[maddog55]

This is how these idiots should be handled:

[rlmorel]

That image always bothered me, but when I found out the REAL story decades after the US News media portrayed it as a brutal street murder by the unlawful and murderous authorities, this example bothered me even more.

They were at war. That guy being shot was murderous VC.

LINK: The Story Behind Eddie Adams’ Iconic “Saigon Execution” Photo (The REAL story about General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, VC Executioner)

Communism isn't another ideology, just like Democracy or Monarchy.

It is a vile, evil form of totalitarianism that mandates their dedicated foot soldiers (like the man being shot in the famous photo, Nguyễn Văn Lém (Captain Bay Lop) should carry out specific and targeted campaigns of terror against innocents. If there were an animal we should liken communists to, and model our treatment of them after, it would be rats. The world won't, of course, which is why Communism still thrives.

Dedicated Communists should be treated in the same fashion as this man in the photo. Communism should be made as unfashionable as Piracy was in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Although pirates do live on and ply their trade, they are often dispatched without fuss wherever they are met on the high seas. As they should be.

Communists should be treated the same way.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

For those offended by that photo, as many were when first published in 1968, the man with the firearm is a policemen who has just found his godson and family murdered by a viet-cong attack. The man being shot was one of the murderers.

I remember those days.