October 7, 2008
Yes, We Can?
Vol. 3 Issue 18
"This is the greatest county on the face
of the earth. Join with me as we change it."
-Barack Hussein Obama, 2008
If this were the greatest country on the
face of the earth, why would you want to
change it?
If you look back in history you will find
five people who professed they were agents
of change, Marx, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini,
and Castro. Now we find a sixth person who
wants to take his place in history as the
next agent of change, Barack Hussein Obama.
In each of the aforementioned, the first
five despots started their movement for
change with the youth of their respective
nations.
Domination of youth movements has been the
rule and not the exception in the history of
the socialist movement in all countries. Why
has this been so? Can the youth movement,
that Obama is trying to build today be free
from such domination? The question of the
independence of the youth movement is an
organizational question. It involves such
questions as the relationship of democracy
to discipline in the youth movement and the
relationship between the youth movement and
the adult political parties.
The radical movement has been plagued by
organizational questions similar to this;
and in a number of cases, a division on such
questions has led to a split. However, in
every case serious study reveals that the
organizational issue has been largely a
reflection of underlying political
differences.
Let us take a look at some of the youth
movements throughout history. The Marxist
Labor Youth League (LYL) as an example
claimed throughout to be "an independent
Marxist youth organization" completely free
from domination by any political party.
However, from the time of the 1948 Communist
Party convention, which called for its
formation, until 1957, when the Communist
Party decided to dissolve it, the LYL was
little more than a younger shadow of the
Party. Never did it take a stand in
contradiction to Party policy, and never did
it raise real criticisms of the Party’s own
mentor, the Stalinist leadership of the
Soviet Union. Former members of the LYL said
they never once had a chance to participate
in the formulation of League policy on any
important issues. League conventions were
more like political rallies and songfests
than occasions for the formulation of
policy. Internal democracy, while guaranteed
on paper, was not present in life. Caucus
formations in opposition to the leadership,
the key to real party democracy, were not
allowed.¹
At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, most
German youths were quickly caught up in the
war mania that swept Germany and
enthusiastically went off to the battlefield
anticipating it as a noble, romantic
experience that would mold them into 'new
men.' In reality, they died by the millions,
cut down by the machinery of modern warfare
including machine-guns, mustard gas and
explosive artillery shells. By 1918, Germany
was defeated and soon plunged into political
and social chaos.
In 1920, Hitler authorized the formation of
a Youth League of the National Socialist
Workers' Party under the control of his
storm trooper organization known as the SA (Sturmabteilung).
Among the rules, no membership fees and an
emphasis on "love of one's country and
people, enjoyment of honest open combat and
of healthy physical activity, the veneration
of ethical and spiritual values, and the
rejection of those values originating from
Jewry..." Need I say more?
Benito Mussolini’s Italian Fascists seized
power in 1924 and established a
comprehensive youth movement for all ages
from eight-years old on. Fascism first
developed in Italy during the period of
economic dislocation and social unrest,
which followed World War I. The Fascists
coined the term Totalitarian and while
Mussolini may have aspired toward that goal,
he never created a truly totalitarian state,
but rather a personal dictatorship and
authoritarian state. The rest is history.
Twenty-year-old Tobin Van Ostern finished
his sophomore year last spring at George
Washington University, but this fall he's
enrolled in the Barack Obama campaign as a
full-time organizer. The Richmond, Virginia,
native started Students for Obama on his
campus last year as a Facebook group. It now
has chapters on 800 campuses, Van Ostern
said, and the campaign has recruited
thousands of college students and recent
graduates to work as both paid staffers and
unpaid volunteers through the November
election. If that was all Obama’s youth
movement was about, I would not be worried
at all.
However, it goes far beyond that. What is
happening among our nation’s youth from ages
five and on is frightening and reminiscent
of Marx, Hitler and Mussolini. When I see
groups of six-year old children chanting
songs praising Obama, their parents standing
around in proud admoration, I get sick to my
stomach.
Watch this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlcIwvHZUl4&eurl=http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=2138
I close my eyes and can picture young
children in uniform, goose-stepping with
their right arms outstretched high and their
heads turn towards the Fuhrer. If you do not
believe this can happen in America you may
be very mistaken. Remember Obama keeps
chanting that he wants to start a youth
corps because they are our future.
Political correctness has not crept into our
society it has invaded it. It may be too
late by the time we wake up and realize what
has happened. Therefore, I am warning you
now. Let me tell you a short story.
If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling
water, it will jump out. If you put the frog
in a pot of cool water, it will stay there.
As you heat the pot until the water is
boiling, the frog accommodates to the change
in temperature until it is too late.
If you think this is a fantasy watch the
video below. It is only one of many groups
that have developed in America and a
movement that continues to grow. Obama calls
it "Obama’s Youth," I call it socialist and
fascism. Watch the video and you decide. It
is still frightening. As you watch it look
at the self-saluting fist pumps, do they
look familiar? The only thing missing are
the brown shirts and the salute to the
Fuhrer.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77052
The participants in Barack Obama’s youth
movement think this is fun, the same way the
Youth Movement in Hitler’s Germany started
out as fun, with the nation’s youth
attending camps, such as our summer camps.
However there is nothing funny about this.
Is this the start of a a reactionary
movement, which believes that Barack Hussein
Obama will change America’s political
institutions in a revolutionary way.
We do not know if Barack Obama embraces this
sort of militant adoration or rejects it. He
has been strangely silent on the topic and
refuses to talk or acknowledge it. Requests
for a comment from the Obama campaign have
gone unanswered.
Yes, we can? Not if I can help it. Vote with
your head, not with your heart.
And, that is my opinion.
Michael Solomon
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