Some rioters are paid; the others are just 'useful idiots'

Police and protesters square off in LA during recent ICE riots (Courtesy)

To the editor:

The new poster child for revolution, deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, sparked some early memories. In 1969, The John Birch Society ("JBS") hosted a speaker in Windham. Charley Smith was a young, black college student from LA; one of the best speaker I've ever heard! He joined the JBS after surviving the Watts riots. Looking for truth, he found it. He described being invited to a peace demonstration, standing in the front, all the sudden Molotov Cocktails were raining over his head at the police. Deceptive manipulation dominated the 1960's-70's demonstrations for honest racial grievances, peace rallies against Vietnam, and poor people marches for "butter not guns." In dozens of cities, peaceful demonstrations were hijacked and controlled by the Communist international.

Will Rogers' wit helps make my point: Too many Americans suffer from "what they think they know ain't so." Maybe some of his kind of humor will help clarify? "Heard a story about a productivity minded rooster, ingenious at motivating his hens to lay more eggs by rolling an ostrich egg into the barnyard to show them what was being done on other chicken farms." The rooster stimulated production using the tactic of deception a wicked human quality.

Lenin, the father of communist revolutionary strategy, bragged "communism will be built by non-communist hands", labeling them "useful idiots." There was, and still is, an alphabet soup of well coordinated communist organizations to carry out these tactics. Today TV dominates news of riots spreading from LA to Chicago and NYC. Applying Lenin's communist revolutionary strategy, exploiting "useful idiots."

There are two levels in the street and a third level of officeholding leaders of cities and states. First, there are altruistic naive people, peacefully demonstrating. The second, often times paid, instigators of the violence and anarchy. Peaceful crowds all exploited by rent-a-mob Marxist revolutionaries. The third is elected politicians. Campaigns are financed to buy tenures in office to be complicit with the revolution in the streets. Beware of smiling candidates who please the crowd. Too often, when elected, need to be group thinkers forgetting their personal ethics and going along with how the party rules. Two thousand years ago Jesus read the riot act to the political rulers of his day in Mathew 23:

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!" Telling them in verse 25: "on the outside, they look good, but inside they are full of greed and self indulgence. Later on, in verse 28 : "... outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness."

The roots of in-process tyranny run deep. Human nature is eternally corruptible. Check out the documentary Anarchy U.S.A. released by the JBS in 1966 at: https: //jbs.org/vide/classics/anarchy-usa/ .

- Russ Payne,

Merrimack