Letters to the Editor
Communist Clenching
The kneel or not-to-kneel controversy continues. What is frightening is the increasing use of the “clenched fist” as a statement. Recall Lee Harvey Oswald’s arrest after he assassinated Kennedy. Oswald was a dedicated communist agent who proudly clenched his fist at Dallas in 1963. During the Spanish Civil War in 1939, Russian and Spanish Communists gave this salute, also raising sickles to complete their communist identifications.
The clenched fist was used by Karl Marx, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Nikita Khrushchev, Tom Hayden (“We are all Vietcong!”), and Chinese Communists, as well as Marxist agitator Jesse Jackson.
At the Berkeley “Free Speech” movement, the clenched fist was everywhere, as it was during the “Yippie” riots in Chicago in August 1968.
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