Never Knowing Friends From Enemies

[PoliticalChic]

A fatal flaw.

1.And that may be the epitaph for America. More than once this noble experiment in self-government has grievously injured itself by making that mistake….and we may be seeing the fatal one in this: it appears that the electorate has chosen weak, unaccomplished traitor who has sold this government for the proverbial 30 pieces of silver.

Friends of the concept of ‘America’ are those who champion liberty and individualism. Enemies are collectivists who demand the bending of the neck and the knee to the collective. Seems eminently simply to see the difference, and judge every person and event through that prism.



On this date, November 11th, two men were born, different years, who serve as a sort of bioassay of the title of this thread. See if you can tell the difference.

2. Alger Hiss, (born November 11, 1904, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died November 15, 1996, New York, New York), former U.S. State Department official who was convicted in January 1950 of perjury concerning his dealings with Whittaker Chambers, who accused him of membership in a communist espionage ring. His case, which came at a time of growing apprehension about the domestic influence of communism, seemed to lend substance to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s sensational charges of communist infiltration into the State Department. Britannica.com

A careful reading of the Britannica blurb will indicate how carefully that publication is not to ruffle the feathers of the neo-Marxists who control the dissemination of information in this society: Hiss is a proven agent of Soviet communism, and Joseph McCarthy was a true hero who sacrificed himself in the interests of saving America.



3. With the Alger Hiss case, President Nixon exposed the liberals as dupes of totalitarianism. “To many, Mr. Hiss was a traitor whose case proved beyond doubt the existence of Communist penetration of the Government. As the columnist George Will put it, Mr. Hiss's claim to innocence had become ''one of the long-running lies of modern American history.” (Alger Hiss, Divisive Icon of the Cold War, Dies at 92 (Published 1996))



4. For comparison,

George Patton, in full George Smith Patton, Jr., (born November 11, 1885, San Gabriel, California, U.S.—died December 21, 1945, Heidelberg, Germany), U.S. Army officer who was an outstanding practitioner of mobile tank warfare in the European and Mediterranean theatres during World War II. His strict discipline, toughness, and self-sacrifice elicited exceptional pride within his ranks, and the general was colourfully referred to as “Old Blood-and-Guts” by his men. Britannica.com



One was friend to America, one an enemy. Not many government school grads know which was which.
Of course the very same problem arose in the recent election.

 

[Unkotare]

Treat everyone like a friend. Understand that no one really is.

 

[tyroneweaver]

A fatal flaw.

1.And that may be the epitaph for America. More than once this noble experiment in self-government has grievously injured itself by making that mistake….and we may be seeing the fatal one in this: it appears that the electorate has chosen weak, unaccomplished traitor who has sold this government for the proverbial 30 pieces of silver.

Friends of the concept of ‘America’ are those who champion liberty and individualism. Enemies are collectivists who demand the bending of the neck and the knee to the collective. Seems eminently simply to see the difference, and judge every person and event through that prism.



On this date, November 11th, two men were born, different years, who serve as a sort of bioassay of the title of this thread. See if you can tell the difference.


View attachment 414617


2. Alger Hiss, (born November 11, 1904, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died November 15, 1996, New York, New York), former U.S. State Department official who was convicted in January 1950 of perjury concerning his dealings with Whittaker Chambers, who accused him of membership in a communist espionage ring. His case, which came at a time of growing apprehension about the domestic influence of communism, seemed to lend substance to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s sensational charges of communist infiltration into the State Department. Britannica.com

A careful reading of the Britannica blurb will indicate how carefully that publication is not to ruffle the feathers of the neo-Marxists who control the dissemination of information in this society: Hiss is a proven agent of Soviet communism, and Joseph McCarthy was a true hero who sacrificed himself in the interests of saving America.



3. With the Alger Hiss case, President Nixon exposed the liberals as dupes of totalitarianism. “To many, Mr. Hiss was a traitor whose case proved beyond doubt the existence of Communist penetration of the Government. As the columnist George Will put it, Mr. Hiss's claim to innocence had become ''one of the long-running lies of modern American history.” (Alger Hiss, Divisive Icon of the Cold War, Dies at 92 (Published 1996))



4. For comparison, View attachment 414615

George Patton, in full George Smith Patton, Jr., (born November 11, 1885, San Gabriel, California, U.S.—died December 21, 1945, Heidelberg, Germany), U.S. Army officer who was an outstanding practitioner of mobile tank warfare in the European and Mediterranean theatres during World War II. His strict discipline, toughness, and self-sacrifice elicited exceptional pride within his ranks, and the general was colourfully referred to as “Old Blood-and-Guts” by his men. Britannica.com



One was friend to America, one an enemy. Not many government school grads know which was which.
Of course the very same problem arose in the recent election.

My FIL server under Patton's 3rd army at the Battle of the Bulge. We have his Silver star on the china hutch.

He didn't care to much for Montgomeryi.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Treat everyone like a friend. Understand that no one really is.

I see a lot of experience in that post.

 

[PoliticalChic]

A fatal flaw.

1.And that may be the epitaph for America. More than once this noble experiment in self-government has grievously injured itself by making that mistake….and we may be seeing the fatal one in this: it appears that the electorate has chosen weak, unaccomplished traitor who has sold this government for the proverbial 30 pieces of silver.

Friends of the concept of ‘America’ are those who champion liberty and individualism. Enemies are collectivists who demand the bending of the neck and the knee to the collective. Seems eminently simply to see the difference, and judge every person and event through that prism.



On this date, November 11th, two men were born, different years, who serve as a sort of bioassay of the title of this thread. See if you can tell the difference.


View attachment 414617


2. Alger Hiss, (born November 11, 1904, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died November 15, 1996, New York, New York), former U.S. State Department official who was convicted in January 1950 of perjury concerning his dealings with Whittaker Chambers, who accused him of membership in a communist espionage ring. His case, which came at a time of growing apprehension about the domestic influence of communism, seemed to lend substance to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s sensational charges of communist infiltration into the State Department. Britannica.com

A careful reading of the Britannica blurb will indicate how carefully that publication is not to ruffle the feathers of the neo-Marxists who control the dissemination of information in this society: Hiss is a proven agent of Soviet communism, and Joseph McCarthy was a true hero who sacrificed himself in the interests of saving America.



3. With the Alger Hiss case, President Nixon exposed the liberals as dupes of totalitarianism. “To many, Mr. Hiss was a traitor whose case proved beyond doubt the existence of Communist penetration of the Government. As the columnist George Will put it, Mr. Hiss's claim to innocence had become ''one of the long-running lies of modern American history.” (Alger Hiss, Divisive Icon of the Cold War, Dies at 92 (Published 1996))



4. For comparison, View attachment 414615

George Patton, in full George Smith Patton, Jr., (born November 11, 1885, San Gabriel, California, U.S.—died December 21, 1945, Heidelberg, Germany), U.S. Army officer who was an outstanding practitioner of mobile tank warfare in the European and Mediterranean theatres during World War II. His strict discipline, toughness, and self-sacrifice elicited exceptional pride within his ranks, and the general was colourfully referred to as “Old Blood-and-Guts” by his men. Britannica.com



One was friend to America, one an enemy. Not many government school grads know which was which.
Of course the very same problem arose in the recent election.

My FIL server under Patton's 3rd army at the Battle of the Bulge. We have his Silver star on the china hutch.

He didn't care to much for Montgomeryi.

Later, some posts about Patton, and how he felt about Russians and communism.

Worth reading:

 

[PoliticalChic]

5. The major player in the Alger Hiss saga was fellow Communist, Whitaker Chambers. In his book, Witness, Chambers explains is disillusionment as follows. In 1938, he determined not only to break with the Communist Party, but to inform on the Party when he could. The reason was that he was informed that Stalin was making efforts to align with Hitler, in 1939, and “from any human point of view, the pact was evil.” As Hitler marched into Poland, Chambers arranged a private meeting with Adolf Berle, President Roosevelt’s assistant Sec’y of State. Chambers detailed the Communist espionage network, naming at least two dozen Soviet spies in Roosevelt’s administration, including Alger Hiss. Berle reported this to Roosevelt, who laughed, and told Berle to go f--- himself. (Arthur Herman, Joseph McCarthy: Reexaming the Life and Legacy of America’s Most Hated Senator, p. 60)

No action was taken, and in fact, Roosevelt promoted Hiss.

Franklin Roosevelt was a facilitator for communist infiltration and control of America.


Almost a decade later, Chambers was called before the HUAC and named Hiss as a Soviet agent. Hiss sued Chambers, at which time Chambers presented “… four notes in Alger Hiss's handwriting, sixty-five typewritten copies of State Department documents and five strips of microfilm, some of which contained photographs of State Department documents. The press came to call these the "Pumpkin Papers"(Whittaker Chambers - Wikipedia)

And, of course, all doubt was removed in 1995, when the Venona Soviet cables were decrypted.

 

[Moonglow]

Now you can do us all a favor and show us what Biden has done or the Chinese since being elected.What communistic programs have been implemented?
I bet I get no answer from the OP because she has nothing more that lies and poppycock.

 

[TheParser]

Oh, the thread title is so true.

In one's life, someone whom you consider to be cold or indifferent toward you may actually be a friend in every way.

And that other person who is always smiling and laughing and slapping you on the back may be thinking how s/he can stab you in the back.

Yes, sir/ma'am: Don't judge a book by its cover.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Oh, the thread title is so true.

In one's life, someone whom you consider to be cold or indifferent toward you may actually be a friend in every way.

And that other person who is always smiling and laughing and slapping you on the back may be thinking how s/he can stab you in the back.

Yes, sir/ma'am: Don't judge a book by its cover.

Would that include public officials who took bribes from foreign nations to sell America's foreign policy to those nations.....several of whom have the nerve to run for President of America?

 

[PoliticalChic]

6. Democrat perfidy: President Roosevelt laughed off the charges against Alger Hiss.
Dean Acheson, then undersecretary of Treasury, not only vouched for Hiss and his brother, Donald, also charged by Whitaker, but Acheson immediately requested Donald as his assistant.
Right on cue, the press vilified HUAC for persecuting Hiss.


Proven guilty, jailed for 44 months for perjury (the statute of limitations had run out on espionage), Alger Hiss, traitorous agent of Soviet espionage, the American left views Hiss as a hero. After leaving prison, he spoke at Princeton and was given a standing ovation.
Bard College actually has the Alger Hiss Chair of Social Studies
(The Alger Hiss Chair at Bard College)

In 1972, Massachusetts readmitted him to the bar. Liberals would never turn their backs on a man who spied for Stalin against America.

Clearly, Leftists/Liberals take care of their own.



For standing up to them, General Patton suffered a far different fate.
Next.

 

[PoliticalChic]

 

[danielpalos]

A fatal flaw.

1.And that may be the epitaph for America. More than once this noble experiment in self-government has grievously injured itself by making that mistake….and we may be seeing the fatal one in this: it appears that the electorate has chosen weak, unaccomplished traitor who has sold this government for the proverbial 30 pieces of silver.

Friends of the concept of ‘America’ are those who champion liberty and individualism. Enemies are collectivists who demand the bending of the neck and the knee to the collective. Seems eminently simply to see the difference, and judge every person and event through that prism.



On this date, November 11th, two men were born, different years, who serve as a sort of bioassay of the title of this thread. See if you can tell the difference.


View attachment 414617


2. Alger Hiss, (born November 11, 1904, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died November 15, 1996, New York, New York), former U.S. State Department official who was convicted in January 1950 of perjury concerning his dealings with Whittaker Chambers, who accused him of membership in a communist espionage ring. His case, which came at a time of growing apprehension about the domestic influence of communism, seemed to lend substance to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s sensational charges of communist infiltration into the State Department. Britannica.com

A careful reading of the Britannica blurb will indicate how carefully that publication is not to ruffle the feathers of the neo-Marxists who control the dissemination of information in this society: Hiss is a proven agent of Soviet communism, and Joseph McCarthy was a true hero who sacrificed himself in the interests of saving America.



3. With the Alger Hiss case, President Nixon exposed the liberals as dupes of totalitarianism. “To many, Mr. Hiss was a traitor whose case proved beyond doubt the existence of Communist penetration of the Government. As the columnist George Will put it, Mr. Hiss's claim to innocence had become ''one of the long-running lies of modern American history.” (Alger Hiss, Divisive Icon of the Cold War, Dies at 92 (Published 1996))



4. For comparison, View attachment 414615

George Patton, in full George Smith Patton, Jr., (born November 11, 1885, San Gabriel, California, U.S.—died December 21, 1945, Heidelberg, Germany), U.S. Army officer who was an outstanding practitioner of mobile tank warfare in the European and Mediterranean theatres during World War II. His strict discipline, toughness, and self-sacrifice elicited exceptional pride within his ranks, and the general was colourfully referred to as “Old Blood-and-Guts” by his men. Britannica.com



One was friend to America, one an enemy. Not many government school grads know which was which.
Of course the very same problem arose in the recent election.

McCarthy was worse. Just another right wing Hoaxster.

 

[PoliticalChic]

7. Franklin Roosevelt was a friend to Alger Hiss, Soviet spy, and an enemy to American patriot, George Patton.

'A more sinister ' proximate cause of our numbness when it come to Soviet crime' is the lies that Franklin Roosevelt told the public in support of Stalin.
Loy Henderson, State Department Russian expert of the time said: "Russia does not fight for the same ideals as the United States."
Diana West, "American Betrayal"


Roosevelt swore to the American public the exact opposite: he declared that Stalin fought for the same ideals!

September 30, 1941, FDR claimed that there was freedom of religion in the USSR. "The claim that Stalin's Russia allowed religious freedom was the first step in a massive pro-Soviet campaign that the White House coordinated for the duration of the war."
"Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin: America's Ambassadors to Moscow," by Dennis J. Dunn, p. 137




While Franklin Roosevelt lies to the American public about Russia, hiding the pathological character of his pal Joseph Stalin, ....
....the finest of the Allied generals, George Patton knows the truth about the Soviets and is not shy about sharing it.

"They are a scurvy race and simply savages," he writes of the Russians in his journal. "We could beat the hell out of them."
"Patton,"By Martin Blumenson, Kevin M. Hymel, p. 84

Patton was about to return to the United States.....he was popular...no telling what he might say or do.....
Neither Franklin Roosevelt nor Joseph Stalin would allow Patton to remain unscathed.

 

[danielpalos]

 

[PoliticalChic]

8. Patton knew his enemy, and the enemy of America.
At least the foreign version.

But the domestic one joined the foreign .....with this result:

"Patton, perhaps America’s greatest fighting general, died twelve days after a mysterious vehicle accident outside Mannheim, Germany, December 9, 1945. He was the only person injured. Sitting in the rear of a chauffeured Cadillac limousine with an aide beside him, Patton suffered a broken neck when a two-and-a- half-ton US Army truck suddenly veered into the Cadillac’s path without signaling. Patton’s driver, who couldn’t avoid the crash, would later privately tell his son that the truck had been waiting for them on the side of the road as they’d started up from a railroad track stop. All on-scene reports and military investigative reports of the incident have vanished.

...he’d angered the Roosevelt Administration with his antagonism toward the Russians.

FDR, believing the Soviets crucial to maintaining world peace, wanted them appeased and had acquiesced to their domination of Eastern Europe at Yalta. Patton, an ardent anti-communist who foresaw the Iron Curtain descending over Russian-occupied countries, wanted to fight them; in effect, start World War III. “We’ve kicked hell out of one bastard (Hitler),” he lamented, only to “help establish a second one (Stalin)…more evil and more dedicated than the first.”

Was General George S. Patton Assassinated Sixty-Five Years Ago Today?

Was General George S. Patton Assassinated Sixty-Five Years Ago Today?"

www.breitbart.com

 

[PoliticalChic]

9. The bond between Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin was unseemly, inappropriate.....and powerful.
Roosevelt knew what he had to do to please his master....and when American Patton spoke his mind, the truth, about Soviet Communism, he sealed his fate.

If you have any doubts as to the lengths the Fascists will go, note that Jennifer Rubin, at WaPo, Jake Tapper, and AOC are calling for lists of trump supporters, to inform employers to make sure they never work again.

First AOC’s ‘list,’ now CNN warns of blacklisting Trump team - Washington Examiner

Just three days after liberal New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez urged the creation of a list of President Trump’s “sycophants,” a top CNN host has piled on with a warning that Trump aides battling the president’s legal case could see their job possibilities dry up.Jake Tapper even suggested...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Patton became Roosevelt's target:

“Patton opened his mouth again, saying that the Nazis were better than the Russians were in Late 1944.
Patton said of the Russians:

Hell, why do we care what those goddamn Russians think? We are going to have to fight them sooner or later, within the next generation. Why not do it now while our Army is intact and the damn Russians can have their hind end kicked back to Russia in three months? We can do it easily with the help of the German troops we have, if we just arm them and take them with us. They hate the bastards.[92]

These actions were all Eisenhower could handle; he could not cover this one up and had no choice but to relieve Patton of his command. Patton was personally hurt by the loss.

MilitaryHistoryOnline.com

A collection of various battles from around the world

www.militaryhistoryonline.com

"As with Prague, Patton’s request to secure Berlin was denied. Sadly, after Patton finally reached the ravaged city, he wrote his wife on July 21, 1945, ” for the first week after they took it (Berlin), all women who ran were shot and those who did not were raped. I could have taken it (instead of the Soviets) had I been allowed.”

In the end, yes Patton was a genius commander such as are many today within the purged ranks of military leadership but never forget, Roosevelt was ultimately the string puller and hence, Russia got its way and the libtards destroyed the face of the planet for the next 50 years until the dissolution of the Soviet machine. "

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/robert-orlando/the-foresight-of-patton/

 

[PoliticalChic]

10. Judging who was a friend to America and American values, and who was an enemy is less a problem when the examples are General George Patton and Alger Hiss.

But when the schools and the media provide the answers and doctor the information, it becomes more difficult for those not willing to do their own research.

Here are two whose resumes are controlled to the extent that the truth is turned upside down: President Franklin Roosevelt, and Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Roosevelt turned American foreign policy over to homicidal psychopath Stalin, and made certain that communism survived the war. There is evidence that he saw to the murder of General Patton.



McCarthy is reviled and claimed to have ruined the lives of innocent Americans with his charges.

Most government school grads accept the baseless charge…..but watch who silent they become when asked to provide the names of any such ‘innocent’ folks whose lives were ‘ruined.’



And so it is: politics sadly determines what most accept as ‘truth.’

 

[bluzman61]

A fatal flaw.

1.And that may be the epitaph for America. More than once this noble experiment in self-government has grievously injured itself by making that mistake….and we may be seeing the fatal one in this: it appears that the electorate has chosen weak, unaccomplished traitor who has sold this government for the proverbial 30 pieces of silver.

Friends of the concept of ‘America’ are those who champion liberty and individualism. Enemies are collectivists who demand the bending of the neck and the knee to the collective. Seems eminently simply to see the difference, and judge every person and event through that prism.



On this date, November 11th, two men were born, different years, who serve as a sort of bioassay of the title of this thread. See if you can tell the difference.


View attachment 414617


2. Alger Hiss, (born November 11, 1904, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died November 15, 1996, New York, New York), former U.S. State Department official who was convicted in January 1950 of perjury concerning his dealings with Whittaker Chambers, who accused him of membership in a communist espionage ring. His case, which came at a time of growing apprehension about the domestic influence of communism, seemed to lend substance to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s sensational charges of communist infiltration into the State Department. Britannica.com

A careful reading of the Britannica blurb will indicate how carefully that publication is not to ruffle the feathers of the neo-Marxists who control the dissemination of information in this society: Hiss is a proven agent of Soviet communism, and Joseph McCarthy was a true hero who sacrificed himself in the interests of saving America.



3. With the Alger Hiss case, President Nixon exposed the liberals as dupes of totalitarianism. “To many, Mr. Hiss was a traitor whose case proved beyond doubt the existence of Communist penetration of the Government. As the columnist George Will put it, Mr. Hiss's claim to innocence had become ''one of the long-running lies of modern American history.” (Alger Hiss, Divisive Icon of the Cold War, Dies at 92 (Published 1996))



4. For comparison, View attachment 414615

George Patton, in full George Smith Patton, Jr., (born November 11, 1885, San Gabriel, California, U.S.—died December 21, 1945, Heidelberg, Germany), U.S. Army officer who was an outstanding practitioner of mobile tank warfare in the European and Mediterranean theatres during World War II. His strict discipline, toughness, and self-sacrifice elicited exceptional pride within his ranks, and the general was colourfully referred to as “Old Blood-and-Guts” by his men. Britannica.com



One was friend to America, one an enemy. Not many government school grads know which was which.
Of course the very same problem arose in the recent election.

Thank you for yet ANOTHER fantastic post, PC.

 

[danielpalos]

Paid shill is more like it.