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DANIEL BELL
American a file of anti-Communist magazines, seizes them as dele–
terious to the mental health of the community, and is shot by the
American, who escapes to the woods. But the infiltration continues.
By 1970, the United States, thanks to the global do-gooders, has
become part of a World Authority dominated by the Soviet-Asian–
African bloc, and this Authority suspends the country's right to
govern itself because of the "historic psychological genocide" against
the Negro race. United Nations administrators, mostly Red Chinese,
are sent in to rule. Harlem, triumphant, arises and loots the liquor
stores. The city proletariat, its sense of decency destroyed by public
housing, begins to raid the suburbs. In short order, twenty million
Americans are "done away with," while the people are subjected
to torture by blow-torch and rock-n-roll-the latter on television.
Meanwhile, the good American begins to fight. As far back as
1967, John Franklin and his friends had been stockpiling rifles. And
now they act. Franklin describes in gory detail a total of fourteen
patriotic murders: two by fire, one by hammer, one by strangling,
two by bow and arrow, one by defenestration, one by drowning, and
the rest by shooting. These brave actions are sufficient to turn the
tide-despite the atom bomb, a huge invasion army, and absolute
terror. By 1976, the people all over the world go into the streets,
and everywhere Communism falls. The assumption is that Com–
munism is so inefficient it cannot build heavy tanks or heavy weapons.
All that is necessary is the courage of a few determined men, practic–
ing the "simple virtues," to overthrow this clumsy Moloch. As Murray
Kempton remarks:
This, of course, is the Bircher's dream. America slides un–
resistingly into communism; a few Mike Hammers find their
rifles; and in five years the world is free. The Birch mind is
only the Mickey Spillaine mind. There is that lingering over
and savoring of pure physical violence, the daydream of the
disarmed. Reading
The John Franklin Letters
we can recognize
Robert Welch's voice. He is Charles Atlas saying to us again
that we need only mail the letter and back will come the
muscles which we will use to throw the bully off the beach and
have the girl turn to us with eyes shining with the sudden
knowledge of how special we are.
