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To: Qbert

Actually I think a better comparison can be made with government employees. Tea party members are political activists, not a social/occupational group. Like government employees today, kulaks were vilified simply on the basis of their occupation, not for their political activism. They lived their lives in good faith and were castigated for political purposes. I’m not saying that there aren’t abuses and waste in the public sector, or that all public sector workers are blameless, but the broad brush attacks on civil servants remind me of the outlandish charges leveled against the kulaks during the period of collectivism.


20 posted on 08/24/2011 5:32:56 PM PDT by Route797
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To: Route797
Like government employees today, kulaks were vilified simply on the basis of their occupation,

They were not vilified on the basis of their occupation. They were vilified on the basis of belonging to a particular socio-economic class. They were vilified as exploiters of the peasant class. It was their relationship to another class that was exploited.

Furthermore, government employees are not demonized by the government, as the kulaks were. That is a huge difference. It's odd that you've overlooked it. Perhaps you got lost on your way to the DUmpster?

24 posted on 08/24/2011 5:43:57 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Route797

My county government in washington only hires leftist environmentalist.

I refuse county personnel access to my property which they believe belongs to them.

A few years ago the county created a secret list of land owners. A revenge list or a $hix list.

This was discovered via foia.

Tell me how wrong I am again.


28 posted on 08/24/2011 6:08:05 PM PDT by kennyboy509 ( Ha! I kill me!!!)
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To: Route797
"Like government employees today, kulaks were vilified simply on the basis of their occupation, not for their political activism. "

That's a very dishonest argument.

* Kulaks were deprived of their properties and terrorized by government criminals. People with government positions/incomes in nearly every locale are doing the same to property owners now with obvious intentions to intensify their campaigns.

* Government employees are using both their positions and bipartisan political activism to subjugate, steal from and violate the property rights of other Americans.


37 posted on 08/24/2011 8:20:30 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96)
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To: Route797
the broad brush attacks on civil servants remind me of the outlandish charges leveled against the kulaks during the period of collectivism.

Of course, a good socialist/communist is compelled to say that. Never mind that the comparison is absurd, one being a producer, the other a parasite.
I'll let others sort out which is which.

The poor abused pigs, the "more equal" animals deserve the better status, wealth, perks and position they enjoy so much so, that they can spend hundreds of millions$ to maintain their priviledged position.

The working taxpayer, the horse, better not complain, cuz their perfect paradise depends on him.

41 posted on 08/24/2011 10:41:35 PM PDT by Publius6961 (My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
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