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Unfortunately it has often gone unchecked and at times to grotesque levels. The victims of stone cold common criminals, the minions of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, the Rwanda genocides, Turkey’s massacre of Armenians, the summary executions of entire populations recorded throughout ancient and recent history.

Give Woody Allen credit. He summarized it best and had great psychological insight. When accused of being an agnostic Jew and indifferent to the Holocaust , his answer was priceless. “ I have no doubt that 6 million Jews were murdered, but my fear is that records are made to be broken”. Lets not forget that Mao in the 1950’s broke that record overtly killing by some estimates 60 million Chinese. It must also be remembered that he personally did little or none of the killing but had no trouble finding goons, thugs and henchmen who avidly did the murders. The other despots also had no trouble recruiting mass killers. People should always realize that such people continue to exist among us and the thin veneer of law, civility and religion has not proven to be impenetrable barriers to their vile actions given the right political circumstances. Americans are not immune to this behavior.

I believe that virtually ANY human being can be induced/brainwashed into such behavior under the right (wrong) circumstances. ALL men are evil by their nature. An allegiance to a higher power is required in order to check such behavior, in individuals first, and then, by extension, in a nation. The reverse process will yield a nation (ex: Nazi Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China) where such atrocities can be carried out wholesale.

Yes Stalin found plenty of willing murderers during the agricultural collectivization campaign. Many were eager Young Communist activists who were convinced they were conducting a great transformational crusade when they stripped peasants of every bit of food and then seized basic possessions such as heavy clothing, beds and bed covers, other furniture items, and all livestock including poultry. The result was millions starved in the Ukraine during the next winter. It is amazing what supposedly normal people can be gotten to do with through lying propaganda and creation of fake SJ crusades.

“Lets not forget that Mao in the 1950’s broke that record overtly killing by some estimates 60 million Chinese. It must also be remembered that he personally did little or none of the killing but had no trouble finding goons, thugs and henchmen who avidly did the murders. The other despots also had no trouble recruiting mass killers. People should always realize that such people continue to exist among us and the thin veneer of law, civility and religion has not proven to be impenetrable barriers to their vile actions given the right political circumstances. Americans are not immune to this behavior.”

Well said, and the key take-away for us in any piece about amoral thugs like Skorzeny and his ilk...

I don’t recall ever reading of an incident where Hitler personally dispatched any of his victims, but had plenty of goons like Heidrich, Eichmann, etc ready willing and able to do his wet work for him...

A quick look back as recently as the killings of innocents at Ruby Ridge and Waco prove your point...The “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave” no doubt has plenty of our own homegrown variety of thug...

Records are indeed made to be broken and if history offers any lessons I have no doubt the new record holder(s) live and breathe among us today...