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Aug. 5, 2021 - Just Informed Talk - Craig James
07:41
JustInformed Talk Presents: "The Naked Commie"
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There's this great socialist who wrote a great song, which a lot of people think is an anthem for our country.
But it was written by a socialist.
A communist.
He was a communist.
And you know what that song is?
This land is young.
Can we sing that?
This is what organizing looks like.
This is what building power looks like.
This is what changing the country looks like.
He was a communist.
He was a socialist.
He was radical.
The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border.
I don't know, I like, we can have, okay, whatever.
I want to talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity to say that we should not, that never again means something.
And that, um...
He was a communist.
He was a socialist.
He was radical.
And so the recommendation of the many that you recommended, you recommended family separation.
I recommended zero tolerance.
Which includes family separation.
The same as it is whenever a U.S. citizen parent gets arrested when they're with a child.
Zero tolerance was interpreted as the policy that separated children from their parents.
If I get arrested for DUI and I have a young child in a car, I'm going to be separated.
When I was a police officer in New York and I arrested a father for domestic violence, I separated that father from his family.
Mr.
Holman, with all due respect, legal asylees are not charged with any crime.
When you're in the country illegally, there's a violation of the United States Code 1325.
Seeking asylum is legal.
If you want to seek asylum and go to the port of entry, do it the legal way.
The Attorney General of the United States has made that clear.
Okay.
He was a communist.
He was a socialist.
He was radical.
Millennials and people and, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we're like, The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.
And your biggest issue is...
Your biggest issue is how are we going to pay for it?
And, like, this is the war.
This is our World War II. He was a communist.
He was a socialist.
He was radical.
Do you think if you worked as hard as I was, as rich as I was, had a house in Nantucket, vacationed on the beach, had beautiful sunsets at the galley, you'd be walking around with a mask on right now?
I wouldn't abandon my principles to do that.
I wouldn't build a company where I hire people and know that I'm exploiting their labor.
I feel like I give him a great living, though.
Okay, but I'm not going to betray my values for that.
I'm not going to build myself up by exploiting other people's labor and, like, push my way to the top that way.
Have you ever been in Nantucket?
No.
Beautiful.
He was a communist.
He was a socialist.
He was radical.
So other colleges can come out here, yeah?
Is this your New York crew?
No, this is everybody.
Oh, no, you're fine.
- Hi. - Hi. - Hi. - Housing is a human right on three.
One, two, three!
Housing is a human right!
Everybody take whiskey!
- We're big! - Yay! - Woo! - Woo! - Woo! - He was a communist.
He was a socialist.
He was radical.
The communists declared that the racial differences among our people constituted the weakest and most vulnerable point in our social fabric.
By constantly probing and straining at this one spot, they calculated that eventually the cloth could be torn apart.
And that Americans could be divided, weakened, and perhaps even set against each other in open combat.
Attack on the Capitol.
White supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways.
White supremacy and patriarchy are very linked.
Bloody racial conflict would split America.
During the confusion, demoralization and panic would set in.
Then finally the Reds say, workers stop work.
Many of them seize arms by attacking arsenals.
Street fights become frequent.
Under the leadership of the Communist Party, the workers organize revolutionary committees to be in command of the uprising.
Alexander Hamilton said a nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.
Now, let's set the record straight.
There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace, and you can have it in the next second.
Surrender.
Admittedly, there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement.
And this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face, that their policy of accommodation is appeasement.
And it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender.
If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand, the ultimatum.
And what then?
Well, Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be.
He has told them that we're retreating under the pressure of the Cold War and someday, when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically.
He believes this because from our side he's heard voices pleading for peace at any price.
Or better read than dead.
Or as one commentator put it, he'd rather live on his knees than die on his feet.
And therein lies the road to war.
Because those voices don't speak for the rest of us.
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.
If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin?
Just in the face of this enemy?
Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the Pharaohs?
Should Christ have refused the cross?
Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refuse to fire the shot heard round the world?
The martyrs of history were not fools.
And our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.
Where then is the road to peace?
Well, it's a simple answer after all.
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