Phil Brennan
Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2003

For a very long time now, Marxism in its guise of modern liberalism has worked toward the satanic goal of making everything that exists perish.

Thoroughly in the grip of the delusion that society cannot be just as long as it labors under the strictures imposed upon it by Western Judaic Christian civilization, it has decreed that everything, every trace of that tradition -– morality, religion, the dignity of man made in the image and likeness of God, the Ten Commandments - all must be eliminated before the world can remake itself in its own depraved image and likeness.

That is the entire motivation of those who now style themselves as "progressives," the title once used by underground members of the Soviet-dominated U.S. Communist Party to identify themselves to each other.

They have been engaged in a decades-long campaign to destroy every last vestige of the traditions and morality that underlie Western civilization – the traditions that produced among other blessings the Constitution of the United States, which recognized and safeguarded the dignity of humanity bestowed upon it by God. Traditions that they abhor.

The world I live in today is so far removed from the world into which I was born in 1926 and in which I grew up, that it is scarcely recognizable. It's as if the gates of hell had been flung open and legions of demons loosed upon mankind.

We are being seduced. In the name of liberation from the often inconvenient restraints a civilized society demands of its members, we are being slowly but inexorably drawn into the brave new world that spawned such liberated paradises as the Soviet Gulag, National Socialism's Auschwitz, Castro's Isle of Pines, and the joys of the Cambodian holocaust in which millions perished in the name of Marxist enlightenment.

One of the bedrock tenets of a free civilization is the recognition that a truly free society can only exist where its members restrain themselves, keeping in check their passions and their basest instincts and showing full respect for the rights and safety of their fellow humans. A society where the citizenry cannot restrain themselves is a society in chaos, and such societies can either restrain their people or simply cease to exist and descend into barbarity.

In societies where self-restraint underlies a constitutional republic, the rights and privileges of all its members are protected by a rule of law based on an understanding of the very nature of mankind as children of a loving God – fallible, ornery, disputatious but nevertheless divinely ordained.

This was the society that existed in the United States when I was born – a society that elicited envy throughout the rest of the world. It is a society now undergoing destruction.

In a Godless society where the citizenry cannot or will not restrain themselves simply because they do not recognize or accept as binding upon them the laws of nature and of nature's God, as the Declaration of Independence put it, there are only two options: chaos or restraint imposed by an all-powerful state in the name of the maintenance of law and order. And that state alone decides what is law, and what is order.

We are rapidly being transformed into this kind of society and it isn't happening by accident. We aren't merely drifting into this kind of society, we are being propelled into it by people who know exactly what they are doing.