Posted on 03/04/2009 5:50:48 PM PST by EternalVigilance
"It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force." The Federalist
"With words we govern men." Benjamin Disraeli
In practice, the substance of liberty is deliberate, voluntary choice. Constrained by the threat or use of force; manipulated by lies and misinformation; herded by contrived circumstances; choice is not voluntary, and those who make it are not free. Where free choice prevails, communication is the key to persuasion. Words (including in this term the language of music and graphic images) convey facts, ideas and feelings that sway and determine the will. For those who would be free, words matter.
Understanding this, the enemies of freedom do their best to limit or eliminate words that interfere with their design for despotism. They especially seek to stigmatize and discourage the use of words freighted with the sad and tragic history of tyranny and dictatorship. That's why the use of the word 'communist' to describe Barack Obama has aroused such furious diatribe and aspersion. Call him liberal. Call him socialist. Even call him a Marxist if you will. But communist is a dirty word, a cheap shot, just resentful name calling.
Of course, it wasn't a dirty word when Marx or Engels used it to describe their ideology, or when Lenin wielded it to rally his forces on behalf of the proletariat. Marx's ponderous writings are boring and not even half-true. The bulk of people who claim and act in his name have probably never read much beyond the "Communist Manifesto." But this makes Marxism a false name, not a bad one. It took the millions murdered or dead from famine in the assault on Russia's middle class farmers (the Kulaks); it took the millions slaughter and consigned to hellish gulags during Stalin's other purges; it took the millions mobbed, defenestrated, hacked to death in Mao's cultural revolution; it took the smoking ruins of the tens of thousands slain in Kampuchea's killing fields; and so on and on, to make communism a dirty word. It took the destruction of churches, the persecution of dissidents, the use of crushing military force against unarmed civilians seeking only the dignity of their human rights; to give communists a bad name.
Given this history, it's easy to understand why folks who are looking, waddling and quacking like communists would rather we called them messiahs. Sensible people want to avoid getting caught up in the grist mill of communist tyranny. The use of the term invites them to look at its history, and this means not only the grisly results, but the path to power that let some people inflict such horrors on others. Americans have an especially good reputation for not putting their fingers into light sockets, but it doesn't take that much shrewdness to recognize the telltale signs of an approaching hurricane before it overtakes you. Lincoln showed this disposition when he looked at the actions of the pro-slavery cabal before the last Civil War.
We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places and by different workmen -- Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James, for instance -- and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the tenons and mortices exactly fitting, and all the lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few -- not omitting even scaffolding -- or, if a single piece be lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared yet to bring such a piece in -- in such a case, we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck.
These days, the Obama faction's media claque derides anyone willing to imitate Lincoln's common sense as kooky, crazy, fringe, lunatic and an assortment of less cordial terms meant to scarecrow the weak minded.
But if we dare to see the obvious pattern in all of this, we're candidates for a soon to be government controlled mental hospital. Or so the Obama faction wants people to believe. Do you think they're right?
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Yes, it was. But ObaMao probably isn't, given the number of CPUSA campaign planks he's implemented ( http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/bingo_call_it_communism_1.html )...
Where was the media when he should have been vetted a year ago, at least?
They created the messiah cult around him.
“The MSM is trying to make Alan Keyes look like a kook, when if you brush aside the rhetoric, he’s right.”
You are dead on here but unfortunately, they’re not the only ones. The republican party had been trying to make him look like a kook for years. For the sole reason that he actually has the audacity to believe in the “Big Three” and uses them to attempt to hold their feet to the fire. God Bless him.
OBAMUNISM: ONE WHO ACTS WITH UNILATERAL DECISION MAKING AND UNWIELDING POWER, ALL UNDER THE GUISE OF PROVIDING WHAT IS BEST FOR THE COLLECTIVE MASSES.
OBAMUNIST: ONE WHO SUBSCRIBES TO OBAMUNISM, i.e. ( believes in transference of wealth,central planning, statism, etc..)
ping
Isn't Puff the magic 'half' negro?
LLS
The 48% of the electorate, not counting the 4% of ACORN fraud, that put Beloved Leader in the Presidency, could care less if the Anointed One is a communist. Labels mean nothing to the welfare classes, the illegals, the professors in ivory towers, the ideologically bankrupt, the greens and the elitists who want a Utopian state. For myriad reasons, this morally deficient group has not participated in the American dream, democracy or the social fabric of our republic.
When I talk to these naifs, explaining this encroachment of communism and its eventual shredding of any semblance of their present way of life, they ingenuously respond, “good - we deserve to rebuild this racist, fascist country.” They are unassailable in their stupidity and they vote.
Anyone have any ideas, that are workable, to fix this mess?
He is indeed... and thanks for the response!
LLS
All of his mentors (Ayres and Wright as examples) were socialist or communist radicals! And we are surprised that he wants to redistribute the wealth as he sees fit? That's what ideas he ran on and a whole bunch of fools who wanted change actually got it!
Good question. It's very frustrating.
I guess the answer is that, in practice, the FBI works for the government, not for the good of the country. And the FBI is supposed to stay out of politics. Obama's Communist connections are all public knowledge, or would be if people just looked at the available facts. Perhaps if the press had not covered up for him, he would not have been elected. As Alan Keyes points out, "Communist" is still a dirty word for most people, after having seen what Communism did to its millions of victims all through the past century.
But who's going to blow the whistle on the President of the United States? About all we can do at this point is just keep telling people, which Keyes is certainly doing.
"...when he looked at the actions of the pro-slavery cabal before the last Civil War."
Associations actually DO matter.
I remember spending time with my Dad and Grandfathers, learning to fish and hunt and the love for nature and GOD’s gifts... I remember Church on Sunday's and family gatherings afterwards... the daily reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance and the LORD’s Prayer.
I remember hearing the Beatles for the first time and gazing up at the moon while the first men... BOTH AMERICANS... walked on the moon... and I remember the solidarity of our Bicentennial... and a time when we honored past Presidents with more than one day... where you would have your ass kicked if you said one word against our Nation or GOD... where every boy wanted to be a US Marine and where cars and homes were left unlocked and secure.
I remember how America was.
I refuse to allow my youth to have been the peak of American Civilization! I will stand up for America and for every other Freedom loving person that has ever stood up for America and I will fight to see to it that our future generations have it BETTER than I had it... not to face a future of indentured servitude, due to some muzzie marxist street thug that scammed America with billions of dollars donated from anti American NWO types (soros etc) and now pillages our treasury.
I want Reagan's hopes and dreams for his America to come to fruition... for America and the World's future depends on it... for hussein’s way is the path to worldwide decay and anarchy. Rush made the path clear to us and the Conservative revolution has begun... and you are one of our commanders!
LLS
EV,
Est Veritas. Sumus publius sine espiritum Christum. Deus est laetitia, pax, et gratua.
LLS
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