Victims of Communism remembered – 8 November 2018 (updated 9nov18)

[I post today’s ‘Presidential Message on the National Day for the Victims of Communism’ in memory of the 100-200 million people, including members of my family, killed by communists and communism over the past century.  This is the system to which today’s Left is repaving the road of return.  gjr]

On the National Day for the Victims of Communism, we honor the memory of the more than 100 million people who have been killed and persecuted by communist totalitarian regimes.  We also reaffirm our steadfast support for those who strive for peace, prosperity, and freedom around the world.

Since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, we have witnessed the effects of the tyrannical communist ideology—anguish, repression, and death.  Communism subordinates inherent human rights to the purported well-being of all, resulting in the extermination of religious freedom, private property, free speech, and, far too often, life.  These horrors have included Ukrainians deliberately starved in the Holodomor, Russians purged in the Great Terror, Cambodians murdered in the killing fields, and Berliners shot as they tried to escape to freedom.  The victims of these and many other atrocities bear silent testimony to the undeniable fact that communism, and the pursuit of it, will forever be destructive to the human spirit and to the prosperity of mankind.

Today, we remember all who have been denied the great blessings of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under oppressive communist regimes.  Together, we mourn the unbearable losses so many have endured under communism, and we renew our pledge to continue advancing the cause of freedom and opportunity for all.

[9nov18 update]  From one of our more prominent leftwing commenters - “almost 30 years ago one wall came down in Berlin and today another one is going up here.” (see comment stream below)

That is the reason our two polarized sides can no longer profitably talk to each other.  From what I and others of the conservetarian bent see, there is nothing that we can say to the now radicalized Left which today 1) has an enormous intellectual deficit regarding shared history, and 2) little or no ability to incorporate elemental reasoning into their conversations.

These pages are witness to repeated assertions by the progressives that securing our border with a wall is exactly the same as how the communist dictators secured their borders with walls.  No matter how many times here, and in other publications and broadcasts, people have patiently sought to explain to the terminally deficient that the two kinds of walls serve diametrically opposite functions – communism’s walls are built to keep their citizens IN, i.e. from escaping tyranny so as to prevent emigration; the border walls of liberal democracies are meant to keep illegal aliens OUT, and are built to minimize illegal entry so as to control immigration.  This enormous distinction has always been too difficult for a liberal mind to comprehend – for them a wall is a wall, and even more so if they can glibly ignore that significant nuance to promote their anti-capitalistic message to those equally dense.

From such simple distinctions, things go down when the conversation turns to more complex subjects such as the forms of governance, their dynamics and provenance.  For example, when now and again such leftwing worthies dip into their rich trove of historical knowledge and attempt to, say, deny the socialist underpinnings of the Nazis.  Here they go one up on the walls question, and claim that the American right, which wants to maximize individual liberties and reduce the size of government, is equivalent to Germany’s Nationalist Socialists who did everything to minimize individual liberties and maximized the size of their government.  Simply mind boggling.  And they want us to think like they do!!

Comments

[Robert Cross]

In the pure sense, communism is an economical model not to be confused with repressive regimes that also happened to use that economic model. Like guns, Communism doesn't commit crimes against humanity, people do. Capitalism is also an economic model not to be confused with the repressive regimes that used it. To be honest, one only needs to remember that global European colonialism or the Nazi form of capitalism committed just as much atrocity as did those communist oriented regimes. Trying to blame Communism or Capitalism for the acts of people is like blaming the carton for the rotten eggs inside.

[George Rebane]

RobertC 1122am - you are grossly and sadly in error Mr Cross. For functioning like Marx et al planned, communism requires human behaviors that are demonstrably both unnatural and, in larger societies, impossible to induce. Such behaviors are all based on the large scale practice of altruism. (And your understanding of a "Nazi form of capitalism" is woefully off the mark. No such capitalism ever existed under Hitler. But the narrative you promote is well-established by the Left and underlies the perennially promoted premise that 'Next time we'll do communism right.')

[---M---]

,,,pledge to continue advancing the cause of freedom and opportunity for all,,,

That reminds me,,,what ever happened to the Zombie Caravan that was bearing down on us a few days ago???

[George Rebane]

M 309pm - Mr M, are you calling all those military age Hispanic men zombies? (apologies to PaulE for using one of his question formats without permission) ;-)

[Don Bessee]

@309 See my 335 on the election thread for an update.
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The mob and its enablers/bosses -

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/08/vox-matt-yglesias-defends-terrorizing-tucker-carlsons-family/

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Oh Mr. Cross.

Sure, in the pure sense, the communinstic economic model....yady yady, blah, blah. In the pure sense written on the blackboard in the laboratory, it all looks good. Great. We got it now, by Jove! And Nikita Khrushchev offered us a peace and we didn’t want peace. Sure, in a pure unadulterated form Ike of sense.

Mr Cross. In case you have not noticed, what is currently going on right now this very ountry at this very minute (especially in view of Tuesday’s Elections) is that our system is designed so no one side gains complete dominance over the other. Not so with Commmunism. Commie systems requires one sole party to have complete dominance and control of everything and everybody. Thus, the only outcome in a nation (or system) of State ruling Supreme is rule of law becomes is rule of man...which always morphs into rule of death. Death and misery a pure sense where the rubber meets the road, a place found outside the ivy covered halls of higher education. That place is called the real world with real people and real stacks of people piled real high.
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Speaking of rememberance and flying under the radar, Trump signed into passage a momument dedicated to the fallen black soldiers of the Civil War. It is Trump’s first monument.

https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/civil-war-era-site-camp-nelson-designated-national-monument

Rememberance fact: The only place in the world outside of the US when a 9/11 Memorial is erected with the names of every single,person who perished that day is in Israel. The Islamic fantantics want complete dominate others as well.

['''M''']

,,,yes George,,,I heard Fox News mysteriously pulled their reporters off 24/7 border watch and the US Army ceased calling the troop buildup "Operation Faithful Patriot". Gosh how much did that pre election propaganda effort cost the good ol taxpayers???

[Todd Juvinall]

Looks like the democrats are going to steal another one in Arizona. Next will be Florida. Somehow they always get away with it.

[Don Bessee]

The socialist mobs empowered -

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/8/antifa-targets-tucker-carlson-hit-list-expands-con/

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@ 453 - troops get paid no matter what and train which costs money every day for fuel and supplies so the real costs are just for some materials like concertina that come our of already paid for stockpiles. Bottom line its not added costs.

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[Thomas O'Toole]

I appreciate and thank you for your well expressed rumination.

[***M***]

,,,almost 30 years ago one wall came down in Berlin and today another one is going up here.

,,,the President has unconstitutially appointed convicted a scam artist lackey as AG

,,,voter suppression by Republicans is going on right now in Florida and Georgia

,,,he free press is being stifled.

Looks like the dying desparate Republican Party is really trying to get that Totalitarian State up and running!!!

[Todd Juvinall]

"M" step away from the bong.

[fish]

Posted by: ***M*** | 09 November 2018 at 07:26 AM

WHINE HARDER dugsKKKi!

[scenes]

Signs of the time. Blue Mob voters exercising their free speech rights at Tucker's house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arwLkGeW0xE

"WE KNOW WHERE YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT!!"

lol. Anyone who doesn't take the Blue Mob seriously is flat mistaken.

[***M***]

,,,Democrats Are Trying to Steal Florida Senate Race by Counting All the Votes,,,by L'il Marco

Now the wannabe Totalitarians don't want those military and provisional votes counted

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/marco-rubio-opposes-recount-in-florida-senate-race.html

[Todd Juvinall]

No "M". The "votes" were ballots found in car trunks and closets and were not guarded as the law says. I can see the democrats hiring some illegals to fill in those ballots as the dems are so cheap. Anyway, the ballot protocol must be followed or the whole system integrity is wrecked.

[fish]

Posted by: ***M*** | 09 November 2018 at 08:09 AM

....and they'll keep finding "ballots" until they have enough for the democrat to win eh dugsKKKi?

....Oh you diaper wearing nitwit you give me such joy........hey.....hows the state running......putting that gas tax money to good use this time? Firewall holding strong?

[***M***]

,,,brownlumpFish,,,yes,,,you are Winning! by living rent free in my Depends,,,

but I am raising the rent,,,now warm tongue baths of the affected areas will be required!!!

[fish]

Posted by: ***M*** | 09 November 2018 at 08:55 AM

Sorry dugsKKKi......this isn't a personal services contract.......have the person who changes the diaper do it!

And make sure they use plenty of powder when they're done....you know how I like the powder!

[Bill Tozer]

Victims of Communism remembered.

My, M, what nice tribute to the 100 or more million souls murdered by Communism just in the last 100 years.

All I can say is:

https://www.facebook.com/ThomasSowellQuote/photos/a.1180003112131914/1536093329856222/?type=3&theater

[Scott O]

re today's update - I'm still waiting for the left to fathom the difference between legal immigration and folks sneaking across the border to get their 'Constitutional rights'.
The idea that we're to find some kind of common ground with people that can never provide any sort of clue as to the exact real estate they're willing to define and defend is rather questionable.

[Bill Tozer]

Re update: They want us to think like they do? Nay, not only do they demand it, they require it. Compulsory education, if you will. Which is why I joined the true resistance.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1473905196076846&id=217926015008110

[Don Bessee]

Well that's constructive, informative and typically socialist. Sounds like there is some hash oil or edibles in that mix with m! -

So how did Nevada City fail so hard in their pot license process? They brought criminals to our communities and enabled their disrespect to the neighborhoods doing volatile hash oil crap in residential areas. Connect the dots people.

,,,brownlumpFish,,,yes,,,you are Winning! by living rent free in my Depends,,,
but I am raising the rent,,,now warm tongue baths of the affected areas will be required!!!
Posted by: ***M*** | 09 November 2018 at 08:55 AM

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/09/short-list-8-potential-america-first-candidates-for-attorney-general/

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Tribute to Communism and Totalitarianism.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10213000002819351&set=p.10213000002819351&type=3&theater&ifg=1

[Bill Tozer]

Re update

Just as T.S. Eliot saw in Hitler and Stalin two sides of the same coin, so too did his close friend and ally, Christopher Dawson. In one of Dawson’s finest pieces, written in the immediate aftermath of the World War II, “The Left-Right Fallacy” (published in The Catholic Mind), Dawson rightly noted that there is no left and no right; there is only man and anti-man. That is, the divide is not horizontal but vertical. “The tactics of totalitarianism,” he wrote, “are to weld every difference of opinion and tradition and every conflict of economic interests into an absolute ideological opposition which disintegrates society into hostile factions bent on destroying one another.” The so-called and false divisions between a left and right, then, are “a perfect god-send to the forces of destruction.” Such a sophomoric notion of left and right becomes a blunt weapon, used to beat any and all opposition, while in actuality separating the human person from the human person, clothing each not in glory but in wretched rags of chaos and deceit. The results, Dawson realized, could only be confusion, disintegration, degradation, violence, inhumanity, hatred, and suspicion, disgracing even “a tribe of cannibals.”

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/socialists-and-fascists-have-always-been-kissing-cousins

[George Rebane]

BillT 1050am - Indeed, indeed. Dawson is one of the early debunkers of socialism and fascism being on the bookends of a dubious political spectrum. They are not only kissing cousins, but they are blood relatives sharing the same grandfather. The narrative of the post-WW2 Left does not allow that since they need an equally reprehensible foil against which to base their apologetics of communism. RR has made this point for many years now, that included a commentary featuring what has turned out to be a graphic that has remained too obscure for the non-technical reader.
https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2013/02/ideologies-and-governance-a-structured-look.html

In any event, Dawson's "anti-man" emerges from the collectivist ideologies that inevitably are drawn to totalitarianism. (see figure)

[Tricky McClean]

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