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CHAPTER 15

WHAT WILL YOU TELL YOUR CHILDREN?
Often times, for the sake of argument, one must stipulate to certain points as facts. Let's hope that our friends who see no danger in Communisn and the Communist program will agree for the time being that there is a Communist Party in the United States and that they do have a Communist program, that there is such a danger, and that the danger may suddenly overcome America, just as in Czechoslovakia. What will you tell the children?

Let's say for the sake of argument, the Reds have gained control through confiscation of all firearms, they are in control of communications, they are in control of public utilities, they have slaughtered or imprisoned the police, they have clobbered resistance, and America lies prone, awaiting the blood purges that must certainly follow, enduring the terrifying period of vacuum before the caulked heel of Godless Communist tyranny comes smashing down.

What will you tell those youngsters gathered by your knee? How will you tell them that their nation, strong, dynamic, compassionate a few years ago, is now gone? How do you tell them you stood complacently by while your government registered, taxed and then confiscated firearms? How will you tell them that you cannot go to the store and buy food for them because the store is locked against its owners, and that your money is no longer any good? How will you tell them that the policeman on the corner is no longer a friend he has been replaced by a tyrant from the steppes of Asia or from the jungles of Africa? How will you tell them that the America your fathers gave to you has been lost?

What will you say when your little son, who feels you are a Marshal Dillon or a Hopalong Cassidy asks you why don't you take a gun and go out to set thing straight? What will you say when your teenager asks you what you have done to prevent this takeover? Will you tell him you played golf, or went fishing, or learned to water-ski, or worked in the garden, or learned to make ceramics, or hiked in the hills, or a million other things, while our nation went down the drain??

What will you say when these children whose lives have already been blueprinted for them, ask what they should do? How will you advise them when they ask if they should resist? What will you say if they ask you if they should continue to adore God, despite the ultimatum of the New Order? What will you do when the order comes to gather your children and ship them into State camps where they can become robots of the State?

Communist writings openly advocate firearms control, openly predict that they will seize control centers, and that the mass of the population will lie prostrate. Records show that the lawless of a nation will take this opportunity to swoop down on the unarmed, motivated in part by the same drive that causes looting after floods have driven people from their homes. Can you be sure that this will not happen--especially after you read of the riots and demonstrations that take place weekly in our great land? There is absolutely no justification for attacks upon citi­zens and police, and the destruction of private property. How would these same people react if all Law were suddenly elimi­nated?

Or, suppose you lived through the blood baths, and 15 years from now your youngsters ask about the America that was. Will you tell them of the freedoms you had, the freedom to own a firearm and private property, the freedom to go where you wished, to do what you wished, to say what you wished? Will you tell them of the fun you had and the happiness you had? What will you say when they ask how these things happened to slip away?

Will you admit that you dismissed all efforts to halt the loss of freedoms and the drift toward Socialism and Communism as Right-Wing extremism and that you helped smear everyone who tried to point out the danger?

It may seem a flight of fancy to ponder what could happen to America, but remember, the Pentagon, charged with protecting you and yours from all dangers, foreign and domestic, has already made a study as to the best time to surrender! Ponder that!

If you are a father or mother, look at your children. If they are asleep, walk in and look at them--peaceful, contented, trusting. Are you doing anything to prevent just such a terrifying picture as we have printed? Do you bother to inform yourself on this drift toward tyranny? Or do you plan to collaborate with the enemy, to "make friends" with the New Order?

If America is to be spared this terror, it must be because her people have forbidden it. If the people will not stem the tide, then each American must face the terror that has already been visited upon Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland, Yugoslavia, East Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Manchuria, Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam and many, many other lands.

And Mister, what will you tell your children?

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DON'T LET THEM TAKE YOUR GUNS AWAY!!
Article Two--Bill of Rights--U.S. Constitution
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed".

In the darkness of the night, thieves prowl! Thieves who steal only money are petty thieves compared with those who steal our right to live as free Americans!

The greatest of our treasures is our heritage of constitutional liberty. So long as we have the Bill of Rights, we are free.

When men in government substitute political decree for law, their purpose is theft...theft of earnings, theft of work, theft of living.

They can have no other purpose, else they would be willing to preserve government under law instead of control by the arbitrary decrees of men.

There is no future for the citizen under government not based upon moral principle and constitutional law.

Under it, basic freedoms are guaranteed and preserved by the Bill of Rights.

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COMMUNIST RULES FOR REVOLUTTON
"Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscating them and leaving the population helpless". (Captured in Dusseldorf, May 1919, By The Allied Forces)
A. Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial, destroy their ruggedness.

B. Get control of all means of publicity and thereby:

1. Get people's minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and plays and other trivialities.

2. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.

3. Destroy the people's faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and obloquy.

4. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.

5. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit, produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.

6. Foment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders.

7. By specious argument cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues, honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.

C. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscating them and leaving the population helpless.

* "NOTE: The above "Rules for Revolution were secured by the State Attorney's Office from a known member of the Com­munist Party, who acknowledged it to be still a part of the Communist program for overthrowing our Government".

George A. Broutigam
State Attorney
State of Florida

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SPIES WARN OF NUCLEAR CRIMINALS
A German magazine says the sale of Soviet nuclear materials is expanding dangerously.

Reuters: BONN--German's espionage agency has warned that a black market trade in former Soviet nuclear material is expand­ing to dangerous proportions, the new magazine Der Spiegel said Saturday.

A government spokesman declined to comment on the story, which said the Federal Intelligence Agency issued the warning in a report to Chancellor Helmut Kohl last month.

The intelligence agency believed there was growing cause for concern, the magazine said in a report released in advance of Monday's issue.

Spiegel said the agency warned that for the first time, smugglers were supplying uranium from Soviet stocks that was enriched, or concentrated, enough to be used in nuclear bombs.

Smuggled eastern uranium, plutonium and other nuclear materi­als have turned up increasingly in the West since the end of the Cold War, but most cases made public have involved materials that were not enriched enough to make explosives.

The report was also quoted as saying at least two militant Mus­lim fundamentalist groups, which Spiegel did not name, may be trying to gain access to Soviet nuclear skills.

There were "credible intelligence indications that some high-ranking persons in ministries, embassies, industrial firms and re­search facilities" in Eastern Europe were involved in nuclear smuggling, the magazine quoted the report as saying.

Spiegel said the intelligence agency and German federal police officials no longer ruled out the possibility that gangsters could get their hands on sophisticated Soviet nuclear devices or even biological weapons and use them for extortion. A German mag­azine says the sale of Soviet nuclear materials is expanding dan­gerously.

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GROWING SOCIAL BATTLE-‑
ELDERLY VS. ELDERLY
In an article from the February 13, 1994 edition of The Orlando Sentinel, MANCHESTER, N.J.--Police got the call in Decem­ber from a concerned neighbor walking past a house in the Leisure Knoll retirement community: An elderly man was screaming for help. His wife, he shouted, had locked him in a bedroom.

A patrolman arrived to find Tom Burke, a frail man of 78, alone in the house. He was badly bruised and had small, open cuts on his forearms. His head was bandaged.
"Mr. Burke stated that his wife beats him every night", the po­lice report would later detail "and locks him in his room during the day".

The police placed Burke in a protective shelter, where he remains. His wife, Storm, 60, who was not home at the time, was later arrested and charged with assault.

The idea of older people battering--sometimes even killing--other older people no longer surprises law enforcement authori­ties, who say they are encountering this kind of violence with growing frequency.

In many cases the people live together and are related. Sometimes one is, or both of them are, sick and suffering. And al­most always, the pressure of one taking care of the other has be­come too much.

While there are no national statistics to show how often older people abuse each other, sociologists say incidents of abuse are likely to grow as social service resources dwindle and the coun­try's population of people age 65 and older grows to 35.3 mil­lion people--12.8 percent of the total U.S. population--by the year 2000.

The problems are particularly acute in retirement communities where many of the elderly live, far from the children or family members who could help out when problems arise.

Tom Burke, for example, is in bad health and has a pacemaker, court records show. Both he and his wife are retirees. They have no children and are under considerable financial strain.

"When this happens, it's not necessarily because of cruelty", said Arlene Segal, who directs elder-abuse projects for the Coalition of Activist for the Rights of the Infirm Elderly, or CAME, a senior citizens' organization in Philadelphia.

And often, there is no history of domestic violence.

"It may be that each person is aging and suffering and can't re­ally adequately care for the other and may not even realize that", Segal said.

Elder abuse is already a common problem in Manchester, a town of 21 retirement communities. About 75 percent of its 50,000 residents are retirees.

Each year a special Senior Affairs Unit, set up by Manchester police to track crime by and against senior citizens, investigates about 500 elder-abuse cases. Most involve financial exploitation of the elderly, one of the most common crimes against the elderly nationwide.

The two-man unit, established 13 years ago, has become a model, looked to by police departments around the country that are just starting to deal with the issue. Detective Sgt. Bill Fleming, who heads the division, advocates early intervention. In particular, he says, older people need to connect with social service agencies--before they hurt each other.

Yet often the elderly are too uninformed, too frightened or too distrustful of outsiders to seek such services. They begin to feel helpless and frustrated. And sometimes they begin to feel overwhelmed. When that happens, there can be abuse--even when there's love.

All those stresses came together in the case of Blanche Black, who lives at the Cedar Glen West retirement community, half a mile from the Burkes' house in Leisure Knoll.

Black, 75, was released from Clinton, N.J., State Prison in September after spending six months in jail for smothering her older sister with a pillow in 1991. Black and her sister, Ruth Evans, had lived together for 50 years. Neither had children or close relatives. Black did the cooking and cleaning and Evans, who was five years older, made the financial decisions, planned their daily events and, because Black could not drive, shuttled them to their weekend outings at flea markets.

In the two years before she died, Evans had become very ill with angina, arthritis and high blood pressure. She was incontinent and unable to even sit in a wheelchair.

The sisters had promised that they would care for each other so that neither one would ever have to go to a nursing home. On March 19, 1991, Black became overwhelmed by that promise.

"My sister Ruth asked me not to let her suffer", Black wrote in a note found by police. "She was house-bound since September. Yesterday she could not hardly talk. I tried sleeping pills, but they wouldn't work. I then put a pillow over her head. God forgive me.

"I am now taking my life. I loved her dearly".

Black then swallowed a near-lethal dose of sleeping pills and woke up two days later in a hospital. She later pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter.

"The pressure was hard," she said recently from her home. "I knew she was getting worse and worse, and I didn't know what to do with her".

Jacob Stone, a Doylestown, Pa., social worker and clinical consultant who helps families deal with aging relatives, says such tragedies are likely to increase. "We've just begun to see the problems. Not only are there going to be lots of older people, but there are going to be fewer and fewer young people proportionally to take care of them", Stone said.

Health and social planners say that the nation must begin to confront this problem aggressively.

"We didn't have this issue of how to care for old people 100 years ago because they were rare, they weren't many, and they were special", said Stone, the Doylestown consultant on aging. "I certainly want to live a long time, too, but in a social-engineering perspective, it's going to cause a lot of problems".

More and more care-givers will be pushed to the limits of their impulse control, he said.

"One of the sad realities of caring for old people is it can seem like it's going to go on forever", Stone said. "With children, you know they're going to grow up, but with an old person some begin to feel the only way to deal with this daily is to look forward to their death".