How To Destroy A Country

[362 words] “One university after another is bowing before the violent demands of a small minority of radicals who intend to overthrow the existing government…The radicals fully intend to overthrow the national government and replace it according to their own fuzzy, undefined lines which they cannot explain. They have decided to seek as many confrontations with the police and university officials as they possibly can. They are using terror tactics in some parts of the country now.” This was written fifty years ago in the July 1970 issue of the Voice of Freedom. Following these observations was a short article entitled “How to Destroy a Country”: “Affirm man’s animal origin, nature and functions to the exclusion of everything else, and ridicule all reference to his spiritual qualities. Inculcate general disrespect for any kind of authority by urging people to obey their own impulses in the name of freedom. Hamper the…