10 most infamous people in history

San Antonio Express News ^ | 09/07/2011

[Vermont Lt]

I guess infamous for is probably defined as “whose name can we remember who was really bad?”

First you need to define the context.

Lee Oswald is infamous to the 180 million or so Americans, and a few others out there.

But to someone in Japan, I am sure the list would include Harry Truman and Curtis LeMay.

[Maceman]

Chomsky defended Pol Pot?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Cesare Borgia.

Classically trained pianist and funny guy, to boot. I loved his “Phonetic Punctuation” bit.

[Vermont Lt]

Because the method that the Kahns used were so brutal. Alexander annexed countries and absorbed them.

Kahn just killed them all. Men, women, kids, dogs. All of them. You cannot have a rebellion if you are all dead.

[fhayek]

Not a single communist on their list? Mao has the all-time record for mass-murder. Funny how they left off Atilla.

[unkus]

George Soros?

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One day he’ll join Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, et al.... in hell.

[Renderofveils]

The very idea that Lee Harvey Oswald made the list is just plain loony. He doesn’t measure up to those standards at all.

No Attila, either? Oswald's a snot-nosed punk compared to the man that made one of the greatest nations in history feel threatened by his existence.

[agere_contra]

Thanks for reminding me about Japan.

Why isn’t Yoko Ono on the list?

[fhayek]

Well, I guess you could claim that Oswald was a communist....

[Cronos]

the most infamous will depend on country to country. I can guarantee that if you ran the same questions in China or Japan, most of those listed here would not be known to those questioned

[ETL]

What do Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Saddam and Hitler all have in common? All were SOCIALISTS. Saddam was leader of the Socialist Baath Party.

Nazi Party

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known in English as the Nazi Party (from the German Nazi, abbreviated from the pronunciation of Nationalsozialist[5]), was a political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945. It was known as the German Workers' Party (DAP) prior to a change of name in 1920.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party
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National Health Care: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945 [Nazi health care]
Does the Modern Bureaucratization of Medicine Risk a Return to the Horrors of National Socialist Medicine?

by Marc S. Micozzi M.D.

Today we are concerned about issues such as doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, the use of fetal tissue, genetic screening, birth control and sterilization, health-care rationing and the ethics of medical research on animals and humans. These subjects are major challenges in both ethics and economics at the end of the twentieth century. But at the beginning of the twentieth century the desire to create a more scientific medical practice and research had already raised the issues of euthanasia, eugenics, and medical experimentation on human subjects. In addition, the increasing involvement of the German government in medical care and funding medical research established the government-medical complex that the National Socialists later used to execute their extermination policies. ..."

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/national-health-care-medicine-in-germany-1918-1945/
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Saddam Hussein and the
Ba'ath Party student cell,
Cairo, in the period 1959-63
--wikipedia (article: Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party).

[allmendream]

Cities the resisted too long were eliminated other than those spared to spread word. It was a brutal but effective tactic.

Genghis Khan ruled over more conquered human beings than any other conqueror in history - he didn't kill them all - just enough to provide a compelling example.

[Recon Dad]

Mao and Stalin not in top 10....

[albie]

“It should have all teh commie dictators on their, Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Pot Bellied Pig, Castro, etc”.

...Obama.

[crusty old prospector]

He probably turned out to be a fat kid that needs to take part in the First Lady’s Fat Fest.

[Mr. Bird]

Robespierre?

[LRoggy]

Don’t forget ManBearPig! Or Shakra Man for short.

[The_Reader_David]

Actually, the Mongols were perfectly happy to let everyone live, provided they got their tribute. What’s more, the Mongol empire was the first country in the world with universal religious toleration and constituted a free-trade zone almost the entire length of Eurasia. Because the Mongols, unlike the Teutonic Knights, were perfectly happy to let the Rus remain Orthodox Christians, St. Alexander Nevsky made the Republic of Novgorod tributary to the Mongols so he could turn his military attentions against the northern Crusaders.

In a way a shame the Mongols’ attitude toward hygiene was as retrograde as their attitude toward religion and commerce was forward-looking: they collapsed due to infectious diseases the spread of which was facilitated by the Mongol abhorence of bathing.

[Responsibility2nd]

Warren E. Burger
William O. Douglas
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Potter Stewart
Thurgood Marshall
Harry Blackmun
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

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William Rehnquist and Byron White dissented.

[Oztrich Boy]

It seems to be based more or bad reputation than actual villiany

Still, I'd nomimate

• Atilla the Hun
• Bob Ford
• William Joyce
• Lucius Domitas Claudius Nero
• Gilles de Rais
• Edward Teach

over some on that list