re: #14 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

And just who might be behind this revival of superstition-driven book burning? From the same Guardian article:

And it isn’t an original idea on their side… This quote is from “Studies in Prejudice,” Vol. V, pp. 12-13:

1. ECONOMIC GRIEVANCES. The agitator roams freely over every area of economic life. He may begin anywhere at all. Too much help is being extended to foreign nations. “If we have any money to offer for nothing,or to loan, or to give away, we had better give it to our own first. Of course, that is old fashioned. “Not only are foreigners taking our money, they also threaten our jobs. “People born in America have to commit suicide because they have nothing to eat while refugees get their jobs.” Behind such injustices stand “The International Bankers, who devised and control our money system, [and] are guilty of giving us unsound money.” Such situations constitute a danger to the American way of life, for “what is more likely to follow many years of Nudeal communistic confiscatory taxation, wool-less, metal-less, auto-less regimentation and planned scarcities than our finally becoming stripped by necessity to Nudism?”

2. POLITICAL GRIEVANCES. International commitments by the United States government jeopardize political liberties. “Like Russia, the United States is suffering from the scourge of internationalism.” The American people are warned: “Be not duped by the internationalists who dwell amongst us.” Of course it is only reasonable that “treaties and agreements … shall be reached with other nations, but … we want no world court and no world congress made up of a few Orientals and a few Russians and a few Europeans and a few British … to make laws for us to obey … From within, this country is threatened by radicalism, which prepares strikes that are “dress rehearsals for a forthcoming general strike that is meant to paralyze the Nation. …”We face both the danger of a “Soviet America …where… an Austrian-born Felix Frankfurter presides over an unending ‘Moscow trial.’.” and the rule of “tyrannical bureaucrats” who if they “could have their way completely” would institute a “dictatorship in America as merciless as anything on earth.”’

3. CULTURAL GRIEVANCES. The agitator is greatly disturbed because the media of public information are in the hands of enemies of the nation. “…the Hollywood motion picture industry is being exploited by Russian Jewish Communists determined to inject their materialistic propaganda into the fresh young minds of our children…” Hollywood is “largely dominated by aliens who have appropriated to their own use the inventions and discoveries of native citizens and who now specialize in speculation, indecency and foreign propaganda.” “The American press will never be free” until control “is removed from racial, religious and economic pressure groups.”

4. MORAL GRIEVANCES. The enemies of the agitator are notoriously lax in morals: they engage in luxury consumption, they are a “crowd of Marxists, refugees, left-wing internationalists who enjoy the cream of the country and want the rest of us to go on milkless, butterless, cheeseless days while they guzzle champagne.” And what is most galling of all is that “we gentiles are suckers.” For “while we were praying they had their hands in our pockets.”

This was written in the late 40’s to early 50’s. Only the name of the bogeymen have changed, from “internationalists” to “globalists”, from “Marxists” to “socialists” or “lefties”. It’s the same ol’ shit, just refurbed, rebadged and given a new snazzy paint job to cover the brown color. “Birch meadows” doesn’t ring a bell until you say it in German…