|"In the end, everything is a gag." ~Charlie Chaplin
"The argument that the two
parties should represent opposed ideals
and policies, one,
perhaps, of the Right and the other of the
Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to
doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
Instead, the two parties should be almost
identical, so that the American people can
"throw the rascals out" at any election
without leading to any profound or
extensive shifts in policy."
~ Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A
History of the World in our Time
We are intellectual prostitutes
the foremost journalist of his day, was asked
to toast an independent press at a New York
banquet given in his honour by other
His response was clear and forthright:
“There is no such thing, at this stage
of the world’s history in America, as an
independent press. You know it and I know
There is not one of you who dare write your
honest opinions, and if you did, you know
beforehand that it would never appear in
print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest
opinions out of the paper I am connected with.
Other of you are paid similar salaries for
similar things, and any of you who would be
foolish as to write honest opinions would be
out on the streets looking for another job.
If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in
one issue of my papers, before twenty-four
hours my occupation would be gone.
The business of the journalist is to destroy
the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to
vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to
sell his country and his race for his daily
bread. You know it and I know it, and what
folly is this toasting an independent press?
We are the jumping jacks, they pull the
strings and we dance. Our talents, our
possibilities and our lives are all the
property of other men.
“We are intellectual prostitutes.”
John Swinton, New York 1890
Ten Steps To Close Down an Open
Invoke a terrifying internal and external
Creating a terrifying threat – hydra-like,
secretive, evil – is an old trick.
2. Create a gulag and push torture as a good
Once you have got everyone scared, the next
step is to create a prison system outside the
rule of law(as Bush put it, he wanted the
American detention centre at Guantánamo Bay to
be situated in legal “outer space”) – where
torture takes place.
At first, the people who are sent there are
seen by citizens as outsiders: troublemakers,
spies, “enemies of the people” or “criminals”.
Initially, citizens tend to support the secret
prison system; it makes them feel safer and
they do not identify with the prisoners. But
soon enough, civil society leaders –
opposition members, labour activists, clergy
and journalists – are arrested and sent there
as well. This process took place in fascist shifts or
anti-democracy crackdowns ranging from Italy
and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s
3. Develop a system which creates thugs
(militarized police, nationalize police)
When leaders who seek a “fascist shift” want
to close down an open society, they send
paramilitary groups of scary young men out to
terrorize citizens. The Blackshirts roamed the
Italian countryside beating up communists; the
Brownshirts staged violent rallies throughout
Germany. This paramilitary force is especially
important in a democracy: you need citizens to
fear thug violence and so you need thugs who
are free from prosecution.
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
NSA spying using internet and phone systems.
In closed societies, this surveillance is cast
as being about “national security”; the true
function is to keep citizens docile and
inhibit their activism and dissent.
5. Harass citizens’ groups
You infiltrate and harass citizens’ groups.
the American Civil Liberties Union reports
that thousands of ordinary American anti-war,
environmental and other groups have been
infiltrated by agents: a secret Pentagon
database includes more than four dozen
peaceful anti-war meetings, rallies or marches
by American citizens in its category of 1,500
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
This scares people. It is a kind of
cat-and-mouse game. In a closing or closed
society there is a “list” of dissidents and
opposition leaders: you are targeted in this
way once you are on the list, and it is hard
to get off the list.
7. Target key individuals
Constitutionalists, Journalists, Bloggers,
Religious, patriots, religions,
8. Control the press
Over time in closing societies, real news is
supplanted by fake news and false documents.
You won’t have a shutdown of news in modern
America – it is not possible. But you can
have, as Frank Rich and Sidney Blumenthal have
pointed out, a steady stream of lies polluting
the news well. What you already have is a
White House directing a stream of false
information that is so relentless that it is
increasingly hard to sort out truth from
untruth. In a fascist system, it’s not the
lies that count but the muddying. When
citizens can’t tell real news from fake, they
give up their demands for accountability bit
9. Dissent equals treason
Cast dissent as “treason” and criticism as
“espionage’. Every closing society does this,
just as it elaborates laws that increasingly
criminalise certain kinds of speech and expand
the definition of “spy” and “traitor”. When Congress wrongly, foolishly, passed the
Military Commissions Act of 2006 and NDAA
(terrorist, domestic terrorist) – the
president has the power to call any US citizen
an “enemy combatant”. He has the power to
define what “enemy combatant” means. The
president can also delegate to anyone he
chooses in the executive branch the right to
define “enemy combatant” any way he or she
wants and then seize Americans accordingly.
10. Suspend the rule of law (Martial Law)
The president may now use military troops as a
domestic police force in response to a natural
disaster, a disease outbreak, terrorist attack
or any ‘other condition’.”
Critics see this as a clear violation of the
Posse Comitatus Act – which was meant to
restrain the federal government from using the
military for domestic law enforcement. It also
violates the very reason the founders set up
our system of government as they did.
Defining Characteristics Of Fascism
| 1. Powerful and
Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make
constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols,
songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen
everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because
of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people
in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can
be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The
people tend to look the other way or even approve of
torture, summary executions, assassinations, long
incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying
Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic
frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common
threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities;
liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are
widespread domestic problems, the military is given a
disproportionate amount of government funding, and the
domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military
service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations
tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under
fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more
rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are
suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate
guardian of the family institution.
6. Controlled Mass Media -
Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the
government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly
controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic
media spokespeople and executives. Censorship,
especially in war time, is very common.
7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a
motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments
in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion
in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion.
Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from
government leaders, even when the major tenets of the
religion are diametrically opposed to the government's
policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and
business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the
ones who put the government leaders into power, creating
a mutually beneficial business/government relationship
and power elite.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing
power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist
government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely,
or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist
nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to
higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for
professors and other academics to be censored or even
arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is
12. Obsession with Crime and
Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given
almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are
often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego
civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is
often a national police force with virtually unlimited
power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes
almost always are governed by groups of friends and
associates who appoint each other to government
positions and use governmental power and authority to
protect their friends from accountability. It is not
uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and
even treasures to be appropriated or even outright
stolen by government leaders.
14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in
fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times
elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or
even assassination of opposition candidates, use of
legislation to control voting numbers or political
district boundaries, and manipulation of the media.
Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to
manipulate or control elections.
Planks of the Communist Manifesto
Abolition of private property
and the application of all rent to public purpose.
The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868), and various
zoning, school & property taxes. Also the Bureau of Land
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Misapplication of the 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution,
1913, The Social Security Act of 1936.; Joint House Resolution
192 of 1933; and various State "income" taxes. We
call it "paying your fair share".
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
We call it Federal & State estate Tax (1916); or reformed
Probate Laws, and limited inheritance via arbitrary inheritance
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
We call in government seizures, tax liens, Public "law"
99-570 (1986); Executive order 11490, sections 1205, 2002 which gives private
land to the Department of Urban Development; the imprisonment
of "terrorists" and those who speak out or write against
the "government" (1997 Crime/Terrorist Bill); or the
IRS confiscation of property without due process.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means
of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
We call it the Federal Reserve which is a credit/debt system
nationally organized by the Federal Reserve act of 1913. All
local banks are members of the Fed system, and are regulated
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation
in the hands of the State.
We call it the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department
of Transportation (DOT) mandated through the ICC act of 1887,
the Commissions Act of 1934, The Interstate Commerce Commission
established in 1938, The Federal Aviation Administration, Federal
Communications Commission, and Executive orders 11490, 10999,
as well as State mandated driver's licenses and Department of
7. Extention of factories and instruments of production owned
by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands,
and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with
a common plan.
We call it corporate capacity, The Desert Entry Act and The
Department of Agriculture. As well as the Department of Commerce
and Labor, Department of Interior, the Evironmental Protection
Agency, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau
of Mines, National Park Service, and the IRS control of business
through corporate regulations.
8. Equal liablity of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial
armies, especially for agriculture.
We call it the Social Security Administration and The Department
of Labor. The National debt and inflation caused by the communal
bank has caused the need for a two "income" family.
Woman in the workplace since the 1920's, the 19th amendment
of the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, assorted
Socialist Unions, affirmative action, the Fedral Public Works
Program and of course Executive order 11000.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries;
gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country
by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
We call it the Planning Reorganization act of 1949 , zoning
(Title 17 1910-1990) and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive
orders 11647, 11731 (ten regions) and Public "law"
10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition
of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination
of education with industrial production, etc. etc.
People are being taxed to support what we call 'public' schools,
which train the young to work for the communal debt system.
We also call it the Department of Education, the NEA and Outcome
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| Communist Goals (1963) Congressional
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]
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
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
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of
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
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
15. Capture one or both of the
political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken
basic American institutions by claiming their activities
violate civil rights.
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.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against
programs or organizations which are under Communist
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review
assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and
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
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums.
"Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling
them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by
promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines,
motion pictures, radio, and TV.
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."
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."
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
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present
them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the
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.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized
control over any part of the culture--education, social
agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere
with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
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].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental
health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over
those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage
promiscuity and easy divorce.
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.
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
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native
populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
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.
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