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Posted at 10:36am on Jun. 15, 2007 Compassionate Communism

By Rep. Thaddeus McCotter

“I am appalled the President failed to issue a clarion call for the American and all free peoples to summon the courage and moral clarity to end the communist regimes extant in our midst”

Due to the devotion of Lev Dobriansky and Dr. Lee Edwards of the Heritage Foundation, on Tuesday, June 12, 2007, the Victims of Communism Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. The memorial is modeled on the statute of Lady Liberty which inspired the Chinese students and their fellow citizens in Tiananmen Square, and symbolized their hope to realize their God-given and inalienable right to freedom. And, as is indelibly etched in the most ignoble annals of history, it was beneath this statue of Lady Liberty the communist Chinese government’s totalitarian stranglehold tightened and these human beings’ cries to breathe free were choked from their throats.

Truly, then, the dedication of the Victims of Communism Memorial was a fitting forum for the President of the United States – the leader of the Free World – to help commemorate the event. Inexplicably, especially since the communist killers who executed the slaughter in Tiananmen Square remain firmly enthroned upon the shoulders of those students and citizens’ corpses – the President did not call for America and the entire Free World to finish the job and liberate those who still suffer and die under communism.

Instead, the President took a victory lap replete with historical and ideological pitfalls portending a perilous present and future for all free people.

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Posted at 11:00am on Mar. 26, 2007 Shouldn't the GOP At Least Be Anti-Communist?

By Rep. Thaddeus McCotter

“This 'logic' devoid of precedent bred to the Permanent Normalization of Trade Relations with communist China, a Free Trade Agreement with communist Vietnam, and a clamor to end the embargo on communist Cuba.”

As is its wont, the new minority is awash in a bubble bathos of internecine ideological recriminations bent on divining who is or is not a “real Republican.” (In fairness, the question isn’t posed by more discreet individuals, like NRCC telemarketers.) All of these proposed litmus tests of our party’s “orthodoxy” are odious and unconstructive.

But, hey! Since the inquisitional tide is high, let’s surf the zeitgeist and add a new GOPique: Maybe I missed the memo, but when did the party of Ronald Reagan stop being anti-communist?

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