary".
That's why you'll be charged with child abuse/neglect if your kid is sick and you refuse to take him/her to a doctor.
Similarly, as far as the issue of desegregation went, Eisenhower had to "force the red out of some rednecks".
And he didn't give a rodent's posterior if they didn't like it.
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You said it all, Adolf. I don't want your "enlightened" kind demanding to control my life.
No one forced you to like anyone. They just forced you to give everyone else a fair chance at education and life in general.
Oh, and Mortimer, how is a segregated society a free society. That's the flaw in your argument.
No one forced you to like anyone. They just forced you to give everyone else a fair chance at education and life in general.
Oh, and Mortimer, how is a segregated society a free society. That's the flaw in your argument.
From your post it seems you don't mind control, as long as you're the one doing the controlling.
When people are forced to buy or sell to people they don't like, that is repression too. Forcing people to sell homes, or provide housing, health care, education, or whatever, to whoever, for whatever reason is repression.
There is no right to housing, health care, education, or any other material good or commodity. There is the right to free trade, and that only.
I practice a type of segregation in my own life, and will continue to do so. That is, there are people who I don't want around me because their deficiencies or characteristics are repunant to me and an imposition upon me that I don't want. It is an equal opportunity action that crosses racial lines.
I have no idea what racial or ethnic group to which you belong. But, I can tell you you are a member of the inherently lower classes with whom I want no association, an who I want to have no control over my life. You will always be on the outside looking an among people of any quality or stature. You will always be justifiably rejected by those who are other than your kind. Your only hope of achieving membership in anything is to force yourself upon other people through violation of their rights. It may not be to your liking that people in a free society have a right to reject or separate themselves from other people on a reasonable, or sometimes unreasoned basis. But it is not a right that you granted to anybody. Neither is it a right you have permission to take from other people with you and your friend's "bull whips" as you put it.
Basically, you are aggressively evil and have no respect for the principles of a free society.
Unless the Government says "verboten", then you're outta luck.
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