Reflections

When the NAFTA and GATT agreements were under consideration years ago, I concluded the only one to profit from their passage would be my dentist over which I spent so much time gnashing my teeth  I was in danger of grinding down to the gums. 

Weeks later I was really pleased  when  United Parcel Service cancelled some of its ground services in Mexico after struggling for two years against Mexican indifference.  UPS complained the Mexican authorities made time-consuming inspections at the border—for which there was no reciprocity on their trucks heading north.

Long-time Los Angeles reporter George Putnam complained no inspection was given to Mexican sealed trucks when they came into the U.S.—trucks which could contain anything, including drugs and illegals.  This was the Clinton era, and we were all amazed when Mickey Kantor, his employee,  said Mexico was in violation of the NAFTA agreement, but even he  was unable to get the Mexicans to relent.   Their law demands the inspection of every package no matter how small.  And UPS couldn’t get permission to use their 18-wheelers inside Mexico, since it costs a bundle to drive a lot of small trucks which can’t take Mexican roads anyway.

Mexico’s rural roads are more like rock-strewn rubble tracks.  My son-in-law took these roads over many a long weary mile in his missionary chores into the back hills.  I’ve seen his pictures of the truck at the end of such journeys with the tires torn and twisted and wheels mostly riding on the rim.

During the Congressional debates I somehow connected the name of Harry Dexter White, Soviet agent, and next-in-command in the U.S. Treasury in Roosevelt’s and Morgenthau’s day, with GATT, so I went hunting thru my scrapbooks.  Found it too.  Came up with a review of GATT in a 1958 American Mercury magazine.  Mercury pointed out the GATT trade agreement “would transfer authority over American tariff policies to an international body, (original emphasis) in which we are hopelessly outnumbered.  It would give foreigners a dangerous leverage over our economic life.”  Well, it has certainly done that. And aren’t we even now knuckling under to the supposedly passe’ government of the so-called “former” Soviets only we now refer to them as Russia, as if that changes the nature of the beast!

Harold Lord Varney, then Mercury editor, pointed out Art. 1, Sec. 8, of the Constitution gave Congress, not the President, the sole authority to regulate foreign commerce.  I was interested to note the people’s interpreter of the Constitution, Rush Limbaugh, did not allow discussion of “free trade” even though he wanted a change at the ballot box.  That, too, was a lame-duck Congress, just as we have now rushing thru the START Treaty with the collusion of the “new” Senator from Massachusetts, what’isname? Scott something or other, or is it somethingorother Scott?  What a disgrace to the State that used to pride itself on being “the cradle of liberty” --or did that disappear with the Kennedy take-over?

Back to GATT and NAFTA.   In 1955, the American Bar Association opined , “Neither the President, nor Congress has the legal authority under the Constitution, to delegate the regulation of our commerce with foreign nations to a foreign-controlled group.” At the time of Varney’s writing, we had already given $60 billion in foreign aid, but now, he said, we were being asked to “turn over the American home market, at the expense of American industry and labor.” (That $60 billion was just a down payment on what we have given since! And are still giving!)

Even earlier, in 1934, Congress passed the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act which transferred the authority to negotiate tariff rates to the President.  Varney showed that same year,the U.S. exported 650 cars to England, at the same time, we imported 63,380 British cars in the first ten months! A whole study needs doing on this.

During WWII Roosevelt appointed an Executive Committee on Economic Foreign Policy which evolved eventually into the United Nations Economic and Social Council.  Participating in these post-war tariff plannings were Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, V. Frank Coe, and Victor Perlo, all of them on U.S. payrolls, but all of them secret agents of the Soviets, and none of whom had the welfare of the U.S. in mind!

This is like waving a red flag!  As Varney said, “All of these men were later named before a Congressional Committee as members of the Communist apparatus in Washington.”  The international enforcement agency, the World Trade Organization “was born in the mind of Harry Dexter White, accused Communist spy ring member.” So was the International Monetary Fund (IMF)  as well as the World Bank, which are still siphoning U.S. dollars. (Both of which have dismal records in the financial world)

One immediate result was the disappearance of American woolen and worsted mills which formerly furnished 40,000 jobs.  Most of us don’t even remember we ever had a textile industry, or American cotton, pottery, watches, shoes, American oil, American electronics, lumber, small appliances, just some of the endangered species in Varney’s time and now extinct—with less concern from the left than the endangered spotted owl gets.     

BRAINWASHING – 21st Century Style

Most Americans are totally unaware of the brainwashing which attends their every day,  not just from the slant given to the news by the writers of the news blobs handed to familiar faces to be read on screen, but by long term icons of Americanism, i.e.,  the magazines ladies bring home from the grocery store, the drug store or anywhere else popular magazines are sold.  When I was a housewife and mother, I read these icons of the American home as if they were my Bible, clipping recipes, noting new hair, dress styles, and all the “tips” on child raising. 

Then one night I had an epiphany!   I attended a meeting which I knew was Communist-sponsored and discovered a female author of child-raising techniques I had followed in my favorite women’s magazine was also a writer for known Red-sources.  That night I sat up late, mentally reviewing my philosophy on child raising, on issues to which my mother had often objected, to which I would respond, “Oh, Mother, you’re just old-fashioned!”  Well, so, okay, when did “old-fashioned” equal no good?   

I also knew how brain-washed many G.I.’s became as prisoners of the Reds during the Korean War and Viet Nam.   Those who succumbed were those young men who did not have a strong orientation toward American history and/or American family life.  As it happens, the college-bound youth of that era and especially during the Viet Nam era were equally brainwashed in their University classes by their leftwing professors, who promoted the impressionable youths’ anti-war protests from coast to coast, aimed particularly at returning vets--- victims of  the same type of vitriol and venom spewed by the so-called Rev. Wright into the minds of his congregation. 

You see, the “plan” was to oppose American participation in war, if that war was appeared aimed at Reds as were both the Asian “wars,” but it was okay in Spain when the “red” side was promoted as the correct side and Americans were urged to participate by the same people who just a few years later opposed the anti-Red wars!  

Edward Hunter who made the most comprehensive expose’ of brainwashing in a book of that title sixty years ago, said:  “The most diabolical intrigues of the past never descended to such dark, unstirred depths.  There is something repulsive and against nature in it.  This is not easy for the normal mind to grasp.”

Matt Cvetic, a counterspy in the Communist Party during the so-called “cold war” sixty years ago, was totally familiar with the slanting of Communist doctrines from many years of subjection to their literature, from an active, ongoing network of dedicated Communists, espionage agents, disinformation agents, all working to bring down the republic established in Philadelphia so long ago. 

Cvetic said they paid particular attention to educational matters:  “I learned that the Communists and their sympathizers concentrated their crafty planning, knowing that if they can inject their ideology into our schools they can go a long way to bringing to fruition their Marxist aims in America.  They know if they can destroy the children’s respect for parents, home, country, fellow-man and church, and instill in its place a shallow materialistic concept of life, their psychological battle for American minds is more than half won.”  

Bella Dodd, a former Communist Party leader as well as a practicing attorney, confirmed the role of the Communist teacher in making converts from hitherto innocent American students, confirmed Cvetic’s observations from her own inner-circle knowledge, but, she added, “not gaining under the label of Communist, but by having its operators operate under many different labels, under many different titles…It is the most terrifying thing to watch, ….I think that every American needs to understand this thing, needs to understand that it is not just communism.  It is not just the word ‘communism,’ because that has become very obnoxious.  We have made it unpopular.  But they are selling us the whole program in little bits.”

Little drops of poison over a long period of time, creating a new concept or right and wrong, as water wears away stone creating stalactites and stalagmites……Communists will use the schools and every other educational medium, whether it be comic books or the radio and television; they will use every educational medium…from the nursery school to the universities…Toynbee once said there were 19 civilizations since the dawn of history, 16 were destroyed from within.  Communist units were on the campuses of all the city colleges…”  and then Dodd specified, “Columbia, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Harvard, MIT, and a dozen or more other state universities –……..first of all there must be a mental revolution, an orientation to a wholly new conception of society…..”  a process which has continued for lo, these over sixty years!

Through these 6 decades, brainwashing of the public has moved on in high gear to create that mental revolution.  The  public, once  students in our communist infiltrated schools, are now receptive to the leftwing doctrines molding the thought patterns of Americans of every age.  This is how the so-called “social democrats” gained ascendency in the political arena, particularly in the Congress.

I wrote many pages on it in my book, “In the Presence of Our Enemies, joining a long list of authors, one of whom,  Dr. David Noebel  observed the “first  U.S.  ambassador to the Soviet Union (who) thought the greatest tragedy of the West is that its leaders—….simply are incapable of grasping or understanding the nature of the enemy bent upon their destruction.”  Noebel then added  the plans…designed to destroy our nation, are precise and exact…..the Kremlin maintains it will not raise the Red flag over America—the Americans will raise it themselves! “ (The Marxists Minstrels, A Handbook on Communist Subversion of Music, 1974)

Edward Hunter, previously mentioned, stumbled onto brainwashing  during his years in China as a foreign correspondent,  “I found it was a strategy for the conquest of the world…that it was not merely another tactic, but was the framework for the entire activity of the Communist hierarchy….A more exact term ..would be mind attack…They have based their technique primarily on the complete abandonment of morality.  That is their contribution to world thought…..”

Nevertheless Communists  now operate from the underground so many Americans are now convinced Communism died with the so-called passing of the Soviet Union,  overlooking the fact communism is a philosophy which permeates all aspects of American life and is totally in opposition to the philosophy which created this country. 

All this reminiscing  brought on because this week I  received two  issues containing the same ad in two different women’s magazines.  Years of abstinence from such mental dope had caused me to forget all I learned about mind bending and  I fell for a Madison-Ave hype and subscribed to these two old favorites.  So what happened?  Both magazines contained  the opening guns of a campaign  by the nation’s enemies which will continue for however long it takes them to win— it is pretty well along already!  I had to do a double-take on this particular ad, however, as  pretty  subtle.

Bible students will not easily be  persuaded to accept the campaign now being waged to  tolerate same sex marriage as containing equal rights as male-female marriage.  That marriage originated in the book of Genesis.  Subtlty the snake is still offering his poisoned fruit1

The December issue of two of the surviving popular women’s home-style magazines replete with recipes, home and table decorations, opened their magazines with identical very subtle ad, promoting the homosexual lifestyle as “family.”  Both had  exactly the same expensive two-page display, beginning with the inside of the cover itself, on the left, featuring the very dolled-up photo of a well-known lesbian under a banner,  “What do you do when you’re the #1 anti-aging foundation? Start a family”  The right hand page features a display for Cover Girl and Olay:  “Simply ageless family------- “ 

The ad is subtle.  Deviants of either sex do not bear children, but they do adopt, as judges  abet the fall of the American family by permitting it –   Some Catholic adoption agencies shut down, feeling they have no other recourse. State agencies are still functioning.  The Trojan horse is inside the gates. 

International Debt Crises

The news that England is in bad shape financially added to the list of the PIIGs is  a bad omen.  For one like myself who has no real knowledge of international finances, what can you do but speculate?  How is it possible that so many governments are in deep, deep do?  Not only that, but the timing of it is so strange.  All of them, all at once?  Or apparently so.

The little town in which I live just recently announced it was in a deep deficit, which  did not, however, stop them from continuing the building of a very elaborate and massive recreation center which was practically on the verge of default.  So what did they do?  They raised a local tax to 3% which means when you buy groceries you pay that much to them, and this is the principal shopping center for a number of nearby small towns.  We sport a super WalMart, of course, plus a Home Depot and three grocery centers. 

Add to the mess the state of Arizona is in, Phoenix is in, along with a number of Phoenix subdivisions, and all of them have just one thought:  taxpayers!

A few years ago I went to Phoenix to enter Arizona Heart Hospital which meant my companion and I checked into a nearby hotel.  I only mention this because Jane, the friend that drove me down, stayed there a couple days to keep me company, and we were both shocked.  It wasn’t the price of the hotel room but there was a tax on it besides all the other taxes designated  especially for the Diamondbacks, the baseball team!  A few months later there was a tv discussion about the wages paid to the athletes for playing a game, which are not just astronomical, but downright shocking! Yet if you look at the number of empty seats in the arena, that is also shocking!

That isn’t what I wanted to say, just wanted to put that on the record.  What was on my mind, however, was the IMF  which seems to have all kinds of clout despite its shabby origins – which no one ever seems to mention.  Did you know it was an outgrowth of the plotting done at Bretton Woods,  Dumbarton Oaks, and eventually San Francisco at which the notorious traitor Alger Hiss presided—only it is amazing how few people remember that name or why it is infamous!  If you do know what went on then, you can only shake your head in wonderment that agencies created by people who were on the payroll of the United States’ State Department yet were agents of the Soviet Union could continue administering untold sums of money even to this day!  The  two who put their heads together and came up with the International Monetary Fund were John Maynard Keynes, a Fabian Socialist Brit, and Harry Dexter White, a Soviet agent to whom the then Treasurer of the U.S. Morgenthau, had given all authority to deal with the economies of other countries on behalf of the U.S.!  When White was eventually unmasked, his counterpart, Frank Coe, succeeded him as head of the IMF for six years!  The record according to former employees is 70% failure of all the projects sponsored by IMF! 

I wrote quite a bit about it in my epic, In the Presence of Our Enemies,  which is still available in re Amazon, for those who have any interest in who drives the world’s economies.  And if you, like me, are wondering why all these countries are in dire financial straits even as we are – and asking, how do we get out of this mess?

IMPOVERISHING THE UNITED STATES

 

It didn’t begin with the election of Obama, even if he has done everything to hasten it.  Nor did it happen overnight or even in the last couple of administrations, although it is safe to say, there probably hasn’t been an occupant of the White House since Roosevelt that could possibly have not known.  And, as Jefferson once stated, “what is past is prologue.”

A government report on Activities of U.S.Citizens Employed by the U.N., prepared by the U.S. Senate in March, 1954, identified several Soviet agents employed in the State Department for many years such as Harry Dexter White, William Ullman, Nathan Silvermaster and Frank Coe, and, of course, as we now know, with the 2009 publication of Spies, The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, the actual number and the length of time covered, has always been vastly under reported.  No doubt Joseph McCarthy had to die to cover up the army of Soviet agents employed in the American government, making policy and subverting the policies they didn’t make!

John Howland Snow apparently didn’t need to know who, how many, and where they were, to write his 1946 epic, Government by Treason, as he did about the Bretton Woods/Dumbarton Oaks/San Francisco meetings where the United States was essentially given over to the world government crowd.  Also emerging from those individuals, unknown, unseen, unelected, came the plot to change the culture into a new shape of their choosing of the whole world—but certainly of the United States.  Snow said Americans were being taxed to support the world in contradiction to the expressed precepts of our Nation’s founders.  He quoted President Benjamin Harrison that “We have no commitment to police the world.”  What upset Snow was that not only were we being conned into policing the world, but into financing our future downfall as well, through the establishment of the World Bank and the IMF. 

As did everyone at the time, Snow credited the Secretary of the Treasury with the concept of “divided Germany by force of arms,” (which later turned out to be Stalin’s plan funneled through Treasury through  his man, Harry White), but Snow was astute enough to recognize “Morgenthau’s plan for an America conquered by force of debt.”

AT the time Morgenthau told  a House Banking Committee “the Bretton Woods agreements are good for every American citizen.  They involve jobs and profits…They govern the amount of food on the family table, the money for a new radio, schoolbooks for the children….”  Just how was not explained and has never been explained—how an international give-away agency over which we have absolutely no control, but started on American tax dollars was to benefit “schoolbooks for the children, or buy food or a radio,” remains a mystery.

Snow wrote”….the plain fact of the matter is that, through the control of finance, of money, and of the lending of money that is the commercial lifeblood of the Nation, top operators of the money racket are in this thing right up to the hilt.  They put their apparent enemies—the Communists and liberals—on the radio, and they pay them.  They put the latter on their editorial and by-line payrolls, and pay them.  They put them in the Government and make us pay them.  But the small imperialist group, and the tiny Communist group are in the game.  Each small group is using the other.  Maybe somebody is using both.  When each has gone as far as he can, they will come to open clash.  Unless our great free people break this thing, one of those two are going to rule….”  Imagine. 1946.  And the time seems to be now. 

Morgenthau was elated at the establishment of the two new international give-away agencies and cheered “that we in the United States are thoroughly sincere in our devotion to the principle of international cooperation.” Two new agencies which we financed but over which have no control.

Snow said Truman had already forgiven 42 billion at one time of this indebtedness—even as new loans were being made to nations who had no assets—“Here in so many words, is  international OPA.  IT, together with its satellite, the International Trade Organization, is to tell—not individuals, not trade groups, but whole nations of people—from whom they shall buy, to whom they shall sell, and how much—if anything at all—they shall pay or be paid on delivery.

“World trade, world cartel, world super-government control through capital regulations—as a permanent arrangement.”  Then Snow predicted the “struggle to come between the communist state and the financial corporate state.”

Snow was aware the driving force behind the Brits’ presence at Bretton Woods was John Maynard Keynes, Fabian Socialist and British sodomite, who christened the “debtor utopia” as “epoch making.” Snow agreed and pointed to the Marxist principle, “The surest way to overturn the social order is to debauch the currency.”  He quoted the British edition of the ‘stabilization fund, “The Clearing Union might become the instrument of policies in addition to those which is its primary purpose to support…The Union might become the pivot of the future economic government of the world.”

Snow said the whole scheme was “playing international  poker with a rigged deck. The house cannot lose.  The people cannot win.”

He didn’t even know how rigged the house was.

It was several years later before the Senate committee established that Communist conspirators took a leading part in the founding of the organizations which became specialized agencies of the U.N., as well as the U.N. itself—or at least, before ‘they’ let the American people in on their dirty little secret.  To this day, most Americans still don’t know—or do they care?

In 1957, Senator George Malone (NV) questioning a State Department employee, remarked, “The only trouble with Khrushchev and
Bulganin is, they are for Russia, like Churchill is for England.  We are the only nation the the world that breed people who are not for it.  Some of our very honest one-worlder people want to divide the taxpayer’s money and markets with foreign nations – they say to keep the peace.  Some of them really believe that by breaking or own taxpayers that we will have world peace…If you will complete the record of when the Export-Import Bank was organized and how much money was authorized and appropriated at first, then we will assume the $5 billion is what we are responsible for now.  The International Monetary Fund?  When was that organized and where?

Mr. Burgess: That was the result of the Bretton Woods Act in 1945.

Senator Malone:  Bretton Woods. Was that where our distinguished American citizen Harry Dexter White was in charge?

Mr. Burgess:  That is right, he and Maynard Keynes, a British economist.

Senator Malone: He was the one who said, “the more money you owe, the richer you are?

Mr. Burgess: Something like that…..”

Further conversation elicited the information the IMF was set up with gold and Senator Malone asked where did the IMF get the gold, and learned “it was part of the terms of the setup…”

He was told a “lot of very theoretical economists and so one, Maynard Keynes and Harry White, what they finally came down with after all their discussions was they had to make it in gold, they had to base it on gold…”

Snow predicted “Here was WPA on a world wide scale:  here was World Political Authority designed to encircle the globe.  You and I, American taxpayers, are expected to pay for it – and we have been ever since.  Do you wonder we are on the verge of bankruptcy?

To which Snow predicted “We die of yellow fever.  We see the ominous beginning of an international ownership of the United States.”   Not only did the Soviets have 12 official delegates at Bretton Woods, but more importantly, most of the so-called American representatives were also on the Soviet’s side—even payroll.  Which led Snow to muse, “No wonder this thing has been hushed up.”

Another economic journalist of that era, Garet Garrett wrote the epitaph:  “The ultimate purpose is political, namely to redistribute the wealth of the world in favor of underprivileged nations.”

The ultimate Karl Marx.

In Memorium, 9-11-01

As Lincoln said at Gettysburg, the world will little remember the words spoken about that day, but they will remember the deeds.  So it is with 9/11/01.  Recently I ran across a little known story of that day which (without permission from the copyright owners)  I thought deserved the telling,  different as it is from the human stories, so I will tell you the source so you can get your own copy.

I was reading a small book “Miracle Cats, Inspiring True Tales of Remarkable Felines,” by Brad & Sherry Steiger, 2003, who have also authored similar books I have not read, Dog Miracles and   Animal Miracles. 

The last chapter about Cats relates the authors’ son and wife were miraculously minutes away from the Trade Center, thus escaped harm.  Then wrote: “The many days, weeks, and months that followed the search-and-rescue efforts in the terrorist-ravished area continued to provide both ghastly and frightful images, as well of those of miraculous recoveries through the tireless efforts of the firemen and volunteer workers in the midst of the devastation and danger to their own lives.  Although the media focused on the human lives involved, many other stories of pain and joy also came to light regarding the lives lost or saved of cherished and beloved pets.  The following story is such an account.

“’This is the first good story I’ve heard’ said Suffolk County Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Chief, Roy Gross, referring to the rescue of Precious, a beautiful pedigree white Persian cat from the debris of a severely damaged apartment building across from the World Trade Center.  Precious was taken to the nearby Suffolk County SPCA van that was on the scene to treat search-and-rescue dogs for exposure and exhaustion.

‘Precious was dubbed “the miracle kitty” by the New York Post when its October 18, 2001, issue reported the amazing story of survival.  Precious had multiple injuries and was so dirty, confused, dazed, and dehydrated that SPCA Chief Gross could hardly believe the stamina of the cat to survive eighteen days without food.  As he and others later determined, Precious had most likely drunk from pools of contaminated water atop the wreckage to stay alive.

‘D. J. Kerr, owner of Precious, told the New York Post, that the survival of her beloved cat was unbelievable.  "It’s a miracle,” she said. “I can’t believe she is alive.” D.J. and her husband, Steve, had already experienced a miracle in that they were out of town when the tragedy occurred.  After so many days and nights has passed, they had given up on their Precious, assuming she was dead.

‘The Kerrs had been out of town for a long weekend, and they had left Precious secure and safe in the care of a house sitter who was to have checked in on Precious at 10:00 on the morning of the terrorist attack.  Sadly and needless to say, the house sitter didn’t make it, since the atrocity took place shortly after 9:00 am.  Judging by the extent of the damage done to their apartment, the Kerrs didn’t see how their cat could have survived.

‘Their loft apartment in the seven-story apartment building on Liberty Street was in the direct blast and backlash from the Trade Center, and all the windows were completely blown out.  Fire and water had ravaged the interior of the apartment and filled it with bits of metal, dust, and smoke.  The Kerrs were told it would be a minimum of nine months before they could return to inhabit their once comfortable home.

‘Incredibly, emergency workers at Ground Zero told of someone hearing the meowing cries of a cat atop the apartment building on Saturday night, September 29, eighteen full days after the attack.  Responding to the possibility of saving the cat, the workers sent a recovery dog to do some fancy maneuvering and to locate the cat, which was most likely injured, and bring it to safety.

‘The recovery dog did its duty, and soon a tattered cat was taken to the SPCA van. With burnt paws from the intense heat, her eyes badly damaged from flying debris, glass, metal, and dust, and having lost two of its nine pounds, Precious would recover from the harrowing ordeal and be reunited with her surprised and elated owners.

‘The Kerrs welcomed Precious home with her favorite treat, turkey.  She ate turkey and drank water like she was making up for the eighteen days she managed to stay alive with no food or good water.  Precious purred throughout her entire homecoming meal, contented to be with her loving owners.  Precious, as a Persian, a breed said by some to be somewhat snooty and elitist, probably even overlooked the fact that it was a dog that carried her in its slobbery mouth from the top of the ruins to safety!

‘A heartfelt tribute and a great debt of gratitude go out to the wonderful people of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.  Their rescues of pets from homes, apartments, and buildings damaged or lost to the Manhattan terror attack goes far beyond the miracle of saving Precious the cat.  Over 150 pets were rescued and treated for multiple injuries—primarily shock, dehydration, breathing problems, and burns.  The ASPCA also set up a pet rescue hotline for concerned and worried owners, as well as counseling service for those individuals who weren’t as fortunate as the Kerrs were.  The pets rescued included rabbits, dogs, reptiles, and of course cats!’”

My copy of the book, Miracle Cats, came to me through E. R. Hamilton Bookseller Company of Falls Village, CT 06031-0015.  This company puts out  catalogs on varieties of books, at reasonable prices, as well as reasonable shipping costs.  I’ve been buying books from them for a number of years and have purchased most of my books on the Venona transcriptions through them. Try it, you’ll like them.

Reflections from my Scrapbook

I used to wonder if the Romans recognized the fall of the empire was occurring while it was going on, or did they all succumb to the violent entertainments with which the mindless masses were kept occupied—Christians fed to the lions or burned as torches in the arena, and suddenly the glory that was Rome was no more.

Is there that much difference today when more millions go berserk voting for an American idol,  than ever turn out to vote in elections?  Or  are more interested in the news of the day about arrests of multimillionaire basketball, football or “movie stars,” who drink too much, drive too fast, abuse their “partners” or even spectators in the stands?

Memorial Day and even July 4th are something these people know little about.  Catherine Drinker Bowen’s claim (author of Miracle at Philadelphia, the story of the writing of the Constitution), that America’s young people today know little about the 4th was proven correct when this past 4th, a talk radio host interviewed a middle-aged woman from her voice-sound, asking her questions about the reason for the celebration.  Her replies were amusing but pathetic.  She thought we separated from Greece! Even that was pure guesswork, she knew she didn’t know!  This is a condition deliberately created through schemes laid long ago which came into fruition in San Francisco at the writing of the charter of the United Nations. Now it is over sixty years since our youth have been taught from textbooks denigrating the foundations of our government and what was created in Philadelphia.

In San Francisco, there was a regular cadre of Soviet agents working on the formation of the UN.  Stalin didn’t need to be there, he had his agents there in droves, chief among them, of course, was Alger Hiss who was in charge of the whole shebang.  I have dropped Hiss’s name into conversations within recent months and was dismayed to be asked, “Who’s he?” Standing behind Hiss in the shadows, fellow members on the payroll of the State Department, was a whole cadre of Soviet secret agents, some of whom were later unmasked, and others still unnamed, making policies which have changed America’s destiny ever since.

No wonder Whittaker Chambers who blew the whistle on Hiss, sadly remarked when he left the Communist Party and became a “Witness” against it and its participants, that he had joined the “losing side.”  Hiss, the unrepentant, ultimate Judas, who could never admit his affiliations lest it undo that which he had helped create, the UN and its many satellites, designed to drain America dry, but most particularly fulfilled, as an ancient Chinese warlord centuries ago, described, Supreme excellence was in not letting the enemy even know there was a war going on.

The United States was the first country to be created since the Roman Empire, drawn together by ethnicity, and above all, by a common ideal.  The greatest instrument in that creation was George Washington, a man of singular integrity, so unique a personality, in fact, that one of UNESCO’s minions decreed that he should be eliminated from mention in American history lest children be inspired to emulate him!  And so it has been.

Daniel Webster in his 1832 tribute and eulogy to George Washington, predicted about the new  republic, “If these columns fall, they will be raised not again.  Like the Coliseum and the Parthenon, they will be destined to a mournful and a melancholy immortality.  Bitterer tears, however, will flow over them than were ever shed over the monuments of Roman or Grecian art, for they will be the monuments of a more glorious edifice than Greece or Rome ever saw, the edifice of constitutional American liberty.”

It would appear the Republic is well into its death throes now.

Memory Lane

The local paper ran a spread this week on ham radio operators in the area.  It was a great story and brought back memories of long, long ago, well, fifty years or so, when my son was going on eleven and his sister thirteen.

Judy was intrigued by a series of teen novels from the library about teen-aged ham radio operators and their adventures.  She spoke of them often, evincing a major interest in the subject.  Christmas was coming up so I decided to test her interest by giving her a receiver in a  kit,  thinking if she could put it together, perhaps she would pursue the rest of it – all  based on first learning Morse code, which seemed to me an almost insurmountable chore.

What happened is now almost laughable but at the time was grounds for major annoyance.  Judy’s father,  distinguished for his devotion to his work which kept him away from the house until after we had gone to bed, and gone again before we rose up, so that we rarely saw him, decided to put the receiver together, thus defeating my whole purpose.    While we were innocently sleeping, he didn’t go to bed at all but spent the entire night putting the receiver together!  Where was her test?  I was really ticked off.

Unknown to all of us, however, a different  test lay ahead,  one we could never have imagined. I was still reeling with disappointment at the outcome of the radio receiver when Christmas vacation was over. The kids went back to school. 

Not many days into the new year,  Eric’s teacher called to tell me he was continually complaining he couldn’t see the blackboard.  She  moved him  closer, but his complaints kept on, so she thought I should know about it.  Perhaps,  she suggested, he needed glasses.

So we made our first visit to a doctor which  was to be the first of many visits to several doctors, although I didn’t know this at the time.  By now, Eric was complaining of a sore throat so a visit to our family doctor brought a diagnosis of strep throat for which antibiotics were advised by our g.p. That did nothing for the headaches of which he now began complaining.  The ENT doctor admitted the cause of the vision problem was a mystery, and,  strangely he found, Eric had no sinus cavities, so something was definitely wrong.  Altogether we visited five different doctors, each of whom came up with a different verdict. It was the beginning era of psychosomatic diagnoses, a fad which swept through medicine for a time.  If there were no bones sticking through the skin and blood wasn’t poring out the cells, it had to be psychosomatic.

Earlier in the fall I volunteered to publish a booklet on the Crimes of Khrushchev, for the National Minute Women of the USA, Inc., Handbook for the Summit, since Mr. Eisenhower was scheduled for a summit meeting with the Butcher of the Kulaks in June that year.  The booklet was written by a group of former Intelligence Officers, SPX Associates, so while Eric and I  sat in medical offices waiting for tests and conferences, we folded press releases, stuffed envelopes and licked stamps to  announce the publication to a waiting world – we hoped.  These chores occupied our time and gave us something to think and talk about besides his growing illness which was becoming more acute each day, with these  puzzling symptoms.

I was, however, no longer puzzled as I knew in my heart there was a growth on the brain, a diagnosis I kept to myself, but which in my heart I dreaded and didn’t want to hear, but was convinced.   The mysterious symptoms kept advancing: There were days when he seemed very feverish but the thermometer recorded a subnormal temperature.  Other days he suffered from incredible dizziness which made him think he was falling off the bed, even as his head ached and his vision was disturbed, and his throat continued to hurt.  By February, however, he was losing weight, he was very pale, listless, and now began wheezing as if he had asthma.

We went to a Beverly Hills physician who examined him from his toes up, looking at the rough knees and elbows which I often accused Eric of not scrubbing and sent him back to scrub.  All, said this strange doctor, indicative of a shortage of Vitamin A of long standing, and eventually scheduled a brain scan.  The technician there called my attention to the fact he seemed to be burning up, but the temperature was subnormal.

Very shortly the test results came in and  I was advised to take him to a Neurological Center at an address in East Los Angeles.  I didn’t know what a neurological center was until we arrived to find it was the 4th floor of White Memorial Hospital, housing brain surgeons.  On the way to the then unknown destination we stopped at the mailbox. Eric was so excited, the first orders for the Handbook were in the mail which he eagerly tore open on the long trip to what turned out to be a hospital. 

As it turned out, Eric did not leave the hospital, because like Job, that which I feared had come upon me. I was given a grave prognosis:  surgery had to be scheduled for the very next morning, because the statistics were against us.

That was the beginning of a long siege of doctors and hospital visits, which was how ham radios got into the act.

The hospital in East Los Angeles was a very long way from where we lived on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Things did not go well at the medical facility.  I was dividing my days between Eric’s needs at the hospital, which was a drain on his sister,Judy, whom I enrolled in Marymount located on the Peninsula with a bus for pickup and delivery. 

Thus she became a latch key kid.  The situation was very stressful for her, so the ham radio seemed a great diversion from the medical problems confronting us daily. Judy needed something that would engage her attention, as well as make her the center of the activity, something of her own to alleviate her anxiety so I elected ham radio to fill the gap.

Before a ham operator can become a “general” and actually converse on the airway, he/she has to master Morse code and transmit that way, while learning the basics of talk radio, all of which Judy did, pretty much on her own, although I would take her to whatever classes were needed.   Ham radio operators are great family people so when there were weekends of gatherings at the beach, I would take her down to mingle and meet others with similar drives.  I admit I had no hesitation in leaving her with some of the families we met there.  The local paper featured her story as she was the youngest female, self-taught, which also helped her to overcome the anxiety which pervaded the household.

Eventually, through a miracle, Eric returned home, and began a period of recuperation before returning to school.  Judy was by now a general and could talk with young men around the country.  She had a soft sweet dulcet voice (still does actually), but by this time Eric had become a mean little boy!  Throughout his long convalescence at home, Judy waited on him hand and foot, played games with him, just generally doting on him, and he repaid her kindness by shouting across the room at the mike while she was talking with the operators at the other end.  In fact, there wasn’t much he didn’t think of to torment her. 

By then we knew he would live a thing which had been doubtful for so many months,  I volunteered to take him to Morse code classes, too,  so that the two of them would be able to communicate by radio in the days ahead which I visualized as eventually coming to this country, but he didn’t want to do the work.

Judy, however, had visualized herself as a missionary using the radio to report to civilization from the jungles somewhere, and much later that is what she did do for years, plus teaching other missionaries the elements of ham radio.  Of course, she also dragged along her 7 children through those years on the field, and several of them have followed in her footsteps, except they are now computer whizzes.  It all started with ham radio, half a century ago. 

THE REVOLUTION WAS

Many years ago I came into possession of a petition from the National Society of Sons of the American Revolution to the Congress of the United States. This 53-page document was titled, "A Bill of Grievances, filed with the Judiciary Committee of the Senate and the Un-American Activities Committee of the House of Representatives."

The SAR purpose was to "bring about an investigation of the interstate traffic in propaganda textbooks and teaching materials being introduced in the public schools of the Several States, to overthrow constitutional government and to bring about the adoption of a Social Welfare State." This petition of the SAR to the Congress was dated April 19, 1949, which just happens to be, I believe, the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, an appropriate time, as for so long, Bostonians bragged of being "the cradle of liberty."

It is impossible for me to reproduce the entire document here, and difficult enough just to copy down the material which relates to Dr. William Wirt who was an noted educator and administrator from Gary, Indiana, and who was eventually all but destroyed by his efforts to call attention to the plot to make the United States into a socialist branch of a world government.

I read his story, how he was invited to attend a dinner at the White House early in the regime of F. D. Roosevelt where the table talk related plans for the future of the United States which shocked him. So, on March 23, 1934, he appeared before the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to report the gist of the talk.

The SAR tells his story, beginning on page 45 of their petition. Throughout the material below which I have copied, the emphasis is that of the original authors of the petition. They did reference by footnotes all the sources, but I am not going to write them all up, except that Dr. Wirt's testimony before the House Committee was filed May 2, 1934, No. 1439, 73d Congress.

PLAN OF REVOLUTIONISTS (from Dr. Wirt)

"The fundamental trouble with the 'brain trusters' is that they start with a false assumption. They insist that the America of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln must first be destroyed and then on the ruins they will reconstruct an America after their own pattern.They do not know that the America of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln has been the 'new deal' and that during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries we have been making great social progress. The common man is getting his place in the sun. Why try to put him back into the Dark Ages?

"Last summer I asked some of the individuals in this group what their concrete plan was for bringing on the proposed overthrow of the established American social order.

"I was told that they believed that by thwarting our then-evident recovery they would be able to prolong the country's destitution until they had demonstrated to the American people that the Government must operate industry and commerce.....

"The most surprising statement made to me was the following 'We believe that we have Mr. Roosevelt in the middle of a swift stream and that the current is so strong that he cannot turn back or escape from it. We believe that we can keep Mr. Roosevelt there until we are ready to supplant him with a Stalin. We all think that Mr. Roosevelt is only the Kerensky of this revolution.....'

"I asked how they would explain to the American people why their plans for retarding the recovery were not restoring recovery. 'Oh,' they said, 'That would be easy.' All that they would need to do would be to point the finger of scorn at the traitorous opposition. Those traitors in the imaginary war against the depression would be made the goats.(emphasis supplied) And the American people would agree that they, the 'brain trusters,' had been too lenient and in the future they, the 'brain trusters,'should be more firm in dealing with the opposition....

"I was frankly told that I had underestimated the power of propaganda.That since the World War (WWI) propaganda had been developed into a science...that the power of public investigation in their own hands alone would make the cold chills run up and down the spines of other business leaders and politicians--honest men as well as crooks.

"They were sure that they could depend upon the psychology of empty stomachs, and they would keep them empty. The masses would soon agree that anything should be done rather than nothing....

"They were sure that the leaders of industry and labor could be kept quiet by the hope of getting their own share of the Government doles in the form of loans and contracts for material and labor, provided they were subservient.

"They were sure that the colleges and schools could be kept in line by the hope of Federal aid until the many 'new dealers' in the schools and colleges had control of them."

End Dr. Wirt's statement.

The House adopted a resolution creating a select committee of five members to make an investigation. This committee was instructed ".....to summon Dr. William A. Wirt, of Gary, Ind., before it and to require him to reveal the sources of the statements he has made...and to bring before it all officials and other persons alleged by Dr. Wirt to have given him said information, or to be connected in any way with said activities...."

Dr.Wirt appeared before the Select Committee on April 10, 1934. Certain individuals designated by him were examined on April 14th. He was denied the opportunity to make an opening statement.

Neither he nor his attorney, the Honorable James A. Reed, was permitted to question or cross-examine any of the witnesses. The minority members of the Committee were also denied that right.

It developed from the hearing that the following persons were involved in these charges: (In 1934, Democrats were the majority, Republicans the minority)

Henry A. Wallace, Vice-President of the United States:

Harry Hopkins, Federal Emergency Relief Administrator:

David Lilienthal, Director of Tennessee Valley Authority:

Harold Ickes, Public Works Administrator: Arthur Morgan and H. A. Morgan, Directors of TVA:

Frederick Howe, Consumers' Counsel of Agricultural Adjustment Administration:

General William A. Westervelt, Assistant Administrator of Agricultural Adjustment Administration of Gary, Ind.

The minority members of the committee demanded the right to subpoena these witnesses. The majority decided that it was 'unnecessary.'

On May 2, 1934, the majority filed a report with the following statements: "....it was unnecessary to examine any other witnesses.....From all the evidence presented to the committee there was none whatever showing that there was any person or group in the Government service planning to 'overthrow the existing social order' or planning or doing any of the things mentioned in Dr.Wirt's statement."

The minority members of the committee filed a statement with the following protest: "We cannot join in the majority report. The committee has not met its responsibility as directed by the House in House Resolution 317, enacted by the House of Representatives on March 29, 1934. On the contrary, we report that the committee has by a studied effort deliberately refrained from obtaining the information which it was directed to obtain by such resolution. We further report that the committee has not only deliberately refrained from obtaining such information but has deliberately suppressed the obtaining of such information......

"There can be no question but that the committee was required to subpoena and call in witnesses to ascertain what, if any, public officials were connected with said activities, to wit, 'carrying out a deliberately planned revolution or attempting to thwart the program of a national recovery.' Whether or not such people had talked with Dr. Wirt was entirely immaterial....

"As soon as the resolution was passed and the committee was appointed by the Speaker, the first act of the committee...over the protest and votes...of the minority members, was to pass a resolution limiting the first day's hearing to the testimony of Dr. Wirt with Dr. Wirt's testimony limited to the specific question of naming the people with whom he talked and setting forth their specific conversation.

Thereafter the majority members of the committee, over the protest and vote of the minority members, limited the second day's hearing to the bringing before the committee the six specific witnesses with whom Dr. Wirt talked at a particular party and refused to call any other witnesses that were named by Dr. Wirt in his testimony.....

"As further evidence that the majority members of the committee used this hearing for the avowed purpose of discrediting the witness Dr. Wirt and suppressing the truth with no reasonable desire or effort to obtain the truth, we point out the following:

"First, Dr. Wirt was denied the opportunity in his own way to make his opening statement. When the majority members denied to Dr. Wirt this opportunity, they denied to him a right and a privilege which has been enjoyed by all of the hundreds and thousands of witnesses who have ever appeared before congressional committees, House or Senate.

"Second, it denied to the minority members the right to call a single witness whom they designated or chose to call before the committee. In doing this the committee again repudiated all the precedents of congressional investigations. In doing so the majority members made it inevitable that the proceedings would be a suppression of the truth rather than an uncovering of the truth. As an illustration, what would have the Teapot Dome investigation amounted to if the majority members of the committee investigating those transactions had denied to Senator Walsh, a minority member, the right to call before the committee to examine under oath any and all witnesses whom he chose to call?...

"This committee is not authorized to sit in judgment upon the relative merits of the old order of a free people or a Government-regulated mode of American life. Under a broad, common-sense construction of the resolution creating the committee, we were commissioned to investigate whether Government officials, believing in a socialized American order, were so functioning as to facilitate the establishment.....

"This the American people are entitled to know. This it was not only the privilege but the duty of the committee to ascertain.

"Unfortunately, the committee booted away its opportunity.

"We therefore take the position that the committee has not performed its duties under the resolution and that the committee should be directed by the House to proceed to complete its duties under the resolution." *****

As a further support for its Congressional petition about activities of Educators and "Other Intellectuals". the SAR included a photostatic copy of an announcement of the "Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace," held at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, March 25-27, 1949. The headline for the Conference was a welcome to our "international guests" who were addressed as "Honored guests: <em>leading foreign intellectuals who are invited to participate."

The SAR states: "The 'Honored Guests' referred to in that announcement were Communists from Soviet Russia sent to this country to spread propaganda against the Atlantic Pact. This document contains the names of two hundred and seventy-three American "intellectuals' sponsoring the meeting..." For purposes of brevity we will eliminate those names although some of them will sound quite familiar to many readers, and continue with the rest of the story:

"A group of intellectuals headed by President Robert L. Hutchins of the University of Chicago, is backing a movement for World Government. The following statement issued by the Committee for Constitutional Government contains a good analysis of some of the dangers involved in that proposal:

"Among the powers this world government would have are the following: "Equip and direct the world army, which would supplant all national armies, other than small police forces. The American planners of world government no doubt support a world army which would never, never be used against our country and people. But the idea of a world constitution is without value unless the world government is to have the power to use its army, navy and atomb-bombs against any nation whatever.

"Therefore, the world army could be used against us if we were bad, or 'imperialistic,' as others may decide. Furthermore, we would be unable to resist, for under the plan our own defense forces would be liquidated. It is interesting to contemplate American-born soldiers, commanded by foreign generals, waging war against their native country; or the nationals of any other country against their own people. Would this, in fact, be treason? The proposed constitution also contemplates that the world government shall have the power to levy taxes all over the world. As the United States is now helping to support 16 foreign nations, including the richest, one can guess once and guess right the particular spot on the globe which would be selected for the extraction of the bulk of the money. The world government would also have the power to decide national boundaries and form new nations. The planners do not, of course, plan that it would vote to return Alaska to Russia from whom we bought that territory in 1867. However, we do know there are some men in Moscow who would like Alaska back; and if Moscow got enough votes, that would be the result. This brings us down to the big brass tack: How is the voting to be done in the World, Incorporated? How will all these questions be decided? Who will wear the pants? The World has about 2,250,000,000 people. Only one quarter are white. The rest are yellow, brown and black. We have 147,000,000 people, or 7%. Assuming, as we must, that in the sight of God every human being on the planet is of equal worth, there should be one vote per person, in order to be 'democratic.' At least each nation should have representation in the world government in proportion to its population. This is the way Congressmen are apportioned among our 48 states. Therefore, in any question vital to us Americans, we would be out-voted 98 to 7, unless we could gather or buy votes among other nations, most of whom envy us. Any other voting arrangement which would give us representation, not according to our population, but according to our wealth, would create first class and second class citizens in the world government.... These are some of the questions this fantastic world constitution presents to us. They cannot be shrugged off.

As ex-President Hoover and Hugh Gibson say in "The Problem of Lasting Peace," being in a minority in a super-government, the political, economic and social control of our country would ultimately pass from our hands, and all the assurances of our fundamental institutions would be lost." A "Commission on Human Rights" was established by an order of the United States promulgated at Geneva, Switzerland, on December 27, 1947. It is engaged in framing "An International Bill of Rights" to have the force and effect of law as between the nations adhering to it. It would probably be construed in this country as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States in the event of any conflict with our present fundamental law.

Frank E. Holman, President of the American Bar Association has issued the following statement regarding that project: "It is revealing to note the 'makeup' or personnel of the Commission before examining the results of its work. "Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is the chairman and the sole U.S. representative--she is not a person in any sense trained in legal draftsmanship. She is primarily a social reformer.

"Australia's representative is Col. William Roy Hudgson--by training a military man and from his biography a person whose experience has been confined to government service.

"The United Kingdom's representative is Lord Dukeston--a person with no legal training and so far as his biography shows, no familiarity with legal draftsmanship--a trade unionist by profession.

"These three are the only Anglo-Americans or representatives of English speaking peoples on the Commission of eighteen members. "It is this Commission which has undertaken to draft a 'Bill of Rights' for the people of the United States which so far as the Covenant is concerned is to be ratified as a treaty and under our Constitution to become the supreme law of the land and in due course implemented against all of us by the decrees of a new International Court of Human Relations.

"In spite of this extraordinary and revolutionary program the press and the public and even the Bar seem largely oblivious to the program and how far in certain particulars it is at variance with our fundamental concept of individual rights and freedoms and how far in other particulars it is a proposal for worldwide socialism to be imposed through the United Nations on the United States and on every other member nation."

On the domestic scene we find professors George S. Counts and Harold Rugg continuing their propaganda for a Social Welfare State. As Exhibit No. 36, we submit the book 'Now is the Moment,' by Professor Rugg, eliminated from public schools in the City of Washington after an investigation by the House Committee on the District of Columbia. The following quotations are taken from that book: In re Social Planners: "A key group, which already constitutes a potential national council of design and reconstruction, is assembling at Washington...Every Valley is sending its talent--from Iowa the practical prophet of the Century of the Common Man...from Texas the successful business man...from the metropolis the experienced idealist social worker....

"Not only are the creative energies assembling; they are beginning to push the social system in the direction of a better world. Here, on the very threshold of consummation, is the thing we have dreamed of and pled for...science in government...research in government...In short, a government of social engineering..." (pg. 3-4) Propaganda to be handled by Educators

"...Although a few of our most discerning statesmen...see and are stating clearly the grave task before the nation, there is no large vocal minority telling the Congress that they want something done about it. How can there be when most of the people lack the facts with which to make up their minds? How can there be unless we, who are responsible</em> for assembling the facts and for organizing study and discussion machinery, get the facts before them?

Federal Office of Education--a Propaganda Bureau "To break the Washington bottleneck which has held back American education, there is one major step...that is to create an 'Office of Education for Peace.'

"....a powerful new Office devoted solely to winning the peace should be created. But even that will be of little use unless the Office is given unlimited resources--a budget running into millions to reach ten, twenty, thiry million Americans day after day, week after week, without letup....

"(We) must help put an end to the fear and inertia in our profession...Make it absolutely clear to the Commissioner that he has complete autonomy; that he can try anything within reason at least once: that he is really the Chief-in-Staff of the forces that are fight the War-at-Home over a free, abundant, and creative World; that conventional routine ways of doing things are not wanted...Let Washington make it clear that there shall be no more appeasing in education!" (pages 233-234)

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OUR BILL OF GRIEVANCES The Public School System of this country has been converted into a propaganda agency to support the projects, campaigns, crusades, ideas and personal philosophies of a self-appointed group of 'educators' who now assert the right to dominate and control that system. These men intend to nullify the Constitution with propaganda. Their purpose is to create a Social Welfare type of state under a Proletarian Form of Government. A socialistic government is not a democracy. It can only function where there is absolute power to dominate the people. It is the first step toward dictatorship and oppression. American democracy is the democracy of Thomas Jefferson, made effective under a constitution securing individual liberty. It is a Republican Form of Government--the kind of government guaranteed to the people by the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution does not provide for a Proletarian Form of Government. It does not provide for National Socialism. The people alone have the right to determine any changes to be made in their form of government. They have the right to make that decision without being put under the influence of propaganda. We are entitled to a public school system in which these principles will be taught to the Youth of America. There is no place in that system for individuals desiring to use their position or authority to promote any New Deal, Old Deal, Fair Deal, Square Deal, Re-deal or any other kind of Deal. It is wrongful to make those schools an agency of The Political Action Committee, or any other Action Committee or Pressure Group. We dare not use our schools to 'Build a New Social Order.' We deny the right of any individual or group to issue a 'Call to the Teachers of the Nation' to use these schools for such a purpose. These are the methods of Stalin and Hitler. They cannot be tolerated by the free people of America.

Stalin’s Order to the CPUSA, 1932

RELIGION: By philosophy, mysticism, the development of liberal cults, and the furtherance of atheism, to discredit all Christian creeds.

ETHICAL: Corrupt morality by advocating promiscuity and advising high school and university students to practice same; introduction of companionate marriage ideas; advocation of legalized abortions; advancement of theoretical interracial practices—marriage of white women to colored men—by actual consummation through willing participants where obtainable.  Destruction of the family, abolition of inheritance, even to the extent of names; destruction of all records of title, birth and family history.

AESTHETIC: Cultivation of the ugly, futuristic and aberrant in art, literature, the drama and music, the practice of crude orientalism, modernism, and degenerate perversion.

SOCIOLOGICAL:  Abolition of social opposition by subversive practices; the display of vulgar extravagance, promotion and exaggeration of all social and economic conditions, political corruption, etc., to create unrest, suspicion and revolt by the workers, intensify class war.

INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL: Create mistrust of banks by circulation of rumors of instability and distress.  Destroy ideals in craftsmanship and pride of workmanship; set up—by series of public talks by professors of sociology and others—the picture of a golden serpent of profit.  Standardization of the cheap and shoddy; advocate the state monopoly of ownership; exchange of all foreign currency at slight discount for U.S. gold and gradually withdraw gold from circulation, send all gold currency to Russia.

POLITICAL: Set up the ideal of thinking ‘internationally,’ so as to undermine national patriotism; weaken all government departments by corruption.  Attack all political parties and create distrust and suspicion upon any an all occasions.  Amplify facts by fiction and create startling exposures.  Ridicule all patriotic effort and undermine all preparation for defense; carry out our set policy for world revolution outlined in Rykoff’s position.

RYKOFF: in Pravda, said:  “It is our duty to inculcate in the minds of all nations, the theory of international friendship, pacifism and disarmament, at the same time, however, never for one moment relaxing our efforts in the upbuilding of our own military establishment.”

LENIN said: “When a country is selected for attack we must first set up before the youth of  that land a mental barrage which will forever prohibit the possibility of that youth being  moulded into an armed force to oppose our invading armies.  This can most successfully be done through creating ‘war horror’ thought and by teaching of pacifism and non-resistance.  It will be found that powerful organizations of non-communists can be created for this purpose particularly with the aid of liberal-minded ministers, professors and lecturers.”

BUCHARIN said: “Friendship of liberal minded ministers shall be sought, as these men at the present time are the leaders of the masses.”

A BILL OF GRIEVANCES

In 1949, more than fifty years ago, the Sons of the American Revolution Society entered a petition into Congress, asking for an investigation into the interstate transportation of subversive textbooks. There were 53 pages of documentation to support the petition which was as follows:

"The Public School System of this country has been converted into a propaganda agency to support the projects, campaigns, crusades, ideas and personal philosophies of a self-appointed group of 'educators' who now assert the right to dominate and control that system.

"These men intend to nullify the Constitution with propaganda. Their purpose is to create a Social Welfare type of state under a Proletarian form of Government.

"A socialistic government is not a democracy. It can only function where there is absolute power to dominate the people. It is the first step toward dictatorship and oppression.

"American democracy is the democracy of Thomas Jefferson, made effective under a constitution securing individual liberty. It is a Republican Form of Government--the kind of government guaranteed to the people by the Constitution of the United States.

"The Constitution does not provide for a Proletarian Form of Government. It does not provide for National Socialism. The people alone have the right to determine any changes to be made in their form of government. They have the right to make that decision without being put under the influence of propaganda.

"We are entitled to a public school system in which these principles will be taught to the Youth of America.

"There is no place in that system for individuals desiring to use their position or authority to promote any New Deal, Ol Deal, Fair Deal, Square Deal, Re-deal or any other kind of Deal.

"It is wrongful to make those schools an agency of The Political Action Committee, or any other Action Committee or Pressure Group.

"We dare not use our schools to "Build a New Social Order." We deny the right of any individual or group to issue a 'Call to the Teachers of the Nation' to use those schools for such a purpose. These are the methods of Stalin and Hitler. They cannot be tolerated by the free people of America.

"It is a violation of our right and the right of our children to freedom of conscience to use those schools to disseminate slanted or intellectually dishonest propaganda.

"The parents and children of America have the right to a public school system where instruction is based upon truth.They have the right to oppose any and all school programs and activities where propaganda is substituted for the truth.

"Our people have the right to reject the experimentalism and unsound philosophies of the men who are followers of John Dewey. They have the right to instruct 'progressive' educators who are still carrying on dissertations and discussions, interpretations and reinterpretations, applications and reapplications of the obsolete and discredited Dewey School philosophy in training our children to become members of Communist fronts.

"The people have the absolute power and the sole right to control the public schools. To insure freedom, it is necessary for them to maintain that control at the local level.

"Educators do not have the right to dominate or control that system at any level.

"This is our Bill of Grievances. The following Constitutional Rights have been infringed: 1. The right to a nonpolitical public school system maintained and operated in a way that will secure freedom of conscience and prevent the introduction of all partisan, political, subversive and other intellectually dishonest propaganda. 2. The right to prevent the use of that system to support the programs of political action committees, political parties and other pressure groups. 3. The right to prevent abuse of the privilege of tax exemption on the part of individuals, trusts, foundations and other organizations engaged in contributing to the support of radical activities. 4. The right to have the schools accept and discharge their responsibility in educating our youth in the American tradition to equip them for the task of supporting and defending constitutional government in America.

THE RIGHT OF PETITION

This is a constitutional petition for Redress of Grievances. We are appealing to the Congress of the United States, and, through the Congress, we are making a direct appeal to the People themselves. Such a petition constitutes a solemn exercise of our right of self government. It is an historic remedy available at all times to resist oppression.

We invoke that jurisdiction now to support and defend Constitutional Government and provide for the National Security. The Congress, and the Congress alone, has power to afford relief in this emergency. We call for the exercise of all authority available under the circumstances.

Dated: April 19, 1949

AARON M. SARGENT

Attorney for Petitioner

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" A people may prefer a free government; but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it; if they will not fight for it when it is directly attacked; if they can be deluded by the artifices used to cheat them out of it; if, by momentary discouragement,temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet even of a great man, or trust him with powers which enable him to subvert their institutions--in all these cases they are more or less unfit for liberty; and though it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it."

John Stuart Mill

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The War on 1070

You didn’t really think “red” is dead or has gone away, did you?  Or did you think about it at all? The latter I suspect.  But this present war on the State of Arizona, and those who support the new law #1070, really ought to convince you otherwise.

I have long thought there is a central committee somewhere which thinks up slogans and puts them into play, not to mention thinking up campaigns and putting them into action, and this war which erupted with the passage of AZ’s #1070 should be proof enough for anyone capable of analyzing events.  

Think back.  This wave of similar statements to boycott AZ is not spontaneous, --- there are agent provocateurs who incite the hue and cry against Arizona – as was done in the O. J. Simpson case, the Rodney King case, and going back as far as the 1952 Republican Convention when the Madison Avenue slogan was put in motion, “Taft Can’t Win,” which was a falsification if ever there was one, so the “internationalists” put their candidate in place.  There have been many such slogans since, and this latest “Boycott” movement is just another rung on the ladder.

I have been observing and participating since 1951 in  these crusades which sweep through the country  continually, and am convinced that trends in politics and culture do not happen by accident, but are driven to some unseen design, by some unknown, unseen designers.  Once a particular position has been set in motion, the designer(s) can go on to a new project and let the ball they set in motion carry on. 

Patriots have won a skirmish or two but then the war breaks out again in another location over some other problem.  Patriots are not as well heeled, or well organized as their opponents, the known and the unknown—of which there are a great many in high places of power.  Patriots are always in defensive mode, not actually knowing who their enemy is or what new activity might start in a new direction.  There seems to be no end to this struggle between the forces of right and those of the wrong.

That’s why I am always reminded of the parable Jesus told his followers, recorded in Matthew 13, about the landlord whose fields were sown with wheat. When the grain came up, the servants found poisonous weeds amongst the wheat.  Alarmed,  they ran to tell the landlord an enemy had done this while they slept. 

Jesus explained the wheat field is the world, the poisonous weeds are the children of Satan, and trying to pull the weeds damages the wheat!

Satanic “Reds” are very skilled at creating problems to which they then can provide a  solution. 

• Is the world overpopulated?  They think so, and thus  promote abortion, euthanasia, and genocide.  To oppose these issues is like hitting a blank wall at 50 miles an hour.
• Do we cling to morality?  Sex education from kindergarten up will eventually take care of that along with x-rated movies and TV in living color, literature,  art, and use of depraved language will take care of some of that, while the social prognosticators will promote their sophisticated philosophies through the schools of “higher learning.”
• Remember the origins of the use of drugs by teen agers – not to mention immature adults, with the introduction of LSD and marijuana which is “harmless.” (like a hidden rattle snake!)
• Protect your family, yourself, your country? Not  allowed in the new polyglot world, so  promote gun control and unlimited immigration.
• Do they hate the Judeo-Christian concept of right and wrong based on the Ten Commandments?  Erase wherever memorialized,  wipe them from man’s memory, promote nihilism in public schools  from kindergarten on. Forbid home schooling, private Christian schools.  Replace with worshipping the world.
• Do they hate the United States’ prosperity  and blame it for the poverty of  “have not” nations? Yes, promote the redistribution of wealth through foreign aid, State Dept. AID program, the IMF, World Bank, UNRRA, and other give-aways. Create a state of bankruptcy for the United States.
• Create social upheaval  and unrest, chaos and confusion,  by dividing  race against race, females against males,  old against young, one religion against another, or no religion against the religious.  Whatever position will result in creating the greatest havoc is the position the secret enemies promote.  Every year Warriors for the left pour out of our universities and high schools by the hundreds, stimulated by those who are safely tenured on tax-supported salaries, protected by a more and more left Supreme Court.

But I digress.  All this was brought on by my observations of the boycotts being served up against Arizona in other cities and states by members of government who haven’t read the 10 pages and don’t intend to.  Their function is not to suppress illegal immigration but to support it, but not to make it look as if they do—a phrase which may have a familiar ring to it, since wasn’t it Lattimore who said to “dump the Nationalists Chinese, but not to make it look as if we are,” or words to that effect.   

Let us hope those in city/county/state governments  unrelated to Arizona who have joined in the so-called boycotts are replaced at the first opportunity since either they are also part of the state/nation enemies, or they are totally ignorant of the cost of this invading army of illegals and don’t care.  Or worst of all, they recognize and approve it as part of the international program of countries without borders as enumerated in U.N. documents which we have not signed, but which are being implemented one segment at a time, plus the planned merger of Canada, United States and Mexico in the North American Alliance which has been underway without publicity for some years already.  So why spend money to fortify the borders?  It isn’t part of the plan.

I just ran across a remark made by Chief Jack Harris of the Phoenix P.D., last July in an interview on a TV program, Newsmakers.  He said, “It is the obligation and duty of any city government to protect and defend the public, and enforce the laws, not to provide them with entertainment.  If there is a choice because of a short fall that choice should be obvious!…Dispute the clamp down on criminal statistics occasioned by aliens who commit a crime the moment they cross the border illegally—the statistics are carefully shielded from public view.”

I hope he is still in office. 

 

 

 

Should we send our brave, courageous young to fight tyranny in other lands while day by day it is growing like mushrooms in the dark of our own land?

Jefferson Strikes Again

Some years ago the so-called “new left” mounted a campaign to brainwash the uneducated masses of Americans that the Constitution established a doctrine of “separation of church and state,” which is nowhere found in the 1st Amendment.  Is there anyone in the country who hasn’t heard that was based on Jefferson’s remarks in a private letter, never intended to interpret the entire purpose of the 1st Amendment?  But does the ACLU change its tune?  It has totally convinced the uneducated this is a true statement. Their agenda, of course, is to make this a secular country, to remove all vestiges of Christianity from its shores and even to convince people that it never was a Christian country – about like England in its present state where wearing insignias of Christian beliefs has become a matter for controversy with government agencies taking the lead – almost like the days of Scrooby!

The real intent,  of course, of the First Amendment  was and is  to keep the State from establishing a State religion as functioned in the “Mother” Country at the time of the Revolution.  “A Walk Through History” has documented that to deviate from the King’s view of the Bible was to become an instant criminal and to earn a stretch in the pokey.  Some went to the stake to be burned alive.  That isn’t a fate I could contemplate easily.

Unhappily, so universal has been the acceptance of this untrue belief, it is brought out and waved  at the slightest excuse. Aye, there’s the rub:  trying to convince the uneducated masses that there is no such thing in their Constitution.  How would they know---they probably never read it but will cling tenaciously to that interpretation because that’s what they heard someone else say --or write.

The teaching in America’s public schools of  our government’s foundations went out the window years and years ago with the introduction of “social studies” creating the disappearance of the  teaching of civics, along with history of the motivations of the rebellion against the authoritarianism of the British King,  his laws, parliament and the state-supported church which precipitated the authorship of that unique document, the American Constitution which once was taught in grade school, including memorizing its Preamble. 

But no more.

Franklin Roosevelt grew angry when the Court struck down his socialistic programs and decided to “pack the court,” and sought a means to increase the number of “justices.”  He didn’t succeed at that.  If  he could have prolonged his life another half century, the Court has been swinging his way, definitely making decisions he would have liked.  During his reign, however,  columnist Westbrook Pegler commented on Roosevelt’s court:  “The present Supreme Court of the United States is a low-grade outfit, not only by comparison with some courts of the past, but on the records of its personnel.”

At the time Carl Brent Swisher, was professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins, and wrote in the Virginia Law Review that “the Supreme Court looks back on two decades of bizarre behavior.  It stands exposed as a power group, competing with other groups wielding political power in our society.

“That is why so many lawyers say confidentially they just can’t advise clients with any confidence on the law and the Constitution…..Many of the individual Justices have joined in debunking what Federal Circuit Court Judge Jerome Frank has called ‘the cult of the robe,’ to the end of revealing not only that the court is a power group but that individual justices are themselves competitors for power and the individual prestige of determining the course of legal rationalization.”

Pegler, describing Roosevelt’s “court packing” scheme said it was “consistent with the plan which Col. E. M. House set forth in his revolutionary prophecy, Philip Dru, Administrator, that I truly believe Roosevelt got it from House who was his adviser early in the New Deal.”

Another chance is coming up soon, about two weeks actually, to take the Court even further left with the appointment of Obama’s newest nominee,  Elena Kagan.  He must be secretly chortling, about putting his critics on the horns of a dilemma:  What is there they can criticize about her and not bring down the all the scorn and opprobrium of the left:   Her background is about as far from that of a Justice of the Supreme Court as you could possibly get, never having had judicial experience to begin with, not to mention her antagonism to the military because of their “don’t ask – don’t tell policy.”   Her anti-life, pro-abortion stance is not in keeping with the history of our country either—even though they are pillars of the left. Plus it seems she would prefer to interpret by means of international law, not the Constitution.

Jefferson made another comment which deserves far more widespread use than the aforementioned “separation'” and in this one, he said, “to consider the judges the ultimate arbiters  of all constitutional questions (is) a very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”

 This powerful nine-person elite  group more recently was described says one constitutional attorney, as performing “..in the American system of government a role similar to that by the Grand Council of Ayatollahs in the Iranian system: voting takes place and representatives of the people are elected as lawmakers, but the decisions they reach on basic issues of social policy are permitted to prevail only so long as they are not disallowed by the system’s highest authority. The major difference is that the ayatollahs act as a conservative force, while the effect of the Supreme Court’s interventions is almost always—….to challenge, reverse, and overthrow traditional American practices and values…..The salient characteristic of contemporary American society is a deep ideological divide along cultural and class lines, a higher degree of polarization on policy issues than at any time within memory. On one side of this ‘culture war’ is the majority of the American people, largely committed to traditional American values, practices, and institutions.  On the other side is what might be called the ‘knowledge’ or ‘verbal’ class or ‘cultural elite,’ consisting primarily of academics, most importantly at elite schools, and their progeny in the media, mainline churches, and generally, the verbal or literary occupations    …….they …often see it as part of their function to maintain an adversary relationship with their society, to challenge its values and assumptions. and to lead it to the acceptance of newer and presumably better values.”

So said Lino Graglia, who also has been a professor at the Virginia University School of Law, and one of several constitutional authorities who contributed to Judge Robert Bork’s recent publication, A Country I Do Not Recognize, The Legal Assault on American Values.

One legal beagle’s essay in Judge Bork’s collection said every decision since 1937 would have to be wiped out in order to get back to the Constitution.  Ha!  That has about as much chance of happening as the proverbial snowball in H….!

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

The Agenda

In the neighborhood of the ‘30’s a theoretician and organizer of the Randolph Center Communist Colony, which included a large number of well-known Communist personalities (Nathan Witt, Lee Pressman, John Abt, Marian Bachrach, to name a few), gave a Vermont resident “their” agenda for the future:

“The Communist revolution in America would not be accomplished by violence and fighting in the streets, directed by Red Russian Storm Troopers, but would be achieved gradually by schooling the most intelligent and aggressive young people in their philosophy and then pulling strings to get them placed in strategic positions in government—Administrators, Judges, Advisers to Cabinet Members and Legislative committees.  This was to be a change of pace revolution: the Constitution was not to be declared null and void or even to be replaced, but was to be kept more or less as it is, to make the people think nothing had changed.  The word ‘Communist’ was never to be used: just ‘Liberal and Progressive’. A terrific plan!”

That’s what we see all around us.  It was particularly obvious when “they” came out in the open  in the  Johnson days, with the Viet Nam protesters, all  stimulated by left-wing so-called “professors” who  previously were graduates of the same sources of “higher learning.”  Our good and decent young men, the cream of America’s future went to Asia, supposedly to fight Communism, and we had it right here at home in our halls of academe!  Not to mention the State Department and  other  agencies of government!

There was another aspect to this agenda which since those long ago days has also been followed to the letter to confound  a puzzled electorate who didn’t recognize or  know about this agenda for a different future than was ever envisioned by our Forefathers, but you may see it has been followed to the letter and with the nomination of Elena Kagan promises to put the frosting on the cake:

“Because of the relatively few amendments that have been added to the Constitution since 1789, the impression may be gained that the American governmental system has changed but little in 150 years.  But there are other methods of change and all have been active.  Like any other, a written constitution must be interpreted—a dynamic process in which the legislative and the executive branches as well as the courts are involved.  Indeed, interpretation is one of the principal means by which our so-called living Constitution has been repeatedly adjusted to the altered circumstances of the powers of government—and particularly the commerce, taxing, and police powers—have progressively opened up new areas of governmental activity in an attempt to keep pace with demands.   The courts have also invented the judicial theory of implied and resulting powers in order to free the federal government from the constitutional theory of fixed express powers.”

That quotation came from a law textbook from the same source, the Randolph Center, and it is still  in use and updated since those almost pre-historic days!  The text, Business and Government, was written by Marshal Dimock, member of the Vermont colony and appointee by Harry Truman to a judgeship in Vermont. 

Manuel Miller, a long time resident of Bethel, Vermont, where the Center was located, included this information in a brief prepared, and submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit on April 9, 1956, so you can see it is not a recent invention.

Miller rightly asked, “Who gave the courts the power to free the federal government from the restrictions of the Constitution?  Was this power derived from the consent of the governed? 

“No, the American people never have and never will knowingly give such power to any person or group regardless.”

Revolution was/is the goal:  dismantling the Constitution one decision at a time, the method.  

Roosevelt in his first administration inherited the  Supreme Court of his predecessors.  Irate over the failure of his socialist programs to pass  this Court’s scrutiny, he decided to enlarge the number of Court personnel. following concepts in  Philip Dru, Administrator,  written by Edward House, his mentor as far back as WWI, but even Roosevelt couldn’t get that through Congress, though many were Democrats – a different kind of Democrat then than the radicals presently controlling that Party and Congress.

The resultant furor caused some Judges,  tired of the whole affair, to  resign which gave him the chance to “pack” the court at least with ideological cronies,  so gradually the Court became the weapon and tool of the Socialist agenda.

With the end of Truman’s term it was clear the end of the long reign of the Democrats was in the works .  Straw polls made Taft/MacArthur the favorites and appeared to be shoe-ins.  

However, dirty politics raised its ugly head in the theft of the elected Texas delegation for the Republican Convention of 1952. 

Like most Americans I knew little about these things, having grown up with Roosevelt in office, but I was keen to have a change of administration  because I had just undergone nearly four long years in a socialist setting as a civilian on a Navy base. 

As a school child I was made a Democrat by the brainwashing of my grammar school teachers during the worst days of the “great depression.”  Those teachers separated me from my parents’ views which were decidedly different.  They had been cruelly victimized by employment conditions during those desperate days.  I was there.  I shared,  but did not comprehend the urgent desperation  of the struggle to put food on the table so I  never knew the anguish they must have endured. Today, I wonder how different it might have been had either parent been “born again,” and took The Lord into their problems.  Would it have been different for them?

“The war” rescued all of us.  Isn’t that dreadful? 

The cataclysmic destruction of  cities, property, farms, the rape of civilization in which millions of people were assaulted, maimed and murdered, or made wanderers with nothing but the rags on their backs became  the economic rescuer of most of the civilians of the United States. 

At war’s end and in its aftermath, in my early married days,  I was a civilian wife of a civilian scientist employed on a Navy base, in the middle of nowhere on the desert where all “political” conversation was verboten.  I  experienced living under a socialist regime and didn’t like it at all. 

A “hierarchy” ruled the base, making and  breaking the rules they handed us, whenever it was convenient or seemed necessary.   This was particularly true in relation to housing,  sometimes used as a bribe to lure a desirable potential employee with the right credentials.  We were bypassed for months even though we headed the housing list. 

Ever the rebel, I finally rebelled against  the heat, the everlasting wind, endless stretches of sand unbroken by greenery, the shimmering blue heat haze against distant mountains, the threat of sidewinders in the sandy “yard,” and the unfairness of the “rulers” against whom there was no recourse.  I took the children and fled to the “civilization” of Southern California and the so-called “dog eat dog” competition for after-the-war housing markets.  It was at least somewhat green, somewhat cooler, and one could make his own choices, not having to bend the knee or the neck to the dictates of a clique of higher beings!

Sick of the Democratic regime and convinced that Roosevelt/Truman represented the war party, I  converted to  Republicanism, and advocated a complete turnaround with Senator Taft and General MacArthur.  Sen. Taft made it clear he was not an internationalist.  He had written the ultimate purpose of American foreign policy “must be to protect the liberty of the people of the United States.”  It was time, I thought, if more Democrats meant more socialism, I had had all I wanted of that!

After reading a Republican piece of literature listing the U.S. had accepted 22 more steps to socialism than in notoriously socialist England, I registered Republican and volunteered as a precinct captain,  a career which was destined to be short-lived. I didn’t know it but that piece of literature was headed for the scrap barrel when Taft/MacArthur forces were to be undone  before the first ballot at the Convention yet to be.

People weren’t talking about the Republican Advance then, and certainly I didn’t know about it  until a newspaper in Tyler, TX told the story of the formation of this group designed to combat and overcome any further opposition to “socialism” by Republicans in the upcoming election.  According to the paper, this group of leading Republicans  was financed by the same radicals who financed what was known as the ADA, among the Democrats.

The new marvel of television brought me the chance to watch pre-convention shenanigans in Texas whereby  a group of transplanted Democrats charged the legally elected Republican delegation  with “stealing” the right to vote for the Taft-MacArthur slate at the convention soon to take place.  The more I watched, the more I was convinced the people hollering thief were the ones doing the stealing!

A political novice,  I had no knowledge or experience on which to draw to support my opinion that dirty work was going on.  More than fifty years later, long after it was published in 1964,  I read Phyllis Schlafly’s small book, “A Choice, Not an Echo,” in which she tells the story of that convention and verifies to me, my feelings were justified.  There would be no more literature against socialism.  At the time, however, I felt as if I had been kicked in the stomach and resigned from precinct work. 

All I can say was that when Eisenhower was nominated on the first ballot, I, a mere novice with no knowledge or experience, wept.  When people asked me what I thought of the Republican Convention, I replied, “I feel as if all the children of the world were condemned to a concentration camp.” 

I already knew about the 5 million people who fled the Soviets during the war, and in Operation Keelhaul under General Eisenhower, they had been cruelly returned to the Soviets where they were either sent to Gulags or committed suicide.  And I also remembered how Eisenhower had been assigned to the presidency of Columbia University where he announced there were no Communists in the face of a whole cadre of known Reds.  And I remembered too, when he took over NATO, and in his speech said, “Now I am only 1/12th an American.  No child is born American but is made one by his parents.”  That didn’t sit well with me.

So he was elected and early in his watch, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution occurred, and  we,  the bastion of freedom and “democracy,“  stood by and did nothing to help the brave unarmed people stand up to Soviet tanks and guns.

I didn’t know until again half-a-century later, I read a book, None Dare Call It Treason, in which that same year, 1956, a Democrat member of the House from Ohio, Michael Feighan, released the text of a State Department telegram to Tito, Soviet leader of Yugoslavia, saying: “The Government of the United States does not look with favor upon governments unfriendly to the Soviet Union on the borders of the Soviet Union.”

This was a well-kept secret from Americans who stood in silent wonder and sorrow while watching the destruction of the brave people of Hungary who went against their captors with bare hands, hopelessly looking for help that never came. 

In fact, between the time of Eisenhower’s election and his taking office, Paul Hoffman, ex-car salesman and now dispenser of millions in the Red-riddled UNRRA disposal of American tax dollars, Hoffman wrote an article in which he declared how Eisenhower was going to rid the Senate of those “obstructionists” who insisted on clinging to old fashioned shibboleths, Dirksen, Malone,  McCarthy, Jenner, Bricker, Bridges, and in essence declared war on those Senators who clung to old-fashioned virtues of patriotism and America First. 

That is, in fact, eventually just how it went although those good patriotic Senators gave the invisible and visible promoters of Eisenhower’s internationalism a run for their money!

First, of course, came appointments with Anna Rosenberg to the DOD, and Earl Warren to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.  Rosenberg made her first order the removal of all crosses on American national cemeteries, so when you see such with the heart wrenching hundreds of crosses you are looking at them in “Flanders fields,” –all overseas, not on American soil.

Then, of course, was the obvious political  payback to Warren with the appointment for which he was totally unqualified, but which had the effect of turning the country in the direction already spoken of so many years ago in the Communist-authored textbook about Courts. (I am indebted to John Stormer for this tally of the Supreme Court, way back then, 1964):

 “After Warren’s appointment to the Supreme Court, in the first eight cases involving communism in which he participated, he supported the communist position five times, the government’s case on three occasions.  After that, Warren supported the communist position in 62 cases without deviation.

“In the three year, 1956-58 period, the Supreme Court decided 52 cases involving communism and subversion in  government.  The decisions supported the communist position 41 times, the anti-communist position only 11 times.  Warren’s consistent pro-communist votes were the deciding factors in the many narrow 5 to 4 decisions……

“Under Warren’s leadership, the Court voided the longstanding sedition laws of 42 states.  Communists convicted under them were freed. The government was denied the right to fire federal employees who were proved to have contributed money and services to communist organizations.  Schools and colleges were denied the right to fire teachers who refused to answer questions about their communist activities……”

These decisions of the Supreme Court were highly criticized by the Bar Association and other similar agencies also involved with law and order.  A New York newspaper suggested impeachment of those Justices whose decisions consistently favored the communists.  J. Edgar Hoover, long-time foe of the Reds, told a Congressional Committee 49 top communists were freed because of the Supreme Court and quoted a top communist “who described the Court’s decision in the Smith Act case as the greatest victory the Communist Party had ever received.”

In a wrap-up of “Nine Men Against America,”  published decades ago, Rosalie Gordon said, “the Supreme Court has struck down practically every bulwark we have raised against the communist conspiracy in America.  In doing so, it has also continued to wipe out state lines and actually to leave the sovereign states helpless in the face of subversion….decisions ..have flowed from this revolutionary tribunal like manna for all those who would wreck our form of government…..Chief Justice Warren in 1956, wrote a decision taking away from the sovereign states the right to punish sedition within their borders….Justice Harlan wrote another decision…which makes it nearly impossible to prosecute conspirators against America until they actually physically start overthrowing the government….the Supreme Court has issued at least 15 decisions designed to put the meddling fingers of the federal politicians further into state affairs…the Chief Justice has aligned himself completely with the extremely leftist members of the Court.

“…..the Court capped a whole series of previous decisions establishing over the rank-and-file of American workers …the "’Labor Union Monopoly’

“In the light of this whole sorry record, we need not be surprised at the jubilation in communist circles over the Supreme Court of the United States.  In fact, the communists even held a rally in September, 1957, to, in the words of the communist Daily Workers, ‘pay honor to the U.S. Supreme Court and its recent decisions’ and to ‘hit out at attempts to undo the decisions.’”

Rosalie Gordon reminded her readers of a Virginia Resolution of 1798 written by Thomas Jefferson (and the left loves him so much, how could they complain about this) along with James Madison, on a doctrine of Interposition as follows:

“In case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact (the Constitution), the States who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them.”

“What this means,” explained Rosalie Gordon,”is that when the Executive, or the Court violates the Constitution by usurping powers which the Constitution forbids, the states themselves –three-fourths of whom form a power without which there would be no Constitution and no federal government—must interpose to “arrest the progress of evil” being committed by their own creature (the federal government), and force it to conform to the body of laws (the Constitution) which the states set up to govern its conduct.”

Clearly we should not be helpless in our present dilemma.

In 1996, Justice Antonin Scalia in a dissent, wrote:  “What secret knowledge, one must wonder, is breathed into lawyers when they become Justices of this Court, that enables them to discern that a practice which the text of the Constitution does not clearly proscribe, and which our people have regarded as constitutional for 200 years, is in fact unconstitutional?….Day by day, case by case, (the Supreme Court) is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.”

Judge Robert Bork whose nomination to the Court was the cause of uproar among the lefts, put together a group of essays, using Scalia’s designation, A Country I Do Not Recognize,” as its title.  Another jurist, Terry Eastland writes in there that “the Court has so deformed a real constitutional provision that it bears little discernible relation to anything the framers and ratifiers understood themselves to be saying.”

An attorney with the background of Kagan once accepted as a Justice, is apt to be on the Court for as many as forty years, taking the country even further from its origins, placing us in another of Jefferson’s apt predicaments:”to consider the judges the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions (is) a very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy."-----or even as another president (Lincoln) wrote “If the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court…..the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.” *

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*pg 7, A Country I Do Not Recognize, Hoover Institute Press, 2005, Edited by Robert Bork