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Sunday, April 26, 2009

HOW TO MAKE AMERICA A COMMUNIST SOCIETY

HOW TO MAKE AMERICA A COMMUNIST SOCIETY


A Blueprint for Communism

Revised 12/30/2008

by Charles N. Hakes


The United States Constitution gives us certain rights that protect us against becoming an enslaved society as a communist police state. The Founding Fathers empowered Americans with powerful rights to protect us from government abuse. Principal among these are the rights of free speech and the right to bear arms, given by the First and Second Amendments, respectively. How might the rights and the freedoms of the American people be stolen away and replaced with a communist regime?

As the devil’s advocate, if I were President, here’s how I would do it. The only significant question is how long it will take. As president, I think I can do the job in eight years and start showing significant progress within a year. Here are the building blocks:


DECEPTION & SUPPRESSION


During my presidential campaign and in the early stages of this transformation I will be careful not to mention communism, except to “fellow travelers.” Members of my campaign team will bristle at the suggestion that I have Marxist beliefs and will refuse to recognize the credibility of such questions by answering them.

I will boycott media that raise such questions and refuse them access to information about my campaign. Most media support me but those who don’t will get the picture, which is: “Don’t ask embarrassing questions if you want to report about my campaign at all.” I will allow only media that whole-heartedly support me to accompany my campaign on my campaign airplane.

A branch of my campaign organization will be detailed to bring lawsuits against opposing conservative voices and against media that air or print views or advertising that oppose my election.

Segments of the American public who might not understand that I will bring them communism will not support me if they catch on. This minor deception is OK with my conscience because I believe, with other communists, that the end justifies the means.


ECONOMIC SUFFERING


Of greatest first importance, I will make the American people suffer. I mean really suffer economically. I will make the present economy ten times, twenty times worse. I will drive the economy into a deep depression. I’ll make the Great Depression look like a child’s tea party. Initially the few jobs to be had will be low-paying because supply would far outstrip demand in the labor market. Many more people will lose homes, investments, and savings. A growing number of people at the very bottom of the economy will be living under bridges and in shanty towns. People will be starving and freezing to death. There will be bread lines. Charitable organizations will be unable to help ease the suffering. They will lack funds because their donations will dry up.


REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH TO ENSURE POLITICAL SUPPORT


I will make the purpose of taxation the redistribution of wealth, from the richer to the poorer. Those who get the wealth will support me. Those who give up their wealth will not. Because there will be more recipients than losers of wealth, I will gain support. Soon, a relative minority of Americans will be supporting a majority, and the majority will keep me in power.


TAX TO BRING ECONOMIC DISASTER


Taxes on investors will discourage investing and drive the economy into a tailspin. Business taxes are ultimately paid by consumers therefore these taxes will be paid by even the poorest citizens whenever they can afford to buy. Many of my supporters do not have this understanding and that will help me get elected.


GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF BUSINESS & LABOR


The businesses that will prosper will be those that receive tax credits for not using foreign labor and this will give those companies a competitive pricing advantage. These are the companies that will survive. It won’t be long before everybody gets on this bandwagon.

Because of economic bailouts, loans, and regulations the banking and finance system will largely dance to my tune.

My tax plan will create an economy with the labor market effectively closed to the outside world but it will not necessarily keep illegal aliens from working in this country. This will be an early step in increasing the dependence of American companies and American workers on the Federal Government. Soon there will be nearly total dependence. This is helpful in a totalitarian state.


PUNISH CAPITALISTS


Some wealthy citizens will lose their affluent lifestyle because of the tax system, but not all. Those who will lose will be those allied with roles in a capitalistic system. Some will be excluded from high taxation by earning their income through personal services, such as acting.

My administration will work to gather support from minorities by redistributing the former wealth owned by capitalists to them. Capitalists will be the minority that suffers.


SEIZE POWER VIA THREAT OF FORCE


Citizens will be justifiably irate about the economy and unfair taxes, but will be unable to speak out or take action because I plan to nullify their First Amendment and Second Amendment freedoms.

That is because I will create a National Civilian Police Force, answerable to the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. This will consolidate the power of the National Civilian Police with that of the Military, and place it all under my control as the president of the United States. This huge armed force will be eight times the size of our present military. This will ensure that no commanding officer of the U. S. Military will be able to rise up against me. I will make sure that the National Civilian Police are better equipped than the Military. Their allegiance will be sworn to me and the party, not the United States of America.

I will replace all local police departments with decentralized units of the National Civilian Police. Instead of your local police being accountable to you through your city council, and your state police accountable to you through your state government, all police will report to the president of the United States.

Before I can create this I may need to rely on the military for domestic control if economic conditions foster domestic unrest. The military reports to me, as Commander in Chief. I will detail training of the military in maintaining domestic order, including the implementation of martial law upon United States citizens if I consider it necessary.


NULLIFY THE SECOND AMENDMENT. DISARM LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS


The local units of the National Civilian Police force will proceed to disarm the American public just like the local police did with storm trooper tactics in New Orleans. Second Amendment rights will be nullified. That this happened is a fact and illustrates the ease with which citizens can be disarmed by a superior police force.

In the case of New Orleans, the NRA recovered the guns for the owners. This won’t happen in my regime. The sorry state of the economy will have dried up NRA donation funding.

There are several ways to disarm the American public:

A couple more liberal justices on the Supreme Court will change the interpretation of the Second Amendment, and "right to bear arms" will mean not individually but as members of a government-sanctioned militia.

Another way it can happen is to create a number of shooting massacre incidents and use these as justification that the public can no longer be entrusted with guns.

Domestic disturbances resulting from economic hardships will allow me the opportunity to implement martial law and mandate the disarming of American citizens. Terrorist attacks or threats will give me the same opportunity.

Yet another way to disarm the public is to allow ownership but deny access by storing the gun with the local police or locking the gun and storing the key with the police.

A fifth method is to criminalize anyone whose gun is stolen and later used in a crime.

A sixth method is to make it pointless to own a gun for home or personal protection by criminalizing its use in defense of home or person.

Another way is to require an expensive license to own a gun. This would be easy to enforce because all police in the local and state jurisdictions where records of licensed guns are presently maintained would be members of the National Civilian Police. A license fee of, say, $100,000 per gun should be adequate to disarm a lot of citizens, or make criminals of them.


FOSTER ANARCHY


Soon, in the depressed economy, anarchy would reign. Criminals who kept unregistered firearms will prey on the American public. Only those citizens who are favored by the Federal Government will have any chance of being protected from criminals by the National Civilian Police. A citizen who unlawfully retains a firearm and protects his home with it will be subject to criminal penalties for owning the firearm, shooting it, and shooting the intruder.

Anarchy would give me additional cause to disarm the American public “for their own good” and to suspend Constitutional freedoms in general.


SILENCE OPPOSITION


Sooner or later during this progression from democracy to communism powerful articulate people who oppose me will start to disappear. Some will have tragic accidents or fatal illnesses. Some will simply not be heard of again. It will be suggested in hushed tones that the disappeared people were not supporters of my agenda. Because I will directly or indirectly control the Military, the National Civilian Police, the FBI, and the CIA, there will be no objective investigative body. The United States Congress will have come under my control early in the exercise of my plans. Legislators in my party who oppose me will simply receive no party support for re-election and will be replaced by legislators who voiced support for my agenda. Therefore, Congress will not investigate anything without my approval.

My staunch supporters in the liberal media will not make any inquiries that might be embarrassing to me. This has already become their practice.


RIG THE VOTE


Illegal aliens and other non-US citizens will be given voting rights. This will make it easier for my cohorts and me to get re-elected. They will want to re-elect me because I’ll give them welfare, free medical services, and free education. They won’t even have to become citizens or learn English to get these things.

Moreover, I will do away with the practice of requiring voter identification at the polls. This will make it possible for my political machine to bus my supporters to where I most need their votes.

I will employ legions of lawyers whose task it is to challenge the results of any close election in which a win for my party would contribute to my power. Such challenges are not too difficult to make because many of my supporters have problems comprehending ballot-marking instructions, and we challenge based on our perception of the intent of the voter, which over-rides what the voter actually marked on the ballot.


INVALIDATE THE FIRST AMENDMENT


After nullifying the Second Amendment and disarming the American public, I will proceed to invalidate the First Amendment. With my Congressional support I will enact laws requiring politically correct speech, which will effectively bar overt dissent regarding government officials, actions, or programs. On a media level, the broadcast licenses of conservative voices will be cancelled. Fox will either change its programming or go out of business. I will do this under the mantle of a reinstituted “Fairness Doctrine.”

Laws based on “political correctness” will make it virtually impossible for any citizen to disagree with a person of a different ethnicity for any reason. Thus it will become illegal to oppose laws and practices of ethnic minorities. This will protect those who wish to establish Sharia law and cultural practices as acceptable alternatives to United States law and practices.

Disagreement with any ethnic faction will not be judged by its authenticity but by “political correctness.” Citizens will face civil litigation and criminal prosecutions for legitimately speaking their minds. Citizens will be fined or jailed for off-hand comments that will be judged out of context by the liberal legal and court system. Citizens’ lives will be ruined by innocent comments.

This atmosphere of fear will help prevent criticisms of my associates and myself.

I will take the legal restrictions on the First Amendment as far as I can and then apply economic sanctions.


CONTROL PROPERTY RIGHTS, NOT PROPERTY TITLES


By this time, via subsidies and regulations much of the economy will be under direct control of the Fed. Property ownership involves tangible property and the intangible rights to use that property. When rights to use are taken away property ownership is diminished. In short, you may own a business but the Fed will control it.

Under government control many or most jobs will only be available through the government and those will go to people who are in the favor of the regime. This situation will provide strong economic sanctions on free speech. Sure, there will still be a First Amendment. You better not exercise the rights you think it grants if you want food and shelter.


FEDERALIZE EDUCATION


Another step will be the federalization of education. Basic skills like the 3 R’s are important. But equally important is indoctrination into communism if my change for America is to be permanent. My government will be better capable of administering uniform education than is an array of teachers scattered across the country, who are teaching in local schools, and who are accountable to many different school boards, some of which may not support communism.

There will be no more local school boards and local or state school funding. All would be under the control of the Fed. Schools and teachers will be decentralized as now. The educational agenda will be set by my administration and only those teachers who agree with the communist agenda will get jobs.

It goes without saying that participation by anyone in any of the service corps of the Fed will be tantamount to indoctrination in their role in the new world society. This will get the high school and college kids on board, make them dependent on the government for their subsistence, and teach them that this is the way things should be.

Education in my communist agenda will start at 2 years of age or younger. Children will become educational wards of the state. Parenting will become a thing of the past. Parents will be careful what they say around their children for fear their child may report them to their teachers and then the parents will lose their jobs.

Some children will be taken from their parents for an advanced education agenda. This will prepare the chosen ones for roles in the new world society.


STRIP AMERICA OF HER PATRIOTIC HERITAGE


To further my educational agenda I will rewrite history books to declare that our founding fathers were not patriots and heroes but were treasonous criminals and slavers. I would strip America of patriotism, which would become anathema in the new world order toward which we would all be working. There should be no feelings of nationalism in the new world.

I will continue to honor our war dead. Over time, through skillful public relations and propaganda, I will foster the belief that the war dead are a needless tragedy from wars that we should not have fought. This is already a popular idea with some liberals.

I will strip America of its heritage and teach our young that it has taken America over 230 years to get where we should be as a communist society.

We will still have elections. Some Americans may continue to believe that they live in a free country that elects its government. There will be few, if any dissenters because of the economic sanctions on freedom of speech. All candidates will support the party line so there will not really be a choice. After a generation or two, no one will remember what has changed.

In the interest of working toward the new world order, while “de-Americanizing” America, I will mandate the learning of certain ethnic languages in our schools. At the same time I will not require that ethnic minorities learn English.


CONTROL POPULATION BY ABORTION AND EUTHANASIA


Members of a society use the resources of that society, and the more members there are the more that must be spent on them. Eventually my government may feel justified to control the size of our society by controlling the number entering through birth, and exiting via death. Both the very young and the very old use resources of society but don’t create value for it.

As is the case in communist China, couples may be required to limit the number of their offspring. Any pregnancies over quota would be terminated by abortion, and continued pregnancies by sterilization.

The costs of an aging population are another matter. Eventually, to save resources for the younger productive members of society, a program of either tacit or overt euthanasia will be implemented. Tacit is practiced at present with consent. This is where a person gets sick, decides not to pursue treatment, gets sicker, and dies. Overt euthanasia is where the elder is killed, with or without their consent.

With economic hardship tormenting their children I think I can get support for a program of voluntary euthanasia by making a death benefit payment to the surviving children of an elder who undergoes voluntary euthanasia.

At any rate, if government pays medical expenses to keep am elder alive, government should decide in each case how long to do so. Naturally, some exceptions will be made. Parents whose children are well-connected within my political party will receive better medical services for a longer period of time. This will encourage party loyalty.

If I were running for president, had a body of like-minded legislators to support me, and if I wanted to make America a communist society, that's how I would proceed. Given the present state of the American economy, the decline of the American work ethic, and the decline of American responsibility and morality, the time is ripe. I can make a lot of progress very quickly. Look for big changes beginning in 2009.

In a generation you won’t even begin to recognize this place we call the Land of the Free.


HERE’S HOW WE STAND


  • • Seize Power Via Threat of Force

In a July 2 speech in Colorado Springs Obama discussed his plans to double the size of the Peace Corps and nearly quadruple the size of AmeriCorps and quadruple the size of the nation's military. Obama claimed: "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

This amounts to 8 times the manpower of our present military. He has not explained the purpose of this

Who is the “we” who set the national security objectives he refers to? What are these objectives?

Is the purpose of this geometric armed force expansion to protect the American public from outside threats or to protect the government from the American people? Is it to keep the American public in line?

The latest from McClatchy-Tribune Information Services|December 29, 2008
A U.S. Army War College report warns an economic crisis in the United States could lead to massive civil unrest and the need to call on the military to restore order. The Pentagon previously announced plans to train up to 20,000 Soldiers within the next three years to work with civilian law enforcement in homeland security.


NULLIFY THE SECOND AMENDMENT. DISARM LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS


  • • Obama opposes private ownership of guns and has done so by passing or attempting to pass restrictive legislation. His plans included legal sanctions for protecting your home with a gun, legal sanctions if your gun is stolen from your home and then used in a crime, and high taxes on firearms and ammunition. In Illinois he was instrumental in passing legislation to ban handguns entirely, except that Chicago gangs still have them.
  • • Obama, Daley and other Illinois politicians are privileged to have firearm permits in the State of Illinois where they are denied to citizens.
  • • Obama is protected by legion of armed Secret Service and unlike the average citizen should have no concerns about his own personal safety.
  • • Obama’s plans to redistribute wealth appear to be on hold for now. The focus is on bailouts Part of this plan is to raise taxes on the rich – those people who invest most heavily. This will drive the economy into a tailspin and create an absolute economic disaster by reducing investment capital and the incentive to invest. This will put him in a better condition to control the economy.
  • • He believes in free speech only when it favors him. His organization has tried to stifle free speech by threatening legal action against the NRA and others. He has personally objected to the free speech of conservative media (Fox) but not the liberal media. (In a New York Times interview.)
  • • He claims that opposing media views (Fox vs NYTimes and almost all others) are divisive and interfere with his plans. What plans does he have to which he will not countenance opposition? (In the same New York Times interview.)
  • • He has already been involved, along with the bomber & education professor Ayers, in teaching school children a radical ACORN liberal agenda under the guise of using Annenberg and Woods funds to improve their skills.
  • • He thinks aliens should have many or all of the rights of citizens.
  • • He doesn’t mind killing babies who are born alive, and he has said he does not want his daughters “punished” with a baby. This indicates his belief that the convenience of the public takes precedence over life. If you are a senior citizen on socialized medicine, expect a tap on the shoulder by the universal health care people when your maintenance gets too costly. Still, it might be more welcome to get the tap than to continue living under Obama communism.
  • • He was either unpatriotic or stupid not to wear a flag pin and participate with America in other patriotic gestures at the outset of his campaign.
  • • He is an intellectual snob, who time and again has displayed that he thinks the intelligence of the American public is so low that he can sell us any deception if he explains it with soaring rhetoric.
  • • He is deceptive. He lied, or told partial truths, or has avoided discussing, or has flip-flopped about:
    • o His campaign funding intentions
    • o Who donates to him
    • o His relationship with Rev. Wright
    • o His relationship with Fr. Pfleger
    • o His black liberation theology beliefs
    • o His involvement with avowed communists, terrorists, and bombers, Ayers and Dohrn
    • o His involvement with ACORN
    • o His other associations
    • o His specific work as a community organizer
    • o His intentions concerning Iraq
    • o His intentions concerning Iran
    • o His stance concerning other terrorist/communist/Muslim states
    • o His patriotism
    • o His stance on the 2nd Amendment

Barack Obama works with his own set of definitions, and always leaves himself an “out.”

If you look at the substance of his past it is little wonder that he wants to keep the campaign focus on plans for the future. Yet his past defines him and signals us what he will do.

If these were only suspicions, even one or two of them would normally sink a candidate. So why isn't Obama sunk?

This is one dangerous man to our American way of life.

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  • **If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a "stimulus," then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power. -- Thomas Sowell
  • **“The big mistake of Republican leadership is thinking that going through the motions of listening to their ‘base’ is the same thing as actually listening to the base. They keep trying to drag us to where they think we should be instead of joining us where we are.” -- John Hawkins
  • ** Torturing prisoners should never be our policy, both because it's immoral and because it's usually ineffective. But it's madness to declare that there can never be exceptions. Forget the argument about the "ticking bomb" and the terrorist who might have information that could save numerous lives. Let's make it personal. Whether you're left, right or in between, ask yourself this yes-or-no question: If torturing a known terrorist would save the life of the person you love most in the world, would you approve it? If your answer is "no," you're not a moral paragon. You're an abomination. And please make your position clear to your husband or wife, mother or father, son or daughter. Just tell 'em, "Sorry, honey, but I'd rather see you dead than mistreat a terrorist. It's a moral issue with me. --Ralph Peters
  • **The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife. -- Teddy Roosevelt
  • **The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital... if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today. -- William Henry Harrison
  • **The price of a postage stamp has gone up to 44 cents. The government says they had to raise the price because fewer people are using the mail these days. That's government thinking for you — "Hey nobody's buying our products . . . let's raise the price!" --Jay Leno
  • **If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. -- Milton Friedman
  • **Since torture doesn’t work but waterboarding did work on KSM, doesn’t that prove that waterboarding isn’t torture?
  • **"The world is controlled by those who show up." --George Allen
  • **John Maynard Keynes, responded to a challenge about his changing views, saying, “When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?”