A forgetful society lives on the precipice of history’s abyss. Lloyd Billingsley reminded us of this when he warned, “as ever, the struggle against genocide is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”
Billingsley was referencing the Communist Khmer Rouge’s democidal frenzy of 1975-1979 that killed over 2,000,000 people, specifically “Cambodian children were clubbed to death and babies smashed against trees.” He provided a link to an historical, contemporaneous 1977 account of the communist regime and its bloodthirsty Angka Loeu (“organization on high”) leadership’s initial crimes against the Cambodian people and humanity: Murder of a Gentle Land: The Untold Story of Communist Genocide in Cambodia, by John Barron and Anthony Paul. It is a horrific chronicle of how the insidious tactics and crimes into which the murderous ideology of communism metastasizes and, ultimately, consumes a people.
It is a lesson of history that humanity ignores at its peril. Consequently, in the hope of reminding the present about the past to preserve the future, let us delve into Barron and Paul’s reportage of the survivors’ accounts of the Khmer Rouge’s barbarity perpetrated in the name of the very people these communists tortured and killed.
Boy this article goes along well with the conversation I had with a lad at the local variety this morning. He goes to the same high school I attended in the eighties.
Our teachers it seems are sure willing to be Khmer Rouge without the guns.
Parents must be cowards , or maybe to busy trying to be their children’s friends.
Maybe it’s to separate camps. On one side your kid gets sht for wearing a beer shirt to school, the other has kids dressed as Furries standing in a group making animals sounds in the hall and the teachers look on and smile.
“if you make fun of them it’s assault”
I think the country has wasting disease.
fk the progs.
Human Evolution be damned…
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/4-billion-year-path-human-evolution-visualized
Needing more higher energy consumption.
We have the same type of nutcases here.. The Khmer Rouge figured a ignorant peasant was the top of the food chain and everybody else had to go.. Eyeglasses and a book would get you killed.. Safe to say that one party rule on a jihad for (enter reason here) is dangerous territory..
That’s why we used to have a constitution and the rule of law.. That’s why we used to have a impartial media.. That’s why we used to have a upper class that minded its own business.. When the checks and balances become a thumb on the scale so you don’t get shot into a hole..
History repeats itself for the same reason Hollywood repeats itself.. We only have three story lines to work with.. Everything is a reworked rendition on that.. As if some old Japanese movie is the fountainhead of politics?.. Its not..
This remake, redo, reimagination.. With fresh faces and a new setting (and a shiny new cause) is just Luke Skywalker in a dress.. Fighting the empire because why not?.. Thespians shooting you into a hole?..
That was what was so terrifying about the vaccine mandates. I am a student of history and I could see Canada was well on the road to that kind of atrocity led by Trudeau. One pressure tactic after another added on to force everyone to comply and talk matching the hatred leading up to many a genocide. There were two Things that stopped it but most people are only aware of the big one. The little one which came first was when the government of New Brunswick announced that grocery stores could start denying the unvaxxed the ability to buy groceries. I must say that was terrifying beyond imagining. Sobey’s which had been quietly resisting all the way through announced they would not deny people food. I recall the politician involved back tracking, saying it was never meant to deny unvaxxrd food. The unvaxxed could still shop on line and have deliveries. That was the first outright pushback on this nonsense I saw from anyone. And then came the big one, the trucker freedom convoy.
Yes, Canada was walking straight down the path to genocide. Fortunately we seem to have come to our senses but it was a close thing. I have no reason to believe we won’t do it again with the upcoming 2024 plandemic.
Yes, federal and provincial governments, along with all of the media, were on a dark path :
– denying healthcare (organ transplant denial is ongoing)
– not allowing the unvaccinated to leave Canada on commercial transportation and restricting movement within Canada
– talk of denying food to the unvaccinated
– setting up medical isolation institutions for the unvaccinated (even in sask)
– polls about jailing the unvaccinated or taking away their children
– politicians using extremely derogatory terms about the unvaccinated
– the Toronto Star dedicating their entire front page to foment hatred towards the unvaccinated
– almost implementing special taxes for the unvaccinated
– and, of course, throwing the unvaccinated out of work, then denying them EI
– forcing unvaccinated students out of post secondary education
I think things would have gotten even darker if the Freedom Convoy hadn’t made a stand and brought national and international attention to the assault on the human, civil and medical rights of the unvaccinated people in Canada. Never Forget.
Absolutely! I cannot overemphasize how horrific that time felt to me. My wife is a Jew. We had our bags packed and a plan to escape illegally into the USA. It was so traumatic and so awful. I still have literal nightmares about those days and I am very concerned they will come back soon.
Our family also discussed “just in case” plans. My interest in history made me learn can happen when there is a campaign of hate against a group.
Actually, a person only needs to understand the Milgram experiment, the Asch Conformity experiments and the Stanford Prison experiment to see what was going on. Yes, I know those experiments gave conflicting opinions and were somewhat problematic but the last 3 years shows that those experiments weren’t far off the mark with their understanding of human psychology. Most people failed miserably, much to my disappointment.
I think things would have gotten even darker…
Why, yes. Yes, it would have. But not for the unvaxxed… 😉
The unvaccinated are the only ones who passed an important test, imo. That being said…the fear response, social pressure, economic pressure and psychological manipulation was immense so I understand why people did what they did.
Why is Alberta continuing to deny organ transplants for unvaxxed people? Come on new government, sort out the medical powers that be.
Because too many politicians and doctors are arrogant, stubborn and still feel the need to inflict pain and punishment on the unvaccinated.
LC
It’s all about $$$$$, big pharma controls a lot of advertising $$$$$, and doctors receive $$$$, according to their vax track record. There was an interesting article that stated doctors could receive up to $105,000 for a 100% vax record. That being regular vaxx’s , not the covid ones.
Yep, follow the money. Historically though doctors have been more than happy to comply with authoritarians and take part in unethical experiments. I suspect that things like the hippocratic oath were created to try to remind doctors to not succumb to being complicit in medical mayhem.
Why is Alberta continuing to deny organ transplants for unvaxxed people?
I contacted my MLA back in April about this. He replied that he was going to bring that very topic up at the next caucus meeting. I will do a follow-up to see if that has happened yet.
LC, the insanity is not over yet. No one has been charged with the crimes and the idiot people still think the vaxxes were and are wonderful. Deaths and injuries are being hidden and the simpletons are not concerned. I refused the shots and I do not know anyone else in my circle who did.
Whatever happened to Pol Pot for his heinous crimes against humanity? Anyone know? Bueller? Bueller? That’s right, he died peacefully in his bed in 1998. Nothing at all happened to what is surely one of the most wickedly depraved human beings ever to walk the Earth.
And people wonder about the 2nd amendment. The Khmer Rouge and the cultural revolutionaries are never that far away. Antifa and BLM thugs would do it in a heartbeat given the opportunity. They won’t be putting a dunce cap on me and marching me to the killing fields without a few dozen coming with me. Note to self. Buy more ammo.
I recall MIT Linguistics professor Noam Chomsky claimed that the Cambodian holocaust wasn’t happening. Chomsky is the hero of the Left to this day.
It’s in our face,it’s now . No one should question that it can happen here. The masses remain unable or unwilling to acknowledge it.
A man in our community was threatening to burn out the unvaccinated. He was telling any unvaxxed he met that he hoped they died of COVID in a hospital parking lot begging for treatment they didn’t deserve to get. Today this guy walks around acting like nothing happened. Whenever I see him I want to spit on him or punch him out.
The only difference between that murderous regime and todays Bolsheviks and Jacobins running the state and captured institutions is the scale of the aggression. Today’s Khmer Rouge are draped in green but are still pursuing the next horrific iteration of utopian statism / collectivism. The other difference is that the universities were seen as their enemy as opposed to today’s universities being their ideological incubation and re-education centers.
I was at Ottawa’s Carleton Univesity in April 1975 witnessing a ‘celebration’ by about a dozen red flag waving,hard core left wing students of the ‘victory of the Cambodian people over imperialism’. Over the years as the horror stories came out I always wondered if any of those fools had ever felt even any tinge of embarrassment or regret over their ardent stupidity. I’ve often wondered where they ended up. The sad answer is a good number of them probably ended up as mid level or even senior public servants, inflicting a career of damage on the Canadian people. I too believe in remembering history.
In due course the proto-Pol-Pots will suffer Unintended Consequences of a personal nature. Unintended Consequences by John Ross
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When John F. Kerry claims that the fight against Global Warming is equivalent to WWII … and that “deniers” are equivalent to Natzis … you see where the left is headed. He is justifying mass extermination of “evil people”.
To think that he almost became President. The Dems managed to nominate two death-cult psychopaths, Kerry and Al Gore; serial liars, both Clintons, and Obama; and the crooked and demented sociopath, Biden. The Evil party, true to that label.
You can add Merrick Garland to that list … of “moderate” hard lefties … we barely dodged … on the SCOTUS for LIFE. LOOK what he’s done to the DOJ … weaponized it against all political opponents
Democrats are very dangerous evil people.
It’s not “communism”. It’s atheism. The communist ideology is rooted in atheist materialism. People are literally things.
One is a factor of the other, no? Communism allows no god but the state and atheism needs something to fill the void that nature abhors.
Yes, they go together. Scrap that Biblical morality and you then have communists who will kill anyone that does not bow down to the idol of man.