G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

Let none but Americans stand guard tonight!
George Washington
CHAPTER EIGHT: UNDER EVERY BED
It is a sad commentary on contemporary America that when anyone tries to call attention
to the fact that known Communists have succeeded in penetrating into key positions
within our government, he is usually met with a barrage of wild accusations and
condemnations from the anti-anti-Communists who now seem to dominate our opinionmolding
channels of mass communications. Anyone who tries to arouse his fellow citizens
to the terrible danger of allowing Communists and fellow travelers in high places runs the
risk of becoming the object of public scorn. He will be labeled "extremist," "radical right,"
"crackpot." He will be contemptuously dismissed with the observation, "Oh, he sees a
Communist under every bed." This phrase has almost become the national slogan of that
great army of Americans who, being afraid to examine the evidence closely lest they
discover a truth too unpleasant to bear, loudly repeat over and over again, as though
saying it made it so, "It can't happen here; it can't happen here."
As a former head of the U.S. Communist party, William Z. Foster, put it:
American imperialism is now strong. Its champions ridicule the idea of a
revolution . . . they console themselves with the thought that "it could
never happen in this country," and they scorn the at-present weak
Communist party. But they overlook the detail that the same attitude
was taken toward the pre-revolution Bolsheviki. 1
There is, of course, no law that offers us eternal immunity from a Communist take-over. It
can and will happen here unless enough of us do something to prevent it. To act
intelligently, however, we must first know how the enemy is operating and then appraise
his progress and the strength of his present position. We have already studied his master
strategy. Let us now examine the extent to which he has succeeded in carrying it out.
Since a major Communist objective is to consolidate total working control of the United
Nations, and since all else depends on that single accomplishment, we shall begin with
that part of the record.
The casual observer might conclude that the degree of Communist control over the United
Nations can be measured by the number of votes they have from satellite countries. On
this basis the Communists could only come up with about 12 out of the total of 113. The
record shows, however, that a substantial number of countries classified as neutral
consistently vote with the Communist bloc. The Afro-Asian bloc, for instance (which now
has over half the total number of votes in the entire organization), and much of the Latin
American bloc almost never vote on the same side as the United States unless the United
States happens to be voting on the same side as the Soviets-as is often the case. Not all
of these countries, of course, are under the full control of Moscow; but they are, without
exception, fiercely socialist and anti-U.S. in their orientation. Many of them consist of little
more than primitive areas of the world ruled by tribal chiefs and petty despots. Kenya, for
instance, is now run by Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, former leader of the terrorist
Mau Mau uprisings of the 1950's.