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I don't suppose many of you remember bomb drills in grade school do you? We had them as often as fire drills. They taught us how to go into the most protected area of the school and get into a fetal position. My friends and I always referred to it as the bend over and kiss your behind good-bye position.
They say if we forget history we are bound to repeat it. This will tell you something about the 1960's when I was in college. Many students at that time were outright proponents of communism. As a mater of fact the more dope they smoked the more they loved communism. A popular T shirt in schools said "we have met the enemy and he is us". To a point that might be true, if we consider we get the government we deserve.
Anyway, I think this may give a new perspective to people who have never heard some of these things. Years ago we had what we called card carrying communists. A high percentage of these people were in Hollywood. Go figure.
Oh, if you have read any of the declassified KGB files it looked like the Russian's used three main avenues to infiltrate our political system, the media (news and entertainment), schools (education), and churches (I was actually told more than once that Jesus would be a communist). Now they tell us a community organizer.
They say if we forget history we are bound to repeat it. This will tell you something about the 1960's when I was in college. Many students at that time were outright proponents of communism. As a mater of fact the more dope they smoked the more they loved communism. A popular T shirt in schools said "we have met the enemy and he is us". To a point that might be true, if we consider we get the government we deserve.
Anyway, I think this may give a new perspective to people who have never heard some of these things. Years ago we had what we called card carrying communists. A high percentage of these people were in Hollywood. Go figure.
Oh, if you have read any of the declassified KGB files it looked like the Russian's used three main avenues to infiltrate our political system, the media (news and entertainment), schools (education), and churches (I was actually told more than once that Jesus would be a communist). Now they tell us a community organizer.
Rosenberg Guilt Tip Of Iceberg
by Bernie Reeves
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Morton Sobell's confession should be considered as part of a pattern of Soviet mischief in America, a process still at work today.
Finally the obvious truth is free. Morton Sobell, who was arrested with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and served 19 years in prison, has come clean and admitted they were all guilty of espionage against the US for the Soviet Union.
My freshman year at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1965, students were indoctrinated during orientation that the Rosenbergs were murdered by the imperialist and fascist American government for crimes they did not commit. The case is the cornerstone of the continuing anti-American propaganda that dominates academe and media today - followed in importance by the Alger Hiss case, another American serving as a Soviet spy who created a cottage industry in academic and media circles to maintain his innocence by denigrating the US.
Ronald Radosh, a former communist, appeared at the 2005 Raleigh Spy Conference I founded in 2003 to talk about his book Red Star Over Hollywood that exposes communists in the movie industry. In the early 1980s, while still an active communist, Radosh decided he would write the definitive book that proved the innocence of the Rosenbergs. He was shocked to discover they were guilty. At least, unlike his colleagues on the far Left, he told the truth in his book The Rosenberg File.
For his honesty, he was castigated and ridiculed by his left-wing friends at a public forum in Manhattan. This event led him away from the tentacles of the communists and into a career uncovering the reality that the Soviet Union forced its American devotees to issue party line propaganda under the disguise of locally grown and naturally occurring socialism. The Soviets were pulling the strings across the board, directing the early spies, the activists on campus and in the media - and the domestic terror groups in the US, Europe, South America, Africa and Japan. The Hollywood Ten and the Weather Underground alike were pawns of Moscow.
I actually attended the Venona Conference mentioned anonymously in the New York Times article about Sobell's confession. He and a cadre of his Left-wing friends constantly interrupted the conference in an effort to discredit the declassified data that nailed the Rosenbergs and Hiss and hundreds of others.
As Stanton Evans points out in his ground-breaking book on McCarthyism (Blacklisted By History), McCarthy was actually the victim, not the people he accused of being communists. The Wisconsin Senator was actually a target of the Soviets who recruited their American agents to discredit him and thus his effort to identify Soviet-controlled employees working in the federal government and the military. As Venona proves, McCarthy underestimated by a long shot the number of agents in positions in the US government. Of course Evans was subjected to attacks by the hardcore Leftists who still hold positions of influence in academics and media.
The point here is that school kids know all about the evils of McCarthyism and the "murder" of the Rosenbergs, but nothing about the real threat to America: US citizens working as Soviet agents to undermine the national interest and security. Morton Sobell's confession should be considered as part of a pattern of Soviet mischief in America, a process still at work today.