Source: Congressional
Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
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.
2. U.S. willingness to
capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
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.
5. Extension of
long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid
to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
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.)
12. Resist any attempt
to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all
loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving
Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both
of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical
decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by
claiming their activities violate civil rights.
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.
18. Gain control of all
student 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, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key
positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
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."
23. Control art critics
and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness,
repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws
governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation
of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural
standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in
books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present
homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural,
healthy."
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."
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."
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.
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.
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.
