Hello Ladies!
I thought it would be appropriate to send out a message about the Liberty Book Club today. I am looking forward to July as a month in which I'll finally be able to read The Real George Washington (like I've wanted to for months now). This morning I checked the web site of the National Center for Constitutional Studies ( www.nccs.net --the three books are still available for $35), and Luke and I took a fifth grade quiz on the Founding Fathers, and only got 53% right (but it was hard!) so I've got lots more to learn.
While I was on the site I noticed a link to a fascinating speech given by Ronald Reagan called "World Communism and Domestic Socialism." This was given before the fall of the Iron Curtain, when some of the worst abuses of the communists were unknown. Today we worry about "Islamofascists," and think that now that the Soviet threat has disappeared, communism has no chance in the USA. But read Reagan's talk and think again. Here is a quote: "Mr. Khrushchev has said that capitalism will inevitably evolve into communism, but not all at once. He says there will first come an intermediate stage of socialism." How much closer are we to that point just in the last few months?
On a sad note, at girls' camp this week I roomed with my old friend Maggie Seneca from the CV 2nd ward, and she told me that her oldest daughter had been taught at school that Ronald Reagan was the worst president ever, and her parents have been unable to convince her otherwise. Are your children learning similar socialist propaganda? You'd better have lots of discussions at home to offset that -- we do in our home.
On a happier note, my family recently watched a great freedom-based new movie called The Singing Revolution. It is about the non-violent Estonian revolution against Soviet rule, which was helped greatly by their traditional song festivals (Jen Wall served her mission there, just a few years after this happened.) The festival is going on right now and tomorrow -- anyone up for a quick trip to Estonia? But anyway, the movie is fabulous, and available on Netflix.
Reviews:
"Imagine the scene in Casablanca in which the French patrons sing 'La Marseillaise' in defiance of the Germans, then multiply its power by a factor of thousands, and you've only begun to imagine the force of The Singing Revolution." Matt Zoller Seitz, The New York Times
"A wonderful film...that will unquestionably have the effect of strengthening the belief in freedom on the part of anybody who watches it." Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate (and one of my heroes)
Have a great day!
Jeni
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