The 45 Communist Goals as Read Into the Congressional Record in 1963

Well, the source for this is here.

Most of these are obvious but I couldn't resist putting a couple thoughts down.

Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963 Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America. At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen: CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS 

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. 

Don't ya just hate those coexist stickers like I do?

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. 

Democrats, the party of appeasement, hated Ronald Reagan engaging the USSR.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. 

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. 

China seems to be a problem these days. Thanks to Billy Clinton.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites. 

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. 

We send money to everyone.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N. 
 
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N. 

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress. 

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N. 

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.) 

The UN is incompetent and useless as a positive force in the world.  The center for Globalization.

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. 

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths. 

How many recite the pledge of allegience in school.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office. 

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. 

They got the democrats.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. 

Check.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks. 

Check, double check and triple check.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers. 

How about all newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack. 

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, and policymaking positions. 

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. 

How about ALL positions.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms." 

Yep.

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art." 

Yep

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. 

Imagine the access to porn very young people have.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. 

This needs a comment? :)

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, and healthy." 

Check, Check and more Check.

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch." 

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state." (Remember these goals were published to expose them in 1958) Coincidence? 

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. 
 
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man." 

Paintings and statues being whisked away.  George Washington for God's sake...

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. 

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. 

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures, which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus. 

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. 

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI. 

Discredit. Check.  Chris Wray actually welcomed peter strozk back the FBI in recent days.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. 

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. 

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat]. 

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals. 

Center of the mass shootings imo.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. 

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. 

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["] united force ["] to solve economic, political or social problems. 

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government. 

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal. 

Hey there jimmy carter !  apparently he loves stephen colbert too.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.