In 1963, A Democrat Warned Up About Communists And Socialists. He Was Right

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Herlong was a Democrat. This is when Democrats actually thought the United States was an "Exceptional" Country, quite unlike today, per Obama.



January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America
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At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

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

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

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

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N. Complete

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

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

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

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths. Complete

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

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. Complete The Democrat Party

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

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

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

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

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions. Nearly Complete

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. Nearly Complete

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

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

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. Complete

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

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy." Complete

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

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state." Complete

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

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man." Liberals Professors are doing this now, even some High Schools.

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. Complete in that American History is re-written by the left to demonize the Founders

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

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

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

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. Complete

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

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

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

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

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. In process Hillary's "It takes a village and MSNBC's "Parent's don't own their children"

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems. Complete

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

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
 
Sorry, but the OP seemed like a truckload of alarmist propaganda to me--and much of it was espoused by Hitler in the 1930's, as he successfully unified Germany in a hatred and fear of communists.

I'm fairly certain that the current U.S. is more fascist than communist, and that the fascist movement of the 1920s-30s didn't die with Hitler; it merely became integrated in our society in a less-intrusive form.
 
Sorry, but the OP seemed like a truckload of alarmist propaganda to me--and much of it was espoused by Hitler in the 1930's, as he successfully unified Germany in a hatred and fear of communists.

I'm fairly certain that the current U.S. is more fascist than communist, and that the fascist movement of the 1920s-30s didn't die with Hitler; it merely became integrated in our society in a less-intrusive form.


Agreed.

This is a wacko list rife with fallacies, mostly Strawmen and Appeals to Emotion. Only #12 and #32 even have anything to do with "communism" at all ---- and it's interesting the OP implies a desire to "outlaw" a political party, despite the inconvenient presence of an obscure technicality called the First Amendment.

The majority of the list doesn't even have anything to do with politics -- referring to social mores, pop culture and a strange lust for government censorship thereof, and even "infiltrating psychiatry". :laugh2: Perhaps that's a clue for the OP's needs.

A plethora of words and bolds and text colors and underlines ------ not so much on logic.
 
Once a year, some tard posts this idiotic list.

The list is not a list made up by Communists. It is a straw man list made up by a Democrat in 1963,

This is not the "Communist plan". It is a fantasy plan invented by someone else.

Now...please explain why doing away with loyalty oaths is a BAD thing.

Go ahead. This should be entertaining.
 
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
Complete The Democrat Party

Ipse dixit.


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

Looks like someone is upset we don't have White Only lunch counters any more.

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

Ipse dixit.


21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. Nearly Complete

Ipse dixit.

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. Complete

What, you don't like midget porn?



Please provide the real Communist Plan™ and let's compare it to this Democrats' straw man.
 
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List making is fun! More communist goals:

46. Convince conservatives that being fat and retarded is the epitome of an American. Complete

47. Eliminate critical thinking skills from Fox News. Complete

48. Elect the dumbest Republican ever born to the Presidency, give him a Republican Congress, and watch the GOP run the country into the ground so badly that a negro is elected as President. Complete
 
And the socialist have accomplished their goal of taking over Democratic Party. Look at recent news from Iowa. Hillary not "liberal enough" for Democrat voters. Scary.
 
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We call for worker and community ownership and control of corporations within the framework of a decentralized and democratically determined economic plan.
• We call for a minimum wage of $15 per hour, indexed to the cost of living.
• We call for a full employment policy. We support the provision of a livable guaranteed annual income.
• We call for all financial and insurance institutions to be socially owned and operated by a democratically-controlled national banking authority, which should include credit unions, mutual insurance cooperatives, and cooperative state banks. In the meantime, we call for reregulation of the banking and insurance industries.
• We call for a steeply graduated income tax and a steeply graduated estate tax, and a maximum income of no more than ten times the minimum. We oppose regressive taxes such as payroll tax, sales tax, and property taxes.
• We call for the restoration of the capital gains tax and luxury tax on a progressive, graduated scale.
• We call for compensation to communities-- and compensation, re-training, and other support service for workers-- affected by plant and military base closings as stop-gap measures until we reach our goal of creating a socialist society totally separate from the global capitalist economy.
• We oppose the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization as instruments of capitalist oppression throughout the world.
• We demand cancellation of Third World debt.
• We call for a National Pension Authority to hold the assets of private pension funds, and a levy against corporate assets for any pension fund deficits.
• We call for increased and expanded welfare assistance and increased and expanded unemployment compensation at 100% of a worker's previous income or the minimum wage, whichever is higher, for the full period of unemployment or re-training, whichever is longer.
• We support a program of massive federal investment in both urban and rural areas for infrastructure reconstruction and economic development.
• We support tax benefits for renters equal to those for homeowners.
• We call for the elimination of subsidies and tax breaks that benefit corporations and all other forms of corporate welfare.
• We oppose the court-created precedent of “corporate personhood” that illegitimately gives corporations rights that were intended for human beings.
Socialist Party or Democratic Party platform? Can't tell can ya?
 
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths. Complete

Clearly this list maker, and the tards who continually post the list, have a serious problem with the First Amendment.


35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

Gee, who would have guessed an ex-FBI agent would say one of the goals of the Commies was to dismantle the FBI?

Luckily for us, George Bush and the GOP Congress not only put the FBI on steroids, they also created a whole new police state structure, the Department of Fatherla-, er, Homeland Security. And they bought 63 trillion rounds of ammo!



37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

Yeah, Wall Street has been totally taken over by commies.
 
About the writer of this list the wacko Senator said "I have here in my hand"....

Mitt Romney's Nutty Professor
Meet W. Cleon Skousen: conspiracy theorist, slavery apologist, tea party icon. Mitt Romney says you should read him.


>> If Romney hasn't read Skousen's political philosophy, that's probably for the best. His professor's grand theory of American history was founded on a set of beliefs that had little to no basis in reality. He believed that the Founding Fathers were directly direct descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, whom he said had migrated to the British Isles—and that by extension, the Constitution was the direct descendant of the ruling system of the ancient Israelites.

In Making of America... Skousen quotes from an essay which argues that "one of the blessings of slavery" was that slaves' marriages were fleeting, and suggests that being bought at auction improved slaves' self worth. The real victims of slavery, the author suggested, were the white owners. The book also referred to black children as "pickaninnies"—which prompted lawmakers in California to block the text from being used in classrooms. In Skousen's book, the model Supreme Court decision was Dred Scott, which correctly demarcated the limits of federal power; Roger B. Taney, who wrote the majority opinion in that case, was the model Supreme Court justice. <<

The Senator can't even write his own stuff. Such is life for demagogue parrots.


Wiki:
After losing his police job, Skousen founded a group called the All-American Society, which Time magazine described in 1961 as an "exemplar of the far-right ultras."[17] Throughout the 1960s, Skousen was also admired by members and leaders of the John Birch Society, although members of the more mainstream conservative movement and the American Security Council[3] snubbed him out of fear that his controversial views would hurt the credibility of the conservative movement. Skousen used Birch Society magazines as source and reference material,[7] and was pictured on the cover of its magazine, American Interest. Although he was never officially a member of the organization, he was a member of its speakers' bureau and lectured at John Birch Society events throughout the United States for many years. A 1962 FBI memo described Skousen as affiliating with an "extreme right-wing" group which was promoting "anticommunism for obvious financial purposes".[3] Skousen authored a pamphlet titled The Communist Attack on the John Birch Society, characterizing criticism of the Society as incipient communism.[12]
 
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4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

GW Bush gave China permanent Most Favored Nation status on trade in 2001.
 
"Hatred as the central element of our struggle! Hatred that is intransigent…hatred so violent that it propels a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him violent and cold-blooded killing machine...We reject any peaceful approach. Violence is inevitable. To establish Socialism rivers of blood must flow! The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we’ll destroy him! These hyenas are fit only for extermination. We must keep our hatred alive and fan it to paroxysm! The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!"
- Che Guevara
Oh, the Marxist left has been at it for a long time. Now even Hilary is not far enough left for Iowa Democrats. I see violence within the left for 2016. If Bernie Boy runs the socialist will be out in full force. They have wanted another 1968 Democratic Convention for a long time.
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