We need an animated gif with her wagging her tongue. Did anyone watching the video wonder if she spilled acid on her tongue or something.
Posted on 10/16/2009 6:39:02 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
According to "Mao, the Unknown Story", a biography of the dictator by Jung Chang, the fight against the landlords was drawn up between March and June 1947 by Kang Sheng, an expert on terror tactics. "Kang told the cadres and activists to treat whole families as targets, even children," writes Chang. "He stood by smiling when village children beat up 'little landlords' as children from the wrong families were called." The campaign widened to include many people who were enemies of the Party, or of their local villages, but not necessarily landed rich...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Aww, you just don't understand "Progressive-ism" /s
:)
Also, not necessarily to you, but generally talking here: I'm pretty laissez faire, but; I was kinda' hopin' maybe to return this thread primarily to ANITA DUNN this morning, (I realize all the other material including lengthy/graphics ready-made cut and pastes about other revoltionaries are extremely germane and important), but if we could get some specific give and take debate and commentary on the UK article (linked above), and my additional points, regarding THIS Chick of the Hour (Anita Dunn), that might help us a bit I think. I hope to focus on her, Van Jones-style, over the next 48-72 hours, and have her OUT of there!!
Cheers to all... :-)
You know why.
We need an animated gif with her wagging her tongue. Did anyone watching the video wonder if she spilled acid on her tongue or something.
Anyone know if the White House is spinning this morning, if Dunn herself has a public, official accounting of herself. Glen Beck DID personally call her out very strong last night in front of MILLIONS of Americans. She HAS to respond (I would imagine). One way or another. Probably with spin and bullshit if I know the W.H.
This idiot really is amazing. Adopting Mao style rule is like bring a pack of wolves into your home. Sooner or later you will be attacked by the pack.
These people are PURE EVIL.
They want Americans that disagree with them first silenced, then tracked, and then rounded up, and then, apparantly, lined up and shot--if they are true to their heroes and role models. I truly believe this now.
Sorry, as usual, I’m trying to get the “big picture” across that our president is surrounded totally by people who worship scum like Mao and Castro. I think most everyone here knows full well that Mao was a mass murderer of millions of people. So the details of his evilness aren’t that crucial, imo. The important thing is that she spoke so lovingly of him at that talk she gave to high school students. High school students! These people are despicable!
I’ll stick with the former version and give him the long-term benefit of the doubt — at least he wasn’t a Mao worshipper like Anita Dunn. Moreover, Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, was more than prepared to mud wrestle Paul McCartney for the multi-millions in royalties from the songs he and Lennon wrote.
I remember seeing the authors of “Mao, The Untold Story” on BookTV
(C-Span2; weekends) doing a short lecture on their book at one of
the departments at Harvard.
After they made their reasonable argument that, of everyone in China,
Mao had the least love for the peasantry...as he starved them by
taking so much of their rice crops to sell on the international
market to raise $$$ to get nuclear weapons.
Of course, I wasn’t shocked when some aging guy (probably an emeritus
academician) complained that “Your book isn’t being fair to a
great man!” during the Q&A session.
PS: IIRC, Dubya was spotted carrying this book soon after it’s publication.
I think we'll probably find out...
My wife’s grandparents, who were large landholders and farmers, were starved to death by Mao.
Thanks, but I didn’t post the thread. I just added some important background info to it.
Their ignorance then overlooked the fact that Thomas Jefferson, who penned America's Declaration of Independence which laid out the philosophical foundations of a written Constitution to protect the "Creator-endowed" rights of citizens, in others of his writings declared that Jesus "preached philanthropy and universal charity and benevolence," and that "a system of morals is presented to us [by Jesus], which, if filled up in the style and spirit of the rich fragments he left us, would be the most perfect and sublime that has ever been taught by man."
He wrote, "His moral doctrines...were more pure and perfect than those of the most correct of the philosophers...and they went far beyond both in inculcating universal philanthropy, not only to kindred and friends, to neighbors and countrymen, but to all mankind, gathering all into one family, under the bonds of love, charity, peace, common wants, and common aids," which, Jefferson said, "will evince the peculiar superiority of the system of Jesus over all others."
Comparing the Hebrew code which, according to Jefferson, "laid hold of actions only," "He [Jesus] pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man; erected his tribunal in the region of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head."
That Jefferson cut out the statements which he believed to be directly attributable to Jesus, pasted them into a little book which he kept by his bed and read from them daily, might lead one to conclude that his political philosphy may have been influenced by what he considered to be the superiority of the "philosophy" of Jesus.
It is unlikely that any person alive today has read the writings of as many of the great philosophers as Jefferson. His talents and abilities were legend. His devotion to liberty and to the ideas essential to liberty were based on simple principles, some of which, undoubtedly, came from his understanding of the basic law underlying all valid human law: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Jefferson understood that the philosophy capsulated in that idea has the power, if incorporated into individual behavior, to make people in a society more benevolent, more loving, more caring, and more willing to take care of each other.
There is a sharp contrast between a philosophy of love and the politics which motivated Mao, today's radical terrorists, as well as the radical Left which now accumulates power and spouts its personal hatred in our partisan politics. Thomas Jefferson summarized an idea that tyrants of all political persuasions deny by their seeking power over other people's lives: "The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
Chairman Mao's philosophy doesn't even come close to the philosophy underlying America's Constitution.
"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." - Jefferson, 1816
Ever see that Robin Williams movie “The World According To Garp”? In the movie,Garp’s nutty mother decided to start a group of women who cut their tongues out in protest (of something, I don’t recall).Maybe this chick was a holdover from one of those types of groups.
Nice. If it walks like a duck.....
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