Communists!

[gnome]

I recently came across this list at glennbeck.com:

http://www.glennbeck.com/news/03212002.shtml

Can someone tell me info about the true origins of this list? It was first published, it is claimed, in a book called The Naked Communist by Cleon Skousen (1961), and was published in the congressional record by Albert Herlong Jr. in 1963.

I am suspicious of this list because it seems very similar in tone to a discredited list:

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/commrule.htm

I also smell in it the same tactics of discrediting the opposition by claiming some unarguably evil group shares goals with them.

 

[NoZed Avenger]

I haven't done any looking, yet - but I agree that this has an unsavory scent attached to it.

 

[Kodiak]

WHERE?!?!?!

 

[JAR]

There are quite a few communists in the JREF Forum.

Here's a list of the ones I know of off the top of my head:

a_unique_person
BillyTK
Huzington(aka Fraeybol)
Malachi151
Mr. Manifesto
Tmy

There was one dude a little while back who said Stalin was great, but I can't remember what his username was. [Edited to add: I now know who it was. It was Fraeybol, who is also called Huzington.]

 

[NoZed Avenger]

Re: Re: Communists!

WHERE?!?!?! [/B]

In me wife's jam.

Brezhnev's peeping at me from the top of my wife's knickers!

Aaaarrrrgghh.

N/A


(It's been about 6-7 years since I've seen that one, maybe longer -- is that anywhere close?)

 

[Bikewer]

As a child in Catholic school during the 50's, we were constantly exposed to anti-communist material. We had to read such fun titiles as "You Can Always Trust a Communist (to be a Communist)"

We were also filled with uplifting stories of resistance; Cardinal Mindzenty and that sort of thing.
I'm inclined to think that anyone who might praise Papa Joe should be required to go back in time and work for him. A hazardous employment, by all accounts.

 

[Malachi151]

Looks bogus to me.

 

[gnome]

I can't help but think of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion...

And it just sort of twists my stomach that way-- like the author wants to blame anything he doesn't like on a communist plot.

But what I really need is info--how did Herlong find out about these "goals"?

 

[Jessica Blue]

Gnome, why did you put in that post? Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the communist party...?


That list is a fake. They didn't even mention the bit about the bodily fluids:

I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all our precious bodily fluids

General Ripper,
Dr. Strangelove

 

[Mr Manifesto]

a_unique_person
BillyTK
Huzington(aka Fraeybol)
Malachi151
Mr. Manifesto
Tmy

My God!!! Or lack of it, I should say... The boy-wonder detective has rooted out the evil Communist plot! There goes our Hollywood careers (aka Phase 2 of The Plan). We'll get you next time JAR! Next time!

 

[peptoabysmal]

Resistance is futile, Atlas Shrugged.

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[BillyTK]

There are quite a few communists in the JREF Forum.

Here's a list of the ones I know of off the top of my head:

a_unique_person
BillyTK
Huzington(aka Fraeybol)
Malachi151
Mr. Manifesto
Tmy

There was one dude a little while back who said Stalin was great, but I can't remember what his username was. [Edited to add: I now know who it was. It was Fraeybol, who is also called Huzington.]

Hey, why am I only at no. 2?!!!
Edited to add
And JAR is one of us. He got p!ssed off when he went all Stalinist and we had to boot him out the party.

 

[Graham]

. . . and up next we have a special request for JAR in Lakewood, CA:

Well, I was feelin' sad and feelin' blue,
I didn't know what in the world I was gonna do,
Them Communists they wus comin' around,
They wus in the air,
They wus on the ground.
They wouldn't gimme no peace. . .

So I run down most hurriedly
And joined up with the John Birch Society,
I got me a secret membership card
And started off a-walkin' down the road.
Yee-hoo, I'm a real John Bircher now!
Look out you Commies!

Now we all agree with Hitlers' views,
Although he killed six million Jews.
It don't matter too much that he was a Fascist,
At least you can't say he was a Communist!
That's to say like if you got a cold you take a shot of malaria.

Well, I wus lookin' everywhere for them gol-darned Reds.
I got up in the mornin' 'n' looked under my bed,
Looked in the sink, behind the door,
Looked in the glove compartment of my car.
Couldn't find 'em . . .

I wus lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere,
I wus lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair.
I looked way up my chimney hole,
I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.
They got away . . .

Well, I wus sittin' home alone an' started to sweat,
Figured they wus in my T.V. set.
Peeked behind the picture frame,
Got a shock from my feet, hittin' right up in the brain.
Them Reds caused it!
I know they did . . . them hard-core ones.

Well, I quit my job so I could work alone,
Then I changed my name to Sherlock Holmes.
Followed some clues from my detective bag
And discovered they wus red stripes on the American flag!
That ol' Betty Ross . . .

Well, I investigated all the books in the library,
Ninety percent of 'em gotta be burned away.
I investigated all the people that I knowed,
Ninety-eight percent of them gotta go.
The other two percent are fellow Birchers . . . just like me.

Now Eisenhower, he's a Russian spy,
Lincoln, Jefferson and that Roosevelt guy.
To my knowledge there's just one man
That's really a true American: George Lincoln Rockwell.
I know for a fact he hates Commies cus he picketed the movie Exodus.

Well, I fin'ly started thinkin' straight
When I run outa things to investigate.
Couldn't imagine doin' anything else,
So now I'm sittin' home investigatin' myself!
Hope I don't find out anything . . . hmm, great God!

And that was Bob Dylan with Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues, specially for JAR out there in Lakewood CA. Don't let them Reds getcha JAR - y'hear?