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http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/thank-y...munisms-evils/
Thank You, Glenn Beck, for Exposing Communism’s Evils Beck's efforts ensure that the millions extinguished by the communist killing machine will not be forgotten. February 5, 2010 - by Jamie Glazov The tortures included laying a man naked on a freezing cement floor, forcing his legs apart, and then an interrogator stepping on his testicles, applying increasing pressure until the confession surfaced. Imagine the consequences of no surfacing confession. Indeed, many people refused to confess to a crime they did not commit. Daughters and sons were raped in front of their fathers and mothers — for the sake of extracting “confessions.” These are just some of the delicacies that the Stalinist machinery inflicted on its citizenry in the hope of bringing socialism into earthly incarnation. Alexander Solzhenitsyn has shared much of this horror with us in his Gulag Archipelago — a work, mystifyingly enough, that I had never heard mentioned, except with a few exceptions, by one professor in a lecture or seminar in my entire eleven years studying Cold War history in academia. It was a work that I never saw, again with a few exceptions, on any academic syllabus — and many of my courses concerned Soviet history and American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union. Both of my grandfathers were exterminated by Stalinist terror. Both of my parents, Yuri and Marina Glazov, were dissidents in the former Soviet Union. They risked their lives for freedom; they stood up against Soviet totalitarianism. They barely escaped the gulag, a fortune many of our friends and relatives did not share. I come from a system where a myriad of the closest people to my family simply disappeared, where relatives and family friends died under interrogation and torture for their beliefs — or for simply nothing at all. Now try to imagine me sitting in the company of left-wing “intellectuals” in the West who think they are oppressed. This is my lifelong experience. I remember one radical feminist, whom I sat next to in a graduate student lounge, lecturing me sternly about how women in the West are oppressed because they wear bikinis on beaches; with a reprimanding tone, she explained to me that this represented the way capitalism objectifies women, marginalizes them from spheres of power, and metaphorically decapitates them as human beings. I remember asking her what she thought of female genital mutilation and honor killings in the Muslim world. To this I received a stone-cold silence and a frightening hateful stare, a stare with which I have become accustomed: I would be confined to a gulag or a psychiatric hospital if this particular individual had the power to place me there. This would be done for the good of society of course. My question was heresy: she could not, naturally, admit that evil adversarial cultures and ideologies existed — under which women truly suffer real oppression — for if she did, then she would have to sacrifice her entire worldview and personal identity. Another colleague of mine, with great moral indignation and personal angst, once complained to me about how we are being “attacked” by Pepsi commercials. “By trying to tell us that we are not cool if we don’t drink Pepsi,” he agonized, “the capitalist machinery practices the politics of exclusion. By trying to pretend it offers us choice, it actually negates choice.” My mom’s father was executed by the Soviet secret police. He did not have the luxury of being oppressed by Pepsi commercials. My family’s nightmarish experience in the Soviet Union was followed by a providential escape from totalitarian hell. We were among the lucky ones, the ones who got away. The United States gave us a safe and protected home — a home of unbelievable material well-being (in comparison to Soviet starvation) and human liberty. I will never forget the awe I felt experiencing my first taste of freedom, even as a young five-year-old boy who wasn’t completely sure what it was. My parents could now, for the first time, speak out without fear of brutal repercussions in defense of Soviet citizens who were being persecuted for their political and/or religious beliefs. For the first time, we lived without the dread to which I had been accustomed throughout my young life. I remember while we were cherishing our newfound freedom, we encountered a strange species: intellectuals in the universities who reviled my parents for the story they had to tell. For the first time in their lives, my father and mother confronted an intelligentsia that was hostile to them. Back in Russia, dissident intellectuals risked their lives when they pronounced one word of truth about the horrible history (and reality) of their country under communist rule. In America, most of the intellectuals who surrounded us scoffed at the importance of real intellectual freedom and dismissed my parents’ experience; they demonized their own society, wished for its defeat, and supported the communist enemy that muzzled free speech and tortured millions of human beings. As a very young boy, I learned that these intellectuals were “leftists.” I remember witnessing how they tried to prevent my parents from drawing attention to communism’s mass crimes and to the brave souls who were fighting for freedom — people like Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Bukovsky, Andrei Sakharov, Anatoly Sharansky, Larisa Borogaz, Aleksandr Ginzburg, and many others. While my family agonized about the relatives and friends we had left behind, and as we kept the memory of their suffering alive in our hearts, our leftist acquaintances reprimanded us for our views, instructing us to see America — our personal liberator — as the most evil entity not only in the Cold War, but in all of human history. They wanted us to dedicate our lives — as they had done — to the victory of the West’s totalitarian adversaries. But ooh la la — today we have a best friend in the West who has our back. We aren’t orphans anymore. There is a certain individual in this land, by the name of Glenn Beck, who has a television show on the Fox News Channel with a mass following; he is masterfully exposing this phenomenon that we experienced — and are still experiencing. He is telling the truth about the Soviet regime and about communism and he is beaming a light on leftists and liberals for their long romance, which continues till this day, with communist systems and the ideologies that brought them into place. Just recently, Beck’s program featured his profound documentary, The Revolutionary Holocaust, which powerfully illustrates the evil of communism and the leftist ideals that brought its horrors into existence. Beck’s documentary exposes the crimes against humanity perpetrated by mass murderers such as Che Guevara and Mao Zedong, who, till this day, enjoy great idolization in leftist milieus and, as we know, in the Obama White House itself. I would like to take this moment to express my deepest and heartfelt gratitude to Glenn Beck: * * * Mr. Beck, thank you for having the courage and integrity to tell the truth about communism, despite the price you have had to pay for doing so. It is because of people like you that the truth is being engraved into the historical record, which no one can erase. It is because of people like you that the human lives that were extinguished by the communist killing machine will mean something, will live on in humanity’s memory, and will touch human souls in their own mystical way. Because of people like you, the millions of victims of communism will not be pushed into the invisible sphere of historical amnesia — where the liberal left has perpetually tried to confine them. Mr. Beck, by producing documentaries like your recent The Revolutionary Holocaust, you are bringing personal affirmation to myriads of families like my own — and to all victims and survivors of communism — by validating our experiences and by telling the whole world that, despite the left’s attempt to impose gulag denial on our culture, we did live what we lived, we did endure what we endured, and we did see what we saw. And you are crystallizing the pernicious socialist idea that comes in the form of humanitarianism, but culminates in mass terror. Glenn Beck, you are leading the crucial fight of the 21st century. In battling on the front lines for moral clarity on the issue of communism, you are setting a firm terrain on which free men and women will be able to fight the new jihadi totalitarians who seek to destroy our freedom and lives. Glenn Beck, you are a hero to me. Thank you.
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The great eye of NERD
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You do know that Obama is not a communist, don't you... And you do know that the ideas behind communism are not related to a dictator ordering torture and killing of thousands right?
I don't want to jump the gun and make assumptions, but what is the point of this article? Is Glenn Beck trying to get elected Captain Obvious?
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I have alot to say
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[QUOTE=wanderer1;1303857]Yes, concidering what americans did to Iraqis, a resounding defeat would be the only moral outcome.[/QUOTE] |
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I have alot to say
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You wouldn't happen to also know the name of the proposed green jobs czar would you???
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[QUOTE=wanderer1;1303857]Yes, concidering what americans did to Iraqis, a resounding defeat would be the only moral outcome.[/QUOTE] |
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They Pay Me to Post Here
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"believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, even if I have told you, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." as told to Orson by Buddha "Show forgiveness, speak for justice and avoid those who choose to remain ignorant." 7:199 As told to Orson by Allah |
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The great eye of NERD
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I get that Beck can only speak in extreme hyperbole, rendering his fevered scrawling indigestible for me. (edit - I mean this guy's praising of Glen Becks fevered scrawlings)
If you can handle it, by all means, give me the gist without the fear mongering.
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The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others. -- Ayn Rand, "The Cashing-In: The Student Rebellion," Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal Last edited by Aziraphael; 02-09-2010 at 01:07 AM. |
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Hunting Koranimals & PLWL
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Glenn Beck: Dems admit ObamaCare = Socialism
3/26/10 GLENN: Okay. Let me, let me share some things and this is why it's so frustrating for me, at least, it's so frustrating and I know it is for you, as well. The things we have talked about and this is why they're not talking about shutting us down in any way. This is why I say our time is limited, because the things that we have told you are now all coming true and they're starting to admit it. We told you that these are Marxist revolutionaries. We told you that the President had all of these revolutionaries surrounding him. No one would respond. No one ever has responded to this. When we say that Ron Bloom is a guy who doesn't believe in the free market system and is a Marxist, is a guy who says we believe that power comes from the barrel of the gun, we generally agree with Mao on that, no one has ever asked for a response there. No one has ever gotten a response. When we've asked the President, Mr. President, which is it, which is it, sir, do you want to fire Van Jones because he was a 9/11 Truther, he was a communist radical, he was a revolutionary, do you want to fire him because of that or do you agree with those things? Well, we don't get an answer. Jeremiah Wright, do you agree with those things? He, of course, says no. He's now only in the mood of mocking and that's what they have done. If you watch my television program and then you listen to the people who are talking about me, they never, ever address the issue. They'll make fun of my chalkboard. They'll make fun of my hair. They'll make fun of my stance. They'll make fun of my crying. They'll make fun of everything. They will mock me or belittle me. Fine. But do you notice they never take on what I say? They never try nobody has tried to take what I say and debunk it. If I was wrong and I was this wrong, why wouldn't ABC News do a whole night's special and put me out of business? When I have the White House go meet at the highest levels of FOX News and they say, Glenn Beck is making stuff up, he's lying, and FOX News responds in these meetings, tell us, make a list, we'll correct them. Where is he wrong? Where is he lying? After one solid year of broadcast time, they came up with one, that I said Van Jones was a felon. He wasn't a felon. He just went to jail. Nothing else. Now, what was the charge, what was the charge on health care? The charge on health care was Glenn Beck is crazy, he says this is a socialist scheme, he says this is redistribution of health, that this has nothing to do with health care, that it has everything to do with money and power. How many times did I say that? This is socialism. This is the fundamental do not let this pass because this is structure. How many times? This is the fundamental transformation. You can't vote for this bill because you don't know what's in this bill. And what I mean by that and what I've been saying for the last year is they're building a machine. This has nothing to do with what they tell you is does. I was crazy, I was wrong, I was a danger to society. From the New York Times, in health bill Obama attacks wealth in equality. Now, what is wealth in equality? Redistribution of wealth. Redistribution what is redistribution of wealth? Marxism. Wealth inequality, some people have too much, some people don't have any. Take it from them. Give it to those people. Got it? Redistribution of wealth. The happy term today is socialism. Quoting New York Times, for all the political and economic uncertainties about health reform, at least one thing now seems clear. The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the Federal Government's biggest attack on economic in equality since in equality began rising more than 30 years ago. Over most of that period, Government policy and market forces have been moving in the same direction, both increasing wealth in equality. Nearly listen. Nearly every major aspect of this bill pushes in the other direction. This fact helps explain why Mr. Obama was willing to spend so much political capital on an issue even though it did not appear to be his top priority as a presidential candidate. Leveling the playing field, Marxism, the moment with Joe the Plumber was his campaign promise. That is the fundamental transmission that he promised. It's in the New York Times today except they don't call it redistribution of wealth because that's no longer politically correct! It's now wealth inequality! Do we have the Max Baucus audio? Here's the here's, now, new audio. This is from a, quote, unquote, centrist. This is a Democrat senator from Montana. When you lose the west to wealth inequality, you're going to hear a word that I haven't heard except out of the mouth of Jim Wallace. I had never heard maldistribution, "wealth maldistribution" before. In the special you will hear on Insider Extreme today and two days ago I said it on the air, I had never heard "wealth maldistribution" before. Listen now to the mouth of Montana, Max Baucus. BAUCUS: This is also an income shift. It's a shift, it's a leveling to help lower income Americans. Too often in the last couple of three years, the maldistribution of income in America has gone up way too much. The wealthier are getting way, way too wealthy. GLENN: Maldistribution BAUCUS: Wages have not kept up with the increased income of the highest income Americans. This legislation will have the effect of addressing that maldistribution income in America, because health care is now a right for all Americans and because health care is now affordable for all Americans. GLENN: I thought this was about health care. I thought this was about health care. I thought that's what I was crazy, I was a madman, I was wrong. I was a danger to society because I told you this wasn't about health care! This was about redistribution of wealth. This in the words of the President, reparations don't go far enough. Quoting, reparations don't go far enough. What he said in that same article in USA Today during the election, what the headline was, he's not for reparations. That was the headline. President Barack Obama not for reparations. You got to the last paragraph and he said it didn't go far enough, you needed health care and universal education. What did you get this week? Health care and universal education. We're all socialists now. Do you notice that up until we really started gaining traction, the media was saying that they were socialists, the media was saying social we're all socialists now and then when we started gaining traction and the Tea Parties started and people said, I don't want to hear socialist stuff, the media then started to mock people who said we were socialists. They first announced that we're all socialists and then mocked people who said we're going towards socialism! The game is rigged against us, gang. It has been coming for a very, very long time. The people involved are treacherous, just treacherous. They will stop at nothing. They are radical revolutionaries. I will tell you that everybody else will tell you, We've got to get organized, we've got to get out to the polls. Let me tell you something. You have to do that but you've got to be on your knees and begging God every night, begging God every morning first for forgiveness, I am sorry we didn't pay attention to you, I am sorry we got lost, please, for our children's sake, please don't forsake us, please show us the way out, please. These are your rights. I'll lose it, I will lose them for I will sit in prison for the rest of my life if that's what you want me to do. I will sit in prison for the rest of my life. I don't need my rights. I want my rights for my children. Please, please punish me, not my children. We have to wake each other up. We have to wake our neighbors up. Only God is going to be able to solve this one. If he is on our side, no one can succeed against us. If he is not on our side, we don't stand a chance. You've got to organize. You've got to get out and you've got to vote. You've got to wake people up and picket and whatever it is, but you first have to put God back into our side and our corner. We as a nation have forsaken him. These are his rights. He does not want them to go away, but he will allow us to be he will allow us to live in times that we could not have imagined even a year ago, if we forsake him. He never leaves us. We forsake him. Max Baucus on Obamacare's hidden agenda - redistribution of wealth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY4Qb...layer_embedded http://media.glennbeck.com/content/a...cle/198/38531/
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Just to be clear...we (American Capitalists) do torture "enemy combatants" for the illusion fo safety and security?
Glenn Beck is why I stopped watching FoxNews.
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Back to Basics
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No, it's not communist at all. That is a false rumor spread by racist hypocrites who hate socialized medicine because Obama is black!
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Location: "I've done it with crustaceans." -Mars S.
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