Suicide By Good Intentions
By: Elin Gottschalk
Tags: Antifa, Chaz, Estonia, Communism

Suicide By Good Intentions

The clichés roll out a red carpet before every major political event.

That is how wars begin and the well-intentioned lose their freedom for generations. The classic formula never fails and the naïve and well-intentioned (ignorant) never fail. They always play their part and perish in the process. And the issue is always FREEDOM, FREE SPEECH and an end to OPPRESSION.

Hey, that sounds wonderful! A lovely thought! Even to people who have never lost their freedom, free speech or been oppressed. No society is perfect but it’s always good to get personal on a popular subject until you realize their ideals are the opposite to yours and your ‘good intensions’ have been hijacked by your ‘sponsors’ to abolish all freedom, free speech and bring long-term oppression on people who have never been oppressed before.

This planet has suffered this naiveté of the innocents since the beginning of time. It is a stroke of political genius to manipulate peoples’ thinking and the result is the 30 Year Plan, part of the ideology by which to change an entire society in 30 years. You indoctrinate the children to disparage their parents and when the young people turn 30 or thereabouts, they are ready to throw everything overboard because they know the truth. Been there, done that! In my time they were arrested and deported to Siberia. The truth dies with them. But Hitler and Stalin never died and that is why we continue do the war enactments; the jousters and lancers on their high horses, on both sides, until the end of time.

Right now, in 2020, we are about to do another round — ‘play the same again Sam!’ The same placards, same speeches, bricks and baseball bats. The same banners. The youth of nations truly, baffled. Most of them have already have FREEDOM AND FREE SPEECH or they would not be out there free to pillage, loot and burn.

On the other side are the truncheons, the law and order guys, just as ignorant, falling on their swords by default.

Then there is the third party, literally the ‘party givers’ that funds and hands out the platitudes, anxious not to lose their ‘ill gotten gains’, wearing coats with double lining, and easily turned on dime.

For those who have not read the books or seen the films let me fill you in with actual history, a true story in miniature. Namely the occupation of the Baltic States, a cameo classic of how the scene unfolded in the 1940’s what we could expect down the road.

I speak for myself, and what happened in Estonia, a country of just over a million population whose country has been occupied and oppressed for almost a thousand years by powerful neighbors, 800 of those yeas under Germans (also Danes, Poles, Lithuanians, Russians and even Swedes). To cut a long story short, Estonia gained freedom in 1918, the first time ever, and established a true republic until 1923. No nobility, just hard work and a passion for higher education.

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact put an end to that. In 1939, Hitler and Stalin had made a secret agreement to share the spoils of the fallout from WWII, beginning with Estonian elections held at gunpoint. Again, using the well-intentioned and ill-informed, the idealists and the naïve to believe all the Soviets wanted was to build Bases.

Pro-Communist March in Tallinn

My mother, her girlfriend and fellow pedestrians had stopped to watch a column of demonstrators marching down a main street in Tallinn. They were carrying placards calling for; Freedom, Free Speech AND Soviet Occupation — at the same time!! No wonder the bystanders were confused. Estonia had been a free and an independent, democratic Republic for almost twenty years. The bystanders thought it was a joke.

Mother saw familiar faces among the marchers, specifically university classmates, a girl she knew by name, from a good family, proudly in front, calling for the overthrow of Independent Estonia.

When the Soviets arrived, mother was there again. This time heavy artillery, tanks and soldiers. The mood among the silent bystanders; disbelief! The Soviets were only supposed to build Bases. The uniforms were followed by a column of men in rags, a work detail of civilians, bought in to build the Installations.

One of the men must have noticed mother’s expression of shock. He pretended to stumble out of line and hissed into mother’s face… “You think we look pathetic? Wait, you’ll soon be looking worse than this!”

All good dreams did come to an end. The wakeup call came when word got around that the ‘well meaning’ demonstrators had been rounded up, arrested and deported to Siberia. And mother’s friend, a hero of the revolution, had committee suicide.