Rules for regulation

Dear Editor,

The following appeared in the Imperial Republican, Chase County, Neb., in June 1996.

I believe it has some application to what we see today on the national scene.

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Communist Rules for Revolution

In May 1919, at Dusseldorf, Germany, Allied Forces captured a very significant document: Communist Rules for Revolution.

As you read these rules now, 50 years later (and now 75 years later), keep in mind what you are reading and hearing every day via news media.

A. Corrupt the young; get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness.

B. Get control of all means of publicity, thereby:

1. Get people's minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and plays, and other trivialities.

2. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.

3. Destroy the people's faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and obloquy.

4. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.

5. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit, produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.

6. Promote unnecessary strikes in industries, encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of the government toward such disorders.

7. By specious argument cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues of honesty and sobriety.

C. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext with a view of confiscating them and leaving the population helpless.

For your consideration,

Ken Polly

McCook