David Yeagley is the great-great-grandson of Comanche leader Bad Eagle. 
Continuing our exposé of Ann Coulter’s book Treason (2003), we consider the matter of Alger Hiss, the infamous Harvard Communist who was exposed by ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers (himself a Columbia graduate).
Ann Coulter, author of Treason (2003),
with a right to laugh.
Chapter 2: “Alger Hiss, Liberal Darling.”
Alger Hiss (and his brother Donald), high government officials under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, were identified as Communists by Chambers in 1939. Chambers tried to get the message to Roosevelt through laisons. But when Adolf Berle (Assistant Secretary of State) told the president, Roosevelt laughed it off with vigorous vulgarity. Chambers tried another entry (William C. Bullitt, former Ambassador to Russia), but the message was again met with obscene mockery. It wasn’t until 1948, a decade later, that Chambers was called by McCarthy to witness before the House Un-American Activitees Committee (HUAC), and fully exposed Alger Hiss. Hiss could only attempt to brush it all off with a reference to his urgent appointment at the Harvard Club that very evening. He just didn’t have time for the Chambers nonsense. His Harvard social ties were much more important than the accusation of being a Communist.
Hiss later tricked Chambers into making his accusations in public media, so he could sue him. Chambers naively fell for it. Three months later, Hiss sued him for slander. Hiss put a Harvard legal team together, including psychiatrists, who declared Chambers insane. It was the Democrat version of slander. Whereas Chambers had simply testified to the facts that Hiss was an active Communist and Soviet spy, the Harvard Hiss team concentrated on defaming Chambers’ character. Defamation is the liberals’ first best defense.
Alger Hiss, Lewisberg Federal Penitentury,
1950. Hiss spent 44 months in prison.
Chambers proved to be right, and Hiss a liar, but, the effect of the McCarthy hearings was the stunning fact that there were American Communists serving as Soviet spies, right here in American, high up in our own government. There were traitors, treasonists, at the highest levels of our country. Yet, the more scoop on Hiss, the more Roosevelt promoted him! Hiss was a close presidential advisor at Yalta, supporting the total resignation of Poland to Roosevelt’s idol, Joe Stalin–the most murderous individual of the 20th century, having slaughtered millions more people than Hitler ever dreamed of. (It was, of course, Hitler’s secret pact with Russia in 1939 that convinced Chambers to abandon Communism. He saw that coming.)
Harry Trumen kept Alger Hiss on the payroll, as director of the Office of Political Affairs in the State Department. It seems unbelievable, but it’s true. It would be like Muslim Marxist Barry “Obama” Soetoro (Harvard attendee) appointing Muslim terrorists to high positions in the government, like Eric Holder–at a time when we’re at war with Muslim terrorists. Why, who would ever believe such nonsense? Wouldn’t it all be laughed off, like Rooselvelt laughed at the idea that there were Communists in his cabinet? Obviously, the lesson went unlearned. The Democrats never forgot how to laugh.
Coulter says (p. 27) that the Democrat Party by Truman’s presidency had become a refuge for traitors. The universities, particularly the Ivy Leagues, immediately showed their loyalties to the Communists. As soon as Hiss got out of prison (having been convicted of perjury–since the statute of limitation on espionage had expired), Princeton gave him a standing ovation as their guest speaker. He was lauded by liberals here and abroad. Bard College named a chair after him: Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies.
Coulter shows how the liberal media and the liberal university devoted themselves to rehabilitating the tarnished reputation of Alger Hiss, convicted liar and obvious traitor. He was made into hero, an icon of the Left. His innocence was a highly articulated lie, made into propaganda, really, for the Leftist cause. Indeed, the very first sentence of her Introduction (p.1) is Ann’s assessment of liberalism:
Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason…Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy.
It is a campaign. Liberals are devoted to it, much like a parasite is devoted to its host. Like a leech, liberalism lives off the life blood of others.
Coulter makes it abundantly clear that the media and the ivy league university have worked arm-in-arm to promote “liberalism” (which is Communism). The media took the term “McCarthyism” and made it almost an impenetrable defense against any accusation made of liberals. A mocking word, the scoffing term “McCarthyism,” and any inquiry or doubt about the superiority of liberals is squelched. Coulter sums up the matter (p.33):
A half century later, when the only people who call themselves Communists are harmless cranks, it is difficult to grasp the importance of McCarthy’s crusade. But there’s a reason “Communist” now sounds about as threatening as “monarchist”–and it’s not because of intrepid New York Times editorials denouncing McCarthy and praising Harvard-educated Soviet spies. McCarthy made it a disgrace to be a Communist. Domestic Communism could never recover.
Not under that name. So they changed it. “Socialilsm,” “Leftism,” “Progressivism,” or the preferred “liberalism.” But make no mistake, it’s all the same. The ideology, the impetus, and the rage of Communism is alive and well, again, in the White House today, under the alien Negro Barry “Obama” Soetoro, and the white “liberals” who put him there. Indeed, they scorn, mock, and censure any thought that they’re less that exemplary in their patriotism. They laugh at the accusation of even “socialism,” let alone “Communism.” Why, there’s no Communist Party in America. Of course, there is, but, that’s not the point. Communism is an ideology, not a political party.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Walksthrough // Mar 25, 2010 at 12:02 am
And this is American Communism shilling for Islam. I say American Communism because it is American in its naivete compared to its Russian counterpart. Russia still wants us buried. The Obama U.S. wants to disarm, and thinks it can disarm Russia by disarming itself. I don’t believe either country knows what it is doing, both are mad with sin. Russia will have enough arms to lead the confederation of Islamic states against Israel in the last days. Where we will be, only God knows.
The grand delusion taking place with the power-drunk elite in the WH and Congress is that the Muslims can be coerced by political maneuvering. But the Muslims care not for American Communist ideology any further than they can throw it, so long as American Communism submits to Allah.
The Muslims used the Nazis to terrorize the Jews in WWII, the Muslims are using the Russian Communists to get weapons, and the Muslims will be only too glad to use the American (and European) liberals to do the same to the Jews again and to the U.S. It is all delusion.
The Islamics want their crescent flag on our capitol, and I am pessimistic enough to see that happening when some dopey reason is given in the not-too-far future to “celebrate” something Islamic by flying it there oh-so-briefly, to give us a taste of ursurption of our national symbol, to normalize that. To “share the wealth” of our national identity with those less fortunate.
Well, that may be a bit of an extreme diversion for what you are laying out from Ann Coulter’s book.
But this is like discovering you have cancer, and that you’ve had it too long, and it’s too late.
I’ll say something positive though: It ain’t for forever! The Bible says that the former things will not be remembered, nor come to mind, in the eternal Kingdom of God, when Jesus Christ (who rose from the dead about this time of year back when) returns with His Church to save Israel, put down all unrighteousness, judge the world, and reign forever.
2 David Yeagley // Mar 25, 2010 at 10:20 am
I do think our reaction to deceit, dishonesty, lying, and coerecion–even in the secular world, does say something about our spiritual condition, don’t you?
I mean, I think it is important that we act against these things, or that we certainly do not act in favor of them–and doing nothing is in fact acting in favor of them.
I realize it will all pass, but, I think there is an opportunity and responsibility to act on right principles, even in the secular world. I fear that spiritual people who do not act against immorality are maybe not so spiritual after all. They are contributing to the immorality by not acting against it.
3 David Yeagley // Mar 25, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Also, I think we need to understand the fundamental condition of deceit, dishonesty, and coercion that exists in the Democrat/Communist mind. They are saturated with this spirit. Lying is immoral for a Christian, or for a non-Christian. Lying is wrong. Lying is bad. Simple as that.
4 Walksthrough // Mar 25, 2010 at 12:11 pm
I don’t advocate inaction. Both the vote now, and the preaching now, is required action. The vote, like I mentioned before, is like a gun–destructive of our country rather than protective if used without understanding. If preaching is considered a sort of inaction, this is unbelief, the core spiritual problem. Spiritual warfare is not won by votes, and preaching is not enabled nor overcome by the vote.
When I repeat that this is not forever, I do not advocate inaction. I am contemplating the worst case scenario, I am trying to “send a message” to the time when people who believe the Bible will be overcome by that world leader who is coming, whoever he may be. To not despair. Americans are not exempt from seeing destruction in their own country and of their way of life: the chief agenda which the liberals have been operating on since their first foothold in this country.
Which of the two, conservative or liberal, have the ideological tools to see this future scenario told in the Bible? I’m arguing that neither do. It is a spiritual matter.
That’s why we see the Western ideology seemingly melting before Islam, preceeded by a normalization of Communism. We saw their poverty, tore down their wall, insisted on approaching China and gave them our technology, how bad can they be?
Why didn’t conservatism prevail over liberalism in this? If conservatism is powerless over liberalism now, it does not possess the spiritual discernment for that day either. So it is necessary to keep reminding that this is coming. It is not inaction, or fatalism. Far from it.
It is a call to action, to address this spiritual problem now, first in our own lives, then in the direction we exhort others to take: Do we believe the Bible, or not? Who are we as a nation (a collection of immigrants, including Indians) worshiping? This is the big gorilla in the room.
Looking forward to more excerpts.
5 David Yeagley // Mar 25, 2010 at 12:12 pm
“Coincidentally,” the Canadian campus skirmish with Coulter simply demonstrates the Communist (tyrannical) nature of university thinking. University and state combined, in harmony:
Ilana Mercer: Canadian Anti-Coulter Cretins Crave “Positive Space.”
Mercer calls the Candian Human Rights agency “one of the most oppressive instruments in the Canadian state.”
Also, important to keep up with Ann’s own account. She’s scheduled to speak at the University of Calgary next.
“Oh, Canada”
6 zephyr // Mar 25, 2010 at 2:25 pm
David and Walksthrough–great comments. Godspeed to Ann!
The only way to make sense of the attacks on the republic, on morality, on Christians is to understand the power behind them:
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Eph 6.12
Which is why we’re admonished to “take up the full armor of God . . . to stand firm.” Eph 6.13
Fortunately, God is a very present help in trouble.
7 Following Him // Mar 25, 2010 at 11:31 pm
Hi David … I just started reading your blog today. I followed the advice of Lemon Lime Moon who I read daily … I’m glad I did. Great blog.
I’m glad you have Christians like yourself willing to comment with wisdom and faith compared to many of the others I check on from time to time.
I’ve read your bio, well most of the other stuff as well, your interests etc. I’m proud of you for keeping your faith in Jesus. My wife and I will add you to our prayer list.
Keep on my brother in Christ. I’m so glad I found your site through Lemon. Isn’t she a beautiful sister?
Blessings to you …
8 David Yeagley // Mar 26, 2010 at 7:31 am
Many thanks, FH. I must say, the faith of Jesus simply excels all other considerations. It may appear now and then that we make “sacrifices” for that faith, but, that faith is more precious than any sacrifice. Therefore, we always gain.
Again, many thanks.
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