The Fifth Column JB Williams
April 30, 2007
Things are not always as they seem, and they are almost never as they are sold. Unfortunately, even when presented with hard facts, many Americans still prefer the lie over the truth, finding the lie less scary.
Believe it or not, every crackpot notion is not a civil right in America or any other nation. In fact, most of the battles fought in the name of civil rights in America today, have little if anything to do with civil rights. Most have much more to do with special rights…and not the kind of rights that belong in America.
Allow me to introduce you to an important American icon by presenting two of his quotes for which he is famous in civil rights circles, but dangerously unknown to most Americans.
Quote 1 – "So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy."
Sounds like something any one of our founding fathers might have said, doesn’t it. But the author of these two quotes was no founding father. The first quote takes on a whole new meaning when placed in context with the second quote from the same individual.
Quote 2 – "I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself...I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."
Does this still sound like one of our founding fathers? - Both of these quotes belong to the same man, Roger Baldwin, a man whom most Americans have never heard of, though they know his works very well.
According to Baldwin’s official biography, he was raised by wealthy parents in the Boston suburb of Wellesley Hills. Family friends ranged from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Oliver Wendell Holmes and Booker T. Washington. Baldwin was raised as an "agnostic Unitarian."
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