"They know not what they do" the words of Jesus the Christ from the cross.
Or do they?
First Christ said: "Forgive them, Father (God)!
Do the PONS/ACTIVISTS actually know which subversive leaders are putting them up to it?
Blind? Stupid? Are the not so blind leading the truly blind? That's probably the question we should be asking first, and the second question--who are the not so blind???
Subversive forces in this country are hell-bent on destroying what God (and our forefathers) helped to create with much blood, sweat and tears, over many years...(1776-2018)--242 years.
We shouldn't let them get away with it. "Them" are the cruel leaders of the blind and ignorant (wet behind the ears) individuals who have never learned their history (thanks to their public school "educations" nor do they even care. Anything before the Beatles is totally irrelevant to them.
"They" are ignorant like sheep led to the slaughter, young people, ages 16-25, who have NO IN-vested interest in our country...just what their subversive leaders are counting on...people who are young, excitable, and with NO sound foundation of history or any kind of patriotism. Most of them have no clue about our real history--and they don't care to learn! Many are just the drop-outs of life, the ones who have tuned out and dropped out--the impressionable and the gullible--who seem to think they are all brilliant! However, ignorance is what the purveyors of subversion are depending on to enable them to carry out their subversive and covert activities. And it's happening now--right before our eyes. Democrats (and some Republicans) are desperate and are taking desperate measures..i.e. Desperados!
With the influx of illegal immigrants, the intent is to destroy our culture by FLOODING our country with many NON-Christian attitudes and UN-controlled individuals who have NO intent to assimilate into our culture, or learn our language, which is for legal immigrants imperative.
This Movement is not just a fun game for the power brokers behind the insurrection in the streets. They are in it for keeps. For them the USA is something to be torn down!!!
The Socialist/Marxist/Communist Movement did NOT just happen by accident; it has been ongoing since before our UN"Civil War". Control of our educational system has been THE MAJOR PART of our problem since then.
By NOT re-enforcing REAL history in the public schools, the National Education Association is intentionally allowing Negligence to exist.
Ask yourself why so few of our young people (from the age of 10 and clear through 50) know any real history. Not even attorneys, most Congressmen...Senators and Representatives. Those who are supposed to represent our interests DON'T.
Fortunately Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Joe Pags and other people in the alternate media do. They know what's going on out here--all the stuff the mainstream media thinks we are better off not knowing about. So we are informed. But, we (the vast majority of us) are allowing this charade to continue. People are being hurt in so many ways because NO leader (but Trump) is stepping up and Stopping the Out of control Left. Leaders, where are you???
Political commentary by Sam Schwartz
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018
"Okay, we will pry them from your cold dead hands"
by Al Benson Jr.
Member, Board of Directors, Confederate Society of America
Needless to say, there are still lots of questions yet unresolved about the recent school shooting in Florida. It still smacks of a false flag operation and when you see how events have turned out since it happened, you have to wonder if the whole thing was a well-orchestrated false flag,everywhere from the emergence of a small dedicated cadre of Leftist gun control freaks that are students, to the promotion of events like this recent "March for our lives" that went down last Saturday. Through all the continuing Left-wing hype you should be able to discern on thing--these people want to totally negate the Second Amendment and confiscate your guns. They can deny it all they want (and they don't do a very good job at that) but that's what this is really all about--total gun confiscation.
If you are naive enough to have difficulty believing that then you need to look at some of the signs that were displayed by some of the marchers last Saturday--signs like "Ban all guns" or "I wish Obama HAD taken all your guns" or "Yes, in fact, I am here to take your guns."
An article on www.Infowars.com for March 26th noted that: "The gathering of around 200,000 people in Washington DC was reported as a 'call for tighter gun laws,' but going by what was written on the placards of those attending, it was about the elimination of the right to bear arms entirely." That's an accurate observation. That's exactly what this whole fuss os all about. The Infowars article also noted: "One of the current student speakers at the march also let slip the wider gun confiscation agenda when she said during a speech "When they give us that inch, that bump stock ban, we will take a mile."
In another Infowars article it was noted that: "George Soros funded March for our Lives rally is an attempt for foreign actors to take control and steer our public education narrative toward total gun confiscation." You are supposed to think that the vast majority of public school students, all but about a dozen "deplorables" in this country want Dad to turn over his hunting rifles and target pistols to the Feds immediatelly--if not sooner. I can't speak for other parts of the country, but if you happen to live in the South or the West--excluding parts of Florida and California--you realize that this is hogwash of the highest grade. You should have observed in all this, that you almost never get to hear a peep out of any student who is not 100% in favor of gun control/confiscation. Normal kids, it seems, have been excluded from this debate. You are not supposed to be aware of them and you are not supposed to be bright enough to ask "Where are all the kids that are not in favor of gun control? Why have we not heard from them also?"
Almost the only one you hear anything from is this David Hogg, as though, somehow, he has been appointed as "youth spokesman" on gun control for all the kids in America. And let's face it, he does speak for someone, but it is hardly the youth of America, no matter how many of them can be bused in for marches and demonstrations. What you really need to start doing is looking for who pays for all these demonstrations and who pays for ferrying all these anti-gun youths around the country so they can propagandize us all on gun control/confiscation. It takes people with big bucks to do that stuff.
Alex Newman on https://www.thenewamerican.com for March 26th noted: "One of the Astro Turf leaders paraded all over America's TV screens was David Hogg, whose father is a former official with the FBI and whose mother is a far-left activist." Hogg is talking about "starting a revolution." And undoubtedly those that write his scripts have that in mind.
The site https://www.dailywire.com on March 24th had a picture of Hogg and the article along with the pic labeled him as a "Far-left activist..." If you can pick up this site take a good look at the picture. It portrays a grim-looking David Hogg with his hand up in the air, giving the typical Communist clenched fist salute. That's to let all those "in the know" on the political and theological Left know that Comrade Hogg is "one of the boys" and anytime you can be useful in pushing whatever agenda this youthful "useful idiot" has been scripted with, you need to do it.
Alex Newman's above mentioned article on the New American goes into some of those who are funding this latest leftist gun control/confiscation push. In conjunction with all this, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have, just this past Monday introduced a piece of legislation that they call the Ammunition Background Check Act of 2018. This little goody would require a background check on everyone anywhere that wanted to buy ammunition. So, if you want to buy a couple boxes of 22 shorts to do a little plinking with on Saturday afternoon you would have to undergo a background check to be able to do that.
These youthful anti-gun comrades who promote gun control/confiscation are openly talking about threatening our elected representatives if they fail to enact gun control bills. One little thing here--most of these kids are not old enough to vote yet, but most of us are.
Maybe we better start contacting our congress people and letting them know we are watching what they do with this gun control madness--and what they decide to do will probably have a major bearing on how we vote in the next election they have to run in. If enough of us will take the trouble to do that, I think they will understand where we are coming from. Youthful Leftist activists should not be the only ones our elected representatives hear from!
Member, Board of Directors, Confederate Society of America
Needless to say, there are still lots of questions yet unresolved about the recent school shooting in Florida. It still smacks of a false flag operation and when you see how events have turned out since it happened, you have to wonder if the whole thing was a well-orchestrated false flag,everywhere from the emergence of a small dedicated cadre of Leftist gun control freaks that are students, to the promotion of events like this recent "March for our lives" that went down last Saturday. Through all the continuing Left-wing hype you should be able to discern on thing--these people want to totally negate the Second Amendment and confiscate your guns. They can deny it all they want (and they don't do a very good job at that) but that's what this is really all about--total gun confiscation.
If you are naive enough to have difficulty believing that then you need to look at some of the signs that were displayed by some of the marchers last Saturday--signs like "Ban all guns" or "I wish Obama HAD taken all your guns" or "Yes, in fact, I am here to take your guns."
An article on www.Infowars.com for March 26th noted that: "The gathering of around 200,000 people in Washington DC was reported as a 'call for tighter gun laws,' but going by what was written on the placards of those attending, it was about the elimination of the right to bear arms entirely." That's an accurate observation. That's exactly what this whole fuss os all about. The Infowars article also noted: "One of the current student speakers at the march also let slip the wider gun confiscation agenda when she said during a speech "When they give us that inch, that bump stock ban, we will take a mile."
In another Infowars article it was noted that: "George Soros funded March for our Lives rally is an attempt for foreign actors to take control and steer our public education narrative toward total gun confiscation." You are supposed to think that the vast majority of public school students, all but about a dozen "deplorables" in this country want Dad to turn over his hunting rifles and target pistols to the Feds immediatelly--if not sooner. I can't speak for other parts of the country, but if you happen to live in the South or the West--excluding parts of Florida and California--you realize that this is hogwash of the highest grade. You should have observed in all this, that you almost never get to hear a peep out of any student who is not 100% in favor of gun control/confiscation. Normal kids, it seems, have been excluded from this debate. You are not supposed to be aware of them and you are not supposed to be bright enough to ask "Where are all the kids that are not in favor of gun control? Why have we not heard from them also?"
Almost the only one you hear anything from is this David Hogg, as though, somehow, he has been appointed as "youth spokesman" on gun control for all the kids in America. And let's face it, he does speak for someone, but it is hardly the youth of America, no matter how many of them can be bused in for marches and demonstrations. What you really need to start doing is looking for who pays for all these demonstrations and who pays for ferrying all these anti-gun youths around the country so they can propagandize us all on gun control/confiscation. It takes people with big bucks to do that stuff.
Alex Newman on https://www.thenewamerican.com for March 26th noted: "One of the Astro Turf leaders paraded all over America's TV screens was David Hogg, whose father is a former official with the FBI and whose mother is a far-left activist." Hogg is talking about "starting a revolution." And undoubtedly those that write his scripts have that in mind.
The site https://www.dailywire.com on March 24th had a picture of Hogg and the article along with the pic labeled him as a "Far-left activist..." If you can pick up this site take a good look at the picture. It portrays a grim-looking David Hogg with his hand up in the air, giving the typical Communist clenched fist salute. That's to let all those "in the know" on the political and theological Left know that Comrade Hogg is "one of the boys" and anytime you can be useful in pushing whatever agenda this youthful "useful idiot" has been scripted with, you need to do it.
Alex Newman's above mentioned article on the New American goes into some of those who are funding this latest leftist gun control/confiscation push. In conjunction with all this, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have, just this past Monday introduced a piece of legislation that they call the Ammunition Background Check Act of 2018. This little goody would require a background check on everyone anywhere that wanted to buy ammunition. So, if you want to buy a couple boxes of 22 shorts to do a little plinking with on Saturday afternoon you would have to undergo a background check to be able to do that.
These youthful anti-gun comrades who promote gun control/confiscation are openly talking about threatening our elected representatives if they fail to enact gun control bills. One little thing here--most of these kids are not old enough to vote yet, but most of us are.
Maybe we better start contacting our congress people and letting them know we are watching what they do with this gun control madness--and what they decide to do will probably have a major bearing on how we vote in the next election they have to run in. If enough of us will take the trouble to do that, I think they will understand where we are coming from. Youthful Leftist activists should not be the only ones our elected representatives hear from!
Monday, March 27, 2017
Hillary and the Russian Uranium Deal--this question will not be answered!
by Al Benson Jr.
The Deep State, the Democrats, some Republicans, George Soros and the entire political and religious Left continues unabated with their brazen attempt to remove Donald Trump from the presidency. And, as good cultural Marxists, they will do it any way they have to--no matter how crooked or underhanded. Also, as true cultural Marxists, they are busily accusing their opposition of doing the exact same things they have been doing. But this is par for the course--standard operating procedure for them.
The House Intelligence Committee has been focusing on Mr. Trump's supposed involvement with Russia and the Democrats even want the committee chairman, Mr. Nunes to recuse himself from any part in that because he visited the White House. In their opinion this is enough to render him unfit to chair the committee. One wonders why Loretta Lynch, recent head of the "Just Us" Department wasn't asked to recuse herself after she met with Slick Willie at the airport in Phoenix during the brouhaha over Hillary's emails. But you have to realize, that was "different."
Mr. Trump is finally beginning to publicly ask the questions he should have been asking right at the beginning. I don't know why he has waited so long, but, for whatever reason, it was too long!
Today he said: Why isn't the House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill and Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian speech money to Bill, the Hillary Russian 'resets, praise of Russia by Hillary, or Podesta Russian company...?
These are all important questions and all should be addressed--but none ever will! No investigative body in Washington will ever bother with these questions. What the President needs to do is to keep asking them over and over and over, just like the fake scumbag "news" media does while continuing to harp on Trump's fake Russian scenario. It appears that there is nothing there, but that doesn't keep the minions of the Deep State from continuing to regurgitate their nonentities. Repeat something long enough and people believe it even if it is totally false. Trump needs to keep asking the questions, get others to ask the questions, and fill the alternative media with these questions--and then keep asking why he isn't getting any answers--over and over and over again. To some extent he has got to use their tactics against them.
And they are good questions--Why hasn't anyone bothered to talk about Hillary's deal that gave Russia 20% of our Uranium? Inquiring minds would really like to know, so the question needs to be asked again and again until we can at least get some political hack in Washington to lie to us about it. At that point his lie can be discussed, debated, and called out for what it really is.
The Deep State will never, ever, answer this question if they can avoid it--so we need to keep asking it until they get sick of hearing it--and then ask it some more!
For a longer version of this article please check out the latest on
http://revisedhistory.wordpress.com
The Deep State, the Democrats, some Republicans, George Soros and the entire political and religious Left continues unabated with their brazen attempt to remove Donald Trump from the presidency. And, as good cultural Marxists, they will do it any way they have to--no matter how crooked or underhanded. Also, as true cultural Marxists, they are busily accusing their opposition of doing the exact same things they have been doing. But this is par for the course--standard operating procedure for them.
The House Intelligence Committee has been focusing on Mr. Trump's supposed involvement with Russia and the Democrats even want the committee chairman, Mr. Nunes to recuse himself from any part in that because he visited the White House. In their opinion this is enough to render him unfit to chair the committee. One wonders why Loretta Lynch, recent head of the "Just Us" Department wasn't asked to recuse herself after she met with Slick Willie at the airport in Phoenix during the brouhaha over Hillary's emails. But you have to realize, that was "different."
Mr. Trump is finally beginning to publicly ask the questions he should have been asking right at the beginning. I don't know why he has waited so long, but, for whatever reason, it was too long!
Today he said: Why isn't the House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill and Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian speech money to Bill, the Hillary Russian 'resets, praise of Russia by Hillary, or Podesta Russian company...?
These are all important questions and all should be addressed--but none ever will! No investigative body in Washington will ever bother with these questions. What the President needs to do is to keep asking them over and over and over, just like the fake scumbag "news" media does while continuing to harp on Trump's fake Russian scenario. It appears that there is nothing there, but that doesn't keep the minions of the Deep State from continuing to regurgitate their nonentities. Repeat something long enough and people believe it even if it is totally false. Trump needs to keep asking the questions, get others to ask the questions, and fill the alternative media with these questions--and then keep asking why he isn't getting any answers--over and over and over again. To some extent he has got to use their tactics against them.
And they are good questions--Why hasn't anyone bothered to talk about Hillary's deal that gave Russia 20% of our Uranium? Inquiring minds would really like to know, so the question needs to be asked again and again until we can at least get some political hack in Washington to lie to us about it. At that point his lie can be discussed, debated, and called out for what it really is.
The Deep State will never, ever, answer this question if they can avoid it--so we need to keep asking it until they get sick of hearing it--and then ask it some more!
For a longer version of this article please check out the latest on
http://revisedhistory.wordpress.com
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Justice at Last--or Yet Another Federal Distraction From WikiLeaks?
by Al Benson Jr.
According to http://constitution.com the FBI has found "Tens of Thousands of new emails" and the Department of Defense has found at least 1K more. All this plus rumors of revolt over this issue in the FBI itself has caused that august agency to reopen the case with Hillary's emails that the director prematurely closed down last July, asserting that he saw nothing there they could prosecute Hillary for. He may not have looked too hard, especially in light of Slick Willy's "visit" to Loretta Lynch previous to that at the airport in Phoenix so they could talk about their grandchildren. We can only assume Slick Willy's visit to her on the tarmac was to ensure that she didn't press Mr. Comey to look real hard, but now he seems to be getting flack from the folks in his own organization that don't like some of what they see. There may be a handful of honest folks in there yet.
Even http://www.bloomberg.com was forced to comment on this when it noted, on October 28th that: "The FBI is reopening its inquiry into Hillary Clinton's use of private e-mail while secretary of state, after investigators unearthed new e-mails through a separate probe of Clinton aide Huma Abedin's estranged husband, former Representative Anthony Weiner...The bureau is investigating illicit messages Weinter allegedly sent to a 15-year old girl in North Carolina,an inquiry that gave it access to devices used by Weiner and Abedin, according to the New York Times." Of course Hillary has pretended to want the FBI to clear this all up quickly and let the American people know what is going on. Sounds good, but the American people are absolutely the LAST people she wants to be aware of what really goes on. Especially this close to election day!
I think Info Wars, http://www.inforwars.com has got it pretty well figured out as to what really goes on here. In a brief article on their website on October 30th they noted the following: "The FBI has reopened their investigation into Hillary Clinton after discovering new information on the electronic devices of Anthony Weiner. Could this be the end of Hillary's campaign or is it a distraction to draw attention away from more serious crimes and corruption within our government? On Monday thousands of new emails from Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta were published by WikiLeaks. Within that new data dump was smoking gun proof that the White House was colluding with Hillary to cover up the fact that Obama had lied to Congress and the American people when he said he'd learned about the email scandal from the news..."
So Info Wars is wondering if this new rabbit trail to Weiner's computer is a diversion away from the material WikiLeaks has brought out. And while the stuff on Weiner's computer is probably worth checking out, this should not be done to the exclusion of the material WikiLeaks continues to bring out. Those that are able to check out the WikiLeaks material should not get off that target and baited and switched over to only what's on Weiner's computer.
If Hillary's campaign is to be sunk it will come from what WikiLeaks puts out there, not from what's on Weiner's computer for the most part. So those that can check this stuff out should not let their priorities be changed.
According to http://constitution.com the FBI has found "Tens of Thousands of new emails" and the Department of Defense has found at least 1K more. All this plus rumors of revolt over this issue in the FBI itself has caused that august agency to reopen the case with Hillary's emails that the director prematurely closed down last July, asserting that he saw nothing there they could prosecute Hillary for. He may not have looked too hard, especially in light of Slick Willy's "visit" to Loretta Lynch previous to that at the airport in Phoenix so they could talk about their grandchildren. We can only assume Slick Willy's visit to her on the tarmac was to ensure that she didn't press Mr. Comey to look real hard, but now he seems to be getting flack from the folks in his own organization that don't like some of what they see. There may be a handful of honest folks in there yet.
Even http://www.bloomberg.com was forced to comment on this when it noted, on October 28th that: "The FBI is reopening its inquiry into Hillary Clinton's use of private e-mail while secretary of state, after investigators unearthed new e-mails through a separate probe of Clinton aide Huma Abedin's estranged husband, former Representative Anthony Weiner...The bureau is investigating illicit messages Weinter allegedly sent to a 15-year old girl in North Carolina,an inquiry that gave it access to devices used by Weiner and Abedin, according to the New York Times." Of course Hillary has pretended to want the FBI to clear this all up quickly and let the American people know what is going on. Sounds good, but the American people are absolutely the LAST people she wants to be aware of what really goes on. Especially this close to election day!
I think Info Wars, http://www.inforwars.com has got it pretty well figured out as to what really goes on here. In a brief article on their website on October 30th they noted the following: "The FBI has reopened their investigation into Hillary Clinton after discovering new information on the electronic devices of Anthony Weiner. Could this be the end of Hillary's campaign or is it a distraction to draw attention away from more serious crimes and corruption within our government? On Monday thousands of new emails from Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta were published by WikiLeaks. Within that new data dump was smoking gun proof that the White House was colluding with Hillary to cover up the fact that Obama had lied to Congress and the American people when he said he'd learned about the email scandal from the news..."
So Info Wars is wondering if this new rabbit trail to Weiner's computer is a diversion away from the material WikiLeaks has brought out. And while the stuff on Weiner's computer is probably worth checking out, this should not be done to the exclusion of the material WikiLeaks continues to bring out. Those that are able to check out the WikiLeaks material should not get off that target and baited and switched over to only what's on Weiner's computer.
If Hillary's campaign is to be sunk it will come from what WikiLeaks puts out there, not from what's on Weiner's computer for the most part. So those that can check this stuff out should not let their priorities be changed.
Saturday, August 06, 2016
Evolution and Spiritualism--Darwin and Wallace
by Al Benson Jr.
I can remember, years back now, hearing a preacher in West Virginia talk about evolution. He was, as they say "agin it" and he gave some pretty fair country reasons for his position. One thing he said that I never forgot was that the theory of evolution absolves man from any accountability to God for his actions. If man is nothing more than a highly "evolved" animal then he is accountable to no one for his actions, no matter how good or evil they may be. He is just doing what "comes naturally" since he has no creator. If that's the case, you have to wonder why so many people get mad over what Hitler and Stalin did. If they are responsible to no one and to no God then how can anyone condemn their actions? The Illuminist forebears of the perpetrators of the French Revolution were absolutely shocked at the thought that they might, somehow, be responsible for their actions.The very thought was anathema to them.
So you can see that, among those that do not care to be judged for their deeds, that the theory (and it is only a theory) of evolution would have a particular appeal.
You always hear about "Darwin's theory of evolution" but the "history" books, if such they can even be called anymore don't say much about Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, who might well be called Darwin's alter ego.
According to an article on http://evolution.berkeley.edu Darwin and Wallace worked together on a theory they had both come up with independently. Darwin started working on his "natural selection" theory in the 1830s and kept at it for about twenty years, during which time he "corresponded briefly" with Wallace. At a certain point, Wallace decided to ask Darwin's help to publish his own ideas about evolution, so he sent Darwin a copy of his theory in 1858, which, "to Darwin's shock, nearly replicated Darwin's own." This is about where most histories stop. There is, however, a little more information about Dr. Wallace we should all be aware of--and maybe that's why it's usually left out.
According to the informative book To The Victor Go The Myths And Monuments by Arthur R. Thompson, Spiritualism played a part in all this. Mr. Thompson notes, on page 203, that: "Spiritualism began in the U.S. and spread to Britain among the Owenites. One of England's most prominent spiritualists was Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace. He was the co-originator with Darwin on the natural selection theory of evolution. Wallace was also involved in socialist theory and activism. His youthful education that started him on this path included reading the works of Robert Owen and Thomas Paine. In other words, there was a socialist influence on the development of the theory of Darwin, and it was tied to spiritualism."
Ann Braude in Radical Spirits, on page 158, confirms Wallace's ties to spiritualism when she writes: "In 1876, Alfred Russel Wallace's defense of Spiritualism from the chair of the Anthropological Section of the British Association made it an issue in the transatlantic scientific community."
Mr. Thompson, in his book, made another interesting observation on page 262 where he said: "Since all Marxists profess a belief in Darwin, it is strange that people do not see through the rhetoric advocating justice for all races embodied in communist organizations' propaganda. How can Marxists advocate equality when they believe in a Darwinian system that says that all men are not equal? It becomes obvious that Marxist leaders are lying about what they stand for in order to enlist the gullible, bleeding-heart activist."
Now I am no expert on all the in's and out's of evolution. Some folks I know have probably forgotten more about it than I will ever know, but just looking at this background would make the whole proposition a little dicey for me. As a Christian I can't buy evolution because it leaves God and our responsibility to Him out. The church my wife and I attend doesn't believe it either. I realize that, among the "scientific" community that makes us anachronisms or Neanderthals or whatever. Well, that's tough. I've been called worse and I expect to be again--just don't call me late for supper!
When you add all this together--the spiritualist and socialist influence, then this becomes the shakiest of propositions. Anything with spiritualist and socialist connections does not bode well for Christians or for the Church and when you look at the fact that some form of Darwin's theory is, basically, the only theory allowed to be discussed in government schools you have to realize that the fact they are not willing to debate or discuss anything else means that this theory is the accepted socialist dogma they plan to teach your kids. That thought, alone would make me, if I still had school age children, want to secede from the public school system. So think about all of this--and more importantly, pray about it.
I can remember, years back now, hearing a preacher in West Virginia talk about evolution. He was, as they say "agin it" and he gave some pretty fair country reasons for his position. One thing he said that I never forgot was that the theory of evolution absolves man from any accountability to God for his actions. If man is nothing more than a highly "evolved" animal then he is accountable to no one for his actions, no matter how good or evil they may be. He is just doing what "comes naturally" since he has no creator. If that's the case, you have to wonder why so many people get mad over what Hitler and Stalin did. If they are responsible to no one and to no God then how can anyone condemn their actions? The Illuminist forebears of the perpetrators of the French Revolution were absolutely shocked at the thought that they might, somehow, be responsible for their actions.The very thought was anathema to them.
So you can see that, among those that do not care to be judged for their deeds, that the theory (and it is only a theory) of evolution would have a particular appeal.
You always hear about "Darwin's theory of evolution" but the "history" books, if such they can even be called anymore don't say much about Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, who might well be called Darwin's alter ego.
According to an article on http://evolution.berkeley.edu Darwin and Wallace worked together on a theory they had both come up with independently. Darwin started working on his "natural selection" theory in the 1830s and kept at it for about twenty years, during which time he "corresponded briefly" with Wallace. At a certain point, Wallace decided to ask Darwin's help to publish his own ideas about evolution, so he sent Darwin a copy of his theory in 1858, which, "to Darwin's shock, nearly replicated Darwin's own." This is about where most histories stop. There is, however, a little more information about Dr. Wallace we should all be aware of--and maybe that's why it's usually left out.
According to the informative book To The Victor Go The Myths And Monuments by Arthur R. Thompson, Spiritualism played a part in all this. Mr. Thompson notes, on page 203, that: "Spiritualism began in the U.S. and spread to Britain among the Owenites. One of England's most prominent spiritualists was Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace. He was the co-originator with Darwin on the natural selection theory of evolution. Wallace was also involved in socialist theory and activism. His youthful education that started him on this path included reading the works of Robert Owen and Thomas Paine. In other words, there was a socialist influence on the development of the theory of Darwin, and it was tied to spiritualism."
Ann Braude in Radical Spirits, on page 158, confirms Wallace's ties to spiritualism when she writes: "In 1876, Alfred Russel Wallace's defense of Spiritualism from the chair of the Anthropological Section of the British Association made it an issue in the transatlantic scientific community."
Mr. Thompson, in his book, made another interesting observation on page 262 where he said: "Since all Marxists profess a belief in Darwin, it is strange that people do not see through the rhetoric advocating justice for all races embodied in communist organizations' propaganda. How can Marxists advocate equality when they believe in a Darwinian system that says that all men are not equal? It becomes obvious that Marxist leaders are lying about what they stand for in order to enlist the gullible, bleeding-heart activist."
Now I am no expert on all the in's and out's of evolution. Some folks I know have probably forgotten more about it than I will ever know, but just looking at this background would make the whole proposition a little dicey for me. As a Christian I can't buy evolution because it leaves God and our responsibility to Him out. The church my wife and I attend doesn't believe it either. I realize that, among the "scientific" community that makes us anachronisms or Neanderthals or whatever. Well, that's tough. I've been called worse and I expect to be again--just don't call me late for supper!
When you add all this together--the spiritualist and socialist influence, then this becomes the shakiest of propositions. Anything with spiritualist and socialist connections does not bode well for Christians or for the Church and when you look at the fact that some form of Darwin's theory is, basically, the only theory allowed to be discussed in government schools you have to realize that the fact they are not willing to debate or discuss anything else means that this theory is the accepted socialist dogma they plan to teach your kids. That thought, alone would make me, if I still had school age children, want to secede from the public school system. So think about all of this--and more importantly, pray about it.
Saturday, June 04, 2016
When It Comes To Global Warming We Don't Need No Stinkin' First Amendment
by Al Benson Jr.
I expect there may be a "climate change" advocate or two that will not like what I have to say here. In my honest opinion the entire "global warming" scenario is fraudulent. Thank heavens I don't live in California after having just said that--i might be liable to imprisonment for that statement. I have dared to question the theology of the global warming faith. Oh horrors! While I am far from an expert on the subject, I have read enough over the past few years from reputable scientists that have the same doubts that I have about the theology of global warming. To paraphrase--There is one god, the state, and the global warming scientists are his prophets.
What makes me have even graver doubts is that this is not a subject open to debate by its adherents. They are almost unanimous in their desire to stifle all dissent and when I see someone trying to silence all debate on any given subject my first inclination is to doubt their position because, if they were honest, they would not fear healthy debate. The fact that the climate change crowd wants to silence any and all dissent from their dogmatic views leads me to believe that their position will not stand up to any real scrutiny and that is the reason they seek to silence their opposition. The adherents of global warming (climate change) want no voices out there on this subject but theirs, which fact, by itself, shows that their position is not legitimate.
And in the state of California they are taking legislative steps to insure that no position but theirs is heard--even to the violation of the First Amendment. But then, as long as they get to promote their agenda, who cares is someone else's First Amendment rights to publicly and openly disagree are abrogated?
According to an article on http://www.patdollard.com "The first-of-its-kind legislation--Senate Bill 1161, or the California Climate Science Truth and Accountability Act of 2016--is scheduled for floor action Thursday after clearing Senate committees in April and May. The measure would allow state and local prosecutors to pursue claims against climate-change skepticism as a violation of the states Unfair Competition Law...While the measure enjoys broad support by a bevy of environmental groups, the bill has also been described as an effort to ban free speech on climate change as well as chill donations to free-market groups. Stephen Frank, editor of the conservative California Political Review, called the bill a 'totalitarian statement by Democrats that the First Amendment is now dead'."
So, in California, if you support any group in favor of using all forms of energy, including oil, or even if you have written a letter to the editor of your local paper favoring drilling for oil, you may well have broken this potential new law and the CCP (Climate Change Patrol) will be out to nail your hide to the wall. That would violate your First Amendment rights, you say? Do you honestly think that the people that run Washington (the ones behind your elected officials--the "shadow government" really give a rip about your rights? Disabuse yourself of that fantasy right now. We are currently living in Soviet Amerika where your "rights" are what the feds say they are, until they change their minds, which could happen momentarily. So what is okay today could land you in the slammer tomorrow. If they pull this off in California you can bet the farm it will be tried in other places too.
Never forget, we now have a president whose avowed (although he's not real "transparent" about it) agenda is the destruction of the Second Amendment. If he can manage to gut that, or even if he can't and Hillary has to finish the job when she ascends the royal throne, how will you protect any rights you have? Lose the right to defend yourselves and your families and all the other rights listed in the Bill of Rights become little more than words on a piece of old parchment and you can light your cigar with the Bill of Rights, (if you are even allowed to smoke anymore) because, after all cigar smoke might contribute to global warming.
People had better start turning off those reality shows and start keeping an eye on what their state legislators are doing because, and let's don't kid ourselves here, lots of our legislators would sell out our rights in a New York minute for a mess of socialist pottage. So wake up and learn to be vigilant. The liberties you preserve may be your childrens'.
I expect there may be a "climate change" advocate or two that will not like what I have to say here. In my honest opinion the entire "global warming" scenario is fraudulent. Thank heavens I don't live in California after having just said that--i might be liable to imprisonment for that statement. I have dared to question the theology of the global warming faith. Oh horrors! While I am far from an expert on the subject, I have read enough over the past few years from reputable scientists that have the same doubts that I have about the theology of global warming. To paraphrase--There is one god, the state, and the global warming scientists are his prophets.
What makes me have even graver doubts is that this is not a subject open to debate by its adherents. They are almost unanimous in their desire to stifle all dissent and when I see someone trying to silence all debate on any given subject my first inclination is to doubt their position because, if they were honest, they would not fear healthy debate. The fact that the climate change crowd wants to silence any and all dissent from their dogmatic views leads me to believe that their position will not stand up to any real scrutiny and that is the reason they seek to silence their opposition. The adherents of global warming (climate change) want no voices out there on this subject but theirs, which fact, by itself, shows that their position is not legitimate.
And in the state of California they are taking legislative steps to insure that no position but theirs is heard--even to the violation of the First Amendment. But then, as long as they get to promote their agenda, who cares is someone else's First Amendment rights to publicly and openly disagree are abrogated?
According to an article on http://www.patdollard.com "The first-of-its-kind legislation--Senate Bill 1161, or the California Climate Science Truth and Accountability Act of 2016--is scheduled for floor action Thursday after clearing Senate committees in April and May. The measure would allow state and local prosecutors to pursue claims against climate-change skepticism as a violation of the states Unfair Competition Law...While the measure enjoys broad support by a bevy of environmental groups, the bill has also been described as an effort to ban free speech on climate change as well as chill donations to free-market groups. Stephen Frank, editor of the conservative California Political Review, called the bill a 'totalitarian statement by Democrats that the First Amendment is now dead'."
So, in California, if you support any group in favor of using all forms of energy, including oil, or even if you have written a letter to the editor of your local paper favoring drilling for oil, you may well have broken this potential new law and the CCP (Climate Change Patrol) will be out to nail your hide to the wall. That would violate your First Amendment rights, you say? Do you honestly think that the people that run Washington (the ones behind your elected officials--the "shadow government" really give a rip about your rights? Disabuse yourself of that fantasy right now. We are currently living in Soviet Amerika where your "rights" are what the feds say they are, until they change their minds, which could happen momentarily. So what is okay today could land you in the slammer tomorrow. If they pull this off in California you can bet the farm it will be tried in other places too.
Never forget, we now have a president whose avowed (although he's not real "transparent" about it) agenda is the destruction of the Second Amendment. If he can manage to gut that, or even if he can't and Hillary has to finish the job when she ascends the royal throne, how will you protect any rights you have? Lose the right to defend yourselves and your families and all the other rights listed in the Bill of Rights become little more than words on a piece of old parchment and you can light your cigar with the Bill of Rights, (if you are even allowed to smoke anymore) because, after all cigar smoke might contribute to global warming.
People had better start turning off those reality shows and start keeping an eye on what their state legislators are doing because, and let's don't kid ourselves here, lots of our legislators would sell out our rights in a New York minute for a mess of socialist pottage. So wake up and learn to be vigilant. The liberties you preserve may be your childrens'.
Tuesday, May 03, 2016
Taking a Picture of a Confederate Flag Gets You Suspended From Your Public School For Two Days
by Al Benson Jr.
One of the major places where our next generation is being conditioned to accept the premises of cultural Marxism is the public school campus--and this holds true especially in the South.
An article I read just recently on http://freedomoutpost.com noted that the Ridgeview Middle School, which is part of the Round Rock Independent School District (that's in Texas, folks) has suspended seven students for what they feel is a horrendous crime, almost too terrible to mention. They took pictures of a Confederate flag, some of them selfies--at school no less. Folks, this has to be the crime of the century! Why every public school administrator in the state of Texas should go into immediate shock at the commission of a criminal act of such gigantic proportions. How dare they! This is simply beyond the pale. These students have just gone too far. Should prison sentences be meted out???
Andrew Birdwell, father of one of the students was slightly ticked off. He said the school had no right to suspend his son for two days and that he and his son deserve an apology from the school. But Mr. Birdwell, you just don't understand! You son had his picture taken with a CONFEDERATE FLAG! Do you understand the magnitude of such a crime? Obviously not or you wouldn't be asking for a well-deserved apology. And by the way, don't hold your breath waiting for one!
The school district released a statement, according to the Freedom Outpost article, that said there "were a series of incidents at school involving a group of students posing with a Confederate flag and speaking 'hateful language.' The district would not comment any further..." It's probably a good thing for them they didn't. Turns out that school officials had to admit that Birdwell's son didn't say anything hateful. He and the other students were currently learning "whatever version of Civil War history that school decides to teach its students." I thought that was an astute observation by Freedom Outpost. Seems that they might recognize that "whatever version of Civil War history" is being taught may not be altogether accurate.
The Freedom Outpost article duly noted Mr. Birdwell's reaction. He said "I called up there yesterday asking for a copy of the disciplinary action and (the principal's) was to me that the boys were holding up a Confederate flag and that is a sign of slavery." Really? Who taught the principal that? Did he learn it in teachers' college? Who says it's a sign of slavery--Al Sharpton, Je$$e Jackson, the kids' "history" textbook? Who? The article concluded with this thought: "What do you think these kids will learn from this event?" Interesting question. What will they learn? What will the other kids in their class learn? What will they all learn from their school principal?
They'll learn that Confederate flags can get you in trouble, so you are best to avoid them, no matter what they are all about. That's the cultural Marxist "history" lesson that's being taught here.
And what lesson should Anthony Birdwell learn from this "experience?" He should learn that there is no freedom of thought or expression at public schools and that if his son shows any streak of independence of thought in coming years he will always be in trouble for thinking outside of the cultural Marxist box. Such is not permitted, and those that do will pay the price. Act or think differently from the rest of the sheeple and you will pay the price. I speak from experience.
Cultural Marxism, as practiced in public schools limits your field of thought and endeavor to those areas pre-approved by the cultural Marxist worldview. If you slip those traces you will have problems. He should also learn that, since this is the case, his son would be much better off in a private educational setting where state approved attitudes are not the only thing tolerated and where students can ask honest questions and get honest answers rather than politically correct dogma such as "the Confederate flag is a flag of slavery." No one who has done any real history homework honestly believes that, but if you repeat a lie often enough most folks who won't bother doing the homework will just unthinkingly grab onto it and rattle it off as gospel truth, which it ain't! Doing the homework should be encouraged. This is why Christian and home schooling efforts should be promoted.
If you really want to learn the truth about Confederate history you won't get it in public school, unless you happen to be one of the fortunate few to run across a dedicated history teacher who has been there so long that he has tenure and they can't get rid of him so they have to leave him alone. But you can bet the farm that after he's gone no more real history will be taught there and the person that replaces him will be into "social studies" rather than history.
We in the South (and other places as well) must begin to learn that our history and heritage will not be preserved for the next generation by sending our kids to public schools. That is a lesson for all of us. Let us pray God that enough will learn it to make a difference.
One of the major places where our next generation is being conditioned to accept the premises of cultural Marxism is the public school campus--and this holds true especially in the South.
An article I read just recently on http://freedomoutpost.com noted that the Ridgeview Middle School, which is part of the Round Rock Independent School District (that's in Texas, folks) has suspended seven students for what they feel is a horrendous crime, almost too terrible to mention. They took pictures of a Confederate flag, some of them selfies--at school no less. Folks, this has to be the crime of the century! Why every public school administrator in the state of Texas should go into immediate shock at the commission of a criminal act of such gigantic proportions. How dare they! This is simply beyond the pale. These students have just gone too far. Should prison sentences be meted out???
Andrew Birdwell, father of one of the students was slightly ticked off. He said the school had no right to suspend his son for two days and that he and his son deserve an apology from the school. But Mr. Birdwell, you just don't understand! You son had his picture taken with a CONFEDERATE FLAG! Do you understand the magnitude of such a crime? Obviously not or you wouldn't be asking for a well-deserved apology. And by the way, don't hold your breath waiting for one!
The school district released a statement, according to the Freedom Outpost article, that said there "were a series of incidents at school involving a group of students posing with a Confederate flag and speaking 'hateful language.' The district would not comment any further..." It's probably a good thing for them they didn't. Turns out that school officials had to admit that Birdwell's son didn't say anything hateful. He and the other students were currently learning "whatever version of Civil War history that school decides to teach its students." I thought that was an astute observation by Freedom Outpost. Seems that they might recognize that "whatever version of Civil War history" is being taught may not be altogether accurate.
The Freedom Outpost article duly noted Mr. Birdwell's reaction. He said "I called up there yesterday asking for a copy of the disciplinary action and (the principal's) was to me that the boys were holding up a Confederate flag and that is a sign of slavery." Really? Who taught the principal that? Did he learn it in teachers' college? Who says it's a sign of slavery--Al Sharpton, Je$$e Jackson, the kids' "history" textbook? Who? The article concluded with this thought: "What do you think these kids will learn from this event?" Interesting question. What will they learn? What will the other kids in their class learn? What will they all learn from their school principal?
They'll learn that Confederate flags can get you in trouble, so you are best to avoid them, no matter what they are all about. That's the cultural Marxist "history" lesson that's being taught here.
And what lesson should Anthony Birdwell learn from this "experience?" He should learn that there is no freedom of thought or expression at public schools and that if his son shows any streak of independence of thought in coming years he will always be in trouble for thinking outside of the cultural Marxist box. Such is not permitted, and those that do will pay the price. Act or think differently from the rest of the sheeple and you will pay the price. I speak from experience.
Cultural Marxism, as practiced in public schools limits your field of thought and endeavor to those areas pre-approved by the cultural Marxist worldview. If you slip those traces you will have problems. He should also learn that, since this is the case, his son would be much better off in a private educational setting where state approved attitudes are not the only thing tolerated and where students can ask honest questions and get honest answers rather than politically correct dogma such as "the Confederate flag is a flag of slavery." No one who has done any real history homework honestly believes that, but if you repeat a lie often enough most folks who won't bother doing the homework will just unthinkingly grab onto it and rattle it off as gospel truth, which it ain't! Doing the homework should be encouraged. This is why Christian and home schooling efforts should be promoted.
If you really want to learn the truth about Confederate history you won't get it in public school, unless you happen to be one of the fortunate few to run across a dedicated history teacher who has been there so long that he has tenure and they can't get rid of him so they have to leave him alone. But you can bet the farm that after he's gone no more real history will be taught there and the person that replaces him will be into "social studies" rather than history.
We in the South (and other places as well) must begin to learn that our history and heritage will not be preserved for the next generation by sending our kids to public schools. That is a lesson for all of us. Let us pray God that enough will learn it to make a difference.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
For Real "Freedom" Let Government Regulate the Internet
by Al Benson Jr.
Now that the Republicans have taken the Senate it almost seems as if Comrade Obama is in overdrive, trying to accomplish as much of his socialist agenda as possible before the end of the year. And even though many in the Republican-controlled Congress will always be soft of socialism and collectivism he can't be sure enough will be so that his socialist schemes, which he characterizes as "legislation" will always be veto-proof.
That's why he is in such a huff to issue executive orders making millions of illegal immigrants legal before Comrade Reid vacates the senate. As leftist as some of the Republicans are, there are some things they are just not going to do for him so he's got to get them done before the Republicans take over.
There was an article on www.foxnews.com on November 10th which stated: "We are stunned the president would abandon the longstanding, bi-partisan policy of lightly regulating the Internet and calling for extreme" regulation, said Michael Powell, president and CEO of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, the primary lobbying arm of the cable industry." The head Commissar, I mean the President, wanted federal regulators to have the Internet reclassified as a public utility under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act.
Supposedly this is all about cable companies and all the rest, but let's don't kid ourselves. This is really all about federal censorship of Internet content. Although they will never admit it, that's the real name of the game. People can go to the Internet and access far more information than the government fells they should have, information that often aids them in deciding what's really going on in Washington--and the feds would rather they not have that information. Intelligent decisions are not something the feds are in favor of when it comes to us "stupid voters." They want us to be dumb and easily led sheeple so they can tell us what we should be doing and we are too dumb to question any of it. Real "freedom" isn't the name of the game, censorship is.
Voters should have learned by now that when this administration tells you anything then you had better start considering that the exact opposite of what they told you comes pretty close to the truth. Remember all those Obamaesque fables about how "transparent" his administration would be? There wasn't much transparency in the "Fast and Furious" gunrunning situation or in the situation with the IRS "lost" emails was there? This administration has told us so little truth you could almost post it on the head of a pin, a very small pin.
And we haven't been told much of anything about Holder's "replacement" at Attorney General--something else Obama wants to get taken care of before the first of the year. Just more "transparency" folks, don't even think about it. However, there was an interesting little article on www.stage2omega.com written by Dr. Orly Taitz on November 9th. Dr. Taitz stated: "...so I am rather certain that Loretta Lynch is an old college friend of Sharon Malone, the wife of the current AG Eric Holder. Why is this connection important? Holder will be investigated by Congress for totally lawless gun trafficking to Mexican drug cartels in Fast and Furious, IRS scandal, VA scandal, DOJ, NSA, EPA, FEC and other scandals. Most importantly, Holder covered up Obama's use of a stolen CT Social Security number of Harrison J. Bounel 042-68-4425 and Obama's use of bogus IDs. It seems that a long time friend of Holder's wife was picked up as a gate keeper to continue all the cover up by Holder and shield Holder and Obama from criminal prosecution."
If Dr. Taitz has all this down pat, then we have to ask "How's all the "transparency" working out for you?
We also have to ask that if Obama claims he needs more government regulation so the Internet can be more "free" then what's the real name of the game? You can bet the farm it ain't "freedom." You can also bet the farm that whatever justification he claims, it won't be long before the Internet is much less free and our access to information that will help us know what really goes on will be as severely restricted as this regime can make it. Real truth is the absolute last thing this regime wants the public to have access to.
Now that the Republicans have taken the Senate it almost seems as if Comrade Obama is in overdrive, trying to accomplish as much of his socialist agenda as possible before the end of the year. And even though many in the Republican-controlled Congress will always be soft of socialism and collectivism he can't be sure enough will be so that his socialist schemes, which he characterizes as "legislation" will always be veto-proof.
That's why he is in such a huff to issue executive orders making millions of illegal immigrants legal before Comrade Reid vacates the senate. As leftist as some of the Republicans are, there are some things they are just not going to do for him so he's got to get them done before the Republicans take over.
There was an article on www.foxnews.com on November 10th which stated: "We are stunned the president would abandon the longstanding, bi-partisan policy of lightly regulating the Internet and calling for extreme" regulation, said Michael Powell, president and CEO of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, the primary lobbying arm of the cable industry." The head Commissar, I mean the President, wanted federal regulators to have the Internet reclassified as a public utility under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act.
Supposedly this is all about cable companies and all the rest, but let's don't kid ourselves. This is really all about federal censorship of Internet content. Although they will never admit it, that's the real name of the game. People can go to the Internet and access far more information than the government fells they should have, information that often aids them in deciding what's really going on in Washington--and the feds would rather they not have that information. Intelligent decisions are not something the feds are in favor of when it comes to us "stupid voters." They want us to be dumb and easily led sheeple so they can tell us what we should be doing and we are too dumb to question any of it. Real "freedom" isn't the name of the game, censorship is.
Voters should have learned by now that when this administration tells you anything then you had better start considering that the exact opposite of what they told you comes pretty close to the truth. Remember all those Obamaesque fables about how "transparent" his administration would be? There wasn't much transparency in the "Fast and Furious" gunrunning situation or in the situation with the IRS "lost" emails was there? This administration has told us so little truth you could almost post it on the head of a pin, a very small pin.
And we haven't been told much of anything about Holder's "replacement" at Attorney General--something else Obama wants to get taken care of before the first of the year. Just more "transparency" folks, don't even think about it. However, there was an interesting little article on www.stage2omega.com written by Dr. Orly Taitz on November 9th. Dr. Taitz stated: "...so I am rather certain that Loretta Lynch is an old college friend of Sharon Malone, the wife of the current AG Eric Holder. Why is this connection important? Holder will be investigated by Congress for totally lawless gun trafficking to Mexican drug cartels in Fast and Furious, IRS scandal, VA scandal, DOJ, NSA, EPA, FEC and other scandals. Most importantly, Holder covered up Obama's use of a stolen CT Social Security number of Harrison J. Bounel 042-68-4425 and Obama's use of bogus IDs. It seems that a long time friend of Holder's wife was picked up as a gate keeper to continue all the cover up by Holder and shield Holder and Obama from criminal prosecution."
If Dr. Taitz has all this down pat, then we have to ask "How's all the "transparency" working out for you?
We also have to ask that if Obama claims he needs more government regulation so the Internet can be more "free" then what's the real name of the game? You can bet the farm it ain't "freedom." You can also bet the farm that whatever justification he claims, it won't be long before the Internet is much less free and our access to information that will help us know what really goes on will be as severely restricted as this regime can make it. Real truth is the absolute last thing this regime wants the public to have access to.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
The United States is the "Main Enemy"
by Al Benson Jr.
Recently, I came across a batch of old books about Soviet Communism and its war on America, both in this country and around the world.
I am not one of those naive people who believes that "communism is dead, that it died when the Berlin Wall came down." In our day that's what our own government would have us to believe, in fact our own government may be among the biggest allies the communists have, especially with the present Marxist administration that is in power.
I just finished reading an informative book called The Secret World written by Peter Deriabin, a Soviet defector to this country back in 1954. In 1953 he had been stationed in Vienna, Austria, where he was the Chief of Soviet Counterintelligence and the Communist Party boss for the Austro-German section. He ended up testifying before both the Senate and the House Un-American Activities Committee back in 1959. He wrote and co-authored several books about his life as a secret policeman in the Soviet Union. Mr. Deriabin's book that I read can still be found on Amazon.com It went though three printings, the one I read from 1959, one in 1982 and another in 1987 and the full text can be found online.
Deriabin offered clear analysis in several areas. On page 29 he observed: "The Communist rulers, furthermore, steeped in the Marxist 'working-class' theory of Revolution, distrusted and despised the Russian farmer both as a class and individually and saw him as an enemy of their state. Collectivization appeared to offer a solution by turning the independent farmer into an agricultural 'worker.' He would, then, it was hoped, develop a true 'working-class' psychology and a necessary loyalty to the regime, because he would be so dependent on it." A true principle of Marxism/Leninism--do away with private property and make sure it all belongs to the "state." That way everyone is dependent on the State for his bread one way or another.
Another theory that had real currency among the Communists was the "guilty until proven innocent" theory. Deriabin noted: "To the Chekist (secret police) inefficiency is the same as criminality, and criminality, by definition, is not an individual's deviation, but automatically a political crime against the state. To a mind trained in this pattern a faulty conveyer belt is sabotage unless conclusively proved otherwise. A fire in a factory suggests the existence of smouldering 'anti-Sovietism' among the workers...Gossip is enough to start a complicated investigation. No specific crime or utterance need be alleged...The question of guilt or innocence has long since been rendered academic." It seems to me that, more and more, we are operating on that theory in this country. With the IRS, if they find a "problem" they don't have to prove your guilt, you have to prove your innocence.
I just read an article on the Internet about the federal government trying to decide whether to use a drone to kill a US citizen in Pakistan because he is a "suspected" terrorist. No concern about trying to determine whether he is really guilty or not, just concern over whether they should take him out because he is "suspected" of terrorism.
Deriabin noted the difference in the standard of living between ordinary Soviet citizens and the ruling elite there. The Marxist concept of a classless society looks great on paper and in theory, but in reality it doesn't work that way in real life in any Communist country. Under Marxism the rich (ruling elite) get richer and the poor get even poorer so they can contribute to the comfort which the ruling elite think they are entitled to live in. In this country we now have a (Marxist) "health care" system which all citizens are expected to participate in and which they can tax you for if you don't choose to participate. But our ruling elite, Congress, the cabinet, and all those wonderful office-holders and bureaucrats in Washington are exempt from that. They have their own plan and it's lots better than what the ordinary citizen can afford, but they don't have to worry--we pay for it all.
Toward the end of the book Deriabin said: "But no one can properly appreciate freedom unless he has been deprived of it." We are in the process of being deprived of it in this country and most of us don't even have a clue to what is happening to us. We won't grasp that until it happens--and maybe that's what it will take to make us appreciate it--our losing it by default--because that's what's happening.
Most Americans don't want to be bothered defending their liberty--too much trouble and responsibility to all that--let George do it so it doesn't interrupt my poker night next week. We fail to realize that our liberty is a gift from God, and as such, we are obligated to seek to defend it and protect it. We are too busy squandering it to be concerned about it. One bright morning we will wake up and find we no longer have it. Our current Marxist-in-Chief will have decreed, by executive order, that we don't need it any longer and so we will now have martial law from henceforth into eternity--so he hopes.
A final thought, if our liberty is God-given, what will the Lord say to each of us on Judgment Day when He asks us what we did with the liberty He gave us and we stand before Him and have to tell Him we frittered it away because it was too much of a responsibility to be bothered with?
The United States used to be the "Main Enemy" of Marxism. It isn't anymore.
Recently, I came across a batch of old books about Soviet Communism and its war on America, both in this country and around the world.
I am not one of those naive people who believes that "communism is dead, that it died when the Berlin Wall came down." In our day that's what our own government would have us to believe, in fact our own government may be among the biggest allies the communists have, especially with the present Marxist administration that is in power.
I just finished reading an informative book called The Secret World written by Peter Deriabin, a Soviet defector to this country back in 1954. In 1953 he had been stationed in Vienna, Austria, where he was the Chief of Soviet Counterintelligence and the Communist Party boss for the Austro-German section. He ended up testifying before both the Senate and the House Un-American Activities Committee back in 1959. He wrote and co-authored several books about his life as a secret policeman in the Soviet Union. Mr. Deriabin's book that I read can still be found on Amazon.com It went though three printings, the one I read from 1959, one in 1982 and another in 1987 and the full text can be found online.
Deriabin offered clear analysis in several areas. On page 29 he observed: "The Communist rulers, furthermore, steeped in the Marxist 'working-class' theory of Revolution, distrusted and despised the Russian farmer both as a class and individually and saw him as an enemy of their state. Collectivization appeared to offer a solution by turning the independent farmer into an agricultural 'worker.' He would, then, it was hoped, develop a true 'working-class' psychology and a necessary loyalty to the regime, because he would be so dependent on it." A true principle of Marxism/Leninism--do away with private property and make sure it all belongs to the "state." That way everyone is dependent on the State for his bread one way or another.
Another theory that had real currency among the Communists was the "guilty until proven innocent" theory. Deriabin noted: "To the Chekist (secret police) inefficiency is the same as criminality, and criminality, by definition, is not an individual's deviation, but automatically a political crime against the state. To a mind trained in this pattern a faulty conveyer belt is sabotage unless conclusively proved otherwise. A fire in a factory suggests the existence of smouldering 'anti-Sovietism' among the workers...Gossip is enough to start a complicated investigation. No specific crime or utterance need be alleged...The question of guilt or innocence has long since been rendered academic." It seems to me that, more and more, we are operating on that theory in this country. With the IRS, if they find a "problem" they don't have to prove your guilt, you have to prove your innocence.
I just read an article on the Internet about the federal government trying to decide whether to use a drone to kill a US citizen in Pakistan because he is a "suspected" terrorist. No concern about trying to determine whether he is really guilty or not, just concern over whether they should take him out because he is "suspected" of terrorism.
Deriabin noted the difference in the standard of living between ordinary Soviet citizens and the ruling elite there. The Marxist concept of a classless society looks great on paper and in theory, but in reality it doesn't work that way in real life in any Communist country. Under Marxism the rich (ruling elite) get richer and the poor get even poorer so they can contribute to the comfort which the ruling elite think they are entitled to live in. In this country we now have a (Marxist) "health care" system which all citizens are expected to participate in and which they can tax you for if you don't choose to participate. But our ruling elite, Congress, the cabinet, and all those wonderful office-holders and bureaucrats in Washington are exempt from that. They have their own plan and it's lots better than what the ordinary citizen can afford, but they don't have to worry--we pay for it all.
Toward the end of the book Deriabin said: "But no one can properly appreciate freedom unless he has been deprived of it." We are in the process of being deprived of it in this country and most of us don't even have a clue to what is happening to us. We won't grasp that until it happens--and maybe that's what it will take to make us appreciate it--our losing it by default--because that's what's happening.
Most Americans don't want to be bothered defending their liberty--too much trouble and responsibility to all that--let George do it so it doesn't interrupt my poker night next week. We fail to realize that our liberty is a gift from God, and as such, we are obligated to seek to defend it and protect it. We are too busy squandering it to be concerned about it. One bright morning we will wake up and find we no longer have it. Our current Marxist-in-Chief will have decreed, by executive order, that we don't need it any longer and so we will now have martial law from henceforth into eternity--so he hopes.
A final thought, if our liberty is God-given, what will the Lord say to each of us on Judgment Day when He asks us what we did with the liberty He gave us and we stand before Him and have to tell Him we frittered it away because it was too much of a responsibility to be bothered with?
The United States used to be the "Main Enemy" of Marxism. It isn't anymore.
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