Dear Editor,
The following information in part is from an article by Jeff Rense. On January 10, 1963, the House of Representatives and Senate began reviewing a document, “Communist Goals for Taking Over America.” This list was put in the congressional record. The following list is the majority of a list of this agenda. It was quite shocking then and equally stunning today in 2020. As you read through this list, never forget that about 100% have been implemented. Did our representatives ever take this seriously or just put it aside? We better take it seriously for our children and grandchildren, if it is not already too late. Communism, Socialism, or our present form of government, our choice and future. This upcoming vote is so critical. Vote and take an interest in our country.
- Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
- Promote the UN as the only hope for mankind.
- Do away with all loyalty oaths.
- Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
- Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
- Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
- Gain control of all student newspapers.
- Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under communist attack.
- Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
- Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures.
- Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
- Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
- Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them ‘censorship’ and a violation of free speech and free press.
- Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.
- Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural, and healthy.
- Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a ‘religious crutch.’
- Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of ‘separate of church and state.’
- Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
- Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the common man.
- Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the grounds that it was only a minor part of the big picture. Give more emphasis to Russian history since the communists took over.
- Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
- Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
- Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies.
Dick Penwarden
Kingman
