"The Advance Invasion Force of Aliens"
by Al Benson Jr.
The July, 2015 issues of Chronicles magazine had a short but thoughtful article by Dr. Clyde Wilson, Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, dealing with some of the personalities on college campuses. Dr. Wilson noted that: "I have long harbored a suspicion that college administrators are actually an advance invasion force of aliens. They all spout exactly the same patter of insincere cliches. They all fix on the latest educational gimmick so simultaneously that some form of telepathic communication must be involved. Perhaps most tellingly, they are a kind of rootless national caste, moving smoothly from place to place for another step up the ladder. They are surely enemies of the American people, tirelessly spreading stupidity that will make us easier to take over."
I've worked at a couple colleges around the country and had a chance to see some of the type of individuals Dr. Wilson is referring to. I have to conclude that he is right on the money. Most of them do sound pretty much alike and most of them seem to possess the "progressive" outlook he describes. And many of them are most definitely "enemies of the American people" and of their children who attend the colleges they administer so "higher education" can complete the job of brainwashing that might not have been completed in high school.
In regard to his comment about their being "enemies of the American people" one glaring example I know of comes to mind. A college on the East Coast, through one means or another, brought in a "community organizer" for a special series of winter classes when the students came back from Christmas break in early January. Turned out this "community organizer" was an identified Communist Party member and he was there, supposedly, to help the students "organize their lives."
A local pastor who had extensive knowledge of Communism found out about this and called the president of the college and told him. The fact that this guy was a Communist bothered the president not at all. He told the pastor that the school "wanted the students to be exposed to all different opinions." Either this college president was woefully ignorant or he hoped everyone else was. With my suspicious mind I tend to think it was the latter rather than the former. Well, the pastor had a local radio program and he spent about a week exposing what this college did daily on his program. The school was less that ecstatic. So was the Communist. The professor responsible for bringing in this Communist to propagandize the students did not return the following year. Small loss!
In light of situations like this you have to wonder--how many other colleges or universities around the country are busily exposing their students to this kind of thing. You can bet your bottom dollar these schools would never have anyone from the John Birch Society in to lecture the students--but a Communist, that's fine! A few years ago I read an article by columnist William Lind in which he labeled American colleges as "little ivy-covered North Koreas." Having watched students "spontaneously" demonstrate during the Kent State affair in the early 1970s, with their professors egging them on, I have to agree with Mr. Lind's description of the colleges and universities in this country.
All that to say this--you had really better be very discerning about where your kids go when it comes to colleges because many of these institutions of "learning" are not out there to give your kids a genuine education. They are out there to change the way they think and to tamper with the worldview your kids have been taught at home. They are not educators, they are "change agents." So ask the Lord's guidance and discernment as to where your kids end up for their higher education. The souls you preserve might be those of your children.
Labels: Communism in America, Community Organizers, Cultural Marxism, Marxism on the college campus, Public schools, Socialism, The Communist Party
Do Black Lives Matter and Islamic Radicals Have the Same Bosses?
by Al Benson Jr.
There was all manner of "information" spread across the Internet in recent days about a big Black Lives Matter protest that those people were going to hold at the Mall of America in Minneapolis over Christmas weekend. They were going to force shoppers to endure their leftist propaganda in order to finish their shopping and I guess they figured on intimidating many of the businesses there, quite possibly to wring some sort of concessions out of them now or later. However, their balloon burst before they quite got it all the way blown up.
Seems that lots of the business owners there didn't feel they wanted to put up with all that hassle and so they just shut down early and went home, and lots of police showed up and what was supposed to be a major propaganda event with about 3,000 protesters ended up with a fizzled-out group of about 600 who never really got to protest. Poor babies! I just bet it ruined their whole weekend!
Then I saw a brief article on http://conservativevideos.com where a Black Lives Matter activist was interviewed by Carol Costello of CNN (of all places). The article observed: "A Black Lives Matter activist was unable to provide any 'stats' to back up her claims about 'rampant' Islamophobia and discrimination against black people at US airports, offering up her 'experiences' instead. When questioned by CNN's Carol Costello about the Black Lives Matter movement's decision to disrupt a Minneapolis airport on Wednesday amid terror concerns, Asha Long replied with a point that didn't seem to answer the question." She spouted: "Safety for black lives is an illusion, especially at the airports. As you know...Islamophobia is rampant, especially in the airports. So many people are taken off their flights and harassed." Costello pressed her for evidence of this. Guess what? She didn't have any! Everybody is just supposed to take her word that this is how it is. Who needs evidence if someone black makes an accusation. You just automatically believe it and that's it! She rambled on about how she saw her Muslim counterparts being daily harassed.
Folks, I've flown out of Minneapolis and there were lots of Muslims there waiting to fly out. From all that I could see, they got through the lines and all the TSA gobbledygook lots quicker than most white folks did. I supposed they felt "discriminated" against because they weren't just allowed to board the planes with none of the harassment that the rest of us have to put up with. Comrade Long felt it was a great idea to disrupt a major airport at a time when heightened security measures were in place.
Her large concern of the "harassment" of her "Muslim counterparts" almost makes you wonder if the same hand is guiding the Black Lives Matter group and some of the Muslim groups that are raising such a fuss in this country. You don't suppose that there is any possibility that many of these groups are nothing more than puppets in the hands of some group behind the scenes who uses them to further its agenda do you? Naw, that could never happen in America--could it? If that's your attitude I've got a lovely bridge in the Arizona desert I'd love to sell you. Make me an offer!
If someone has the time, it would be interesting if they did some homework and started checking out how the demands of many of these present radical groups compare with the demands of leftist radical groups in the last 100 years. Then put the two lists side by side and see how many similarities you can find. I'm sure it would be an enlightening intellectual exercise. And for those who still believe that old saw about "communism being dead" it might be somewhat of a shock.
Labels: Black Lives Matter, Cultural Genocide, Islamophobia, Muslims in Minnesota, One World Government, Socialism, The "Hidden Hand"
What's YOUR Solution?
by Al Benson Jr.
Over the years, though mostly over the last few, as I have researched and then written about certain events, people, history, etc. that are, shall we say, less than favorable, I have gotten comments back from people who say basically, "we already are aware of the problems you discuss, but what's YOUR solution to them."
Let me say, at the outset, that most of these folks are well-intentioned and many of them share many of the same concerns I do from a Christian perspective. But most want to know what MY solution to these problems is. Let me turn it around a bit and ask some of them what THEIR solutions to these problems are. It almost seems, in many cases, that because I have pointed out the problem, I should automatically have the solution to it--and if I don't when why bother pointing it out?
When I first became involved in what some call "political activism" (though at root it's much more theological than political, and everyone's politics is a result of their theology anyway) over 45 years ago now, I knew nothing. I didn't as I have often said "know upside down from inside out." I was given a book about Communism by a preacher in a Bible class, which I read, to my horror, and it went from there. I have never gone back. I couldn't. Reading that book changed the whole direction of my life and I never could go back once I started learning about Communism and its attendant evils, which actually stretch way beyond Communism and all the way into boardrooms in banks in New York and other places and into the boardrooms in organizations in New York and London. But I didn't know any of that then. All I knew was that Communism was bad and, that as a Christian, I had to oppose it (Ephesians 5:11).
To my surprise, I found that most Christians couldn't have cared less. To them it was all "politics" and politics was "dirty" and so they avoided it. It was "of the world" and they were heavenly minded, so maybe they voted and maybe they didn't and that was about the extent of it, if that. It never seemed to occur to them that politics might have been less dirty if concerned Christians had been more knowing and more discerning about what went on. And so as I went along, I found that, as I sought to expose Communism for what it was, most of my opposition came from Christians. It was no different when we went to home school our children. Most of our opposition came from Christians who thought our kids would be much better off if we just enrolled them in the local public school. Well, my family and I lived in Kanawha County, West Virginia for part of the huge textbook protest that went on there in the mid-1970s and after what we saw there, there was no way our kids were ever going to attend public schools--anytime, anywhere. But I digress.
In my attempts to point out the evils of Communism to Christians, I found that most were totally uninterested. One preacher told me flat out that I was nuts. Others were not quite so straightforward but the thought was there if not expressed. Most of these folks never understood the theological nature of Communism, and what's more, they didn't want to. I was the congregational kook in some churches we went to. One man told me that when he first came to the church we attended at the time, when he asked about me he was told that I was "extremely conservative...and probably a member of the John Birch Society." Well, they were right about the JBS membership, and politically incorrect as I am, I'm not ashamed of it.
I recall back when we lived in Indiana, I read Whittaker Chambers' book Witness. It was Chambers' narrative of how he had been high up in the Communist apparatus, and of his dealings with Alger Hiss, who was also high up in the same apparatus. At some point Chambers broke with the Party because his conscience finally got to him and he could no longer handle the deceit. It was interesting that, when Chambers broke with the Communists, he actually thought they were going to win and that he would be on the losing side--but he did it anyway because it was the right thing to do. I was always impressed by that and it stuck with me--win or lose, as a Christian, you do the right thing!
As I went along and kept reading, looking, and asking questions, I learned that it was not only the Communists we had to worry about, but it was also the people that financed the Communists, that set up dictatorships and bought and paid for revolutions all around the world. I found out about groups like the Council on Foreign Relations, and later the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderburgers and other like-minded groups around the world. Actually the monopoly capitalist and the Communist have much the same worldview when you peel a few layers off the package and really look at it. One scratches the others back and one fronts for the other and together they play the old "pressure from above and pressure from below" game on the American public. I've been watching that happen here since the 1970s and we have yet to get it, and whats more, most Christians just won't be bothered, so they never learn how they've been had, and what's worse, they will never learn how their children and grandchildren will be had because they were just too spiritually lazy to do anything except criticize the people that tried to tell them about it.
I'm getting carried away here. Over forty years of this stuff sometimes gets to you. So, maybe from now on, when I write an article or talk to someone about some of this and they say back to me "I'm in complete agreement with you on this, but what do YOU think we ought to do about it?" I should say to them "If you are in complete agreement with me on this, then what do YOU think we ought to do about it?
Some of these folks seem to think or intimate that, because I have written about something that I, automatically, ought to have all the answers about how to deal with it. Newsflash!!! I am not the smartest guy in the universe. I DON'T have all the answers. I've been researching for 45 years now and I don't have all the answers. I've got some, but not all, just like others have got some but not all. And no one that knows me would assume I have all the answers to all the problems.
Do I believe the Lord is in control of this chaos and confusion? Absolutely. But quite often the Lord chooses to exert that control through His people, and when they ain't having any of that, when they don't care enough to learn and then act on what they learn, He may just use someone else for awhile until they get the message, and that might take two or three generations given our present mindset.
So, folks, if some of y'all that read what I write agree with me, please don't think I have all the solutions to the problems we face. I don't. Just maybe you need to start asking the Lord what he'd have YOU do instead of asking me what I'd do.
Labels: Christian Apathy, Council on Foreign Relations, Kanawha County Textbook Protest, One World Government, Public schools, The Bilderburgers, The Trilateral Commission
More Going on Than You Can Keep Up With via Political Correctness
by Al Benson Jr.
What with 2 blogs going and the continuous barrage of political correctness and ethnic cleansing going on it has gotten to the point where the 2 blogs are not enough so I am attempting to resurrect this one to go along with them. We'll see if it works out.
What made me realize I needed to do this was an article from a blog called Fellowshipofthe Minds.com which had some informative commentary on it. It started off by asking the question: "Someone please tell me why we had voted a Republican majority to the House and Senate?" That's a good question, because this new Republican-controlled Congress is doing everything Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid would want. It's the same as continuing to have a Democratic-controlled Congress. The voters voted in the last election to remove many of the Democratic untra-liberals (socialists) from Congress and replace them with conservatives. However this current Congress is voting almost exactly the same way it did when the Democrats controlled it.
The new "conservative" (and you have to grit your teeth when you say that) Republican-dominated House, let by that sterling "conservative" Paul Ryan has caved in and given Comrade Obama all the socialist goodies he wanted. They claimed it was to keep the government from shutting down. Balderdash! They did it because Ryan and the rest of the House leadership thinks the way Obama does. Is there a "dimes worth of difference?" If there is it's a pretty thin dime?
So, once again the American public has been sold out. They were ticked off enough to boot many socialists out in the last election and elect people who were supposedly conservatives and now these pseudo-conservatives are laughing at them and letting them know that, no matter who you vote for or against, the socialist agenda will continue to go forward because, at heart, both major parties have the same socialist One World Govt. worldview and they have no intention whatever of giving the voters a more conservative Congress because that ain't in the game plan.
After all those grim videos showing the grisly practices of Planned Parenthood in harvesting baby parts this "conservative" House fully funded Planned Parenthood again and they will also support Obama's Global Warming scam and they will do little or nothing about the illegal immigration problem except expend lots of political gas telling you how much they are opposed to illegal immigration while they enact measures that will do nothing to stop it. They and Obama have to be laughing all the way to the bank at how they manage to stiff the public and the public still can't seem to get it.
When the socialists in Congress supposedly get voted out and conservatives supposedly get voted in, guess what--you still get a socialist agenda--which means there is one group in Washington and New York that is controlling both parties, so you only get what they want no matter what or no matter who you vote for. I plan to go into this a bit more in future articles. Stay tuned!
Labels: abortion, One World Government, Paul Ryan, Planned Parenthood, Republicans and Democrats--tweedle dum and tweedle dee, Socialism
AMERICA'S PROBLEM WITH APOSTASY--Part Two
by Al Benson Jr.
James Turner, in his book "Without God, Without Creed" has noted that: "Even whild damning Deists, church leaders swallowed the Deist conception of a natural-law God. Even while lauding the converted heart, they absorbed the maxim that belief in God rests on intellectual assent to a demonstrable proposition. Even while preaching the blood of the Lamb, they devoured the Enlightenment's moralism and its God bound by human morality...The Enlightenment's animating principle in religion was to tie belief in God securely to the kind of clear, rational, tangible realities evident in the world as observed. What could not be so rooted (grace, spiritual communion, mysterious doctrines) either faded away or drifted into supernatural disassociation from ordinary reality." In other words, men had reached a point in their supposed intellectual growth where they were not willing to let God be God if they could not fathom just how He did everything. In a sense, they could not recognize His absolute sovereignty, even over areas they could not understand or grasp.
By the 1830s apostasy had grown rampant in New England. Turner noted that "Lyman Beecher's admonition that the republic's survival depended on 'well instructed' citizens echoed in Horace Mann, Henry Barnard, and scores of other school reformers, especially after the great influx of Irish immigrants began in the 1840s...Public schools consequently received wide support from Protestant ministers--and bitter resistance from Catholic clergy, resentful of Protestant flavoring of school curricula. Both sides knew what the schools were about."
Although Turner's book contains excellent information overall, I do disagree with him on this point. He seems to feel the public, or government schools favored the Protestants. I will admit they gave this appearance. In a mostly Protestant society at that time they had to, otherwise the vast majority of Protestants would never have been taken in by them. Upon reflection, though, we are forced to conclude that neither Catholics or Protestants really knew what the government schools were all about. They only thought they did.
Horace Mann, the Unitarian, realized what they were all about, though. Clergymen like Lyman Beecher should have understood where Mann and many of the other public school "reformers" were coming from. The late R. J. Rushdoony has written in "The Nature Of The American System" that "The 'public school' movement, or statist education, did not exist until the 1830s. Statist education began as a subversive movement and its bitter, savage struggle has not yet been written. The essentials of the drive which produced statist education are clearly seen in Horace Mann...'the Father of the Common Schools.' First and foremost, Mann was a Unitarian. New England Unitarianism was in the forefront of the battle for statist education. For Mann, Unitarianism was true Christianity, and with humorless zeal he fought for his holy faith." Unless Mann kept his Unitarian "light" hidden under a bushel, Calvinist ministers like Lyman Beecher should have known what he was and should never have supported any educational system founded or promoted by him and his Unitarian cohorts. Yet they did, which shows that, do some degree, whether they realized it or not, they had also been bitten by the apostasy bug.
To be continued.
Labels: "Without God, Apostasy in New England, James Turner, Lyman Beecher, Unitarianism, Without Creed
AMERICA'S PROBLEM WITH APOSTASY--Part Two
by Al Benson Jr.
James Turner, in his book "Without God, Without Creed" has noted that: "Even whild damning Deists, church leaders swallowed the Deist conception of a natural-law God. Even while lauding the converted heart, they absorbed the maxim that belief in God rests on intellectual assent to a demonstrable proposition. Even while preaching the blood of the Lamb, they devoured the Enlightenment's moralism and its God bound by human morality...The Enlightenment's animating principle in religion was to tie belief in God securely to the kind of clear, rational, tangible realities evident in the world as observed. What could not be so rooted (grace, spiritual communion, mysterious doctrines) either faded away or drifted into supernatural disassociation from ordinary reality." In other words, men had reached a point in their supposed intellectual growth where they were not willing to let God be God if they could not fathom just how He did everything. In a sense, they could not recognize His absolute sovereignty, even over areas they could not understand or grasp.
By the 1830s apostasy had grown rampant in New England. Turner noted that "Lyman Beecher's admonition that the republic's survival depended on 'well instructed' citizens echoed in Horace Mann, Henry Barnard, and scores of other school reformers, especially after the great influx of Irish immigrants began in the 1840s...Public schools consequently received wide support from Protestant ministers--and bitter resistance from Catholic clergy, resentful of Protestant flavoring of school curricula. Both sides knew what the schools were about."
Although Turner's book contains excellent information overall, I do disagree with him on this point. He seems to feel the public, or government schools favored the Protestants. I will admit they gave this appearance. In a mostly Protestant society at that time they had to, otherwise the vast majority of Protestants would never have been taken in by them. Upon reflection, though, we are forced to conclude that neither Catholics or Protestants really knew what the government schools were all about. They only thought they did.
Horace Mann, the Unitarian, realized what they were all about, though. Clergymen like Lyman Beecher should have understood where Mann and many of the other public school "reformers" were coming from. The late R. J. Rushdoony has written in "The Nature Of The American System" that "The 'public school' movement, or statist education, did not exist until the 1830s. Statist education began as a subversive movement and its bitter, savage struggle has not yet been written. The essentials of the drive which produced statist education are clearly seen in Horace Mann...'the Father of the Common Schools.' First and foremost, Mann was a Unitarian. New England Unitarianism was in the forefront of the battle for statist education. For Mann, Unitarianism was true Christianity, and with humorless zeal he fought for his holy faith." Unless Mann kept his Unitarian "light" hidden under a bushel, Calvinist ministers like Lyman Beecher should have known what he was and should never have supported any educational system founded or promoted by him and his Unitarian cohorts. Yet they did, which shows that, do some degree, whether they realized it or not, they had also been bitten by the apostasy bug.
To be continued.
AMERICA'S PROBLEM WITH APOSTASY--Part One
by Al Benson Jr.
Apostasy is a falling away, a willful departure from the truth, a revolt against the truth. It is not a new problem in God's Israel, the church. It has been around since the beginning. The Old Testament is full of accounts of Israel turning away from the one true God and chasing after the "gods" of other nations around them, no doubt in a worldly desire to be like those nations.
In Acts 20 Paul talks to the elders in the church at Ephesus and tells them (vs. 29, 30): "For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them." It would seem from the context that Paul is talking about people who had believed the truth, embraced it, and then consciously walked away from it, embracing some "new gospel" and not only that, they sought to drag other believers along with them, that they, too, might also cleave to the "new" teaching.
Although this revolt from the truth has been prevalent through the ages, we have had major problems with it in this country, and it is the cause of many of our country's problems over the years, including the War of Northern Aggression.
Home-grown apostasy probably started in New England in the 1700s. Some preachers there preached against Unitarianism in the late 1700s. Jedidiah Morse, in Charlestown, Massachusetts spoke out against "the infidel Deist and the rationalizine Unitarian." Others, including Timothy Dwight of Yale did the same thing. But even some of those that resisted apostasy in New England had, to some degree, swallowed some of it themselves without realizing it.
Labels: Apostasy in New England, Jedidiah Morse, The origin of the Yankee/Marxist, Unitarianism
