Pravda warns U.S. of "breath-taking" slide into Marxism

By C.J. Raven
U.S. Veteran Dispatch - July 23, 2009
"It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.


"True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.


"Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters."


Those words, complete with grammatical and punctuation errors, are the opening paragraphs of a column written by Stanislav Mishin, and posted on the English version Web site of Pravda, Russia's largest newspaper.


How ironic is it that a Russian feels the necessity to chastise America for what he perceives to be a bedrock change in our philosophy and actions? When a Russian writer believes our country has surrendered out "freedoms and souls," how much trouble are we in?


Plenty.


The Thinking Catholic Strategic Center defines Marxism as, "The economic, social, political, pseudo-scientific philosophy, theory, belief, or system based on the works of Karl Marx of Germany. The theory seeks the elimination of the notion of private property in order to gain control of the economic 'means of production' by taking it from the bourgeois (the wealthy or propertied class) for the benefit of the proletariat (working class.) His philosophy of history was called "historical materialism" in which his goal was to bring about the end of history, by means of an eventual perfect, classless, utopian society he called communism."


Does anything in that definition ring a bell? The government takeover of two of America's largest auto manufacturers; government control of our banking system; the so-called "cap and trade" bill, which would place the government in control of energy; the administration's health care plan that would dictate who gets treatment, when and whether they are eligible. And Americans sit quietly - sheeple - while our freedoms slip away and our Constitution is shredded.


Mishin continues: "First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then (sic) the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their 'right' to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our 'democracy'. Pride blind the foolish.


"Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different 'branches and denominations' were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the 'winning' side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the 'winning' side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.


The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past (six) months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then (sic) another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe."


Russians who have tasted and are savoring bits and pieces of democracy are alarmed at the lethargy of today's America. How, they wonder, have baseball scores become more important to us than the voting record of our legislators? How have we become so dependent on our government's largess that we willingly surrender our right to be responsible for our own lives?


It is ironic that Americans, who once felt superior to every other country in the world, are being told that we have grown lazy, ignorant and apathetic. And we are hearing that from a country that once represented everything we scorned, but now seem eager to accept.


So, how did we get here? While we can blame the government for the mess we're in today, we are shirking the responsibility for our own lives. The slide began in our homes with parents who were - and are - too distracted to provide traditional guidance to their children. It leaks into schools where teachers and administrators have assumed a parental role filtered through political correctness, who deem it appropriate to teach sex education to kindergartners but are unable to find time to say the Pledge of Allegiance and salute the flag. From there, it continues into our churches where too many religious leaders don't want to offend parishners whose donations they depend on for support. And in some churches, anti-Constitutional rhetoric and sermons are the rule, not the exception, and the focus is on social adaptability, not on Christian tenants.
And so it goes up the food chain, while Americans sit silently and count on Somebody Else to handle our problems.


"These past (few) weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?


"These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters."


A pathetically few senators, congressmen and members of the media are beginning to question Obama's increasing reliance on so-called "czars." Many of these "czars" have Cabinet-level responsibilities, but lack Cabinet-level accountability. They have the power to dictate policies but they have not been through Senate confirmation hearings.


Here is a list of Obama's current and prospective czars, in case we have to bow to them someday. The list might not been complete, since appointments are being made at dazzling speed:
Here is a list of Obama's current and prospective Czar positions:

1. Af-Pak (Afghanistan-Pakistan) Czar: Richard Holbrooke
2. AIDS Czar: Jeffrey Crowley
3. Bailout Czar: Not appointed yet.
4. Border Czar: Alan Bersin (Former US attorney)
5. Car Czar: Ron Bloom
6. Climate Czar: Todd Stern
7. Copyright Czar: Not appointed yet.
8. Cyberspace Czar: Not appointed yet.
9. Drug Czar: Gil Kerlikowske
10. Economic Czar: Paul Volcker
11. Education Czar: Not appointed yet.
12. Energy Czar: Carol M. Browner
13. Faith-Based Czar: Joshua Dubois
14. Great Lakes Czar: Cameron Davis
15. Green Jobs Czar: Van Jones
16. Guantanomo Closure Czar: Danny Fried
17. Health Care Czar: Nancy-Ann DeParle
18. Income Redistribution Czar: Not appointed yet.
19. Information Czar: Vivek Kundra
20. Intelligence Czar: Admiral Dennis Blair
21. Internet Fraud Czar: Not appointed yet.
22. Iran Czar: Not appointed yet.
23. Latin American Czar: Not appointed yet.
24. Mideast Policy Czar: Dennis Ross
25. Middle-East Peace Czar: George Mitchell
26. Mortgage Czar: Not appointed yet.
27. Pay Czar: Kenneth Feinberg
28. Performance Czar: Not appointed yet.
29. Radio-Internet Fairness Czar: Not appointed yet.
30. Regulatory Czar: Cass Sunstein
31. "Safe Schools" Czar: Kevin Jennings
32. Science Czar: John Holdren
33. Stimulus Accountability Czar: Earl Devaney
34. Sudan Czar: J. Scott Gration
35. Tarp Czar: Herb Allison
36. Technology Czar: Aneesh Chopra
37. Terrorism Czar: John Brennan
38. Urban Affairs/Housing Czar: Adolfo Carrion
39. Violence Against Women Czar: Lynn Rosenthal
40. Voter List Czar: Not appointed yet.
41. War Czar: Not appointed yet.
42. Weapons Czar: Ashton Carter
43. WMD Czar: Gary Samore
44. Zoning Czar: Not appointed yet.

Spend a little time researching these people. You will be amazed - and outraged -- at some of the tie-ins you find, and at the background of others.
 
According to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, "This is a first-rate power grab by a power-hungry president. The great thing about czars is that they operate with impunity and they are under the radar when it comes to making policy. They are accountable to nobody, except the administration."


"Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of 'pure' free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.


"So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a 'bold' move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our 'wise' Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.


"Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a 'freeman' whimper."


"So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set 'fair' maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.


"The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.


"The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker."


Former President Gerald Ford said it: "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."


We've been warned. What we choose do from now on is our decision - and our responsibility.