Back to School: Obama and Alinsky

Einstein once said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing twice and expecting different results. There are some exceptions to that rule. The lonely romantic searching internet dating sites and community socials for that one special match; the casual gambler that plays his ten dollars worth of lottery tickets every week for that remote possibility that this week he will hold the winning ticket and of course, the devoted fans of the Boston Red Sox that shed both the “Curse of the Bambino” and the suspicions of insanity when Boston swept the Cardinals in the 2004 World Series.

Of course there is a darker side to the list of exceptions to Einstein’s rule. The shady criminal that checks random homes for an unlocked door or open window; the con artist that makes a thousand pitches before bilking some unsuspecting dupe for their bank information and passwords and the radical ideologues looking for that crack in America’s armor so they can bring us one step closer to their vision of a utopian socialist society.

One would think that Obama would have gotten the message last year when he tried to infuse his address to America’s students with those curious accompanying materials asking students what they can do to help the President achieve his goals. Of course he had Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education, to blame that on and managed to effectively distance himself from the criticism even though the nation was in an uproar with many parents keeping their children home from school that day, even in districts where the school boards had announced an “opt-out” alternative for the President’s speech.

As reported in the Conservative Blog, “Atlas Shrugs”, an Atlas reader, Chuck, has a student in the eleventh grade in an Ohio High School. Her government class passed out what can only be described as a propaganda recruiting paper so students could sign up as interns for Obama's Organizing for America. OFA is the post-election manifestation of the former campaign site of Barack Obama, Obama for America. Their report on the latest school story can be found at:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/01/atlas-exclusive-obama-organizing-for-communism-and-youth-corps-in-the-public-school-1.html

Obama is now being accused using our public school system to recruit for an Alinsky-inspired private army. Organizing for America is clearly recruiting in our schools to, as they say, "build on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda" and has created an intern program centered on the President’s experience with community organizing.

The Ohio High School in question is Perry Local in Massillon, Ohio. In all fairness to the Perry Local High School and to the Massillon school board, this was not a concerted effort by the School Board or even Perry Local High School to carry out the agenda distributed by the Obama Administration. This was the action of a single teacher that violated a school mandate prohibiting the distribution of political materials to the students. The local Fox affiliate in Ohio correctly reported on the incident in their usual fair and balanced style, allowing the School Board to answer the charges directly. That report can be seen here:

http://www.fox8.com/news/wjw-news-perry-township-high-school-controversy,0,1279152.story

Unfortunately that does not mean that Organizing for America is not guilty of trying to indoctrinate the young vulnerable minds of America’s youth into the radical movement currently being used to assault our nation. It is clear what the intent is by reading the application itself and OFA’s website itself, says they are targeting key States, listing Ohio as one of them.

For those that think the words “indoctrination” and “radicalization” are too strong, one need only review the recommended reading list on page four of the application to gain a glimpse into the goals of the intern program.

Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky
The New Organizers, Zack Exley
Stir It Up: Lessons from Community Organizing and Advocacy, Rinku Sen
Obama Field Organizers Plot a Miracle, Zack Exley, Huffington Post
Dreams of My Father Chicago Chapters, Barack Hussein Obama

At a time when Poland’s former President, Lech Walesa, claims that the United States has lost its position as the moral leaders of the world, the President’s own website is suggesting that our students read Alinsky? Alinsky was a firm believer in the Marxist philosophy that the ends justify the means and it was perfectly acceptable to lie, cheat and steal so long as one’s political goals were victorious. I would think that the President of the United States would want to bring out the best in America’s youth and would be, as past President’s were, an advocate of honor, truth and virtue. No, Obama taught Alinsky as a professor and used Alinsky theory while “organizing” communities prior to his political career. This latest effort to indoctrinate our youth in opposition to the parent’s wishes is just another manifestation of “the ends justify the means”.

I know the left goes crazy when the right links Obama to other fascist leaders but what do they expect when we see the same tactics reemerging on school property? Is there no parallel between OFA’s internship for high school students and the efforts of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin to make sure that the youth of their nations were “properly educated” in politics? The fact remains that each of those leaders targeted youth because it was much easier to bring about a “fundamental transformation” of their societies when you start with children that have not formed an opinion yet. The only thing that can stop an agenda like that is to boldly point it out wherever it is found. Radicals, like vampires, cannot live in the light of day.

Part of the left’s strategy is to misrepresent the resistance to Obama’s radical agenda, including these attempts to infect our children with worthless Marxist drivel; after all, the ends justify the means. Air America’s Janeane Garofalo and former President Jimmy Carter along with MSNBC’s Chris Mathews and Keith Olbermann would have you believe that the fight against the “Obamanista’s” are all about race. They constantly accuse that a broad spectrum of the American people are only displaying their bigotry when they are angered by Obama’s tax and spend initiatives or when they bring these school-aged indoctrination efforts under fire. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The resistance to Obama is not based in black versus white bigotry but is rather, a Marxist versus the Constitution patriotism.

You must admit it is a brilliant scheme though. The President did learn to stay away from the fray. After all, even the Secretary of Education was still too close to him the last time. Now they are sneaking these things into the schools through their army of Kool-Aid drinking, want-to be organizers devoted to Obama’s agenda through the poisonous tendrils emanating from Obama’s own Organizing for America. So a teacher violates a rule here or there. The message is still out there and both the school board and the President can claim no responsibility for the infraction if they are caught. As far as the President has tried to remain from the center of this latest drive to radicalize our children there are still nagging little reminders everywhere; such as the National Education Association’s suggested reading list. They are ardent supporters of Obama so it is really no surprise that they also suggest the reading of Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”. http://www.nea.org/tools/17231.htm

Instead of healthcare reform maybe we need education reform? If we had only taught the Constitution, the Federalist Papers and an accurate history of America over the past one hundred years, we probably wouldn’t need healthcare reform, welfare, Medicaid or a flood of stimulus bills…now would we.

Paul

Damn the Republic, Full Speed Ahead- Part Three

The clock is slowly ticking towards December 21, 2012; a date that for some has dark connotations associated with it. New Age believers say the eight-thousand year old Mayan calendar ends on that date and is supposed to bring a calamitous end to civilization. Followers of Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce and The Bible Code all say each of these saw a link between tragedy and the year 2012. Is it a cosmic alignment? Is it the hand of God? Or is it something a lot closer to earth and far more sinister?

We are on the cusp of passing several major spending bills in the United States Congress; bills that will outspend the ability of countless future generations of Americans to recover from their irresponsibility. Is it sheer coincidence that the major provisions in both the proposed healthcare and Climate bill (cap and trade) do not take effect until 2013? Will 2012 be the last year that America exists in the form that we know today?

There is an alignment all right but it is not planetary nor is it cosmic. It is an alignment of an overwhelmingly liberal Congress, a Supreme Court that has a recent history of liberal decisions and a President that has proposed not just a liberal, but an overtly socialist agenda that the other two branches of government are more than happy to support. This alignment took years to bring together and it has at its roots, the Soviet funded demoralization of the United States that began in the 1930’s and continues to this day. No, I am not some silly conspiracy theorist that sees ghosts in every shadow. I do see the testimony of Soviet defectors and the links that that they have made between Soviet money and the socialist indoctrination of the centers of American higher education; the same centers of higher education that our most liberal and progressive congressmen attended in their youth.

Yuri Alexandrovic Bezmenov defected from the Soviet Union and his post at Pravda in 1970, fleeing to Canada. As an author and lecturer, he toured the United States in the 1980’s speaking freely about the KGB’s primary mission of subversion and demoralization of which, much was directed at the United States. He stated that only 15% of the KGB’s budget was for actual espionage while 85% was used to plant the seeds of socialism and foster dissent in the homelands of their enemies. Now that the United States has well over 10,000 college professors that are self-avowed socialists it appears that their money was well spent. You see, the Soviet Union understood the benefit of securing the hearts and souls of the youth of a nation. After all, they did it right in the Soviet Union not long after the Marxist revolution. Schools that molded the political will of the students along with absolute control of the press, radio and eventually television made very loyal, nearly robotic little communists. Many of those that disappeared in the Stalinist purges had been turned in by their own friends and families.

To make a long story short…Senator Joe McCarthy as well as the House Un-American Activities Committee were right. They tried to warn America about subversive influences in the Unites States but they didn’t have their ducks in a row. You see, it wasn’t against the law to be a communist or a socialist and once their investigations strayed beyond people working in sensitive areas of national security, they had overreached their authority and were set upon and silenced. No doubt, with funding from the same Soviet sources.
The infiltration of socialists into American society began with the labor movement but that became redundant with the passage of fair labor legislation. Still, it was a toe in the door of the American political system. They got a front row seat into the American psyche and they knew their next logical step was the media. Does anyone remember the films that were made during the transition from silent to sound? There were a good number that were centered on class warfare. The boastful and wealthy corporate moguls eating and drinking with abandon; pitted in moral combat against the downtrodden and desperate poor.

News papers became evermore combative with politicians and businessmen that dared to challenge the “progressive” (and don’t forget that progressive is just a less abrasive word for socialist) programs of FDR. There were plenty of feeding grounds for the clandestine Soviet social engineers during the great depression because those that still had, had plenty and those that didn’t have, had nothing at all. That only served to reinforce the message that Americans had seen on film before the bottom fell out of the economy. We probably would have slipped quietly into the communist abyss then, if it were not for World War Two. Almost overnight, the divisions between Americans dissolved. The film and press media were strictly monitored for the good of the war effort. The unemployed were now under arms and the nation had to turn to its women to meet the production needs of the war. After the war, nearly every manufacturing base on the planet had been destroyed except for those safely in the United States. America was back to work and because of the labor laws secured during the turn of the century, there were few complaints.

After the McCarthy years, the Un-American Activities Committee stuck to pursuing cases of espionage in sensitive defense areas and over the course of the next ten years, the socialist infiltrators poked their ugly little heads out of hiding. This time it was films and news about racial injustice and cruel warfare that topped the agenda. After all, they still needed an enemy to rally against. This helped to create the counter culture of the 1960’s with the Vietnam War as a focal point of the inhumanity of the United States and the evils of the industrial military complex. To some the allure of being without responsibility was too much and some “turned on, tuned in and dropped out” of useful society. The rest disrupted respect for any authority with catch phrases like “Don’t trust anyone over thirty” and of course there was the famous euphemisms of “pigs” for the police and “baby-killers” for the military. There were already socialist professors in the Universities and like any virus, the disease spread to the students; especially those that dabbled with the drugs of the day and already had their heads stuffed with so much mush that the transformation from American to Socialist was very easy indeed.

These students rebelled and rioted, thinking they were fighting for a just cause. Their minds so poisoned that no amount of logic could persuade them to look at facts or figures and think for themselves. Why not? Because they were already trained to ignore authority; authority was over thirty and you couldn’t trust anything they say. Well those students eventually became professors themselves, and filmmakers, and journalists oh yes, and politicians.

Back in the ‘60s there were tons of socialist organizations that the students could embrace; all lovingly funded in secret by agents of the Soviet Union. There was the Students for a Democratic Society, the Young Socialist Alliance, the Revolutionary Youth Movement, etc, etc. Some of the members of the Revolutionary Youth Movement eventually became the Weather Underground. You remember them…the domestic terror group that tried to blow up the Pentagon? It just so happens that the co-founders of that group are still around. One is the Bill Ayers that helped launch Barack Obama’s bid for the Presidency from his living room. The other is Jeff Jones, Chairman of the New York Chapter of The Apollo Alliance, the same Apollo Alliance that help craft the $800 billion dollar Stimulus bill.

Oh we have tons of those crazy old radicals around; in fact, you can find quite a few of them in the White House, now having been appointed by Barack Obama as Czars….oh excuse me….Special Advisors, the Obama administration really hates the word Czars. Even though Obama has circumvented the confirmation process by appointing Communists, Marxists, Socialists and Radicals to special advisor positions and even though they appear to be operating in secret and refuse to answer the questions of Congress; that is not the real problem.

The real problem is that through our own ignorance and complacency, we have allowed Congress itself to be overrun with radicals, Communists, Marxists and Socialists. Only a select few have shown the courage to actually call themselves socialists like Bernie Sanders, the rest hide under the pseudonyms of progressives and liberal Democrats. Today, there are over 80 members of Congress that belong to the Congressional Progressive Caucus and their membership roll is a who’s who of the Congressmen that insist we must pass not only a public option in healthcare, but a full blown government run universal healthcare system. They also want cap and trade; the one piece of legislation that is guaranteed to eliminate nearly every remaining manufacturing industry in this nation. They are also the same people that have chosen fish over farmers in California, owls over loggers in Washington and with the Obama administration poised to add another 250 names to the endangered species list, you can bet more water will be turned off and more private lands will be placed under public control.

But why? Why would Congressmen destroy our nation? Power. You see, they still believe that when the United States has collapsed the only thing left for us will be socialism and they will be the only logical choices to remain in power since they understand it so very well. The only hope we have is to stall this legislation until the mid-term elections and then vote in a road-block so that we are assured that our voices are heard.

If I sound like I am ranting tune in tomorrow and I will lay out some interesting details

Paul

The Indoctrination of Youth

Everyone has seen the videos that have found their way to the internet and onto select news stations showing school children chanting the praises of Barack Obama. Many parents and conservative news groups are deeply concerned that this represents an attempt on the part of the President’s inner circle to indoctrinate these children into believers of the political agenda of the Obama administration. While these charges have denied by the administration and been met with ridicule from Obama supporters, they cannot be that easily dismissed.

The earliest and easily, the most disturbing, was a video that found its way to You Tube in October of 2008 featuring a group of roughly twenty teen-aged boys dressed in black T-shirts, camouflage pants and gold combat boots. They chanted individually and with military precision, all of the things that Obama had inspired them to do and then the litany of wonderful things that Obama’s healthcare plan would do for the nation before breaking out into a group cheer for Obama. Almost immediately, the cry went out that similar to the Hitler Youth, Barack Obama or his supporters were creating a training program for young militant blacks, loyal to Barack Obama and not to the United States. Those charges were met with countercharges of racism, a charge that would be used over and over by Mr. Obama’s supporters in the coming months. That video can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mvP0ArKIGY

After the election, that video faded from memory and the country waited to see exactly what his promise of change would mean as President Obama assumed his position as the forty-fourth President of the United States. In what seems like a blur, the Federal government dolled out hundreds of billions in bailouts, passed an eight-hundred billion dollar stimulus bill, presented a Climate Bill that is currently estimated to cost us three-hundred billion dollars a year (US Treasury Report) and a Healthcare Bill that promises to be equally as crippling to the economy. Who would think there would be time for more?

As children returned to school after their summer vacation it was leaked out that the President planned a grand speech to the nation’s schools. That in and of itself, is not remarkable. Other Presidents including Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush have addressed the nation’s students during their administrations too. I suppose the difference was the reaction from Congressional Democrats and the National Education Association who deeply criticized both Reagan and Bush for their speeches. In fact, House Democrats actually investigated Bush’s use of public funds for this matter and though he was ultimately found to have done no wrong, was still chided by the NEA for wasting twenty-six thousand dollars to present the speech to school children while his administration had planned to make cuts in the school lunch program. In what amounts to nothing less than hypocrisy, these same groups would ultimately praise Mr. Obama for “reaching out” to the youth of the nation.

The concerns raised by conservative groups and parents over President Obama’s plan to speak to America’s school children were fueled by the materials that were distributed to the school district to accompany the speech. Sections of these materials indicated that they expected teachers to encourage the students to pledge that they would help the President meet his goals while others were apparently designed to fill the students with glowing admiration of Barack Obama. There were to be discussions on setting personal goals, of which the suggested subjects just happened to be in line with the President’s agenda. There was even a celebrity video that was released to go with this “celebration” of Barack Obama that showed numerous movie and music stars pledging support for the President’s agenda and ended with the celebrities pledging to Obama himself. Now maybe I am old fashioned, but I don’t recall anyone in the history of this nation pledging to anything besides the flag and the Constitution and no one has ever pledged allegiance to any one person in America, ever.

Once again, charges were made that the administration was clearly attempting to indoctrinate the youth of America into supporting the President’s agenda and once again, countercharges were levied that any opposition to the President’s speech was strictly a matter of race. It would be nearly a full week before the text of President’s speech was released for parents and school boards to read (one day before the speech was given) which led many to believe, including me, that this was not the original speech but a speech written at the last minute to avoid any additional controversy; a speech that was now, cleverly devoid of any particular political ideology.

Now we have videos appearing of school children singing the praises of Barack Obama. The first video appeared on September 24th featuring an elementary school in New Jersey. When parents saw the video and demanded an answer, school faculty would only say that the video was secretly taped and they were irate that it was posted on YouTube without their knowledge. That sounds eerily like the defense that ACORN used when they were caught on film encouraging people to break the law. While the school insisted that the song was written by the students themselves, the lyrics are clearly more advanced than the grade level of the students involved and in fact, Charisse Carney-Nunes was reportedly at the school helping teachers lead the children in song. We will discuss Ms. Carney-Nunes later but she is someone that is connected to a group that has, as part of its agenda, a program to politicize school aged children. That video can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8grOVPu_sRU

On September 29th, a second video has appeared showing a different school where the children are being led in chants about change, hope, education and national service ending in a boisterous “Yes we can!” Hmmm? I seem to recall that change, hope, national service and “yes we can” were prominent features of Obama campaign posters but again, the charges of indoctrination are being dismissed as the opponents are again being classified as racist. You do realize that when this administration has finished using the term racist, it will have no meaning at all. This newest video can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6IHkuBZtls

Charisse Carney-Nunes is a Senior Vice President of Programs at The Jamestown Project. She was also identified as one of the people leading students in song in the New Jersey video. Her bio on the Jamestown Project not only speaks of her work with the project but it also says she has recently accepted a job with the Obama administration’s Transportation Department. Why, what a coincidence!

“The Jamestown Project” as they describe themselves, “is a diverse action-oriented think tank of new leaders who reach across boundaries and generations to make democracy real. Founded and operated primarily by people of color and women, The Jamestown Project consists of scholars, activists, and communities who use five broad strategies to achieve our mission: generating new ideas; promoting meaningful public conversations and engagement; cultivating new leaders; formulating political strategy and public policy; and using cutting-edge communications techniques that reach a broad public.”

When discussing a curriculum guide they have prepared for grades 3 to 5 they write: “Children Do Democracy Too is an outgrowth of our Doing Democracy work. The purpose of the initiative is to equip children with the knowledge and tools necessary to meaningfully participate in civil society and democracy. The central question we seek to answer is, “How do we instill the values of citizenship and active participation into the youngest, and in many ways the most important, members of our democracy?”The Jamestown Project released A Children’s Curriculum for Civic Engagement in the Fall of 2008 as part of this initiative. The curriculum is based on our book:
“I Dream For You A World: A Covenant For Our Children.”

“The Curriculum adapts the concepts from the book into lessons and activities to promote civic engagement to elementary aged children. Grades 3 – 5 are the optimal age for children to not only understand their place in the world, but also a time to begin to comprehend their power and potential to make a difference in their own lives, their family, their communities, and their country. We are currently piloting the curriculum and seeking new partners to help us evaluate the program, share learning, and to strategize about achieving future goals.”

Ms.Carney-Nunes wrote another book entitled “I Am Barack Obama”. This book encourages children to find their “inner Obama”, which I suppose is the leftist equivalent of finding Jesus in your heart. She presented the book to the third grade children of the Salem Middle School, the colorful pages emblazoned on a big-screen projector above her as she read aloud. School faculty said “the children shouted gleefully “I am Barack Obama!” Her stories are of a hope that often finds confinement within the poverty-stricken city. “The most important thing I think, and the reason the book is called I Am Barack Obama, is because I like when children say I am Barack Obama,” Carney-Nunes said. “They understand that there is a little bit of Barack Obama in all of us.”

The Jamestown Project has a number of laudable goals. Their work with children is meant to enrich their lives; promote self esteem, morality, awareness and to motivate them into actions that will reward them and their community. The problems that I have with what they do and with the videos we have seen emerge from this school of thought is that nowhere, does it seem to include the parents.

There doesn’t seem to be room in this program to allow parents the ability to exercise their right to shape their children to fit their own family structure of religion, morality and yes, even political ideology. It is almost as if they don’t want to risk the parents interjecting anything that doesn’t fit their script for what they want the kids to grow up thinking and that goes against everything we have always believed as a nation. That is also the fundamental definition of indoctrination.

Paul

The Roots of Socialism in America

I listen to students and young people comment on politics or society and wonder “how could they possibly believe what they are saying?” It dawned on me that to be able to draw reasonable conclusions, these young minds would have to have been properly educated and have access to all of the facts and not just the select few that suit the political agenda of the educator. While frustrating, there are reasons for this apparent lack of common sense.

The roots of socialism in America are found much as they were in Europe; a revolt against the harsh working conditions of the industrial revolution. It was Karl Marx, a philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist and revolutionary, whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism. Marx summarized his approach in the first line of the first chapter of The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848: “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”

Marx argued that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, will inevitably produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction. Just as capitalism replaced feudalism, he believed socialism would, in turn, replace capitalism, and lead to a stateless, classless society called pure communism. This would emerge after a transitional period called the "dictatorship of the proletariat": a period sometimes referred to as the "workers state" or "workers' democracy".

While Marx remained a relatively obscure figure in his own lifetime, his ideas began to exert a major influence on workers' movements shortly after his death. This influence gained added impetus with the victory of the Marxist Bolsheviks in the Russian October Revolution in 1917, and few parts of the world remained significantly untouched by Marxian ideas in the course of the twentieth century.

Teddy Roosevelt would never be known as a Socialist but he did espouse many ideas that were Socialist in nature. He considered himself a progressive and while he did believe in American Imperialism and a strong world military presence, he also believed in heavy government regulation, government control of wages and the redistribution of wealth for the public good.

On the heels of the Russian Revolution, Communist and Socialist movements found an audience in the American Labor movement. The Socialist Party of America was a coalition of local parties based in industrial cities. Even though by 1912 they claimed more than a thousand locally elected officials in 33 states and 160 cities, the party was factionalized. The conservatives, led by Victor Berger, promoted progressive causes of efficiency and an end to corruption. The radicals wanted to overthrow capitalism, tried to infiltrate labor unions, and sought to cooperate with The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). With few exceptions the party had weak or nonexistent links to local labor unions.

Once the stock market collapsed in 1929 forcing enormous numbers of people into unemployment, the communists surged once again and began to organize rallies and marches in support of workers and workers rights. In March, 1930, hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers marched through New York City, Detroit, Washington, San Francisco and other cities in a mass protest organized by the Communist Party’s Unemployed Councils. In 1931, more than 400 relief protests erupted in Chicago and that number grew by 150 in 1932. The leadership behind these organizations often came from radical groups like Communists and Socialists, who wanted to organize “unfocused neighborhood militancy into organized popular defense organizations.” Workers turned to these radical groups until organized labor became more active in 1932, with the passage of the Norris-La Guardia Act

While Communists and Socialists did gain a foothold in these turbulent years, Walter Philip Reuther the president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) would soon change that. As a prominent figure in the anti-Communist left, he was a founder of the Americans for Democratic Action in 1947. He had left the Socialist party in 1939, and throughout the 1950s and 1960s was a leading spokesman for liberal interests in the CIO and in the Democratic Party.

Labor unions eventually eliminated the public connections between the unions, Communism and Socialism. They traded those links for something less troubling in the public eye, the progressive arm of the Democratic Party which espoused many of the same ideals as Socialists without the negative connotations; what some would call “Communism light”. Now the real work to transform the nation could begin under the American flag and right under the noses of the American people.

Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader 1958 to 1964, had once made a statement is a speech saying that he would “bury” America. Some thought that meant that he meant military action or that he would launch a nuclear attack to bring about his prophecy. That raised even more fear among average Americans during the cold war even though war was hardly his intention.

Khrushchev was perfectly willing to let America move to the left incrementally; here a little, there a little. When speaking about FDR’s New Deal, Khrushchev said, "We can't expect the American people to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have communism."

Changing terminology and calling socialist programs “compassionate conservativism” doesn’t change the nature of the beast itself. Redistributing the wealth to win votes will produce the same devastating end as redistributing the wealth because you are an outright socialist.

From 1959 until 1989, the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) received a substantial subsidy from the Soviet Union. Starting with $75,000 in 1959 this was increased gradually to $3 million in 1987. This substantial amount reflected the Party's subservience to the Moscow

Yuri Alexandrovic Bezmenov, now known as Tomas David Schuman, was born in 1939 in the former Soviet Union and worked as a journalist for Pravda. In this capacity, he secretly answered to the KGB. His true job was to further the aims of communist Russia After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and culture of India, while, at the same time, he began to resent the KGB-sanctioned oppression of intellectuals who dissented from Moscow's policies. He decided to defect to the West.

Bezmenov/Schuman is best remembered for his Pro-American Anti-communist lectures and books from the 1980s. From his writings and speeches Mr. Bezmenov said: “Ideological subversion is the process which is legitimate and open. You can see it with your own eyes.... It has nothing to do with espionage. I know that intelligence gathering looks more romantic.... That's probably why your Hollywood producers are so crazy about James Bond types of films. But in reality the main emphasis of the KGB is NOT in the area of intelligence at all. According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.

It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages. The first one being "demoralization". It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism....

The result? The result you can see ... the people who graduated in the 60's, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, and educational systems. You are stuck with them. You can't get through to them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.”

Thanks to the soviet doctrine in “ideological subversion”, America now has over 10,000 avowed socialist professors teaching in our universities that continue the practice of indoctrination. We also have over 70 members of Congress that consider themselves socialists or progressive socialists. In fact, Henry Waxman and Ed Markey, the authors of the Climate Bill (cap and trade) are two of the Progressive Socialists in Congress which a great reason to oppose that Bill all by itself.

Tomorrow: Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Paul