American Minute with Bill Federer
Socialism/Communism v Freedom/Capitalism: Korean War "Freedom is Not Free"
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"FREEDOM IS NOT FREE"
is the inscription on the
Korean War Memoria
l in Washington, D.C.
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The Korean War
started June 25, 1950.
Communist North Korea
invaded
South Korea,
killing thousands.
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Outnumbered
South Korean
and
American troops,
as part of a U.N. police action, fought courageously against the
Communist Chinese and North Korean troops,
who were supplied with arms and MIG fighters from the
Soviet Union.
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Five-star General Douglas MacArthur
was Supreme U.N. Commander, leading the United Nations Command from 1950 to 1951.
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MacArthur
made a daring landing of troops at Inchon, deep behind
North Korean lines,
and recaptured the city of
Seoul.
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With temperatures sometimes forty degrees below zero in the Korean mountains, and Washington politicians limiting the use of air power against the
Communists,
there were nearly
140,000 American casualties:
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- in the defense of the Pusan Perimeter and Taego;
- in the landing at Inchon and the freeing of Seoul;
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- in the capture of Pyongyang;
- in the Yalu River where nearly a million Communist Chinese soldiers invaded;
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- in the Battles of Changjin Reservoir, Old Baldy, White Horse Mountain, Heartbreak Ridge, Pork Chop Hill, T-Bone Hill, and Siberia Hill.
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The word
"democracy"
has
two
main
definitions:
- the first is a political form of government where every citizen votes on every issue everyday and the majority rules. This only successfully worked on a small city-state basis where every citizen could physically be present at every meeting;
- the second definition of "democracy" is simply a general reference to citizens ruling themselves.
It was the
second definition
that came into
popular usage
during the
Cold War.
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Harry S Truman
compared
Communism
and
Democracy
in his Inaugural Address, January 20, 1949:
"We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the
image of God.
From this faith we will not be moved ...
Communism
is based on the belief that man is so weak and inadequate that he is unable to govern himself, and therefore requires the rule of strong masters.
Democracy
is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.
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...
Communism
subjects the individual to arrest without lawful cause, punishment without trial, and forced labor as a chattel of the state.
It decrees what information he shall receive, what art he shall produce, what leaders he shall follow, and what thoughts he shall think.
Democracy
maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights of the individual and his freedom ..."
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Truman
continued:
"These differences between
Communism
and
Democracy
do not concern the United States alone.
People everywhere are coming to realize that what is involved is material well-being, human dignity, and the right to believe in and worship
God."
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Democracy
allows for
capitalism,
where
individuals can own private property
and engage in
business
to
improve their lives.
Forbes,
July 27, 2020, published Rainer Zitelmann's article
"Anyone Who Doesn’t Know The Following Facts About Capitalism Should Learn Them,"
in which he wrote:
"In 1820, 94% of the world’s population was
living in extreme poverty.
By 1910,
this figure had fallen
to 82%, and by 1950 the rate had
dropped yet further,
to 72%.
However, the
largest and fastest decline
occurred between 1981 (44.3%) and 2015 (9.6%).
Reading these figures, which were compiled by
Johan Norberg
for his book
Progress,
is enough to make anyone rub their eyes in disbelief.
For according to leftist anti-capitalists, these were the very decades in which so much went so wrong in the world."
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Zitelmann continued:
"200 years ago, at the
birth of capitalism,
there were only about 60 million people in the world who were
NOT living in extreme poverty.
Today there are more than 6.5 billion people who are
NOT living in extreme poverty.
Between 1990 and 2015 alone ... 1.25 billion people around the world
escaped extreme poverty
— 50 million per year and 138,000 every day."
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The Communist Manifesto
was written by
Karl Marx
and
Friedrich Engels
in 1848.
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Marx
had attended the University of Berlin, where he became involved with a radical anti-religious group, the
Young Hegelians.
After being refused a university post because of his extreme views,
Karl Marx
began publishing a paper in 1842, which was banned in Germany.
He fled to Paris, then Brussels, and finally to London.
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Marx
founded the International Workingmen's Association and the
Social Democrat Labor Party,
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Marx's
philosophy influenced
Adolph Hitler
in starting the National
Socialist
Workers Party;
Vladimir Lenin,
in starting the
Social-Democrat Party;
and
Joseph Stalin's
Union of Soviet
Socialist
Republics.
Lenin
explained: "The goal of
socialism
is
communism."
Lenin
wrote in
State and Revolution
(1917):
"The
dictatorship of the proletariat will produce a series of
restrictions of liberty in the case of the ...
capitalists.
We must crush them ...
Their resistance must be
broken by force ... There must also be
violence, and
there cannot be liberty or democracy."
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Karl Marx
wrote:
"The theory of the
Communists
may be summed up in the single sentence:
Abolition of private property."
"Take away the heritage of a people and they are easily destroyed."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
explained that
communism
is nothing more than
dictatorship,
as he stated in his address to the Delegates of the American Youth Congress, Washington, D.C., February 10, 1940:
"I disliked the regimentation under
Communism.
I abhorred the
indiscriminate killings of thousands of innocent victims.
I heartily deprecated the
banishment of religion
...
I, with many of you, hoped that Russia would work out its own problems, and that its government would eventually become a peace-loving, popular government ...
That hope is today ... shattered
...
The Soviet Union,
as everybody who has the courage to face the fact knows,
is run by a dictatorship
as absolute as any other
dictatorship
in the world."
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Winston S. Churchill
gave an address at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, March 5, 1946, in which he introduced the phrase "
Iron Curtain"
to describe the Cold War between Western powers and the Union of Soviet
Socialist
Republics
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Churchill
stated:
"The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power. It is a solemn moment for the
American Democracy.
For with primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future ...
To ... fritter it away will bring upon us all the long reproaches of the after-time ...
Except in the
British Commonwealth
and in the
United States
where
Communism is in its infancy,
the
Communist
parties or fifth columns constitute a growing challenge and peril to
Christian civilization ...
Last time I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow-countrymen and to the world, but
no one paid any attention."
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Roger Baldwin
was one of the founders of the
American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU), a 501(c)3 tax-exempt Foundation.
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He graduated from Harvard in 1905.
When he was sent a questionnaire in 1935 by the editor of the Harvard College Class Thirtieth Anniversary Yearbook,
Baldwin
replied:
"I am for
socialism,
disarmament, and ultimately, for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek
social ownership of property,
the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produce wealth.
Communism is the goal."
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Roger Baldwin
twice visited the Soviet Union, as well as Vietnam, where he expressed support for
Vietnamese Communist dictator Ho Chi Minh.
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Baldwin
wrote a book,
Liberty Under the Soviets
(NY: Vanguard Press, 1928), in which he stated:
"Civil liberties ... though voiced for centuries by philosophers ... never became a political principle of any civilization until a growing capitalism revolted against feudalism and a rebel Protestantism against the Church of Rome ..."
Baldwin continued, revealing Communist hypocrisy:
"If they believed in freedom for everybody ... but they do not. They believe in ... power for the workers ... under the Party's leadership ...
Communists aid the workers ... in capitalist countries to the
fullest possible expression of their class demands,
while suppressing in Russia ... sections of
the working class itself, differing with the
Communist Party leadership."
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Baldwin
revealed the hypocrisy of communist thought:
"To
Communists there is no inconsistency in
denying civil liberties to all opponents in Soviet Russia, while
demanding these liberties for their movement in capitalist countries."
Baldwin
wrote:
"I joined. I don't regret being a part of the
Communist
tactic, which increased the effectiveness of a good cause. I knew what I was doing.
I was not an innocent liberal.
I wanted what the Communists wanted."
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In 1948, the California Senate Fact Finding Committee on Un-American Activities stated in its report, page 107:
"The
ACLU
may be definitely classified as
a Communist front
or transmission belt organization ...
At least 90 percent of its efforts are on behalf of
Communists
who come in conflict with the law."
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Dwight Eisenhower
was quoted in
TIME Magazine,
October 13, 1952:
"The Bill of Rights contains no grant of privilege for
a group of people to destroy the Bill of Rights.
A group - like the
Communist conspiracy
- dedicated to the ultimate destruction of all civil liberties, cannot be allowed to
claim civil liberties
as its privileged sanctuary from which to carry on
subversion of the Government."
Eisenhower's view can also apply as a present-day warnings of
sharia Islam
-- should
civil liberties
be extended to those who refuse to grant
civil liberties?
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John F. Kennedy
cautioned, April 27, 1961:
"We are as a people inherently and historically opposed to
secret societies
...
We are opposed around the world by a ...
ruthless conspiracy
that relies primarily on
covert
means for
expanding its sphere of influence
- on infiltration ... tightly knit, highly efficient ... political operations."
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Prior to
Lyndon B. Johnson's reelection to the Senate, the
501(c)3 Committee for Constitution Government circulated a pamphlet in 1954, in which Willis Ballinger wrote:
"A vote for Johnson - many Texans feel - will be a vote for more centralization of power and
socialism in Washington; for more of the
internationalism which is designed to
abolish the U.S.A.; and for more covering up of
Communist infiltration."
Wanting to silence this group,
Johnson proposed the
I.R.S. limit 501(c)3 organizations' involvement in politics.
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In 1950, members of the
Communist Party USA
formed the
Mattachine Society,
the nation's
first homosexual rights organizations.
which lobbied to
repeal sodomy laws.
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Dwight Eisenhower
stated February 25, 1953:
"Almost 100 percent of Americans would like to stamp out all traces of
Communism
in our country ...
I went to Columbia University as its President and I insisted on one thing ... If we had a known
Communist
in our faculty and he could not be discharged ... I was automatically discharged.
I personally would not be a party to an organization where there was a known card-carrying
Communist
in such a responsible position as teaching our young."
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President Harry S Truman
spoke at the laying of the cornerstone of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., April 3, 1951:
"Without a firm
moral foundation,
freedom
degenerates quickly into selfishness and license.
Unless men exercise their freedom in a just and honest way, within
moral restraints,
a free society can
degenerate into anarchy.
Then there will be freedom only for the rapacious and those who are stronger and more
unscrupulous
than the rank and file of the people ...
The international
Communist movement
is based on a fierce and terrible fanaticism.
It denies the existence of God
and, wherever it can, it
stamps out the worship of God.
Our religious faith gives us the answer to
the false beliefs of Communism.
Our faith shows us the way to create a society where man can find his
greatest happiness under God.
Surely, we can follow that faith with the same devotion and determination the
Communists
give to
their godless creed
...
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... Every day our newspapers tell us about the
fighting in Korea.
Our men there are making heroic sacrifices. They are fighting and suffering in an effort to prevent the tide of aggression from sweeping across the world ...
Our young men are offering their lives for us in the hills of
Korea
-- and yet too many of us are chiefly concerned over whether or not we can buy a television set next week ...
This is a failure to understand the moral principles upon which our Nation is founded."
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In
Lessons of History
(NY: Simon and Schuster, 1968),
Will and Ariel Durant
wrote:
"The greatest question of our time is not
Communism
versus
individualism,
not even East versus West; it is
whether man can live without God."
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Conrad Hilton,
founder of the hotel chain, spoke at a
Prayer Breakfast
at the Mayflower Hotel, following addresses by Congressmen, Senators, and Vice-President Nixon.
Hilton
stated:
"It took a war to put
prayer
at the center of the lives of our fighting men. It took a war, and the frightening evil of
Communism,
to show the world that this whole business of
prayer
is not a sissy, a counterfeit thing that man can do or not as he wishes.
Prayer
... is a part of man's personality, without which he limps ... Men grope in darkness unless they believe that
God,
in
His kindness,
is willing to lift the shadows
if we ask Him in prayer."
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Truman
stated while lighting the National Christmas Tree, December 24, 1952:
"Shepherds, in a field, heard angels singing:
'Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace, good will toward men' ...
We turn to the old, old story of how
'God
so loved the world, that
He gave His only begotten Son,
that whosoever
believeth in Him
should not perish, but have
everlasting life
...'"
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Truman
continued:
"Tonight, our hearts turn first of all to our brave men and women in
Korea.
They are fighting and suffering and even dying that we may
preserve the chance of peace in the world
...
And as we go about our business of trying to achieve peace in the world, let us remember always to try to act and live in the spirit of
the Prince of Peace.
He bore in His heart no hate and no malice - nothing but love for all mankind.
We should try as nearly as we can to
follow His example. We believe that all men are truly the children of God
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... As we pray for our loved ones far from home - as we pray for our men and women in
Korea,
and all our service men and women wherever they are - let us also pray for our enemies.
Let us pray that
the spirit of God
shall enter their lives and prevail in their lands ..."
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Truman
concluded:
"Through Jesus Christ
the world will yet be
a better and fairer place."
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General Douglas MacArthur
warned in a speech to the Salvation Army, December 12, 1951, stating:
"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to
moral decay
have not passed into
political and economic decline.
There has been either a
spiritual awakening
to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to
ultimate national disaster."
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Dwight Eisenhower
was quoted in the
Religious Herald,
Virginia, January 25, 1952:
"What is our battle against
Communism
if it is not a fight between
anti-God
and a belief in the
Almighty?
...
Communists
... have to
eliminate God
from their system.
When
God
comes,
Communism
has to go."
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At the College of William and Mary, May 15, 1953,
Dwight Eisenhower
stated:
"It is necessary that we earnestly seek out and uproot any traces of
Communism."
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First Lady Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower
stated in a conversation at the Doud home regarding their son John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, who was serving in Korea:
"He has a mission to fulfill and
God
will see to it that nothing will happen to him till he fulfills it."
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Eisenhower
addressed Congress, February 2, 1953:
"The calculated pressures of aggressive
Communism
have forced us ... to live in a world of turmoil ...
No single country, even one so powerful as ours, can alone defend the liberty of all nations threatened by
Communist
aggression from without and
subversion within
...
I must make special mention of the war in
Korea.
This war is, for Americans, the most painful phase of
Communist
aggression throughout the world."
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Fighting in
Korea
was halted JULY 27, 1953, with the signing of an armistice with
North Korea
at Panmunjom.
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On December 24, 1953,
Dwight Eisenhower
stated at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree:
"The world still stands divided in two antagonistic parts.
Prayer
places freedom and
communism
in opposition one to the other.
The
Communist
can find no reserve of strength in prayer because his
doctrine of materialism
and
statism denies the dignity of man
and consequently
the existence of God.
But in America ...
religious faith is the foundation of free government,
so is
prayer
an indispensable part of that
faith
...
The founders of this, our country, came first to these shores in search of
freedom
... to live ...
beyond the yoke of tyranny."
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