[Richard Axtell]

This person subscribes to the theory of "acquired guilt". We are guilty of things we did not do, simply because, in his estimation, we profit from the result of what he considers a crime. He of course, also greatly profits from that "crime". His very freedom and right to write what he thinks is dependent upon those ancient wrongs. But he seeks to somehow "atone" for this by rewriting history, and soiling the innocent and the virtuous with blame.

The writer is a confirmed, ideological leftist, without doubt. Why then can we not likewise affix all the guilt of the most dehumanizing, most genocidal, most oppressive regimes the world has ever seen, because this man seeks refuge in their shadow? Why isn't this writer guilty of all the crimes of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Castro? Perhaps, like a true acolyte of Walter Duranty, he has also rewritten the history of those blood soaked regimes, so that he can avoid acquiring their guilt?

[weegee]

To a socialist, "all property is theft".