Wednesday, October 30, 2013

And it came to pass ...





Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
"Current Communist Goals"

Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
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.
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]- Free Republic
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.
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.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.[Largely accomplished in radical Democrats elected in the he wake of the Nixon coup.]
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.  (This was 3 years before the Miranda decision began an avalanche of court decisions that put criminals first)
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 [See #36] .
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack. [Organized Anti-war marches were still in the future]
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions. [Can you spell New York Times?]
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.[Walter Cronkite had yet to be called the :"most trusted Man in America.  The Hollywood Ten were still working under pseudonyms.after being outed by HUAC"]
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. [The Warren Court soon took care of that]
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.[Hollywood, check your messages]
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
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." [I'm Okay.  You're Okay psychobabble was still 6 years away.  The ACLU however was already here.]
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." [Madalyn Murray O'Hair was still 3 years away from founding the "American Atheists']  
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. [They're still doing that]
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man. [The "Dead White Men" meme]
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.  [Thirty-two years later Yale University would return a $20 million gift rather than expand its Western civilization curriculum as requested]
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. [Said and Done!]
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus  .[Said and Done!]
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. [One of the first things the post Nixon radicalized Democrat congress did was abolish the committee in 1975]
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.  [PBS delves into Hoover's 'Secret Life' in 1993, based soley on the memory of a demented 1940's mob whore.   Hillary Clinton given access to the secret FBI files of Republican lawmakers by the agency which is by now entirely politicized]
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
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]. [Like EPA 'Swat Teams?]
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.  [Well, Sean Penn did just urge that Obama use the Executive Order to commit Ted Cruz to an insane asylum.]
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. [Hollywood: said and done]
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.[Hillary, as head of  Childrens Defense Fund (sic),  promoted "Suing Mom and Dad."]
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.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal. [Fourteen years later U.S. President Jummy Carter gave it away]
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. [Still under attack]
(Connally was the author of the noted "Connally Reservation," which amended the U.S. ratification of the U.N. charter to bar the International Court of Justice from having jurisdiction over domestic matters '"as determined by the United States"'. The self-defining proviso was and is seen as something of a repudiation of the authority of the world court. From an American perspective, the proviso would protect the U.S. against potential overreach by the international group)

The highlighted sections are items that particularly caught my eye.  The hardest thing for younger peopleHell, even I had to slap myself a few times for younger people to realize is that this Congressional Record entry is from January 10, 1963!  Few of these goals had been realized then. In just a few years however, using the KGB funded Vietnam Nam  protests as a catalyst, these "Red Scare" hyperboles began reaching fruition. In the meanwhile, it's  became déclassé to even mention communism as a threat.




6 comments:

iri said...

Where have I seen that before?

Anonymous said...

Tattooed on the back of your eyelids?

j_c_

iri said...

It was a fair question Rodge and I still want to know.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Huh? I don't know where you saw it before.

iri said...

I read snippets of Cleon Skousen's book back in about 2000 that was the first time I saw that list. You posted in 2010 compliments of Ricky. I reposted it a few weeks ago.

I simply mistook j_c's feeble attempt at humor as a vicious personal attack thus the comment you deleted where I was inquiring into his intellectual acumen.

You're the boss.

cmblake6 said...

I will be linking this.

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