Posted on 08/27/2017 6:37:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the 1920s, Nazis and Communists frequently battled in pubs and streets as they fought for supremacy in Germany. After the prolonged battle, the Nazis won out and the Communists were outlawed in Germany the day Hitler took power. That was the beginning of the rise of the Nazis becoming the most hated group in world history.
The battle between the two groups did not end there as Stalin took control of Communist Russia, renamed the Soviet Union. In the 1930s, while Hitler was consolidating power and beginning to eradicate his enemies, Stalin was throwing thousands into the Gulag and murdering millions. The rivalry -- which had been in Germany -- was now internationalized to determine how despicable these competing and similar political philosophies could become.
Despite the acrimony, on August 23, 1939, these two countries signed a non-aggression pact. They decided to carve up Europe. As you know, that began nine days later when Hitler invaded Poland. With his greatest enemy pacified, Hitler went about taking over the rest of Europe. With only Britain left in the West and convinced that the Americans were going to stay neutral, Hitler decided to turn on his rival and attacked Russia in June, 1941. Do not ask the Polish people who were more evil, the Nazis or the Communists. You might get a three-hour answer demeaning both. They will tell you that both were the definition of evil. The Polish lived it.
This history lesson serves to show why Stalin and the Communists were not perceived as being as evil as Hitler and the Nazis. Everyone has seen pictures of the mass murderer Stalin sitting with Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta. This sanitized Stalin and the Communists. It was probably correct of General George Patton that we should have gone on and wiped out the Russian government. It would have saved the world 45 years of the mass murders they committed and spread through other countries.
As evil as the Nazis were (are) and -- they define evil -- we should never have given the relative pass to Stalin, Mao and other Communists who killed millions and millions of people. We should call out these kinds of evils and never judge them on a relative basis.
Once you achieve a certain level of evil, you are way past the discussion of whether you are just “plain” evil or some other derivative of evil. Claiming you are fighting a despicable evil does not give justification to your existence if you create a comparative level of evil. Both need to be eradicated.
This country has had groups and philosophies that took a significant role in our existence that were overtly evil. Though we have not eliminated them completely, they have been diminished yet are still deplorable blemishes. I doubt we will ever completely get rid of evil philosophies simply because we have 325 million people within our borders. We will have demented, evil people no matter what we do. The price of freedom.
We have laws and police forces to control and minimize the effects of these groups. We have the First Amendment and moral suasion to eradicate them.
We don’t have vigilantes in America.
What we do not need is a private group of people claiming to represent us, using the same tactics as the evil groups, displaying the same hatreds and violence, using a justification of supposedly fighting the evil forces to suppress and damage the First Amendment to reach their self-determined outcome. They are just as evil as the forces they are fighting. We do not need a replay of the Nazis vs. the Communists on the streets of our cities. We don’t need more evil people.
As I wrote before it was fashionable, the Black Bloc, also known as the Antifa, is evil. They are violent anarchists. They are dangerous and potentially destructive to our society. They want to be judge, jury and police force in determining who has rights in this country and who does not. To accomplish that they are ready, willing and able to be violent against anyone they deem to be their unfavorable enemies.
Far too frequently, we see these disgusting militant anarchists cause violence on our streets and our college campuses.
Nazis, Black Bloc, KKK, Antifa, Neo-Fascists (as if there is a fresh take on fascism), Communists, ISIS, Red Brigade, Boko Haram, Khmer Rouge, Al Qaeda. To have a discussion of which one of these is the “good” evil would be ludicrous. Yet we have been having one about a few of these in America. You don’t get to choose your favorite hate group.
Evil is Evil. America stands against all forms of evil. We fought very violent wars to eradicate those evils. Within our borders, we combat them with the rule of law and the First Amendment. Let’s get back to that. That will save America; if we don’t, we will lose America.
Very well written and stated, my only substantive comment is that BLM should be added to the list of hate groups that must not be tolerated.
Southern Poverty Law Center, CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood, and quite a few others, as well.
Fascists decrying Fascism while acting like Fascists.
The left is SO much smarter than the rest of us, aren’t they?
*Rolleyes*
Yes, you are correct. I posted the one that immediately came to mind, your list is more comprehensive.
You guys should check out ETL’s profile page.
ETL, I think you’ll like this editorial.
Thanks for the ping.
Yes, it’s very well done. Sums it up perfectly. Both sides of the recent hostilities are being led by sick, stupid, evil bastards. On one side, neo-Nazi and KKK-types, the other, violent revolutionary communists and anarchists.
Here’s the link to my Profile, or “Home”, page for details on the latter. We already know full well about the former, thanks to the liberal-lefty snooze media and their generally one sided coverage:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/
Excellent commentary!
BTW, I think I have posted it to you in the past, but have you seen the Hayek quote on my FR profile page? The 3rd one down, 2 paragraphs. Sums it up perfectly.
No, I hadn’t seen it before.
But here it is...
“No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties.
The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic.
Their practice showed how closely they are related.
To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type.
While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.
— F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
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Nazi, communists, Hitler, Stalin...
That was back when evil was recognizable, outwardly apparent. The many faces it used were still obvious to good people, and they rose up against it. But what if evil takes a different form? What if it learns to weave in and around society, government and culture? What if it slips into the shapes we're familiar with, the ones that give us comfort and solace? What happens when, with trusting hearts and minds, we embrace evil, because we don't know that it has attached itself to our beliefs, our values?
Which societal institutions can we trust anymore? Can we trust a federal government, whose intelligence apparatus has the stealthiest weapons technology can provide..weapons that continue, on a daily basis, to be used against its own innocent citizens and soldiers?
We elected a man for president, a good man. He has chosen many good people to help him govern. There are good people in our nation's capital, people who love America, and freedom. On one of his shows a couple of weeks ago, Rush was discussing items in the news that day, and was highlighting the rhetoric and invectives used against President Trump and his agenda because, to a sane mind, much of it is way over the top - and on a daily basis. Rush asked a simple question... "WHAT are these people afraid of, WHO are they afraid of?"
I don' the think it's the donors, or the Chamber of Commerce. There is a reason that elected officials continually vote against the people who elected them, and against positions they themselves had not long ago.
We need to ask that question, and keep asking it, until we find the answer.
I just read your homepage. All I can say is wow.
Add to that the Democrat Party.
Thanks, longtime FRiend. :)
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