23 Replies to “A History Lesson For Political Radicals”

  1. And aren’t we all delighted with PM Trudeau’s ‘admiration for basic dictatorship’…?
    Gird up yer loins its gonna be a rough ride!
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North’
    …
    Thank you for your correspondence following the death of Fidel Castro.
    With Fidel Castro’s passing, my thoughts and prayers are with the people of Cuba, who continue to endure his long and oppressive regime, even after his death. Under his rule, thousands were impoverished, thousands were imprisoned and executed, and free speech, thought and assembly were curtailed and banned. All this to live up to Fidel Castro’s version of “socialism.”
    Canadians were shocked and appalled by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s inappropriate statement regarding Fidel Castro’s passing. On their behalf, Prime Minister Trudeau described Fidel Castro as a remarkable leader. I have repeatedly asked Prime Minister Trudeau what he was thinking when he eulogized one of the world’s worst dictators. Distressingly, he continues to stand by his statement.
    Canada and the Cuban people have had a long and warm friendship over many years. With the passing of Fidel Castro, I know Canadians join me in wishing for brighter days ahead for the people of Cuba. My hope is that Cubans may live in freedom and in a country where democracy, human rights and the rule of law are enshrined.
    Once again, thank you for taking the time to write.
    Yours truly,
    The Hon. Rona Ambrose, P.C., M.P.
    Leader of the Official Opposition
    From: Hans Rupprecht [mailto:hancor@msn.com]
    Sent: November 28, 2016 1:40 PM
    To: Prime Minister’s Office; Trudeau, Justin – Député; Ambrose, Rona – M.P.; Warawa, Mark – M.P.; Warawa, Mark – Assistant 1; Leitch, Kellie – M.P.; Scheer, Andrew – M.P.
    Subject: RE: Statement on Fidel Castro
    Dear Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau
    You do not speak for me, in your offer of condolences and ‘deep and lasting affection for “el Commandante”’.
    With your rash and unmeasured words you have unleashed heaps of scorn and mockery:
    https://twitter.com/search?q=trudeaueulogy
    In the same vein one could be writing eulogies for Timur:
    Tamerlane while ‘controversial’ will be missed for his contributions to ‘urban renewal’, as will his efforts at skull pyramid art.
    I suggest you take some time to reflect on the outright ahistorical paean to what can only be described as brutal dictator.
    This renders your same day released statement on the Holodomor a black farce.
    I am sorry to inform you but your statements on Castro and the Holodomor on the same day are MONUMENTALLY STUPID and in direct contradiction
    to each other. The victims of communism aren’t just something you can gloss over; despite your love and admiration for basic dictatorship.
    I am embarrassed to have you as my Prime Minister.
    If this reflects the level of your historical governmental awareness, you should be fired.
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht
    3653 – 202A Street
    Langley, BC
    V3A7M8
    Phone: 604-530-7895
    Why the praise for Castro if history demonstrates otherwise? Here’s a breakdown of Castro’s bloody past and his dealings:
    Castro originally had the support of Americans, wrote Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby. Here’s more on it:
    The United States welcomed Castro’s ouster of Batista and was one of the first nations to recognize the new government in 1959. It was not until 1961 that President Eisenhower — reacting to “a long series of harassments, baseless accusations, and vilification” — broke diplomatic ties with Havana. By that point Castro had nationalized all US businesses in Cuba and confiscated American properties worth nearly $2 billion.
    Castro’s policies led to the deaths of an estimated 35,000 to 141,000 Cubans from 1959-1987, per the late University of Hawaii professor RJ Rummel (who specialized in democide, or state-sanctioned murder). 73,000 Cuban deaths is the consensus number reached by the majority of experts.
    Castro turned Cuba into a police state. The Guardian wrote, “While Castro became a figurehead for revolutionary armed struggle throughout and beyond Latin America, the former guerrilla was far from universally popular in his home country once he turned his hand to government. Property appropriations, restrictions on religion and crackdowns on suspected enemies left many, particularly in the old middle class, hating him – a sentiment that has spanned the generations.”
    Castro was a racist, sexist, homophobe, and all-around xenophobe. Here’s more about racism in Castro’s Cuba from the NYT:
    Racism in Cuba has been concealed and reinforced in part because it isn’t talked about. The government hasn’t allowed racial prejudice to be debated or confronted politically or culturally, often pretending instead as though it didn’t exist. Before 1990, black Cubans suffered a paralysis of economic mobility while, paradoxically, the government decreed the end of racism in speeches and publications. To question the extent of racial progress was tantamount to a counterrevolutionary act. This made it almost impossible to point out the obvious: racism is alive and well.
    ….
    An important first step would be to finally get an accurate official count of Afro-Cubans. The black population in Cuba is far larger than the spurious numbers of the most recent censuses. The number of blacks on the street undermines, in the most obvious way, the numerical fraud that puts at less than one-fifth of the population. Many people forget that in Cuba, a drop of white blood can — if only on paper — make a mestizo, or white person, out of someone who in social reality falls into neither of those categories. Here, the nuances governing skin color are a tragicomedy that hides longstanding racial conflicts.
    Before gloating over Castro’s supposed “golden” legacy, learn the actual facts about this tyrant. He is not worthy of celebrating. His legacy is tainted with blood, hatred, and disdain for freedom.
    Although freedom may not come to Cubans in the immediate future, Castro’s death can serve as an impetus for them to reclaim their homeland from dictatorship. Viva Cuba Libre!

  2. Did the Roosevelt Administration Send Uranium and Other Atomic Materials to Stalin?
    It’s difficult to imagine someone more important in U.S. history than Harry Hopkins, but Americans don’t learn much more than his name, if that, in school.
    This means we aren’t taught that Hopkins, FDR’s top wartime advisor, ran what became known as “Roosevelt’s own personal Foreign Office” from the Lincoln Bedroom, where Hopkins lived for three-and-half-years. We aren’t taught that this former social worker in key ways controlled U.S. foreign policy by controlling the distribution of U.S. military materiel to countries at war through his supervision of the massive Lend Lease program. We aren’t taught he attended the famous wartime conferences as de facto “foreign minister.” We certainly aren’t taught that Lend Lease, perhaps even Hopkins himself, pushed uranium and other A-bomb essentials through to Stalin. 
    These uranium shipments, erased from our historical memory but documented by Congress in 1950, took place at a time when the atomic development program known as the Manhattan Project was, we thought, our most precious secret.
    Why would Lend Lease, overseen by Hopkins — who was also, not incidentally, FDR’s liaison to atomic research — do such a thing?
    The answer may relate to something else we don’t learn about Harry Hopkins: FDR’s powerful wartime advisor may have been a Soviet agent — and “the most important of all Soviet wartime agents.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2013/08/05/did-the-roosevelt-administration-send-uranium-and-other-atomic-materials-to-stalin/

  4. Interesting lecture. I liked the presentation of the facts, especially ones often ignored. I don’t agree with the conclusion because the horrors of the 20th century holocausts, political purges and genocides are poignant examples that an individual cannot defeat a tyrant. More likely it will lead to the individual and their loved ones destruction. By standing up to the politically correct gender pronoun he is setting a good example of bravery but that is not a life or death situation. Even (especially?) at universities the culture is extremely intolerant of non-conformist, non-progressive thought but they don’t actually plan to carry out the final solution.
    Well, except for the radical environmentalist academics like the Texas “doomsday” ecologist, Dr. Eric R. Pianka:
    “On the day he was named by the Academy as 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist, Pianka declared that AIDS was not killing off the surplus human population fast enough. What is needed, he said, is Ebola to kill 5.8 billion of the world’s 6 billion plus humans. The speech received a prolonged standing ovation at the Academy’s annual meeting at Lamar University in Beaumont.”

  5. Interestingly his entire lecture could be directed at the Green Movement with slight changes in the names.
    I tend to be bothersome to dedicated lefties, when the expound on jailing opponents to their ideology by asking, “on what charges, what’s the purpose, is it punishment or re-education”?? Try it yourself sometimes, the answers will astound you.

  6. I’m sure Red Rachel and her commie gang would be delighted if this is what happens to Alberta.

  8. Delighted? They would be ecstatic! They would be coming in their panties constantly! And they are trying their best to make us the first fully commie province in Canuckistan.

  9. No where in my ‘alleged preaching to the converted’ did I reference the Scripture; so your comment has exactly NO LOGIC. Therefore you need to come up with something better than a “non sequitur”.
    Try dealing with what is said, as opposed to your fevered emotional reaction when the left-o-sphere is called into question. The Communists have and do manage to walk over a lot of bodies, so maybe you would like to address that issue.
    And if I’m, from your perspective, ‘pretentious and insufferable’ you can go elsewhere if you need validation for your politics; as the left-o-sphere has plenty of spaces to vent your spleen.
    Your emotional bafflegab doesn’t however change that fact that 100s of millions died at the behest of extreme leftist ideology. If you are ignorant of this fact you may wish to inform yourself at the following link:
    DEATH BY GOVERNMENT
    By R.J. Rummel
    https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM
    II 128,168,000 VICTIMS: THE DEKA-MEGAMURDERERS
    61,911,000 Murdered: The Soviet Gulag State
    35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Ant Hill
    20,946,000 Murdered: The Nazi Genocide State
    10,214,000 Murdered: The Depraved Nationalist Regime
    This puts the Communists as the champion all time government murderers…but you would prefer we all bow down to the state and honour their treatment of it’s citizens?
    You can draw your own conclusions.
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North’

  10. Well said once again. A couple of dozen of 61,911,000 that Stalin killed in the Gulag were my members of my extended family. At least one was shot by the mass grave near the city of Orenburg in 1937 and to my knowledge the rest died in labour/re-education camps. One died in the forest near Perm when he collapsed of a heart attack in the snow on the way back to camp after a day cutting down trees for the lumber export business that Stalin was conducting to acquire foreign currency reserves. A fellow prisoner saw the guard dogs tearing at him and told the widow fifteen years later after his term was up.
    gfy is a piece of filth.
    Professor Peterson does get a few small details incorrect. He talks about uneconomic ventures in the labour camps. While the canal he mentions might have been useless, the White Sea canal to St. Petersburg, on which the above great uncle worked during his first five year sentence, is still used today to carry freight. The lumber labour camps that he worked at near Perm in the eastern Ural Mountain labour camps during his second sentence and where he died were of tremendous economic importance to Stalin as he sold the lumber to the west for hard currency which he then used to buy engineering services and machinery for his industrialization plans of the various “Five Year Plans”.
    I appreciate Professor Peterson’s videos warning of the dangers of our gradual loss of freedoms to the totalitarian left. The Fruit Fly doctor would love to jail me for my AGW denier views, maybe even for my being a Kulak farmer that occasionally hired labour to help during harvest.
    Btw, gfy is still a piece of leftist filth.

  12. I’m not a fan of Notley or the NDP’s need to please international VIP’s instead of supporting it’s working class via policies that create economic growth, real growth not government subsidies for crony capitalists. She’s nowhere near Soviet communism though. The opposition can protest without fear and voters can remove her government in a couple of years. The NDP likely won’t come near governing Alberta for another 40 years. Accusing or insinuating she is a fan of such horrific crimes is quite a good example of what Peterson would consider an ideologue, I’d think.

  14. I think he’s right, an individual can and does make a difference. Two of the bravest men I’ve ever seen are in this picture:
    https://static01.nyt.com/packages/flash/photo/20090602-Lens-Behind-Tianamen/20090603-tank-cole-1000px.jpg
    The man holding shopping bags is obvious and one in a billion. What’s not so obvious in that picture is the second very brave man, the one driving the tank. And they made a difference.
    Terry Fox continues to make a difference long after his death.

  17. I’m not going to negate the bravery and heroism of those people but I also don’t think we should pretend the real world usually has a Hollywood or Disney ending. I too would like that to be true. Unfortunately, tyrants are only defeated by a force of equal or greater strength and/or by their own fanatical followers. The people most successful at surviving a tyranny are the ones who leave before the borders close.

  18. That’s the problem with leftists and their ilk. As “gods” unto themselves, they have no limits to their behaviour and ACCEPT no limits to their behaviour.
    One historical limit has been the Judeo-Christian God and the limits he gave to the people of Israel (i.e., Torah), e.g., don’t murder, don’t be a false witness, be truthful in business, love your neighbour as yourself, etc.
    Leftists don’t like God and his limits competing with them. Thus, he is “tossed out,” deemed “irrelevant”.
    With that, moral relativism kicks in and the result is a bottomless pit of horror, the killing of babies in the womb being one of them.

  19. OK, thanks.
    Gary D., exactly. Unfortunately weak mankind has great difficulty with these limits.

  20. Splendid that you maintain a sense of humour when the political gangsters are trying to kill you…
    Of course I’m TWICE the “Dirty Rotten Scoundrel” as the spelling is with two P’s. 🙂
    I’m pretty sure Steve Martin is no relation..but do try to keep your head above ground!
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North’

  21. Thanks for the ‘props’…and keep telling your relations history as that puts ‘meat on the bones’ of all those statistics.
    When you get a poster going by the moniker ‘gfy’ you know one is not among the ‘open minded’. This type of simpleton catcall isn’t an argument based on fact or principle; but simply baiting.
    Sorry no fish for ‘gfy’…
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North’

  23. In the West the residual old left, the hard line communists and fascists, many with ideological origins from the 1930s, have faded away or have become cloaked in green along with the new left. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, communism as any kind of successful economic system has been discredited but the accompanying zealots have found comfort in the green movement. As the advanced welfare states become bankrupt, the old left could once again emerge, perhaps with green banners and with them their proclivity for mass murder.

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