The recent, hypocritical crucifixion of the cowboy clown is only the latest “active measure” by the “progressive” thought police of the Left. Actually, the clown got off easy compared to his predecessors…just a lifetime ban from rodeo for mocking Obama. How many cowboys’ lives did this man save by risking his own in the arena? “Progressives” aren’t known for risking their lives for others. Their history dictates just the opposite. Instead, the Left has a long, documented genealogy of paranoia for “counterrevolutionary” thought.
The Constitution’s First Amendment was revolutionary in its antithesis to thought control common among European monarchies and Tsarist Russia. It inspired the French Revolution and caused great concern among the remaining ruling elite overseas. As the European-wide Socialist revolution failed to materialize early in the 20th Century, Lenin focused on liquidating independent thinkers in his own country. After he and his successor murdered tens of millions of free thinkers, every subsequent Russian leader has targeted the West’s. Russia refers to the U.S. as the “Main Adversary” due specifically to free speech.
Beginning with WW II, the Soviet Union recruited British citizens to spy on every branch of their government. One of their most prized accomplishments, however, was installing an “illegal” (a Russian agent living in a foreign country posing as a citizen –another reason for a Visa exit program) in the British Broadcast Corporation (BBC). His handler gave him “theses” exalting the Russians and discrediting nationalist, anti-communist literature. He is credited with swaying the mood of the British populace from anti- to pro-Soviet admiration for almost a decade. This active measure was used in every democratic country in the world. It still is.
Just prior to the end of WW II, Franklin Roosevelt’s chief advisor Harry Hopkins, a “fellow traveler” enamored with the Socialist faux-utopia, duped the ailing president into allowing the Russians to take possession of Eastern Europe. His Soviet handler’s “hook” was convincing Hopkins he was instrumental in securing “world peace.” That active measure enslaved tens of millions of people. The ensuing occupations cost another several million lives guilty of “counterrevolutionary thought.” Hungary and Czechoslovakia were particularly messy. Prior to sending in the Red Army (who believed they were being requested by the citizenry), the KGB sent in “illegals” living in western countries posing as tourists, journalists and other “innocents.” Hungarians and Czechs were than eager to share their thoughts with “Westerners.” Once the army’s bloody “liberation” was accomplished, the democratically-elected leadership was liquidated as were anyone else thinking counterrevolutionary thoughts. Cold-blooded killer Che’ Guevarra told a bosom insurrectionist comrade being led to a firing squad after the revolution: “I can’t tolerate anyone who doesn’t think like me.”
While Eastern Europe was being subjugated in the ‘50s, the Soviet Union’s American Directorate had already successfully established the American Communist Party (now Communist Party USA – one of whose “theses” is “save the children, tax the rich” -Google). As CPA members, American citizens swear: “I now take my place in the ranks of the Communist Party. I pledge myself …to remain …a vigilant and firm defender of the Leninist line of the Party, the only line that insures the triumph of Soviet Power in the United States.” Almost all current internet entries on the subject of ‘50s communist influence discredit the House of UnAmerican Activities as a “Red Scare.” None mention its’ findings were verified by East German intelligence archives after the Berlin Wall fell.
PC police today also owe their origins to a more recent Russian successful “active measure” – the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Peter Collier and David Horowitz, founding leaders of the SDS, in their book Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the ‘60s state they, like so many others, finally realized they also had been duped by the communists in Moscow. They confess anti-Vietnam protests were pretexts manufactured by Moscow to destroy the United States. They’ve recanted. Others have not. In 1979, an FBI agent related to an advanced training class of police officers in Los Angeles that letters found in a raid during the ’68 Democratic convention in Chicago directed “fellow travelers” that if they could not achieve Socialist goals through revolutionary means they were to go underground and coopt themselves into the system.
In his 1990 revelatory tome, Oleg Gordievsky concludes citing the KGB’s three future key themes: material calculated to discredit all aspects of American policy; a campaign to promote conflict between the U.S. and its NATO allies; and support for the Western peace movements. A paradigm of insurgents is they will continue to use a tactic as long as it works.
“When even one American who has done nothing wrong is forced to shut his mouth and close his mind, then all Americans are in peril.” – President Harry S. Truman. That’s nothing to clown around about.
