{"id":1226,"date":"2007-08-23T05:27:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T10:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2007-08-21T17:26:29","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T22:26:29","slug":"kick-it-when-its-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1226","title":{"rendered":"Kick It When It’s “Down”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Abe at North Star Liberty reminds us<\/a> that…:<\/p>\n

This Friday, August 24th at 6:00 pm, the Teenage Republicans of Minnesota<\/font><\/a> (TAR) will hold a state meeting at the Edina Community Center<\/font><\/a> to talk about the pitfalls of communism.<\/p>\n

Ananh Saenvilay<\/span> spent most of his life under a communist government in Laos. He witnessed first hand how communist governments strip away the rights and freedoms we Americans take for granted…Senator Rudy Boschwitz<\/span> will speak about his service with President Ronald Reagan<\/span>…[and Reagan’s] clear goal of stopping the rapid spread of communism and restoring worldwide freedom through democracy and individual rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Almost sounds like a retro thing, dinnit?<\/p>\n

Except it’s not<\/a>; Marxism is alive and well and being peddled to our kids.\u00a0 Oh, it’s being marketed differently…:<\/p>\n

For the Peace Racket, to kill innocents in cold blood is to buy the right to dialogue, negotiation, concessions\u2014and power. So students learn to identify \u201cinsurgent\u201d or \u201cmilitant\u201d groups with the populations they purport to represent. A few years ago, a peace organization called Transcend equated the demands of the Basque terrorist group ETA with \u201cthe desires of the Basque people\u201d\u2014as if a \u201cpeople\u201d were a monolithic group for whom a band of murderous thugs could presume to speak. The complaints that Transcend made about the Spanish government\u2019s \u201cblockade positions\u201d\u2014its refusal to cave to terrorist demands\u2014and the Spanish media\u2019s lack of \u201cobjectivity\u201d\u2014their refusal to take a middle position between Spanish society and ETA terrorists\u2014are standard Peace Racket fare. Similarly, during Saddam\u2019s dictatorship, \u201cpeace scholars\u201d wrote as if Iraq were equivalent to Saddam and the Baath party, entirely removing from the picture the Shiites and Kurds whom Saddam\u2019s regime subjugated, tortured, and slaughtered.<\/p>\n

The recipes for peace that flow from such thinking seem designed not only to buttress oppression but to create more of it. For if democracies consistently followed the Peace Racket\u2019s recommendations, what they\u2019d eventually reap would be the kind of peace found today in Havana or Pyongyang.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n

And remember – the schools (even an awful lot of private schools) give the “peace racket” not only full credence, but full and un-answered, unbalanced\u00a0access to your children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Abe at North Star Liberty reminds us that…: This Friday, August 24th at 6:00 pm, the Teenage Republicans of Minnesota (TAR) will hold a state meeting at the Edina Community Center to talk about the pitfalls of communism. Ananh Saenvilay spent most of his life under a communist government in Laos. He witnessed first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}