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Communism In Bristol

When anyone makes a stand against those who control the power and money, along with the corruption it creates, one can expect opposition. But what is freedom unless everyone is free? Or treated the same before the law?

Because only two people in this community, one an atheist and the other a deist, have stood up for the law and exercised our rights under the Constitution, those in power have decided that the law only applies to those who "are chosen.". We have had to endure slashed tires, death threats, and I got threatened with a lawsuit from Sullivan County for "lies." The Constitution is toilet paper to the "agents of intolerance" in Appalachian communities such as this. Communism is dead they say. Really? Read on and find out the truth.

When I was stationed in West Berlin with the army, long before the Wall came down, I got to visit first hand what a police state was really like. East Berlin was an example of the unbridled use of power by a religion.

Here the religion was Communism. This religion pledged a workers paradise free of all the worries in the world. There would be freedom and equality for all, an end to social injustice, hunger, and no want for the necessities of life. A true utopia.

In this religion too there would be promises of religious freedom, free speech, press, etc. There would be order, an end to crime, and safe streets for your children to play in. In fact, on paper the promises of this religion would be little different from what we enjoy today in America, but there was a catch.

"Thou shalt not commit blasphemy" was the one over riding rule of the "worker's paradise." Don't think, just have faith! Honor the party and state in all things. Put faith in the party and the state above your family, friends, even your own life! Love the Party, your Lord, above all others! Do as we say, not as we do!

East Berlin in 1981 was hardly a paradise. Dreary brown, gray, and black were the only colors to be seen on buildings covered in soot from obsolete factories. Factories that paid wages that would buy some cabbage and potatoes, little more. Many buildings still had bullet marks from fighting in 1945 between Russian and German forces for control of the city. Many damaged buildings were never repaired.

The Museum of Ancient History in East Berlin was once one of the finest museums in Europe prior to World War II. Archaeologists had brought back entire walls of art from the Middle East and Persia. Many hours went into restoring these great treasures that are a tribute to the creativity of their builders.

Sadly, this place was also as gloomy as the rest of the workers paradise. One wing of the building was rootless, windowless, and burned out, damaged by American bombers in 1944. So much effort had to devoted to the "God" of the workers paradise, there was little left over for the everyday person.

One sick joke often heard from Berliners went like this: "How do you tell which way the trains are going?" "If they are full, they are going East." (Russia) "If they are empty, they are coming here."

Of coarse the self-appointed holy men of the communist "God" had the good life. They shopped in "party members only" stores that sold imported luxury goods at a bargain. They dined on imported steak from America, French wines, and listened to music from the best Japanese stereos.

They had luxury homes and apartments, while everyday working people waited years for a shabby, one-room rat trap. They drove fine cars while the average worker would stay on a waiting list for years to get a bicycle.

They had the good jobs and only those close to them would get the jobs when they retired: Their friends and children, not the everyday person on the street would get the position, the bargain store, and the imported car. Even a college graduate often made less than a bus driver, because their family wasn't among the chosen. It was a world of who you know, not what you know.

In East Berlin there was no middle class, just working poor and the those who had it all. The haves were going to do anything to keep what they had.

The worker's paradise wasn't "soft on crime." They didn't go for all of that "liberal" nonsense like Miranda. Or all that silly civil rights stuff. They openly embraced the death penalty as a sure deterrent to those who dared to commit blasphemy against the workers "God." It didn't even take "three strikes" before the perpetrator was "out." (Of coarse there was all kinds of crime caused by poverty but they would never acknowledged it.)

They would never allow godless capitalism! Only the state and those who run the state in behalf of the "God" of communism would control and keep all the wealth to themselves. There would be no selling of race track tickets on an East Berlin street for a profit!

There will be no peddlers within 1000 feet of any state "approved" businesses. Hell, the workers paradise could even ban pets and skate boards if they are a "nuisance" to the "chosen people" of the "God" of communism. All they had to do is make the regulations so restrictive the dirty little capitalist pigs would either go out of business or they would arrest them for not following the rules!

They would also put an end to the decadence in the arts, theater, and literature. Out with immorality! Personal pleasure or desire is a distraction from what is important: the state, the party, the revolution. All others are false deceivers who must be silenced for the good of the people!

One former German leader said it very well:

"The national government ... will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Marxism as the very basis of our collective morality."

"Today Communists ... stand at the head of Germany ... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy the Party .. We want to fill our culture again with the worker's spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years."

These German leaders hated democracy and personal choice and freedom. This quote says it all:

"Democracy is a failed institution from the start...people are depraved and evil...they can not be permitted to do what they want to do."

One won't find an issue of Playboy magazine or any strip bars in East Berlin! Doesn't that make one feel safe and comfortable? One would be surprised how many people would just love a system like this, especially if they were in the party and got all of the good things in life. They would after all be predestined by the State to be rewarded for their "faith' in the system. Who cares about the average person?

Today East Germany is gone, but the ideas behind this story are still with us. In America today, there are those who would trade freedom for a utopian fantasy and a guiding hand in their lives. Why think when faith alone would do? They see personal freedom as chaos and sin. They see those who don't see as they do as evil people who must be silenced for the "good of society."

The first quote up above was not from a communist, I substituted communist for Christian, and the man who made this speech was Adolph Hitler. Hitler loved to talk about Christian this and that, he was brought up Christian and his social attitudes were selected parts of Christian tradition. He was not Christian in any sense Jesus would know. He certainly didn't mind killing any Christians that didn't view things his way.

His hate list, which included atheists, Jews, liberals, homosexuals, etc. is much the same as that of many Christian fundamentalists in this county. Christian fundamentalists may not be Nazis, but give them total power and watch what happens.

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The second quote was from an American, a member of an extreme right-wing organization known as the Christian Identity Movement. Another extreme right-wing organization is known as the Christian Reconstruction Movement. It preaches a return to a literal interpretation of the Bible and advocates the death penalty for adultery, blasphemy, and homosexuality. It's members include the extreme right-wing of the Republican Party, Ollie North, and the US Taxpayers Party. Both are a powerful force in the evangelical community that many in it really know little about.

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It makes no difference if a tyrant or jailer is Christian or atheist, capitalist or socialist, a bullet will still kill you! Stalin sent many good communists to the gulag while Hitler's Gestapo jailed plenty of "liberal" Christians.

This web site is not another "bash religion" mouthpiece. Most Christians are not monsters, Nazis, or crazy people, but most Germans didn't operate the gas chambers either. Apathy, fear of social and economic change, semi-literacy, and blind "faith" combined with the rejection of reason caused millions to follow a mass murderer who seemed more like God than human.

Here in the Bristol community and this region in general, we have an unholy alliance of religious extremists and economic conservatives who share only one goal: To halt all social and economic progress and avoid living in the 21st. century.

The people of this community are finally speaking out. They are speaking out in the press and at local government boards against the corrupt "good ol' boy" politics and are starting to win! Fundamentalist Christians have every right to worship and live the way they want to, but so does everybody else!

This web site will do more than just expose the cult like culture of Christian fundamentalists and those politicians that pander to them; we will debunk phony government statistics that mask massive poverty, the lack of a middle class in this area, and the corruption of small town Southern politics. Here one will learn things the local chamber of commerce tries to hide or cover up. Think the story of East Berlin is not true? It is here in Bristol today, and it isn't any communists who are doing it!

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