"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at
the gates is less formidable, for he is known, and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among
those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very hall of
government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor. He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he
wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in hearts of men. He rots the
soul of a nation. He works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city. He infects the
body politic so that it can no longer resist. A Murderer Is Less To Be Feared." Cicero, 42 B.C.
The only difference between communism and socialism is its method of imposition. Communism is forced
upon the people against their will. Socialism on the other hand is entered into voluntarily by the majority of
voters.
Even though the goals are the same, socialism is much more dangerous because it gradually enslaves the
people without the use of visible force, while artfully disguising its evil motives with a variety of so-called noble
causes.
The evils of socialiam and humanism cannot survive exposure unless "good men and women do nothing". The
following is offered in hopes that you will join our efforts to expose those evils. Your comments are WELCOME!
The 10 planks of the communist manifesto written in 1848 by Karl Marx appear below in red.
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The Communist Manifesto
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. Property tax paid
annually prevents the outright ownership of property, because if property can be confiscated for taxes owed, it
can never truly be owned. The application of our rents of land (property taxes)are used for public purposes as
envisioned by Karl Marx.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. The income tax was imposed upon the people briefly after the
War Between The Southern States and The dictatorial Federal Government. In 1895, The US Supreme Court
abolished it with the words, "The income tax is indeed a direct tax and therefore unconstitutional". The Court
understood that, "No capitation, or other direct Tax shall be laid,..." Art. 1, Sec. 9, of the US Constitution, means
exactly what it says. However, in 1913 there were enough socialist in Congress to again foist the income tax
upon the people with the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. The income tax is not designed just to raise
taxes, which could be accomplished very easily with a national sales tax. Instead, its goal is to punish
achievement, invade privacy, and control the people through fear and intimidation from the most gestapo-like
arm of our government, the I.R.S.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance. Our inheritance tax puts all rights of inheritance in jeopardy. Property tax,
income tax, and inheritance tax, should be abolished because they are all direct taxes and they all violate our
God-given property rights. They could be replaced with indirect taxes like sales tax, tobacco tax, alcohol tax, or
gasoline tax. Some advantages of indirect taxes are:
They are indeed Constitutional.
Our privacy would be protected.
Everyone who spends money participates including the super-wealthy, foreign visitors, illegal aliens, drug
dealers, and others now in the underground economy.
It is a pay as you go system - no April 15th.
The IRS and all associated collection cost would be eliminated.
Lower production cost will allow business to compete internationally.
Prices would come down more than enough to cover the sales tax increase.
Business would expand creating new jobs.
The money now in off-shore tax-havens would flood back into this country stimulating the economy.
Manufacturing would come back home absent the over-taxation and over-regulation that drove them to foreign
countries.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. Our government does not normally confiscate
property of emigrants, however, many laws and regulations have been passed in recent years which allow
many government agencies such as the I.R.S., O.S.H.A., E.P.A., B.L.M., and drug enforcement agencies to
confiscate property from citizens that are considered rebels. Much of this confiscation is achieved without due
process of law.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an
exclusive monopoly. The Federal Reserve System was created in 1913. It is not federally owned and nothing is
in reserve. It is a private corporation with the power to increase or decrease the money supply by changing the
interest rates and the reserve requirements of its member banks. It can create money out of thin air, lend it to
the government and then collect the principal and interest from the taxpayers. That is why its owners always
have and always will promote war and socialism to create inextinguishable government debt.
"Permit me to control the currency of a nation and I care not who makes its laws" Baron De Rothschild,
brainchild of the Federal Reserve Bank.
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then
by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property
until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. Communication and
transportation are controlled by a number of government agencies, e.g., The Federal Communication
Commission (FCC), The Dept. of Transportation (DOT), The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), The
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Public Television is also a good example of state control of
communication for the indoctrination of the concepts of socialism and humanism.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of
waste lands, and the improvements of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. Dan Smoot's book,
"The Business End of Government" revealed that, the federal government owned 1165 different businesses
like AMTRAC. The Bureau of land Management, The Department of Agriculture, The Department of Commerce,
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), etc., all promote a common plan of more and more regulation and
control from government with less and less freedom enjoyed by the people.
8. Equal liability of all to labor and the establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. Heavy
taxation, over-regulation, and other economic problems caused by our government's adoption of socialism
has forced women to labor equally with men. Our industrial army is the Social Security System which requires
membership at birth.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town
and country by a more equitable distribution of population over the country. We are not living under this plank
totally. However, we do have many large agriculture corporations who have combined all levels of production
from the farm to the consumer. It appears that the goal of this plank is to reduce the number of family farms
making it easier to gain control of all food and fiber production. This goal is fast becoming reality.
10. Free education for all children in public schools.... Communist and socialist have long recognized the value
of indoctrination through a free educational system. And, it has produced a people with no understanding of
the vast differences between the Free Enterprise System and socialism. During our Bicentennial celebrations
(1986), a national poll of school children revealed that 46% of them believed that "From him with the most ability
- to him with the most need" was part of our Constitution. Today all socialist, all liberals and most democracts
believe the same thing.
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Would it surprise you to learn that "The Democractic Socialist of America" are alive and well in the U.S.A.. Its
"Progressive Caucus" list 58 members from the U.S. House of Representatives. All are democrats except their
chairman, Benard Sanders, who ran on the socialist party ticket. You can find the list at: Democratic Socialist of
America
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"Thus it is easy to understand how law, instead of checking injustice, becomes the invincible weapon of
injustice. It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the
rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by
plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he
holds." Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850).
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Gary McLeod for US Congress
Are We Living Under the
Communist Manifesto?