The Committee's manifesto claims: " - the problems in monitoring such tests are relatively uncomplicated." This is either an outright lie or ignorant wishful thinking; the problems are so complicated that nothing short of on - the - spot inspection will work - an underground test cannot be told from an earthquake shock by any known method of monitoring.
Before you trust your lives and freedom to the promises of the Kremlin, remember Budapest -
- remember Poland in 1945
- remember Prague
- remember Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
- remember Korea
- remember brave little Finland
- and keep your powder dry!
The third proposal is largely pious window - dressing but it has the same sort of booby - trap buried in it. It reads: "That missiles and outer - space satellites be brought under United Nations - monitored control, and that there be a pooling of world science for space exploration under the United Nations." The harmless part could be done if the U.S.S.R. were willing; the booby - trap is the word "missiles."
We Americans live in a goldfish bowl; we could not conceal rocket tests even if we tried. But in the vast spaces of Russia, Siberia, and China missiles of every sort - even the long - range ICBMs - can be tested in secret, manufactured and stockpiled and installed ready to go, despite all "monitoring." Anything less than on the - spot inspection of the entire vast spaces of the Communist axis would leave us at the mercy of the bland promises of the Butchers of Budapest.
The last paragraph of this letter that they want you to send to the President is not a proposal; it is simply another attempt to strike terror into the hearts of free men by reminding us of the horrors of nuclear war.
"'Will you walk into my parlor?' said the Spider to the Fly."
It is no accident that this manifesto follows the Communist line, no coincidence that it "happens" to appear all over the United States the very week that Khrushchev has announced smugly that the U.S.S.R. has ended their tests - and demands that we give up our coming, long - scheduled, and publicly announced tests of a weapon with minimum fall - out.
This follows the pattern of a much - used and highly refined Communist tactic: plan ahead to soften up the free world on some major point, package the propaganda to appeal to Americans with warm hearts and soft heads, time the release carefully, then let the suckers carry the ball while the known Communists stay under cover.
They used this method to gut our army after the Japanese surrender with the slogan of "Bring the Boys Home." They used it to make us feel guilty about the A - bomb - while their spies were stealing it. They dreamed up the pious theme of "Don't Play Politics with Hunger" - then used our charity to play their politics. They used it to put over the infamous "Oxford Oath" and the phony "Peace Strikes" of the thirties. They have used this tactic many times to soften up the free world and will use it whenever they can find dupes.
They are using it now. Today both sides, Freedom and Red Tyranny, are armed with nuclear weapons... and the Communists are again using our own people to try to shame or scare us into throwing our weapons away.
These proposals are not a road to world peace, they are abject surrender to tyranny. If we fall for them, then in weeks or months or a few years at most, Old Glory will be hauled down for the last time and the whole planet will be ruled by the Butchers of Budapest.
For more than a hundred years, ever since the original Communist Manifesto, it has been the unswerving aim of the Communist Party to take over all of this planet. The only thing blocking their conquest is the fact that the tragically - shrunken free world still possesses nuclear weapons. They can destroy us .. . but they know that we can destroy them.
So they want us to throw away the equalizer.
If we do, we can expect the same "mercy" that Budapest received. They will say to us: "Surrender - or be destroyed!"
"God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it."
- Daniel Webster
We the undersigned are not a committee but simply two free citizens of these United States. We love life and we want peace ... but not "peace at any price" - not the price of liberty!
Poltroons and pacifists will think otherwise.
Those who signed that manifesto have made their choice; consciously or unconsciously they prefer enslavement to death. Such is their right and we do not argue with them - we speak to you who are still free in your souls.
In a free country, political action can start anywhere. We read that insane manifesto of the so - called "Committee for a 'Sane' Nuclear Policy" and we despised it. So we are answering it ourselves - by our own free choice and spending only our own money.
We say to the commissars: "You will never enslave us. The worst you can do is kill us. But we are resolved to die free!"
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
No scare talk of leukemia, mutation, or atomic holocaust will sway us. Is "fall - out" dangerous? Of course it is! The risk to life and posterity has been willfully distorted by these Communist - line propagandists - but if it were a hundred times as great we still would choose it to the dead certainty of Communist enslavement. If atomic war comes, will it kill off the entire human race? Possibly - almost certainly so if the Masters of the Kremlin choose to use cobalt bombs on us. Their command of science in these matters seems equal to ours, they appear to be some years ahead of us in the art of rocketry; they almost certainly have the power to destroy the human race.
If it comes to atomic war, the best we can hope for is tens of millions of American dead - perhaps more than half our population wiped out in the first few minutes.
Colorado Springs is at least a secondary target; all of us here may be killed.
These are the risks. The alternative is surrender. We accept the risks.
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards.
- Samuel Adams
We have no easy solution to offer. The risks cannot be avoided other than by surrender; they can be reduced only by making the free world so strong that the evil pragmatists of Communism cannot afford to murder us. The price to us will be year after weary year of higher taxes, harder work, grim devotion ... and perhaps, despite all this - death. But we shall die free!
To this we pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
We the undersigned believe that almost all Americans agree with us. Whoever you are, wherever you are, you sons of Patrick Henry - let us know your name! Sign the letter herewith and mail it to us - we will see that it gets to Congressman Chenoweth, to both our Senators, and to the President.
This much has been done by two people acting alone. Let's call ourselves "The Patrick Henry League" and prove to our government that the Spirit of '76 is still alive. We are two, you and your spouse make four, your neighbor and his wife make six - we can snowball this until it sweeps the country.
We can advertise in other counties, in other states.
If you who are reading this are not in Colorado Springs, stand up, speak up, and start your own chapter of "The Patrick Henry League" now. You are a free citizen, you need no permission, nor any charter from us. Run an ad - quote or copy this one if you like. Dig down in the sock to pay for it, or pass the hat, or both - but sound the call in your own home town, mail copies of your ad out of town, and get some more letters started toward Washington
And let us hear from you
Let us all stand up and shout aloud again and forever: