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"...AND NOT A SHOT IS FIRED!" From Jim "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 B.C. Excerpts by Thomas R. Eddlem in an Introduction to "...And Not a Shot is Fired," by Jan Kozak, which is a "'how-to' manual for takeover of an elected system of government through legal and constitutional means...[Kozak] wrote from personal experience and intimate knowledge of how this seizure of power actually was accomplished." As Jan Kozak and 40 years of brutal Communist Party rule in Czechoslovakia so clearly demonstrate, communism was a-tactic-employed for the assumption of power, rather than a sincere belief. These same tactics, modified only slightly, are being used today. Americans who labor under the false premise that communism is either an ideology or a system of economics that died with the Cold War do so at their personal and national peril. Most Americans are falsely conditioned to believe today that elective governments are permanently established and practically invincible to destruction, so long as elections are free from fraud and consumers can buy Big Mac hamburgers in the market. The use of dialectic meaning in words was and remains a necessary part of any plan to overthrow free governments. Outright announcement of the goals and motivations of revolutionaries would arouse too much alarm among the people and create too much resistance, resulting in the defeat of the conspirators. Communist dialectics changes frequently in order to preserve its esoteric qualities. ...Fascism is the economic program increasingly being followed in the United States and the formerly socialist nations of Eastern Europe today. Economic fascism offers a number of advantages for the modern conspirator over the socialism used by Kozak [in the communist takeover of Czechoslovakia] -- but only because fascism is typically called some other nebulous name such as "Third Way" or "public-private partnership," or (even worse) falsely represented as "privatization," or "free trade," of "free enterprise." The fascist economic model does not carry all of the public relations baggage of Stalinist socialism, and, over the short term at least, it can be more economically efficient than outright socialism. Under fascism, the "private" property owner may be heavily controlled by government rules and regulations, but he is often still under the illusion that he "owns" his property. Thus, he may still strive to improve his property as a property owner would in a laissez-faire system. This is particularly the case when the fascist state, in its benevolence, -allows- the propertied class to keep some of its wealth or to make some decisions (within government guidelines, of course). Author and political commentator John T. Flynn has already been proven partly right in his 1941 warning that "We will not recognize [American totalitarianism] as it rises. It will wear no black shirts here. It will probably have no marching songs. it will rise out of a congealing of a group of elements that exist here and that are the essential components of Fascism...It will be at first decorous, humane, glowing with homely American sentiment.
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