One hundred years ago, the October Revolution in Russia overthrew the Provisional Government and laid the paving stones leading to the Soviet Union. From the 1920s on, communism spread throughout the world, gaining control in countries from China to Cuba, influencing the development of socialism in many Western countries, and seeking to influence the culture everywhere from the universities and public schools to Christian denominations by means of what Communists called “the long march through the institutions.”
Communism is an ideology—to some a religion—of death. In the past century, communist regimes around the world have murdered more than ninety million people. They have murdered the minds and souls of millions more.
Some in the West, including the United States, continue to believe in the promises of communism. Others may publicly denounce communism and extreme socialism even while seeking to enact the tenets of these ideologies into law. Still others, fellow travelers wearing blindfolds, go along with communist ideals without apparently giving much thought to the bloody ways communism has worked in reality.
Meanwhile, some of us believe in the natural rights of a human being: the right to liberty; the freedom to worship as we please; the right to free speech; the right to protect ourselves; all the rights as delineated in the Bill of Rights. We receive these rights not from any government, but because they are the rights belonging to all human beings. No state has the right to impose them, to grant them, or to take them away. They are our rights by birth.
In works like Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Courtois’s The Black Book of Communism, and Hollander’s From The Gulag to the Killing Fields, we read account after account of the nightmare created when communism strips away these rights, when ideology holds sway, when dictatorships can crush freedom and human rights like tanks rolling over the bodies of the dead.
Unfortunately, some useful tools of communism never get the message. See the following: https://pjmedia.com/trending/reminder-refuse-fascism-protests-unseat-trump-begin-nov-4/
Various groups, some of them fronts for the Communist Party, have announced that on November 4th they plan to begin protesting in the streets against the Trump administration. Non-violent protest is not only an American tradition, but an American right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. It’s called freedom of assembly.
What is not a guaranteed right?
Smashing the windows of stores and businesses.
Cracking opponents or innocent bystanders over the head with bottles or rocks.
Burning cars.
Throwing bricks at the police.
Bringing knives, guns, metal pipes, and baseball bats into the streets with intent to commit violence.
If you happen to see such events on the news in the next few days, take a moment and remember the last century.
One hundred years of blood, failure, and misery are enough. Time to stop and remember those 94 million dead murdered by Communist regimes. Time to turn our backs on ideologues of all stripes.
Some in the West, including the United States, continue to believe in the promises of communism. Others may publicly denounce communism and extreme socialism even while seeking to enact the tenets of these ideologies into law. Still others, fellow travelers wearing blindfolds, go along with communist ideals without apparently giving much thought to the bloody ways communism has worked in reality.
Meanwhile, some of us believe in the natural rights of a human being: the right to liberty; the freedom to worship as we please; the right to free speech; the right to protect ourselves; all the rights as delineated in the Bill of Rights. We receive these rights not from any government, but because they are the rights belonging to all human beings. No state has the right to impose them, to grant them, or to take them away. They are our rights by birth.
In works like Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Courtois’s The Black Book of Communism, and Hollander’s From The Gulag to the Killing Fields, we read account after account of the nightmare created when communism strips away these rights, when ideology holds sway, when dictatorships can crush freedom and human rights like tanks rolling over the bodies of the dead.
Unfortunately, some useful tools of communism never get the message. See the following: https://pjmedia.com/trending/reminder-refuse-fascism-protests-unseat-trump-begin-nov-4/
Various groups, some of them fronts for the Communist Party, have announced that on November 4th they plan to begin protesting in the streets against the Trump administration. Non-violent protest is not only an American tradition, but an American right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. It’s called freedom of assembly.
What is not a guaranteed right?
Smashing the windows of stores and businesses.
Cracking opponents or innocent bystanders over the head with bottles or rocks.
Burning cars.
Throwing bricks at the police.
Bringing knives, guns, metal pipes, and baseball bats into the streets with intent to commit violence.
If you happen to see such events on the news in the next few days, take a moment and remember the last century.
One hundred years of blood, failure, and misery are enough. Time to stop and remember those 94 million dead murdered by Communist regimes. Time to turn our backs on ideologues of all stripes.
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