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10 most infamous people in history
San Antonio Express News ^ | 09/07/2011

Posted on 09/08/2011 6:44:46 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Adolf Hitler

Genghis Khan

Marcus Brutus

Judas Iscariot

Cain

Osama Bin Laden

Saddam Hussein

Jack the Ripper

Vlad the Impaler

Lee Harvey Oswald

Source: listphobia.com

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/list/article/10-most-infamous-people-in-history-2158333.php#ixzz1XMsaRBUL


TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: infamous; topten; whereisstalin
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To: drbuzzard

I guess infamous for is probably defined as “whose name can we remember who was really bad?”

First you need to define the context.

Lee Oswald is infamous to the 180 million or so Americans, and a few others out there.

But to someone in Japan, I am sure the list would include Harry Truman and Curtis LeMay.


21 posted on 09/08/2011 6:57:39 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ok, just to review. Here is a list of things that are NOT rights: A home, Health care, and a job.)
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To: drbuzzard

Chomsky defended Pol Pot?


22 posted on 09/08/2011 6:58:29 AM PDT by Maceman (Obama: As American as nasei goreng)
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To: BelegStrongbow

Cesare Borgia.

Classically trained pianist and funny guy, to boot. I loved his “Phonetic Punctuation” bit.


23 posted on 09/08/2011 6:58:57 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Islam is a violent and tyrannical political ideology and has nothing to do with "religion".)
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To: allmendream

Because the method that the Kahns used were so brutal. Alexander annexed countries and absorbed them.

Kahn just killed them all. Men, women, kids, dogs. All of them. You cannot have a rebellion if you are all dead.


24 posted on 09/08/2011 6:58:57 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ok, just to review. Here is a list of things that are NOT rights: A home, Health care, and a job.)
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To: caver

Not a single communist on their list? Mao has the all-time record for mass-murder. Funny how they left off Atilla.


25 posted on 09/08/2011 6:59:09 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: paddles

George Soros?


One day he’ll join Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, et al.... in hell.


26 posted on 09/08/2011 6:59:20 AM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: drbuzzard
The very idea that Lee Harvey Oswald made the list is just plain loony. He doesn’t measure up to those standards at all.

No Attila, either? Oswald's a snot-nosed punk compared to the man that made one of the greatest nations in history feel threatened by his existence.
27 posted on 09/08/2011 6:59:35 AM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: Vermont Lt

Thanks for reminding me about Japan.

Why isn’t Yoko Ono on the list?


28 posted on 09/08/2011 7:01:50 AM PDT by agere_contra ("Debt is the foundation of destruction" : Sarah Palin.)
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To: fhayek

Well, I guess you could claim that Oswald was a communist....


29 posted on 09/08/2011 7:02:23 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: Responsibility2nd

the most infamous will depend on country to country. I can guarantee that if you ran the same questions in China or Japan, most of those listed here would not be known to those questioned


30 posted on 09/08/2011 7:03:05 AM PDT by Cronos (www.forfiter.com)
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To: drbuzzard
What do Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Saddam and Hitler all have in common? All were SOCIALISTS. Saddam was leader of the Socialist Baath Party.

Nazi Party

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known in English as the Nazi Party (from the German Nazi, abbreviated from the pronunciation of Nationalsozialist[5]), was a political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945. It was known as the German Workers' Party (DAP) prior to a change of name in 1920.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party
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National Health Care: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945 [Nazi health care]
Does the Modern Bureaucratization of Medicine Risk a Return to the Horrors of National Socialist Medicine?

by Marc S. Micozzi M.D.

Today we are concerned about issues such as doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, the use of fetal tissue, genetic screening, birth control and sterilization, health-care rationing and the ethics of medical research on animals and humans. These subjects are major challenges in both ethics and economics at the end of the twentieth century. But at the beginning of the twentieth century the desire to create a more scientific medical practice and research had already raised the issues of euthanasia, eugenics, and medical experimentation on human subjects. In addition, the increasing involvement of the German government in medical care and funding medical research established the government-medical complex that the National Socialists later used to execute their extermination policies. ..."

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/national-health-care-medicine-in-germany-1918-1945/
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Saddam Hussein and the
Ba'ath Party student cell,
Cairo, in the period 1959-63
--wikipedia (article: Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party).

31 posted on 09/08/2011 7:04:21 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Vermont Lt
Cities the resisted too long were eliminated other than those spared to spread word. It was a brutal but effective tactic.

Genghis Khan ruled over more conquered human beings than any other conqueror in history - he didn't kill them all - just enough to provide a compelling example.

32 posted on 09/08/2011 7:06:09 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Mao and Stalin not in top 10....


33 posted on 09/08/2011 7:07:44 AM PDT by Recon Dad ("Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way..")
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To: caver

“It should have all teh commie dictators on their, Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Pot Bellied Pig, Castro, etc”.

...Obama.


34 posted on 09/08/2011 7:08:52 AM PDT by albie
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

He probably turned out to be a fat kid that needs to take part in the First Lady’s Fat Fest.


35 posted on 09/08/2011 7:11:40 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Responsibility2nd

Robespierre?


36 posted on 09/08/2011 7:15:54 AM PDT by Mr. Bird
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To: Responsibility2nd

Don’t forget ManBearPig! Or Shakra Man for short.


37 posted on 09/08/2011 7:19:24 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: Vermont Lt

Actually, the Mongols were perfectly happy to let everyone live, provided they got their tribute. What’s more, the Mongol empire was the first country in the world with universal religious toleration and constituted a free-trade zone almost the entire length of Eurasia. Because the Mongols, unlike the Teutonic Knights, were perfectly happy to let the Rus remain Orthodox Christians, St. Alexander Nevsky made the Republic of Novgorod tributary to the Mongols so he could turn his military attentions against the northern Crusaders.

In a way a shame the Mongols’ attitude toward hygiene was as retrograde as their attitude toward religion and commerce was forward-looking: they collapsed due to infectious diseases the spread of which was facilitated by the Mongol abhorence of bathing.


38 posted on 09/08/2011 7:20:59 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Warren E. Burger
William O. Douglas
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Potter Stewart
Thurgood Marshall
Harry Blackmun
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

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William Rehnquist and Byron White dissented.


39 posted on 09/08/2011 7:24:38 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (The views and opinions expressed in this post are true and correct. Deal with it.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
It seems to be based more or bad reputation than actual villiany

Still, I'd nomimate

over some on that list
40 posted on 09/08/2011 7:25:36 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (New gets old. Steampunk is always cool)
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