Posted on 08/05/2009 1:23:50 PM PDT by cartan
For more than 50 years, a Marxist cancer has been aggressively metastasizing in the American body politic. Marxism is feudalism with a new name. The Marxist goal is to reduce Americans to the status of serfs. Unbeknownst to conservatives until it was too late, the Marxist Left infiltrated and took over large trusts and foundations so they could gain access to the huge amounts of money that they needed to accomplish their goals. Through a deviously masterful and long-term program of propaganda and infiltration they have risen to dominate/control film, commercial television, public radio, public television, newspapers/magazines, the Internet, and primary and secondary education. Like the sappers and miners of old, they have been using these organs of public influence to deliberately undermine, destabilize, and ultimately destroy the culture and institutions that hold this country together. Family, faith, education, government, the list goes on. So far, they have been largely successful.
Whatever you choose to call them, the Marxist Left, "Progressives", communists, socialists, etc. have brought this country to where it is today with the skillful use of one weapon of war: propaganda. You may or may not be able to describe each and every technique in detail but you know it when you see or hear it, it isn't hard to find, and it's really irritating. Unfortunately, it's also really effective. The Left uses propaganda because it works. This is a fact, not an opinion. That conservatives have utterly and miserably FAILED to counter that propaganda is also a fact. If conservatives do not acknowledge that failure and act instead of whine, they will be continue to do today's job with yesterday's ideas, and they will NOT be in business tomorrow.
The first step in solving a problem is admitting you have a problem. We are going to cover what they are and then propose potential solutions. If you agree, we want your comments, and maybe later, your help. On the other hand, if we don't hear from anybody, or conservative Americans think our partial solution is a stupid idea, or nobody cares, we'll sit back and watch the trainwreck from the stands but nobody is going to be able to say we didn't try.
Ok, here's what you will find here:
THE battlespace for the future of America is the major media. It defines politics and culture. Regardless of what happens in this or that election, the Right will continue to lose unless it wakes up from its state of denial and acts - NOW
The conservative/Republican Right has been a complete, miserable, and utter FAILURE when it comes to this battlespace.
The conservative/Republican alleged leadership is largely willfully ignorant, in denial, or would rather whine about these problems than do anything.
The Marxist Left is overwhelming us and winning on 7/8 public influence fronts. You probably have no idea idea how bad it is. We'll show you.
The Internet alone is NOT going to solve our problem and relying on the Internet as a primary source of influence is doomed to FAIL.
The first step in solving this abject FAILURE on our part runs counter to conservative instincts and we’re going to ask you to comment on it and/or help us with it
We CAN reclaim America. It won't happen overnight, but if we don't start now, when will we start?
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Damn. Link is blocked where I am.
Current Communist Goals:
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
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. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
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.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
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."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
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.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
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.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
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].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
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.
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 use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
This is essential reading. What little is in the excerpt tells me I want to come back and read the whole thing when I have more time.
Mark
The Main Street Media has turned into the Brown Shirt Media under Obama...it is sickening how badly they are in the tank for the man.
The goals of these America hating marxists was laid out back in the 1960’s when they were read into the Congressional Record back in 1963.
Khrushchev said that he would destroy us from within.
Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:
[From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
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. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
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.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
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.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
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.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
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.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
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].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
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.
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 use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
I would support a conservative network, since it looks like Fox is getting watered down (Shep, BOR, Heraldo, etc.). I bet their ratings would zoom, and advertisers would flood in to support them.
“The authors are proposing launching a new conservative broadcast network to counter the permanent communist onslaught, and asking readers to comment on whether they’d support a project like that.”
I have too many questions:
What is their definition of “conservative”? (Goes to who would even support their venture.)
How will they pay for it? (If their focus is too narrow, it’s hard to attract advertisers.)
What would their content be like? (There was a time when some of the most brilliant minds in conservative thought were found in the pages of a glossy magazine called the “National Review”. They never had much of a circulation, even less of a readership. How would the new CBN be any different?)
Some segments of the Right seem to believe not that the Establishment Foundations were taken over by the Marxists but that they have been the secret power behind Marxism from the very beginning.
The war of ideas is fought on three major fronts.
1. Schools and universities.
2. Entertainment media.
3. News media.
The enemy is in control of all three. Aside from some minor corners, we have none of them.
When your enemy educates your children and, lets be frank, you too, when your enemy tells you what is "cool" and what is "uncool", when your enemy tells you what is happening and gets to decide what didn't happen, and what is acceptable to discuss in public, and what is most assuredly not acceptable in public discourse...
And most of important when your enemy gets to decide what your history is and he gets to define you to you, your motives, your principles, your philosophy all get filtered through the pens and microphones of your enemy then your battle is lost from the beginning. If you have to borrow your enemy's microphone in order for your opinion to be heard, it isn't going to be heard. If you have to express your philosophy in terms chosen by your enemy and at a date and time allowed by your enemy then guess what, it isn't going to happen.
If you accept that your enemy controls the infrastructure of the information war and you do nothing about it, then your war is over. You're just a crank griping to other cranks over coffee.
I'm not just any kind of conservative.
I am of the peculiarly American branch of conservatism, which is to say, classic liberal rooted in a judeo-christian world view. John Locke, Edmund Burke, Von Mises, Hayek and the Bible would be my touchstones.
Thats where I'm coming from.
Fox news tries (and succeeds better than any other media outlet) to be "fair and balanced" and you see how they are dealt with. Maligned with slanders like "Faux News" or worse. How do you think the Brown Shirt Media would respond to a "conservative broadcasting network." Certainly don't let my opinion stop you but if you think the Brown SHirt Media will respond to such a threat by suddenly becoming responsible, objective journalists I want some of what you are smoking. p>
If you accept that your enemy controls the infrastructure of the information war and you do nothing about it, then your war is over.Exactly, that seems to be the point.
The article has excellent content, but wading through the wordiness to find it is frustrating.
Re: the video, I finally gave up after a lengthy wait for the video to load, and only being able to hear it in spurts of sentence segments.
That can be remedied.
I do like the idea, and I’m passing the link along to others. Hope they are willing to spend the time needed to get the gist of what is being proposed.
” The war of ideas is fought on three major fronts.
1. Schools and universities.
2. Entertainment media.
3. News media.
The enemy is in control of all three. Aside from some minor corners, we have none of them.
When your enemy educates your children and, lets be frank, you too, when your enemy tells you what is “cool” and what is “uncool”, when your enemy tells you what is happening and gets to decide what didn’t happen, and what is acceptable to discuss in public, and what is most assuredly not acceptable in public discourse...
And most of important when your enemy gets to decide what your history is and he gets to define you to you, your motives, your principles, your philosophy all get filtered through the pens and microphones of your enemy then your battle is lost from the beginning. If you have to borrow your enemy’s microphone in order for your opinion to be heard, it isn’t going to be heard. If you have to express your philosophy in terms chosen by your enemy and at a date and time allowed by your enemy then guess what, it isn’t going to happen.
If you accept that your enemy controls the infrastructure of the information war and you do nothing about it, then your war is over. You’re just a crank griping to other cranks over coffee. “
Post of the day ! Thanks !
I dont seem to understand your point, I suppose. You seem to be saying that since libtards are winning the public space with lies we need to create a vehicle that will also spew lies.Of course not. The objective is rather to create a medium where you can have serious and sensible content without having to put a communist announcer before and another communist commentator after it to bring the audience back on track towards socialism.
One comment by ML King I love and we never hear it from libtards even though he was their hero. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can. Hate cannot drive out hate only Love can."Well said. There is no need for darkness.
Fox news tries (and succeeds better than any other media outlet) to be "fair and balanced" and you see how they are dealt with. Maligned with slanders like "Faux News" or worse. How do you think the Brown Shirt Media would respond to a "conservative broadcasting network."I think the point is that it shouldn’t matter whether the leftist media like it or not. Right now, the liberal media can kill any idea they don’t like because of their hegemony over the airwaves. This needs to stop. You cannot turn them over, or somehow convince them to become “objective journalists” in the future. The only chance is to create an alternative that reaches so many people that you don’t have to worry about it anymore if some communist or other doesn’t like you.
Certainly don't let my opinion stop you but if you think the Brown SHirt Media will respond to such a threat by suddenly becoming responsible, objective journalists I want some of what you are smoking.Yes, even if they tried, they would never become “responsible, objective journalists.” If you are a liberal, then no matter how hard you try, your judgement will always be tainted by your preconceived opinions. You decide what’s sensible, what is not, and also what is interesting and what isn’t. It just doesn’t work as long as liberals are running the show.
2. The conservative/Republican Right has been a complete, miserable, and utter FAILURE when it comes to this battlespace.
3. The conservative/Republican alleged leadership is largely willfully ignorant, in denial, or would rather whine about these problems than do anything.
4. The Marxist Left is overwhelming us and winning on 7/8 public influence fronts. You probably have no idea idea how bad it is. We'll show you.
5. The Internet alone is NOT going to solve our problem and relying on the Internet as a primary source of influence is doomed to FAIL.
6. The first step in solving this abject FAILURE on our part runs counter to conservative instincts and we’re going to ask you to comment on it and/or help us with it
7. We CAN reclaim America. It won't happen overnight, but if we don't start now, when will we start?
I agree.
My post #12 was intended to amplify your point here. I absolutely agree with you.
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