Postscript Globalization or Democracy

 Globalization or Democracy

Clancy Hughes

You can have Globalism or Democracy, but you cannot have both

 

 

Postscript

 

Halfway through the thirteenth editing of my book Globalization or Democracy, You Can’t Have Both, I found Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov’s (1939-1993) lecture discussing his KGB defection on YouTube. Also known as Thomas David Schuman, Brezmenov had defected to Canada with the assistance of the CIA in 1970.  The effect on me was chilling. I had not thought about Russian espionage in nearly 70 years. Watching Brezmenov’s lecture on Russian subversion had catapulted me back to my own time in the Korean War, dealing with survival and intelligence in, what was back then, the Strategic Air Command. 

 

While writing Globalization or Democracy, it had already become objectively evident to me that globalism in its present form was destroying both our democracy and our economy. The role of the Chinese Communist Party in this subversion had also become clear as I explored the evidence. How foolish had I been to have naively assumed Russia’s long-standing subversion and propaganda were a long-forgotten thing of the past? Brezmenov’s lecture on Communist subversion, euphemistically called “active measures” with their apparent high success rate had come as a definite wakeup call.

 

The current degree of political polarization with its seemingly inexplicable level of hate and complete absence of humor now raging in our country suddenly made sense. Furthermore, so did the fact that those embracing the hate, with its forbidding conflict and confrontation, seemed incapable of acknowledging the hard facts and evidence right before their eyes.

 

Suddenly, like millions of other veterans, I could see the rejection of American institutions had begun with things such as the rioting at the end of the war in Vietnam. What had been less evident though, was the KGB’s role in the continuance of this ideological subversion.

 

After studying political science at the University of Toronto, Brezmenov had worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Montreal, where he had done freelance writing under the alias of Thomas Schuman. Whether due to Russian threats or for other unknown reasons, he had eventually moved to Los Angeles. 

 

In 1984, Yuri Bezmenov gave an interview with Edward Griffin titled, Soviet Subversion of the World Free Press. As the YouTube video had outlined in clear and graphic terms, 85% of the KGB budget had been directed towards disinformation and ideological subversion. During this interview with Edward Griffin, Bezmenov cited the outstanding success rate subversion tactics had generated in country after country, clearly demonstrating how Russia even today continues to sow ideological subversion within the US and the West.

 

In his video, Bezmenov describes the long timeline of Russia’s four strategies of subversion—a concept that now seems to fit like a glove in viewing the destabilization evolving in the US since the Vietnam war. 

 

Demoralization, a 20-year program to reeducate and brainwash a generation of youth, followed by Destabilization, as evidenced by the Vietnam protestors having become teachers and legislators, who now question the meaning of equality, our Constitution, capitalism and even morality.

The third stage, Crisis, is in full play in the United States right now with rioting, looting and chaos in the streets heralding a complete breakdown of law and order in our country.

 

And, if all goes according to plan, the fourth stage, Normalization, will soon follow. Normalization, where Socialism is accepted as the alternative to war, civil-war or revolution, Marxism, deftly ushered in by today’s Chinese Communist Party with its vanguards of regimentation, equality, mind control and dystopia—all at the cost of freedom. 

 

Every American and every high school student should listen to Yuri Bezmenov’s lecture. His words stand as a dire warning and are as prophetic today as were the writings of English American revolutionist and political activist, Thomas Pain (1737-1809). 

 

In his video, Bezmenov claims it takes 20 years to brainwash a generation of students to the point of destabilization. Notably, Russia has engaged in its own effort to corrupt our education system for more like 70 years, undermining American values—not just education, but political, legislative, cultural, religious, legal, and even military—by sowing conflict and discord wherever it could along the way.

 

How alarming, then, that the Peoples Liberation Army and the Chinese Communist Party appear to be far more efficient at subversion than the KGB or todays SVR-RF (Sluzhba vneshney razvedki Rossiyskoy Federatsii). The Chinese have accomplished destabilization in a much shorter time, doing far more damage than Bezmenov could ever have foreseen. 

 

With their takeover of globalization, the worldwide release of the Coronavirus and infiltration of all elements of our society—according to Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI—China and their People’s Liberation Army are now a far greater threat to America than Russia. With infiltration of the US media and more sleepers, the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) operatives have financially compromised US leadership from the top right down to the local level.  

 

If we look at the level of hatred within America as a measure of the subversion, we find it everywhere. There are no simple political issues anymore. Both sides seem radicalized to one degree or another. Conflict, stimulating rage against ourselves was the Communist goal. It does not matter the subject. The dour cloak of hatred dominates media, schools, legislature and now the street—a Marxist’s wet dream.

 

Bezmenov visited his former wife and children in Montréal in 1993. The official cause of his death two weeks later was a “massive heart attack.”

 

Interestingly, Bezmenov’s lecture and books are now being studied by the Joint Special Operations University (JSOU), the University of Pennsylvania’s Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. They are also being studied by Michael Carpenter, former deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and by Yale professor Asha Rangappa and have now re-emerged on YouTube.

 

Bezmenov’s books include: No Novosti Is Good News, World Thought Police, Black Is Beautiful, Communism Is Not. In his book, Love Letter to America 1984, Bezmenov suggests, it will take 20 years to reeducate a new generation of youth and to ferret out the sleepers and financially compromised supporters of Communist normalization. I would add to that list the need for a reeducation in citizenship, understanding the Constitution and humor.