I can’t believe I missed this! I’m going to have to do some more reading me thinks….

Paul Krugman is the dumbest Nobel Laureate I have had the honor of meeting.
Oh, yes, I have had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Krugman in New York City several years ago.  And I can honestly say, he is getting more aggravating and less intelligent as the…

Seems funny to me that the list doesnt include BILL AIERs or Bernadene Dorn. Or the animal rights lunitics that kill animals daily. Or The NEW BLACK PANTHER MOVEMENT. Im appualled at the attrosity that is our new Homeland security Secratary. I am a vet and I believe that this undermines everyone who served. OH im a christian to and dont believe in abortion. SO i guess im on more than one watch list. Thanks Ill pray for all of you.

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http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/files/miac-strategic-report_0.pdf

Good night and good luck.

Be that as it may, let us consider mortality levels under different governments throughout the 20th century. No other entity has been as responsible for the incomprehensible loss of life in order to pursue and protect its own agenda.

I’ve compiled an admittedly incomplete list of deaths caused by war and politically motivated murder for the early part of the 20th century. I think you will agree that the evils perpetrated by a dictatorial leviathan government are truly horrifying. While I don’t think our government is at this point, I do think that it continues to take baby steps in that direction. Anyway, on to the list:

World War I – 15 Million

* World War II – 50 – 70 Million
– Multitude of causes but most were political.
* Russian Civil War – 9 Million
– If you think about the methods for killing that were available at this time, this number of dead is staggering.
* USSR from Communist Revolution to 1946 – ~60 Million
– ALL of these were political suppression of targeted “threats to the state.”
* Post-War Expulsion of Germans from East Europe (1945-47): 2 Million
* Chinese Civil War (1945-49) – 2.5 Million
*People’s Republic of China (1949-1975) – 40 Million
– Only a small portion of these casualties are attributable to war; the rest represent political suppression.
* Tibet (1950-now) – .6 Million
– Complete political suppression
* Congo Free State (1886-1908) – 8 Million
– War against colonial rule
* Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) – 1 Million

* Armenian Massacre (1915-1923) – 1.5 Million
– Politically motivated “Ethnic” cleansing.
* China, Warlord Era (1917-1928) – .8 Million

* China, Nationalist Era (1928-1937) – 3.1 Million

* Korean War (1950-1953) – 2.8 Million
– Politically motivated – Spread of Communism
* North Korea (1948-now) – 5 Million
– Further atrocities committed by a Communist dictator
* Rwanda and Burundi 1.35 Million

* Second Indochina War (1960-1975) 3.5 Million
– Communist takeover of Vietnam. Untold thousands rounded up and killed after Communist takeover.
Pol Pot (1975-1978) 1.6 Million
– I don’t know what this dude’s issue was but it seems pretty politically motivated to me.

The list continues but I think you get the idea. All of these add up to ~218 Million people killed over the course of ~75 years (~2/3rds the current population of the United States) directly or indirectly due to war or murdered as “enemies of the state.” The number killed as enemies of the state is truly beyond imagining (+100 Million). The vast majority of this complete disregard of life started with some political motivated thought.

Religion cannot even come close to these numbers even if you total them from the time of Christ until now.

These are the kinds of government our founders were trying to protect against. The use of government to single out a group(s) due simply to differing ideology puts us on equal footing with some of the worst despotic regimes this world has ever known. If we the people allow our government the power and authority to make decisions based on this report, we move one step closer to the state proactively silencing “enemies of the state” (through law, internment, or murder).

If you think it can’t happen here, you haven’t been paying attention to history. Consider the following:

The Nazis came to power in Germany as a populist reaction to the harsh penalties imposed after WW I. It used racial scapegoats to divide the population and agressively marketed hysterical nationalistic pride to those that were of the “right” mindset. This allowed those in the majority to rationalize heinous attrocities against their fellow man.

The analog to our situation is evident when we replace racial scapegoating with the Department of Homeland Security’s definition of potential enemies of the state and changing the marketing of hysterical nationalistic pride with the rabid marketing of their definition of “progressive” fervor (read this as – “The answer to all ills is more government. Just send us more money and everything will be ok”) and active suppression of the opposing viewpoint.

The significance of this report is that a high level governmental security agency has issued and then publicized it. I don’t care whether you are liberal or conservative, atheist or religious, this report should concern you and move you to action.

If you currently are on the “right” side you may cheer this, but I ask you to consider what happens when your ideas are perceived as a threat to the state?