You Oughta Know Vol. 1: Communist Goals (or, y'know, NOT)

I'm a third of the way through a painfully boring lab course, so I'm killing time by reading Free Republic. What can I say? I left "Lies and the Lying Liars" back in my dorm room.

One prevalent message I keep seeing in their pogrom against liberals is the "Current Communist Goals," included in the Congressional Record in 1963.

Among other goals are:

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. (Damn the courts and their technical decisions empowered by the Constitution!)

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. (When making people shut up CELEBRATES the First Amendment!)

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. (Damn you, Europe! Stalin got to you, too!)

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. (Eh, once you divorce once on easy, it's really no fun. You have to up it to Normal or Hard to get any challenge out of the divorce... holy crap I'm a pathetic gamer ;) )

So... incredibly insidious, etc., added to the Congressional log, right? Here's the nifty part (that I found after, oh, two minutes on Google, and I was taking my time):

NO COMMUNIST ORGANIZATION OR SPOKESPERSON HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THESE GOALS!

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

The goals come from the 1958 book "The Naked Communist" by one W. Cleon Skousen. Who is W. Cleon Skousen, you may ask?

http://www.spongobongo.com/em/em9817.htm

A senior FBI agent under J. Edgar Hoover, the former police chief of Salt Lake City, a professor at Brigham Young University, and "with Jeremy Manning one of the two greatest living Mormon thinkers."

Great source on the motives and goals of communists, right?

Anyway, this has been Bloody William with your "You Oughta Know" for today. Next time you hear a hardcore freeper trot out those evil communist goals, know what they come from.

So, to continue this You Oughta Know thing, any other Freeper catch phrases or conservative talking notes you'd like me to look up and pick apart? :-)

to fight the last war.

The present they don't understand...and they are totally lost on the future.

This book was a critique of Carrol Quigley's "Tragedy and Hope". In fact, The Naked Capitalist is the only place I know where you can read long excerpts from Tragedy and Hope, which seems it out of print.

Quigley was one of the first public neo-conservative/neo-liberal it seems. He talked about the network of the wealthy elite in American and Europe, and how they wanted to minimize nation-states and replace them with a global neo-liberal/neo-conservative world order - the origin of Bush Sr. famous "New World Order" speeches. These people described their new governing philosophy, a mix of the social liberalism of Europe, the lasseiz-faire capitalism of America, and the authoritarian government of the Soviet Union, as a "Third Way".

Quigley was part of this network and agreed with their philosophy. While most of his class wanted to keep their plans out of the press and off the record, Quigley urged them to go public and use propaganda to get the public to agree. As you would expect, they chose a third option, a mix of private and public.

Quigley was one of Bill Clinton's professors, and Clinton called him his "mentor" in his inauguration speech. Quigley has been praised by conservatives and liberals alike, and routinely denounced by populists both left and right.