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Show Skousen Urges Constitutional Government at Party Meeting by Lynn Tilton Speaking on "It's time to restore the original American dream," W. Cleon Skousen at a Utah County American Party banquet Friday night charged that present political leaders are working in opposition to that dream. Mr. Skousen, founder of The Freeman Institute in Provo, explained to the estimated 330 persons that he felt it was not too late to return to the Constitution. Con-stitution. "I can only say to those who are planning to load up their two-years' supply into their pickups and go to the mountains moun-tains to sit this one out to unload," he said. He added that those who are dynastically rich (referring to the Rockefellers, the Fords, etc.) have never been taught the American dream, which is unqualified freedom for every man. Instead he charged, they have been fed the idea that socialism or communism will bring lasting peace to the world. He explained the difference in communism and socialism is bloodshed, and that socialism has prepared countries for communism. Mr. Skousen said that England is on the brink of collapse into communism because of the ills brought on that nation by its adherance to socialism. The speaker also lauded Soviet writer Solzhenitsyn for his efforts to tell Americans what communism is doing. He said it was an unexplainable act for President Gerald Ford not to receive the writer at the White House. "That's like turning down an opportunity to talk with Tolstoi or with Thoreau," he said. Mr. Skousen charged that detente with Russia is a morally empty concept, that the U.S. is buying peace ihrough capitulation. He also added that U.S. grain to Red China in 1961 helped to bolster that regime when its army was preparing to revolt. Concerning the next generation in the U.S. he said, "We have not only spent their inheritance but we have virtually vir-tually emasculated the Constitution." Con-stitution." The speaker noted that hardly anyone knows about the Constitution because few comprehend the spirit that moved the founding fathers to build such a document. He emphasized that radio and television is not protected by the First Amendment as is the press. He asserted that 150 stations lost their licenses because they went counter to the demands of Washington. "We have a job to do. We have the moral strength to rise up and restore the American dream," he emphasized. Mr. Skousen explained that for the past 40 years the American public has been fed ideas to cause individuals to become disillusioned with the Constitution and to advocate replacing the document with another one forged by individuals in-dividuals in the modern society. "The Constitution is the inspired in-spired golden mean, anything more or less than that document is evil," he said. Those attending the banquet included Robert Trepanier, state chairman of the American Party. |