| THE PATRIOTIST
FROM
http://www.patriotist.com/tlarch/tl20010910.htm
Media Czars of American Opinion
In a prior column, I attempted to convey the make-up of the three levels
of the biased anti-American media: owner/operators, middle management news
directors and editors, and the recently graduated journalists from Marxist
academia. By now, all who follow the anti-mainstream establishment media
utilizing the Internet are accustomed to, and familiar with, both their methods
of 'reporting' and their opinionated communist propaganda.
They over report and opine on that which is negative about America, and
under report, wail and whine about that which is positive, or just ruthlessly
suppress it! If firearms are used two million times a year to protect innocent
human life, the fifty or so gun accidents taking children's lives are over
reported and accentuated while the former preponderance of contrary information
is totally suppressed.
This isn't accidental. This is not due to 'laziness' on their part as
so many opponents of their deliberate misinformation more than compassionately
and willingly accept. This deliberate misinformation is carefully engineered
and designed to enslave America with their utopia, definable as 'communism,'
in order to protect their wealth and power! They are very purposefully and
vehemently disagreeing with America's founding political purpose!
Who are these behind-the-scenes drivers of this vigorous effort to strip
us of our freedoms and protections as offered in our Constitution's Bill
of Rights? Who are these individuals who so desperately need to abolish our
greatest protection in the Second Amendment? Let's take a look!
The most obvious of these anti-American media czars and controllers is
of course the head of ABC/Disney, Michael Eisner. Again, remember, that although
they earned their wealth through capitalism, their motivation is to protect
their wealth and power gained via capitalism by imposing communism on everyone
else! And the way they do this is by shaping the opinion of dumbed-down ignorant
America via the news and entertainment media, which they control!
Eisner controls entertainment media television via Walt Disney Television,
Touchstone Television and Buena Vista Television. Eisner controls movie
entertainment via Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, which in turn controls
Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Caravan and Hollywood pictures.
Disney bought out Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., thereby becoming ABC Television
with leftist anchor Peter Jennings. In addition to owning ESPN and the ABC
radio network through the Capital Cities merger, Disney controls several
publishing and newspaper operations. Clearly, Mr. Eisner is a powerful controller
and shaper of American opinion.
Then we have Viacom headed by Sumner Redstone. Viacom's movie propaganda
outlet is Paramount Pictures, and it also owns both television and radio
stations. Viacom and Redstone own Simon and Schuster, which provided an $8
million 'advance' to a non-writer and untalented Marxist by the name of Hillary
Clinton. Madame Hillary never wrote a book, as her 'Village' idiocy was written
by a ghostwriter! Tom Clancy, John Grisham or Stephan Ambrose, proven successful
writers, would never ever get such an advance from any publisher such as
Madame Hillary obtained! What does that tell you about the leanings of this
'American' outfit? And of course, REDstone and Viacom own and operate CBS
[Communist Broadcasting Socialists] and Dan Rather [than America?]
Viacom owns and operates Showtime, Nickelodeon and MTV. Here we have a
conglomerate and virtual monopoly, and the US Department of Justice is out
to lunch when not torturing Bill Gates and gassing and burning to death women
and children! Any anti-trust problems with these monopolies AG [Assault General]
John Ashcroft? And now that socialist Ted Turner has been dethroned by the
AOL/Time Warner merger, can we expect a turn around at Communist News
Network[CNN]? Oh they're talking to Rush Limbaugh are they? Socialist Turner
lost his holdings through capitalist merger activity. Was he right to fear
his capitalistic downfall? Any media noise concerning this monopolistic turn
of events? Fagetaboudit!
But the media czars I love to hate are the Sulzbergers and the Newhouses.
The former are the print media Marxists, the gun-carrying New Yorkers, who
own the New York Times [circulation over 1,000,000] and the latter own my
home state newspaper, the Newark [Red] Star Ledger [circulation over 400,000.]
As Arthur Ochs Sulzberger's propaganda rag, the New York Times, desperately
pleads for gun control for the rest of us, liberal-left hypocrite Sulzberger
was licensed to carry a concealed handgun just like Dianne Feinstein and
Rosie O'Donnell's bodyguards! Both demand abolition of the American People's
most powerful protection while they more than avail themselves of this
'privilege.' Both Sulzbergers and Newhouses own, in addition to scores of
newspapers, dozens of TV and cable TV stations and networks.
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., is the current publisher of the New York Times
and chairman of the New York Times Co. The Times Co. owns such other publications
as the Boston Globe, McCalls, and Family Circle. The Newhouse empire, headed
by Samuel Newhouse, owns 26 newspapers in addition to the New Jersey [Red]
Star Ledger, and other publications such as the Sunday newspaper supplement
Parade, and magazines including the New Yorker, House and Garden, Mademoiselle,
Vanity Fair, and many others.
Considering the foregoing, which barely scratches the surface of the
mega-media monopolies and conglomerates, please keep in mind that these huge
organizations are controlled by one individual, and that there are only a
dozen or so kingpins controlling virtually all the media! How's that for
'diversity,' huh? How's that measure up to a 'level playing field,' huh?
That's why I say we never elect any politician – our media appoints
them!
The dozen or so media czars, combined with big corporations of similar
political leanings, pick and chose who they want in political stations of
power, and eliminate those they don't want. The Gannett Company [USA Today,]
the left-liberal organization that decided Al Gore was blue while George
Bush was red, is yet another example of big media power! We all know the
colors are in reverse! And if ever a company existed that needed regulatory
anti-monopolistic control, it is indeed the operations of Gannett! But that
will be for another time!
Ted Lang is a veteran editorialist, and has written a regular newspaper
column. Send him e-mail at tlang1@optonline.net.
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| EXPOSING THE LINKS BETWEEN COMMUNISM, THE ILLUMINATI, AND THE ISLAMIC
TERRORISM
TEXE MARRS SAYS:
FROM:
http://www.texemarrs.com/102001/links_between_comm.htm
What do Communism, the Illuminati, and the Islamic terrorists who committed
the recent heinous crimes against America have in common? Plenty!
The World Marxist/Communist Movement was spawned from Illuminati conspiracies.
When Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and their henchmen seized control of Russia and
its republics and set up the Communist-led U.S.S.R., they were simply following
The Plan of Adam Weishaupt’s Order of The Illuminati and Albert Pike’s
Palladium of International Freemasonry.
Many today believe that Communism is dead but, not so. The beast has dug
into American soil and its tentacles reach out in the form of extremist Red
subversion of our political, economic, religious, and social systems.
Immediately after the bloody and devastating terrorist attack on New York
City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, yours truly began to earnestly
investigate the active and philosophical links between Communism, the Illuminati
conspirators, and the Arab terrorists. Each of these groups has its prime
objective the establishment of global tyranny and worldwide totalitarian
dictatorship. Though there are significant differences, I have uncovered
an astonishing correspondence between recent catastrophic events and these
three totalitarian groups.
Communist Politicians Subverting America
I have found that, in the San Francisco bay area, and in nearby Oakland,
California, a pro-Communist Party cell exists which, I believe, is exceedingly
dangerous to American security. The political and social influence of this
Marxist cell is far-reaching, even entering the hallowed halls of Congress.
The Congresswoman who represents this district—the 9th Congressional
District of California—is a black woman, Barbara Lee. Ms. Lee is the
only person in the Senate and House to vote against the U.S.A.’s use
of force to defeat the terrorists. The vote in Congress was 420-1. Ms. Lee,
a rabid Communist sympathizer, was the 1.
Long known as a fan of Fidel Castro and an enemy of United States security,
Ms. Lee has nevertheless been rewarded by the Democratic Party leadership
of Congressman Richard Gebhardt with plum, key positions on the powerful
committee that oversees our nation’s banking and finances. She also
sits on the Committee on International Affairs.
Congresswoman Lee’s mentor was Ron Dellums, who previously held the
same seat in Congress but retired in order to give Lee a promotion. Lee was
Dellum’s chief lieutenant. In my opinion, Dellums is more pinko and
commie than even Mao Tse Tung, Castro, and Gorbachev. He has endorsed the
notorious terrorist group, the Black Panthers, voted to fund the Marxist
Sandinista guerrillas of Nicaragua, openly assisted Cuba’s boss, Fidal
Castro, and held leadership positions in Communist front groups like the
World Peace Council.
In 1993 Congressman Dellums was rewarded for his traitorous anti-American
activities by being appointed Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee,
which oversees our entire military establishment. The Democratic Party leaders
also gave the Marxist Dellums a seat on the House Select Committee on
Intelligence.
Dellums was recently a prized delegate at the Illuminati’s annual
World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Why would the capitalist corporate
elite invite a Communist radical like Dellums into their inner sanctum?
Like his successor, Barbara Lee, Dellums despises capitalism and opposes
the U.S. Constitution. He has called for a New World Order to “move
us past nationalism.” He and Lee demand that America’s military
be placed under the control of the United Nations and that American intelligence
be dismantled. A Shocking Picture of Coming Destruction
Marxist Congresswoman Barbara Lee
(click
here) was the only one to vote against the U.S.A. effort to stop future
terrorist acts. Her mentor, Congressman Ron Dellums
(click
here), is a fellow traveler of Communism. Dellums has demanded that U.S.
military officers be put on trial for "war crimes," and has stated, "We should
totally dismantle every intelligence agency in this country, piece by piece,
brick by brick, nail by nail." Dellums often uses the clenched fist salute
sign of the Communist Party and once spoke under a Viet Cong Communist flag.
He and Congresswoman Lee are both admirers of Cuba's Fidel Castro. Yet,
amazingly, the Democratic Party elevated both to sensitive, high leadership
positions in the U.S. Congress, and Illuminati corporations like Bank of
America have praised Ms. Lee!
Also in the Oakland area is a music company called “Dog Day
Records.” One of its performing groups is a pro-Communist Party hip-hop
black rap group called The Coup. The Coup has used the Communist red star
emblem on its album cover. One of its more popular CDs, filled with profanity
and violent lyrics, is called Kill My Landlord. Another is titled, Genocide
and Juice.
The All-Music Guide 2001 describes The Coup as “one of the most overtly
political bands in rap history.” Its leader, Boots Riley, is head of
the Young Comrades, a Communist Party organization that once stormed the
Oakland City Council.
This June, the rap group, The Coup, put up on the internet a picture of
its next music CD (a scheduled November release) titled, Party Music (as
in Communist Party), to be produced by yet another music company, 75 Ark
Records. At the time, the cover art drew little attention. It showed Boots
Riley and friend holding a bomb detonator while the World Trade Center explodes
behind them. If you examine the depicted explosions, you’ll notice that
they are around the relative height on each of the towers as the real
explosions.
Immediately after the carnage of this Arab terrorist act, the music company
withdrew the image from the internet and changed the name of the CD album.
Riley, band leader, openly admitted the “remarkable similarity”
between the cover and the event of September 11. He stated that the cover
was intended to symbolize the group’s opposition to capitalism and claims
he knew nothing about what was to happen on that fateful day.
“Unfortunate,” he added.
This CD album cover for the black hip hop group, the Coup, was published
on the internet in June, three months before the World Trade Center horror.
Note the red star of Communism at top, left of the cover. The title of the
CD, now changed, was "Party Music" (as in Communist Party!).
Democratic Party and Communists Working to Destroy America?
Unfortunate, indeed. It is highly unfortunate that we have such an abundance
of Communist Party radicals within our midsts and chomping at the bit to
destroy western civilization and our way of life.
True, there may be little physical connection between The Coup,
Congresspersons Lee and Dellums, and the Arab terrorists who committed these
atrocities. But the philosophical and spiritual connections are clear.
What’s more, the fact that the Democratic Party leadership in Congress
would reward and elevate these Communist monsters to high positions of leadership
on sensitive committees charged with overseeing America’s military and
economic security is an indicator of the grave and present danger which now
confronts us all.
Radical white and black leaders are, I believe, now using the Black Muslim
movement for Communist Party aims. Meanwhile, the Shriners, a Freemasonry
organization, continues to indoctrinate many men and initiate them into a
cult of adoration of Islam’s Allah and Mohammed. God help us all! And,
God bless America!
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| RED STAR OVER THE CHRIST CHILD
FROM:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/focus/christmas/child.htm
October 30, 2002
by Kirk Kidwell
What is Christmas? Here in America and in other Western nations, Christmas
is, perhaps, the highpoint of the calendar year (especially for children).
During the month of December, the television screens are filled with Christmas
specials, the stores are packed with shoppers seeking that "perfect" gift,
and families look forward to a festive Christmas spent with relatives and
friends.
Yet Christmas has almost become so routine to many Americans that we tend
to forget its real meaning -- the advent of the Savior. For Christians throughout
the world, Christmas is a celebration of God's love for mankind expressed
through the birth of His Son, Jesus Christ. Christmas, more than any other
holiday, symbolizes God's concern for humanity and His direct involvement
in shaping man's history.
However, not all Christians will be able to celebrate Christmas as a joyous
and festive occasion. In fact, over one third of the world's population must
deal with active government repression of Christmas, and will celebrate it
this year with an ever-present fear of imminent persecution leading to arrest,
imprisonment and even death. For those Christians living under Communist
tyranny, celebrating Christmas openly, or even secretly, can be dangerous.
Take, for example, the story of Reverend Geza Palffy, a Roman Catholic
priest who lived in Communist Romania. In 1983, during his Christmas sermon,
Father Palffy dared to protest against the fact that December 25th had been
declared a working day. Christmas, the priest reasoned, should be a holiday
for those who wish to celebrate it.
The next day, the Romanian secret police arrested Father Palffy and imprisoned
him for interrogation. After a night spent in a Communist prison, he was
dropped off at the local hospital unconscious and in critical condition.
After three months of intensive medical attention, he died.
The official death certificate listed the cause of death as liver cancer.
Yet those familiar with the case say it is a well-known fact in Romania that
Father Palffy's liver and kidneys were crushed and shattered by Communist
"interrogators." The faithful priest died a martyr for Christmas.
To many Christians in the West, such an episode seems almost too incredible
to believe. Although what happened to Father Palffy may be one of the more
egregious examples of the Communists' hatred of Christmas and of everything
Christian, it is by no means an isolated incident.
Throughout the Communist world, Christians will be confronted by modern
King Herods actively hostile to the celebration of the birth of the Christ
Child. And yet these Christians will meet the challenge with bravery and
heroism, willing to suffer and die for their Christian faith and for the
freedom to commemorate the advent of their Savior.
Hatred of God Drives Communists
Why is it that Christmas is so harshly opposed in Communist lands? Father
Victor Potapov of the Voice of America's USSR division had this to say during
a recent Senate hearing on religious persecution behind the Iron Curtain:
"Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin and at the heart of their
psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force of Communism. Militant
Communist atheism is, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his Templeton address
put it, 'the central pivot point of communist policy.'"
He explained that "Marxism-Leninism sees religion as something radically
false. It carries with it a completely wicked morality, for religion is
individualistic, egoistic, because it preaches personal not social salvation.
Above all, religion does not attribute to man his primacy since it admits
a God and higher beings. Religion is the chief ideological weapon of the
exploiters in their fight against the liberation of mankind. There can be,
as Lenin said, nothing more abominable than religion.
"Given these beliefs, it was inevitable that those who embraced
Marxist-Leninist teaching should feel moved to place serious constraints
upon the activities of the churches and other religious bodies when they
found themselves in positions of authority. The Christian credo inevitably
appeared as pernicious superstition which ought to be eliminated, or at least
severely limited in its influence, by any means which a Communist government
has at its disposal."
In light of such deep-seated hatred of God and of all things Christian,
it is not surprising that Communist rulers do all they can to stop Christians
from celebrating Christmas. In fact, according to Pastor Richard Wurmbrand,
founder of the missionary group Jesus To The Communist World, Christmas "is
a special time of anti-Christian propaganda" in most Communist countries.
Pastor Wurmbrand, who spent a total of 14 years in prison in Communist
Romania before coming to the West in 1966, told The New American that in
the Soviet Union and other Communist nations, "there are mockeries of Christmas
in schools ... and everywhere else they would expose the 'lie' about Jesus.
They would say that Jesus never existed, that he is just a myth and so on."
In an effort to keep Christian families from celebrating Christmas, Pastor
Wurmbrand explained, Communist rulers "will oblige children to come to school
or do something to keep them from attending religious services. There is
no Christmas holiday in most Communist countries. These are working days.
So after work, they would convene meetings of the Communist Party or whatever,
anything to keep people from attending church."
Yet the situation varies from country to country in the Communist world.
In nations like Albania and North Korea, religion is outlawed, and the practice
of religion in any form is severely repressed. In a few other countries,
such as Poland, an independent church is tolerated, and Christians have some
measure of religious freedom, albeit small by Western standards.
Celebrating Christmas Risky
Typically, in most Communist nations, there exist two parallel churches:
the official church that is tolerated and used by the Communist rulers in
exchange for great compromises, and the underground church that refuses to
compromise and is therefore harshly persecuted. The official church may hold
a Christmas ceremony but, as Pastor Wurmbrand explained, "really enthusiastic
preaching about the coming of the Son of God to earth is not meant to be
delivered. Everything is low-key in the official churches."
At great risk, the underground church will hold "illegal" Christmas services
in private homes, barns or at secret hiding places. For the underground church,
Wurmbrand noted, "it is a subdued Christmas."
And, of course, some Christians will spend Christmas in Communist prisons
and labor camps. Based on his own experience in spending fourteen Christmases
in a Romanian prison, Pastor Wurmbrand remembered fellow prisoners: "Some
are in solitary confinement. Some are outside of time, they don't know that
it is Christmas. They may spend years in solitary confinement. They don't
know if it is Christmas or Easter. They are 30 feet underground, they don't
see the sun, moon or stars.
"Others in solitary confinement know it is Christmas and they sing by
themselves and pray by themselves. Others not in solitary confinement hold
forbidden services in their cells, they would take communion together, they
would sing together, they would hold devotions."
Christmas, by all accounts, is rather bleak for Christians in the Communist
world. But to gain a better understanding of the Marxist plot against Christmas,
let's examine the situation in three Communist countries -- the Soviet Union,
Romania and Nicaragua.
The Soviet Union
The world's preeminent Communist state, the Soviet Union, has
institutionalized its opposition to Christianity. According to Richard D.
Schifter, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, churches are "rigidly
controlled through a body of rules enforced by a state bureaucracy which
is headed by the so-called Council of Religious Affairs." Operating through
a network of regional commissioners, this council determines when and where
religious services may be held; all other religious activities are
forbidden.
Natasha Vins, whose father Pastor Georgi Vins spent eight years in Soviet
prisons and labor camps, explained to The New American that "in the Soviet
Union, Christmas is not a special day. After the revolution, it was substituted
with the celebration of the New Year. They don't have what you call a Christmas
tree, but they do decorate a tree for the New Year. Everything is dedicated
to the coming of the New Year. The people have days off on January 1st. But
Christians do celebrate Christmas."
She noted that "if Christians come together to celebrate Christmas, the
police may come and disturb the meeting. Like any other meeting, people could
be arrested .... [In the prisons in labor camps] the Christians would still
try to do something special. Some food boxes are allowed to prisoners once
in a while. So they will try to save their best food for Christmas."
Yet Christians in the Soviet Union exhibit bravery and bold courage in
confronting the state's anti-Christmas efforts. "During Christmas," she recalled,
"young people will go out into the streets and sing Christmas carols. If
the police hear them, they could be arrested. In the subway in the big cities,
the young people will ride down the escalators singing carols so that everybody
could hear.
"They try to do something special. They greet people with 'Merry Christmas,'
or even make homemade Christmas cards and give them to the people on the
bus or in the stores. If the police caught them, they would be arrested,
they would be taken down to the police station, their names would be written
down. But they wouldn't be put in prison for a long sentence."
Romania
We have already noted the tragic story of Reverend Geza Palffy and the
Romanian authorities' brutal treatment of anyone who dares to confront the
anti-Christmas status quo. Yet, like the early church that suffered under
Roman persecution, the Romanian underground church is mushrooming.
"While encountering persistent, often ruthless persecution by the state,
various religious groups in Romania have in recent years undergone tremendous
growth," Assistant Secretary of State Richard Schifter stated. "Many observers
have pointed to the fact that Romania seems to be experiencing a religious
revival which is making the open, fervent practice of religion second only
to that of Poland in Eastern Europe."
However, the church in Romania continues to face severe religious persecution
from the regime of Nicholae Ceausescu. Schifter noted, "Charismatic religious
leaders have been harassed, imprisoned, or forced to emigrate. There are
reports that some have been killed .... The various churches face severe
restrictions on the printing or import of religious materials, including
Bibles, and there is strong evidence that some Bibles have actually been
pulped for the manufacture of toilet paper."
Nicaragua
In Nicaragua, the Sandinistas -- true to their Marxist-Leninist colors
-- have followed the lead of the Soviet Union and other Communist nations.
Shortly after seizing power in 1979, the Sandinista government moved to redefine
the meaning of Christmas. The following synopsis of the Sandinista plot to
steal Christmas is derived from an exclusive interview with Humberto Belli,
former editorial page editor of La Prensa. Belli fled Nicaragua in 1982 and
has since written two books about the treatment received by Christians under
the Sandinista regime, the most recent being Breaking Faith which was released
this fall.
"One of the first things we noticed during the first year of the revolution,
when Christmas was approaching, was that the Sandinistas were trying to redefine
the meaning of Christmas. In 1979, the Sandinista Party published a secret
document, addressed to leaders of the Sandinista movement in the various
Nicaraguan provinces, which was an instruction manual on how to approach
the upcoming Christmas celebration.
"The document said the Sandinistas should not oppose the Christmas celebration
in a direct, open way. The document said that what we need to do is change
the meaning of Christmas so that it gets a new, political meaning. And then
the document warned that to try to confront the tradition so soon after the
triumph of the revolution would entail the danger of losing support among
the people. And the document noted that the Soviet Union, 62 years after
the revolution, still had not totally eradicated religious tradition. We
published this document in La Prensa the next year and the Sandinistas never
tried to deny their authorship.
"This document is very important because it shows the strategy that the
Sandinistas intended to follow regarding Christmas and other religious
celebrations. The strategy was to change them in behalf of the revolution,
so that the religious would be substituted by a political meaning.
"One thing they did the next Christmas was to print thousands of posters
where you could see a baby surrounded by some soldiers, militia-men and workers.
Under the picture were the words 'In Nicaragua we were created new men: The
new man is being created in the new Nicaragua.' But this was a reference
to the revolution as being the one event capable of giving birth to a new,
selfless man.
"The next thing they did, starting in 1981, was to enroll college and
high school students to work in the coffee harvest which takes place around
the end of the year. They tried to enroll as many students as possible in
economic activities coinciding with Christmas, so that many people would
not be able to be at home during Christmas and they would be working under
the leadership of the Sandinistas.
"The Sandinistas also continue to publish leaflets and posters where Jesus
Christ is represented as the first guerrilla warrior. They present President
Reagan as the new King Herod of our day ordering the slaughter of Nicaraguans
through his support of the Contras. So the Sandinistas are represented as
the ones who are defending Jesus Christ.
"So everything was politicized and remains politicized. They are trying
all the time to give Christmas a new political meaning."
The Soviet Union. Romania. Nicaragua. Three examples of countries where
Communist rulers are doing all they can, largely without success, to stamp
out Christmas. Throughout the Communist world, Christmas will be celebrated
under the ever present threat of Communist persecution. Christians will gather
to sing and pray and remember the birth of their Savior, all the while knowing
that at any moment the secret police could knock at the door.
Christmas Brings Conversions
Yet there is another side to Christmas in the Communist world that cannot
be ignored. "Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Christ," Pastor
Wurmbrand reminds us. "And we have seen Christ being born into the hearts
of murderers and Communists at Christmas. In prisons, Christians risk their
lives and witness for Christ to the Communists. And there have been Communists
converted every Christmas. So there is another side to Christmas. We don't
have all these fanciful things outside and all these trinkets and meals,
but there is a real Christmas."
In the December 1981 edition of the newsletter of the Jesus To The Communist
World organization, Pastor Wurmbrand recalls just such an incident:
"Thirty years ago, I lay deathly sick in the Tirgul-Ocna prison. On my
right side, the abbot Iscu awaited death as a result of the tortures he endured.
He was serene, seeing heaven approaching. He spoke little, but when he did,
his words engaged one's attention like deep harmony. He breathed truth which
can be known only in deep pain.
"To my left, another prisoner stood before the gates of eternity. It was
the man who had tortured ... Iscu and many other Christians. He had served
Communism well. For this he was rewarded with imprisonment. He himself had
been tortured by his former comrades.
"This man could not die. He awoke me during the night begging for a prayer.
'I have committed horrible crimes. I can find no rest. Help me.'
"Then I saw the agonizing abbot calling two inmates. Leaning on them he
walked slowly to his former [torturer]. He sat down at his bedside, caressed
his head, and said, 'You were young and did not know what you were doing.
I forgive and love you, as do all the other Christians you have mistreated.
And if we sinners who have been saved by Jesus can love like this, how much
more is He Himself ready to erase all the evil you have done, to cleanse
you fully. Only repent.'
"In that common cell, in which there was no privacy, I overheard the murderer
confessing his crimes to the murdered. I overheard the murdered absolving
his murderer. They embraced with a holy kiss, as is the custom of Christians
behind the Iron Curtain.
"They both died that same night. It was Christmas Eve. No, it was not
a commemoration of the event in Bethlehem. It was Jesus being born into the
heart of a criminal...."
Iscu forgave his murderer. That is the true spirit of Christmas. For that
was the selfsame example and teaching of Him whose humble birth is celebrated
worldwide during the Christmas season. How ironic it is to find that spirit
practiced most fully in lands where Communist atheists have relentlessly
sought to obliterate Christ and Christmas.
© Copyright 2002 American Opinion Publishing Incorporated
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| 1949? OH REALLY!!!
FROM
http://starbulletin.com/1999/10/18/special/story3.html
Monday, Oct. 18, 1999
Fear of Communist infiltrators engulfed postwar Hawaii
A telling showdown came in 1954 at a rally when injured war hero Dan Inouye
dramatically defended his patriotism
By Richard Borreca
Star-Bulletin
The match that set the fire that ignited the red-baiting blaze in postwar
Hawaii was tossed by Hawaii's Democrat-appointed Gov. Ingram Stainback.
In a March speech at a Punchbowl memorial service in 1947, Stainback,
who had made the dangers of Communism a favorite speech topic, issued a dramatic
warning. He claimed there was a Communist plan to take over Hawaii, that
Communists saw Hawaii as fertile ground for conquest, and that there were
even Communists in his own Territorial government.
"I shall immediately take steps to unearth these activities that are going
on in this Territory," he pledged. "And where possible, expose and dismiss
Territorial employees who are involved."
The visions of Communists in government and as enemies of America spread
across the country. The country, already worried about Russia and Communist
expansion in China and Korea, feared that foreign agents would undermine
the nation. In 1947, the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee was
investigating if Hollywood was infiltrated by Communists. In the Senate,
demagogue Joseph McCarthy was promising to unveil Communist conspiracies.
Still, labor organizers across the country and in Hawaii were influenced
by Communist teachings of social and economic justice. As the unions here
grew strong, so did the backlash from the establishment "Big Five"
businesses.
John Reinecke, a Farrington High School teacher, and his wife Aiko, a
Waialae Elementary School teacher, were fired amid school district claims
that they were members of "a secret society called the Communist Party .
. . and there is reasonable doubt as to their loyalty to the United
States."
Stainback called Reinecke the Communist master in Hawaii.
The Reineckes issued a statement that while their politics were never
secret, "we have constantly upheld the fundamentals of American democracy
- political, economic and racial."
Asked by then-Star-Bulletin political reporter A.A. Smyser if he was in
fact a Communist, Reinecke replied: "It is very well known that I share a
number of opinions with the Communists but that doesn't mean I am one."
Meanwhile, Phil Spaulding, president of "Big Five" sugar operator C. Brewer,
said, "Our own Communists are endeavoring in every way to keep production
down and achieve personal success on a foundation of chaos."
And from Ichiro Izuka, former vice president of the ILWU on Kauai, came
"The Truth About Communism in Hawaii" pamphlet, which said ILWU leader Jack
Hall was a Communist who distributed Communist literature.
The labor movement was being led astray, Izuka warned. "The Communist
Party is not interested in the workers of Hawaii as human beings or individuals,"
he wrote. "Its loyalty is not to Hawaii or America, but to the Soviet
Union."
Now the ILWU and the Communist Party were linked.
Later, in 1975, Gov. John Burns, who in the 1950s was a Democratic Party
organizer and delegate to Congress, would reflect that perhaps there were
Communists within the union.
"Every guy in the ILWU was at one time or another a member of the Communist
Party of America. This is where they got their organizational information
and how to organize, and how to bring groups together and how to create cells
and how to make movements that are undetected by the bosses and everything
else. ... I know what they were about. I said this is the only way they are
going to organize," he said.
And Dan Inouye, the U.S. senator who during the 1950s was Burns' political
ally, noted in his autobiography that Communists were probably enrolled in
the union.
"No one with any sense of political reality denied that there were probably
some Communists in the ILWU. ... There were those who felt that the Democrats'
Party, by logical extension, was also controlled by Communists."
By 1950, the FBI had gathered enough information that the House Un-American
Activities Committee held hearings in April in Honolulu.
Jack Hall, the ILWU regional director convicted with six others in the
communism trial.
Jack Kawano, Honolulu ILWU leader, was one of 70 subpoenaed. He and 38
others who refused to testify- - dubbed the "reluctant 39" -- were indicted
and charged with contempt of Congress.
Although those charges were eventually thrown out by the U.S. Supreme
Court, the congressional committee used the information gathered to indict
seven from Hawaii for violating the Smith Act, which made it illegal to "advocate
and teach the necessity of overthrowing the government of the United States
by force and violence."
Those indictments also were fueled by Kawano's change-of-mind testimony:
In Washington, D.C., he gave a congressional committee details on who belonged
to the Communist Party in Hawaii. Though saying that he and Jack Hall were
the only major union members in the Party, the damage had been done.
In August 1951, FBI agents arrested the seven purported Communist leaders:
Hall, ILWU regional director; John Reinecke, the former teacher; Koji Ariyoshi,
editor of the Honolulu Record; Jack Kimoto, Honolulu Record employee; Jim
Freeman, a mechanic; Charles Fujimoto, announced chairman of the Communist
Party of Hawaii; and Eileen Fujimoto, Charles' wife and an ILWU secretary.
The trial lasted nearly two years and despite the ILWU's all-out defense
of Hall, the seven were convicted. Appeals kept them out of jail until finally
in 1958, the verdict was overturned.
That Communist spectre, however, was still alive in Hawaii as the Big
Five and businessman Walter Dillingham used it to fight against statehood.
One of the most telling showdowns of the era came during a campaign rally
in Aina Haina in 1954, when Democrats, including young attorney Dan Inouye,
were accused by Republicans of being Communists. Inouye, the highly decorated
WWII hero, rose to answer the charges.
"We bitterly resent having our loyalty and patriotism questioned by cynical
political hacks who lack the courage to debate the real issues of this campaign,"
Inouye shot back.
He raised his empty right sleeve and shook it: "I gave this arm to fight
Fascists. If my country wants the other one to fight Communists, it can have
it."
Although the forces against statehood and the Democratic Party continued
to argue the danger of Hawaii's Communist-union links, the debate gained
little public support.
About this Series
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin is counting down to year 2000 with this special
series. Each installment will chronicle important eras in Hawaii's history,
featuring a timeline of that particular period.
© 1999 Honolulu Star-Bulletin
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| Red star over America
FROM:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=20482
© 1998 WorldNetDaily.com
In 1989 China faced a military crisis. China was about to become an
ex-superpower. In 1989, Major General Yang Huan, Chinese deputy commander
of the second artillery (Strategic Rocket Forces), wrote a paper in the National
Defense Review. Yang admitted that China had to improve rapidly the red nuclear
missile force or face third-rank global status.
General Yang outlined three areas absolutely necessary for China to "improve"
its aging "first generation" of nuclear missiles. General Yang's three goals
were to improve "the survivability ... the striking ability ... [And] the
penetration technology of strategic weapons." According to Yang, "accuracy
and power are chief factors used to judge weapon striking power."
Yang wrote in 1989 that China's strategic missiles were cumbersome, inaccurate
and unreliable. Yang predicted that in the near future American anti-missile
defenses would halt any Chinese missile attack. According to Yang, "strategic
weapons can be used in actual fighting only when they can penetrate enemy
defenses and reach and strike the target a necessary condition to protect
itself and destroy a target."
Yang's fear was that America would deploy a "Star Wars" system large enough
to neutralize China's nuclear missile force but small enough to not threaten
Russia. The U.S./Iraq Gulf war that followed Yang's article was filled with
nightly battles between Patriot and SCUD. The results from the Iraq war
accelerated the military view that anti-missile systems could neutralize
Chinese rocket forces.
In 1994, General Ding Henggao served as chairman of the Commission on
Science, Technology and National Defense Industry (COSTIND). General Ding
solved China's nuclear strategic problems.
In 1994, General Ding wrote a small article titled "Reforming Defense
Science, Technology and Industry" that appeared in China Military Science.
Ding wrote "in a future anti-aggression war, our country will uphold the
concept of active defense. It means that active defense is not just defensive,
it is offensive as well. Our air-defense weapons system and even the whole
weapons system should have two capabilities. It could greatly help overall
quality and effectiveness if we possess one or two effective weapons that
can assume the offensive."
In 1994 COSTIND took the offensive -- target USA. COSTIND Vice Minister,
Lt. General Shen met and consummated a series of satellite deals with Bernard
Schwartz, the CEO of Loral. The technology obtained from the COSTIND/Loral
deals saved China billions in missile R&D and turned the Second Corps
into a deadly force of thermonuclear war.
The Loral operation led by General Shen revealed the many flaws in Chinese
missile guidance and control systems. Improvements in rocket electronics
design and guidance system assembly obtained directly from Loral were quickly
applied to the Second Artillery's force of CSS strategic missiles. Loral
engineers eagerly improved Chinese nuclear missile accuracy and reliability
to near state-of-the-art.
Previous flight test results indicated that almost half of the CSS class
missile force would fail due to bad guidance. Today, China operates with
the verified results from Long March test flights funded by U.S. satellite
launches. The Chinese missile force will perform flawlessly, dropping nuclear
payloads within yards of any target on Earth. The second artillery has a
reliable global reach with powerful accuracy thanks to the successful COSTIND
operation with Loral.
General Shen also led the successful penetration of Hughes in the purchase
of ASIASAT satellites. Again, through a series of meetings with Brown and
U.S. Commerce officials, Shen or his operatives in front companies secured
whole satellites from Hughes. The Hughes satellites provide the Chinese army
with secure communications that are invulnerable to earth combat and highly
accurate all weather navigation for strike bombers and missiles.
In addition, the Hughes satellites provide direct TV and cable TV broadcasts
to most of Asia. Thus, cable and pay-per-view services help pay for the Chinese
army satellites. The brilliant planning and logistics mean that Chinese military
communications pay for themselves.
Another Hughes deal -- the HS GEM satellite with a unique 40-foot antenna
will provide COSTIND owned Asia-Pacific mobile telecom with 16,000 secure
voice channels, using man portable phones and radios. The APMT satellite
can be used not only to provide secure military communications but the spacecraft
also has "Passive ELINT interception capacity" -- or the ability to listen
in on a wide variety of earth signals, including military communications.
The COSTIND penetration of Hughes was so successful that General Shen
managed to get his son, Shen Jun, a job at Hughes as the lead software engineer
for all Chinese satellites. According to Hughes, Shen Jun had access to
"proprietary" satellite source code. Shen's access made sure that no secret
back doors or special computer virus traps were included inside the Hughes
spacecraft by American intelligence services such as the NSA.
COSTIND General Ding also spearheaded penetrations of American military
technology, using his relatives. Ding's wife, Madam Nie Li, formed a "commercial"
company called Galaxy New Technology. Madam Nie, using contacts with Commerce
Secretary Brown and Defense Secretary Perry, purchased secure, real-time,
fiber optic communications systems from American companies.
The Galaxy New Technology secure fiber optic network is invulnerable to
interference from nuclear attack and currently serves as the communications
backbone for the General Logistics Division of the Chinese Army. Madam Nie
did have some technical assistance from other COSTIND officials. Colonel
Deng Changru, director of PLA communications, and Colonel Xie Zhichao, director
of PLA electronics, are also members of Galaxy New Technology.
Other COSTIND units working with the Ministry of Posts, China Great Wall
Industries and China Aerospace, penetrated Motorola using satellite orbit
contracts as paying bait for Iridium spacecraft. Motorola scientists eagerly
modified, tested and verified a Long March satellite orbit bus that is capable
of deploying two Iridium satellites.
In September 1998, the CIA testified before the Senate National Security
Committee that the Motorola technology is being modified by China to double
the number of nuclear warheads on the CSS strategic missile. The Motorola
transfer also allowed China to upgrade their DF-15 (DONG FENG - Maoist slogan
"East Wind") missile with maneuvering warheads that can avoid American
anti-missile defenses such as Patriot and Standard. Motorola transfers
significantly upgraded the nuclear firepower and accuracy of Chinese weapons.
Motorola technology transfers mean that Chinese warheads can now "penetrate
enemy defenses."
President Clinton wrote the waivers for Hughes, Loral and Motorola. President
Clinton took money directly from COSTIND operations in the form of donations
from the same American companies, and in some cases, donations directly from
COSTIND related front companies. President Clinton paraded many of the projects
as part of his golden era of economic expansion. President Clinton personally
arranged for Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz to meet COSTIND Vice Minister General
Shen.
The spectacular success of this single Chinese army unit turned China
into a regional power that dominates Asia and a world power capable of flexing
military force anywhere on earth. It is no surprise that General Ding and
COSTIND recently won the honors of the Chinese communist party. In early
October 1998, Vice Premiere Zhu Rongji selected COSTIND over the Chinese
Army Central Military Command (CMC) to run all space programs, including
manned space flight.
COSTIND won out over the older regular Army staff officers in the CMC
for an obvious reason. General Ding is the most successful Chinese military
commander since Mao. Mao took Mainland China in 1949 after fighting a 20-year
war against both the warlords and the Imperial Japanese Army. General Ding
turned the Second Artillery Corps -- the Chinese strategic missile force
-- into a feared world power and defeated America without firing a shot in
the short span of six years.
General Ding and COSTIND will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Mao's
revolution with a PLA space rocket. In July 1999, China will orbit a manned
spacecraft. That craft will be under the command of COSTIND and a tribute
to Ding. The new space powers granted to COSTIND are a reward to Vice Minister
General Shen Rou-jun and Minister General Ding Ganghao for their brilliant
and successful penetration of the Clinton White House.
Charles Smith is a national security and defense reporter for WorldNetDaily.
Visit his site, Softwar.
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| PERSECUTION OF A TRUE AMERICAN
FROM:
http://www.scripturesforamerica.org/html2/jmtaxlet.htm
Crusade for Christ
COL. GORDON "JACK" MOHR AUS Ret.
TO: Hon. Tim Hutchinson
Sam Rayburn Senate Office Bldg.
Washington DC.
Dear Senator Hutchinson:
This is my first communications with you, so I wish to express my appreciation
for the fine Constitutional job you are doing in our Nation's Capitol. Because
of your current interest in The I.R.S. scandal, I thought you might be interested
in my rather lengthy experience with the U.S. Government, both while in service
and since retiring in 1964. I do not ask for your help in my continuing problems
with the I.R.S. but merely write this for your information. Realizing how
very busy you must be, and the length of this letter, I understand that you
may not be able to read it personally. I just want this information to be
available to you.
I am a retired Army Lt. Col. with 22 years of service in World War II,
Korea, and Vietnam, and combat service in WW II and Korea. I am not a native
of Arkansas, but came from the Canadian border of North Dakota. I settled
in Arkansas because of the pleasant experiences I had while stationed at
Camp Chaffee, and Camp Robinson during WW II. I liked the people and the
area, so here I am today, in a Retirement Community in Little Rock.
Strangely enough, I was one of those men who went down to the Recruiting
Office, the day after Pearl harbor, "starry-eyed with patriotism, and a zeal",
to protect this country and the people I loved from a horrible enemy. I didn't
know then what
I know now, about the Machination of politics, that cause a war where
the American people receive nothing but pain, suffering, death and an unpayable
debt, and that those who instigate the war, profited by selling war materials
to both sides. They were our true enemies then, and still are.
After a brief period of combat duty in the South Pacific in 1945, I went
into Japan with the Occupation forces and was there until the spring of 1946,
when I was discharged as a First Lieutenant and went back to ranching in
North Dakota.
After a disastrous farm year in 1946, where I had 5,000 acres of wheat
hailed out a week before harvest , I was in the mood for a change, when I
received a letter from the Dept. of Army asking if I was interested in going
to Korea, at my former rank, as an Advisor to the Infant Republic of Korean
forces. They were looking for men with a speaking knowledge of Japanese.
In the spring of 1948, I was sent to Korea and assigned as Advisor to
the 19th R.0.K. Infantry Regiment, stationed in Yo'su, in the far SW of the
Korean Peninsula. In the fall of 1948, Communist rebels who had been specially
trained in a school in P' yong 'Yang, North Korea, who infilted the South
Korean Military, staged a coup attempt to wrest the. South Korean government
from President Sigmun Rhee . About 2500 men from the regiment I was advising,
joined the rebels, and in ten days of terror, set up their typical Communist
People's Court and brutally slaughtered over 3,800 men, women and children.
Most of the damage was done in the little city of Sun'chon, in Challo' Namdo
Province, which was known as the Christian city of South Korea. The Southern
Presbyterians had a missions there for 45 years, and the Roman Catholics
for over forty. As in most areas where communism has taken over, Christians
suffered the worst. During the forty years of Japanese occupation, the Korean
people had been completely disarmed, so they had no means of protecting their
families from the rebels. This is one of the major reasons I have taken a
strong stand against Gun Control, knowing that every time it eventually leads
to "People Control."
I was captured by the rebels and the beaten up, When I tried to stop the
execution of the police chief, as he was impale on a sharpened bamboo pole
set in the ground. Eventually, after sampling communist brain washing tactics
first hand, I was sentenced by a people's court to be executed as an enemy
of the people. I was saved by the miraculous intervention of a rebel sergeant
from my regiment, who volunteered to shoot me, took me to the village edge,
where his firing squad fired over my head and turned me loose. I was able
to escape to the mission station of Dr. John Curtis Crane, of South Carolina,
where from a hill in the center of the city, I could see first hand what
happens in a communist take over.
Very few Americans who have been softened by our Christian influence,
can understand the brutality of a heathen culture especially one that hates
Christianity. Very few of our people have ever seen babies taken out of mothers
arms and swung against a tree or a stone wall. Few have seen women raped
in the streets, then cut into pieces by soldier bayonets; few have seen a
beautiful young woman, stripped naked, and nailed to a branch of a tree with
spikes driven through her breasts, while a bundle of rice straw, soaked in
oil was fastened between her bare thighs and set on fire. When I saw that,
I promised God that if He got me home safely to the people I love and the
Country I love, I would do every thing within my power to see that this never
happened in America. I have been active in warning the America people of
dangers we face, especially in our bankrupt foreign policy ever since, through
lectures and the printed page. This is one reason I have received harsh treatment
from our government, who cannot allow our people to know the truth of what
is taking place! I was what is called a "nominal Christian" at the time,
although I had never taken seriously the Christian life. But when I saw God
act in miraculous ways on several occasions to save my life, I became convinced
that He is much more than that "Big Spook in the Sky," that many blaspheme.
After this experience, I was given the option of returning to the States,
or being transferred to Japan. I realized that if I left this area, I would
have an innate fear of Communism that could effect me all my life. So I made
one of the hardest decision I have ever made, and asked to be sent back to
the area where I had been captured. During 1949, were in a state of Perpetual
war With the rebels who has escaped to the mountains and were being supplied
by an underground from North Korea. My regiment lost over 960 killed, and
I came under enemy fire on numerous occasions. At this time, and during the
war, I was living under a $250,000 in gold reward, "dead or alive!" offered
by the North Koreans to "save face!"
In January of 1950, I was transferred to a border station along the 38th
Parallel, north of Seoul at the village of Po' chon. This was on the major
invasion route into Seoul. I was advising an Infantry Battalion of some 850
men at the time.
During the first six months of 1950, those of us who worked a long the
38th Parallel were conscious of an enormous military buildup in the North,
which could mean only an invasion. Yet when we took our reports to the State
Department, they were always scoffed at. After turning in one critical report
I had a State Department official sneeringly say: "You military fellows see
a Communist behind every rock and under every tree," and he wasn't far from
wrong.
On Friday, June 23 I turned in a report containing 29 references to increased
enemy activity opposite my position. An infantry company had been replaced
by an Infantry division of some 12,000 men; a mounted horse cavalry regiment
of some 1,800 men had moved in; over 75 heavy tanks had been reported in
the area, and we knew the North Koreans had been supplied with 122 m/m cannon,
out ranged our 105 howitzers by some 10,000 yards.
Yet when I turned in this information over to the Colonel from the State
Dept., at our Saturday Horning briefing, he stated: "There is no sign of
unusual activity along the Parallel, feel free to attend the bash at the
Officer's Club tonight."
I was so sure that the invasion was eminent, that I had my gear packed
and ready, and when I was notified of the invasion at 4:30 Sunday morning,
I was on my way to my unit within minutes of receiving the call. What an
opportunity to say: "I told you so!" But too serious to be facetious.
I arrived at my unit about 5:30 am to find them under heavy attack from
mounted cavalrymen , infantry and heavy tanks. In an attempt to stop tanks
that had broken through our lines, I towed a 65 mm anti-tank gun north of
the village to defend a bridge. Yet when 1 fired on the tanks, I discovered
that all my ammunition was high explosive, which exploded on the outside
of the tanks without doing any damage. I hit the lead tank eight times at
a range of less than 100 yards, without even slowing it down. Then watched
as they ran over my jeep and flattened it. I received the first medal given
to an American that morning, the Silver Star; the citation signed by Maj.
Gen. Leven Allen.
On arriving back at Battalion Hq, I learned that all the anti-tank ammunition,
had been withdrawn from the front lines ten days earlier, on order of the
American Ambassador, William C. Muccio. It seemed that Mr Muccio, was afraid
that the ROKS would attack the north.
We ended that day by walking through the mountains for 38 miles, with
the remnants of our 850 man Battalion. We could account for only 48 men and
one officer. The rest had been killed or captured. I arrived in time to kiss
my wife good by, as she was being loaded on a bus for In' chon and a four
day trip to Japan with other civilian refugees on a Norwegian fertilizer
ship that happened to be in the harbour.
The evacuation of most Americans, including military had been completed
by the evening of June 26. I was on the last plane to leave for Japan, and
before we could take off, word arrived that Pres. Truman had ordered the
American Navy and Air force into the war on the side of South Korea. We were
ordered to return to Seoul. That evening Capt. Elmer Lowry and I went to
the ambassadors home to get permission to burn a large gasoline dump on the
southern outskirts of Seoul. A million 40 gallon barrels of gasoline had
been shipped In only a few days before and we did not wan this to fall into
enemy hands I'll never forget my reaction when Muccio literally cursed us
out of his home, screaming: "I'm damned tired of you military types trying
to tell me what to do. I'm giving the orders!" and four hours later, 40-million
gallons of gasoline were in enemy hands, enough to run their war machine
for three months.
Early June 27th the Ambassador and two of his flunkies left, for Tokyo,
and Major Paul Hedstrom, and I were sent to the State Department building
in downtown Seoul, to check and make sure no sensitive materials were left
behind. In the Ambassador's office we found a locked door, which we kicked
in, and in a little storeroom, a military type safe, with a padlock which
we shot off. In this steel filing cabinet were reports of enemy activity
along the Parallel for the preceding six months, which had never been forwarded
to Mac Arthur's Tokyo headquarters. You may remember that when the war began,
the media had a field day criticizing Maj. Gen. Willoughby, Mac Arthur's
Intelligence Chief, because he did not know about the North Korean buildup.
The reason, State never notified him although they knew.
When I picked out four of the most critical documents, Maj. Hedstrom asked
me what I was going to do with them? I replied that I in tended to get them
to Washington to someone who would to do something about it "You mean break
the chain of command to do this?" he asked. "They will hang you if they find
out! I knew this was true, because breaking this chain is a "cardinal sin"
In the military. However at the time, I felt so strongly about it, and was
sure that if it went through regular channels, either the Dept. of Army,
or the State Department would cover it up.
The next day, I was slightly wounded when our headquarters was strafed
by a North Korean fighter plane and I was flown to Itazuke, Japan for medical
attention. I took these reports with me and gave them to a young officer
who was headed back to Washington. He hand carried them to Senator William
Knowland (R-Ca), a conservative who at that time, if I recall, was Chairman
of the Senate Armed Forces Committee. He told me later that when he took
these reports before this Committee, they laughed him off the Senate floor,
at the idea that an American Ambassador would commit such a treasonous act.
When he insisted on an investigation powerful Democrat liberals began a campaign
of harassment, which later drove him out of the Senate.
You can imagine the harassment that came my way, when the military higher
ups learned that a mere First Lieutenant had blown the whistle on State.
I began to be given insignificant jobs that would never lead to promotion,
such as Club Officer of the Fort Ord Officers Club.
The Public Information Office at Fort Ord used me however. and because
of my war experiences I became a rather popular speaker in service clubs
on the West Coast, and even served as a technical advisor for a movie on
the war that was being shot in Hollywood. I was given Carte Blanche by the
Commanding General to speak on any aspect of the war, stating: "Just make
sure you can back up what you say, and tell the people the truth!" This was
most unusual coming from a high ranking military man So I built up somewhat
of a reputation as a speaker on the West Coast, even speaking on Don Mc Neil's
Los Angles Breakfast Club.
About this time I began to do some Monday Morning Quarterbacking. I recalled
how a few weeks before the war began, Col. William Baird, the KMAG Proost
Marshall, and National Advisor to the Korean National Police, who at that
time were more powerful than the Army, had left Korea via ship, for Oakland,
California, where he was to retire after 36 years of service. His ship had
not cleared Inch'on harbour, when the Korean Military Police arrested his
female secretary, a beautiful former model who had worked for him for two
years. It seems that she was the wife of a powerful military man in Pyong
'yang, North Korea. For two years, she had been using American Military Police
vehicles, and G.I. drivers, to take information from Seoul to her mother
who lived in the little Parallel village of Kae' song, NW of Seoul. This
information crossed the line into the North. She had also been "shacking
up" with seven top State Department officials, and had seduced them into
giving her over $2-million in State Dept. funds which went to her husband.
When the w¯¯‡¢began, the South Korean police shot her
without a trial.
In the meantime, Col. Baird's ship arrived at the Oakland Naval Base in
California, where he was put in "arrest of quarters" pending the possibility
of a Court's Martial. He had such an extensive dossier on Mr. Muccio and
the rest of the State Department, that everything was "swept under the carpet,"
Mr. Muccio was sent as Ambassador to Iceland, and the seven State Department
fools, were all promoted. Not a word of this it the media, although high
ranking men in KMAG knew about it. It was not until years later, that a little
magazine called PAGEANT, published the complete story.
I began to realize that I was only a small cog in a mighty machine, and
if I had experienced these things, then treason in our government must indeed
be rife.
Later in 1958, when there was a big cutback of 5,000 Field Grade officers,
I was given the option of leaving the service with a healthy lump sum payment,
or staying in at my highest enlisted rank. I was fortunate enough to have
a permanent rank of (E-6) Sergeant First Class, and with 14 years of service,
I wanted to complete the time for retirement. Later in 1962, in Eritrea,
when I again blew the whistle on State Department "dirty work," I was immediately
transfer red to Ft. Richardson Alaska, where I came under the most in tense
harassment. The CID even placed a full time man to watch everything I did.
When my enlistment was up in 1964, I said: "Enough is enough!" and retired
at my highest rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
During the Korean War, I became one of the highest decorated Army' men
of that war, with the Silver Star, the Bronze Star with "V" device and four
oak leaf clusters; the Purple heart with three Oak Leaf clusters, the Korean
Order of Tac Guk, similar to our Distinguished Service Cross. I also received
decorations from the Polish and Czechoslovakian Governments for my stand
against Communism. During the Korean War, I held the record for the most
consecutive days of front line duty without a break, July 10, 1950, until
April 1951.
After retiring in September 1964 , I went to Mexico with my youngest son
to work on a book , which was an account of my experiences as a game Warden
in Eritea.
Returning to the States in the spring of 1964, we settled in Hot Springs,
Ark., on the shores of Lake Hamilton, and I began my CRUSADE FOR CHRIST AND
COUNTRY, which was a one man to exhort the American to return to the values
which had made us great. It an effort to wake up the "rank and file" American
to our responsibilities to God and country. My motto was "The Bible holds
the key to our survival and OBEDIENCE TO GOD MUST COME BEFORE WE CAN HAVE
VICTORY!"
At this time I was a "hard-nosed" Fundamentalist Baptist evangelist ,
holding meetings in some of the largest churches in the country, and was
welcomed in schools such as Tennessee Temple, and Bob Jones University. My
mind was so incased in "hardened denominational cement," that all I could
understand was Baptist doctrinal teachings. It took the "dynamite of God",
through a traumatic experience, to shatter this cement and allow me to study
God's Word and see what it meant, without having some seminary educated preacher
tell me what it says.
I was thoroughly Judeo-Christian in my belief, and even considered going
to Palestine to volunteer to fight for the Israelis as a mercenary. Yet in
spite of my church training, I had difficulty accepting these anti-Christ's
as God's Chosen People, as I knew then too well and could see that this was
not true. My Savior in John 10:26, said to them: "But ye believe (Me) not,
because YE ARE NOT OF MY SHEEP." In Matthew 23:15. He accused their religious
leaders of going over sea and laid to make converts , only to turn them in
to "two-fold more a child of hell than yourself!" (hardly "chosen people"
material). Yet when I asked the seminary professors what these verses meant
I was let by stony silence, or was told: "Sit down! Shut up! and don't rocking
the boat!" I never had a pastor or seminary professor attempt to explain
what Christ meant.
In 1971 and 72, with the Vietnam War reaching it's hottest point, I worked
the college lecture circuit, and came into close and Sometimes violent contact
with members of the S.D.S. ("Student's for a Democratic Society"). Led by
men like Abbie Hoffman aid Jerry Rubin, who were tearing our college campuses
apart. In over 25 such confrontations, I was amazed to find that the leadership
of these radical groups were 100% young Jews from wealthy families. Usually
their daddies were criminal lawyers.
This Jewish affiliation with Communism so intrigued me, that in the summer
of 1979, I took off three months from a very busy schedule, to study this
phenomenon. I went to Jewish sources for my information. I was amazed to
find that reputable Jewish sources, such as THE AMERICAN HEBREW, the largest
Jewish newspaper in the U.S. in 1919, had a front page article which said:
"What we did in Russia through Jewish money and brain power, we will accomplish
in America!" In another place, it state: "The ideals of Bolshevism are consonant
with the highest ideals of Judaism!" The leading Rabbi in America, Rabbi
Stephen Wise, when asked about Communism replied: "Some call it Communism;
I say it's Judaism!" I was amazed to find that over 450 of the top
revolutionaries in the 1918 Revolution were Jews from the Lower East Side
of New York City, the kind their own people Contemptuously refer to as "kikes."
The money that made the Revolution a success, $20-million, was donated by
the New York Jew Sidney Warburg, and was hand carried to Russia by another
Jew, Nicolai Lenin. The millions of Christians who died horrible deaths under
the hands of the Communists were almost always killed by Jews. As I also
did some in-depth study into their religious book, the BABYLONIAN TALMUD,
I began to understanding of their terrible hatred against Jesus Christ and
for anyone who goes by the name Christian. Their leaders have openly declared
their intention to "wipe out White Christian civilization.
After completing this study, I wrote a letter to 200 Fundamentalist leaders
telling them what I had discovered , and promising that If I came to their
church for a meeting, I would not push the Jewish issue, but would answer
truthfully any questions raised concerning them. On the basis of this, fourteen
week-long revivals scheduled for 1981 were canceled within a month after
mailing the letter
Pensacola Christian Academy, one of the loudest in proclaiming me to be
a "turncoat apostate," who had abandoned Bible truth.
About this time, another incident in my life took place, which added to
the harassment I was already receiving from Fundamental Christian and Jewish
sources. In the summer of 1980, I was invited by a friend who lived in
Brownsville, Texas, to go on a fishing trip to the fabulous bass area of
Lake Vincente Guerrero, near the city of Ciudad Victoria. Arriving, we found
the weather too windy to get on the water, so we went dove hunting in the
hills north of the lake. That day we came across a large number of heavy
military vehicles including tanks and half-tracks, that bore the Russian
Red Star, this included rocket launchers. One of our party had a camera with
a telephoto lens, and took pictures. On arriving home, I hand carried these
pictures to the State Department in Washington, D.C. where I was rudely told
that we had been in an "off limits" area, and that what we had seen was none
of our business. They were upset because I had not brought the negatives
and threatened any of us who spoke about this to others. This angered me,
as I felt that Texans had the right to know what was taking place on their
border, so on a radio talk show, a few weeks later I discussed what we had
seen. Immediately "hell broke loose, as F.B.I., C.I.A. and other government
officials were "sicced on me". Most of their visits were "fishing expeditions,"
where they were looking for some reason to "nail our hides to the wall."
Up to this point, I had never mentioned Jews or Judaism in any of my lectures.
Then one night, following a J.B.S. lecture, I forget where, during the Question
and Answer Period the question was asked: "What do you: think about our open
check policy with the "Israelis?" My reply was: "I believe the time has come
when we MUST take a strong, closer look at this policy." I was called to
J.B.S. Headquarters in Belmont, Mass, where Mr. Welch, head of the Society
gave me a verbal tongue lashing for mentioning Jews. He said: "Never, under
any circumstances are you to mention Jews, Judaism, or Zionism in a derogatory
manner." My reply was that if I could not tell people the truth, then they
needed someone else in my place and I resigned.
Since that date. I have had several audits by the I.R.S. It seems that
"once they have tasted blood," and know they can get money from you, they
never let up. In all, they have stolen over $80,000 from this Christian ministry.
They have based this on the idea that since my religion is not "legitimate,"
neither is my Prison Ministry, which reaches men in 126 State and Federal
prisons in 26 States, and is dedicated to bringing men to a saving knowledge
of Jesus Christ, orienting them to what's happening in the country, and laying
a foundation for them to live Christian lives when they get out. This is
not the purpose of the so-called rehabilitation programs of most prisons.
They make criminals, instead of turning criminals into good men! As the result
of this thinking, they have not allowed me to deduct expenses for this ministry
from my income tax. They also co all donations made to my Crusade work, as
"earned," even when they are marked as "gifts."
In 1996, I received my seventh audit from the Little Rock branch of the
I.R.S. and they are attempting to collect over $22,000 for the years 1994-95.
It will be like getting "blood out of a turnip," since I am already deeply
in debt from money they confiscated over the past ten years. This year for
the first time I am striking back, and have a Tax Expert working on my case.
Additional expense! I honestly believe they are trying to bankrupt me, and
drive my Crusade work out of business.
They have threatened me with "levies" and "liens" and recently I received
a letter from the Collecting Agency in Austin, Texas saying they would levy
my Army retirement pay and Social Security, because I had not answered a
prior letter in ten days. I sent him proof that I had sent answers to the
I.R.S. in Little Rock; the Oklahoma City Area Branch, and Headquarters in
Washington D.C. I have found from long and bitter experience, they do not
hesitate to lie if it benefits their cause, and will twist the law, even
their own regulations around to fit their own purpose. This is what has the
American public up in arms. It will grow worse, until you men in congress
do something to harness the bureaucratic monster Congress created in 1913.
I am not a "tax resistor." I believe a Christian should pay their legitimate
taxes, and believe the Bible teaches this. My Savior, Jesus Christ told the
Jewish authorities: "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and
unto God the things which are God's!" In Matthew 17:27, we have an incident
where Jesus had His disciple Peter, that a piece of money found in a fish's
mouth and pay the authorities: "Lest we should offend them!" He said.
Senator, it is a bitter pill to swallow, to have given over 20 years of
the best of my life to the service of my country, and now have a "rebel gestapo,"
of the International Bankers, operating within our government as their police
force, rob me illegally and unfairly.
I am an old man now, almost 82 and in poor health.
* * *
Senator, a day of reckoning is coming in America, soon I believe, in which
the vast mass of caring Americans are going to stand up "en mass" and hold
the President, Congress, and our "brainwashed" pastors accountable for what
is taking place. It is going to be a most uncomfortable time for some. I
pray you will not be among them.
I believe you the in the position to do this country and it's people a
real service, by backing those who are looking into the illegal bureaucratic
actions of this branch of government. I do not ask for myself, but for all
concerned Americans.
Yours for Christ and a Free, God-honoring America
[signed]
Gordon D. (Jack) Mohr
P.S. In March of 1998, the I.R.S. instituted an unlawful levy against
my Military Retirement Pay, which will cost over $23,000.00 more and will
end in January 1999. God alone knows what they will do then. But my FAITH
is bolstered by the SURE knowledge that a Day of reckoning is coming, when
the King will return to clean up this mess we have made, and demand an accounting
from His enemies, (see Luke 19:27). In the meantime, His orders remain: "OCCUPY"
until I come!" JM
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| 1965???
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October 30, 2002
THE NEW AMERICAN offers conservative insight on the significant people
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VIETNAM DAY
Berkeley's Kooks, Communists, And Pro-Vietcong
by Gary Allen
Reprinted with permission from American Opinion, December 1965
Gary Allen traveled to the University of California at Berkeley with
photographer Ken Granger to cover the International Days of Protest: October
fifteenth-sixteenth for American Opinion. A professional script writer, Mr.
Allen is now employed in the preparation of film-strips on current affairs
by Bill Richardson Graphics. He is a graduate of Stanford and a resident
of Los Angeles. Gary Allen is co-author of the brilliant article on the Watts
insurrection which appeared in the September issue of American Opinion.
HALLOWEEN came early to the University of California at Berkeley this
year. It came early. And before the anti-warlocks retired again to their
crypts they had vandalized the national honor. The goblins, under the leadership
of the Vietnam Day Committee, unearthed themselves two weeks prematurely
to stage a propaganda spook-show known as the International Days of Protest:
October fifteenth-sixteenth.
On Thursday night, October fourteenth, a sartorial preview of what could
be expected for the weekend was staged at The Forum, a capitalistically run
coffee house two blocks from the Berkeley campus. As curious specters paraded
from the cash register to their tables carrying cups of exotic brews, it
seemed to us as if their costumes had been designed by Edgar Allan Poe and
Charles Addams. It was hard to believe. The young Leftists were uniformly
dressed in ancient, drab, shabbily exotic, and unusually dirty clothes. The
hair styles in vogue suggested a new guessing game—"Guess The Sex."
We drank our coffee, watched, and thought how pleasant it would be to
just laugh and dismiss these exhibitionist misfits as incapable by impotence
of being a threat to anyone but themselves. Such a view, while comfortable,
would have been incorrect. For, as these strange young adults enjoyed their
coffee and relished their own intense "socially conscious" conversations,
as streetbunder Leftists like Berkeley mathematics professor Morris Hirsch
stood on street corners passing out demonstration leaflets, a group of hard-core
revolutionaries was busy behind closed doors making last-minute preparations
for the International Days of Protest, a horror conceived in Moscow and
coordinated from Berkeley, California. That handful of young California
revolutionaries was providing the front for the coordination of efforts by
tens of thousands of Leftists from Los Angeles to Paris to take to the streets
in protest of American policy in Vietnam and in favor of the policy of the
Communist Vietcong.
Since the demonstrations, there have been guarded insinuations by various
government officials that a few Communists may have infiltrated the fringe
of that pro-Vietcong activity. You will have to judge what was the fringe
and what was the nucleus after you have inspected the evidence concerning
what went on at Berkeley.
I
THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY area has long been a focal point for radical activity.
As the California Senate Fact Finding Committee on Un-American Activities
revealed in its 1965 Report:
Once we realize that the (Communist) Party has always operated the entire
Pacific Coast and Hawaiian apparatus from San Francisco; that the major
propaganda sources are situated in that city, and that the indoctrination
and recruiting schools are located there—only then is one adequately
equipped to begin understanding why the main force of California Communism
is located in the Bay Area.
Many of you will recall that it was primarily students from the nearby
University of California at Berkeley who staged the riots against the House
Committee on Un-American Activities during its San Francisco Hearings in
1960. And you will also remember Berkeley's riotous Free Speech Movement
of last winter, which was virtually controlled by the Communists. The outcome
of the latter student rebellion against the weak administration of Chancellor
Clark Kerr has been described by a Committee of the California Senate as
abject surrender. As a result of that surrender, anything is permissible
at the University of California. And where anything goes, everything is in
danger.
Friday morning, October fifteenth, saw the building of a tumult of activity
in the area in front of Sather Gate, the disputed area of the Berkeley campus
which the Kerr administration has now totally surrendered to young Leftist
revolutionaries, many of whom are not even students, so that they may accost
the real students as they come and go from their classes. On that particular
Friday morning it seemed that nearly every Leftist revolutionary organization
in America had set up a card table at Sather Gate to display its literature,
buttons, and placards. A bearded youth stood prominently at the Gate handing
out leaflets bearing a timetable for the planned pro-Vietcong teach-ins and
the march to the Oakland Army Terminal scheduled by the Leftists for that
weekend. All around him young activists buzzed with the excitement of
unreason.
Many there were rejoicing that years of apathy had given way to a new
era of "social consciousness" and revolutionary youth. Included in the "socially
conscious" groups with tables there on the Berkeley campus was the W.E.B.
DuBois Clubs of America, named after the American Negro "reformer" and founder
of the N.A.A.C.P. who joined the Communist Party officially in Ghana after
renouncing his American citizenship. F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover has
described the DuBois Clubs, founded in San Francisco, as being "spawned"
by the Communist Party. Some of you who are "out of step with the times"
might think that this would be enough to have the organization banned from
the campus, but they are very "Liberal" about such things at the University
of California.
As you peruse the list of officers in the DuBois Clubs, the Berkeley Free
Speech Movement, and the Vietnam Day Committee, you find that the names are
almost identical. The most notorious name there is that of Miss Bettina Aptheker,
leader of the Free Speech Movement and the daughter of the official theoretician
of the Communist Party, Herbert Aptheker. Though Miss Aptheker has admitted
that she is a Communist, she was described in a recent probation report as
"more moderate and responsible than the other Free Speech Movement leaders."
Which may give you some idea that the others are not merely innocent
"Liberals."
The Progressive Labor Party is another of the organizations permitted
to be active at Berkeley. Progressive Labor is the organization of the violent
Peking-oriented Communists. They are militant revolutionaries who want to
see blood flowing in American streets— and they want to see it now.
At the booth of the Progressive Labor Party buttons were for sale featuring
a Red Star, the insignia of Communist revolution. Lettering on the button
exhorted the wearer to "Fight For Socialism." Progressive Labor was also
selling a variety of publications. One, P.L., featured an editorial on the
Watts insurrection presenting these demands:
(1) Arrest the Nazi Police Chief Parker, Governor Brown, and Mayor Yorty
and bring them to trial for murder. (2) Disarm the criminal police and punish
the guilty ones. (3) Withdraw the occupation troops (police) immediately.
(4) Release the 3,000 hostages.
Challenge, another Progressive Labor publication, carried the headline,
"U.S. Gestapo Persecutes N.Y. Dominicans." Also, one could purchase
Spark—Western Voice of Revolution, which editorialized as follows:
When people have the will to resist, they can keep an entire army at bay....
Since the government will use every weapon of terror to crush resistance,
the people must build and train their own self-defense organizations....
The ruling class is weaker than it appears. In Los Angeles it needed the
entire strength of California's National Guard to occupy 120 [sic] square
miles of territory.
These are but a few examples of the culture and higher learning being
offered on a campus provided by the taxpayers of California and permitted
to continue by a school administration charged with educating the state's
youth. There are many more such examples.
The Trotskyite Communists' Young Socialist Alliance also had a charming
array of literature on its table, including a tabloid newspaper called Free
Student. On the back of the copy we bought was a picture of the helmet of
a dead U.S. Marine, impaled by the Vietcong on a bamboo spike. It was all
to promote a "Get 0ut of Vietnam Rally" in New York on November eleventh
(which was to include speakers from the murderous Deacons for Defense).
Yes, all the "socially conscious" groups had gathered for the festivities.
Those organizations displaying materials included C.O.R.E., Students For
A Democratic Society, The Independent Socialists, the Americans For Democratic
Action, the Alternatives To The Draft Committee, and even the Facts About
Abortion Committee. Among other publications for sale were The Malcolm X
Story, International Socialist Review and the Marxist-Leninist Quarterly.
Available for fifty cents was a large, colorful directory of the coming
weekend's events entitled, Did You Vote For War? Bay Area Vietnam Committee.
The following groups listed themselves there as contributors to the International
Days of Protest—October fifteenth-sixteenth: Industrial Workers of the
World, Socialist Alliance, Independent Socialist Club of Berkeley, Bay Area
Progressive Labor Party, Students for a Democratic Society, Communist Party
of Northern California, Young Democrats, Bay Area Spartacist, Socialist Workers
Party, and the May 2nd Movement.
The twenty-six page directory contained a brief rundown of the position
taken by each group. Basically they are all the same. Here is a sample from
the May 2nd Movement, a Progressive Labor Party subsidiary:
We support the National Liberation Front of south [sic] Viet Nam and other
revolutionary movements because we realize that their struggle is our struggle,
that when we aid our brothers in other countries, we are aiding ourselves,
for we are struggling against the same enemy.
With this type of material in the Vietnam Day Committee's official program,
and with so illustrious a list of sponsors, it is not surprising that even
some of our nation's most timid officials are cognizant of "the hint of
Communists" in the demonstrations. Yet in spite of the fact that reporters
and photographers were in evidence throughout the two-day anti-American orgy,
not one breath of the Communist domination of this demonstration has been
specifically cited by any major newspaper, magazine, or network television
program. Frankly, it just isn't because they weren't aware of it.
While treasonous organizations were selling literature in front of Sather
Gate, seminars were being held that Friday morning scheduling such notorious
"Liberals" as Dorothy Ray Healy, Chairman of the Communist Party of Southern
California.
Friday afternoon was devoted to a "teach-in" featuring many of the nation's
leading revolutionaries and Leftists. The University, which had provided
classrooms for pro-Vietcong morning seminars, supplied a large athletic field
and erected a sizable podium for the afternoon program. The tone of each
speech was virtually identical: the Vietnamese war is an "indigenous fight
for independence," the United States is run by "Wall Street warmongers,"
and the difference between the United States and Nazi Germany is "purely
geographic."
One of the features of the afternoon session was a bitterly anti-Christian
skit which climaxed with the "minister" stealing the crutch from a crippled
colored man while proclaiming him healed.
Then, as students walked through the crowd hawking the Peking Review,
Professor Gerald Berreman, Acting Chairman of the University of California
Anthropology Department, informed the assembled that Berkeley led all
universities in Peace Corps recruits due to "the socially conscious atmosphere
at Cal." But since the United States had decided to make war on women and
babies in South Vietnam, he said, he felt called upon to urge students to
boycott the government in "good" projects while it was conducting an aggressive
war.
The next speaker, Dr. Franz Schurmann, Director of the Center for Chinese
Studies of the University of California, told the audience: "We've tried
dialogue. We've tried patience and reason. It hasn't worked. Now we have
only demonstrations left."
The most outrageous diatribe of the afternoon was disgorged by M. S. Arnoni,
Editor of a wildly Leftist magazine called The Minority of One. Mr. Arnoni,
whose magazine is financially supported by Communists, says he spent time
in one of Hitler's concentration camps before being liberated and brought
to this country. He evidently is not overly grateful as he appeared before
the crowd in a black-and-gray-striped concentration camp uniform and stated,
"There are stripes in this uniform and there are stripes in the American
flag. I cannot take this uniform off as long as this country maintains
concentration camps." Arnoni chided the students for the mildness of their
protests and urged them to emulate the tactics of the Buddhists and to commit
suicide in order to focus public opinion on the Vietnam war. Mr. Arnoni,
however, did not volunteer to set an example.
II
OUTSIDERS who left the Berkeley campus and returned to the United States
for dinner must have been struck, as we were, by the difference between what
they had just left and the pleasant, well dressed people enjoying their meal
and preparing for an evening on the town, totally oblivious to what was occurring
a few blocks away where a gang of revolutionaries was demanding the destruction
of the United States. We remember thinking that the old saw, "Don't worry
— They're Still Ninety Miles Away," is inappropriate.
They were only nine blocks away.
There were, however, no reported cases of dyspepsia over it.
Friday evening began with a large crowd gathering at the Berkeley athletic
field in preparation for a march on the Oakland Army Terminal. The parade
was to climax the demonstrations. Since the Oakland Police had refused the
Vietnam Day Committee a parade permit, it was doubtful if the march would
ever reach its goal. The final orator was State Assemblyman William Stanton,
who assured the throng of the righteousness of their cause and said that
he felt sorry for the many government spies and informers in the crowd because
they had a dirty job. As the assembled lined up to begin the march, Co-chairman
of the Vietnam Day Committee Jerry Rubin, who recently returned from Communist
Cuba, assured the crowd that no violence was expected and that they did not
plan civil disobedience. However, he said, if any civil disobedience did
develop, aliens, minors, and those on parole were advised not to take part.
Marchers were handed pro-Vietcong placards of various types exhorting the
United States to stop its "aggression" in Vietnam. Very few had brought their
own signs, but the Vietnam Day Committee provided them.
Fifteen thousand persons participated in the Friday night march—no
mean accomplishment if one considers the magnitude of trying to promote and
organize a program of this size in support of an enemy which was at that
very moment killing young Americans in Vietnam.
Most of the non-participants who lined the parade route were non-committal,
though there were a few vocal "red baiters" who suggested that the marchers
depart for various geographical areas outside and below the United States.
At the front of the parade and wearing his Vietcong cap was Mike Myerson,
International Secretary of the Communist W.E.B. DuBois Clubs. He was recently
the guest in North Vietnam of Ho chi Minh—who announced that he had
made Myerson his honorary nephew. He was also head of the U.S. Committee
of the 1962 Communist Youth Festival. Mike Myerson wears a ring fashioned
from bits of metal taken from a downed American aircraft.
One shocked C.B.S. television cameraman may be wiser for his experience
in photographing the parade. A young female humanitarian tried to climb into
the convertible from which he was taking his pictures. When he refused to
let her climb aboard she called him every name that you have ever seen written
by morons on the wall of a public lavatory. He was obviously shocked to hear
such language from a "socially conscious" young lady.
As expected, the Oakland Police were waiting to block the parade's entrance
to Oakland. But, rather than risk a confrontation with the Oakland Police
Force (which has a reputation for being much tougher than the more
"sociologically minded" Berkeley Police), the leaders of the march had planned
to veer away from Oakland and to take the parade to a park in downtown Berkeley
for the night "teach-in."
On hand at the park to greet the fifteen thousand marchers were fifteen
clean-cut students of a patriotic bent. Although the odds were more than
a trifle uneven, the marchers wanted no part of the patriots. Discussion
between the pro-Americans and a couple of dozen marchers remained relatively
calm until one of the beatniks made the statement that Communist Ho chi Minh
based his regime on the principles of the American Declaration of Independence.
Shortly thereafter the police stepped in to protect the fifteen thousand
from the fifteen.
You are undoubtedly curious about the Vietnam Day Committee's strong desire
to be genuinely non-violent. Conservatives have learned that when a Martin
Luther King arrives in town and proclaims "non-violence," blood will soon
be flowing. There is, after all, tremendous propaganda value in goading Southern
whites into responding to invasion by outside agitators. Sympathy is rapidly
aroused for the poor invaders by the mass media, and of course the "Civil
Rights" leaders are willing to sacrifice a little blood in order to create
a martyr. Outside the South, however, the psychological sympathy of public
opinion for beatnik marchers quickly melts away—and with it the efficacy
of violence. So "monitors" with red arm bands and walkie-talkies surrounded
and controlled the Berkeley crowds. They were a tough looking crew. (Their
leader, "Ringo" Hallinan of the infamous Hallinan family, has had intensive
training in physical combat since he was ten years old.)
The point of the strong-arm protection was that with only the presence
of the "hard core" there would have been no parade. Large numbers were required:
sympathizers, united fronters, sincere pacifists, women, children, and even
the physically handicapped. These people had no desire to be martyrs, and
without them the hard core could not have gotten the nation-wide publicity
it sought. So non-violence was the theme —and "hard-core" toughs were
there to see that nobody molested their sheep.
During the Friday night speeches, someone did toss a tear-gas bomb into
the crowd. Many did not return after the gas lifted even though the Vietnam
Day Committee quickly restored order by leading the "Civil Rights" song,
We Shall Overcome. The pied piper's melody brought the faithful back into
the park, but most of the hangers-on had fled permanently. This song has
an almost magical, hypnotic effect on the veterans of the "Civil Rights"
demonstrations who compose a large percentage of the so-called "peace movement."
The agitators are the same, only the buttons have been changed to confuse
the innocent. Which says something important about both the pro-Vietcong
demonstrations and the "Civil Rights" movement.
III
THE VIETNAM DAY Committee had announced that there would again be an attempt
to march to the Oakland Army Terminal on Saturday afternoon, but things were
relatively quiet in the Berkeley park that Saturday morning as a few hundred
waited for the return of the "masses." Among those lecturing the faithful
were William Worthy, a frequent visitor to Communist China, and Mike Laski,
who shouted into the microphone that he was a member of the Communist
Party—Marxist-Leninist, a violent Communist splinter group. Laski has
claimed that his organization, which is headquartered in Watts, was responsible
for starting the Watts riots.
Back on campus it was obvious why the leaders had taken the parade to
a park in downtown Berkeley rather than return to the school. Saturday Cal
was to play the University of Washington in football, and as it was Parent's
Day, there would be thousands of visitors on campus. Gone from the campus
plaza were the revolutionary placards, gone were the tables advocating abortion,
draft evasion, and revolution. Why, it looked like a school, a school where
students could come and learn without having their University turned into
a circus by a handful of misfits and criminals, many of whom are not even
enrolled as students. The average parent viewing the campus on his way to
the game must have wondered what all the fuss was about. There was one lonely
beatnik girl calmly strumming her guitar. Could she be a threat to the nation?
Absurd! Why, such people only lend a little color to the campus and doubtless
broaden the students' outlook on life.
Saturday afternoon approximately three thousand marchers, some bare footed,
some in sandals, and a scattered few with shoes, headed once again for Oakland.
The Oakland Police were waiting as expected; and also waiting, but not expected,
was the Oakland echelon of the Hell's Angels Motor Cycle Club.
While the marchers were mostly an unbathed lot, their accumulated dirt
paled in comparison with that of the motorcycle squadron. The beatniks apparently
sneak a shower every six months, an act the Hell's Angels consider a sign
of moral decadence.
The leader of the Angels, a brute of a man seven-feet tall and weighing
three hundred pounds, with flowing black hair and beard, shouted "By God,
I'm an American and I ain't no Commie," as he led his small group in a charge
on the paraders. The Berkeley Police intercepted the attackers, bludgeoning
the leader into unconsciousness. There was, however, not one cry of "police
brutality" from the assembled Leftists. The Angels were, after all, just
hoodlums—they weren't Leftist hoodlums.
What motivated the Hell's Angels is anybody's guess. Perhaps even these
criminal renegades have (unlike many of their more sophisticated contemporaries)
enough decency to know that Communism is a rotten hell. Possibly they were
just looking for a "rumble."
The Saturday afternoon teach-in was a repetition of the preaching of hatred
for this country that had marked the session on Friday. It was held in the
middle of a main street, blocking traffic between Oakland and Berkeley. The
Vietnam Day Committee maintained that their freedom of speech was being violated
because all they were allowed to do was stop traffic; it was, they said,
a right of free speech to invade a defense base. They vowed to keep trying
and threatened to turn Oakland into another Selma—whatever that meant.
The featured speaker was Yale History Professor Staughton Lynd, son of
two veteran Communist Fronters. Lynd is considered by the Communists to be
such a good speaker that he was permitted to act as a keynote lecturer at
the anniversary celebration of the Communist National Guardian on November
24, 1964.
IV
WE WERE amazed that the Communists were so blatant. There was no phony
pretense about these people being "Liberals," no hedging, no dodging. Thousands
wore Red-star buttons and many openly bragged of being Communists with all
of the candor of one speaking of being a Democrat or a Methodist. There was
no hypocrisy about "better Red than dead." It was just better Red, period.
It would, of course, be wrong to draw the conclusion that the marchers
were all Communists or that all of those on the program were Communists.
But note that in the Committee's official program all of the contributors
except the Young Democrats are avowedly Communist or revolutionary socialist
organizations. (Of course, the President of the Berkeley Young Democrats,
Ted Cohen, is a member of the Communist W.E.B. DuBois Clubs.) Having an
all-Communist demonstration is contrary to the Communists' "united front"
technique, whereby Communists attempt to create enormous propaganda by magnifying
their numbers geometrically.
The fact remains, however, that most of the key leaders of the Berkeley
affair have extensive backgrounds in Communist activity. Besides Bettina
Aptheker and Ringo Hallinan, (who has two brothers who participated in the
founding of the DuBois Clubs), the leadership included Jerry Rubin, a founder
of the Vietnam Day Committee who recently returned from an illegal trip to
Communist Cuba, and who was a participant in the "stop-the-trains" demonstrations
in Oakland. Another co-founder of the Vietnam Day Committee is Cal mathematics
professor Stephen Smale, who was the campus advisor for the Fair Play For
Cuba Committee—a Communist member of which assassinated President Kennedy.
While a student at the University of Michigan, Smale was an open member of
the Labor Youth League, cited as a Communist Front organization by the Subversive
Activities Control Board. The League's National Chairman was Leon Wofsy,
former National Youth Director of the Communist Party, U.S.A., who is now
Associate Professor of Bacteriology at Berkeley, and a faculty advisor to
the Vietnam Day Committee. The Committee also included Trotskyite Paul Montauk;
the former Cuba Travel Committee leader, Kipp Dawson; Free Speech Movement
strategist and DuBois Clubber Steve Weissmnn; and Elizabeth and Sydney Stepleton,
representatives of the Trotskyite Communist's Young Socialist Alliance.
Still, activities described here could not have taken place without the
aid of a weak or sympathetic University administration and faculty. The Report
of the California Senate concerning the Free Speech Movement, the progenitor
of the Vietnam Day Committee, reveals the tenor of things at Berkeley:
Conditions at Berkeley in the fall of 1964 provided an ideal situation
for Communist activity. The administration was opposed to the maintenance
of proper security facilities; there had been an easy acceptance of radical
student organizations that had become both arrogant and defiant. . .
Apologists for the Berkeley situation are quick to point out that many
of those involved in these revolutionary activities are not students; they
say that a disproportionately large number of those who each day invade the
campus to harangue the students are not enrolled. This is true, but also
misleading, because most of the agitators were students at the University
at one time and dropped out to become full-time revolutionaries. Further,
the University could easily prohibit revolutionary propagandizing on the
campus. It just doesn't seem to want to.
On the other hand, the California Senate Report makes it clear that Berkeley's
students are being conditioned in their classrooms to accept what the
revolutionaries preach. In speaking of the Leftist Free Speech Movement,
the Senate Report states:
Many professors who were sympathetic with the FSM used their classrooms
for the purpose of expressing these sentiments to their students. There are
many instances of . . . professors and teaching assistants deliberately
indoctrinating their students in an attempt to gain support for the FSM.
Three hundred and seventy-eight members of the Berkeley faculty went so
far as to send a telegram to Governor Brown requesting that eight hundred
students who had been arrested for invading and seizing a University
administration building and holding it for fourteen hours not be punished.
The California Senate Report was clearly on firm ground when it stated that
at Berkeley there has been "easy tolerance of pro-Communist faculty members
who made little effort to conceal their profound Marxian bias either from
students or administration."
In assessing the climate at Cal, it would be inappropriate not to consider
the President of the University, Clark Kerr. Speaking of Kerr's background
the Senate Report says:
Kerr served with several government agencies during and immediately after
the war . . . he was brought into close contact with the many communists
who were also working in these agencies.... We do make clear that many of
Kerr's most intimate colleagues during these years were at the same time
teaching at the communist school and participating in a wide variety of
pro-Communist activities. Some of them came to work at the Berkeley campus
after Kerr became Chancellor.
The tolerance of the radical student groups, the opening of the campus
to communist officials, the reluctance to curb the activities of the most
harsh and defiant student refuels, and the obvious distaste for adequate
security precautions, speak for themselves.
It was inevitable that those who were subjected daily for a long period
of time to a relentless, highly-slanted barrage of communist propaganda,
and who were in daily association with dedicated party members either came
to detest Communism or to accept it as a way of life with an attitude of
easy accommodation.
No Communist speakers had been allowed to lecture on university property
since January 1952, until President Kerr persuaded the Regents to rescind
that prohibition about three months before the Berkeley Rebellion
commenced.
V
NIKOLAI LENIN said, youth is the key." He was right. As a result, the
Communists have worked on college campuses for decades—and the situation
at Berkeley is certainly not unique.
While Communists at Berkeley were leading 15,000 marchers to support the
Communist Vietcong, as many as 100,000 students, according to Newsweek, were
elsewhere involved in the same kind of activity we have described here. That
Saturday, 10,000 demonstrators marched down New York's Fifth Avenue in support
of the Vietcong's anti-American position on Vietnam. At the University of
Michigan, Texas, Ohio State, Yale, Harvard, Wisconsin — throughout the
land—the revolutionary Left was on the march. Officials at the University
of Colorado even permitted a flashcard section (demanding negotiations with
the Communists) to demonstrate at a football game.
That week in Vietnam forty-nine young Americans—many the same age
as these Communist and Leftist demonstrators — were killed and 113 were
wounded. They did not wear beards, or chant slogans; they did not march or
demand or demonstrate. They just died. More correctly, they were killed—
by the friends of the Bettina Apthekers, the Jerry Rubins, the Leon Wofsys,
the Stephen Smales, the Mike Myersons, and the placard-carrying young
revolutionaries who marched at Berkeley and elsewhere to try to make their
deaths a mockery.
Meanwhile, several thousand non-students continue to haunt the environs
of Berkeley, auditing courses from Leftist professors (at no charge except
to the taxpayer) and participating in "political activities." Their numbers
are growing as many are enticed into the maw by the spirit of rebellion,
the veneer of idealism, and the seemingly romantic life. Many will pass through
this phase, but many won't. In the meantime, the society that they hate so
much, the mixed-economy whose ills they mistakenly ascribe to capitalism,
provides them with free schooling, a place to plan their revolution, a forum
to preach it from, unemployment insurance to live on, and young men to die
in Vietnam in their place.
There need be no further proof that Communism does not spring from the
fields or factories, but from the marbled halls of a socialist education
system sucking its blood from the patriotic body of the nation's producers.
This is the system that has given the world its Mao Tse-tungs and Fidel Castros.
Out of such a twisted crew of demented "intellectuals" have come revolutions
that have captured Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Yugoslavia,
Czechoslovakia, China, Hungary, Poland, Albania, Cuba, and so many more
nations.
Of course, it can't happen here.
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The John Birch Society, Inc.
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