C-SPAN 3 re-broadcast this classic anti-communism film, produced in 1966 by the John Birch Society, which uses narration and news footage to detail the methods of communist revolutionaries in China, Algeria, and Cuba, then argues that U.S. Civil Rights leaders are also Communists using the same methods. The film condemns several U.S. Presidents and the 1964 Civil Rights and 1965 Voting Rights Acts. View it as an antiquated curiosity of the now defunct Cold War or as a prescient warning of things to come. 2016 was a particularly savage year where this “strategy of tension” was repeatedly implemented by professional … Continue reading Past Is Prologue