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Freedom is not free is the inscription on the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C.

The Korean War started June 25, 1950. Communist North Korea invaded South Korea, killing thousands. Outnumbered South Korean and American troops, as part of a U.N. police action, fought courageously against the Communist Chinese and North Korean troops, who were supplied with arms and MIG fighters from the Soviet Union.

Five-star General Douglas MacArthur was Supreme U.N. Commander, leading the United Nations Command from 1950 to 1951. MacArthur made a daring landing of troops at Inchon, deep behind North Korean lines, and recaptured the city of Seoul.

With temperatures sometimes forty degrees below zero, and Washington politicians limiting the use of air power against the Communists, there were nearly 140,000 American casualties:

Harry S. Truman compared Communism and Democracy in his inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1949: We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God. From this faith we will not be moved. Communism is based on the belief that man is so weak and inadequate that he is unable to govern himself, and therefore requires the rule of strong masters. Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice. Communism subjects the individual to arrest without lawful cause, punishment without trial, and forced labor as a chattel of the state. It decrees what information he shall receive, what art he shall produce, what leaders he shall follow, and what thoughts he shall think. Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights of the individual and his freedom.

Truman continued: These differences between Communism and Democracy do not concern the United States alone. People everywhere are coming to realize that what is involved is material well-being, human dignity, and the right to believe in and worship God.

The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx in 1848. Marx had attended the University of Berlin, where he became involved with a radical anti-religious group, the Young Hegelians. After being refused a university post because of his extreme views, Karl Marx began publishing a paper in 1842, which was banned in Germany.

He fled to Paris, then Brussels, and finally to London. Marx founded the International Workingmens Association and the Social Democrat Labor Party. Marxs philosophy influenced Adolph Hitler in starting the Nazi Party, and Vladimir Lenin, in starting the Communist Party.

Karl Marx stated:

Franklin D. Roosevelt explained in his address to the Delegates of the American Youth Congress, Washington, D.C., Feb. 10, 1940, that communism is effectively dictatorship: I disliked the regimentation under Communism. I abhorred the indiscriminate killings of thousands of innocent victims. I heartily deprecated the banishment of religion. I, with many of you, hoped that Russia would work out its own problems, and that its government would eventually become a peace-loving, popular government. That hope is today shattered. The Soviet Union, as everybody who has the courage to face the fact knows, is run by a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world.

Winston S. Churchill gave an address at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, March 5, 1946, in which he introduced the phrase Iron Curtain to describe the Cold War between Western powers and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Churchill stated: The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power. It is a solemn moment for the American Democracy. For with primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future. To fritter it away will bring upon us all the long reproaches of the after-time. Except in the British Commonwealth and in the United States where Communism is in its infancy, the Communist parties or fifth columns constitute a growing challenge and peril to Christian civilization. Last time I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow-countrymen and to the world, but no one paid any attention.

Roger Baldwin was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a 501(c)3 tax-exempt Foundation. In 1935, Roger Baldwin wrote in the Harvard reunion book on the 30th reunion of his class of 1905: I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately, for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

Roger Baldwin twice visited the Soviet Union, embraced Vietnamese Communist dictator Ho Chi Minh, and wrote a book, Liberty Under the Soviets (1927), in which he stated: I joined. I dont regret being a part of the Communist tactic, which increased the effectiveness of a good cause. I knew what I was doing. I was not an innocent liberal. I wanted what the Communists wanted.

In 1948, the California Senate Fact Finding Committee on Un-American Activities stated in its report, page 107: The ACLU may be definitely classified as a Communist front or transmission belt organization. At least 90 percent of its efforts are on behalf of Communists who come in conflict with the law.

Dwight Eisenhower was quoted in Time magazine, Oct. 13, 1952: The Bill of Rights contains no grant of privilege for a group of people to destroy the Bill of Rights. A group like the Communist conspiracy dedicated to the ultimate destruction of all civil liberties, cannot be allowed to claim civil liberties as its privileged sanctuary from which to carry on subversion of the Government.

In 1950, members of the Communist Party USA formed the Mattachine Society, the nations first homosexual rights organizations, which lobbied to repeal sodomy laws.

Dwight Eisenhower stated Feb. 25, 1953: Almost 100 percent of Americans would like to stamp out all traces of Communism in our country. I went to Columbia University as its president and I insisted on one thing. If we had a known Communist in our faculty and he could not be discharged I was automatically discharged. I personally would not be a party to an organization where there was a known card-carrying Communist in such a responsible position as teaching our young.

President Harry S. Truman spoke at the laying of the cornerstone of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., April 3, 1951: Without a firm moral foundation, freedom degenerates quickly into selfishness and license. Unless men exercise their freedom in a just and honest way, within moral restraints, a free society can degenerate into anarchy. Then there will be freedom only for the rapacious and those who are stronger and more unscrupulous than the rank and file of the people. The international Communist movement is based on a fierce and terrible fanaticism. It denies the existence of God and, wherever it can, it stamps out the worship of God. Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism. Our faith shows us the way to create a society where man can find his greatest happiness under God. Surely, we can follow that faith with the same devotion and determination the Communists give to their godless creed.

Every day our newspapers tell us about the fighting in Korea. Our men there are making heroic sacrifices. They are fighting and suffering in an effort to prevent the tide of aggression from sweeping across the world. Our young men are offering their lives for us in the hills of Korea and yet too many of us are chiefly concerned over whether or not we can buy a television set next week. This is a failure to understand the moral principles upon which our Nation is founded.

In Lessons of History (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1968), Will and Ariel Durant wrote: The greatest question of our time is not Communism versus individualism, not even East versus West; it is whether man can live without God.

Conrad Hilton, founder of the hotel chain, stated in a prayer breakfast at the Mayflower Hotel, following addresses by Congressmen, Senators, and Vice President Nixon: It took a war to put prayer at the center of the lives of our fighting men. It took a war, and the frightening evil of Communism, to show the world that this whole business of prayer is not a sissy, a counterfeit thing that man can do or not as he wishes. Prayer is a part of mans personality, without which he limps. Men grope in darkness unless they believe that God, in His kindness, is willing to lift the shadows if we ask Him in prayer.

Truman stated while lighting the National Christmas Tree, Dec. 24, 1952: Shepherds, in a field, heard angels singing: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. We turn to the old, old story of how God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. '

Truman continued: Tonight, our hearts turn first of all to our brave men and women in Korea. They are fighting and suffering and even dying that we may preserve the chance of peace in the world. And as we go about our business of trying to achieve peace in the world, let us remember always to try to act and live in the spirit of the Prince of Peace. He bore in His heart no hate and no malice nothing but love for all mankind. We should try as nearly as we can to follow His example. We believe that all men are truly the children of God. As we pray for our loved ones far from home as we pray for our men and women in Korea, and all our service men and women wherever they are let us also pray for our enemies. Let us pray that the spirit of God shall enter their lives and prevail in their lands.

Truman concluded: Through Jesus Christ the world will yet be a better and fairer place.

General Douglas MacArthur warned in a speech to the Salvation Army, Dec. 12, 1951, stating: History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.

Dwight Eisenhower was quoted in the Religious Herald, Virginia, Jan. 25, 1952: What is our battle against Communism if it is not a fight between anti-God and a belief in the Almighty? Communists have to eliminate God from their system. When God comes, Communism has to go.

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At the College of William and Mary, May 15, 1953, Dwight Eisenhower stated: It is necessary that we earnestly seek out and uproot any traces of Communism.

First Lady Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower stated in a conversation at the Doud home regarding their son John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, who was serving in Korea: He has a mission to fulfill and God will see to it that nothing will happen to him till he fulfills it.

Eisenhower addressed Congress, Feb. 2, 1953: The calculated pressures of aggressive Communism have forced us to live in a world of turmoil. No single country, even one so powerful as ours, can alone defend the liberty of all nations threatened by Communist aggression from without and subversion within. I must make special mention of the war in Korea. This war is, for Americans, the most painful phase of Communist aggression throughout the world.

Fighting in Korea was halted July 27, 1953, with the signing of an armistice at Panmunjom.

On Dec. 24, 1953, Dwight Eisenhower stated at the lighting of the national Christmas tree: The world still stands divided in two antagonistic parts. Prayer places freedom and communism in opposition one to the other. The Communist can find no reserve of strength in prayer because his doctrine of materialism and statism denies the dignity of man and consequently the existence of God. But in America religious faith is the foundation of free government, so is prayer an indispensable part of that faith. The founders of this, our country, came first to these shores in search of freedom to live beyond the yoke of tyranny.

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I was heartened to see the reprinting of a full page WaPo article on the deplorable situation in Venezuela in your 16 July edition. The article did an excellent job of describing the suffering of the average citizen due to shortages of even the most basic commodities. While the author did a good job of listing the symptoms of a sick economy, she fails to even name the cause: socialism.

How is it that one of the richest countries in South America, a country blessed with a huge variety of natural resources including vast oil deposits, a mild climate and large expanses of tillable soil, cannot feed its fairly small population? It is as if the author cannot bear to utter the word socialism, which does not appear once in her article.

What Chavez started by nationalizing businesses and driving foreign investors out of the country, the hapless former bus driver Maduro perfected, bringing total ruin to the Venezuelan economy with fatal doses of poisonous socialist medicine. Ham-handed government interventions such as price controls just created further shortages as more factories closed and consumers hoarded. When prices rose, government increases in the minimum wage proved futile with runaway inflation always a step ahead. The author also fails to mention the repression and gradual slide into totalitarianism in Venezuela, inevitably following the failure of socialist policies.

This will not end well for Maduro, who is perhaps only months away from hanging on a lamppost when the starving masses finally rise up. The implications for the U.S. should be obvious, even to the far left which has taken over the Democrat party and who are now clamoring for a $15 minimum wage.

Milton Friedman once said that if you put the government in charge of the Sahara, in five years there would be a shortage of sand, and Venezuela is well on the way to demonstrating his prescience.

Jim Senner, New Bern

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No, governor, the common good is not socialism

Gov. Greg Abbotts recent claim that tree ordinances of municipalities amount to socialism understandably made headlines across Texas. But even more curious than the claim itself is the reason he gave for this claim.

The reason bears repeating, so far afield it is from mainstream notions of American civic responsibility and traditional religion, not the least of which is Abbotts own Catholicism.

As reported in the San Antonio Express-News, the governor addressed the cities defense of their ordinances and his opposition to them: Trees add to the greater good of the city. They also improve the environment. Municipalities are saying they have a right to impose a fee on you for removing a tree because if you remove a tree, youre diminishing the greater good of the city, and the greater good of the environment. They have articulated the per se definition of collectivism, socialism.

Abbotts political philosophy is that there is no such thing as the greater good. All we have is the individual pursuing his or her private aims and rights that protect this freedom, chief among them being the right to private property. Anything else is collectivism, which he equates with socialism.

A quick look at the Constitution belies this view of society. In the preamble, We the People declare that establish(ing) justice and promot(ing) the general Welfare are, along with Liberty, constitutive of our national purpose. In other words, the social good or the public good was never reducible to what private individuals or property owners chose to do or not do.

The course of American history and many Supreme Court decisions testify to the role of the government as an instrument of the people in pursuing this justice and this public welfare. Thats not collectivism. Thats America!

Abbotts abhorrence of the greater good is also coming from a place outside of the way mainstream religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam, for example have long conceived of society and social responsibility.

For instance, in Catholic political thought, the common good is the good or well-being of the community in which one participates, to which one contributes, from which one benefits, and through which one becomes more human. The common good includes an ensemble of public goods such as decent education, affordable housing, clean air and, now, says Pope Francis, the climate itself. We all have a stake in these.

The common good is not an odious threat to personal autonomy, but it does mean that the needs of the community can sometimes take precedence over the interests of the individual or corporation, and that the role of law is to promote the common good. Unlike communist totalitarianism, in Catholic social teaching, property rights are real, but they are not absolute or unrestricted.

Pope Francis writes, The principle of the subordination of private property to the universal destination of goods, and thus the right of everyone to their use, is a golden rule of social conduct and the first principle of the whole ethical and social order. Thats not collectivism. Thats Catholicism, with parallels in other religions.

Gov. Abbott might be ill-informed about Catholic social and political theory, or he might be consciously rejecting it. Either way, his virtue is that he is honest. His justification for his crusade against tree ordinances in Texas is rooted not simply in idolizing free market economics about which Catholicism has its own reservations but in an often-unacknowledged libertarianism that has overtaken the leadership of much of the Republican Party in Texas and therefore our state government.

We can and should disagree in good faith on particular issues of public policy, but we are in real trouble if we throw out the venerable idea of the common good, even as we invoke another venerable idea, freedom, in doing so.

Justice William O. Douglas once wrote, The right to be left alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. If that is true, it is equally true that the fruition of freedom is the capacity to contribute to and defend the common good.

James Ball is an associate professor of theology at St. Marys University.

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Angelica Tea RoomandLockhouse Distillery & Barinvite you to the grand unveiling of their first collaboration Angelica Dry Gin. This is great news for the tea room and the local distilling industry. According to Angelica co-owner Harry Zemsky, the process was a vigorous one, with a lot of tweaks and tastings before coming up with the Angelica approved gin.

The process of working, and reworking Angelica Drys taste was a very engaging process, I think for both parties, said Zemsky. We were much more concerned with what the product tasted like in our cocktails a level of customization wed never be able to find in a mass market product.

The Inaugural Tea Party Release of Angelica Dry Gin will be held on Friday, August 4 from 8 PM to 1 AM.

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In Iraq, thousands of families from Mosul remain living in camps and unable to return to their homes, nearly a month after Iraqs prime minister declared victory in the U.S.-backed offensive to reclaim the city from ISIS. At the Salamiya camp west of Mosul, residents complain of limited water supplies and sweltering heat. Those returning to Mosul say they face ongoing violence and unlivable conditions.

Saddam, displaced resident: "I cant go back to my neighborhood because there is no water, no electricity, no services, nothing at all in my area. Our homes were destroyed. They were robbed. TVs, everything was stolen. We came here to this camp, and life here is very difficult."

The Independent reports more than 40,000 civilians died in the nine-month battle to retake Mosul, with thousands of bodies still trapped under the rubble. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch is calling on the Trump administration to cut off support to an Iraqi Army division, after it reported Wednesday that Iraqi troops trained by the U.S. allegedly executed several dozen prisoners in Mosuls Old City.

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