Sons of Stalin

No, this article will not address the capture during World War II of the literal son of Stalin and his murder by Hitler's bloody-handed henchmen. Today, I will concern myself with the laudatory nature of the PBS Independent Lens broadcast about the Chicago Eight(8) and their defense attorneys and their antics. They were portrayed as heroes accompanied by Rage Against the Machine songs. They were shown as high-minded, cool, and engaged in a great purpose. In fact, wary or not, they were tools of the most murderous ideology that has ever existed. The Independent Lens feature showed the demonstrators with frequent calls of "fascist", "sieg heil", and even "Nazi" against the authorities who mostly comprised police and National Guardsmen who showed tremendous restraint. In the Eastern block and Asian Communist countries, the powers broached no dissent and routinely slaughtered those who were often completely innocent who the commissars thought might oppose them. If the Jewish agitators had had their families remain in Europe, in all likelihood, they would have ended up in concentration camps or gulags. The SS or cossacks would have almost certainly killed them. LBJ was a failed leader, but he was magnitudes better than any leader Red Russia or other Communist nations ever had. These wayward tantrum children saw none of the virtue and all of the vice of the nation that was their sanctuary. These willful poseurs felt all of the grievance and none of the good of this nation of liberty that has freed more people than all other countries combined. So many of these protesters came to grief, falling victim to their own excesses, notably Allen Ginsberg succumbing to his overburdened liver scarred by hepatitis from his profligate lifestyle, Abbie Hoffman to his own hand. For thorough scholarship about the depredations of the left of the Chicago Eight era and since, allow me to commend David Horowitz who was there at the time but has come to his senses and chronicled in great detail the dangers of the Left, then and now. Sadly, those in sympathy with the radicals may now sit in the Oval Office.