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Communism Morphed to Socialism and Still Targets America
By Jan Ireland
July 16, 2004

The world thought communism had heard its death knell in 1987 when President Ronald Reagan exhorted "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Communism as the world knew it then did begin its downfall.

But, slyly, the evil of communism did not fully die.

It exists today in the form of socialism. The 45 communist goals read into the Congressional Record in 1963 clearly show its relationship to socialism, and reveal its continuing goal to take over America. (Google "45 communist goals")

Most Americans probably associate 1963 with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Widespread civil discord and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s arrest in Birmingham happened that year. Andy Warhol's soup can hung in the Guggenheim, and the hit movies were "The Birds" and "Dr. Strangelove."

The US and the Kremlin employed a now-quaint "hotline" to improve communication. The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis in the preceding two years had contributed to the idea of mutually assured destruction that was on the world's mind.

Amid all the chaos, early in that year of 1963, history left a clue for the future.

Florida Congressman Albert Herlong, Jr., at the request of anti-communist Patricia Nordman, read the 45 communist goals that were contained in Cleon Skousen's "The Naked Communist" into the Congressional Record. Through those prescient actions all Americans are reminded of a never fully abandoned plot. Communism turned socialism still intends to take over America incrementally.

Communism is antithetical to capitalism. In Marxian theory, socialism is the stage between the two.

Socialism happens in America when government veers from its constitutionally granted powers, and decides it can "redistribute." It shifts the tax burden, designates some as "more equal" than others, manipulates media, denies some rights, and relinquishes other rights. These things have been happening incrementally for decades in America.

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution listed specific rules for taxation. The 16th Amendment modified that. What has come about, however, would confound the Founders. Half of the wage earners in America pay 96% of all income taxes. By definition the other half pays little ... or none.

Inequity is not only at the bottom. Multimillionaire Teresa Heinz Kerry reportedly paid a much smaller percentage of taxes than did our substantially less rich President Bush.

Minorities in America, by declaring the right ethnicity, can win special privileges. Asians, however, usually need not apply. Few seem to worry about the inherent "soft bigotry of lowered expectations" this causes.

The careers of extremely liberal (and biased) news anchors stretch over decades, their sinking ratings exceeded only by their mounting errors. But Fox News Channel, scrupulously fair and balanced, is gang attacked.

Not a peek of anything Christian is tolerated in public, not even a tiny cross under a collar after school. Yet by default, the religion of secularism is vaulted.

Politicians publicly extol the United Nations, at the peril of our own American sovereignty. Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry has repeatedly called for subjugating our interests to the dictates of the UN. Yet a look inside the UN reveals manifest corruption, dictators as rulers, and a visceral hatred of the freedom of America.

It is time to look again at some of the communist goals:

Capture one or both of the political parties in the US.

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

Infiltrate the press.

Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures.

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

Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

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

Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture."

Promote the UN as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one world government, with its own independent armed forces.

Those are 9 of the 45. Americans must realize that communism has morphed to socialism, and it still is targeting America. Subsequent articles will address the progress of additional goals.

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