Turning
Back the Clock
They say that history repeats itself.
When it comes to smallpox, let’s hope that they are wrong.
During the 19th century, this killer scourge
killed up to half a billion people. Remember when eco-nut Prince Charles
claimed he would like to be reincarnated as a killer virus to control world
population? Smallpox would fit his preference to a tee.
The virus kills anywhere from 20 to 33 percent of those who
contract it. Those who survive this painful disease are often hideously,
permanently scarred.
In 1980, mankind trumpeted smallpox as the first deadly
scourge ever eliminated from planet Earth. The only two remaining sources of
the live virus were allegedly kept at research facilities in the United
States and the former Soviet Union, allegedly for the manufacture of
vaccines, just in case smallpox ever re-emerged.
We may have prematurely patted ourselves on our collective
backs.
Those who watched 60 Minutes, the CBS news magazine, last
Sunday night were allowed a glimpse into hell. The curtain was lifted on the
hypocrisy of Mikhail Gorbachev and his communist predecessors who talked
peace but were preparing an altogether less friendly final outcome for their
fellow man.
Rather than confining their stocks of smallpox to stringent
safety measures within locked down labs, the Soviets had built huge cities
with one goal in mind, the mass manufacture of smallpox and other biological
weapons for use against targets in the United States.
Plans for the release of this apocalyptic scourge within our
borders were released to American authorities by a defector from the former
Soviet communist regime. He claimed diseases like smallpox were to be let
loose in a form of genocide, wiping out whatever stragglers might remain on
our shores following a Soviet nuclear attack.
One could only hope these plans might have been scrapped
since the alleged death of communism and the rise of an independent Russia.
One would be wrong.
With former communist enforcers like ex-KGB chief Vladimir
Putin running the show, there’s no evidence of any change of heart.
Let’s be clear, here. Our disagreement is not with the
Russian people. For thousands of years, leading to the rise of the Bolshevik
revolution, Russia was a Christian nation. Many who live there still profess
a saving faith in Jesus Christ.
Our problem is with the godless people in the Kremlin.
Hitler killed an estimated 15 million during his German
reign of terror.
Stalin wiped out an estimated 35 million of his own people
during the Soviet purges.
But why should we be surprised by the communist threat to
innocent human life. After all, we saw the Red Army at work in Afghanistan,
dropping booby-trapped explosive toys to harmless children that left them
dead or maimed for life.
America remains blind to the dangers of smallpox and
biological warfare. Our leadership welcomes bio-terrorists like Mikhail
Gorbachev to set up shop within our borders at the old Presidio Army base in
San Francisco. We send planeloads full of U.S. dollars to help underwrite
the Russian economy. Many of them find their way into weapons development
programs intended for our own destruction.
When will we finally wake up? Do we really want our tax
dollars given to international baby killers? Or should we take the logical
action of scaling back our foreign aid programs and only helping those who
have our best interests at heart?
I, for one, do not want my check to the IRS to pay for the
genocide of my nation, my family and myself.
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