If you have visited this site for any length of time you know that the subject of Communism comes up often. I imagine that at first many just rolled their eyes but they may be paying more attention today for more and more news stories and related articles on Communism are appearing. Communism forces itself upon its victims. Its proven strategies have lost nothing over the years. It seeks to divide a people with grand and glorious claims of prosperity, fairness and equality, none of which it cares anything about or has any intention of following up on once in power. It is important to know that Communism never reasons with anyone and any compromises it made in the past were last ditch efforts in a losing cause. It is always hungry and will never settle for what it has devoured. It is built upon lies, breathes lying and exhales lying. It takes advantage of a nation's malcontents turning them into rabble-rousers. It preys upon celebrities who need a cause to somehow validate the adulation they receive. It preys upon the young who need a cause to get the adulation they think they deserve. It preys upon Higher Education that tenures the squeaky wheel. It preys upon religion in the form of Liberation Theology. It has no redeeming qualities.
The following post is on a classic read that will take you right into a Communist cell group and even into the White House previous to the McCarthy era. Most of the major divisions in America today are Communism at work and you can only deny this if you refuse to investigate it yourself. The following post is from earlier this year:
This from Whittaker Chamber's Witness.... "When, in 1936, General Emilio Mola announced that he would capture Madrid because he had four columns outside the city and a fifth column of sympathizers within, the world pounced on the phrase with the eagerness of a man who has been groping for an important word.......what Mola had done was to indicate the dimension of treason in our time......other ages have had their individual traitors-men who from faint-heartedness or hope of gain sold out their causes. But in the 20th century, for the first time, men banded together by millions, in movements like Fascism and Communism, dedicated to the purpose of betraying the institutions they lived under, In the 20th century, treason became a vocation whose modern form was specifically the treason of ideas."
With the 'treason of ideas' men...and women...turn against their own country because they don't agree with it anymore, or they think there might be a better way, and they might not even realize what they are doing. That's where we have been for quite some time and still are here in America. There is treason by willful misconduct and there is treason by willful disregard. We are subject to the first and have subjected ourselves to the second as the Lenin/Obama hit musical continues its run on America's great Broad Way.
Who Was Whittaker Chambers
In September of 1963 my mother and I had moved to Pittsburgh and I started the eighth grade in a new Catholic school taught primarily by nuns. It was a wonderful year and I treasure those memories with the great exception of the afternoon of November 22, 1963 where the nuns cried and we students were shaken. Three nuns taught the different subjects for the eighth grade and each one had characteristics that we students occupied our free time with by making fun of. One Sister was very overweight, very strict but also very likable. She was also just a little bit airheaded at times and for some reason would address me, the new kid, as 'Whittaker' instead of my real name. I would remind her time and again and my classmates would chuckle. I quite naturally wound up with that nickname.....thankfully only for a while.
Whittaker Chambers had died from a heart attack in July of 1961 at the age of 60. Does that name sound familiar to you? It would have been very familiar to my eighth grade teacher for Chambers had been in the news for well over a decade. He was an intellectual and an operative in the Communist Party underground movement in the United States since the 1920s until he broke with Communism in 1938. This former communist who once furtively passed pictures, microfilm and documents to other operatives on the streets of Baltimore, New York City and our nation's capitol went on to be a writer-editor of Time Magazine and later a senior editor of William Buckley's newly founded National Review.
Does the name Alger Hiss mean anything to you? These two names, Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss, should be as familiar to students today as Nathan Hale. Whoa, I take that back. We don't teach about Nathan Hale anymore in this enlightened and tolerant age, tolerant of anything that's not Christian and patriotic anyway, do we? Alger Hiss was not a patriot to America as Nathan Hale was even though he had the opportunity to be one as he had held a lofty position of influence in the FDR administration. Alger Hiss eventually was brought to trial and served time in prison. But we do know about Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy don't we? Yes....McCarthyism... he was that wicked Senator who accused so many loyal Americans of being Communists....or so we are constantly told.
I was a liberal once, I even did phone work for Ted Kennedy's campaign for the Democrat nomination for president in 1979. I shook Jimmy Carter's hand...twice... and remember very well reading with great interest his book Why Not The Best. I know what it's like to think that you are being compassionate when in fact you are merely a dupe of an insidious ideology that fronts itself as compassionate but in reality is murder incorporated, for that is what Communism always was and always will be, no matter what name it assumes. I know what it's like to read just about every article in the Sunday New York Times and think that you are enhancing your knowledge and strengthening your mind. I know what it's like to listen to a college professor and admire his knowledge and wisdom when in fact he may have had much of the former but not a trace of the latter.
I visit college campuses quite often... almost every chance that I get. I leave some cards with the URL of these posts on it, usually along with a pen. Actually now the pens have the address on them. I'll gather as many of the student newspapers that I can to read later. I know that I can get these issues online but I'm one of those who loves words written on paper. What I'm looking for is a sign that our youth are waking up and that somehow (which really could only come through the grace of God) wisdom and discernment had broken through the bondage of a Facebook culture or that they had actually used their minds and not simply regurgitated something from Jon Stewart or the mainstream news. But alas, too often but not always, they still think that bold journalism comes from challenging the rules that the college lays down. This if it is a Christian college, for the secular college administration has long since given them everything they want in return for the honor (and tuition) of matriculating to their bastions of higher something-or-other..
Young people...you have been had. The courage isn't in voting to ban the American flag as news reports inform us just happened at the University of California, Irvine. The challenge is in demanding that the college leave their left wing politics out of the curriculum. The challenge isn't in telling administrators at a Christian college to lighten up, it's in standing before them and demanding...."More food sir," more of the history of America's beginning and of the Christian church in America and the world....and the doctrinal history of that church....more of the Reformation and more from the lives of great Christians from the past!
My hope, and I sheepishly admit this, is that my posts might generate some conversation. I hope this not only for the student bodies on college campuses but in Bible studies and families and even on that wretched Facebook! Let me leave you with this: America has crumbled beneath the weight of its own greed. The largess it once prided itself on turned into rank bribery. Benjamin Franklin wrote the following and his words have come true.... "When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic."
A copy of Whittaker Chambers 1952 book Witness is before me, all 807 pages of it. The library called me yesterday and told me that it was overdue. I apologized and will pay the fine but I need just a little bit longer to finish reading it. It is not only history, it is great literature, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to you. Read this book and make up your own mind on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss. Read it and you will see why President Reagan posthumously awarded Whittaker Chambers the Presidential Medal Of Freedom. If time constraints make it difficult for you to start on Witness, I also highly recommend two books by Grove City College professor Paul Kengor..Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century and Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage. The first is reviewed in these posts on July 24th of this year and the second on September 15th.
