The War We Are In, Part Two: Communism vs. Capitalism (1962)

★★★★★ · History Repeats Itself · Ron Raygun · 2011-01-23

Bill Clinton should have gone to Harding College instead of Oxford. In 1962, only two years after Comrade Khrushchev pounded his shoe on the podium at the U.N. screaming, "We Will Bury You", the film is a patriotic speech and warning of the menace. The Soviet Union lasted about only 70 years, but the world threat of Communism continues. About 100 years before Karl Marx, it was the "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", which was a foundation for Communism. Today, that threat still exists.

★★★★★ · Pertinant to our time · AmericanGothchick · 2003-09-28

By today's standards Dr. Benson is hardly an enrapturing public speaker. It would be easy to snicker at the man who seems to preach empty fear. Unfortunately for us he was not entirely incorrect. History has shown that the Communists have done just as Dr. Benson predicted. Even today, Young Socialist type groups work on college campuses trying to recruit new members, and program them to work against their own country. See it for yourself and see if it didn't come true!

★★★★★ · God Bless George S. Benson, a Great American · preachr · 2005-07-01

I knew George S. Benson. I was born in Searcy, AR and educated at Harding University. And, while he was certainly an eccentric, he was also a courageous man and, in a sense, a prophet. It only takes a surface reading of history to discover that much of what Dr. Benson was warning America back in 1962 was attempted in the following years. The Cold War did accelerate. Herculean efforts were made to weaken America's resolve. Churchmen were recruited to lead "peace fronts" and put pressure on America to unilaterally disarm. The USSR did accelerate its atomic development. The US was blamed for all…

★★★★ · Benson Burner! · Spuzz · 2005-08-30

Another Harding College anti-communist rant, but in a pleasant turn of events, the presenters are reversed. In the previous films presented, usually George Benson introduces Clifton Ganus Jr. Well, in this film, Ganus, who for some odd reason looks rather old and tired, introduces Benson, who uh, is quite animated in this otherwise boring speech about how them commies are trying to infiltrate U.S. society! For the whole speech I was glued to this mans hands I dont know, it seems Mr. Benson has been reading the book on Hand Gestures for Better Emphasis because…

★★★★ · That Was Then... · donwert · 2010-04-14

This is part of a speech made in 1962 by George Benson, president of Harding College, a small fundamentalist school in Arkansas. By the hyper-ventilated standards of today's right-wingers (Limbaugh, Beck, etc.) this is a fairly calm, straight-forward review of the Communist threat of that era. One of the earlier posters noted that everything Benson said would happen did happen. OK, but nonetheless, we won and they lost. It took a long period of sacrifice, patience and determination on our part, but finally, the USSR collapsed in upon itself from its absurdity. Cuba and North Korea are the…

★★★★ · Exceptional Courage · skunkbait · 2006-02-27

Dr. Benson was a charismatic, energetic speaker. Although I did not agree with all of his stances throughout the years, I could not help but be moved by his passion for the things he believed. If anyone questions his motivation for opposing communism so vehemently, they must look to his years in China as a missionary at the time that communism was taking over. The animalistic brutality that he saw ravage the young Christian churches would lend a sense of urgency to his rhetoric, that most of us in this post-Cold War era can not understand. May God Bless those who would follow in Dr. Benson's…