The Homemade Revolution – May 1970

In connection with all of the revolutionary hash now being concocted throughout the country, those most to be pitied are the cooks who create these foul messes. In all history there probably never has been a more gullible bunch of suckers for a brilliant and vicious “con game” than the Black Panthers, the Weathermen, the Students for a Democratic Society, and all the various militant agitators now shouting lies and perpetrating crimes to make themselves feel important.

For they are mere puppets in a show of which they do not have the slightest understanding. The impresarios above them can haul back these ranting rioters, pull them off the stage altogether, or step up the size, frequency, and lawlessness of their riots, at will. Their activities are about as spontaneous and self determined as those of sheep being driven to a slaughter house. And the whole purpose for which they are being excited, financed, encouraged, and propelled by agents of the Insiders, who run the whole gigantic show, is to make the public willing for government to step in with extreme measures of suppression.

During the evening and later hours of Wednesday night, April 15, for instance, there was long continued rioting in the Harvard Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts. This was an unusually big affair rather than an unusually destructive one. There were six thousand “demonstrators,” who clashed with more than one thousand policemen trying to maintain order. As a result, according to the first newspaper reports, 179 young people were injured, and 35 policemen. The damage from broken windows, small fires, and looting was estimated at $100,000 to $500,000. Thirty-five young men and women were arrested. And a curfew was put into effect which was lifted the following night.

This carefully fomented “spontaneous outburst” was of considerable importance. But not for any of the reasons surmised by the poor deluded fools in the gigantic cast. The basic purpose of this spectacular scene was unwittingly revealed, two days later, in a short article in a Boston newspaper, which began as follows.

Demands for curbs on permits for demonstrations and parades were sounded in all sections of the state yesterday in the wake of the night of rioting in Cambridge.

Governor Sargent heard them when he toured what he called “devastation” in Harvard Square, and scores of legislators reported calls for a tightening of the legislation governing public assemblies.

There you have it, my friends. Although many of these riots, protests, and demonstrations serve other purposes as well, this is primary what they are all about. Quite frequently the most vehement denunciations by the rioting dupes are shouted against those very persons in exalted positions who have helped to plan the whole protest program. This makes it easier for the public to believe in the sincerity of such highly placed Conspirators as they move in steadily with more stringent measures – of both government welfarism and government suppression – for the avowed purpose of restoring “law and order” to the political environment of our daily lives.

The formula is as old as Communism itself. It is known as a combination of “pressure from the bottom and pressure from the top.” You encourage and excite and lead on the demonstrators, by letting them break every law on the books with impunity. Until the time is ripe and the public is ready, so that much more stringent laws can be enacted, and then enforced. Much more comprehensive laws and ordinances and administrative orders are soon put at your disposal, which can then be enforced against the great body of entirely innocent citizens who in any way resist or oppose the actions and policies of government. Let as many of these steps toward tyranny, at least in the early stages, be taken by local and state governments as possible, because they will thus be more readily accepted by an unsuspecting people. And the central government at the top can very easily and gradually assist, dominate, and then preempt the mechanics of enforcement.

The basic point is very simple. On imposing a curfew, or declaring martial law, or engaging in any of the measures of suppression in between, you immobilize the innocent as well as the guilty. You make the public as a whole accept some measures of totalitarian government, as a result of not having been allowed to use limited government properly to squelch a noisy minority of criminal troublemakers. When you send in the national guard, or a detachment of army troops, to preserve order somewhere against the expected vandalism of “civil rights” agitators, or to restore “law and order” where the Black Panthers have gone on a rampage, you are moving steadily toward the enforcement of Communist “peace,” on all of the people, by a Communist regime. And “peace,” in Communist phraseology, you must always remember, means exactly one thing and nothing else: Namely, a situation in which there is no opposition to Communism.

This is one of the many routes and means by which our country is being moved steadily towards subjugation by a Communist regime, with the straight-jacket of brutal Communist power woven insidiously over the whole body of the American people. The recent Harvard Square riot, as a fair example of a great many more, can well serve as a basis for several observations and suggestions elsewhere in this bulletin. But under this section let’s stick to the main theme that we have tried to emphasize, and make just one very serious recommendation.

(a) Oppose, at every opportunity, all new ordinances, new laws, and new administrative orders designed to tighten up on the freedom of speech, of movement, and of assembly of the American people. Insist, instead, that the laws we now have be enforced, and we do not need any new ones. Send criminals to prison for their crimes, and make vandals pay for the property they destroy, whether these criminals and vandals be college students, Black Panthers, or so-called clergymen who are a disgrace to their cloth. Arouse enough of your fellow citizens to an outspoken display of the same courage and common sense. Then the silly concept that every petty hoodlum who throws a brick through a window is engaged in some kind of civil war, and is entitled to all the privileges of a revolutionary army, will disappear very soon. So will the petty hoodlums, and the agitators behind them.