JimBowie1958
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Government has throughout history killed its own people with impunity, the 20th century alone totaling over 262 million people.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4urPG_DRUo&list=PLdHAJWvC3Hg2RYn6m5Sdtz7Hb42IRxhSy]Innocents Betrayed - Say NO to Gun Control! - YouTube[/ame]
While the above list of videos has some good information, it does have some 9/11 Truther bullshit in it, so viewers should keep that in mind, as Alex Jones has pushed that shit quite a bit and it has a lot of traction.
Different counts by different people have different totals depending on methodology and time frames chosen.
Rudolph Rummel has done the most detailed and documented count of people killed by their own government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._J._Rummel#Democide
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4urPG_DRUo&list=PLdHAJWvC3Hg2RYn6m5Sdtz7Hb42IRxhSy]Innocents Betrayed - Say NO to Gun Control! - YouTube[/ame]
While the above list of videos has some good information, it does have some 9/11 Truther bullshit in it, so viewers should keep that in mind, as Alex Jones has pushed that shit quite a bit and it has a lot of traction.
Different counts by different people have different totals depending on methodology and time frames chosen.
Rudolph Rummel has done the most detailed and documented count of people killed by their own government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._J._Rummel#Democide
Rummel is the creator of the term democide: "the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder". He has further stated: "I use the civil definition of murder, where someone can be guilty of murder if they are responsible in a reckless and wanton way for the loss of life, as in incarcerating people in camps where the may soon die of malnutrition, unattended disease, and forced labor, or deporting them into wastelands where they may die rapidly from exposure and disease."
His research concludes that the death toll from democide is far greater than the death toll from war. After studying over 8,000 reports of government-caused deaths, he estimates that there have been 262 million victims of democide in the last century[7] and that six times as many people have died at the hands of people working for governments than have died in battle.
He argues that there is a relation between political power and democide. Political mass murder grows increasingly common as political power becomes unconstrained. At the other end of the scale, where power is diffuse, checked, and balanced, political violence is a rarity. "The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom." He concludes: "Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth."
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