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It’s Not Enough to Be Pro-Freedom; We Must Also be Actively Anti-Communist
by Trevor Loudon

Excerpt:

To the Epoch Times’ credit, it is one of the very few publications in America that is not just “pro-freedom” but actively anti-communist, a very important distinction, which was brought home recently in a conversation I had with a senior Epoch Times staffer. He related to me how some Epoch Times journalists had attended a conservative gathering in Washington They were surprised to find they were not universally well-received.

There were some comments that the presence of Epoch Times people, well-known for their opposition to the Communist Party of China, “might damage our trade relations with China.”

Bear in mind that many of these critics were veterans of the Reagan Presidency. They had seen how Reagan’s tough anti-communist stance had forced the Soviet Union into a major retreat (not a “collapse”—a strategic retreat)—something decades of appeasement and East-West trade under previous presidents had failed to achieve.

These “conservative” leaders were all about free trade between nations and liberty at home. However, the thought that they should be opposing “communism” in this day and age was completely foreign to many of them.

What Is Communism?

This view stems from a failure to understand that communism is not just another political system. Communism is a form of organized crime justified by the cult of Marxism-Leninism. It is basically a combination of criminal inclination coupled with uncontrolled political power.

Like all crime, communism is parasitic. It produces nothing of value itself, it must rely on force, propaganda, torture, intimidation, threats, and espionage to survive. Like cancer, communism consumes its host. Only in communism’s case, it will only die when the whole planet is consumed.

Must we let things get to that point?

Full article:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/its-not-enough-to-be-pro-freedom-we-must-also-be-actively-anti-communist_3057750.html

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