Posted on 03/23/2005 7:09:31 AM PST by MikeEdwards
I don’t know when it first dawned on me that the study of history was the study of a worldwide criminal enterprise, but a look back at just the last century reveals that the Nazis had it in mind to control and loot all of Europe, while the Empire of Japan sought to do the same with China and Pacific Basin nations.
If you go back in history, Pax Romana, imposed by the Roman Empire was, in essence, a huge extortion scheme in which the conquered nations paid Rome to "protect" them and provide some good roads. If you come forward to our times, for some 70 until 1991, the Soviet Union basically plundered its captive nations in the Baltics and elsewhere until it fell apart due to the inability to do anything in a rational and productive manner. The examples are endless and the most recent is the massive United Nations "Oil for Food" rip-off of billions of dollars intended to benefit the people of Iraq, but which Saddam kept or used to bribe the French and others.
I got to thinking about this as I read Funding Evil by Rachel Ehrenfeld ($14.95, Bonus Books softcover); an extraordinary book about the way the Islamic Jihad is funded largely through the sale of narcotics and a variety of other criminal schemes. It also derives much of its funding from donations to "charities", mostly by and from Saudis, the worst perpetrators of Wahabi fundamentalism on the face of the Earth.
Think about this, however. The whole justification for Islam is that it is morally superior to all other religions. The Saudis and their Middle Eastern brethren are forever denouncing America, Israel, and the West in general as dens of iniquity, places of corruption where pornography . . . .
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Just a reminder...
nw_az is the one that brought us the history of this first!
Actually, the Soviet Union was the first empire in human history where the conquered lived better than the conquerors. The Soviet Union provided raw materials at below world market prices and the East Europeans provided consumer goods of below world market quality. Life was better in Magdeburg, Budapest, and Prague than in Rostov or Odessa.
And the Ukrainian starvation fits in with the conquered how?
I meant the East Europeans.
What a breathtakingly meaningless statement.
War IS organized theft.
No different than Communism or even our own Democrats. They must present that face in order to impose their will, as corrupt and brutal as it may be. Remember, prison and starvation are for your own good.
That is also why alternate views or competitive systems must be eliminated. During each election cycle in the U.S., the Democrat candidate is presented as brilliant and caring and the opposition is cast as stupid and mean.
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