There was an odd report in the news the other day. John O. Brennan is the Director of the CIA. While speaking as part of a conference panel Brennan added a little anecdote in response to a question. As a college student in 1976 he voted for Gus Hall who was the Communist Party's nominee for president. So...our CIA director once voted for a communist for the President of the United States!
Now there are some extenuating circumstances. Mr. Brennan says that as a college student it was simply his way of "signaling (his) unhappiness with the system" The year was 1976. It was just one year after communist tanks rolled into Saigon! Many of us had done some incredibly stupid things in our youth and I'm probably in the record books somewhere.....but voting for a communist for president? Four years later he was accepted into the CIA after admitting to this indiscretion on a polygraph test. I guess that he gets an A for honesty but he gets an F in Political Science.
Communism is responsible for the deaths of well over 100 million people (sorry for the previous typo!) in the last 100 years, including tens of thousands of our own military in Vietnam and Korea, and a young Mr. Brennan has a hissy fit in college and votes communist? Oh well, he's an Obama appointee so you can almost expect anything.
We talk about race and we talk about the police concerning the turmoil in our inner cities but communism is the elephant in the room as the ultimate source of the violence.
Ignore Communism if you wish......but know that that's exactly what they want you to do. The following post was written in 2015:
As best as I can recall, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn tells this story of his conversion. He was a prisoner in the gulag system that he would eventually expose. He became ill and a doctor, a fellow prisoner, worked on him throughout the night. That doctor openly talked about his Christian faith while he worked on the future Nobel Prize winner in Literature. A guard came by and warned him to stop. When Solzhenitsyn awoke in the morning he asked for the doctor but was told that he was dead, killed for his testimonies of Jesus Christ. This was the beginning of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's gift of literature to the world from the eyes of a Christian. He later wrote the following on the condition of his country...Russia.
Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat : "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.
Communism is not just a political and socioeconomic system. It's a cancerous cell inflicted upon the human race for a purpose. Is this an outrageous statement made without warrant? Are100 million lives and counting not enough to warrant such a statement? Communism instigates hate and violence for the sole purpose of societal upheaval so that it can take power. It works tirelessly and patiently to perpetuate ignorance upon which it thrives. It leads decent people into committing crimes. It plays upon the weaknesses of societies, not too help them but to subjugate them. It lures the poor and the rich alike. It sets first the focus of its attack on whole professions.....professions that in turn can protect it through naivete' and vainglory (journalism) prevent it from having to deal with a God-fearing people (higher education) and propagandize and tranquilize the rest (entertainments industries) while it only has to send a relatively small contingent, in comparison to the entire population, of trained and professional operatives to help set up a shadow government ready to take power when all government and law collapses.
It's been written that the Devil loves it when people laugh at the very thought of a Devil. In like manner Communism flourishes in its mission precisely when people consider it a toothless old bogeyman. They, the Communists, are more than thrilled knowing that the great American circus of electing a president has started as this endgame progresses. The last thing they want is for they themselves to become the focus of attention. Slowly but surely that is just what is happening!
Now there are some extenuating circumstances. Mr. Brennan says that as a college student it was simply his way of "signaling (his) unhappiness with the system" The year was 1976. It was just one year after communist tanks rolled into Saigon! Many of us had done some incredibly stupid things in our youth and I'm probably in the record books somewhere.....but voting for a communist for president? Four years later he was accepted into the CIA after admitting to this indiscretion on a polygraph test. I guess that he gets an A for honesty but he gets an F in Political Science.
Communism is responsible for the deaths of well over 100 million people (sorry for the previous typo!) in the last 100 years, including tens of thousands of our own military in Vietnam and Korea, and a young Mr. Brennan has a hissy fit in college and votes communist? Oh well, he's an Obama appointee so you can almost expect anything.
We talk about race and we talk about the police concerning the turmoil in our inner cities but communism is the elephant in the room as the ultimate source of the violence.
Ignore Communism if you wish......but know that that's exactly what they want you to do. The following post was written in 2015:
As best as I can recall, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn tells this story of his conversion. He was a prisoner in the gulag system that he would eventually expose. He became ill and a doctor, a fellow prisoner, worked on him throughout the night. That doctor openly talked about his Christian faith while he worked on the future Nobel Prize winner in Literature. A guard came by and warned him to stop. When Solzhenitsyn awoke in the morning he asked for the doctor but was told that he was dead, killed for his testimonies of Jesus Christ. This was the beginning of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's gift of literature to the world from the eyes of a Christian. He later wrote the following on the condition of his country...Russia.
Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat : "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.
Communism is not just a political and socioeconomic system. It's a cancerous cell inflicted upon the human race for a purpose. Is this an outrageous statement made without warrant? Are100 million lives and counting not enough to warrant such a statement? Communism instigates hate and violence for the sole purpose of societal upheaval so that it can take power. It works tirelessly and patiently to perpetuate ignorance upon which it thrives. It leads decent people into committing crimes. It plays upon the weaknesses of societies, not too help them but to subjugate them. It lures the poor and the rich alike. It sets first the focus of its attack on whole professions.....professions that in turn can protect it through naivete' and vainglory (journalism) prevent it from having to deal with a God-fearing people (higher education) and propagandize and tranquilize the rest (entertainments industries) while it only has to send a relatively small contingent, in comparison to the entire population, of trained and professional operatives to help set up a shadow government ready to take power when all government and law collapses.
It's been written that the Devil loves it when people laugh at the very thought of a Devil. In like manner Communism flourishes in its mission precisely when people consider it a toothless old bogeyman. They, the Communists, are more than thrilled knowing that the great American circus of electing a president has started as this endgame progresses. The last thing they want is for they themselves to become the focus of attention. Slowly but surely that is just what is happening!
