Political Subversion Quotes
. We cannot suffer a foreign government to allow plots to our polity to be hatched on its territory!
The assassins and plotters who murdered the Archduke of Austria in Sarajevo were 5 Serbs and a Bosnian. They planned their operation in Serbia. This was the excuse that Austria was giving for going to war with Serbia who had an alliance with Russia.
In a replay of McCarthyism paranoia Bachman and 5 of her more paranoid fellows in Congress accused a number of fine American officials who were Muslims of being agents of the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical terrorist group in some countries and an extreme Islamic political party in others. The accusers, following the classic pattern, provide no credible proof and immediately publicly publish their accusations. Since members of Congress cannot be held to account for anything that they claim, no matter how false or malicious, the accused have no real forum to defend themselves.
Vladimir Lenin. What is surprising to many extreme anti-communists who think labor unions per se are communistic, is the fact that the Communist Party had very great difficulties penetrating labor unions and persuading them to become subservient to the Party. This is another example of a difference between Russian Communism and other forms of socialism.
This quotation had been considered by most scholars a relatively obscure paranoid rant of a right wing extremist. However, the fear had gained credence with the extreme right over the years and came into play again in the Barack Obama administration where many of the Tea Party adherents began stating that Koch’s warning had come to pass with President Obama as the covert communist, While few gave this any credence, it was honestly and firmly believed by a small minority of Americans.
