Great Society

Texe Marrs: is a good example of someone who makes look reasonable. It is evident from his home page, without clicking a single link, that Marrs is anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, and given to off-the-planet conspiracy theories.

This is entertaining in and of itself, but what really interests me is the author biography on Marrs's Dark Secrets of the New Age indicating that Marrs was in charge of developing nuclear targeting protocols for the U.S. Air Force. I mean, here's a maniac raving about how the E. Coli outbreak in Germany was a communist biowarfare program by Obama, tool of the Jewish-Jesuit-Illuminati conspiracy, and he almost literally had his finger on the button.

Of course Marrs is retired, but the fact that he was in such a sensitive position for so long is symptomatic of a large amount of sympathy for far-right politics at high levels of the military. Similar symptoms are the participation of so many high-ranking officers in the Confederate treason, the high-level military plot to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt, MacArthur's notorious conduct in Korea, and the existence and political orientation of WHISC. The only way to prevent such reactionaries from being entrusted with such awesome life-or-death responsibilities is by smashing the imperialist military and replacing it with a people's armed forces forged in insurrectionary struggle.

I chose this post's title (Great Society) in homage to the weekly column in The Militant by Harry Ring. Besides being a charismatic old man who gleefully skewered the hypocrisies of the war profiteers and coupon clippers, Ring was a brave fighter in the defense of Cuba and Vietnam against imperialist attack, and played an important role in urging the communist movement to stand its ground against red-baiting by Truman, Humphrey, Nixon, McCarthy, Sidney Hook, Walter Reuther, and their allies. It is largely because of people like him that we enjoy a measure of free speech and privacy in the U.S. today.