If the BLM folks ever got their way, this is precisely what would happen.
Leftists were killing millions of bourgeois and trying to build a perfect Leftist society on top of the ruins of an older Civilization and so the pansy Leftist journalists here decided to look the other way? Because this was exactly they had dreamed of doing right here at home?
I recommend The Killing Fields film to educate younger freepers on the horrors of Cambodia. It features a very young John Malkovich and it’s very good if very violent.
To this day, I remember reading in the newspapers about people with eyeglasses being shot and city workers being forced out of cities into the fields. It sticks in my mind the way the early reports of AIDs turned up in the old NYTs before it was totally pc.
We visited Cambodia last year. Only 10% of the population is over sixty.
Those of us on the right missed nothing!
We didn’t miss what happened in Cambodia, and we didn’t miss the fact that the Left in the United States didn’t offer up one word against what took place there.
The same folks that demonized the U.S. minute by minute for years based on the idea we made human life hell in Vietnam, had no such concerns for human life in Cambodia. For the record the population was close to 4 million in Cambodia in those days, and it’s is estimated very close to half were killed by Pol Pot and his merry band of Leftists.
Our Leftists who ignored this were frauds through and through. We on the right knew it, called them on it, and the media gave them a complete pass.
Even when movies were made, the political connections weren’t. The Leftist never accept credit for what they facilitate, and they facilitated the Communist take-over of Vietnam and what happened in the vacuum that resulted.
As for the bombing in Cambodia, isn’t it interesting that has to be brought up 40 years later, when the reasons for it aren’t germane. Thus a writer can trash the U. S. for the bombing absent any push-back. Another words, the U. S. was evil too, on a par with Pol Pot.
Screw this jackass and the misinformation boat he paddled in on.
Not mentioned here, obviously because of the implications, are the massive deaths in Vietnam as the purge took place at the end of the U. S. presence there.
Nope, Leftists never accept that their actions resulted in hundreds of thousands if not millions of deaths. On to the next F-— up.
Just look at the U. S. right now, and what’s taking place here. The Leftists won’t own any of this down the road. Why it was all the over-reaction by the Right.
We have some sick twisted folks in our nation. They aren’t on the right either.
I saw the trashy movie, "The Killing Fields," where the movie and Hollywood took ten years to report the Cambodian auto genocide. The "Killing Fields" movie did not mention the Khymer Rouge were Communists -- even once! The only reason I knew about the Cambodian auto genocide of 1974 -- 1975 was because I happened to run across John Barron's article in the "Reader's Digest" and read it. And that article was in the 70s while the Khymer Rouge were still in power in Cambodia. That crappy movie, "The Killing Fields," came out after Hollywood's favorite Communists -- the Vietnamese -- took over Cambodia from the Khymer Rouge and repeated the incident that John Barron in "The Reader's Digest" exposed ten years before that horrid "Killing Fields" movie.
Once again white culture failed to keep non whites from butchering one another
And yet we’re not the more accomplished race
We’re just expected to act like it so others don’t have to take the blame they so richly deserve
Pol Pot died of old age
Yellow is a queer shade sometimes
The protests against the Vietnam war ended when the draft ended.
Those who hid behind their signs weren’t against war.
They were against THEM being in war.
“It would not be fair and balanced if I failed to mention that support for the Khmer Rouge became the position of Democratic and Republican politicians (including human rights champion Jimmy Carter and staunch anti-Communist Ronald Reagan)...”
I find that a bit difficult to believe.
Thanks John Kerry!
Missed? When the premise is flawed so is the rest of the argument.
We had more sensors on Cambodia than people can possibly imagine. We knew exactly what was going on but the liberals hated the US defeating the North Vietnam communists so they demanded we stay out of the region, even though countless were being slaughtered there.
What the sign REALLY means:
Kids and babies could be easily swung by their ankles in an arc, the skull fatally impacting the tree trunk. Tree lean favors right arm dominant executioner.
TENS of thousands of kids and babies died at this tree.
The west didn’t care. It was a progressive utopia Pol Pot learned from European French Marxism. Progressives can never admit the failures of their religion.
Nobody missed anything. The anti war hippie scum were racists who couldn’t care less about Cambodia because they’re just “Gooks”.
This was happening in the 1950s once the French gave up North Vietnam. Hundreds of thousands voted with their feet and went South, yet Ho Chi Minh is somehow a Vietnamese Jefferson because he quoted the Declaration of Independence.
The left simply just didn’t care. Still don’t, and never will.
That was part of the Domino Effect that the left poo-pooed at the time.
We were warned that pulling out of Vietnam would cause the other States in the region to fall to the communist murderers. And it happened.
Cambodia was one of the dominos which wasn’t supposed to fall because we should have never been in Vietnam to begin with......
I read a book about this massive “re education program” in a book called First They Killed my Father a few years back. Written from a young woman’s perspective.
it could happen here...
those on the left are so hateful they could wipe out millions without so much as a second thought...
Glenn Beck was right on one thing....he said that wherever the left takes control, there is always violence...