A Most Wonderful Human Being

"Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life." Movie buffs will recognize this quote from the film: "The Manchurian Candidate" starring Lawrence Harvey and Frank Sinatra. It is a riveting film, released at the very height of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. The film is a tale of a Soviet Communist plot where brainwashed and conditioned Korean War POWs are released back to the USA with a mission: Return home and assassinate a Presidential Candidate. The Soviets hope that in the ensuing panic and a desire for stability, that Vice-Presidential Candidate [ actually a communist dupe controlled by his wife] would be placed at the top of the ticket and swept into office sympathetically by voters.

The trained assassin Staff Sergeant Shaw [Lawrence Harvey], receives a Medal of Honor for actions in Korea. These actions were, in reality, only memories implanted into the minds of his squad members. Shaw is chosen as the assassin because he is the Step-son of the Vice-Presidential Candidate. And unbeknownst to Shaw, his mother is the planted Communist Agent who will influence his Step-Father's actions as President. The assassination plot begin to unravel as Shaw's former Commanding Officer, Captain Marco [Sinatra], deals with his recurring nightmare that slowly reveal discomforting details of a plot to which the soldiers are all to be accomplices. Are you totally confused? Do you think this is too fictionally fantastic? Watch the film again, but this time watch with a "different set of eyes." In the meantime, I have attached a short 7 minute film You Tube presentation about "Grinding America Down." This film clip might amount to "singing to the choir" for most of you.

Grinding America Down

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Still there are many, I fear, who would sincerely believe that this is only a bit of hyperbolic anti-Marxism and anti-Communism. It is so passé and overdrawn these days. Or is it? I still hear it opined: "After all, didn't we win the Cold War? Surely, Barack Obama is not a Communist ... he's just an ordinary Liberal Leftist doing what he thinks is best for America." We hear this every day and night from the "talking heads." Welcome to "Conditioning 101." "Barack Obama is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being ever to be President." I heard Obama on the radio today telling a La Raza Conference how he and the Democrats only want shared sacrifice from all Americans, and to do what is right. Doing right apparently extends to Democrat-voting, Illegal Aliens in this country who are La Raza's clientele. They share, we sacrifice. And ... yes, these aliens do vote. If you think otherwise, you just may be a "Maroon." Former CA Congressman "B1 Bob" Dornan can attest to the fact that they vote. The future of the Democrat Party lies in drawing a large base of low income, largely uneducated and uniformed illegals from all over the world to become Party members whom they can mold and place on their political plantation for generations to come. I know that those who think only good things about Obama in America at large, are legion. I am certain that the Russian middle class thought this way about Lenin and hoped for the best. The same motivated ordinary Germans and Italians to allow Hitler and Mussolini a shot at making their countries great again. The Chinese rallied around Mao after the Western establishment elites and the Liberal Press discredited Chiang-Kai-Shek; ditto for Castro in Cuba with Bautista: Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam with Diem: Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua: the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran and so on ... you get the drift. The tactic is the same. Some years ago, I opined to a friend in an e-mail that I believed that Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, N. Korea, and the rest of the usual suspects were acting in concert with George Soros and the Obama Machine to enact the "Fundamental Change for America" and make us into another country.... yes, to bring this nation down. Nothing has changed since then to alter my beliefs since. To the contrary, I see it as more certain than ever. Hector Benedi had this great quote from Ayn Rand in his "Stupid Frogs" Blog this morning:

"It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master." - Ayn Rand

Hopefully you are disturbed enough to watch this film clip. As you watch, think about what is going on in Congress right now, and what the theme of Obama's 2012 Campaign will be: "President Barack Obama is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."

William R. Mann——Bio and Archives

William R. Mann, is a retired Lt. Colonel, US Army. He is a now a political observer, analyst, activist and writer for Conservative causes. He was educated at West Point [Bachelor of Science, 1971 ]and the Naval Postgraduate School [Masters, National Security Affairs, 1982].