Historic truth about unions and communism

The Ford Motor Company was the last of the big auto companies to fold to unionization.
It was ironic that the unions chose Ford at all because Henry Ford had already upset his competition by paying his employees better and hiring minorities.
He even helped the Communists by training them in mass production techniques.
But he was a one of those hateful Capitalists and he had to go down as much as the rest of them so Communism could look better and eventually triumph.
It is interesting to read how little the left's playbook has changed since the 1920's.

An unrecognized martyr in Venezuela

The mainstream media will undoubtedly ignore the death of Franklin Brito and symbolism of his struggle against an abusive government.
Mr. Brito became a victim of Hugo Chavez' communistic redistribution of farmland in 2005.
Brito went on a hunger strike until the government announced that it would return his land.
When he determined that the announcement was likely fake as he never received any paperwork making the reversal official and no compensation for his loss.
Brito sickened and died in a military hospital yesterday.

We never heard of Brito's struggle or the wrongness of the theft of private land for the sole purpose of pandering to voters (while they still have a say) from our media.
We likely will not hear of his death or the dishonesty of the government in Venezuela either.
Our mainstream media are pro Socialist and pro Communist to the bone.

Another book for the wish list

Why is it that great thinkers foresaw the problems we would see today if we allowed the left to keep inching forward with the Communist agenda?
Whittaker Chambers wrote his book Witness in 1952 after participating in the trail of Alger Hiss.
Chambers himself confessed to being a communist and to being involved in espionage with Hiss, who sued him and lost.
His book was a favorite of people like Ronald Reagan and the late Robert Novak.
The main thrust of his book is that America's loss of faith, in no small part due to Liberalism's constant attacks on religion, was the true danger to the country.
Liberalism's faith in man over all translates into it's faith in Government to cure all ills and make the important decisions.
The essay in the American Thinker concerning this book does make me a bit reluctant to wade through what is said to be a tough read and I doubt it will make me return to the Church, but I have always felt that many of us need something to believe in that is larger than us.
People should be encouraged to believe and not harassed or belittled for doing so.  
I wonder if there is a cliff notes version...