My Archives: November 2005

My Archives: November 2005

Monday, November 28, 2005

Death, Figures and Proportions
Prof. Rummel had to revise his figures, and the new figures are by no means a reduction.
Here is an overview of collectivism at its best:
The Twentieth Century, the Century of Democide

Hitler wiped out 20,946,000 people (1933-1945)
The Soviet Union murdered 61,911,000 people (1917-1987)
China's communist democide before and after Mao took over the mainland amounts to 76,692,000 people (1923-1987)
The above three figures total 159,549,000 people.
Compare this to what all wars 1900-1987 cost in combat dead: 34,021,000 ~~ including WWI and II, Vietnam, Korea, and the Mexican and Russian Revolutions. Mao alone murdered over twice as many as were killed in combat in all these wars.
This is not all though. The Twentieth Century goes from 1900-1999.
Overall totals for world democide 1900-1999 must now be changed. Upwards. (Prof. Rummel previously had estimated it to be 174,000,000 murdered, of which communist regimes murdered about 148,000,000. Also, compare this to combat dead. Communists overall have murdered four times those killed in combat, while globally the democide toll was over six times that number.) I will not tell you the newest figures, as you will no doubt want to hear more about the research, the details, the sources, the proofs. I refer you then to
Rudy Rummel
Professor Emeritus
and his websites:
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/
http://www.freedomist.net/
New website: http://www.joyphim.org/
Blog: http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/
[this list is not necessarily complete]
If I plug Prof. Rummel's meritorious work here and basically agree with a lot of what he says, I do not agree with all of his positions. Far from it. What's so marvellous about democracy, when democracies hardly wage wars against each other, but wage war against non-democracies (166 wars, not that much less than the 205 wars non-democracies waged against non-democracies)? Few of these 166 wars were justified, if at all. And assuming that wars can be justified at all. Hitler could have been prevented. What happened in Germany is almost as much the fault of non-German rulers as of German rulers. Same difference. Ditto in the case of the Soviet Union. And the war against Iraq is not a "War on Terrorism". That's a joke! It's a war for oil. Among other things. And the problems the American government wants to solve there are those it created itself long ago, like in Iran also. Does Prof. Rummel really think that those who "die for freedom" in Iraq do this really out of their own free will? No, they are forced by a murderous State, a murderous and insane oily Bush, or at least as a result of that Pledge of Allegiance Nazi brainwashing in that bad model of a democracy that was supposed to be and remain a republic, not degenerate into a democracy. Now that broken porcelain is exported to break even more nice porcelain. How about panarchism for Iraq, Prof. Rummel?
Prof. Rummel has of course been criticized, for example here. But I tend to side with Prof. Rummel, as I know that someone who criticizes government attracts all kind of petty critics, all over the political spectrum. Most love government and die for it as a result. So better read a more positive review of his work. "Rummel's Law" is valid. Power Kills.
A final statement of mine. All those many communists in various shades that still run around here in Germany, in my home country Luxemburg and elsewhere on this globe, including close friends of mine (there also were some among my deceased friends), are either total ignorants of some of the most basic facts one needs to know or criminals and acccomplices that one has to put on the same level as Islamist terrorists. Sie wissen nicht was sie tun. Oder glauben. Credo quia absurdum!

Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 11:03 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Golden Girls and Politics, Elections, Sex and Lesploitation
If my memory doesn't betray me (I once had looked it up, but lost the reference and couldn't look it up again now without losing too much time), in a sequel of "Golden Girls", at a time when Muammar Gaddafi made headlines, Rose, having "misheard", had asked Dorothy something like "Is he a Lesbian?" ~~ "No, a Libyan!" Dorothy had answered in a slightly exasperated voice. In another sequel Lesbian is mixed up with Lebanese. You couldn't expect people in St. Olaf to be fluent with such words. I had found the episode particularly funny, considering the silky fashionable ways our Colonel dresses, a bit feminine to our Western eyes. He is apparently the only leader in the world having an all-female body guards unit, who dress in a more masculine style than the Commander.
Quote: "But there *must* be homosexuals who date women?"
"Yes. They're called lesbians."
-- (NBC tv sitcom "Golden Girls," 1991)
Now to other Elective Affinities. In the movie "Elections" a lesbian, still in denial, claims: "It's not like I'm a lesbian or anything. I'm attracted to the person. It's just that all the people I've been attracted to happen to be girls."
How about this variant? "It's not like I'm dumb or anything. I'm attracted to the president. It's just that all the people I've been attracted to happen to be politicians."
If you are like Rose and a voter, but want to learn about elections, turn to the movie and Jonathan David Morris.
PS: Joke: Why did Rose tip toe by the medicine cabinet? She didn't wanna wake up the sleeping pills.
My variant: Why do voters tip toe by the Cabinet? They don't want to wake up the other voters.

Final PS: A "somewhat belated review" of a movie can live with a "somewhat belated plug & comment" like this one. As the subject matter is important enough and would even have fitted my Panarchism site.

Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 09:26 AM GMT+1 [Link]
Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Turkey Diet on Thursday
Snappy Thanksgiving
"Each of its days represent one of America’s all-time favorite pastimes: mindless drinking (Wednesday night, when people drink because, hey, there’s no work tomorrow); reckless eating (all day Thursday, when people eat because, hey, it was there); and shopping for the sake of shopping (Friday morning, when people run through the aisles of Best Buy at 6 AM because, hey, it was open)."
How nicely did our wise JDM put this! It's in this week's column "Sappy Thanksgiving".
I'm not finished yet.
"This is when the leaves turn colors and fresh fires burn from chimneys. America is at its best during Thanksgiving. At no other time is America more American."
JDM, may I draw your kindest of attentions to the often overlooked fact by "professional Americans" that leaves turn color here too (in Europe, that is). And fresh fires burn from chimneys also. What's so American about it? It's just nice. And it/we can be nice here too.
After this slightly snotty remark, well, I have another one. I am never short of those.
About your exports. Democracy. You need not ship it. We have it already. Unfortunately. What's so great about it? Indivicual Sovereignty Is What You Should Export! And, as you well know, America was not even supposed to be a democracy. Just ask the Founders.
We could also well do without drinking so much, without eating so much, without shopping so much.
A stronger sense of quality instead of the bedazzling quantity is what you might put on the list of articles of your mail order American store.
So, go ahead with exporting Cracker Barrel rather than those franchise places all over the globe, that, as I read the other day, even your own state of Vermont has successfully tried to keep out. Nostalgia, that is a word I can spell.

PS: Killing turkeys is done a bit more at home, killing people a bit more abroad these days... But that is a sort of tradition and franchise also. That's talking turkey about those turkeys who believe in the system and support it. Amen.

Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 04:46 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Stop Global Warming
Click here:
Stop Global Warming
As it will hit you too, even if you are a libertarian defender of the free market, and rightly so! The preceding is maybe a nice double entendre, but nature and the market are not the same. The rules are different. Good luck, and let's hope that it is not too late.

Plant trees (and other green), that's the best!!!
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 08:07 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Tuesday, November 1, 2005

These are dangerous times...
You have been learning freedom in school, state schools that is, haven't you? So now you feel at ease among cigars up the butt, dime store training bras, women with balls ~~ and JDM columns. The news is, time has finally come for a female President of the United States. It's official. Official is always what is in the mainstream media. In this case ABC. It's sort like the alphabet. And alpha men? Feminism knows about those!
"But maybe war, power, aggression, and so on have less to do with penises than with who wears the pants."
[This was just a plug for Jonathan David Morris's latest column on my site, should you not have guessed.]
You can actually read it here should you not hesitate to learn also about terrorism in Missouri elementary schools and be braced and strong enough to meditate JDM's concluding sentence.
There is a double danger ahead of us.

Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 03:25 PM GMT+1 [Link]

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