THE BURNED NEWSPAPER ARTICLE THAT NEVER WAS...A TRUE STORY part two copyright 2009

Background to the Article from the Sporadic



Dear MGMers,

When Communists, Anarchists, Nihilists and Socialists (CANS) were in the process of taking over this country, it felt like the Good God had placed your grandmother smack in the middle of the fight. She wasn’t looking for one. She had a lot on her plate, caring for your aunts and uncle. Providence put her in the thick of things. As she muddled her way through chaos, she was essentially isolated and totally dependent on heaven’s help. Floundering in a secular world, without allies, she was effective only in small ways, or so it seemed.

Your grandmother belonged to an exclusive and well regarded group of "ONE," one voice, that is. As the song goes, she was “singing” in the darkness at a time when our Nation's young men, and a few good women, were fighting a more virulent form of that darkness in Vietnam. The nation was divided by darkened souls many of whom spat on troops returning home from a horrific war. Your grandmother to this day remembers their unconscionable disrespect with remorse because of her inability to help.

In 1968, opportunity allowed her to give voice to a sense of outrage, as she sat in a political science class listening to a Latin American revolutionary. She wrote a commentary for the Sporadic, the newspaper published by students attending the college. Few read the editorial. The reason? A group of radicals confiscated all but a handful of the copies and burned them as Hitler did, many years before. This was a newspaper burning communist-style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4_j4c7Bop0

Your grandmother was asked why she wrote the article that stimulated such wrath. She simply replied, "It was the thing to do." Was she afraid? "No."

Take note of the newspaper article’s headline: "Speaker Lashes U.S., Student's Just Laugh." Sound familiar? Isn't that how many dismiss evil in this country? People laugh as citizens try to do the right thing. Facts are laughingly dismissed as bullies (propagandists) grab power.

Ironic, isn't it, that reasonable men and women are reviled and found laughable. The Revolutionary who addressed a classroom of freshmen students in 1968, at a community college, followed a prescribed format that we see today. Presidents Clinton and Obama et al., avail themselves of the same strategies briefly outlined in your grandmother’s call-out commentary, in that terrible year.

A sentinel’s watchfulness was needed then and remains a necessity for our times. Then, it seemed as if God had turned his back on the Nation that He had blessed with abundance, and from which He expected much in return. It is no different today.

This letter will be finished in parts so that you can give it your time and thought. For now, carefully read the article. It was written for each of you, long before you were born.