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"I have a copy of that in my purse"

Any gal with a copy of the 1963 Communist Manifesto in their purse deserves kudos.

I've got a copy of Brainwashing - A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook of Psychopolitics. It was given to me by a dear homeschooling friend. It's from Roy Masters group (don't know much about him but the 68 page book is a great read), The Foundation of Human Understanding. This book needs to be read by every American.

I dug into my bookmarks and found a link (hope it works after you cut & paste) on the The Soviet Art of Brainwashing which I think is the same (but glitzed up on the front page) as the book. Granny, something you posted recently might have this link as well

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7006/psychopolitics.html

Whew! Do I ever need to go to sleep! LOL!
I wasn't very clear, or correct, about what I carry around. It's not a book, for one thing. That's what I wasn't clear about.
What I do have, I thought was from the book but on looking at the draft I have in the 'puter, it's from "The Naked Communist". This is what I have in my purse.....and a lot has been fulfilled already.

On Jan. 10, 1963, A.S. Herlong, a Democratic congressman from Florida read a strange list, known as the "Current Communist Goals," into the Congressional record.

Originally lifted from a book called The Naked Communist by Cleon Skousen, the list seemed at the time to be an alarmist sequence of unattainable military, political, and cultural threats posed by international communism against the free world. Most intriguing among these are the cultural goals:

45 GOALS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY

1. U.S. acceptance of co-existence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the U.S. would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist domination.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the Germany question by free elections under supervision by the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the U.S. has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. 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.

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both political parties.

16. Use technical decisions of the Courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get cotrol of "Teacher" associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the Press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in Radio, TV and Motion Pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate" all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.

23. Control art critics and directors of museums. "Plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and violation of free speech & free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religious expression with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "Separation of Church and State."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a world-wide basis.

30. Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the grounds that it was only a minor part of "the big picture." Give emphasis toRussian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture - education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws and procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on UN-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more "unions"!

37. Infiltrate and gain control of "big business"!

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which "No one but psychiatrists" can understand and treat.

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the "family" as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the "negative" influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blanks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition, that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use "united force" to solve economic, political, or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the PANAMA CANAL.

45. Repeal the Connally Reservation so the U.S. cannot prevent the WORLD COURT from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the WORLD COURT jurisdiction over "Nations and Individuals" alike.

* All 45 Goals above are from "The Naked Communist", pp 259-262, Author W. Cleon Skousen, Nov. 1961.

Now, I'm off to bed while I can still see to get there. It's been a loooooong night.....and I'm STILL not caught up with y'all! LOL!!

Roy Masters is still on the radio, you will find him around 10:00 PM.

35 years ago, I fought my son, to keep him from having the man on the radio while he slept.

Roy Masters is still an expert on Brain Washing, that is what his program is.

I don't like him, but have no doubt that his book is worth reading.

Brainwashing is easy, in a book called "Charm School", about our Nam/POW's being used in Russia to train Russian Spies, there is a scene that has the POW telling the spies that "Aces and Nines AHH the "Dead Man's Hand".

Aces and eights are what are called the dead mans hand in poker games. I laugh at the fact that it so firmly planted in my mind, that I will sit here and tell the computer "Dead Man's Hand" when it comes up.