The Communists of Korea were pushing the Non-Communists and Liberty loving Koreans off that peninsula in early June of 1950. In that June the United States declared war on those Korean Communists and went there with our military to oppose them. We were very tired of war. We had no taste for doing that, but we did it.
On this anniversary of our doing it, I think it is very important for us to remember why we did it, especially with things that are happening again this June. Please remember it here with me this June!
Ron
The Korean War started June 25, 1950.
Communists from the north invaded the non-communists, killing thousands.
Outnumbered, the liberty loving non-Communists and American troops who went to help them, 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 through1951.
MacArthur made a daring landing of troops at Inchon, deep behind Communist lines, and recaptured the city of Seoul.
MacArthur Watching the Dangerous Invasion of Inchon Korea
With temperatures sometimes forty degrees below zero in the Korean mountains, and Washington politicians limiting the use of air power against the Communists, there were nearly 140,000 American casualties:
• in the defense of the Pusan Perimeter and Taego;
• in the landing at Inchon and the freeing of Seoul;
• in the capture of Pyongyang;
• in the Yalu River where nearly a million Communist Chinese soldiers invaded;
• in the Battles of Changjin Reservoir, Old Baldy, White Horse Mountain, Heartbreak Ridge, Pork Chop Hill, T-Bone Hill, and Siberia Hill.
Harry S Truman contrasted communism and democracy in his Inaugural Address, January 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 word “democracy” has two main definitions:
• the first is a political form of government where every citizen votes on every issue and the majority rules. This only successfully worked on a small city-state basis, like Athens, where every citizen had to physically be present at every meeting;
• the second definition of “democracy” is simply a general reference to a “popular” government, where the population participates in ruling themselves.
It was the second definition that came into common use.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published their Communist Manifesto in 1848.
That same year, after France’s 1848 Revolution, Alex de Tocqueville wrote in his “Critique of Socialism”:
“Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. Democracy allows for individual capitalism, where a person can own private property and engage in business to improve his or her life.”
Forbes, July 27, 2020, published Rainer Zitelmann’s article “Anyone Who Doesn’t Know The Following Facts About Capitalism Should Learn Them,” in which he wrote:
“In 1820, 94% of the world’s population was living in extreme poverty. By 1910, this figure had fallen to 82%, and by 1950 the rate had dropped yet further, to 72%. However, the largest and fastest decline occurred between 1981 (44.3%) and 2015 (9.6%).
Reading these figures, which were compiled by Johan Norberg for his book Progress, is enough to make anyone rub their eyes in disbelief. For according to leftist anti-capitalists, these were the very decades in which so much went so wrong in the world.”
Zitelmann continued:
“200 years ago, at the birth of capitalism, there were only about 60 million people in the world who were NOT living in extreme poverty. Today there are more than 6.5 billion people who are NOT living in extreme poverty. Between 1990 and 2015 alone 1.25 billion people around the world escaped extreme poverty —- 50 million per year and 138,000 every day.”
Friedrich Engels explained in Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy, 1844, how the middle-class must be eliminated so that the socialist planners can rule without opposition:
“Every new crisis must be more serious than the last, ruin more small capitalists and increase the number of the unemployed. In the end commercial crises will lead to a social revolution.”
Karl Marx had attended the University of Berlin, where he became involved with a radical anti-religious student 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 Workingmen’s Association and the Social Democrat Labor Party.
Karl Marx
Marx’s philosophy influenced:
• Adolph Hitler in starting the National Socialist Workers Party;
• Vladimir Lenin in starting the Social-Democrat Party;
• Joseph Stalin in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; and
• Mao Zedung in the Chinese Communist Party.
Lenin explained:
“The goal of socialism is communism.”
Lenin wrote in State and Revolution, 1917:
“The dictatorship of the proletariat will produce a series of restrictions of liberty in the case of the capitalists. We must crush them. Their resistance must be broken by force. There must also be violence, and there cannot be liberty or democracy.”
Vladimir Lenin
Karl Marx wrote:
“The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: ‘Abolition of private property.’ Take away the heritage of a people and they are easily destroyed.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt explained that communism is nothing more than dictatorship, as he stated in his address to the Delegates of the American Youth Congress, Washington, D.C., February 10, 1940:
“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.”
President Harry S Truman spoke at the laying of the cornerstone of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., April 3, 1951:
“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. fOur 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.”
Conrad Hilton, founder of the hotel chain, spoke at a Prayer Breakfast at the Mayflower Hotel, following addresses by Congressmen, Senators, and Vice-President Nixon.
Hilton stated:
“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 man’s 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, December 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 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.
Actual Picture of the Fighting and Suffering in Korea
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.”
Fighting in Korea was halted July 27, 1953, with the signing of an armistice with North Korea at Panmunjom.
On December 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.”
So, my friends, 36,000 U.S. service men died in Korea to protect us from Communism. However, I hope you are as disgusted as I am on this anniversary of that war, that miss-led professors across America are teaching Communism to our young people.
And as I have shown above, it is in opposition to the God of most all of their parents, and certainly in oppositionto the Mighty God of the Universe!
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