Kerry's campaign slogan, "Let America be America again," taken from a communist poem

Communist inroads into the United States government:

Kerry's campaign slogan, "Let America be America again," taken from a communist's poem…

Veronica - Now also on his right side, the other mitred figure has horns now coming out right through his mitre. They now are raising the keys over their heads in a very strange way. They're clutching them, and the keys seem to be melting, melting in their hands. And their hands now are but a clenched fist held tightly over their heads. I fear to say.
Our Lady - "It is, My child, the sign (a clenched fist) of the communist." - March 18, 1977

"My child, you must not have fear at speaking the truth. It is for the salvation of souls and the recovery of your country. America the beautiful must not fall to communism, My child. America the beautiful shall not be sold into slavery. Cast out the money changers in your government! What manner of government is there that condones sin? Abomination upon abomination--giving monies for the murder of children, giving monies for the murder of the elderly! Your government, My child, has been infiltrated by men of sin." - Our Lady of the Roses, September 13, 1975

USA Today reprinted the following letter dated October 31, 2004:

What do Communists believe?
That the means of production should be owned and controlled by the government.
What did the Truman Doctrine say?
Truman told Americans that it was America’s DUTY to stop Communism.

In the last days before the Democratic National Convention, John Kerry and John Edwards adopted a campaign slogan: “Let America Be America Again.” They were clearly pleased by its provenance, as the first line of a poem written by black poet Langston Hughes (1902-67).

[Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

(It never was America to me.)

O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.") - Editor's note: poem inserted for clarity.]

At the height of his fame, Hughes was known as the “Shakespeare in Harlem.” He also had long history as a Communist activist and virulent atheist. And this poem clearly echoes his admiration of Stalinism.

In his retrospective of Hughes' work, Sundquist cited “Let America be America again” as poetically “embarrassing.” However, it was another pro-Marxist poem -- "Goodbye Christ" -- that would inspire the FBI to launch a probe into Langston Hughes' activities. In the poem, Hughes presents the Church ceding power to its Leninist vanquishers. "Goodbye, Christ" reads, in part:

"Listen, Christ,
You did alright in your day, I reckon -
But that day's gone now.
They ghosted you up a swell story, too,
Called it Bible -
But it's dead now.
"Goodbye,
Christ Jesus, Lord God Jehovah,
Beat it on away from here now.
Make way for a new guy with no religion at all -
A real guy named
Marx, Communist Lenin, Peasant Stalin, Worker ME."

Clearly, the fact that John Kerry and John Edwards have allowed the tenor of their presidential campaign to be set by a propaganda poem written by a well-known Stalinist is troubling. However, this is not the first time the campaign has borrowed from avowed Marxists.

John Edwards' “Two Americas” stump shtick echoes earlier American socialist propaganda. In the words of a typical Edwards stump speech:

Sure, the enormously wealthy Kerry and Edwards would have been hated by Hughes and Cannon, derided as the “little clique of capitalists...the people of the world hate and fear.” But the question remains: Why would the Democratic candidates continue to identify themselves with a writer like Hughes, who used his work for such vitriolically anti-American purposes? And why use the words of a revolutionary leftist like Cannon? They can’t plead ignorance, because several publications have brought the repugnant connections to their attention. They have not apologized, nor have they quietly withdrawn the quotations. Apparently, Kerry and Edwards are not ashamed to be identified with democracy’s most virulent enemies.

Far from being ashamed, in fact, Kerry has determined to appropriate the words of a dead leftist poet for his own purposes. In order to cement the association, he has gone so far as write the preface to a new release of Hughes' poetry (or have it ghostwritten for him). The volume, to be published in early August, contains "Let America be America Again." In the forward, Kerry speaks of the Great Depression which motivated many writers to look for hope in Communism and points to the "duality of meanings" in Hughes' "America" poem: America as a land that has disenfranchised the Negro but is still a beacon of hope for all people, regardless of color. But there was no duality of meaning in the poem. On the contrary, the poem was specifically written to say that America is a land whose only hope was to adopt Soviet style communism.

People are known for the company they keep. George W. Bush often quotes the Word of God. John Kerry seems remarkably comfortable in the company of Langston Hughes, Joe Cannon and, through them, with Stalin. Are these the kind of presidential companions we want to see in the Oval Office?

Santa Clara , CA

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According to an article by Joe Mariani:

"Yes, Langston Hughes was a Communist, and his poetry strongly reflected that belief system. He is described by James Smethurst in his 1999 book The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 as the author of "revolutionary or militant poems aimed at an audience defined largely by the cultural institutions of the CPUSA and the Comintern." Hughes was brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953 to account for his membership in the Communist Party USA, but managed to convince the members that "the pro-Communist works he had published no longer represented his thinking."

"O My children of the United States, do you not understand what is ahead for you? Your country, the United States, has not known what it is to suffer through destructive forces. My children, you shall not escape the destruction that the Bear of communism has set upon many countries in Europe and the world. You cannot compromise your Faith to save what there is left, for everything upon earth shall fall as rubble with the Chastisement. A ball of fire, a chastisement, a baptism of fire, is heading for mankind. Can you not understand?" - Our Lady of the Roses, November 20, 1978

Directives from Heaven...

D10 - Consecrate Russia PDF
D103 - Communism PDF
D104 - Invasion PDF
D105 - Fatima PDF
D158 - America the Beautiful PDF
D224 - Restore America to One Nation Under God PDF

Articles…

Clinton's White House

https://www.tldm.org/news2/sellout.htm

Nancy Pelosi: WND reports that Democrats’ likely top House official part of powerful, socialist-linked bloc
https://www.tldm.org/news5/pelosi.htm

Russian espionage and penetration of the U.S. government

https://www.tldm.org/news6/espionage.htm

Global communism, part 1
https://www.tldm.org/news2/global-1.htm

Global communism: Africa, part 2
https://www.tldm.org/news2/africa.htm

Henry Kissinger: traitor to America
https://www.tldm.org/news2/kissinger.htm

Links…
John Kerry:

SwiftVets and POWs for Truth (veterans who fight alongside Kerry in Vietnam witness to his lies, cowardice and complicity with the communist enemy)
http://www.swiftvetsandpows.com/

How Kerry whistleblower suffered for truth, November 29, 2004
http://www.suntimes.com/output/laney/cst-edt-laney29.html

Socialists urge support of Kerry, WorldNetDaily, July 25, 2004
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39627

Kerry's October Surprise, The Mississippi Press, October 29, 2004

http://www.gulflive.com/opinion/mississippipress/index.ssf?/base/opinion/109904493874180.xml

Kerry's non-honorable discharge, WorldNetDaily, November 1, 2004

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41200

Communist museum removes Kerry photo, WorldNetDaily, October 25, 2004

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41062

Kerry honored at communist museum, WorldNetDaily, June 1, 2004
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38738

'Hanoi John' gets unwelcome reception from Veterans, Newsmax, July 29, 2004

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/7/29/85747.shtml

Communism morphed to socialism and still targets America, Jan Ireland, July 15, 2004
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/ireland/040715

Marxism and Kerry: the Fifth Column at home, Richard Roberts, June 15, 2004
http://www.jrnyquist.com/roberts_2004_.htm

Kerry's Meeting With Communists Violated US Law, Says Author, CNSNews.com, May 20, 2004
http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\SpecialReports\archive\200405\SPE20040520a.html

Bush's plan to end communism in Cuba angers Kerry, Newsmax, May 7, 2004
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/5/7/155730.shtml

John Kerry 2004 = John Kerry 1971, Newsmax, April 2, 2004
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/2/94237.shtml

FBI verifies Kerry at 'assassination summit', WorldNetDaily, March 23, 2004
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37706

Cuban Waffles: Kerry's changing positions on Castro, March 18, 2004
http://nationalreview.com/comment/kirsanow200403180824.asp

Kerry's Nicaragua vision, WorldNetDaily, February 17, 2004
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37156

What you don't know about John Kerry, Newsmax, January 20, 2004
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/1/20/131219.shtml

Kerry Photo Shocker: Candidate Teamed Up With 'Hanoi' Jane Fonda, Newsmax, February 9, 2004
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/9/134218.shtml

Nancy Pelosi:

Totally liberal Nancy Pelosi
http://www.gop.com/RNCResearch/Read.aspx?ID=4217

Pelosi leader of 'Progressive Caucus': Dems' likely top House official part of powerful, socialist-linked bloc
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29612

Tom Daschle:

Daschle Beware: Democrat 'Communism' Converts Indian Activists to GOP, Newsmax, April 6, 2004
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/6/150420.shtml

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