"Democratic Peace" R.J. Rummel's new blog.

Democratic Peace | 12-2004 | R.J. Rummel's new blog

[dynoman]

From the introduction to R.J. Rummel's new blog site;

We have learned much about international relations and politics that provides new insight into old problems. We have learned that:

• Democratic freedom is an engine of economic and human development, and scientific and technological advancement.
• Freedom ameliorates the problem of mass poverty.
• Free people do not suffer from and never have had famines.
• Free people have the least internal violence, turmoil, and political instability.
• Free people commit virtually no democide (government genocide and mass murder). Freedom is therefore a solution to democide; the only practical means of making sure that "Never again!"
• Free people do not make war on each other, and the greater the freedom within two nations, the less violence between them. Globalizing freedom is therefore a solution to war.
• Power corrupts, impoverishes, and kills.

This constellation of inter-connected truths sums up the democratic peace and the consequences of excessive power. Fostering freedom is then a moral, Kantian imperative, as well as a practical and realist solution to many of today's most pressing problems, especially war, violence, democide, famine, and national impoverishment.

I leave to my website the scholarly and scientific analyses establishing these iron laws of history. Here, I will use them to shed bright light on many current issues, policies, and problems.

[dynoman]

If any here haven't seen R.J. Rummel's new blog or his web site you must take the time, it's well worth it. Rummel coined the word "democide" which is government's indiscriminate killing of its own citizens. There is a lot of research about democide and data to show democide has killed many times the people war has.

R.J. Rummel's Blog site.

R.J. Rummel's web site.

Enjoy.

[EagleUSA]

Forward this to Cuba, Viet Nam, N. Korea, Putin and the Progressive Causcus in Congress....

[dynoman]

Is this stuck in just Bloggers & Personal? How do you get it to the other areas of FR like news, government, etc?

[Tijeras_Slim]

I believe work by R.J. Rummel classifies as something a bit more than a blog. Could you move this to News?

Thanks, Slim

[dynoman]

I did post it to News/Activism but that one got pulled.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1312128/posts

I sent mail to the admin moderator saying yes it's that good!

[dynoman]

I did post it to News/Activism but that one got pulled.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1312128/posts

I sent mail to the admin moderator saying yes it's that good!

[dynoman]

this is looking pretty pathetic....

[dynoman]

But it's not about me, it's about R.J. Rummel.

Read.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Well, it's good all the same.

[dynoman]

Hey, I'll donate if you can get some exposure for this thread.

R.J.Rummel deserves it.

And so does FR.

Could we hinge it on a certain number of views?

8-)