From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Where are the protesters?
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 16:26:44 -0400
I don't like the whole slant of this article: that a country "wins" or
"loses" by how effective it is in forcing it's ideology on other countries.
The socialist ideas in this country aren't a communist plot. They are coming
from within and are a natural consequence of the corruption that is making
the divide between rich and poor wider every year. Like the Russian
Revolution, the French Revolution, or in many ways the American Revolution,
the peasants are fed up with the injustice of it all.
By definition, we have been Social Democrats for many years...selective
nationalization, while maintaining private property and private business
ownership, with regulated markets and tax-funded social programs. We don't
have anything even close to true capitalism or free markets here. We at the
bottom are heavily regulated, while those at the top apparently aren't (I'm
thinking the Wall St. bankers and Bernie Madoff's of the country).
By the same token, the USSR wasn't a true communist country; more a
totalitarian dictatorship. Ironically, those at the bottom were heavily
regulated, while the few at the top flourished. Some things are universal,
huh?
Lynn Wigglesworth
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From: "Leslie" <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Where are the protesters?
From: EarthNSky
<<< I thought this was interesting and makes me wonder how much of the
anti-war protest was political vs. philosophical. >>
Aren't one's views on politics and economics an extension of one's core
philosophy?
IE philosphical beliefs on politics and economics is expressed in the form
of political/government rules.
In the below article, Nyquist, a global analyst type.... explains that
America has too many big guns for enemies of the principals of freedom and
free markets to attack directly, and how we've really been at war for a long
time. Also, the term ObamaWars might be a little short-sighted in its
origins.
The Sequence
by J. R. Nyquist
Weekly Column Published: 08.28.2009
"The military power with the best tanks, aircraft and ships doesn't always
win a battle. Wars may be decided by many factors, including non-military
factors. For example, a military confrontation may be decided beforehand
when a society gradually turns to recreational drug use; or when the work
ethic collapses; or a significant segment of the society unwittingly adopts
the enemy's ideology; or the political elite of the country shows itself to
be corrupt and contemptuous of the public.
"The United States has been a great and stable power for many decades. One
should never, on that account, assume the invincibility of the U.S. The
American superpower has been strategically mismanaged for half a century.
During the Cold War the U.S. suffered outright defeats in Cuba, Laos,
Vietnam, and Cambodia. With the end of the Cold War came major Communist
advances in South Africa (1994), Congo (1997), Angola (2002), Venezuela
(1999), Brazil (2002), Bolivia (2006), and Nicaragua (2006).
"What is not understood, is that the Communist movement in general, being a
fifth column instrument of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, became even
more effective after the fall of the Soviet Union. As it happens, people
react to words like "Communism" in a negative way. Therefore, from the point
of view of strategy, it is better to dispense with the word "Communist" and
use another word.
"The battle for what used to be called "Communism" is today a battle for
so-called "social justice." The advocates in this battle are "caring
individuals," who claim to represent the poor and the working class. Theirs
is an ongoing struggle, and is fought on many fronts, especially inside the
United States. The reason for accelerating their campaign within America is
important to understand: The United States is the only military power, and
the only economic power, strong enough to block the advance of Moscow and
Beijing. During the Cold War, the Americans blocked these countries from
advancing in many areas, including Africa, Southeast Asia, Korea, Taiwan,
Iran, Germany, and Central America. Even the Communist victories in
Southeast Asia and Africa were hardfought, and largely won through
psychological warfare and propaganda. On the battlefield, America remained
dominant.
"Given the obstacle presented, how could the Communist Bloc overcome
America's military power?
"Very simply, when one side in a global contest appears to give up, the
psychological impact is enormous. Organize the collapse of Communism from
the Kremlin itself and nobody in the West will question it. If the
Communists are giving up power, it is all good. But look at Russia and
Eastern Europe today. By giving up untenable positions in Germany and the
Baltic States, the remainder is yet dominated by agent networks and mafias
aligned with Moscow. In Ukraine, for example, there is a pro-NATO president
whose power has been undermined by a prime minister who works for Moscow. In
Georgia, the Russian troops press in while operations continue to unseat the
pro-American president. In Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria and
Romania old Communist structures dominate business and government. Despite
their entry into NATO, some of these countries may be described as nests of
spies and infiltrators whose mission has been to sabotage NATO from within.
This is not simply conjecture, but the conclusion drawn by the
best-informed political activists and researchers in Eastern Europe.
"The supposed Cold War victory of the West opened Europe to infection by
Moscow's clandestine armies. Already the Left formed a fifth column in
Western Europe. But these political forces were to be augmented by economic
interpenetration, energy dependence, and more.
"Because of its advanced weaponry, the United States cannot be easily
defeated in a war. But wars are won or lost before they reach the point of
outright military clashes. The order of battle in the next world war is not
merely a list of divisions or nuclear rocket regiments. This order of battle
chiefly consists in assets that include banks, major corporations,
non-government organizations (NGOs), environmentalists, peace activists,
drug cartels, organized crime syndicates, and the left wing of the
Democratic Party, which the Communists targeted for infiltration more than
30 years ago.
"In advance of any military campaign relying on tank divisions and nuclear
rocket regiments, it is necessary to soften the United States through a
series of clandestine and subversive moves: first, there was the use of
narcotics trafficking as a weapon, which began in 1960. Prior to that, there
was the infiltration of organized crime, the penetration of U.S. banks, and
the introduction of the Peaceful Coexistence Struggle by Nikita Khrushchev.
For those interested in the details of this, please refer to a book titled
Red Cocaine, by Joseph D. Douglass. (It is based on the testimony of one of
the highest-level Communsit defectors of all time, Jan Sejna.)
"The campaign involves the use of economic weapons, as well as educational
weapons. Every civilization nourishes within itself various cults opposed to
its values. That is basically what "Communism" represents. The specifics of
ideology are unimportant, for what is represented is essentially
anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity, anti-Western civilization. It can change
its name, it rhetoric, its tactics, but the movement in opposition to
civilization remains essentially the same in its determination to destroy
what presently exists. Taking this into account, take a good look around and
re-examine the former Cold War battlefield. Note the changes around the
globe, and the changes in Washington.
"What do you think has been happening over the last 20 years?
"Robert Chandler has written a book titled Shadow World: Resurgent Russia,
the Global New Left, and Radical Islam. What is valuable in Chandler's work
relates to his firsthand interactions with Leftist organizers in the United
States. According to Chandler, there is a vast network in America that aims
to bring down the capitalist system, destroy the U.S. Constitution, and
break up the federal system by getting control of the government.
"The driving forces in this top network," wrote Chandler, "are the 'thought
leaders' and other individuals in non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
including anarcho-communists and anarcho-syndacalists." He noted that
"leadingmembers are the Washington, D.C.-based revolutionary centers -- the
institute for Policy Studies ... as well as the coopted mainstream media and
politicians making up the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the 'Shadow
Party' hiding inside the Democratic Party...."
"According to Chandler, "The radical Left" is engaging in a new form of
political warfare in which the Left targeted "open spaces" in the American
social structure; namely, schools and universities, government, churches and
community organizations. The idea was, wrote Chandler, "to transform society
and replace traditional American values and institutions with neo-Marxist
values." At a Marxist conference that Chandler attended, one of the agenda
items was openly listed as, "The Strange Pleasures of Destruction in
Capitalist America." He relates that most of the participants "were
university professors." In the course of this conference, purely by
accident, he ran into Zapatista Subcommandante Marcos in an underground
parking garage. According to Chandler, "Orthodox communsits warned
conference participants about the dangers of wandering away from the basics
of Marx and Lenin...." He further explained that everyone present at the
conference agreed it was
necessary to "destroy the state as a part of the coming socialist
revolution. There simply was no other way to achieve socialist governance in
the United States than to crush the existing capitalist system."
"Now the sequence should be clear. If the United States is bankrupt,
politically divided and internally sabotaged by the radicals of the Left who
have everywhere infiltrated the system, will there be a logistical support
network for maintaining our tanks, bombers and ICBMS?
What seems fantastic on first-hearing is actually everyday life for those
who are paying attention. Look at the world around you. There are those who
have been enriching themselves as they sabotage the economy and poison the
culture. They pretend to care about the poor and downtrodden. But they live
in mansions, collect enormous sums from government and business, advancing
the foreign policy goals of enemy dictators. The organized Left is a
business with access to billions of dollars. Its tendency is to serve as a
fifth column.
"Now imagine the collapse of the dollar. Imagine the collapse of the U.S.
federal system, the Constitution, and America's domestic tranquility. How
will the country defend itself from Russian missiles when our missiles no
longer work because they have fallen into disrepair after an economic
collapse? Here is asymetrical warfare at its best. Here is the beginning of
what I call "the sequence"."