Hate on the Left

The video that appeared more often than any other on my TV screen this past week showed protestors toppling a statue of a confederate soldier in Durham, North Carolina. Then kicking it, stomping on it, spitting at it.

The Workers World Party is the group that pulled off this feat and they were also involved in the violent conflict in Charlottesville.

So, who are they? You didn’t learn much about them if you watched CNN or even Fox News. The commentators on the regular cable channels were too focused on racists and white nationalists and why Donald Trump wasn’t condemning them enough. So, I turned to Google instead.

Wikipedia descries the WWP as a communist party. But they are not garden variety communists. Its website makes clear that these folks admire North Korea and its mentally-deranged dictator, Kim Jong Un. They even defend Jong Un’s efforts to develop the nuclear weapons that currently threaten every innocent person who happens to be on Guam.

Although the WWP describes itself as a party that supports “the struggles of all oppressed peoples," you won’t find any country in the whole world where people have been more systematically oppressed than North Korea. A UN report estimates that 18 million North Koreans go to bed hungry every night, including 1.3 million children under the age of five.

While his fellow countrymen were starving, Kim Jong Un managed to slip by international sanctions and import $2.09 billion in luxury goods from China between 2012 and 2014, according to The New York Times. The items included Mercedes-Benz S-Class cars and a luxury yacht worth as much as $6 million. More recently, he imported the materials needed to construct a world class ski resort. As far as anyone can tell, the only skier who uses it is Kim Jong Un himself.

This case is not unusual. Over the past 100 years the most oppressive ideology in the world has been communism. While the people who lived under it were starved, tortured and murdered, its leaders lived in luxury. The suppression of ordinary people by their communist rulers far surpasses anything capitalist employers were ever accused of doing. While condemning exploitation, communist dictators turned out to be masters at it.

Fidel Castro’s former bodyguard Juan Reinaldo Sánchez says that the communist leader “lived like a king” and “ran country like a cross between medieval overlord and Louis XV.” While ordinary Cubans stood in breadlines and suffered the effects of a declining economy, Castro had his own private yacht and his own private island -- a luxurious Caribbean getaway, complete with dolphins and a turtle farm. In Havana, he lived in an immense estate with a rooftop bowling alley, a basketball court and fully-equipped medical center.

According to Hong Kong-based historian, Frank Dikötter, Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-tung was the greatest mass murderer in world history. “At least 45 million people were worked, starved or beaten to death,” he writes. “It was like [the Cambodian communist dictator] Pol Pot's genocide multiplied 20 times over."

In abook written by Mao’sown personal physician, Dr. Li Zhisui writes:

Despite his populist pretensions, Mao lived like a traditional emperor with all the material comforts that China could afford. His physical needs were taken care of by attendants recruited from young, uneducated peasants, who bathed and clothed him and combed his hair …. [He] indulged in young women--sometimes more than one at the same time -- and … even had a special bed made for his sexual activity…

The world’s second greatest mass murderer, Josef Stalin, killed 20 million, many by forced starvation. Stalin himself had no fear of starvation, however. Upon his death, he was worth an estimated$75 million.

On his death, Mao Tse-tung was worth an estimated $1 billion. Mao’s granddaughter has been named to China’s rich list, with a fortune of nearly £530 million.

During the reign of avowed Marxist Hugo Chavez, Venezuela drowned in a sea of corruption involving “some of the most senior figures in Mr. Chávez’s “Bolivarian revolution,’” according to The Economist. The country was ranked as the eighth most graft-ridden county in the world. Even places like Haiti and Zimbabwe ranked higher.

Although Chavez is now dead, the country has continued its decline into dictatorship under the rule of Nicolas Maduro. Yet while ordinary people face food shortages, skyrocketing inflation and abject poverty, Chavez’s daughter, María Gabriela Chávez, has bank accounts in the U.S. and Andorra withassets totaling nearly $4.2 billion – making her the richest individual in the country.

R.J. Rummel estimates that almost 170 million people were killed in the 20^th century by their own governments. These are not deaths in war. They are the victims of genocide by the governments in the countries where they lived.

Almost all American billionaires are philanthropists. At last count, 141 of them have pledged to give half their wealth away. Warren Buffett is giving 95% away. Bill Gates is giving 99%.

You will find very little charity where leftists are in power.

Exactly.

I found that was an fantastic article, even by the already high standards of Victor Davis Hanson.

he’s completely cracked, as usual.

The man’s insight is fantastic and his eye for detail is very rich.

He is an excellent describer of the things he sees while bicycling near Fresno.

I no longer watch FOX News, or any other network, for that matter.

I quit when Bill O’Reilly got fired.

I tried watching One America News, but just never got in rhythm with them.

I’m waiting for Bannon, O’Reilly, Hannity and Tucker to start a Real Conservative TV network!

Until then, I’ll rely on talk radio and the internet for my news sources - helps keep my blood pressure in check, too!

“I took a few classes in the philosophy of adult education and thought it strange that Marx was considered a great educator.”

OMG! Marx! Educating people about what? He didn't do well at University, and his only claim to fame is a hateful diatribe against the kinds of people that his father thought he should become - successful people.

That's not to say that the haves don't periodically screw over the have-nots. Of course that happens. Ironically, Trump is the one who is actually trying to stop this from happening, by fighting the globalists who live in luxury in this country, but shop for the cheapest labor around the globe.

Go to the website “www.keywiki.org” to find more on the Workers World Party’s true identity that you won’t find on www.Wikipedia.org.

Also see www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org” as well as the House Internal Security Committee’s early study on the WWP and its fronts through the early 1970’s - “The Workers World Party and Its Front Organizations”, A Study, HISC, APRIL, 1974, Subdoc # 28-301 O, GPO, (might be on the internet).

Some of their early leaders are still around - Larry Holmes, Sara Flounders, Gemma Gavrielle (heard she was bonking Ramsay Clark and got him to front the WWP’s “International Action Center” (IAC) and support their ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism); Gloria La Riva, Brian Becker, John Catalinotto, Diedre Griswold, Andy Stapp, etc.

What a merry bunch of Red Coconuts we have. Pure-Stalinists, No. Korea loving psychopaths. No sense of humor but lots of money. Hmmmm. Has the Kimchee family been sending their supporters some Dongs?

[ I bet his secretary will then have a higher salary than he! ]

George Costanza: A secretary cannot make more than her boss!!!

Secretary: Apparently she can!!!

Bannon's starting to tweet more - I'm following him and encouraging him to make the war a "take no prisoners' affair.

Bad as it can be, Fox is sometimes still OK and when something big is going on (or has the potential for turning to something big fast) I use them.

I am not a “Tweeter,” so must depend on others to send the message - please continue to urge him on!

It probably is as you say, but, you know what? I am much better off not watching ANY TV news. I use my own filter on the internet, and I believe I am fairly knowledgeable and well-grounded.

HST, until the Bannon, O’Reily, Hannity et al TV network comes on line, if I were to watch the TV News, it would be FOX News and FOX Business.

For now, neither!

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