By Sam Antonio
National Coordinator
Campus Liberty Alliance
I am going to discuss this war in which we’ve been engaged for a hundred and five years; the war declared by Karl Marx in 1848, re-declared and brought down to date by Lenin, again re-declared by Stalin, and again re-declared by the Kremlin within the last five or six weeks.
— Senator Joseph R. McCarthy
Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy
The title is taken from M. Stanton Evan's book which is perhaps the best book written on Senator Joseph McCarthy. This is an article I wrote a while back for The John Birch Society Bulletin and I think it is pertinent since Glenn Beck discussed M. Stanton Evan's book and Senator McCarthy on his show the other day.
The mainstream media have continually vilified Senator Joseph R. McCarthy as a controversial and polarizing figure. This has gone on unabated since his death in 1957.
With the opening of KGB archives and the 1995 release of the Venona Intercepts, Senator McCarthy was proven correct about his exposure of the extensive Soviet penetration into the U.S. Government and the dangers it posed to the country.
Senator McCarthy was a warrior who clearly saw the battle lines being drawn between good and evil. His tenacity, focus, and commitment to seek the truth made him many enemies. Yet, his enemies could not counter his facts or argue with him on principle. As a result, they shifted the debate away from subversives in the U.S. Government to resorting to ad hominem attacks to discredit the senator.
By their futile attempt to discredit and silence Senator McCarthy, the Insiders hoped they had made an example out of McCarthy and deter future leaders from taking up the fight for freedom. They almost succeeded.
With the death of Senator McCarthy on May 2, 1957, the Insiders thought they had buried their insidious conspiratorial scheme to tear down America out of the view from the American people. They were wrong. During the following year, on December 9, 1958, Robert W. Welch, Jr. would organize good Americans into the only organization outfitted to expose and rout the conspiracy, The John Birch Society.
While Senator McCarthy was the lone voice in the wilderness, The John Birch Society was the army on the offensive. Again, the ad hominem attack strategy was employed by the Insiders, but members of the Society stood firm and used truth and education to expose the Insiders.
The war declared by Marx and carried forth by Lenin and Stalin, the war of which Senator McCarthy spoke, is alive and well on America’s high school and college campuses! Campus Liberty Alliance’s mission to counter the tide of socialism in our educational institutions by developing, equipping, and activating young leaders to recapture and proclaim the virtues of liberty will bring us victory.
Far too often we take for granted the wonderful freedoms we have in America and the courageous individuals who have fought for them.
This past February I met a wonderful patriotic lady, Cory Emberson, at CPAC in Washington, D.C. She is the co-author of a new book entitled, Pursuing Liberty: America Through The Eyes of the Newly Free. In her book she tells the narrative of the American experience through the eyes of newly naturalized Americans. One of those newly naturalized Americans is Cindy Nguyen from Vietnam. Here is an excerpt from the book in which she tells her story:
There’s just no motivation with Marxism. Nobody wants to excel, because they know they wouldn’t get anywhere. It’s the same thing that these people on the Left keep talking about, how great it is to spread the wealth. Who’s going to make the wealth to spread it? Nobody’s interested in making wealth for everyone else. They know wealth wouldn’t trickle down since it already flows into the pockets of the corrupted government.When I see Americans talking about redistributing wealth … those people, they are living on clouds. They just don’t get it. They’ve lost their common sense. Everybody’s going to end up equally miserable.
Young Americans, will you now stand up for the cause of liberty? Will you stand up for liberty even as you counter resistance from liberal professors in your classroom? Will you remain steadfast as Marxist students ostracize you on campus? Will you advance the cause of liberty with every moral fiber in your body?
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Start a chapter, get active with our social media sites, and/or become a campus reporter.
Senator McCarthy kept a framed motto on his office wall that encouraged him through his time of turmoil that stated, “Oh God, don’t let me weaken. Help me to continue on. And when I go down, let me go down like an oak tree felled by a woodsman’s ax.”
This is your bugle call to action. Stand tall like an oak tree. Fight the good fight. Senator Joseph McCarthy, Captain John Birch, and Robert Welch would demand nothing less.
