Astroturf Rebellions

Protesters? Or useful idiots?

It was G. K. Chesterton who said it best: "Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin."

Born in 1876, Chesterton was a British journalist and a Christian apologist who recognized the art of propaganda and how it was used by those who sought to overthrow governments and reorder societies to fit their radical worldviews.

Though he died in 1936, Chesterton witnessed the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the dawn of Hitler's fascist Nazi Germany in 1933. Both rose on discontent perpetrated against the status quo by radicals who followed with utopian promises of liberty, freedom, peace and prosperity.

Chesterton understood that those who foment rebellions need enemies--real or imagined--in order to accomplish their goals. And they need an effective system to deliver their propaganda.

Ironically, it was Vladimir Lenin, the father of the Russian Revolution who coined the term "useful idiots" to describe the fools who were lured by his propaganda to join the rebellion against the Czarist autocracy.

Hitler rose to power by blaming the Jews for Germany's political and economic woes. He blamed the Jews for Germany's defeat in World War I and he blamed them for sabotaging the economy and plunging that nation into a depression.

None of that was even remotely true. But Hitler had the advantage of the historical anti-Semitism that was embedded in the Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches. The Jews were long despised in Germany and elsewhere throughout Europe. Thus, when Hitler fingered them for Germany's problems, he connected with millions of people.

When we look at the riots that unfolded recently in Ferguson, Mo., we see a similar modus operandi that was used to instigate past uprisings and political insurrections.

That modus operandi was the promotion of outright lies, distortions and denial of evidence coupled with leftist propaganda that turned a St. Louis suburb into a raging inferno.

The outright lie is that America has an abundance of racist white cops who target innocent black youths for persecution and murder. The distortions come from the false witnesses who are recruited and encouraged to fabricate stories in order to support the racist white cop theory.

The denial of evidence speaks for itself. An independent grand jury consisting of whites and blacks that was formed long before the Ferguson incident took place back in August, examined the evidence and exonerated the Ferguson cop who was accused of murdering a black teenager in cold blood.  

And the leftist propaganda emanates from folks such as Barack Obama and his disgraceful Attorney General Eric Holder who exploit incidents such as Ferguson to portray America as a nation controlled by white conservative bible-clinging rednecks who want to resurrect Jim Crow and get rid of blacks and other minorities.

If you don't believe that, then look at Obama's past associations from the arch-racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright to Harvard Prof. Derrick Bell to the Rev. Al Sharpton to Frank Marshall Davis. And look at the groups who his IRS targeted for abuse.

The useful idiots who serve Obama, Holder, Sharpton and their Marxist media lackeys are the people who willingly allow themselves to be indoctrinated into radical leftist propaganda without bothering to examine the evidence. That's the definition of a real idiot.

Obama desperately wants his own Selma, Alabama moment to be part of his legacy. That's what Ferguson means to him and Ferguson will indeed be a part of his legacy.

And this will be his legacy: History will define Barack Obama as the most divisive, radical, racist president America has ever elected, who ripped the nation apart and set race relations back nearly a century.

In the Beatitudes, Jesus Christ said this: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God." (Matthew 5:9) 

And those who will be called the children of the devil will be those who fomented evil in order to further their own political agendas.