So, 60 Years Later, How is those 45 Goals of Communism Shaping Up?

After all these years, I wanted to check on the status of the 45 goals of Communism that was presented as:

Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963

Where are we currently with those goals?

1. U.S. should accept coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. Work in Progress 2. U.S. should be willing to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. Biden? Done 3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the U.S. would be a demonstration of "moral strength." Work in Progress 4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. Done 5. Extend long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites. Done 6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. Done 7. Grant recognition of Red China and admission of Red China to the U.N. Done 8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the Germany question by free elections under supervision of the U.N. Done and undone 9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the U.S. has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress. Done 10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N. Done 11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. Done 12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. Done 13. Do away with loyalty oaths. Done 14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office. Done 15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S. Done 16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights. Done 17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks. Done 18. Gain control of all student newspapers. Done 19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations that are under Communist attack. Done 20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions. Done 21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures. Done 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings," substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms. Done 23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. " Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art." Done 24.Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. Done 25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV. Done 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy." Done 27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch." Done 28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state" Done 29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. Done 30. Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man." Done 31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. Done. 32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. Done 33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus. Done 34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Done 35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI. No reason. The Communists are in the FBI which is why they are getting a new building. 36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. Done 37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. Done and Woke 38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand or treat. Done 39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose communist goals. Done 40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. Done 41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. Done 42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special interest groups should rise up and make a "united force" to solve economic, political or social problems. Done 43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government. Hmmm 44. Internationalize the Panama Canal. Done 45. Repeal the Connally Reservation so the U.S. cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike. In Progress

1. U.S. should accept coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. Work in Progress

2. U.S. should be willing to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. Biden? Done

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the U.S. would be a demonstration of “moral strength.” Work in Progress

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. Done

5. Extend long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites. Done

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. Done

7. Grant recognition of Red China and admission of Red China to the U.N. Done

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the Germany question by free elections under supervision of the U.N. Done and undone

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the U.S. has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress. Done

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N. Done

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

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. Done

13. Do away with loyalty oaths. Done

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office. Done

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S. Done

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

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks. Done

18. Gain control of all student newspapers. Done

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations that are under Communist attack. Done

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions. Done

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures. Done

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings,” substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms. Done

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “ Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.” Done

24.Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press. Done

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV. Done

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural and healthy.” Done

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

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

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. Done

30. Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.” Done

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of “the big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. Done.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. Done

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus. Done

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Done

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI. No reason. The Communists are in the FBI which is why they are getting a new building.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. Done

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. Done and Woke

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand or treat. Done

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose communist goals. Done

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. Done

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. Done

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special interest groups should rise up and make a “united force” to solve economic, political or social problems. Done

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government. Hmmm

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal. Done

45. Repeal the Connally Reservation so the U.S. cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike. In Progress

Just as damning: if you have never read it, read this speech by the execrable Walter Cronkite. These sentiments are nothing new. People like him (and there are a lot of roaches like him that have been burrowing into our institutions for decades. Think of Cronkite and Ted Kennedy cruising around Massachusetts Bay in their sailboats...do you think they were talking about the variety of avian life at their bird feeders? Reading this, you can understand exactly what he and people like Ted Kennedy would talk about when their aren't any listening ears:

WALTER CRONKITE PROMOTES DEMOCRATIC FEDERAL WORLD GOVERNMENT
Received W.F.A.'s Norman Cousins Global Governance Award on 19 October 1999

I am greatly honored to receive this award for two reasons: first, I believe as Norman Cousins did that the first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world; second, I feel sentimental about this award because half a century ago Norman offered me a job as spokesman and Washington lobbyist for the World Federalist organization, which was then in its infancy. I chose instead to continue in the world of journalism. For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience. Now, however, my circumstances are different. I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do. Those of us who are living today can influence the future of civilization. We can influence whether our planet will drift into chaos and violence, or whether through a monumental educational and political effort we will achieve a world of peace under a system of law where individual violators of that law are brought to justice.

For most of this fairly long life I have been an optimist harboring a belief that as our globe shrank, as our communication miracles brought us closer together, we would begin to appreciate the commonality of our universal desire to live in peace and that we would do something to satisfy that yearning of all peoples. Today I find it harder to cling to that hope. For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized"? And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another. While we spend much of our time and a great deal of our treasure in preparing for war, we see no comparable effort to establish a lasting peace. Meanwhile, emphasizing the sloth in this regard, those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those "impractical dreamers" are entitled to ask their critics, "what is so practical about war?"

It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order. But the American colonies did it once and brought forth one of the most nearly perfect unions the world has ever seen. The circumstances were vastly different, obviously. Yet just because the task appears forbiddingly hard, we should not shirk it. We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic U.N. federation.

Let's focus on a few specifics of what the leadership of the World Federalist movement believe must be done now to advance the rule of world law. For starters, we can draw on the wisdom of the Framers of the U.S. Constitution of 1787. The differences among the American states then were as bitter as differences among nation-states in the world today. In their almost miraculous insight, the Founders of our country invented 'federalism,' a concept that is rooted in the rights of the individual. Our federal system guarantees a maximum of freedom but provides it in a framework of law and justice. Our forefathers believed that the closer the laws are to the people, the better. Cities legislate on local matters; states make decisions on matters within their borders; and the national government deals with issues that transcend the states, such as interstate commerce and foreign relations. That is federalism. Today we must develop federal structures on a global level. We need a system of enforceable world law --a democratic federal world government-- to deal with world problems. What Alexander Hamilton wrote about the need for law among the 13 states applies today to the approximately 200 sovereignties in our global village: "To look for a continuation of harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages." Today the notion of unlimited national sovereignty means international anarchy. We must replace the anarchic law of force with a civilized force of law.

Ours will neither be a perfect world, nor a world without disagreement and occasional violence. But it will be a world where the vast majority of national leaders will consistently abide by the rule of world law, and those who won't will be dealt with effectively and with due process by the structures of that same world law. We will never have a city without crime, but we would never want to live in a city that had no system of law to deal with criminals.

Let me make three suggestions for immediate action that would move us in a direction firmly in the American tradition of law and democracy.

Keep our promises: We helped create the U.N. and to develop the U.N. assessment formula. Americans overwhelmingly want us to pay our U.N. dues, with no crippling limitations. We owe it to the world. In fact, we owe it as well to our national self-esteem.  
Ratify the Treaty to Ban Land Mines, the Law of the Sea Treaty, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Most important, we should sign and ratify the Treaty for a permanent International Criminal Court. That Court will enable the world to hold individuals accountable for crimes against humanity.
 
Consider, after 55 years, the possibility of a more representative and democratic system of decision making at the U.N. This should include both revision of the veto in the Security Council and adoption of a weighted voting system for the General Assembly. The World Federalists have endorsed Richard Hudson's Binding Triad proposal. George Soros, in "The Crisis of Global Capitalism," has given serious attention to this concept which would be based upon not only one-nation-one-vote but also on population and contributions to the U.N. budget. Resolutions adopted by majorities in each of these areas would be binding, enforceable law. Within the powers given to it in the Charter, the U.N. could then deal with matters of reliable financing, a standing U.N. peace force, development, the environment and human rights.

Some of you may ask why the Senate is not ratifying these important treaties and why the Congress is not paying our U.N. dues. As with the American rejection of the League of Nations, our failure to live up to our obligations to the U.N. is led by a few willful senators who choose to pursue their narrow, selfish political objectives at the cost of our nation's conscience. They pander to and are supported by the Christian Coalition and the rest of the religious right wing. Their leader, Pat Robertson, has written that we should have a world government but only when the messiah arrives. Attempts for world order before that time are the work of the Devil! This small but well-organized group has intimidated both the Republican Party and the Clinton administration. It has attacked presidents since F.D.R. for supporting the U.N. Robertson explains that these presidents are the unwitting agents of Lucifer.

The only way we who believe in the vision of a democratic world federal government can effectively overcome this reactionary movement is to organize a strong educational counteroffensive stretching from the most publicly visible people in all fields to the humblest individuals in every community. That is the vision and program of the World Federalist Association. The strength of the World Federalist program would serve an important auxiliary purpose at this particular point in our history. There would be immediate diplomatic advantages if the world knew that this country was even beginning to explore the prospect of strengthening the U.N. We would appear before the peoples of the world as the champion of peace for all by the equitable sharing of power. This in sharp contrast to the growing concern that we intend to use our current dominant military power to enforce a sort of pax Americana.

Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia. Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers. As Carl Van Doren has written, "History is now choosing the founders of the World Federation. Any person who can be among that number and fails to do so has lost the noblest opportunity of a lifetime."

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