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Communism, The Rational Terror

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), August 27, 2001

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Bourgeois sentimentalism, the lives lost here were necessary for the greater good.

-- (Leon Trotsky @ Potemkin.Village), August 27, 2001.

In an editorial 2 years ago, the post withdrew support for the 2nd amendment of our Constitution. Our Constitution which is anti communist.

I guess they're okay with "peaceful" communism.

-- KoFE (your@town.USSA), August 27, 2001.


How can you claim our constitution is anti-communist when it was written nearly 100 years before Communism was developed?

-- Polly Wanna Cracker (polly@wanna.cracker), August 27, 2001.

Polly,

Have you ever read the Constitution? The principles that are spelled out in that incredible document are the antithesis of communism.

-- J (Y2J@home.comm), August 28, 2001.

Polly makes a good point, if only semantically. KoFE said the Constitution is anti-communist, but how can a document be anti- anything that wouldn't be forumlated until a century later?

Since Communism came long after the Constitution, it's more likely that Communism is the antithesis of the Constitution, not the other way around.

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), August 28, 2001.



Yes, only semantically. Since communism is Marxism, Bolshevism, communism, socialism, collectivism, globalism, (Note the name change every time things got ugly) I think a document written for the sole purpose of protecting citizens freedom is anti communism and some more.

-- KoFE (your@town.USSA), August 29, 2001.

You seem to have a pretty weak grasp of politics, KoFE. You've done nothing but rattle off a list of terms for political philosophies and systems that are similar but not identical. Given your ignorance in this area, it's easy to see why you might think a document can be drafted that is against a political philosophy that won't be developed for 100 years or that the Constitution was only written for one reason.

http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html

You should read it again, or maybe read it for the first time.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

By the way, I want to take this opportunity to state that this post is absolutely antithetical to Gadographalism in all its forms.

-- Polly Wanna Cracker (polly@wanna.cracker), August 29, 2001.


I know enough Polly, to know that the Founders were smart enough to anticipate other political antics that would be contrary to the constitution, thus making it pre-emptively anti-communist.

I was anti-pain-in-the-ass before you showed up too. :-)

-- KoFE (your@town.USSA), August 29, 2001.


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