The Conservative Reclaimation of North America 1

This is what the lib-left has been working on over the past 6 or 7 decades:

Way back in 1958 a fella named W. Cleon Skousen wrote a book called the Naked Communist. In that book he stated 45 declared goals for the communist takeover of America. I haven't read the book but I have read the stated goals. Lets have a look at some of them and see how they've done so far. Please bear in mind that terms "America" or "US" can be ment to mean "North America" or can be replaced with "Canada" and still have the same effect. Oh, and because we're nice Canadians lets call them "Socialists" instead of "Communists".

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.) - UN seen as governing world body, check.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths. - All but the Boy Scout's oath removed, check.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic [North] American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. - Courts have ultimate power, check.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks. - Schools completely co-opted, check.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers. - Student newspapers co-opted, check.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions. - Press co-opted with exception of some small regional publications, check.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. - Control achieved, check.

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. - They're still fighting for the right to view kiddie porn but for all intents and purposes, check.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. - Larry Flint, Check.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy." - Send in Will and Grace and push for SSM, Check!

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch." - Scorn new pope and tell the people that Jesus was gay, check.

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state." - School prayer eliminated, check.

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. - Work in US is ongoing. Canadian Bill of Rights replaced with socialist Charter of Rights and Freedoms, check.

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of [North] American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. - Very little Canadian history taught in schools, check.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. - Social Service Agencies operate with impunity, check.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. - Control is absolute, check.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat]. - See 32 above. Ensure populace is on either valume or prozac. Ensure children are fed ritalin, check.

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals. - Too dificult. Goal changed to use hate laws to gain coercive control over those who oppose socialist goals, check!

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. - Look at the Stats! Check!

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. - Prosecute parents for taking the kids X Box away. Put them in foster care, check.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems. - Gain widespread support of terrorism and social activism, check.
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In order to reverse the course, we're going to have to follow their exact path. Do as they have done and continue to do. As such, I'll be posting a multi-part roadmap that we'll be calling the "Conservative Reclaimation of North America" and it'll be based on the "45 declared goals" post highlited above.

The first entry?

What is Conservatism:

Conservatism is a philosophy defined by Edmund Burke as "a disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve".^[1] The term derives from conserve; from Latin conservare, to keep, guard, observe. Classical conservatism does not readily avail itself to the ideology of objectives. It is a philosophy primarily concerned with means over ends. To a conservative, the goal of change is less important than the insistence that change be effected with a respect for the rule of law and traditions of society. The traditional enemy of conservatism, therefore, is radicalism (not, as is often asserted, liberalism).

Because conservatism is tethered to the traditions of a given society, it cannot hold any single, universal meaning across the world. Additionally, conservative 'means' are often combined with other ideological 'ends' (e.g.: Conservative or Classical Liberal versus Radical Liberal). Conservatism is older than the left-right division in politics; and conservatives may align with either the left or right depending on the time and place. [taken from Wikipedia]

In that vein, we'll be looking to restore North American Conservatism. The next question: Why? Why does conservatism need to be restored?

It's simple: The lib-left currently has us in a state of limbo/cultural recession.

We need to restore conservatism because classical socialism has failed. Because communism has failed. Because fascism has failed and because the new socialist utopia concept (as practiced by the modern lib-left) is failing.

This is something that you're going to have to think about a wee bit. What social or societial advances have been made under the ideologies noted above? Was slavery ended? Was the airplane developed? How about space travel? The Russians got a man up into space first but at what cost to their society? The Russians were first but the US won the overall race. Because they wanted to. How about harnessing the power of the atom? Radio and TV communications? The computer? The list goes on and on and it's not limited to US advances either. The UK and Canada have been big players as well.

Further, you have to ask yourself, who's going to contribute more to their society; an individual who's forced to contribute or an individual who want's to contribute? Was Eddison forced to invent the lightbulb? If you're a parent, were you forced to have the sex that created your child?

The individual who want's to contribute, who has an emotional buy-in, will win every time.

This is one of four primary values of traditional North American conservatism as I see it. The power of the individual. The other three primary values; The Family, Nationalism and Faith will be discussed further, in future installments.

Alright, now you're probably asking what the first step is...

Take back the MSM

Why? Because nothing that gets done after this is going to be worth anything unless the public gets accurate information. We don't need the media to be biased towards conservative principles, what we need is a media that isn't biased against conservative principles. This, I think, is the whole premise behind Fox News and why it's so popular. We need the whole of the MSM to be fair and balanced. Across the spectrum. Not just a single network. The newly elected conservative government in Canada understands this and has started to minimise the spin that the lib-left media can put on stories. They're compensating (with the information they release) for the bias because, in a free and democratic society, they can't control the media outright.

If there are to be changes in the media it'll be up to us as individual citizens (consumers and private companies/corporations) to make it happen. It'll need to be done in a three-pronged approach:

1. Expose the current MSM outlets for what they are; biased and inaccurate. When consumers begin to understand that they're getting a bad product, they'll quit buying that product.

• Use the web and other non-MSM sources to expose the bias of MSM outlets (including the wire services AP and CP). These non-standard sources include blogs, e-mail, satellite radio, BBS and publications put out by community groups.
• Talk to your friends and co-workers. Word of mouth is an extremely powerful tool.
• Explain to your children that what they're seeing in the MSM isn't necessarily the truth. Teach them healthy skepticism.

2. Provide an alternative. Nature abhors a vacumme and people leaving the current MSM establishment will need somewhere to turn. I'll use FOX News as an example because their "fair and balanced" model is ideal. An individual watching fox news can trust that they are being presented with fact and not opinion presented as fact. When fox presents opinion, the viewer is well aware that they are being presented with opinion.

• In Canada, we need to petition the CRTC to allow FOX News to be piped-in with standard cable packages. Fox is already established and it'd be relatively easy for them to make a move into this country. It's a start.
• Establish new television networks to compete with FOX on their own level. (to keep them honest). These networks need to be national as well as have local affilliates to accomodate those who don't have cable.
• Begin publishing news papers that operate within the "fair and balanced" model. This will have to be done across the board. Community newsletters. College and University papers. Local, regional and national dailys.
• Terrestrial Radio. Radio news and opinion arguably gets more exposure, more often, than both television and print combined. With television and print, most viewers/readers have actively sought out what they're being exposed to. With the exception of talk radio, radio listeners are passive and get the news as a "side effect" of their choice. Most radio stations don't usually have their own reporters and as a result read the copy that gets pulled off of the wire or comes from a local affilliate TV station. New or existing terrestrial radio stations will need to become affilliated with the new TV stations.
• A new wire service will also need to be created. Wire services (AP and CP etc) aren't necessarily news outlets in and of themselves. They're distrubution conduits. We need to set up simmilar agencies that incorporate filters where only stories that pass the "fair and balanced" test pass through.

3. Eliminate the reward that the current MSM establishment has been receiving for their poor performance. Minimise or take away their financing.

• Contact advertisers and let them know that you won't be purchasing the products advertised in biased MSM publications and programs.
• Refuse to purchase biased MSM print publications.
• Don't include biased MSM TV stations in your cable subscription packages if possible.
• Don't listen to biased MSM radio outlets
• Contact these MSM outlets and let them know that you've turned them off and let them know why you've turned them off.

Using this three-pronged approach, we can wake the general public up to what's going on, let the MSM know that we're on to them and provide an example of how the MSM needs to change if they're to survive. The end result will be honest and accurate reporting which will result in a properly informed citizenry.

We'll need that in order to procede...