A Red State of Mind

“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.”

- David Hume -

So, I was nosing around the internet the other day looking at historic records of the national political philosophies in recent decades and came across this list. I have heard it mentioned before, but never actually read it. In fact, I didn’t really know if it existed. But, it is real. And, it is utterly dumbfounding. In fact, so scary and prophetic, I couldn't hold back my thoughts nor my posting it to my blog. Yes, I haven't written in a while and I planned to write on something different, but this jumped up and grabbed me. I can't help but post it.

Read this and be aware. Read this and be very wary of your government and our current culture. There is an undercurrent that this document reveals that is quite directed and scary. I am not saying that all of these changes and aspects of our culture were perpetrated by actual Communists or even one particular party. I am not assigning blame, though I believe we are all guilty of at least ignorance and neglect. I am not saying that our nation is doomed to fail or paralyzed. I am not trying to be a prophet of the apocalypse. I don’t want to incite fear or claim special knowledge. But, what I am saying is that these things have happened. And they are fearfully real. They seem to be getting worse, deepening our hole even farther. They are all moving us farther and farther from the truth of our founding and the Truth of our Maker.

These are trying times we live in, trying times indeed.

Current Communist Goals, 1963

Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35

January 10, 1963

Entered into the congressional record by

Albert Herlong, Jr., a Floridian who served in Congress from 1949-69

(all commentary in italics are mine)

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. “We must allow them to just have their crazy dictators and their dangerous nuclear weapons in the hands of wackos with no intervention. We just have to tolerate it. Only negotiations are moral. It’s only fair. We must coexist.”

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. Look at the seeming willingness of the President and administration to disarm or simply “negotiate” rather than act to end tyranny or a national/international security threat.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. Take a peek at the recent comments & UN speech of President Obama that he wishes to have a nuclear free world; his motivation is a world of “peace”, seen as a moral obligation. All opponents are seen as war-mongers and insensitive enemies of love.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. Watch out for the upcoming trade agreement with Cuba, or the current status with nations like the People’s Republic of China and Chavez’s Venezuela. Why even engage these radical states?

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites. We continue to give loans to former Soviet states, Russia, China, and the new neo-fascist Islamic states of the Middle East.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. (See note for # 5.)

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N. Happened years ago, and as their economic prowess increases, so too does their influence in the UN.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N. Thankfully, this did not happen, mainly due to the efforts of President Reagan and PM Margaret Thatcher.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress. Seems eerily similar to the present administration’s willingness to “negotiate” with rogue, terrorist states (N. Korea, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, etc.) while they continue to arm as we disarm.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N. Thankfully, the USSR fell apart, though Russia still looms.

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. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.) This last statement is unbelievably PROPHECTIC. The U.N. now controls ALL international negotiations and demands to be involved in all once sovereign state foreign policy decision-making. The world wants the U.N. to dictate what America does and Obama is granting it permission.

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. Can we really outlaw the Democratic Party of today??

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths. Of course, do not promote loyalty or honesty. These reflect morals and truth, which cannot be tolerated. Why can it not be tolerated? It removes the emphasis of the State as the essential being in the universe.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office. (I know nothing on this one.)

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. Hmmmm, we all know the Democratic donkey has gone the way of the Marxist, but I believe the Republican elephant is dangerously teetering as well, just look at the moderates like McCain & Snow.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. Say, institutions like heterosexual marriage, the celebration of Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc., the idea of freedom of speech (constantly attacked by the language police)? There are so many more under this goal, I have to stop writing.

17. 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. Not only is higher education controlled by Leftist, Marxist principles, but now secondary & primary schools have been infiltrated. More importantly, curriculums have been HUGELY slanted to bias these philosophies. Get them while their young! (And, the young voters will get you elected – Obama.)

18. Gain control of all student newspapers. Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton…should I go on?

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack. See the college riots of the 1960’s, the Black Panthers, gays rights activists in California last year, feminists of ‘90’s, the newest and most violent, environmentalists, etc.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions. Wow. Maybe the MOST successful strategy of the list. Mark Levin’s Liberty & Tyranny sells over 1 million copies and Glenn Beck’s Arguing With Idiots, #1 in the nation, not to mention Michelle Malkin’s bestseller, and still no reviews from the New York Times or any other national, mainstream paper. MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN are all now state-run media, and actual journalism is dead in most quadrants as true stories are ignored (ACORN, global warming) and tossed out out-of-hand.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. This is the only rival to the high-success implementation of #20. Have you watched the hype of Hollywood personalities supporting the leftist policies of Obama and the Democrats? Have you seen the “I Pledge” Video atrocity for Obama? Have you watched a movie or TV recently that has not had a gay, a stupid man, a broken home, a greedy businessman, a dirty priest, or a close-minded conservative? Success!!

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." Have you ever heard of modern art? Or ever tried to understand it? (It’s not all bad, but most of it degrades traditional society or simply rejects natural forms.)

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art." See #22.

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. They are trying. And, at the same time they are INCREASING censorship through the language police and the politically incorrect squad. You can cuss on SNL, but you can’t tell the truth about the violent nature & origin of Islam or the invalidity of global warming theory.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. Normalization of aberrant behavior - see MTV, HBO, pornography on the shelves of every major bookstore & video rental shop, and continually expanding acceptance in primetime TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy." I watched with my own eyes as MTV normalized pornography and homosexuality through the 90’s and 00’s. Now, even this week, Harvey Milk was given a state holiday in California, because he was solely, a gay” hero”. Our national safe school czar is a militant homosexual. Safe sex is promoted heavily, while multiple partner sex is a given fact. Abstinence, life-long monogamy, and traditional marriage are seen as archaic, unrealistic. Mission accomplished.

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch." Take a look at the current Social Gospel at work nationwide. There spirituality gives more emphasis on helping the poor and human rights issues than the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. See also the devastating effects of liberation theology within the black community since the 60’s. “ Victimology” is prevalent everywhere and leads to unyielding dependence on government & community leaders (Obama, Sharpton, Jackson, etc.) The Bible is under fire by people like Bart Ehrman and some leaders are teaching intolerant tolerance and multiple paths to God. This is the MOST deadly assault on America, for if it were properly being taught and lived out the Truth, all of the other things on this list would be recognized as failed and untrue. ALL goals on this list and the list of the current Left lead to this goal – remove God from man and man from God.

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state." In 1963, Bible recitation and prayer were banned in public schools. It’s Happy Holidays now instead of Christmas; Thanksgiving is Fall Break; Easter is Spring Break; the Ten Commandments are banned.

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 worldwide basis. Have you heard our current President’s diatribe on how the Constitution was inadequate and needs to be re-imagined? How the Founding Fathers didn’t do enough to re-distribute wealth in the document? (Yes, he said it on the air of a local Chicago radio show – the audio is all over the net.)

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man." Have you seen how our schools now often emphasize the criminality (in modern eyes) of our Founders, being slave-owners and such? Again, Obama says they didn’t do enough to re-distribute wealth to the “poor”, the “common man”. He was trained well.

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. Granted we don’t emphasize Russia, but we sure do love Europeans and their socialism. In addition, we belittle the role of faith in America, the role of capitalism in America’s success and the world’s welfare, the role of compassion in the history of America & American business, etc. Also, we can’t just emphasize America for that is ethnocentric or too nationalistic. I was even told that once that my concerns for national security and the end of international tyrannical rule was indeed “selfish” and “egotistical”.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture, education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. Health care, nationalization of corporate ownership, the Department of Education, Medicare, and GLOBAL WARMING policies & implementations all fit the bill. But, the real list is far too long to list.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus. (Probably too dense for me to understand – so I won’t try.)

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. That happened, no question. I would like to start it up again; problem: there would be so few Congressmen left we couldn’t govern and we couldn’t make movies or TV shows any more either.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI. Again, the Obama administration is trying as they seek to incriminate intelligence agents and try to stop the workings of the general intelligence community by claiming their activities are criminal.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. Well, the unions got Obama elected. The SEIU and ACORN are large parts of his political army. The AFL/CIO are definitely in his pocket. And, he is trying to grow more unions with the end of the anonymous ballot in employment issues and the health care bill (yes, if the privately owned hospitals end, nurses, doctors, and all health care employees will become members of UNIONS.) Everything Obama does is in some way associated with the unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. The government has already bought out the car companies and banks – and, they are trying for much, much more with the health care and the global warming tax.

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 [or treat]. First part, Obama mentioned a new civil defense group. “We need it.” Second part, notice the increase of diagnosis of diseases and mental problems (AD/HD, broad spectrum autism, constant depression, etc.). There is a pill for every condition and a diagnosis for every action.

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals. Who knows what will happen with State-run health care?

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. Divorce is definitely easy now dayst. Promiscuity is assumed. The family model is never modeled publically or in pop culture. The homosexual militants discourage the family as well. The family’s disintegration means the disintegration of faith and all values.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. Who does more education now, the State-run schools or the home? Who says they know best, the State educators or the parents? Do kids spend more time in the school and day care or with a parent at home? Don’t be fooled – this is part of the idea with year-round school terms as well: why do kids need to be home, ever?

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. The most militant and active, violent groups in America today are environmentalists and gay rights militants. There are race-bigots who are as well. And, for all, it is their “right” – unless of course, they are a conservative talk show.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government. See Africa or some Asian nations. They are trying to push us out of Afghanistan and Iraq before they are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal. President Carter did this, and Russian ships (even military ships) were allowed through the canal recently. Chavez, the Venezuelan Communist, loves the Russians and he is close to the canal, providing them a convenient nuclear trade route (not to mention Cuba).

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike. Obama’s current administration is full of “international law” proponents that seek to submit the United States to international laws of different nations, rather than the sovereign rights of our nation. Some even see value in endorsing Islamic shar’ia law throughout America. Notice the value being given to international laws regarding battlefield combatants and criminal detainees (see Guantonimo Bay, etc.) And what’s the biggest vehicle for this type of law and submission of America’s sovereign rights to a global power/court? GLOBAL WARMING legislation and restriction. ALL LIES.