N. Korea fires on S. Korea - It was a clear provocation!!

[daveman]

Hitler hated communists at least as much as the Gipper.

Was Hitler evil?

Maybe it's authoritarianism that gives life to evil.
Whether in Germany, Russia, Korea or the US?

If your moral code depends on obedience to legitimate authority and not on empathy, it won't matter what your politics are if the right demagogue arrives on the scene at the right time.

There is no authoritarianism in the United States. You know how I can tell? Because you're not in jail. We don't have political prisoners. Idiot.

But, hey, way to weasel out of having to take a hard look at your support of Communism.

 

[georgephillip]

For the record, daveman...I don't support Communism or experiments in US (capitalism's) authoritarianism like the Patriot Act. You seem to be implying that an absence of political prisoners ensures the lack of an authoritarian power structure.

If your definition of "authoritarian" includes absolute obedience to the pecking order found in a hierarchical, top-down private tyranny, US corporations would seem to qualify.

Not to mention elements of the USAF.

You may also be incorrect when you claim the US has no political prisoner.

Lt. Colonel Richard Taus would likely claim otherwise:

"Former FBI Special Agent Richard Taus, a Lt. Col. in National Guard, highly decorated Vietnam Helicopter Pilot.

"Taus worked under FBI Supervisory Agent Lindley DeVecchio in the New York office, and found himself being pulled off investigations that (a) focused on criminal activities of the CIA, including a part of Oliver North's Enterprise; the secret funding and arming of Iraq during the Reagan-Bush administrations, and other crimes.

"When FBI supervisors, including DeVecchio repeatedly blocked reporting of these criminal activities, Taus reported the matters to several members of Congresswho, as usual, covered up for the matters.

"Immediately thereafter FBI officials fabricated charges against Taus and he was arrested.

"State prosecutors then took over, charged him with other offenses, and Taus was sentenced to 80 years in prison.

"His imprisonment protected the corrupt activities of White House officials and the CIA.

"Also, murders perpetrated by the New York Mafia."

Political Prisoners...

Whatever the full accounting of Richard Taus's case would reveal, I hope you aren't naive enough to believe an Empire as corrupt as the USA could come into being or long survive without political prisoners.

And worse.

 

[daveman]

Given the Left's propensity to label criminals as "political prisoners" (Mumia), I'm not going to take your word that Taus is indeed a political prisoner.

 

[georgephillip]

Purely theoretically...

If you came upon an on-duty uniformed police officer attempting to commit murder (on your brother?) and the only way of preventing the crime was killing the cop, what's your call?

 

[daveman]

Not interested in your silly games.

 

[georgephillip]

Maybe the North Koreans had a similar reaction to "Hokguk"?

"...the military exercises, code-named 'Hoguk,' involving all four branches of the South Korean armed forces and some 70,000 troops, simulated an attack on North Korea, and were meant to provoke the North Koreans, who responded as might be expected."

Any thoughts on which bed "the Gipper" would've hid under?

Korean Conundrum: