A WEEKLY COMMENTARY
Year Twenty-Seven ... Number Forty ... October 3, 1980
THAT DIME'S WORTH OF DIFFERENCE
"Gay Religious Leaders Visit White House," was the title of a report sent out by the Fundamentalist News Service of the American Council of Christian Churches a few weeks ago. It read: "Dr. Robert Maddox, President Carter's special assisstant for religious liaison met with some 41 representatives of gay religious caucuses in American chuches. The two hour meeting covered reports of discrimination against homosexuals in churches and in society, homosexual religious ministries and political objectives. 'You have blown a number of stereotypes for me today. The kind of careful preparation you have done will carry the day for you eventually,' Dr. Maddox told the group -- which he cautioned against expecting a quick resolution to gay problems in every church or government. 'Still,' he continued, 'I feel at home and very comfortable with you folks today -- more so -- than with a delegation of fundamentalists who visited a month earlier to present anti-gay rights petitions bearing 74,000 signatures.' Asked about his previous comments to the fundamentalist group that President Carter 'was not going to do anything to hasten homosexual's acceptance into society,' Dr. Maddox said, 'I don't think I said that. The President has said he fully endorses and encourages the civil rights of homosexuals.' Allison Thomas from the staff of Anne Wexler, assistant to the President, said, 'This is an open administration. The President stands firmly for civil and human rights for all Americans, and I'm proud to say that includes homosexuals. 95 percent of gay employment discrimination was wiped off the books by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. A U.S. Civil Service Commission memo due in about two weeks will clarify that federal employment will not be affected by off-the-job behavior, including sexual preference.' Howard Erickson, coordinator of "Lutherans Concerned" reminded Dr. Maddox that mainline churches almost unanimously endorse gay civil rights laws." (unquote).
For purposes of comparison, we quote a mailgram sent out by Phyllis Schlafly following Ronald Reagan's September 12 announcement of appointments to his Women's Advisory Committeee: "Ronald Reagan today announced his Women's Advisory Committee of 25 women, and it is predominantly women's lib. Mary Louise Smith is chairman. Committee includes bitter pre-ERAers such as Margaret Heckler, Maureen Reagan and Audrey Rowe. It includes sponsor of the Draft Women Amendment Nancy Kassebaum. It includes the leader of the move to send women into military combat Jeanne Holm. Committee includes at least three IWY Commissioners, but not a single woman is identified in the Stop ERA or Pro-Life Movement." (unquote).
It so happened that at the time of Reagan's announcement of appointments, the Women for Constitutional Government, were holding their annual National Convention in Jackson, Mississippi (Sept. 11-13). Informed of Reagan's action by mailgram, they immediately drafted and approved a resolution, from which we quote:
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WHEREAS, on September 12, 1980, Ronald Reagan announced this
Women's Advisory Committee of 25 members; and
WHEREAS, most of the appointees can be identified as leaders in the
left-wing women's lib organizations, the Pro-ERA drive, the
movement to draft women and send them into combat, and pushers
of homosexuality and abortion; and
WHEREAS, not a single appointee is representative of the pro-American,
pro-family views, nor can be identified with Stop ERA, Pro-Life,
nor any conservative or traditional Christian movement; and
WHEREAS, there appointments represent a complete reversal and repudiation
of the platform recently adopted at the Republican National Convention,
as well as the betrayal of those staunch conservatives who have
supported Ronald Reagan through the primaries and in the Convention
itself; and
WHEREAS, the tactics used by proponents of ERA to force legislatures
to ratify the proposed amendment have been unfair, immoral and unconstitutional,
and Ronald Reagan's appointments to his Women's Advisory Committee represents
an endorsement of those tactics; and
WHEREAS, the views espoused by these women-libbers are repugnant to the
great majority of Americans ... therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that these appointments be denounced...."(unquote).
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We are taught that there are two major political parties in the United States because they promote opposing political philosophies and governing policies, and that gives us a choice. But, in the two items we have just quoted, can you detect any real difference? It is true that there are differences in the National Party Platforms presented by the Republicans and the Democrats. But it would seem that, in order to fool most of the people most of the time -- and especially at election time -- members of the allegedly opposing parties meet in National Convention and adopt platforms that are different. But these platforms are only used to fool people into voting one way or another. Once the candidates have been elected and installed, the party platform goes into the waste basket, is replaced by a program presented by the "Invisible Government." This happesn, regardless of which candidate wins, because the Power Brokers control them all. In this particular case, Reagan didn't even wait until after the election to renounce the Republican Party's Platform. It says, for example, "we express our support for legislation protecting and defending the traditional American family against ongoing erosion of its base in our society." It says that "we affirm our support of a constitutional amendment to restore protection of the right to life for unborn children." It says that "ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment is now in the hands of the state legislatures" and there should be "no federal interference or pressure." So how did Reagan react to his Party's demands? He appointed to his Women's Advisory Council pro-ERAers, abortionists, and gays. And so, where is that "dime's worth of difference?"
So far as the candidates are concerned, platforms -- and promises -- are made to please and to deceive. The most flagrant example of this involved a former Governor of a great State who was running for President. His platform which he endorsed publicly and supposedly whole-heartedly, was the most conservative, the most pro-American platform ever written by a political party in this century. However, once elected, this former Governor of a great State threw away that wonderful platform and introduced instead what came to be known as the New Deal. Ever since then, people have been told that there is this great fixed gulf separating the principles espoued by the two major parties. There usually is, on paper. But that great fixed gulf simply disappears the minute a new administration is installed. On the part of the Power Brokers, it's a form of the "divide and conquer" technique.
One of the most successful uses of differences to divide and conquer people is the "label" technique applied to politics: semantics use of such words as democracy, socialism, communism, fascism, naziism, etc. We are told constantly, and most of us seem to believe, that Communism and Fascism are at opposite ends of the political spectrum. Communism is supposed to be the extreme left, while Fascism (or Naziism) is the extreme right. That supposedly places Democracy somewhere in the moderate middle of the political spectrum. But, if we bother to study history, we'll discover that Communism and Fascism are members of the same family, the family name being Socialism. They are not opposites at all, they are political relatives. Communism as practiced in Russia, is International Socialism; while Naziism, Fascism and the kinds of Communism practiced in Yugoslavia and Albania, are forms of National Socialism.
An illustration of the international character of Soviet Communism is provided by a study of the KGB. Its present director is Yuri V. Andropov, who also is a ranking member of the all-powerful "Politburo," and is often mentioned as a possible successor to Leonid Brezhnev, if and when. The KGB is an international secret police. It is divided into five General "Directorships," the first of which is in charge of all foreign operations: spying, sabotaging, terrorizing, directing revolutions, wars, etc. This "General Dictatorship" is composed of various "departments" according to geographical zones. Department No. 1 takes care of the United States and Canada: Department Two operates in Latin America. The Third Department looks after Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Scandinavia. And so on with some 15 Departments dedicated to the proposition of Communizing the world. (This information is culled from an article entitled "The KGB: The Monster with Tenacles," by the recognized authority of Communism Anton Moor. The article appeared in June, 1980 issue of Replica, Guadalajaro, Mexico).
This is what is meant by Communism, or International Socialism, with its vast and highly developed apparatus whose aim is to create and control a One World Society by whatever means that become necessary: political assassinations, sabotage, acts of terrorism, revolution, war, genocide; or the gentler tactics of Fabianism where successful: legislation, education, indoctrination, drugs, and carrots.
Fascism, Naziism and other forms of National Socialism, are different in one respect. They do not rule out capitalism, but find ways of using capitalism to enforce their totalitarian methods. For this reason, Fascism is also known as Corporate Socialism. Our doublespeak historians and economists were able to blot out the fact that Roosevelt's New Deal was Fascist to the core! Ronald Reagan mentioned this fact in one of his campaign speeches, but so far as we have been able to determine, has never again mentioned this hidden truth. But a reader of The Review of the News asked that publication if Reagan was "Off base in comparing Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal with aspects of Fascism?" The question was answered that publication's Sept. 24th issue. We quote:
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Not at all. Mussolini's economic policies were admired by many New Dealers. In 1935, the year the Supreme Court ruled the National Identity Recovery Act (NIRA) unconstitutional, there were shocking similarities in the economic tactics of the New Deal, Naziism and Fascism. An observer compared the three as follows: "Through capital advances each government exercises varying powers over industry and commerce. A planned national economy is the goal. Room remains for the competitive game. The codes of the NRA and the hand of the State in their framing and operation are suggestive of the 'Corporation' patterned in Italy and that of the 'Chamber' in Germany. Just so. In fact, when the General Hugh Johnson took over the NRA under Roosevelt he gave to each Cabinet member a book by an Italian Fascist. And when Johnson was leaving the NRA, reports Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. in The Coming of the New Deal, "he invoked what he called the 'shining name of Mussolini...'"
Similarly, says NYU economics professor Melvyn Krauss: "Mr. Reagan's insight that Mussolini's Italian 'corporate state,' and Roosevelt's short-lived 'corproate state' in the U.S. were structurally identical not only is correct, but demonstrates an intellectual sophistication that many professional economic historians would envy."
Mussolini, after all, was a long-time socialist. The socialist president of Columbia, Dr. Nicholas Murry Butler, bragged of his friendship with Il Duce and called Fascism in Rome "a form of government of the first order of excellence" and advocated that "we should look to Italy to show us what its experience and insight have to teach in the crisis confronting the twentieth century."
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Reagan's "insight" in noting the similarities of Mussolini's corporate state and Roosevelt's 'short-lived' corporate state may be commendable. But it was not a 'short-lived' corporate state, it was an 'interrupted' corporate state, interrupted by a then Constitution-minded Supreme Court. But, ever since passage of the National Employment Act of 1946, the New World Order Planners have been moving toward a total Planned Economy. Planned Economy and Socialism are Synonyms! And here's that dime's worth of difference: In the USSR, Big Government owns everything; in the US, Big Government controls everything. Both are types of Planned Economy. And the end result is to be a wedding of the two, so that there is Planned Economy on a world-wide scale.
Indicative of our drift toward Corporate Socialism (Fascism) has been Government's bailout of Lockheed, of New York City, the takeover of railroads, Government's control of the oil industry, its loans to Chrysler, to Big Steel, and -- 100% Fascistic -- the naming of the head of the United Auto Workers Labor Union to a directorship in the Chrysler Corporation. A similar drift into Fascism can be noted in the creation of the Ten Federal Regions, for the control of land, industry, commerce and all human resources and services.
In the international field there has been a constant drift toward "world law," toward interdependence, the making of trade and cultural agreements, especially with Communist countries. Through such deals -- by treaty, executive order, UN directive, etc. -- our sovereignty is being sapped, our freedoms lost. All in the name of a New World Order, a synonym for Universal Planned Economy.
Reagan's insight will not prevent this march toward slavery. He has sold out to his Trilateral bosses. When they command he must obey. Note his backdown in the "Two China" affair; and his surrender to pro-ERAers, abortionists and gays. Reagan's rhetoric is commendable, his perserverence is deplorable. All of which means that the preservation of our freedoms, the restoration of our Republic, the salvation of our children, and the return of morality and justice depend upon our control of the one branch of government over which we still can exercise control: the Legislatures of our State and Federal Governments. There remains time to investigate, to promote, to vote for the man and not for the party label he wears or for the empty promises he'll not try to keep. If we fail, this election could be our last.
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