Socialism: Against Gold, Guns, and God

[Bruce Jackson]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/socialism_against_gold_guns_and_god.html

http://tinyurl.com/8pnvjqh

Socialism: Against Gold, Guns, and God
By Virginia Prodan

Twenty-four years ago, I was a political refugee exiled from communist
Romania to freedom in America. But today, America is in need of
freedom. Socialism is spreading in America like a horrible sickness.
It is time for those of us who experienced socialism to speak up.

Socialism is a false ideology and is contrary to the American
capitalism system. American capitalism promotes free-market and
individual freedom, while the Socialist system replaces the free
market with government control and eradicates private property,
freedom of speech, freedom of the press, religious rights, and
national self-determination.

Romania was once a rich capitalist country, with a free-market
economy, good health care, and a great school system. Bucharest, the
capital, was called "Little Paris." But soon after Nicolae Ceausescu
was elected president in 1965, everything changed.

Socialism is against wealth. It confiscates and distributes its
citizens' wealth, destroying productivity and individual self-worth.
In the name of promoting "fair share," "justice," and "equality,"
socialism turns most of its people equally into poor people, while the
elite leaders enjoy a lavish lifestyle.

Ceausescu governed Romania with an iron fist. He nationalized big
areas of our economy, eliminating the free-market economy with new
laws that suffocated many corporations. Government-controlled
businesses had to abide by the government's request, rules, and
regulations and had to produce low-quality products that we, the
customers, were forced to buy at a price established by the
government.

In short, Ceausescu ruined our economy. We experienced the end of
competition and choices.

Under Ceausescu's strict Socialist control system, Romania quickly
experienced a drastic shortage of food, fuel, energy, medicine, and
all the other necessities. Soon many stores had empty shelves, or
next to nothing. Many times people formed long lines waiting for
hours in front of the empty stores, hoping the stores would be
replenished soon. When the stores did have something on the shelves,
the purchase process was frustrating and time-consuming.

Ceausescu turned our schools into a state-owned system. The teacher's
role was to indoctrinate the students in socialist ideology and report
parents who dared to complain. Parents had no voice in their kids'
education. Parent-teacher relationships were gone, replaced with
total government control.

Presented as a "humanitarian program," our health care system was
changed into a national health care system. The patient-doctor
relationship vanished, as did the freedom to chose your own doctor.
The government ran hospitals, and medications were rationed.

Socialism is against guns. Again citing a "humanitarian" purpose (too
many people or kids killed or hurt by guns), the Socialists in power
immediately established gun control in Romania. A special police
system called the Securitate controlled and silenced everyone,
including the media. The Securitate was the dictator's elite special
forces, his loyalists, and a very privileged and powerful group. They
were his eyes and ears and above the law. Any honest question or
skepticism would be considered an anti-government statement,
punishable by everything from loss of employment to execution.

So we lived in a constant state of anxiety and mistrust, where one
could be denounced for anti-government statements by anyone: a
neighbor, a classmate, even a family member. The only way to avoid
punishment (usually jail or death) was to remain silent or blend in.

No free election was held in Romania during Ceaususcu's reign.
Dissidents were killed, exiled, or put under house arrest. I was
declared a dissident, as I defended freedom in Romania.

Finally, socialism is against God. According to the socialism system,
there is no God and therefore no Bible. God was replaced with our
socialist leader, the Bible with the Communist Manifesto. There was
no sin; there were no morals or virtues with eternal values. Whatever
advanced the Socialist philosophy was deemed and declared morally
right.

By the time I graduated from a law school in Bucharest and was
licensed as an attorney, Ceausescu had declared himself god, starting
to jail Christians for having Bibles in their homes or going to
church, and began to demolish churches in order to make room for his
palace.

During my legal struggles as an attorney to stop Ceausescu and protect
churches and Christians, many of my cases were the subject of
broadcasts on Radio Free Europe and Voice of America. They were part
of U.S. State Department reports and United Nations reports on human
and religious rights violations in Ceausescu's Romania. Because my
work was considered "dissident activity," the Securitate sought to
silence me by intimidation, house arrest, interrogation, and daily
searches of my home and office. They even threatened to kill my
family and me.

But by the grace of God, I am here, alive!

Those of us who have experienced Socialism and believe in freedom
would rather die on our feet than live under any dictator's lies and
chains. America's future is on the line-now is the time to speak up,
stand up and act (vote) to save America!

In 2005, Virginia founded the Virginia Prodan Law Firm, dedicated to
the national practice of immigration and nationality law. Virginia
welcomes the opportunity to speak to conservative groups about life in
communist Romania; she can be reached at virgini...@gmail.com.
See videos from Virginia here (sharing experiences from Romania) and
here (challenging Sandra Fluke).

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/socialism_against_gold_guns_and_god.html#ixzz29a4G2Ffe


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