Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is Abby Martin. This is the audio version of each episode of the Empire Files hosted on Telesaur English. You can watch every episode at the Empire Files. TV.

From a young age, we're taught fidelity to the system and to the state. We all grow up saying the Pledge of Allegiance in school,

but the words under God we take for granted. Those words were added to the Pledge of Allegiance

in 1954 to exclude American communists. Communists, of course, are godless heathens. That piece of

history is largely unknown, but the ideology behind it is probably the most

known idea in American society.

This town may appear to be an accurate likeness of a typical American community, but

it's a fraud.

It isn't free.

Socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the

nations of the earth. And the shadow is encroaching upon our own liberty.

If a person defends the activities of communist nations while consistently attacking the domestic and foreign policy of the United States,

she may be a communist.

Now that you become acquainted with the enlightened communist system,

in contrast to the outdated capitalistic way of life,

you are now prepared for the next step of your indoctrination.

You won't have to worry about next year.

The state will do your planning from now on.

We'll overthrow it by force and violence. We'll have our way if it means bloodshed and terror.

Because the news about communism is getting around.

And it's only another word of slave.

In almost every industrialized country in the world, And it's only another word, slave.

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