GOD BLESS AMERICA - LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT !

As we celebrate this Fourth of July, our Independence Day and 230th birthday, it is a good time to reflect on how fortunate we are to live in such a great country with its freedoms and opportunities, and to never take these for granted. Back in the '60s, when we had a bunch of scruffy hippies and left-wing academics praising and supporting the North Vietnamese, those of us loyal to the United States coined the phrase LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT. That phrase quickly became politically incorrect.

Yesterday (July 3rd), Tucker Carlson, host of THE SITUATION on MSNBC, revived the phrase LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT. He was critical of those people in this country who constantly express their hatred for the United States and suggested they pack up and leave. To that I say AMEN !

For 23 years, until I retired in 1993, I had the unpleasant experience of having to teach at a good college with several avowed Marxist professors on its faculty who constantly berated our government and our free market economic system. These Marxists had, and still have a controlling influence over the college's administration. They have been successdul in electing their choice of candidates to the college's Board of Trustees with the help of the local labor unions. They try to INDOCTRINATE students by teaching them WHAT TO THINK, rather than educate students by teaching them how to think. They pervert the content of courses in American History, United States Government, Sociology, and Economics, by teaching their students that America exploits its workers, oppresses the masses, designs its foreign policy in order to enrich our oil companies and other conglomerates, and sponsors FACIST Israel's state terrorism against the Palestinians and other Arabs. They insist that America is an imperialistic and terrorist nation reponsible for millions of deaths in the Middle East and other parts of the world, and that we have only OURSELVES TO BLAME for the "9/11" attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The problem is that we have subversive Marxist and other ultra-leftist academics on most college and university faculties throughout this country. who constantly express their hatred for America to highly impressionable students. They resort to half-truths, inaccuracies, distortions, deliberate omissions of opposing facts, and cite only "authorities" favoring their viewpoints to the exclusion of those holding opposite viewpoints. They try to undermine support for our government by destroying patriotism and pride in our coudntry. These professors are guilty of intellectual deceit and dishonesty, and they are DISLOYAL if they refuse to pledge allegiance to our flag and country. The poisoning of young minds by this subversive "Fifth Column" of Marxist and other ultra-leftist academics constitutes a greater threat to the United States than international terrorism.

I would not object if colleges offered courses entitled "Corrupt Exploitative Capitalism," or "The Marvelous Workers Paradise of Marxism," or "Glorious Godless Communism," or "American Imperialism and Terrorism," or even "Evil Oppressive American History," because then students would know in advance what kind of courses they were enrolling in. However, colleges and universities do not have the guts to offer such entitled courses. Instead, they allow the Marxists and other ultra-leftists on their faculties to pervert the content of courses they teach which are required of all students seeking a degree, and they protect these subversives by proclaiming that, under the Principle of Academic Freedom, they have the right to do so. THAT IS PURE UNADULTERATED HOGWASH ! Those principles CLEARLY PROHIBIT professors from advocating a particular agenda.

Despite our history of slavery and discrimination against minorities, the corrupting influence of powerful special interest lobbyists, and the recent scandals of collusion between corrupt corporations and their crooked outside accountants, bankers and lawyers, this is still the greatest country in the world. The critics of capitalism conveniently overlook the fact that corruption has been endemic in every communist "workers paradise." We, and that includes Marxist academics, are free to criticize our government and its policies. We enjoy a free press. We are free to practice the religiion of our choice. While not everyone is wealthy, this is really the land of opportunity. The poor in this country are wealthy when compared to most of the people who live in Third World countries. That is why so many people throughout the world want to immigrate to America. And, what about the workers paradise? Well, there are only five communist countries remaining in the world - Cuba, China, Vietnam, Laos, and North Korea - and both China and Vietnam have started moving toward a free market economy.

As a grateful immigrant, a proud naturalized citizen, and a patriotic WWII veteran, I have an abiding love for this country. To those who have nothing good to say about this country and who express their hatred for the United States, I say GOD BLESS AMERICA - LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT !