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Show WHY I 1IATF COMMUNISM By L.vijkv Edwards Tsuuposo I hato Communism mainly because it op-, op-, all of the things that I regard as right; because it If1,., erases all of the ideals with which I have grown; Sf it belittles all of the things that I consider my ! .tlnv'lit. 1 d011'4 like to haVe my heritgo shoved bn f imless, of course, there is something better to Jteits place. Terhaps more than anything else, I can't wtand any human being who lias once enjoyed this U"L Ireat birthright having so little reasoning power as f warned aside by magnificent promises to try to exist r Communist control. I f. ke the necessity of pitying 2 r human being. The in-antv in-antv of the whole plan 2 apparent to me that I Sr oncUe myself with any- failure to recognize the 'everywhere evident that J goal of the Communist 7riT is to sieze power by and f minority rather than to lire power through the vote electorate. And what, iv I ask, will become of the T-lmiious little man who is so S to trade his birthright? Je answer is so obvious as to Uke thinking people shudder. The Communist program only teens with seizure of govern-Lt govern-Lt which then becomes a mean's to impose upon society an organization founded on principles fundamentally op-nosed op-nosed by our Constitution. It would be incredibly naive to expect the American branch of this movement to forego the only methods by which a Communist Com-munist party has anywhere come into power. In not one of . the countries it now dominates domi-nates was the Communist Party chosen by a free or contestible election; in not one can it be evicted by any election. The international police state has 1 crept over Eastern Europe by deception, coercion, terrorism and assassination. The American Communists have imported the totalitarian j organization's disciples and' techniques, notwithstanding the ' fact that this country offers them and other discontented elements a way to peaceful revolution rev-olution by ballot but instead )f resting their case upon persuasion per-suasion and any appeal Inherent in their ideas and principles, uie Communist party adopts the techniques of a secret cabal false names, forged passports, code messages, c 1 a n d e s tine meetings. To these it adds occasional oc-casional terroristic and threatening threat-ening methods, such as picket-.ng picket-.ng courts and juries, political itrikes and sabotage. How people can exist under such conditions is beyond me and because of the very nature na-ture of Commun'sm, it must be carried on secretly. Everything is so hush-hush and everything is going to be so wonderful. If it is going to be so good why all the secrecy. Things that we really believe, we like to share; we like to shout our good fortune for-tune from the housetops. Freedom of speech and action is part of my heritage. To me ;he freedoms speech, press, re l'gion. are as necessary to sustain sus-tain life as are food and shelter. I am accustomed to my freedom. free-dom. I would find it very difficult dif-ficult to adopt a new set of standards. Communism denies freedom to the individual. E. B. White said, "If freedom were denied me by force of earthly circumstance, I am the same as dead and would infinitely infi-nitely prefer to go into Communism Com-munism without my head than vith it, having no use for it any more and not wishing to be saddled with so heavy an encumbrance." en-cumbrance." I myself don't like people underestimating my mentality. That is exactly what is done when the Communist bill of fare is placed before me. I can think for myself and can act as a result that right is mine and I will not be denied that privilege. privi-lege. I hear some people say: "This is all so complicated. There are certain advantages in a dictatorship dic-tatorship or communism. It gets rid of labor trouble, of unemployment, un-employment, of wasted motion and of having to do your own thinking." My answer is "Yes, but it also gets rid of some other things which we Americans Amer-icans intend very definitely to keep and we still intend to do our own thinking." I Communism, however, involves in-volves costs which the American Amer-ican people will never pay: The cost of our spiritual values. The cost of the blessed right of being be-ing able to say what we please. The cost of freedom of religion. The cost of seeing our capital confiscated. The cost of being cast into a concentration camp. The cost of be.ng afraid to waik down the street with the wrong neighbor. The cost of having our children brought up not as free a'nd dignif ed human beings, be-ings, but as pawns molded and enslaved by a machine. And: as President Franklin D. Roosevelt Roose-velt said, "If the avoidance ot these costs means taxes on all , that I have at death, I would bear those willingly as the price of my breathing and my children chil-dren breathing the free air of a free country, as the price of a living and not a dead world. I hate to see my fellow men so blind as to place themselves as pawns to this cause if cause it can be called. I believe in the dignity of the human soul. I can see no dignity in a man s fearing to walk down a streex alone; in children's growing up in ignorance of a faith, or religious re-ligious conviction; in a ! disruption because of political pressure these to me are pat-' pat-' terns followed by people who have lost the last vestige of the dignity bestowed on man by ms Creator. Communism does that to people. I hate Communism. |