G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

Things have even gone so far that in 1963 the community of Catonsville, Maryland,
selected "Salute to the UN" as the theme for its Independence Day parade!
In 1958 the McDonnell Aircraft Company made UN Day its seventh paid holiday.
Company officials stated that they hoped the idea would "spread throughout the world."
Consequently, on June 21, the Philadelphia Bulletin ran a story headlined "Firm Makes
UN Day a Paid Holiday." And on the very next day, the same paper had another news
story with the heading: "Some Philadelphia Banks Drop Flag Day as a Holiday."
What effect has this anti-American conditioning had so far on the minds of our youth who
have been subjected to it? How do we go about measuring the results? Unfortunately,
there are so many unhealthy indications all around us that it is hard to begin. They range
all the way from the rising juvenile crime rate, which is the inevitable result of a philosophy
that says "truth is man-made" and "good is happiness," to student riots against
congressional committees investigating Communist subversion. But perhaps the most
tangible or measurable results were those observed among our fighting men who were
captured in Korea.
These boys represented a fairly accurate cross section of the American youth that had
been processed by our educational system since this thinking came into favor. They came
from the same kind of homes and backgrounds as our soldiers in all previous wars. Yet,
their behavior as prisoners was startlingly different. For the first time in American military
history, very few captured American soldiers escaped. Many of them signed "confessions"
and in other ways collaborated with the enemy, not as a result of torture, but because they
got better treatment that way and because they did not think it mattered anyway. And
some even chose to defect to Communism rather than return to America after the war.
The underlying reason for this unexpected behavior was explained rather dramatically by
the Communists themselves. During the course of the fighting several secret Communist
intelligence reports were intercepted by American forces. Some of these dealt with the
handling of American prisoners of war. The following message was written by the chief of
intelligence of the Chinese Peoples Volunteer Army in North Korea to the chief of
intelligence of the Chinese Peoples Republic in Peiping:
Based upon our observations of American soldiers and their officers
captured in this war for the liberation of Korea from capitalist-imperialist
aggression, the following facts are evident:
The American soldier has weak loyalty to his family, his community, his
country, his religion and to his fellow soldier. His concepts of right and
wrong are hazy and ill-formed. Opportunism is easy for him. By himself,
he feels frightened and insecure. He underestimates his own worth, his
own strength, and his ability to survive. He is ignorant of social values,
social tensions and conflicts. There is little knowledge or understanding
even among U.S. university graduates of American political history and
philosophy; the federal, state and community organizations, states and
civil rights, freedoms, safeguards, checks and balances, and how these
things allegedly operate within his own system. . . .
He fails to appreciate the meaning of and the necessity for military or
any form of organization or discipline. Most often he clearly feels that his
military service is a kind of hateful and unavoidable servitude to be
tolerated as briefly as possible and then escaped from as rapidly as