Buckdog

Lets see, here's two examples; Mao killed amoung other things about 4 million Japanese, Stalin about 5 million Ukrainians.

Sounds like Commies are into genocide as well.

And since we're in education mode lets compare 'democide' to 'genocide' at the following address.

http://www.hawaii.edu/
powerkills/GENOCIDE.HTM

But if one wants to stick to genocide lets not forget:

The Peoples Republic of China

35 million “class enemies”, religious
minorities, Uighurs Muslims, Christians
and Falun Gong.

Killed because of political,national,class, economic, ethnic,and religion differences.

Oop's almost forget the 1,600,000 Tibetan Buddhists because they were well Tibetan Buddhists.

Then there's the good ol' USSR.

15 million “class enemies”

1 million repatriated Soviet nationals

6 million dissidents

400,000 Karachai, Meshketians,Balkar
Crimean Tatars, Ingushi

Slaughtered for political, national, ethnic, and religious reasons.

source: genocidewatch

Yup, those Nazi's were not nice people, no doubt about it, some of the worst. But they didn't hold a monopoly on cruelty or genocide and when you add it all up communism has lasted a lot longer and killed more people.

But what the hay I am willing to concede that we don't need either system on the planet.

Because all extreme brands of socialism lead to the same results.

Out of curiousity, were you dropped on your head when you were young?

The Nazis were extreme Socialists.

What specifically established socialism in Nazi Germany was the price and wage controls in 1936.

After which there was a huge increase in government spending to fund these programs of public works, subsidies, and rearmament.

Enforcing these price-controls meant adopting all of the essential features of a totalitarian state. Such as establishing the category of "economic crime" in which the peaceful pursuit of material self-interest is treated as a criminal offense, and the establishment of a totalitarian police force with spies, informers and the power of arbitrary arrest and imprisonment.

Read more about it here

You really should consider some post secondary education; I would recommend some classes in political science and history. You are really starting to embarrass yourself here now - (it is obvious to everyone who reads your posts). If you aren't going to pursue some higher education, then I urge you to apply for employment with the CTF!!

What's-a-matter left-puppy, facts of reality starting to annoy you?

That your ideology (other than throwing people into blast furnaces) is closer to that of the Nazis than you care to admit?

Your 'Zundel facts' and 'Keegstra facts' are SO extreme they are almost funny (if they weren't so pathetic dm).

Ohhh, how shall I ever recover from such a searing attack from an obviously superior intellect.

Yes,facts are extreme, that's why they're called facts.

With all of the EXTREME nonsense you have been spewing here, you have done a pretty good job of putting yourself on the same page as Zundel. You are also digging yourself in deeper and deeper. A wise man/woman knows when to get out of an argument. "You cannot save both your ass and your face at the same time."

An argument actually takes two sides, so far you have yet to counter a single point.

Name calling doesn't count, but you probably wouldn't have learnt that at socialist U.

If anyone is on the same page as Zundel it would appear to be yourself, denying that Nazism is a form of socialism and that communists the world over committed similar atrocities.

You and Zundel both seem pretty adept at creating your own realities disconected from the real world.

Hey look at this!

Bob Rae making kooky comparisions to the Nazi's and no outrage from 'ol Buckdoggy. Tsk,tsk.

Oh, and look,look,looky here

Bill Graham saying the same thing on public television.

I guess they want to imply that the new softwood lumber deal will lead to the slaughter of millions of innocent people.

Nope, that's not trivialising the holocaust.

Haven't your employers fired you over there yet? (you KNOW of what I speak) hahaha

Come 'on doggy, you can do it, doggy.

Remember you weren't going to allow anyone,anyone, to trivialize the -holocaust-.

I just handed two prime targets to you on a silver plater.

You can do it doggy!

Or maybe you can't.

Maybe, the muzzle comes out when its left-wing politicians making Nazi comparisons.

Isn't it amazing how all that righteous indignation can just magically 'poof' disappear into a vacuous cloud of..... *********

Well I happen to agree with Warren Kinsella who Attacks BOTH Bob Rae AND the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. To quote from his National Post Article

"The Canadian Taxpayers Federation's Saskatchewan director referring to, and minimizing, the deaths of Kristallnacht to make an obscure point."

money bags4me, you can stop your apologizing for David Maclean now. (Who by the way is so opposed to free speech he has started deleting all the posts on this topic he can find over on his website)

Bob Rae is a Liberal, Graham is a liberal and David Maclean is an idiot. A pox on all thier houses.

Nice to know zeker, but last time I checked this wasn't your blog.

David Maclean can fight his own battles.

I apoligize for no one and none of my posts come even close to an 'I am sooo boo hoo, sniff, sniff, sorry.'

And the original point that has been lost was how idiotic it is for people to ignorantly walk around with the bloodthirsty mass murderer Che Guevera on thier t-shirts like he is some kind of hero.

Nobody does it with other mass murderers like 'Hitler', and in the case of Che the analogy actually fits.

I didn't say it was my blog - but good attempt to ignore my comments. Here is David Maclean (who can't or won't defend himself on his own blog) making a statement that most people agree was offensive - including a nationaly sindicated columnist that has written books on this topic.

So they you come along and claim that you "apologize for no one".

First of all, you have only been a blogger since this story broke. Your profile said you were created in May. That's fine there is nothing wrong with that.

However, evey post you have made on blogger (do the search yourself) has been to argue with people who are disagreeing with David Maclean.

Either you are just David Maclean posting under another name (which he does on his blog all the time as r.s. porter and farmer joe) or you are just someone who is his lapdog I don't know. But to claim you are not apologizing for him is to deny your reason for being here.

If you are David Maclean - see you on the unemployment line soon

You guys are just full of conspiracy theories aren't you. Typical.

Blogging is new to me and this is the first topic I was interested in participating in. Before I had the chance the CTF thread disappeared, as has been mentioned here many times already.

But I was able to find this blog on the same topic from other CTF posts.

And my whole reason for being here is to try and figure out exactly why it is that you guys figure Hitler and the Nazi's are 'unique'. What your objective standard, your measuring stick is.

I want to explicitly know what, so far, has been implicit in your comments. To act like it is all self evident is not good enough. I want to see you actually back up your postion.

So far all I've gotten is genocide and while that does make them evil it does not make them unique.

And you can insult me as much as you want, I don't care, it doesn't bother me, and it won't deter me in the least little bit.

You seem to have gotten a bit lost there money bags.

Let me refresh your memory.

David posted the following "Within three months in power, Castro and Che had shamed the Nazi prewar incarceration and murder rate."

That's like saying that a grenade expolding does more damage that a nuclear bomb right before the bomb goes off

Is it a true statment? yes. Is it a meaningful statement? no. It's a rediculous arbirtary stupid point.

Perhaps Che did commit more murders that the Nazis in thier "pre-war period" Che certinaly commited more murders that Hitler before Hitler was 2 years old.

To make stupid statements like this that twist the facts and use arbitrary timelines to achive a point can only mean that the person making the claims feels that Che was acutally worse that Hitler and thus the fact-twisting to suit thier purposes.

All your above posts about other horrors again miss the point. Just because other groups and organizations commit mass murder does not escuse twisting the facts to make a stupid point.

You call that an argument?

You can't even keep the original story straight yourself.

DM posted an article by one Humberto Fontova, who is quite knowledgable on Che, similar to this one.

Which contains the passage that you'all find so offensive. Personally I don't think that Fontova is saying that Che was worse than Hitler, the way you do, but that he was in the same league.

And I do not think that it is a stupid point. To say so is minimizing the horror that this animal(Che) unleased upon humanity.

I think the author makes valid points how people like yourself and Hollywood have a doublestandard when it comes to your standard of evil.

So I will ask you again, what is your standard of evil, and what makes the Nazi's unique to that standard?

If they truly were the ultimate evil in the Universe for all time it shouldn't be hard to answer.

Or maybe it would be easier for you just to explain why a cowardly brutal, mass murdering, torturer like Che deserves hero status?

And your gernade analogy is ridiculous.

What is more evil throwing a gernade into a school room killing all the children or dropping a Nuke on it killing everybody within a hundred miles.

Here is a hint, they are both wrong. With the difference being degrees of destruction. Saying they are both wrong does not diminish one or the other.

If you want to focus on the nuke that's fine. But don't get on your high horse and try to trivialize what happened with the gernade, those were real people as well. And they deserve as much respect and dignity as everyone else.

Wow! Moneybags, for someone who is not David Maclean, you sure do remember that post that he deleted really well.

And good on you for finding the orginial article that he was talking about and linking to that.

David sure is lucky to have a friend like you looking out for him.

Anyway, on to the show.

At no point have I said Che was a good person, or that I agreed with him, or that he was not a mass murderer.

Wat I said was that to pick just the "pre-war" period of Hitler and claim that Che killed more people is a stupid statement, as I explanied above - it is a twisting of facts.

As for "But don't get on your high horse and try to trivialize what happened with the gernade, those were real people as well. And they deserve as much respect and dignity as everyone else."

You seem to have completly missed my point. My point was that using these sort of distinctions is silly becasue BOTH acts are wrong, but the bomb is worse - and to act otherwise is crazy.

Also interesting is if you truly belive that my hypothetical example of a bomb exploding is offensive becasue I am "minimizing" the "real people" who were affected (by my completly made-up example) then why the hell are you running around laying down your left nut for David Maclean who ACTUALLY TRIVIALIZED THE DEATHS OF REAL PEOPLE.

You want my standard for evil. Mass Murder. The more murders you commit the worse you are.

Thus Hitler, when examined over his entire life, is much worse than Che examined over his entire life.

And any other bogus time-line comparisons to make Che look wore is to minimiaze the deaths of the 6 million Jews in Hitler's concentration camps.

That's right - acutally people. Innocent people. And DM waved them away with his "pre-war timeline" crap.

Hmm, interesting I wasn't able to find the 'same' article only a similar one by the same author, he seems to have used the same quote in a number of articles. Though Zeker thinks it is the same article that started everything.

Makes one wonder whether Zeker actually read any of the original CTF entry.

Anyways...

The facts have not been twisted by anyone other than yourselves. Humberto Fontova(who incidently is the guy I'm sticking up for since they are his words and his research, not David Macleans) makes a legitimate comparision, and in the context he is using he is absolutely correct.

If he had compared Che's activities to the holocaust then he would be out of line. But he didn't. You did. You are the ones who are trying (and failing miserably) to change the context, to put words in Fontovo's mouth that he didn't say, all to draw the spotlight away from one of the left's favorite t-shirt\poster boys.

Fontova has nothing to be ashamed of. You do.

And if I'm gonna give up a nut, you can be damn sure that I'm keep'in the 'right' one.

Anonymous, you really should take the time to read all the threads before passing judgement.

While communism meets Zecker's standard of mass murder as evil. And the more you murder the worse you are. I conceded early on that my hatred for the Nazi's is virtually identical because they did the same kinds of things to their own people on an industrial scale for the same reasons. Just like communists throughout history the world over.

I believe the Nazi's were evil, I believe communism is evil and I believe Che was evil. And the same standard of mass murder, torture, and cruelty to their own people, can be applied to all.

Sticks and stones, anonymous, sticks and stones.

UPDATE:

The persons posting on this thread as 'moneybags4me' was eventually disclosed to be DAVID MACLEAN ... employee of the CTF and the person who put the offending post on the CTF site in the first place.

AFter being exposed, Mr. MacLean eventually had to leave the Canadian Taxpayers Federation!!

What a fraud!!!