Media Ignores Communist Victims Memorial

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100 Million Victims of Communism Memorial Dedication = Minimal Liberal Media Coverage

Posted by Michael Chapman on June 13, 2007 - 11:14.

The liberal media love to talk about "victims," particularly victims of alleged economic or social oppression, such as illegal immigrants, children without enough Head Start funding, the homeless, the transgendered, detainees at Gitmo, and so on. But when it comes to victims of left-wing ideology--i.e., Communism--the liberal media don't say too much. And this is evident in the minimal (in my view) coverage given to the dedication of the Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Washington, D.C. on June 12, an event where President Bush spoke and where some of the world's leading experts on communism's atrocities--more than 100 million victims--spoke as well.

From yesterday's dedication of the memorial, there has been some print coverage, yet most of the stories have been buried inside the papers. For instance, Los Angeles Times, p. 15; Chicago Tribune, p. 3; Miami Herald, p. 17; and the Washington Post (registration required) placed the story in its Style section but did run a page 1 story in its free "express" newspaper, distributed around D.C. Good for The Post. But, so far, I have not seen any network news coverage and only one mention on MSNBC in a Financial Times article on the MSNBC Web site. You'd think a memorial dedication to the 100 million victims of the greatest evil in modern times would get a little more attention from the dominant liberal media---but perhaps the "victim" Paris Hilton is more important to them.

Marxism-Leninism (communism) dominated the 20th century, sparked the Cold War, and through political terror and government-made famines and communist labor camps killed more than 100 million people. Lenin and Stalin instituted a system that killed at least 25 million people; Mao Tse-Tung and China, 60 million victims; Pol Pot in Cambodia, 2 million victims; North Korea, 2 million victims; Ethiopia, 725,000; Vietnam, 1.8 million. The list goes on.

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@Skye cv,

Death to Communism. Death to the atheistic killing machine of the 20th Century.

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@Pinochet73,

Pinochet73;21390 wrote:

Death to Communism. Death to the atheistic killing machine of the 20th Century.

Nah, atheism is the lack of religion.

Communism is very much a religion.

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@Skye cv,

Communism is a political philosophy which almost always has found state atheism as an effective way to achieve its means.

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@Reagaknight,

Reagaknight;22537 wrote:

Communism is a political philosophy which almost always has found state atheism as an effective way to achieve its means.

Nah, I'm pretty sure it's religion.

Worship of the proletariat state.

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@Skye cv,

If you want to say that, most other political philosophies are religions.

I say,: USSR= atheist
China= atheist
Most minor communist states= atheist
Communism= atheist.

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@Reagaknight,

Reagaknight;22543 wrote:

If you want to say that, most other political philosophies are religions.

IMO, yep.

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@One Man Clan,

One Man Clan;22528 wrote:

Nah, atheism is the lack of religion.

Communism is very much a religion.

Right.....but it sold itself as an atheistic system, not a replacement-religion. Whatever.....crush it. :headbang:

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@Skye cv,

it's pretty sad that it's more popular to emonize Bush then it is Stallin

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@Silverchild79,

Silverchild79;24079 wrote:

it's pretty sad that it's more popular to emonize Bush then it is Stallin

Yep.

Anything to win an election.

As I've said before, Bush is just average. An incompetent boob.

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@Skye cv,

I have always rigorously studied Communist revolution. The Commies were rotten to the core, but they best organized, taught and documented the methods of effective guerrilla warfare and war-politics. They developed and made available the very best doctrine of systematic rebellion.

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