With the 9th being the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Campus Reform, in cooperation with Young Americans for Liberty, held several events around the country to raise awareness regarding the fact that communism didn’t die. On the contrary, it is, in fact, alive and well in this country. Here are some details from Campus Reform.
Charges that the federal government is inching ever closer to communism are far from new – this 1955 academic editorial contends that arresting all card-carrying members of the communist party would have little effect on our march toward communism: Our own politicians will get us there quite handily on their own.
In fact, the American government began to nail into place each of the ten planks of communism long before the Berlin Wall fell. Can you suggest a policy of our government which fits with each plank? Check out these sites here, here, here, and here for modern assessments on which you might base your own list of comparisons.
On November 9, CampusReform.org and Young Americans for Liberty are cosponsoring a national day of activism to protest this country’s socialistic tendencies and rebuilding of the Berlin Wall…on our own soil. Take action to educate your campus and raise awareness about America’s drift toward communism!
Here are some pics of various events.
Some will scoff at the idea, but consider that the Russians are warning us about the dangers of Communism!
To sum this up, let’s go to a real leader, that actually went to Berlin to confront the most murderous political system in history.
Let’s remember that these kids on campus are heavily outnumbered. If you know any college aged Conservatives or Libertarians, give them some support and encouragement, because they are up against the wall, so to speak.
Matt
I believe that future generations should have the same opportunities that myself, and those that came before me, had. My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted to do. I don’t want to have to tell my daughter, “You can do whatever the government tells you to do.” We are at a crossroads in this country; are we going to be free, or are we going to be slaves to the nanny state. I choose freedom.
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I wholeheartedly agree, our young people need our encouragement and support.
So true. If the majority of Americans don’t wake up to what is going on, we will not have a free country to hand to our children or grandchildren.
Well said, forgotten liberty.
I’ve been saying this one since last week: The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago, and Communism slouched into America to be reborn.
To which Mike, from Exblogitate and Once Upon a Time in the Webs, added: “What rough Barack…”
Yeats unspun!
More like slithered into.
Thanks for writing a post on the event. Check out our blog to see pictures of the “Rebuilding the Wall” events throughout the country.
No problem, I would have done one sooner, but the health care vote took me off task.
I not only remember the Berlin Wall, but the Berlin Blockcade and the the Berlin airlift. Young people in this country know little of such things and what they do know has been a revised version fed to them by radical campus professors who hate the America of the founders. Sadly our current leader is a product of such an education. Most young people will outgrow the false values learned in our institutions of lesser-learning, but some who never venture into the real world and will be stuck in a search for Utopia their entire life and see only evil in a search for something that doesn’t exist.
And even worse, some will embrace that evil as good, and reject actual good as evil.
So true, Matt. The wall may have fallen, but socialism is getting stronger here. It’s worrying, because once we start down that road, it’s VERY difficult to turn back.
Sadly, something terrible has to happen to change such things.
What a proud day this was for the Reagan administration! I highly doubt we will see such greatness from the current. Well thought out article, history is so important to the entire human race. If it is ignored, it is bound to repeat itself. And as you pointed out, we are now seeing the rise of socialism in our own country just 20 years after our President helped to free others from many of the same policies that are trying to be implemented here today.
Marie, sometimes, irony is a very bitter pill.
Two ways to look at a President and a Wall…
That’s great Don, thanks. I think that shows the differences between the two quite nicely!