American Politics: Part 1 - Where It's Been, Where It Could Go

Political candidates who are working toward achieving the highest office of the land, the presidency, are talking about change – mostly in the camp of one particular political entity. But what “change” do they have in mind? Is it change in the way our government has been operating? Is it change in how their supported political party forms its ideologies? Or, is it just change from one political entity to another in the grab for political party majority between the two established main parties?

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement; and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

Gateway Pundit posted a story entitled Portland Protestors Call for Fragging of Military Leaders, March 22^nd 2008 …

Last year they were sh*tting on a flag. This year they’re calling for murder of military officials. Not just antiwar …

This is what your tax dollars and tuition fees pay for as the curriculum of college students. Does anyone wonder who is behind their frenzy? Who are their sponsors? Who is brainwashing our youth? During the Vietnam War major protest marches were financed by socialist and communist sponsors, some organizations here in America and others abroad. The infamous group that “Hanoi” Jane Fonda and Senator John Kerry belonged to was financed and supported by the Maoist organization – as communist as one can get and with personal interests in the victory of North Vietnam in that war. That was how he met Hanoi Jane Fonda. The propaganda campaign actually won the war for the communists, they certainly couldn't win it on the battlefield.

Little Green Footballs also covers this incident of these traitors, March 23^rd 2007 – one year before in the article A New Low for the Anti-War Movement …

The protestors in Portland, Oregon, last weekend didn’t only burn a US soldier in effigy. According to an editorial in today’s Portland Tribune, one of them also defecated on a burning US flag.

When someone defiles an American flag, they are not defiling our government – they are defiling and insulting YOU and ME. The flag is a symbol of the American people, a symbol of our national pride and out national unity - not our government.

Portland, Oregon must be a haven for traitors. This is an example of misuse of freedom of speech where people are not just against war and truly peace activists, but this specific war, generally speaking. And notice in their projection of being “peace activists” they promote violence and spew hateful rhetoric. They want sons and daughters of American citizens to commit fratricide – killing someone else’s son or daughter. Technically, mutiny and treason. [See also High Treason]

The Portland city council is fully behind this program, as reported by the Portland Tribune by Jim Redden:

The City Council has passed two resolutions opposing the war and calling for American troops to be withdrawn from Iraq.

And cannot these people who “want to end the war” understand that other Americans and our troops want it to end as well? However, the troops and Americans who support them don’t want to surrender to the enemy in order to end it – they want to end it through victory against a globally dangerous fascist entity whose instrument is religious fanaticism and rhetoric of hate.

And to demonstrate that times haven’t changed in some respects in reflection of the Vietnam War protests of the late 1960s and 1970s – the Marxist World Workers Party is behind or indirect support of this anti-war movement in the United States. The communists have been trying to undermine the American form of government since the 1930s, when during the period of the world-wide Great Depression people began to swallow the propaganda of class envy among other instruments of communist propaganda. Another leftist group that is made up of women is called Code Pink – pink-clad women who protest coast to coast across America – often met by counter protestors sponsored by folks who support troops and achieving victory as a means to end the war – not surrender. FrontPage Magazine writes:

At the center of Code Pink is legendary leftist organizer Medea Benjamin, the 50-year-old mother of two widely credited as a chief organizing force behind the 1999 Seattle riots in which 50,000 protestors did millions of dollars worth of property damage in their effort to shut down meetings of the World Trade Organization. In addition to Code Pink, Benjamin’s San Francisco-based human rights organization[i] Global Exchange was the founding force for United for Peace and Justice coalition, the nexus of the anti-war protests.
The United for Peace coalition, which includes Socialist Action and the Socialist Party USA, is also led by Leslie Cagan, who has a long history of activism with the American Communist Party.[ii] …
The mindset of Benjamin and her friends can best be summed up by her description in the San Francisco Chronicle of how she felt on her first pilgrimage to Cuba in the early 1980s. Compared to life in the United States, the communist social equality of Cuba “made it seem like I died and went to heaven,” Benjamin enthused. Now it appears that Benjamin is trying to recreate it here.[iii] …
Benjamin worked as a project coordinator for Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP), which was widely credited with aiding the Marxist Sandinista regime while Cagan, coordinator of the National Mobilization for Justice and Peace in Central America, led marches against US aid to the contras at home that at times attracted upwards of 75,000 people. …
In the 1990s, Benjamin and other Code Pink Marxists focused their energies on organizing sometimes-violent protests against free trade across the globe, targeting large corporations with high-profile campaigns and lawsuits that cost consumers and companies like Gap, Nike and Starbucks millions of dollars. …
Meanwhile, other Code Pink organizers were making a name for themselves in domestic and eco-terrorism in the 1990s. Code Pink Co-Founder Jodie Evans also sits on the board of directors of Rain Forest Action Network (RAN), a radical anti-capitalist, anti-corporate coalition of environmental groups co-founded by Mike Roselle, who also founded the domestic terrorist organization Earth Liberation Front (ELF), which along with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is ranked the No. 1 domestic terrorism threat by the FBI. The FBI attributes over 600 criminal acts and $43 million in damages to the two groups since 1996. Wherever RAN pops up, you’ll also tend to find the Ruckus Society, which has trained activists for ELF/ALF. Ruckus Society organizer Steve Kretzmann, also a Code Pink coordinator, has helped train activists in the agitation tactics that have earned the Ruckus Society its reputation. …
Code Pink may be communism central for the moment, but if the past is any indication, the group will be left to die on the vine as soon as public attention shifts away from the war in Iraq. Like the other wedge issues these activists are so skilled at creating and taking advantage of, the Iraqi conflict is little more than an opportunity to ingratiate themselves with the American public and swell their volunteer rosters while energizing and solidifying the organization they’d been building since the Seattle riots. … It’s goals, as laid out by Benjamin and others in a variety of newspapers over the years, are clear-cut.
They want to redistribute wealth[iv] from the top tiers of society to the poorest Americans by raising minimum wages, choking off trade, pushing up inflation, limiting corporate growth and dragging down the stock market, cutting into the profits of the country’s largest corporations or shutting them down completely and prompting white collar layoffs. …
“Seattle was this kind of battle cry,” Benjamin told the San Jose Mercury News in 2000. “We now know we can mobilize hundreds of thousands of people.”
But to the dismay of the movement’s organizers, September 11 crushed some of that momentum. Ironically enough, September 11 was the day they’d planned to announce their biggest demonstration yet, which was slated to draw well over 100,000 protestors to Washington from around the world in late September. It was instead replaced with a small peace demonstration. The Code Pink ladies have been biding their time ever since, reaching out to middle America, building their contact lists and dreaming of the Marxist America that might one day be.

These movements are against the very entities that promote job growth and economic well being in America. They are against the very foundation of what made America great in the first place. They echo words, phrases and ideas from failed political regimes. And these are people living right here in America, enjoying the fruit of freedom and liberty and all the while tearing away at it bit by bit to create what they perceive as utopia under a system where everyone has the same materialistic “things”, everyone lives in the same standard, communes are good, the collective is best – not realizing that the very elite that are telling the rest of us this is good is not living directly under that ideological standards. If government becomes the entity that governs our lives – WHO exactly are those people running that government and in charge? It is ideology that is so full of hypocrisy and “holes” that it looks like a waffle board after close inspection. Rush Limbaugh during one of his talk show sessions stated if one wanted to find the source of anything - follow the money trail. In effect, this method is being used in the war against terrorism.

One may wonder what happened to America’s political institution. What happened to the American people, not just these brainwashed radical groups, but the home of the brave itself? This change or evolving phenomenon is really nothing new. What is “new” is the persistence by some to change America to a point no longer recognizable in terms of its virtues of freedom and liberties. These liberties were once unique and to some have been a matter of fact. But the founders warned us that we must guard those liberties constantly because there would always be someone, directly or indirectly, that would take them away.

This is an introduction to a series of articles that is about the advent, growth and change of the American political culture with the concept if we know where we have been, we may be able to continue to steer America on course and away from the rocky shoals from which it is presently heading, and has been doing so for at least fifty years. At one time McCarthyism was looked upon as a prejudice folly, a group of paranoid people who “attacked” subversive element within the labor unions, Hollywood culture, within the government and military in what has become known as the Cold War blacklisting. At times this movement indeed would carry things too far; however, long after McCarthy died, it proved to be an investigation that didn’t go deep enough and sometimes looked in the wrong places. Today the FBI has much information on these entities, and as demonstrated above under the guise of “Green Peace” movements and other causes that were originally instituted for the good, have become havens for those who create subversion and undermine the success and strength of America among the nations of the world.

Instead of Iraq being a victory against a dictator whose crimes against humanity were the reasons for his trial and the end of the horrific reign of Saddam Hussein, the political left looks upon the operation in Iraq as an "occupation". Contradictory to its actual purpose and present mission - reconstruction and helping the Iraqi help themselves.

Conspiracies and treacheries have been uncovered under many presidential administrations; there are no drawn lines there upon the two main political parties today known as the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. When great power and vast sums of money is involved in any large entity, there is bound to be someone or some group within that structure that will undermine the integrity of those who truly serve their nation and its people. The danger, as demonstrated in recent political history, is that there are those who will denounce those in one party for the same or lesser actions and misdemeanor that is committed by the party they support. It is time for the American people not to hold such blind loyalty to a political entity, but instead loyalty to America itself, which is the embodiment of the people. As an example, communist subversion in America effectively began with the Great Depression and the birth of labor and trade unions. It is not because the gist of the union was evil or subversive; its original purpose was to create a better life for the working class. It was caused by those who were behind the unions and those who control it still today. From 1956 to 1958, the Supreme Court decided 52 cases that involved communism and subversion within our government. Yet, President Eisenhower made into effect two executive orders that closed the door on the congressional investigation of communists in government. This was the time when Earl Warren was appointed Chief Justice of the United States and impacted policy that effectively destroyed security laws of the United States that would snowball through the years to what the judicial system has become today – an instrument of legislation from the bench, and not the entity of overseeing the other two powers of US government for which it was established. When the sedition laws of 42 states during that period were voided, so too was the very meaning of and severity of implication that those laws were meant to be, to the point where the meaning of treason and its implications have dissolved into questionable rhetoric. It was soon after that communism and its counterparts worked its way into the educational system, beginning with the “higher” educational institutions of colleges and universities. It was soon quite evident by the time the “Hippie” culture had become embedded within the framework of American culture with a false front of wanting world peace and world cultural unity. Those protestors that once were part of that subversive elements organized for such a purpose, became part of the administration and faculty of universities and colleges across the nation. And political ideologies that were once only studied for purposes of knowledge became the proposed replacement of the democratic republic for which Americans had chosen a long time ago as their form of government and were instrumental in its success among the nations of the world. Indeed, in past world history, America and its form of government was a role model for others to follow – and some tried soon after the revolution for independence of the colonies of Great Britain known as Americans, as in France. 

SOURCE AND REFERENCE LIST:

The Anti-War Movement in the United States 
House Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1975) – Wikipedia
None Dare Call It Treason – John A. Stormer
None Dare Call It Treason - The Nation
Review of None Dare Call It Treason, 25 Years Later - Daniel Pipes
Salt of the Earth: Communist Subversion or Political Activism?
Not Without Honor: The History of American Anti-Communism – Joshua Muravchik Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth Century America – Ted Morgan, New Republic Online A New Look at Communism in America – Pratik Chougule

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[i] Isn’t that the epitome of hypocrisy? Communists in human rights protestations!

[ii] The organization ANSWER is supported by the Communist World Workers Party, the central organizers in the US and the world.

[iii] I so often wondered that if life is SO much better in Cuba than here and other communist nations – why in the heck they are living in the United States. Why did Ms. Benjamin return from Cuba after her last visit?

[iv] You know, like the Democrats and RINOs do in Congress.