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Are Americans really FREE today, Memorial Day, May 25, 2020?

Are Americans going to allow the China Virus to destroy our remaining freedoms? 911 Took away many of our FREEDOMs and now the actions of Communist China will destroy what few freedoms we still had?

What are "We the People" going to do to protect our rights? Protesting Shutdowns is only a start!

Do we need a revolution to protect our God-given and Constitutional Rights?

Do we recognize the Enemy?

Decoration Day - Memorial Day

Originally called Decoration Day, from the early tradition of decorating graves with flowers, wreaths and flags, Memorial Day is a day for remembrance of those who have died in service to our country. It was first widely observed on May 30, 1868 to commemorate the sacrifices of Civil War soldiers, by proclamation of Gen. John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of former Union sailors and soldiers.

We do not know one promise these men made, one pledge they gave, one word they spoke; but we do know they summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.

James A. Garfield May 30, 1868 Arlington National Cemetery

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In the Chinese government's continuing effort to crush Christianity inside its borders, teachers are now being told to renounce their faith or face the consequences.

Bitter Winter reports this movement began in the communist country soon after President Xi Jinping underscored at a national education conference that the fundamental task for education is to train builders and successors of socialism. Since Xi's speech almost two years ago, the pressure on teachers to indoctrinate students has been building.

One example is a kindergarten teacher, a member of the state-run Catholic Church, who told the website she was afraid to go to church because of the mounting pressure she was receiving from the school's administration. She told Bitter Winter that she has been constantly threatened to give up her faith for the last seven months. She said she has received criticism from her superiors, which includes comments like, "some teachers continue to hold religious beliefs while the Communist Party feeds them."

"The state's control over ideology is becoming stricter and stricter, particularly in the field of education," the teacher said. "If teachers hold religious beliefs, not only follow the Communist Party, this becomes a political problem for the government."

The teacher's principal also warned her that funding from the government could also be withdrawn from the county if government officials learned about her faith. The funding is given as part of a Spiritual Civilization Award which is given to communities that are designated as "civilized," i.e., economically developed and free of religion.

"I learned that another county had all of its civilization awards revoked because an inspection team discovered two primary school students singing Christian hymns," the teacher told Bitter Winter.

"Teachers are required to indoctrinate children with patriotic ideology, make them believe and praise the Party," she continued. "Moreover, schools have assigned special personnel to monitor and report on religious teachers and students. They were told to give up their faith, and some have been designated as key targets of surveillance, the authorities fearing that they will develop 'counterrevolutionary influence,' collude with foreign forces, and cause chaos."

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Fascist dictator Pinochet may be gone, but his political descendants of the Chilean right are following his footsteps.After the extreme repression and violent crackdown against the popular protests in October 2019, the reactionary government of Sebastian Pieraand its political allies intesify anti-communism and attacks on the peoples democratic rights.The target of these attacks is the Communist Party of Chile (Partido Comunista de Chile) and its activity. More specifically, during the last months, the bourgeois state mechanisms are trying to dismiss Communist Party deputy Hugo Gutirrez.The reactionary right is seeking to remove from the Parliament Communist deputy Hugo Gutirrez. It has appealed to the Constitutional Court, an entity that consists part of the current political establishment, severely discredited and lacking popular legitimacy and without democratic representation.Deputy Hugo Gutirrez has a long history in defense of human rights, which begins with the fight against the Pinochet dictatorship and continues in the 1990s and up to this day.He is also a founding promoter of the fight for a new political Constitution, for a constituent assembly and based on popular sovereignty. He has been a promoter of legislative initiatives in favor of the people, their sovereignty and the district he represents.The real reason for this persecution attempt is to deprive the Chilean people of a deputy who has always acted in defense of their interests. We warn that this right-wing action is part of an authoritarian plan; a broader, regressive and reactionary plan of the right and its government which seeks to further reduce the few remaining democratic spaces in Chile.Hugo Gutirrez counts on his Party and the people of Chile in order to deal with this undemocratic and spurious action.

As a pretext for the dismissal of Hugo Gutirrez, thePieragovernement and its right-wing allies have used a humorous sketch posted by the Communist deputy on social media.

KKE: Condemns the anti-democratic persecution of Hugo Gutirrez

The KKE condemns the escalation of anti-communism, repression and persecutions against the CP of Chile, its deputy Hugo Gutirrez and against the workers-peoples movement as a whole, as the events of May 1st and later showed.

The anti-democratic and baseless persecution of Hugo Gutirrez, which aims to dismiss him, is not taking place because he posted a humorous sketch against Sebastian Piera. This ridiculous excuse is just a pretext. Their aim is to terrorize the people and to send a message to the workers-peoples movement in general, which is that the government and the bourgeois state will resort to all measures, even in persecutions and violent crackdown, in order to subjugate the fair struggles of the people.

The anti-democratic persecution of Hugo Gutirrez by the so-called Constitutional Court highlights the limits of bourgeois legality and the anti-people nature of bourgeois justice, as an organ for the defense of the interests of the bourgeois class against the people and their vanguard.

In its statement, the KKE demands the immediate halt of the persecution of the deputy of the CP of Chile Hugo Gutirrez and any kind of persecution and attack against the CP of Chile.

The KKE demands that those who are responsible for the dozens of deaths and the thousands of wounded protestors, during the large demonstrations of the Chilean people in the previous months, must be brought to justice and punished accordingly.

The KKE, with all its forces, will continue expressing its actual solidarity and support to the people and especially to the Communist Parties and Communist Youths of Chile, Venezuela, Cuba and other Latin American countries.

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I used to have a strong conviction about the essence of human nature: it was that the strongest motivating factor in us is the yearning for personal freedom. The freedom to choose our path in life, to choose how we want to live and think, to determine our own destiny. The opposite, in fact, of being enslaved by totalitarian governments and totalitarian belief systems. Im sure this conviction sprang from my beginnings as a child refugee of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, which demonstrated that human beings will fight any battle, whatever the odds and however great the risks, in order to win those freedoms.

Tragically, the Hungarian people lost that fight against the Soviet tanks many thousands were killed, imprisoned, executed. The Revolutions mild-mannered leader, Prime Minister Imre Nagy, was hanged on Khrushchevs orders as a lesson to all other leaders in socialist countries.

My father Peter Halasz was a Hungarian writer who witnessed his countrys momentous events of 1956. He later wrote that, despite the crushing of the uprising, the truths proclaimed by Nagy survived hid in office corners, in the winding corridors of public buildings, in the cracks of walls. No ideological spring cleaning could root them out. Truth, like a faithful dog, cannot be banished; once it has found a home and affection, truth clings to its owner, despite occasional kicks.

This truth, the fact of Mans powerful desire to be free of the shackles imposed by others, was further reinforced by my schooling in America. I was taught that our greatest national heroes were the leaders of the American Revolution, and the Founding Fathers of the most freedom-loving nation in the world. Men like Patrick Henry, who famously declared: Give me liberty, or give me death! Powerful words like that are engraved in your psyche forever.

Communism was therefore bound to fall in Europe, sooner or later.

But over the past decade or two Ive had to reconsider my ideas on this theme. Because you cannot have seen the goings-on in the world without noticing another, equally powerful human instinct: tribalism. The primitive urge to belong to a particular grouping and adhere to its strictures, no matter how egregiously they limit personal freedom, and to accept unquestioningly the abhorrent notion that the grouping is most clearly defined by its perceived enemies.

This is nothing new. Take Iran, for example. The overthrow of the oppressive regime of the Shah in 1979 could have heralded the dawn of a more egalitarian, democratic society in which people could breathe freely. Instead the population embraced, seemingly en masse, an even more tyrannical theocracy. I found it hard to understand the mindset of those vast crowds of young men and women mostly of student age frenziedly ushering in an era of Islamist repression. Wasnt youth supposed to favour the liberalising of social and cultural norms? And have they still not had enough, after four decades of brainwashing by the ayatollahs, to do something about it?

More recent events have reinforced my view that, to the detriment of civilisation, the rush to tribalism often trumps a desire for freedom. Take those teenage girls and young women living in our free western societies often very bright and with good prospects who chose to abscond to the Middle East, don the burka and throw in their lot with murderous jihadists. Youd have thought they might at least be squeamish about all that beheading, but not a bit of it. There are still tens of thousands of unrepentant ISIS brides/widows in camps in Syria.

But all is not lost. The one shining beacon in the world today is provided by the democracy protesters in Hong Kong. Young people risking everything to hold on to their cherished freedoms, taking on the might of the Chinese Communist Party as it moves to extinguish one country, two systems. I have followed them with admiration. A video of a recent anti-government rally shows a protester shouting at the massed ranks of riot police: You call us cockroaches thats what Hitler called the Jews before he massacred them! He went on to quote Martin Luther King: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, before ending on that well-remembered line from my school days: Give me liberty or give me death! which put a knot in my throat.

These courageous Hong Kongese are going some way to restoring my faith in our better human nature. I only worry that, as with Hungary in 1956, taking on your communist overlords in this fearless manner will end in a bloodbath. China is more than capable of another Tiananmen Square.

Id like to think that students here are following the events in Hong Kong and learning vital lessons from them. So often our student societies in alliance with craven university administrations are more intent on curtailing free speech than protecting it, with their no-platforming of anyone whose views they dislike, and their diktats on which words and expressions are permissible. Thats all just another form of that alarmingly retrograde thing: tribalism. There should be no place for it in todays Britain.

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The first time I crossed the border of my birth country I was 19. My best friend and I squashed into a bus heading for Vienna from Bucharest to spend three days in the city of Strauss, before two more days on the bus.

We tried to stay awake to witness the moment we crossed the border. We expected it to have some instant magic to it. The air to have a different scent, the trees to have different colours, its foreignness gently hitting us over the head. It didnt.

A customs officer walked through the bus, inspecting everyones faces and looking at our passports. We skipped a few heartbeats, fearing something could still go wrong.

I have been living in Australia for the past 15 years, jet-setting between my two home-continents almost every year. The distance is not always comfortable, but its certainly made easier to take by knowing that I could board a plane on any day if my family needed me, or I needed them.

Except during a pandemic.

I could never have imagined that there would be a day when I wouldnt be allowed to travel to Romania. Even if I could by some miracle find a flight to take me there now, my Romanian passport has expired and my Australian one forbids me to enter my birth country.

I was eight when the communist regime fell, but its legacy stayed with us for a very long time, perhaps to some extent still is.

I was eight when the communist regime fell, but its legacy stayed with us for a very long time, perhaps to some extent still is. It goes without saying that having a passport, let alone travelling to another country was almost unthinkable.

The Outside, as we still sometimes call it, carried an enthralling mystique. We dreamed about it, we shared what we knew or heard of it, we made up stories about it, and we coveted anything that was smuggled in from there, from chewing gum to pirated Chuck Norris movies.

The strict communist travel ban allowed only a lucky few to step outside the borders. There were the sailors who brought back blue jeans and denim jackets. As a kid, I dreamed of marrying one when I grew up. There were also the few workers or professionals who lent a helping hand to countries with similar political regimes, like Syria, Iraq or East Germany. And the diplomats, of which I knew none, so they didnt count.

The Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, Romania. Source: iStockphoto

And then there were those who escaped by swimming the Danube at night in cold weather under the threat of bullets.

Leaving Romania and its confines was hard to imagine and yet The Outside busied our imaginations. We had no choice but to live and plan our lives within these restricting limits. The imposition, the lack of choice and of an end in sight, was the hardest limit to endure.

As an Australian, I have inherited a freedom of movement that was still hard to grasp for my grandparents. I could go anywhere, anytime, the only things between me and the world: money, time and my own inclination. And I know these can still be huge obstacles, but not as hard as those hard borders.

I could go anywhere, anytime, the only things between me and the world: money, time and my own inclination.

When the first whispers of closing borders because of COVID-19 started, I laughed and lashed at the fear-mongering, as I perceived it at the time. What a completely ridiculous, straight-from-a-dystopian-film idea it seemed.

And yet, with each new piece of information and each day that passed, it became clear that was the way we were heading.

I spent the first few weeks of the travel ban and impending lockdown in panic, not unlike everybody else. What if my family back in Romania got sick? Should we have left before the bans took effect. We dismissed it as a riskier decision, but had we been wrong? How long would we be prevented from leaving Australia?

But having experienced the communist border restrictions helped me look differently at the current travel ban. Even though the restrictions are much tighter now and they apply not only to the country, but to my home and my neighbourhood, there is a different feel to them. Apart from being a necessary act in the process of controlling the virus, it also feels like a contribution, a way of taking positive action by playing by the rules.

While the strict travel restrictions are nowhere near over, there is already a glimmer of hope. It may take six months, a year even, but this will be over. We will be free to go wherever we please again one day.

It may take six months, a year even, but this will be over. We will be free to go wherever we please again one day.

Post-communism, we Romanians became resolute travellers. I guess thats not unusual, but whether consciously or subconsciously, our thirst for travel has something more to it: a dont-waste-this-chance, you-owe-it-to-your-communist-ancestors kind of eagerness to know, touch, claim a place as seen.

I am reminded during these times to appreciate my democratic right to travel. I feel a renewed responsibility to not take lightly my right to move freely once it becomes the norm again.

Antoanela Safca is a freelance writer and editor. You can follow her on Twitter here.

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