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Tuesday Mar 31, 2009

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"I dream of the hour when the last Congressman is strangled to death on the guts of the last preacher-and since Christians like to sing about the blood, why not give them a little of it? Slit the throats of their children and drag them over the mourners' bench and the pulpit, and allow them to drown in their own blood, and then see whether they enjoy singing these hymns."

When Gus Hall, General Secretary of the American Communist Party, was invited to speak at the University of Oregon in 1962, there was an outburst of protest in Eugene, where the university is located, and an outpouring of anti-Hall posters and leaflets featuring the strangled-to-death statement which Hall was charged with having made at a Communist convention in 1937 and again at the funeral of Communist leader Eugene Dennis in 1961. But the New York Times, which covered the Dennis funeral, mentioned no such bloodcurdling statement in Hall's eulogy, and Hall himself, when queried about it by reporters in Eugene, said the statement was so vile he wouldn't bother denying it. The attribution of the inflammatory words to Hall first appeared in reactionary Kenneth Goff's Pilgrim Torch in April 1961, but actually they can be traced back to Jean Meslier (a Catholic who turned anti-Christian), whose will, published by Voltaire in 1733, stated: "I should like to see . . . the last king strangled with the guts of the last priest." In 1980, evangelist Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority used the phony Gus Hall quotation in a multi-media presentation entitled, "America, You're Too Young to Die." Cited: Roy Paul Nelson, "On Cranberries and Communism," Christian Century, LXXXIX (March 21, 1962): 356-59
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