Is It Necessary? (Part 2)
on November 16, 2017 at 1:23 am
I rode to the Salvadoran war in one of those colorful Spanish busses with about twenty people spilling out onto its roof, hanging on for their lives, and a turkey in the aisle with its legs tied. I got off at Fourth Brigade in El Paraiso Province, an isolated station surrounded by hills and forest. My friend, Subteniente Jose Camino, was a platoon leader with the Fourth, with whom I would be patrolling for the next few days in search of communist guerrillas. Jose would be slain a few weeks later when communist insurrectionists launched an attack on Fourth Brigade headquarters.
As a periodista. I had been in and out of the revolutions in Central America for most of the decade. I possessed the right credentials for a freelance journalist. I was an ex-cop and had served as a Green Beret soldier for thirteen years in U.S. Army Special Forces.
While with Special Forces, I parachuted into Panama with my SF group. Insurgents were threatening the government. Along with my team commander and team sergeant, I donned a disguise and mingled with the rioters in Panama City. Fires reddened the skyline and the measured cadence of automatic weapons penetrated the night. Flyers and revolutionary posters appeared magically on walls and parked cars. It wasn’t difficult to determine their origin, considering they were peppered with familiar communist phrases like “Yanqui imperialism” and “capitalist oppressors.”
“The communists grow stronger and more daring in Central America,” my friend Subteniente Camino in El Salvador warned. “They will never quit. Never.”
Indeed, communists and socialists have patience and never compromise. They hammer away at liberty and wait for years for the right opportunity. The United States in the 21st Century has become an example of their tenacity. The same communist placards and catch phrases that I saw in Central America now appear on U.S. university campuses and in American communities. Violence and rioting on campuses and in Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis and other cities harken to those in San Salvador, Panama City, and Managua. As Camino was killed by communists, U.S. policemen here have been cut down by radical socialists of various ilk in a declared “war against cops.” During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, an avowed Marxist was a Democratic primary candidate and garnered enough votes that he could have won the White House to continue to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.”
Jose Camino was right: They will never quit until the world, as President Ronald Reagan once remarked, slides into a thousand years of darkness.
Knowing the horror of the collectivist state, seeing how socialist nations such as the USSR always end in tyranny and ultimately in failure, why does humankind give up liberty so easily in order to continue down the Yellow Brick Road toward a speculative future utopia that has never been created on earth and, what’s more, can never be created?
From Crushing The Collective by Charles W. Sasser. Now available at most book stores, WND.com, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and other outlets.
“There is a way that seems right to a man. But its end is the way of death.” Proverbs 14:12 Communists believe it’s okay to lie to achieve their goals. My son was in Wash. D.C. when the Clinton hearings were going on. He said that inside the hearings Republicans listed the reasons for wanting impeachment. But outside, when they were interviewed by the press, the Democrats would say Republicans had no reasons for wanting impeachment. So much of what we’re fighting now are out and out lies.
Morning, Carol. What we’ve done is enter Orwell’s 1984 in which the truth is lie and lie is truth, and we seem not to know or respect the difference anymore. thank you, CArol. And God bless. chuck sasser
Next Tuesday on my blog at SallyJadlow.com I comment on the state of things. Perilous times, these.
Thank your, Sally. That’s a must read for me; will be looking for it. God bless, old friend. chuck sasser
You are so right, Chuck. The U.C. Berkeley riots had everything you mentioned except the automatic weapons fire. It seems to me that the “Constitution of the United States” has been replaced by “Rules For Radicals” as the primary source material for social studies in classrooms today. Sen. Joe McCarthy warned of the “Red Menace” and was called “overzealous”. In light of what we see today, maybe his cleanup efforts were stopped too soon. Keep writing, mi amigo. You and Hillsdale College are beacons of hope.
Morning, Jim. Thanks for your encouraging word. Remember the old Chinese phrase, “May you live in interesting times.” We’re living in interesting times–and they’re bound to get more interesting. God bless, old friend. chuck sasser
Great writing Charles, you had asked in the last segment if I was still in South America. I came back to Tulsa in the 60’s but my dad continued his journeys with his work to South and Central America,many many stories. He was well liked down there always treated people well, he has passed, but we still get Christmas cards from the locals from South to Central America.I remember our neighbors in the camp in Anaco Venezuela was the Charles Delay family, a wildcat driller, his son ran with my older brother always stayed in contact with us even after moving back to Houston, later he the son Tom Delay became a United States Congressman