Without a similar ruthlessness, how can the true believers in a Free World respond?
I firmly believe that the future of the human race rests in the hands of Israel. Its own chosen path will ultimately lead all of humanity in that direction.
Ms. Adler, a socialist for most of her life, was very aware of the only two choices afforded her. As an artist, she chose the only political activism acceptable to her professional peers: Marxism. That influence has since expanded from a small circle of Jewish artists and intellectuals into every corner of that nation's identity.
Every one of the major roots of the Judeo-Christian civilization can be found in the Bible. From Genesis to Revelations, this seamless tapestry of legend and history determined not only the ethics by which the Western world has lived for centuries, but also inspired repeatedly the visions lying beneath most of the major works of art, from Michelangelo to Shakespeare to J. S. Bach.
In the Book of Genesis, the story of Cain and Abel foretells the nightmare mankind will face and has faced for millennia. One jealous, angry and vengeful brother rises up to slay his innocent brother. It prophesies the unending battle not only between siblings, but also between men in general. It presages war.
At this point, two children of Israel have become the most successful revolutionary voices ever recorded: Jesus of Nazareth and Karl Marx. Both could be viewed as equally "messianic." The New Testament is replete with messianic claims. Marx's Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto are an all-encompassing social, political and spiritual field theory that undoubtedly has messianic prescriptions for the ills of modern life, although Marx labels Christianity and any other form of religious worship as a major part of the problem.
In rebelling against both testaments of the Bible, Marx committed himself and his followers to rendering these articles of faith obsolete. He saw the Bible as an obstacle to justice. If a book could be assassinated, the Marxists would most certainly have done it.
Two brothers, Marx and Christ -- Cain and Abel -- become the two principals in a drama of fratricide.
The House of Israel rejected Jesus as the Messiah. Less than 2,000 years later, a large portion of the Jewish population has adopted Marx as, if not a Messiah, at least the guiding philosopher of any acceptable future.
The CTSF's messiah is undoubtedly Marx. If you add the two remaining but essential ingredients - Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Ilich Lenin, you have a frightening trinity to symmetrically balance the tripartite God of Christianity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
If the House of Israel does not realize that the dominant socialist party of that nation represents the worship of Cain, we are all lost. If the Jewish orthodox leadership does not voice its objections and implore their socialist sons and daughters to, if not reclaim orthodoxy, at least disassociate themselves from the CTSF, then Israel will fall to Arab members of the CTSF and the entire world will follow that horrid Church into tyranny.
Unless symbolic representatives of the Old and New Testament link hands in non-violent opposition to the metaphysical power of the CTSF -- a religious faith that worships no god but itself and sees no other goal but world domination --, then humanity will inevitably face a death toll far surpassing that of the Second World War. The absence of such Biblical unity and religious affiliation is precisely what laid the groundwork for Hitler's swift triumph over Germany and a shockingly collaborative Europe. Of course, both spiritual leaders might face what Pope Pius XII refused to risk in the 1930s and 1940s: assassination.
Will the Pope and the Rabbi acknowledge their common enemy, the CTSF? Can they chart together the increasing rise of religious intolerance in every socialist federation? Can they do so boldly and without being dismissed as hysterical and alarmist?
It is doubtful. With the world seemingly content under its present leadership, only the courage of a lion would dare to warn such a self-satisfied community of the dangers ahead, and to do so ex-cathedra, from the throne of a long-established religious faith, would necessitate both a trusted saint and an acknowledged prophet of biblical stature.
There are none around.
There is a movement on the Internet cataloguing the rise of the CTSF under the secular categories of Illuminati, the Trilateral Commission, Bilderburgians, the Council on Foreign Relations and the all-encompassing and now discredited wastebasket term -- New World Order. Political conservatives, authentically republican architects and earnest political scientists are, with their theories and think-tanks, utterly out-manned and out-debated by blissfully empowered priests of a faith that veils a metaphysical greed with the camouflage of political idealism.
Following the interdenominational world war within the CTSF, a post-nuclear holocaust earth will be in a constant state of civil war, since the authorities that rule will represent a power utterly contemptuous of the national identities within the countries they tyrannize. If the Soviet Union failed to hold itself together in the face of Balkanization, how does the CTSF expect to federalize the entire human race?
The only answer can be "with sterner measures, Leninist and Stalinist tactics."
How long such an intolerable state of world affairs can exist is a question the CTSF must answer itself. All tyrannies, from the Romans to the Communists, break from within first. Freedom's victory is always on the heels of a tyrant's despair.
For what is left of a God-fearing human race, the answer to how long the nightmare lasts can only be answered by History. The eternal question of Israelites at the Wailing Wall is why God took so long to intervene and stop the Third Reich. The answer is: It will take as long as necessary to place death and suffering on such a horrifying scale that the human race will never forget. Even now, the first thing the historians are taught to forget is that Hitler's killing machine was a socialist federation. The design of that governing, megatomic bomb made all the other weapons of assault -- the Panzer Division, the Gestapo and the Blitzkrieg -- possible.
Already, James Cameron's television series -- Dark Angel -- is offering a taste of what is entirely possible: the condition of man under a post-atomic-holocaust Fourth Reich, inspired, designed and empowered by the CTSF.
With none of the superhuman skills attributed to the Dark Angel herself, what can the poor simple human being do under such a nightmare?
Suffer in silence until a diabolical despair engulfs the CTSF, this "beast, slouching towards Bethlehem."
The most Christ-like figure ever to enter North American history was the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. His death was due as much to his growing reluctance to completely follow the Marxist line as it was to his demands for equality from the U.S. government. Recently disclosed KGB files revealed a growing dissatisfaction with Dr. King's refusal to cooperate. Those dark agents who actually ordered his death are an even greater mystery than the conspirators behind the Kennedy assassination.
"Free at last," was the culminating absolute that encompassed Dr. King's extraordinary impact upon America and the world. However, five quickly-forgotten words within his famous declaration define what he considered the determining factor for any true judgment: "the content of your character."
This tribute to individualism from one of history's great heroes defined the schism between King and Marxism. With that short phrase, the divide between himself -- as a profound American -- and the lobbyists collected around him -- as Marxists -- erupted like a volcano.
If genius is obsession with detail, then ignorance is obsession with the herd. The individual human being is of paramount importance. Whatever name one wishes to place on the Creator - God or Yahweh or the Collective Unconscious - the creation itself is the individual. Within that single entity lies a nation unto itself, if not an actual self-contained universe. "I encompass multitudes," as the great American poet Walt Whitman once wrote.
The Family of Man cannot possibly be defined by an ideology. One man's utopian formula for dictating the governing principles for the whole human race is utter insanity.
At its best, socialism has provided a cocoon for people who would prefer to live their lives as caterpillars. At its worst, socialism's ultimate achievement is to suffocate individual freedom by increasing behavior-control through "social engineering," and to oppose the growth of wings within any human being by an increasingly insidious control of information. Universally-enforced equality and charity bear no resemblance to any law within the natural universe. Freedom and the objectives of socialism are as different from each other as a natural forest is to a mountain of hedges sculpted into the likeness of Karl Marx.
Following the CTSF's enforced redistribution of wealth through "progressive taxation" came the increasingly forceful redistribution of populations. Growing demands from the UN for laxer immigration standards have resulted in widespread rootlessness and refugees. These exiles might have been dissatisfied with their homeland, but are utterly lost in the new lands they chose to inhabit.
Such patronizing and presumptuous population policies leave families torn apart and individuals distanced from the very roots that defined them. Their only connectedness is to the international party affiliation that encouraged them to emigrate. The true substance of their identities is increasingly replaced by ideology. For the questionable rewards of emigrating, the immigrant votes his party's line. For the promise of a utopian commune, the human race itself is becoming driftwood floating on socialist seas, a workforce easily manipulated, displaced and disposed of when the CTSF's leadership feels it is necessary.
Only the soul of a Hitler or Stalin and the conglomerate greed of a Politburo would want that kind of power over that many fellow human beings. Unfortunately, humanity seems resigned to such an arrangement.
The original principles of democracy, the necessity for individual freedom, a Bill of Rights to assure that, and checks and balances within any governing body to prevent tyranny, are being systematically dismantled. Such a phenomenon is increasingly evident in North America itself. The personalities most attracted to the power of the CTSF are those who would, in the name of their own convenience, silence criticism by imprisoning the critics, rather than endure the sometimes cogent commentary that comes from a free nation, a free press and a free people.
There is safety in numbers but inevitable tyranny as well. The primal, earthy laws of individual integrity, both within nature and mankind, will unavoidably erupt and a cataclysm within the CTSF must occur.
If the orthodox, hard-line membership of the CTSF doesn't address the nightmare of past socialist federations and the unending nature of that nightmare within the communist formula, this zealous arm of CTSF will destroy the very village it claims to be saving. Without any hope of a home in the heaven of some God, the atheists must confront the pure vandalism they claim to be a humanistic salvation.
The "enlightened despots" of the UN provide no trace of true familial authority. With their decreasing cultural affinities to any one nation, particularly their own homeland, the only cultural space they inhabit is a land called Power. With the world's increasing subservience to the UN's "solutions" to local problems, the corruptive ingredient within power is accelerated. A dizzying omnipotence begins to direct their actions. What truth does exist within their presumptuous omniscience decreases in direct proportion to their growing omnipotence.
As any good mayor of any major city knows, the disparate corners of every metropolis are really governed by families and not by the police. Official law enforcement is the last resort. Families police their own, and do so without the effort and money it takes to activate a civic army. Every cultural corner of a city such as New York has elders and soldiers. Trusting to this large family's individual and cultural sense of justice is the wisest first step to democratic governing.
However, should one family tread upon another family's sovereignty, then that city or nation's governing authorities must be called in.
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