Those were the days, eh? Funny how many lefties yearn for the days of the old Soviet Union, isn’t it? So great is their hatred for their own country and its commercial, capitalist foundations in particular, that they’d prefer the old regime of Mutual Assured Destruction.

You know, Ho, you might actually have more in common with that other despiser of the west, Osama Bin Laden, than you think — maybe you should consider a change of handle?

“THe question that case gives rise to is why so many other states and peoples who also suffer under dictators yet display no tendencies toward the kind of bloody terrorism displayed by the Islamists?”

Maybe because they didn’t have to? For example the Soviet’s didn’t have to blow up busses, THEY HAD THE ATOMB BOMB to keep us in line, and out of their backyards.

http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE13.HTM

I was stunned when I read his thesis. I don’t want to trivialize it. You have to read in depth what he has to say. But some basic facts should pique your interest.

Since 1900:

No democracy has ever gone to war with another democracy.

Totalitarian and autocratic regimes have been responsible for the deaths of 174,000,000 of their own people.

All the wars fought since 1900 to date have been responsible for the deaths of 36,000,000 people.

The Nazis murdered 6,000,000 Jews. Everyone knows that. But did you know they also murdered 14,000,000 OTHERS?

I highly recommend reading his work.

See you, trolls.

It’s not the truth, PatCA, it’s just you.

“For instance, support for affirmative action sometimes depends on an unstated assumption that white people are all-powerful and in complete control, while people of other races do not have and will never have the inner resources to succeed in the world without help from benevolent, all-powerful, (superior!) whites.

Victimization theory on the Left in general depends on this attitude.”

Gee, another Anonymous Feminist.

If you are a femenist you are an elitist. You think white males “rule the world”? If it was up to me, you could have it, but you’re going to have to kill the real ruler of the world, money.

OJ and Jakko proved you can do whatever you want as long as you have the cash to CYA.

Everyone makes their own decisions. However, many people can be tricked easily. Drug companies have poisoned us for years feeding the public half truths. We’re all vunerable to brainwashing of sorts. We are all victims because the sources of information aren’t always trustworthy. I don’t blame anyone except greed for that.

PatCA said…
“I’m talking about totalitarian regimes versus consensual governments.”

Same thing. We have less power than you appear to believe.

“Dressing in a suit and tie for work is totally different from wearing a burka so you will not be beaten or worse.”

It was just an example, but I’ll go with it. Dress up or starve, dress up or be shot in the head? I’ll take the headshot please.

“Dying as a soldier in a legitmate(sic) army abiding by the rules of war is different from strapping on explosives and targeting civilians.”

I’ll give you half of that. It’s more honorable to die in a legitimate army abiding by the GC. Of course it’s more honorable for you to fight an enemy with a sword, one on one, than to have a sniper take someone out. War is not as much about honor as it is about winning.

The truth sounds so crappy.

Victimization theory on the Left in general depends on this attitude. You can find it, for instance, in some forms of feminism (women are so weak that they need legal protection and support to shore them up against all-powerful men) or in the more extreme thought-control policies on modern college campuses (members of minorities are so fragile that they will be completely destroyed by insensitive comments.)

I’m a woman and a feminist myself, but I don’t think I’m so weak that that men will inevitably prevail over me unless special legal protections are propped up around me. I know there is still a weary world full of racism out there, that many men do victimize many women, and that we have a long way to go before white people don’t hold a disproportionate share of power. (And of course, I have to say all this to fend off attacks by commenters who will assume I’m racist/sexist/evil for saying such things out loud.) I just don’t think it’s necessary to assume that disadvantaged groups are inherently inferior in order to bring about social change. I do think many leftists carry an unconscious assumption of superiority around with them, not even realizing how much it props up their own egos at the cost of those they are supposedly helping. It’s a form of the old “Lady Bountiful” concept, and it’s not pretty.