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Dear, Former Victims of Socialism/Communism, America Needs OUR Help!

Written By : Warner Todd Huston

(A friend of mine, Leon Weinstein who is a US citizen that emigrated from the USSR in 1974, wrote this because he is alarmed that the U.S. is headed to the hell he ran from so long ago. This is important stuff, folks. Leon KNOWS what he’s talking about as he lived through Russian Communism. We need to seriously think about his warnings…)

Dear ex-compatriots who once lived under the socialist regimes of the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Cuba, China, Albania, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Venezuela of Chavez, the Argentina of Peron, and others of similar life experience!

I was born in the Soviet Union and was lucky to part with socialism and lucky & privileged to become the US citizen. However during last year and a half I am becoming increasingly concerned about the direction American leaders are steering our country to. More and more the US resembles the world you & I were fortunate to leave behind. More and more it now resembles the path Russia took a century ago – and we all know the devastating results this “experiment” caused. This is the very same path Greece recently chosen in trying to achieve another “just society.”

For years the United States was the island of sanity in the ocean of pain, suffering and injustice in which most of the world was drowning. The countries that were able to stand against tyrannies and make life bearable for their citizens did so in large part because the US was backing them with its might. If America falls, world as we know it will end. Without a strong America we will soon see China establishing its hegemony over Asia; Russia will strengthen its muscles and take back Eastern Europe; Hugo Chavez and brothers Castro will run Latin America; and a wide swath of the globe stretching from North Africa through the Middle East to Indonesia and perhaps the Philippines will become radically Muslim – fanatically massacring “infidels.”

Please read Letter to America below and (if you agree with the content) sign it, and forward it to all your friends, relatives, co-workers and pen pals. Ask your spouse and kids over age eighteen to sign it as well. Even if you never lived in a socialist country but share our concerns, we are asking you to stand with us. When signing Letter to America please choose the field “I didn’t experience socialism firsthand but I agree with you.”

Thank you all for your willingness to raise your voice and defend freedom! You & I now have an opportunity and obligation to help America, to do something for all the good we so generously received from this wonderful country.

Our voices will make a difference!

Letter to America
Written by people who came from where Obama is taking America to

“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… I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.” — Norman Mattoon Thomas, Six times Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.

(those words are attributed to a leader of socialists of this country. Was it he who said them or not is not important. What important is – it is becoming hard to distinguish between democrats in the US & socialists)

Dear Best Country in the World!

The people whom you so generously gave a gift of freedom want to warn you about a danger we foresee in your not-so-distant future. And the name of this danger is Socialism. It often hides under different disguises. Sometime it calls itself Progressivism, sometime Liberalism. The adepts call themselves Marxists, Maoists, Che Guevarists… however usually they do not want you to know what sect of Socialism they belong to.

This letter is written and signed by the people who have firsthand experience in Socialism of all kinds, types and varieties and who didn’t like any kind or variety of it. We didn’t like it so much that at the first opportunity we packed our bags, left behind our friends, our cultures, our languages, jobs, security and ventured into the great unknown. We didn’t like the Totalitarian Socialism of the Soviet Union or the Progressive Socialism of Yugoslavia, the Vietnam Hard Socialism or the Western European Soft Socialism. Not one of them! Did you ever asked yourself why there are so many Italians, Canadians, Ukrainians, Cubans, Vietnamese, Chinese in America? The answer is simple – here is better than there.

The Soviet Union was throwing us into jails just for expressing our desire to leave, but we were demanding our freedom nevertheless. East Germany was killing us when we were climbing the walls they built to separate us, but even knowing that we might die we were choosing freedom and liberty over their social justice. Cuba was drowning us in the ocean but every night our boats were leaving their socialist paradise in the hope of reaching better life for ourselves and our families. We knew that we could end up in Vietnamese Gulags or at the Cambodian Killing Fields, but our desire to leave the nightmare of Socialism behind us was stronger even than our fear of death.

They took from us everything we had, everything that our parents and grandparents left us, but even stripped of every earthly possession, we were leaving their state-wide socialist prisons filled with joy and anticipation. Because you see, we had a Dream! We envisioned a world where we can work hard and prosper. We envisioned a world where no government, no strongman, no militia or gang could seize our possessions from us, imprison us for no reason, or kill our families on a whim. We envisioned a world where ingenuity, relentless pursuit of one’s goals, sleepless nights and hard work would earn us what we all desire – a happy and prosperous life in a secure world. America was our dream and our ideal!

Not anymore. We are afraid not anymore.

When we were celebrating holidays, during family reunions or just while dining with friends, one of us immigrants would say to the others – Let’s drink a toast to America! God Bless this country that allowed us to come and build our nests and take care of our young and old! God Bless America, we were saying to each other. This is the place where those that work hard, obey the laws, who are honest and sincere are handsomely rewarded.

Not anymore. We are afraid not anymore.

We feel insecure again, we sense that tomorrow might bring us another Vladimir Lenin, and right after him another Joseph Stalin. What if, we are asking ourselves, a new Lenin, Mao or Hugo Chavez is already in the White House?

Socialists love to talk about the common good and proclaim their honorable intentions to make everyone equal and happy. Andrew Galambos, co-founder of the “Free Enterprise Institute” came to the conclusion that whenever governments try to achieve their goals by social engineering, the results are just opposite of what they intended (or proclaimed that they intended) to do.

Let us say the price of tomatoes is rising, poor people can’t buy them, and a compassionate (liberal) government says “let’s control the price of tomatoes, so enabling poor people to enjoy them as well!” Very very honorable intention, right? So the government issues a decree that the farmers must lower tomato prices… Next year, however, there are no tomatoes on the market, for neither rich nor poor. The price limit makes growing them not as profitable as growing other vegetables and farmers stopped growing tomatoes. Very few farmers will continue but will be selling them on the black market for ten times the price.

What part of this Obama doesn’t understand?

The state that went the way of “social justice” has now two options – either order farmers to grow tomatoes and sell them for a controlled price despite lower profits or even losses (and punish those who will not obey), or confiscate/nationalize their farms and organize a government run tomato growing ministry, with a government-appointed Tsar running it into oblivion. The first option is called Fascism, the second is called Socialism.

We do not like either option. We opt for Capitalism described in the words of another great 20th century philosopher Alisa Rosenbaum known to the world as Ayn Rand as “… the only system geared to the life of a rational being and the only moral system in history.” No politico-economic system during the six thousand years of recorded history of our civilization has benefited mankind as greatly as capitalism. Yes, our fellow Americans, Capitalism coupled with the Founding Fathers’ principles gave us freedom and prosperity.
Under Fascism, the government controls the market, tells to small and large businesses what to produce, what salaries to pay to workers, how much profit to make, and generally tells them what is “needed for the people.” Under Fascism what we-the-people are really want is irrelevant. Under Socialism the state (government) owns all the means of production. Under Fascism the state is your boss and can order you around. Under Socialism the state is your employer, your trade union, your court, your law, your judge, your jury, and your executioner. Under both systems the good of the state is much more important than your individual good, your rights, wealth and health of your family.

Under both Socialism and Fascism the government decides how to spend the money it takes from you – whether on treatment of non-productive citizens such as the elderly or handicapped, or on the poor but productive workers. Since they consider “the good of the state” to be paramount, they will clearly not choose to spend a lot on your elderly parents or on your handicapped child. The state doesn’t want to spend extra money on those “useless” to the state beings. It is only you who is interested in your mom. If you keep your money, you spend it as you please. If the state gets your money, they will spend it as they please – serving the “Greater Good”! This is what we witnessed in our Socialist countries and this is what we escaped from.

Our grandparents didn’t understand the consequences of socialized medicine. But we already do. We had it for years and we have had enough! If you think that in Great Britain they invented something that works differently, read their newspapers full of horror stories about the treatment they are getting since they made socialized medicine the law of the land.

Our grandparents didn’t know and couldn’t even imagine (exactly as you can’t now imagine) that if there will be one and only source of student loans, the people who are in charge can and will decide who goes and who doesn’t go to college and which colleges get preferential treatment. Some may argue that President Obama is the greatest man in the entire universe, but what if after him (or even during his administration) comes a bad guy, a Student Loan Tsar who quietly will give loans only to … white people? Or only to colleges that teach Buddhism? Or he will decide to give loans only to people with pointed ears and only in the state of Delaware? Letting one person decide on a variety of subjects will lead us to either Fascism or Socialism. Pick one.

Every dictator before installing an outright tyranny attempts first to outlaw and confiscate firearms from private citizens. The dictators do not want their “subjects” to be able to resist. When people are weaponless, they are defenseless. There are now people in the Obama White House who’s favorite philosopher is Mao, a thoughtful ruler who killed seventy million of the citizens of his own country. Josef Stalin killed fifty million and mostly Soviets. Adolf Hitler is a distant third with “only” forty million killed, most of them foreigners. You see, fascists are always behind socialists. One or two steps, but behind.

Lenin, Mao, Stalin and Castro attempted to ridicule and strip people from their faith. They didn’t want their people to have strong convictions. People with strong convictions are harder to subdue. One of the main goals of any socialist government is to discredit and root out religious beliefs of their constituents. Instead of religion socialists teach their own doctrine and perverse morals at schools, colleges and through the media.

In the America of today all manifestations of religion (except Muslim of course), established by millennia of moral conduct and encoded in the Ten Commandments, are driven out of schools and out of our lives under the banner of equality and multi-cultural co-existence. However, the Left does preach another religion – one of “social justice,” a cynical, amoral refusal to recognize evil and tolerance of crime that they simply do not call religion. Socialists, progressives, liberals, Marxists think that if they do not label their belief system “religion,” we will not notice.

The most important and best paid people in socialist countries are the government workers. They are in a position to allow or disallow almost any action you the citizens want to undertake, in nearly all aspects our lives. They are predictably unable to withstand the very human temptation to sell their favors. The more regulations the state has imposed, the more power the bureaucrats get. We would advise you to check in which sector of American economy the people now receive the best salaries and have the most benefits. Would it come as a surprise to you if you will discover that the American government workers, servers of the American nation… are now paid much better than the average citizen they serve?

In the countries we left behind the governments continuously drummed into our children that the greatest person in the world is the current ruler. Starting in kindergarten, children were told daily in games, plays, and lessons that “our leader is the savior of the nation, will live in our memories forever”. Children were shown films and given books glorifying the leader and crudely ridiculing any opponents as enemies of the people. Sound familiar? We didn’t like it then; we do not like it now.

In socialist countries laws were enacted because the heads of the states wanted them enacted. President Obama says that he wants to be the leader of our democracy, but acts like he already lives not in the USA but in the USSA (The United Socialist States of America). His recently rammed-through health care reform is a good example. Forcing “ObamaCare” through Congress by hook, by (yes) crook, and any other means to buy votes, against the clearly expressed will of a popular majority of Americans, and with every Republican in Congress voting NO, was a tyrannical act. This was a display of political coercion far worse than anything seen in this country – so far. We didn’t like it then; we do not like it now.

There are laws in place that will allow the US government to seize large companies that are “too large to fail” but as a result we can lose money invested in the shares of those companies. If you doubt it, look how the GM takeover was conducted by the government and how they abused bond holders’ rights and gave the investor’s money to the unions that (what a surprise!) helped Obama get elected. Do you think it will not happen to you as well the moment our esteemed president will need more money? And he promised so much to his supporters that he will need more and more, and more.

Any country that prints money like crazy will eventually have runaway inflation. If you have no savings, you need not worry. But if you managed to save, if you put aside your hard earned dollars to help you through retirement or leave to your loved ones, than the government by printing vast amounts of new money is stealing your savings. They steal your lifeblood. But even worse, they steal what you would leave to your children and grandchildren. This is what socialists do in every country where they rule. It is their way of taxing us to stagnation without admitting it.

Do you remember those two names Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov? Both of them from Russia, both Nobel Prize winners (the first a writer, the second a physicist), both hated by the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Their country’s political elite called them traitors, accusing them of writings that “sold out the Motherland”. The Soviet government even told us, its citizens, that “those two deserve to die for what they had written and for what they had said”. However, when asked whether they had actually read the books and articles they so strongly condemned, and what exactly those two were writing, the Soviet “apparatchiks” would only reply – “I didn’t read it myself, but I was told…”

Is this not strikingly similar to what is now happening in the United States? The Democratic Party bosses accuse the authors of Arizona’s immigration law of inciting racial profiling, bigotry, racism, hatred… Yet when asked to provide specific examples of language in this “terrible document” encouraging such racial profiling, all those activists, including Attorney General Eric Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and State Department officials reply “I didn’t read it myself, but I was told…!”

What do you think – are they really that stupid that they didn’t read it, or they are lying through their teeth in order not to be asked what specifically they didn’t like in this law?

Below are words of David Kaiser, a known and well respected historian. Whom do you think he was writing those words about: “How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country… and across the world. He did it with a compliant media… And he did this all in the name of justice and change. And the people surely got what they voted for.” Did you guess already? No, no, he wasn’t talking about Obama. He was talking about Adolf Hitler, the leader of The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, a party of national unity and change! Change! Change! Change!

We are slowly losing our freedoms. We are gradually losing our properties. We are willfully losing our friends around the world. We are losing our superiority in science. We are losing our military might. We were winners whom many feared and many hated, but we were the ones on whose shoulders the modern world stood. Now we are losers whom no one cares for. The only way to stop it is to vote Democrats out of their offices at the upcoming elections in November 2010 and retire the rest of them in 2012.

On behalf of those who came from the place Obama wants to take us to… on behalf of those who suffered under Socialism, of those who do not want their children to suffer the very same fate under self proclaimed liberals, progressives or Marxists, we are saying no more! NO MORE!

Signed:
Leon Weinstein
US citizen, emigrated from the USSR in 1974

In order to co-sign Letter to America please click here: http://letter-to-america.us/sign-the-letter

Fiza1

Nice “alarmist” letter!

I'll pick on this:

“There are laws in place that will allow the US government to seize large companies that are “too large to fail” but as a result we can lose money invested in the shares of those companies. If you doubt it, look how the GM takeover was conducted by the government and how they abused bond holders’ rights and gave the investor’s money to the unions that (what a surprise!) helped Obama get elected.”

George Will constantly voices the same complaint about Chrysler's poor bondholder's. The truth is just the opposite. The bondholders of both GM and Chrysler got more than their bonds were worth, complements of the US taxpayer. That is what Mr. Weinstein and Mr. Will should be complaining about. It is true that bondholders are ahead of stockholders, but what did Mr. Weinstein and Mr. Will think these companies were worth in C11? The value of GM & Chrysler bonds were severly depressed well before GM & Chrysler went into bankruptcy.
UFKA_Smithwick

Sad to think Americans might have to start immigrating to those former soviet states to get a taste of economic freedom and provide for their families.

Obviously that isn't the case now, but I could foresee that happening in my lifetime if things persist in this manner.
whats_up

As usual with Warner, way over the top. Here is my favorite:

Do you remember those two names Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov? Both of them from Russia, both Nobel Prize winners (the first a writer, the second a physicist), both hated by the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Their country's political elite called them traitors, accusing them of writings that “sold out the Motherland”. The Soviet government even told us, its citizens, that “those two deserve to die for what they had written and for what they had said”. However, when asked whether they had actually read the books and articles they so strongly condemned, and what exactly those two were writing, the Soviet “apparatchiks” would only reply – “I didn’t read it myself, but I was told…”

Is this not strikingly similar to what is now happening in the United States?

Really, strikingly similar. Who is being thrown in jail by the government for speaking out, cite me name who was placed in jail by Obama for speaking out against him. What cant come up with a name, thats because it hasnt happened. Warner would like you to believe the government is jumping in and jailing people left and right, not happening. Warner would like you to believe that Obama is nationalizing companies all over the place, not happening. Warner would like you to believe that Obama is going after guns, not true, in fact under his watch guns are now allowed in national parks when they werent before, gun rights have increased under Obama. Warner would have you believe that taxes are too high, quite the opposite they are at historic lows. Again a nice work of fiction Warner.
the_hawk

It may be a matter of semantics, Fiza. If you look at his first line, he talks about people who “lose money invested in the shares of those companies.” Would that not include stockholders, too?

Aside from that, it's amusing how you pooh-pooh this letter as “alarmist”, considering Mr. Weinstein is speaking from actual experience. Are you questioning his credibility on the issue?
the_hawk

“Is this not strikingly similar to what is now happening in the United States?”

It's obvious he's talking about the Healthcare Bill and the Arizona Immigration Bill. What you did was tie two completely different paragraphs together. His rhetorical question was directly related to the immediately preceding paragraph.
Mr. EMT

Here come the commie trolls to blow smoke up everyone's asses.
Claiming that everyone who correctly identifies communist/socialist policies and acts happening in America are just paranoid conspiracy theorists.
You live with your heads in the sand denying that communism is alive in America despite proof to the contrary.
When cornered and forced to admit that it is and does exist, you excuse it and claim it is not really a bad thing.
Your shtick is OLD.

You are BORING. Your LIES and deceit are utterly transparent. No one believes the crap you say, not even yourselves. You are traitors, treasonous bastards who advocate SLAVERY to the government.

Current Communist Goals

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:

[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. 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.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. 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.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

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

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

29. 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.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Mr. EMT

Anybody care to try to claim any of those goals that have not already been accomplished are not being worked on?
Communist party owns the democratic party and is infecting the GOP under the guise of “moderation.”
Fiza1

” “lose money invested in the shares of those companies.” Would that not include stockholders, too? “

Mr. Weinstein was specifically talking about Bond holders getting ripped off by the government. So was Mr. Will, when he constantly complains on talk shows that the Chrysley bondholders were forced to get less than what their bonds were worth. No, they got MORE than what their bonds were selling for in the bond market. The same is true for GM bondholders.
Stockholders are last in line for collecting any equity left in a bankrupt company. They usually get little or nothing when a company goes into C11. That has alwas been true, for example when Hoover was president.

What Mr. Weinstein should have been complaining about was the taxpayer bailout of GM bondholders, not the government “abused” bondholder's rights.

“Are you questioning his credibility on the issue?”

What I am questioning is his “alarmist” attitude.
UFKA_Smithwick

Well he is keeping Gitmo open. Which for the past administration was deemed americans dachau/gulag.

I'm sure that same reasoning will apply with this administration.
UFKA_Smithwick

I do wonder when he'll move to start nationalizing BPs assets in the US.

He will have a lot of popular support for such an action if he starts soon. Quite possibly why he has done nothing and allowed it to get so bad.

Now of course he could always try and fail, or public sentiment could swing away from him causing him to abandon that plan. But I have zero doubts the thought has crossed his mind
Mr. EMT

Most of the time we question your ignorant attitude.
The rest of the time we don't pay attention to you due to the fact regardless of what you are saying, your opinions are brainless.
Fiza1

Mr. Huston, why don't you send a copy of Mr. Weinstein's letter to Mr. Soros, who also emmigrated from a communist country? I bet Mr. Soros, who still (I believe) supports President Obama would chuckle at this ridiculous statement in the letter:

“What if, we are asking ourselves, a new Lenin, Mao or Hugo Chavez is already in the White House?”

Seriously, Mr. Huston, you must also have questioned, or maybe laughed at that “stupid”, totally ridiculous statement. Mr. Huston, do you really know who Mr. Weinstein is is? I am sure you know since you say he is a friend, but read this anyway:

http://jews4barack.com/react/?p=14

Thank, you jewsforObama.com for pointing out who Mr. Weinstein is!
StanW

Lenin or Mao? Not currently in our White House.

Hugo Chavez? I think Chavez and Obama are trying to out-socialism each other.

Yes, and we can all be sure that a website called Jews for Obama is COMPLETELY unbiased, right CRIMINAL!
the_hawk

Is it alarmist for a person with his perspective, though? I've lived in America my whole life, so I don't have any real experience being oppressed. Mr. Weinstein, on the other hand, has experience in both types of society. Couldn't you give him some credit for his viewpoint?
Mr. EMT

All you had to say was “hey I got a communist that I support who would laugh at this letter”

We already know that.
http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

Really, strikingly similar. Who is being thrown in jail by the government for speaking out, cite me name who was placed in jail by Obama for speaking out against him.

The author never said that people are being thrown in jail here. My search of the document, turns up that he used the word “jail” once, and the word “prison” once. And in neither instance did he use either word to make the point that Americans are currently being jailed by this administration. In the case of the word jail, he cited it as an evil in the places from which many emigrated. In the case of prison, he used it as a descriptive analogy for the nations from which the people to whom he's addressed the letter originated. You're arguing a strawman of your own creation, my friend.

Warner would like you to believe…Warner would like you to believe…Warner would like you to believe…Warner would have you believe…

Need I point out to you that the author of this letter wasn't Mr. Huston? No matter how much you'd like to demonise Mr. Huston, he didn't write the letter. Yes, he brought it to our attention, and I can surmise that he might agree with many of the sentiments expressed therein, but let's let the ownership of the letter lie with the real author, eh? That's starting to look like another strawman you've created in order to get your rocks off by taking swipes at Mr. Huston.

…gun rights have increased under Obama.

Due in large measure to the two most recent Second Amendment verdicts rendered by the Supreme Court, which we all know Mr. Obama is trying his best to stack with progressive liberals so as to prevent any further strengthening of gun rights, among other issues.

Is this letter alarmist? Absolutely. No argument.

Is it any more alarmist than An Inconvenient Truth? I'd say no.

Is it a fair representation of the way many immigrants who came here from dictatorships/repressive regimes perceive what's happening here today? Very likely so, if my own experience with immigrants from former/current tyrannies is any measure.

Does that make them automatically right? No. No more than it makes them automatically wrong. Personally, I think their comments based upon their own life experiences are a valuable addition to the ongoing discussion about freedom, liberty and self-governance. At least as much as any other definable group's contributions.

Now you can get back to your man-hots for Mr. Huston. At this point, we all understand you'd probably like to hate-f*ck him senseless, or at the least, see it happen.
Fiza1

Yes! Perhaps Mr. Weinstein's mental state was severly affected by his first thirty yrs of life in the former USSR. Perhaps Mr. Weinstein reads ” “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen, every night to reinforce his views of the old USSR before retiring. Then Mr. Weinstein looks under his bed for communists. Who does he see? Obama, and Rahm Emanuel, who he views as the reincarnation of Lenin or Trotsky, or Marx.
No, his “Letter to America” is just another example of far right wing propaganda.
Fiza1

Wake up, EMT, the cold war is over! Even the Moslems in the former, Moslem majority republics of the old USSR hated communism. You figure out why!
Hint, hint, they were fined for practicing their religion.

Continue reading Cleon Skousen's “The Naked Communist” before bedtime and be sure to check under your bed for those “communists”.
Fiza1

If you are a disciple of Cleon Skousen, and perhaps “The John Birch Society”, which Skousen was admirer of, I do question your mental state.
The The John Birch Society believed that Ike was either a communist, or he was “stupid”. What do you believe?
Fiza1

“Yes, and we can all be sure that a website called Jews for Obama is COMPLETELY unbiased, right CRIMINAL!”

Yes, completely unbiased, Just like Mr. Huston, Mr. Weinstein, Hannity, Beck, RWN, and of course, FOX News!
StanW

I'll keep this in mind the next time you are bitching and moaning about bias in the media. Of course, you only get upset when someone in the media dares to be to the Right of Michael Moore.
Fiza1

“Obviously that isn't the case now, but I could foresee that happening in my lifetime if things persist in this manner. “

It is better to prepare now than to be sorry later. I suggest that you buy yoursef a place in Kyrgyzstan. I hear that it is pretty nice there.
UFKA_Smithwick

So either love the president and his policies unconditionally and offer no criticism or leave?

Hmm . . . .
TheDickNixon

you still pimping illegals out fiza?
TheDickNixon

Certainly a person like yourself who pimped out illegals is the paragon of knowledge there Kowalskil
TheDickNixon

You got Nixon's proof yet whats up? Couldnt help but notice you are too chickenshit to respond? What is the matter, you found another 12 year old near your residence to stalk?
Fiza1

“What is the matter, you found another 12 year old near your residence to stalk? “

Nixon, what is this attraction/facination you have with perverts? You are apparently a pervert yourself. I bet you had a relationship with a lady of the night who was a liberal, or maybe a relationship with a child whose parents were liberals. Hence you associate your “targets” with liberals. Nixon, you need psychiatric help FAST before you get in serious trouble!
Mr. EMT

Biased? Against what?
Communism? LMAO
Mr. EMT

Here come the commie trolls to blow smoke up everyone's asses.
Claiming that everyone who correctly identifies communist/socialist policies and acts happening in America are just paranoid conspiracy theorists.

Can you be less predictable?
Oh, wait no you cant. You are incapable of thinking for yourself and use talking points everyone has heard before.
Stupid brainless commie.
10 of your komrades were just arrested for espionage.
Mr. EMT

I think someone who supports communist/socialism and either claims it does not exist, or claims that examples of it's existance are “necissary” are thereby guilty of being communist themselves. I think any citizen of America who is a sympathizer is guilty of treason.

I noticed you failed to even claim that any of the goals of Communism are not actively being achieved through people you support and follow, fizzle.
Mr. EMT

It ceases to be propaganda when it is a fact of daily life.
Tell me something Fizzle, was it propaganda that obamao took over GM and Chrysler?
Is it propaganda that he is using this oil spill as a stepping stone to take over companies that provide energy?
http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

Thus spake the brainwashed on, all hail the brainwashed IDIOT!
http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

And you'd have us all beleive you actually read Warner's post and understood it, which is obviously NOT true.

And the increase in gun rights is through NO direct action on Odrama's part, and you can provide NO evidence that he's happy about these changes or that he's not looking for ways to reverse them!