I once got into an argument with someone who made the VERY emphatic statement that “socialism and communism are two totally different things!! They are NOT the same!”
I was, to say the least, incredulous at the complete idiocy and lack of education coming from a person who I had thought was much more intelligent.
I suggested some in-depth reading of the enemy’s literature for clarification. To no avail. Some folks would just rather be...ignorant.
RE Layton: Maybe he was privately a great guy. Doesn’t matter. Politically, he was committed to the DEMISE of the personal freedom of the Canadian people and the capitalist system that has done MORE GOOD for human benigs planet-wide than anything else - as his ideological socialist brothers and sisters here in the US and everywhere else across the globe are. That, to me, makes him no better than Hugo Chavez or any other socialist. Doesn’t matter if he had a great smile and a big dog and contributed to the local Ice Cream factory for Homeless Orphans of broken-up Lesbian Marriages.
I got lambasted out here by a few posters for the “hatefulness” of my original comment, which the Admin Mod deleted; I was called a “scumbag” by one, and a “degenerate hate-filled ass” by another, who also compared me to DU’ers. That’s fine. It doesn’t bother me.
What DOES bother me is people out here, on Free Republic, who believe that its OK to censor something just because they find it disagreeable to their delicate sensibilities.
Tho’t that’s what we were fighting against??? Gee...Guess not.
Personally, I find it disagreeable that ANYONE can express sympathy and compasssion at the death of a man who, even as HE knew he was dying, could STILL find the time to sign legislation condemning MORE innocent unborn human beings to death. Legislation totally in keeping with the socialist philosophical underpinning of the NON-sanctity of human life.
Poster icwhatudo, at post 59, brings up the fact that this dead socialist politician was found naked by police in a massage parlor that was under investigation for child prostitution.
And I’m the “degenerate” and “scumbag????” Wow...what a strange, wierd world we live in now.
But hey. That’s the nature of debate, isnt it? Somebody gets ticked off, and has to call names. No problem.
But Names don’t change facts.
That’s what the lefties do. You present facts to them, and they scream “RACIST!!!” “HATEMONGER!!!!” or whatever convenient epithet they decide is appropriate and will make the object of their ignorance cower.
People need to get their priorities straight.
We’re at war with that ideology; more to the point, THEY’RE at war with US, and have been since Marx and Engles crawled out of the slime and wrote their stupid manifesto.
So you are correct - there IS no clean end to a turd. A POS is always going to BE a POS - whether dead or alive - and I’ll not waste tears, nor sympathy, nor compassion on ANYONE espousing that philosophy.
Nor will I PRETEND to for the sake of the delicate sensibilities of a few posters. I say, no so decorously - Get over it. We’re at war. Decide what side you’re on and live with it.
Glad most of us see eye to eye, and thanks for your support.
RE headsonpikes:
I am familiar with Solzhenitsyn. “But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” True, it does. But the last time I checked my own heart, good brother, I wasn’t the one with pen in hand signing legislation that gave the nod of approval of LAW to people aborting human beings.
At the end of the day, he is/was as responsible for those deaths as the man with the suction hose, needle or scalpel in their hand actually doing the deed.
We ALL have our own demons, true. But some people give them free reign, while others of us (thankfully the majority) do not and work to control them.
A “true dat BUMP”!
Wouldn`t it be hilariously ironic if Jack (off) died because of Govt. run Deathcare misdiagnosed or being on a waiting list allowed his cancer to metasticise beyond the point of no return !
LOL
What a two`fer that would be. Tommy Douglas the racist homophobe eugenicist communist and his govt run monopoly of Deathcare kills the neo-marxist head of the party Douglas created !
LOL
The following people will probably have comments like yours stand: Pelosi, maybe Reid, Lautenberg, and politicians who have really proven committed to the destruction of America (like those three). Obama, Waters, Jackson-Lee will probably have comments like yours NOT stand, because they are of color.
It just kinda been tradition on FR to not totally gloat in the death of people -- at least on obituary threads -- unless they are really REALLY bad. You can probably say you are happy they are dead on other threads with little penalty.
You'd think "our" side would know better than to have sympathy for the Devil.