No amount of logic will get someone out of a position that logic did not get them into.

The Communist love of death is quite strong – almost as strong as the Islamist death-lovers. From Paul Bogdanor comes just a few reminders, and there’s really so much more at the link.

Pre-Stalin Vladimir Medem, On Terror [PDF]
Sergei Melgunov, The Red Terror in Russia [PDF]
Sergei Melgunov, The Record of the Red Terror [PDF]
Nicolas Walter, The Legacy of Bolshevism [PDF]

Genocides Inquiry Reveals Lenin Unleashed Systematic Murder of 200,000 Clergy Communist Reign of Terror Killed 200,000 Clergymen Victims were “crucified on royal gates and shot in the basements of the Cheka, scalped, strangled, drowned and submitted to other bestial tortures.”
Soviet Order to Exterminate Cossacks is Unearthed Peter Holquist, “Conduct Merciless Mass Terror”: Decossackization on the Don, 1919 Bolshevik genocide against the Don Cossacks. Samuel D. Sinner, The Open Wound: The Genocide of German Ethnic Minorities in Russia and the Soviet Union Samuel D. Sinner, The German-Russian Genocide: Remembrance in the 21st Century [PDF] Atrocities included “mass rape of the elderly, women and children, mass drownings, prolonged torture sessions, mutilations, hacking up of bodies, mass shootings of hundreds, even thousands in a single action, the holocaust of entire villages – including the burning of all inhabitants and building structures.”

Famines Roman Serbyn, Famine in Ukraine
Summary of the 1921 and 1933 famines. Kazuo Nakai, Soviet Agricultural Policies in the Ukraine and the 1921-1922 Famine [PDF] Roman Serbyn, The First Man-Made Famine in Soviet Ukraine, 1921-1923 Forgotten communist famine, in which millions died. Simon Ertz, The Kazakh Catastrophe and Stalin’s Order of Priorities 1929-1933 [PDF] Yedige Magauin, A Tragedy Kazakhstan Must Never Forget Forced starvation killed a third of the population of Kazakhstan. Raphael Lemkin, Soviet Genocide in Ukraine [PDF]

Afghanistan Afghan Driver Says He Saw Soldiers Blind and Strangle Children [PDF] Afghans Disclose Deaths of 11,000 Communist mass murder in the pre-invasion years. Atrocities and Violations of Human Rights and International Law in Afghanistan [PDF] Eyewitnesses to Afghanistan at War [PDF] Accounts of terror bombing and other war crimes. Rosanne Klass, Lifting the Curtain on Afghanistan’s Horror [PDF]

China Two Millions [PDF] Human Rights in Mainland China [PDF] Uncounted Millions: Mass Death in Mao’s China Scholars Continue to Reveal Mao’s Monstrosities The communists slaughtered many tens of millions in China through massacre, slavery and famine. Jasper Becker, Ex-NPC Chief Admits Maoism Killed Millions Vaclav Smil, China’s Great Famine: 40 Years Later [PDF] Frank Dikötter, Mao’s Great Leap to Famine How the communists created the greatest man-made catastrophe in the history of the world.

Mongolia Mass Buddhist Grave Reported in Mongolia The communist slaughter in Mongolia.

North Korea Jack Rendler, The Last Worst Place on Earth: Human Rights in North Korea [PDF] From Henry D. Sokolski, ed., Planning For a Peaceful Korea [PDF]. An excellent overview of this totalitarian slave state, where millions have been starved to death or murdered in concentration camps. Jack Rendler, Horrific Conditions and Suffering Make It the Last Worst Place on Earth A shorter and more recent account. Fiona Terry, The Deadly Secrets of North Korea Forced starvation has claimed millions of victims, primarily the elderly, the young and the sick. David Hawk, The Hidden Gulag [PDF]

Vietnam – Pre-1975 Lam Thanh Liem, Ho Chi Minh’s Land Reform: Mistake or Crime? 50 Years On, Vietnamese Remember Land Reform Terror The bloodbath inflicted during the North Vietnamese land reform was effectively whitewashed by far-left activists in the West, but the victims were not so quick to forget. The Blood-Red Hands of Ho Chi Minh Stomach-churning accounts of communist mass murder during the Vietnam War. The Massacre of Hue In this communist massacre, thousands of men, women and children were slaughtered. Stephen T. Hosmer, Viet Cong Repression and its Implications For the Future [PDF] Detailed analysis of Viet Cong mass murder campaigns. The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam [PDF] Compilation of research and newspaper reports on communist terror in Vietnam.
Post-1975 Le Thi Anh, Let the Vietnamese Speak For Themselves[PDF] M. Stanton Evans,Westerners Ignore Vietnam Gulag [PDF] Ginetta Sagan, Vietnam’s Postwar Hell [PDF] Concentration camps and mass murder in post-1975 Vietnam. Declaration of Disinherited Vietnamese on Human Rights [PDF] Testament of Patriotic Prisoners in Vietnam [PDF] Victims of state terror beg the outside world for help. Nguyen Cong Hoan, Human Rights in Vietnam I [PDF] II [PDF] Nguyen Cong Hoan, Why I Escaped From Vietnam Defector’s account of totalitarian slavery in post-1975 Vietnam.

Laos 40,000 Reported Held in Harsh Laos Camps [PDF] Tens of thousands of political prisoners were sent to die in concentration camps. The End of the Hmong Lao Human Rights Council, White Paper on Genocide in Laos The Vietnamese and Laotian communists waged a genocidal war against Hmong tribespeople.

Cambodia - Civil War The Agony of Phnom Penh [PDF] Khmer Rouge’s Bloody War on Trapped Villagers [PDF] “I Watched Them Saw Him 3 Days” [PDF] Priest Won’t Leave Refugees Despite Khmer Rouge Threat [PDF] The savagery of the Khmer Rouge was easily discoverable before 1975. President Ford, News Conference on Cambodia [PDF] President Ford warns of “an unbelievable horror story” if the communists capture Cambodia.
Fear of Cambodian Bloodbath Seen Key to Senate Vote on Aid [PDF] More bloodbath predictions; anti-war leftists in Congress successfully cut off the aid shortly afterwards. John D. Lofton, On Genocide in Cambodia The refusal of the aid opponents to take responsibility for the expected consequences of their actions. Killing Fields Yin Savannary, Diary From Darkness [PDF] Asian Blood Bath [PDF] Cambodia: Work Hard or Die Cambodia – An Outlaw Nation [PDF] Early reports from survivors and journalists. Leo Cherne, The Terror in Cambodia [PDF] Leo Cherne, Cambodia – Auschwitz of Asia [PDF] The chairman of the International Rescue Committee describes the mass murders. Craig Etcheson, The Number: Quantifying Crimes Against Humanity in Cambodia Bruce Sharp, Counting Hell Studies demonstrating that the death toll was in the millions.

This illustrates the broader point about gun control: you can’t control technology. Guns are technology. Ideas made concrete by opposable thumbs, time and desire. And duct tape. Technology makes us humans live longer, more comfortable lives. Imagine what our world would be like if Sam Colt, held back by gun control, hadn’t invented assembly lines and interchangeable parts, which led to me typing away on this keyboard and posting my blather to cyberspace. And if the standard to restrict technology is “one child’s life”, isn’t there a plausible case for restricting the use of Facebook and social media in general after the horrific suicides of kids who were bullied on its pages? I mean, who really needs Facebook, anyway? A Bloomberg vs Zuckerberg slug fest… hmmm. (my emphasis)

And let’s see how that works out in a broader, global context – one in which guns have no part. If the Measure of Restriction is, “One Child’s Life,” then WHY is DDT restricted globally by the UN through treaty restrictions and the assistance of our own EPA when it has a greatly demonstrated capacity to SAVE lives?

Justin Tredeau’s shallow-minded inability to digest a post 9/11 world.

Thing is…1996 Gangneung submarine infiltration incident.
The guy they captured?  Caught on a farm, he broke in to steal food, wasn’t worried about being seen, since he was out in the boonies, never ever occurred to him by his own admission that a mere farmer would have a telephone.… Commie infiltrators are routinely tripped up by their very obvious dialect and accent; in fact, defectors to the south have a hard time doing more than getting by, because they are so poorly prepared to live in a high-tech, industrial more-or-less democratic society.

From an isolation born of totalitarian power, the simplest things are completely outside the realm of comprehension:

The trouble with that theory is that the north Korean people have been so isolated for so long; Kim Il Sung (and Kim Jong Il and Kim Jang Un) is their religion and their reason for being.  As former Washington Post and NPR Tokyo correspondant T.R. Reid described in The Man Who Would Be God; North Korea’s Kim Il Sung – The Washington Post | HighBeam Research, on a tour intended to bring in hard western cash in 1992, he interviewed a few north Koreans.

“We learned in history that only by The Great Leader’s Armed Struggle did we defeat the Japanese,” says Chun Chang Yon, a 16-year-old junior at Pyongyang No. 1 Junior-Senior High. “America had no effect on the result.”
Chun says he did learn in history class about the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, but he sees no connection between that and Japan’s defeat in World War II. “We learned that America dropped the atomic bomb, killing so many thousands, because the Americans wanted to show their strength and might to the rest of the world.”This creative approach to history extends to more recent events as well. “Yes, we learned in science class that men had landed on the moon,” said Li Chun Ran, a friendly 17-year-old senior at the same school. “The Russian people sent a man to the moon.”

Their utterly failed “Narrative” still holds them firmly in its grasp:

But it appears that the people of North Korea genuinely do revere their Great Leader.You see it in the awe-filled faces of the pilgrims lined up at Mangyongdae, a Mount Vernon-like expanse of grassy parkland surrounding an Abe Lincoln-style thatched hut purported to be Kim’s birthplace. You see it in the painstaking care of a train porter as she polishes her Kim Il Sung lapel badge at the end of a long day. You hear it in the proud, reverent voice of the teacher chosen to read the daily scripture passage from The Great Leader’s memoirs to the students in a public school.

It is almost as if the people of North Korea would rather believe the myth than face the reality of their brutally difficult daily life.

That must be why the markets have bright color paintings of lush fresh fruits and vegetables on the walls while the actual shelves offer only slim pickings of wormy potatoes and half-rotted onions. That must be why posters depicting happy children greeting the Great Leader in a bosky green park have been erected in the middle of playgrounds that are actually cracked asphalt pavement.

“We are finding that our biggest problem is not the top of the government but the people,” says Aage Holm, an American with the United Nations Development Program who has been working here on a U.N. effort to build economic ties between North Korea and the non-socialist world.

“They are so wrapped up in this business about The Great Leader and their own self-reliance that they don’t want anything to change.

“We say, ‘You have to change. You have to plan for the future.’ And they say, ‘We like things the way they are, the way the Great Leader does it.’ “

And, yes, The Great Leader is Kim Il Sung, dead lo! nearly 20 years. His son, Kim Jong Il, the Dear Leader is also an ex-tyrant. And Li’l Kim can’t seem to get no respect.

I have a dismal vision and see the totalitarian Leftist Narrative-Control in action, resulting in near mind-control — and what California will be like after 70-years of spendthrift One-Party rule and immigration Amnesty. With Amnesty the millionaire Leftists like Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, and even Panetta capture an immigrant hoard who will till the soil of those Lefty plantations and staff their elite restaurants with cheap labor, while the children of the Apparatchiks go to Standford and Cal – just like today, only with a high-speed trainwreck running through it and an economy eating grass…