Posted on 01/21/2008 6:42:22 PM PST by forkinsocket
Today is the anniversary of “George Orwell”’s death, btw.
Modeled closely after communist Chinese "self-criticism sessions."
Public apology and humiliation are very instructive to the other peasants.
Thank YOU for the excellent links! Just a couple days ago that poor fellow in Belarus was sentenced to three years in prison for printing the same cartoon.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956475/posts
No matter what it is called (PC)or how it is disguised (smiles, moral superiority), appeasement is fear. Fear of fighting evil. Just be nice to it and it will go away. Look what Spain did when the muzzl’ems blew up the train. They kicked out their president and replaced him with a wimp so they wouldn’t have to fight. Just my opinion.
Here's a typical example: After Germany surrendered in May of 1945, a group of German POWs approached the Canadian POW camp commander.
"Sir we need to borrow some rifles and bullets to execute deserters", they said.
"Okay", said the Canadian.
"Oh kind sire, could you lend us an armed escort so the Dutch civilians won't interfere?", they asked.
(The deserters had lived amongst the Dutch until the war was over. Naturally once the Germans were defanged everyone in Holland became a 'resistance fighter' and rounded up German deserters.)
Totally illegal and immoral by both international and Canadian law, but that's Canada ......
The Canada Army was unaware that we (the Allies) had dropped about 140,000,000 leaflets promising safe conduct and return home if soldiers would desert.
Always, there's somebody that don't get the memo.
Thanks for the ping.
You are correct we soon will not be able to remember the meaning of “Free Speech”.
I don’t think your post is true.
My Grandmother and Great-Grandmother were called “dirty Canuck”... what an abhorrent way to refer to a person.. someone you do not know... someone who could be the greatest defender of all the conservative beliefs you may have...
and indeed they both were....
Care to make a small wager?
Okay...send me your terms and then your proof.
There are a number of sites I can send you too, but Google Bruno Dorfer and Reiner(sp?) Beck.
And say a prayer the souls of those men who wouldn't fight for the Nazis?
Gulp...ok...no crackpot sites for your proof though.
“All I have to do to know Canada is weird is to look at their coins. The queen on one side; a beaver on the other.”
- Gallagher, back in his Showtime comedy special days.
Your choice: Just google those names. Or ask the Seaforth Highlanders. They are now a reserve unit of the CDF.
I know what you mean.
I know I was horribly appalled and felt a sense of surreal disbelief the first time I read the words “hate crime” as in a reference to something that could actually be proven and punished.
The grim parallel to Gorge Orwell’s “thought crime” seemed so blatantly obvious that I really couldn’t believe that anyone would take it seriously.
Obviously I was wrong. Very very wrong.
It seems like George was off by a few years, but terrifyingly accurate about what’s in store for the world — and that staffer who put together the Hillary “1984” spoof may have been a prophet as well.
Please , could you document your story?
You’re referring to the German military court that executed the two German deserters, Dorfer and Beck , a week after the war ended ?
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