I was outraged when I heard Senator Dick Durban of Illinois compare our brave military personnel to some of the most brutal 20th century tyrannical regimes which murdered tens of millions of their own and foreign citizens. As I said before the American Left calls us, the conservatives, “stupid” while we call them “ignorant.” Now ignorance presumes a potential of getting to know the facts and developing opinions on them. On the other hand, stupidity implies inability to learn or draw any rational conclusions.
Now, may I, “a stupid conservative, :)” put out some historical facts on the comparisons that the Senator made? I will also point out why I could be personally offended by this kind of comparisons. Nazi death camps: six million Jews were murdered there. Hitler also sent to those death camps close to twice as many millions of Germans and other people from the nations which he conquered.
My maternal grandfather was captured on the battle field and sent to one of those camps. Having escaped, he was captured for the second time. This time, he was subjected to experiments by his captors and lost his sight as the result. Fortunately he was liberated when the German Army was defeated by soviet and allied troops. When he returned back to our family in St. Pete, Russia, and had he not lost his site, he would have been sent to a Gulag death camp by Stalin’s murder machine. While there were only millions that died in Gulags themselves, there were countless tens of millions that died under Stalin’s murderous regime and on the ways to Gulags. And now the last one: while I don’t know anyone personally who was murdered in the killing fields of Cambodia, I am sure that the Senator’s words offended countless Americans who fled Pol Pot’s murderous regime and whose loved ones were murdered under this horrific dictator.
These kinds of comparisons serve few very gloomy purposes. 1. They diminish the horrific nature of the murderous regimes that perpetrated them. 2. They desensitize the hearers. 3. They unfairly paint our brave and courageous military personnel in bad colors. 4. And they incite unfair violence and hatred against Americans abroad. There can be many more of these consequences. But perhaps that is what Senator Durban and the Left purposed to do. His plentiful apologies only spoke to people’s offences not the substance of his remarks. I doubt that the Senator is stupid or ignorant. That brings me to a sad conclusion, he said what he meant. And that is why there has to be some consequences for the Senator because people, in such high positions, cannot speak so seditiously and get away with it. Who is stupid or ignorant, you should judge for yourself. But it looks to me that Senator Durban is neither. He probably fits the new definition of a patriot that the Left tries so hard to pound into our heads; a "patriot" is anyone who seeks to undermine our Commander-in-Chief and our military in the time of war.
Now, may I, “a stupid conservative, :)” put out some historical facts on the comparisons that the Senator made? I will also point out why I could be personally offended by this kind of comparisons. Nazi death camps: six million Jews were murdered there. Hitler also sent to those death camps close to twice as many millions of Germans and other people from the nations which he conquered.
My maternal grandfather was captured on the battle field and sent to one of those camps. Having escaped, he was captured for the second time. This time, he was subjected to experiments by his captors and lost his sight as the result. Fortunately he was liberated when the German Army was defeated by soviet and allied troops. When he returned back to our family in St. Pete, Russia, and had he not lost his site, he would have been sent to a Gulag death camp by Stalin’s murder machine. While there were only millions that died in Gulags themselves, there were countless tens of millions that died under Stalin’s murderous regime and on the ways to Gulags. And now the last one: while I don’t know anyone personally who was murdered in the killing fields of Cambodia, I am sure that the Senator’s words offended countless Americans who fled Pol Pot’s murderous regime and whose loved ones were murdered under this horrific dictator.
These kinds of comparisons serve few very gloomy purposes. 1. They diminish the horrific nature of the murderous regimes that perpetrated them. 2. They desensitize the hearers. 3. They unfairly paint our brave and courageous military personnel in bad colors. 4. And they incite unfair violence and hatred against Americans abroad. There can be many more of these consequences. But perhaps that is what Senator Durban and the Left purposed to do. His plentiful apologies only spoke to people’s offences not the substance of his remarks. I doubt that the Senator is stupid or ignorant. That brings me to a sad conclusion, he said what he meant. And that is why there has to be some consequences for the Senator because people, in such high positions, cannot speak so seditiously and get away with it. Who is stupid or ignorant, you should judge for yourself. But it looks to me that Senator Durban is neither. He probably fits the new definition of a patriot that the Left tries so hard to pound into our heads; a "patriot" is anyone who seeks to undermine our Commander-in-Chief and our military in the time of war.
