Monday, July 23, 2012

The Enemy


Most people think that communism has fallen and is no longer a threat to the free world: the Soviet Union Collapsed and communism has been discredited by its obvious failure as an economic system. What most people don't know is that communism never collapsed, but it has transformed itself. And still yet that America has been defeated by this new communism. (By communism I don't mean the Soviet-Style- Communism, but instead a system which has more in common with fascism that with communism. If I wanted to be cleaver I would not even use the terms communism or fascism as these words tend to turn people away and cause them to dismiss what is said after these words.) After the world conquest of communism failed to take place in the 1900's. Key intellectuals and leaders of communism began to wonder why communist revolutions did not take place in the West. They then realized that it was the foundation of Western Culture that must be attacked if the West was to fall to communism:
Gramsci posited that because Christianity had been dominant in the West for over 2000 years, not only was it fused with Western civilization, but it had corrupted the workers class. The West would have to be de-Christianized, said Gramsci, by means of a "long march through the culture."
The new battleground, reasoned Gramsci, must become the culture, starting with the traditional family and completely engulfing churches, schools, media, entertainment, civic organizations, literature, science, and history. All of these things must be radically transformed and the social and cultural order gradually turned upside-down with the new proletariat placed in power at the top."
In 1919, Georg Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bolshevik Bela Kun regime in Hungary. He immediately set plans in motion to de-Christianize Hungary. Reasoning that if Christian sexual ethics could be undermined among children, then both the hated patriarchal family and the Church would be dealt a crippling blow. Lukacs launched a radical sex education program in the schools. Sex lectures were organized and literature handed out which graphically instructed youth in free love (promiscuity) and sexual intercourse while simultaneously encouraging them to deride and reject Christian moral ethics, monogamy, and parental and church authority.

This is one of the reason that pop culture glorifies sexual promiscuity and the left supports gay rights and anything else that will destroy the foundation of our society. To see that America culture has transformed in the way that communist intellectuals knew was required for America to fall to communism all one has to do is  look at T.V shows, movies, pop culture, the crap that is taught in today's universities, and the beliefs held by the common American to see this. (I have heard people spout communist slogans and state that we don't know if communism is so bad. Even one of my favorite sitcoms Seinfeld has helped to chip away, with a smile, at the foundations of our society and has contributed to revolution.)

Communist leaders knew that the West would never outright accept communism:
In 1959 President Eisenhower asked Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson to teach Nikita Khrushchev about American Agriculture.

Sec. Benson recalled the following conversation……

'Your grandchildren will live under communism.' Khrushchev said.

'On the contrary,' Secretary Benson replied, 'My grandchildren will live in freedom as I hope that all people will.' 
Khrushchev then retorted: 'You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept Communism outright; but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism. We won’t have to fight you; we’ll so weaken your economy, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.

 Khrushchev was probably referring to the economic rivalry during the Cold Wart, but this weakening has come about through the adoption of economic policies modeled after socialism and central planning: the welfare state. The economic crisis of 2008 has done a lot to move America towards a command and control economy.

The six- time U.S presidential candidate for the socialist party Norman Thomas stated :

The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.
Khrushchev also stated:
We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism,
but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism,
until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.

 It may be hard for us to accept or acknowledge, but the painful truth is that America has already been defeated by the new-communism and today "find that they have Communism".  Not the Soviet-Style Communism, but the softer-milder kind. It has happened so slowly and gradually without a major event to mark the turning point, that most people don't even know it and/or don't care enough to look. For one to see that America has been defeated, all they have to do is look at who the American people have elected to the highest office in our land. A man whose mentor was a communist with ties to Russia.
Imagine an American man so devout in his Communist beliefs, that during the Cold War the FBI placed him on its security index – meaning that if an armed conflict were to have erupted between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, Federal authorities would have looked to him as a prime suspect for treason.
Now imagine that man mentored the leader of the free world.
(Obama has admitted that this was the man that he mentioned in his autobiography. It is also interesting that a lot of what this man advocated we see our president doing today. You need to learn about this Frank Marshall Davis.)
A man whose parents were devoted socialist/communist. A man who has surrounded himself with communist while in office and/or people who profess their love for communist leaders. A man who has chosen for his 2012 campaign slogan Forward. (A classic communist slogan.) A man who has actively worked to "fundamentally transform" our nation. The American people have elected the enemy as our president, and after three years in office about half of them still support the man. Enemy is a strong word so it needs to be defined. I am using the word enemy to mean someone that stands against everything that made our nation great; someone that stands instead for communism; someone who wants to and actively works to "fundamentally transform" this nation. America fought against this ideology and way of life on the battlefield during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War. Many men have died to keep America and the world safe from this system. And now America has bowed down before this system and elected a leader who seeks to bring America under this system. The bottom line is that America has been defeated from within by socialism/communism/collectivism/fascism.

Some might say "that if this is defeat then it isn't so bad". "My life hasn't changed that much." The German of the 1930's would have said the same thing immediately after Hitler took over. (I am not trying to intimate that Obama is Hitler.) Only after their nation was destroyed and two million of their women rapped would they realize what had happened. The change/revolution is not completed. All that is left to complete the revolution is a major transformative event that will be upon us in the not-so-distant future when the economy collapses or some other major event. Of course when this happens it at first will appear much as Nazism appeared to the German people-- as a savior. Only then will people realize that this has happened.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis



Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) is a technique that is used for finding abnormalities or disorders in fertilized or unfertilized eggs (ovum). It is usually done in vitro fertilization for parents who suspect that they have a hereditary disease that is linked to genes. Many eggs are fertilized and the chromosomes are analyzed. Once an ideal egg is singled out, it is implanted in the mother's uterus. The rest of the fertilized eggs are discarded or used for testing. They will not live.There are also ways to analyze an ovum before it is fertilized in cases where maternal mutations are the only concern. (Sharpe)

Benefits:

  • Less disabled people could ease the burden on our health system. A study showed that annual health care costs for a someone with down syndrome is over $34000 (Boulet). This study was done in 2004. 
  • If someone finds out that they are carrying a child with a sever disability, they are more likely to terminate the pregnancy. PGD can prevent these sort of abortions.
Drawbacks:
  • It has been suggested that Bill Gates, Lewis Carroll, and Thomas Jefferson had/have Asperger Syndrome; a high functioning version of autism (Hensley). What if PGD prevents great thinkers from ever being born?
  • Are we playing the hand of God? 
PGD can also be a way of picking traits for our offspring: height, IQ, hair color, etc. Although research is still being done on this. I saw a scientist on NOVA talking about the complexity of these issues because there are hundreds of genes that contribute to these traits and environmental issues that we have no control of.

Citations used:

Boulet, Sheree, and Noelle-Angelique Molinari, Scott Grosse, Margaret Honein, Adlolfo Correa-Villasenor. “Health Care Expenditures for Infants and Young Children with Down Syndrome in a Privately Insured Population.” The Journal of Pediatrics. Aug. 2008. Vol. 153, Issue 2, Pages 241-246. Web. 16 July 2012.

Hensley, Samuel. “Fetal Genetic Testing is Unethical.” Biomedical Ethics. Ed. Viqi Wagner. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2008. 208-213. Print

Sharpe, Neil, and Ron Carter. Genetic Testing: Care, Consent, and Liability. New Jersey: Wiley-Liss, 2006. Print.