Government Murders

Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

Being murdered is fatal - every time, regardless of who does it. Governments do it and their score in the last century runs around 170 million. The Birdman feels that Rudy's estimates are on the high side but nobody who has been over the ground thinks that the score didn't run into tens of millions. Nobody knows within the odd million.

Rudy's ratings:-

Chinese       77 million

USSR         62 million

Adolf          21 million

Craig Murray, Her Majesty's Government and Torture
Tell the truth and get sacked. Simple enough isn't it? Pander to them and you will get the well paid jobs and over priced contracts. That is HMG in the Third Millennium.

 

Cold War Revelations and "Progressive" Holocaust Denial
The Soviet government was not at all nice. Most of us have worked that one out. The exceptions tend to be in university humanities departments and lying in their teeth. Just how nasty they were is coming out, very slowly and without media enthusiasm but it is coming and they did murder their own so that they could blame us.

 

North Korea Persists in 54 year-old Disinformation
The North did invade deliberately. It did accuse America of biological warfare. It kept on accusing America. Mark you with Abu Ghraib contributing to America's public image it is not quite so easy to believe the State Department.

 

Psychopathic morals and the phantasmagorical war on terror
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There's been a trial ongoing in the UK... concerning a leaked memo that detailed Bush and Blair's plan to bomb al-Jazeerah offices in Qatar... David Keogh is said to have passed the record of the meeting to researcher O'Connor. The details of the minutes, deemed too "secret" to reveal in court, include Bush and Blair's chat about how best to bomb the offices of al-Jazeerah and make it appear as a justifiable act under the bogus war on terror..... Meanwhile the global propaganda campaign that is designed to create the 'reality' of a 'clash of civilisations' proceeds apace with a different "leaked report", this time one that does not result in the leakers appearing in court, mainly because this one helps to prop up the Israel-US-British war on terror rather than expose it for psychopathic war-mongering that it is.
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Mr Quinn goes on to give us more documented examples of official lies and fraud. Just how corrupt can it get? Not a lot I fancy. Actually Blair and Bush didn't proceed to murder those nice people at al Jazeerah but they were perfectly capable of doing it and lying in their teeth after.

 

Death by Government - Genocide and mass murder [ 18 April 2007 ]
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This is my fourth book on genocide and government mass murder. The previous works concentrated on.... the Soviet Union, Nationalist China under Chiang Kai-shek, communist China, and Nazi Germany.¹ .....  These results also well illustrate the principle underlying all my findings on war, collective violence, and democide, which is that the less freedom people have the more violence, the more freedom the less violence. I put this here as the Power Principle: power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.
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How very sound. Power without responsibility is where it goes wrong. Mugabe is proving it in Rhodesia.

 

Gun Control Goes Slumming
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IN 1937, the federal government got into the housing business, with plans to reclaim depressed urban areas and to replace old tenements with "decent, safe, and sanitary" housing. Some thirty years later, with that goal still not attained.... 

So who is to blame for the failure of federal housing? According to the Clinton Administration, it's—strangely enough—the gun industry. True, Washington has managed the projects for more than sixty years, but, as far as the White House is concerned, it is firearm manufacturers who have turned them into urban war zones, where one in five residents feels unsafe in his own neighbourhood.
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Clinton is a clever liar whereas Bush is a liar. Do not believe anything either of them say/claim/allege.

Gun Control & The Mass Extermination Of Human Beings
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"In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

"In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

"Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945.....

"China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents......

"Guatemala established gun control in 1964....
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If you see a pattern emerge then you are seeing straight. And it will never happen again - until next time.

 

From http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Temp/Temp-RudyRummelOnGovtMurders.html or  http://www.joyphim.org

Rudy Rummel Revises His Figures

With Comment by John "Birdman" Bryant

Birdman note: Rudy Rummel is a well-meaning scholar, and a big cheese when it comes to government murder stats, but he is also one who thinks Hitler was a monster. Some of you revisionists ought to get into an argument with the man and kick out the props from under his inflated numbers. I have tried without much success, but more people with better documentation might make the man hedge. Write him at <rummel@hawaii.edu>

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Many scholars and commentators have referenced my total of 174,000,000 for the democide (genocide and mass murder) of the last century. I'm now trying to get word out that I've had to make a major revision in my total due to two books. One is Wild Swans: Two Daughters of China by Jung Chang, and the other is Mao: the Unknown Story that she wrote with her husband, Jon Halliday. I'm now convinced that that Stalin exceeded Hitler in monstrous evil, and Mao beat out Stalin.

From the time I wrote my book on China's Bloody Century, I have held to these democide totals for Mao:

Civil War-Sino-Japanese War 1923-1949 = 3,466,000 murdered Rule over China (PRC) 1949-1987 = 35,236,000 murdered

However, some other scholars and researchers had put the PRC total as from 60,000,000 to a high 70,000,000. Asked why my total is so low by comparison, I've responded that I did not include the China's Great Famine 1958-1961. From my study of what was written on this in English, I believed that: (1) the famine was due to the Great Leap Forward when Mao tried to catch up with the West in producing iron and steel; (2) the factorization of agriculture, forcing virtually all peasants to give up their land, livestock, tools, and homes to live in regimented communes; (3) the exuberant over reporting of agricultural production by commune and district managers for fear of the consequences of not meeting their quotas; (4) the consequent belief of high communist officials that excess food was being produced and could be exported without starving the peasants; (5) but, reports from travelling high officials indicated that peasants might be starving in certain localities; (6) an investigative team was sent out from Beijing, and reported back that there was mass starvation; (7) and then the CCP stopped exporting food and began to imports what was needed to stop the famine.

Thus, I believed that Mao's policies were responsible for the famine, but he was mislead about it, and finally when he found out, he stopped it and changed his policies. Therefore, I argued, this was not a democide. Others, however, have so counted it, but I thought this was a sloppy application of the concepts of mass murder, genocide, or politicide (virtually no one used the concept of democide). They were right and I was wrong.

From the biography of Mao, which I trust (for those who might question it, look at the hundreds of interviews Chang and Halliday conducted with communist cadre and former high officials, and the extensive bibliography) I can now say that yes, Mao's policies caused the famine. He knew about it from the beginning. He didn't care! Literally. And he tried to take more food from the people to pay for his lust for international power, but was overruled by a meeting of 7,000 top Communist Party members.

So, the famine was intentional. What was its human cost? I had estimated that 27,000,000 Chinese starved to death or died from associated diseases. Others estimated the toll to be as high as 40,000,000. Chang and Halliday put it at 38,000,000, and given their sources, I will accept that.

Now, I have to change all the world democide totals that populate my websites, blogs, and publications. The total for the communist democide before and after Mao took over the mainland is thus 3,446,000 + 35,226,000 + 38,000,000 = 76,692,000, or to round off, 77,000,000 murdered. This is now in line with the 65 million toll estimated for China in the Black Book of Communism, and Chang and Halliday's estimate of "well over 70 million."

This exceeds the 61,911,000 murdered by the Soviet Union 1917-1987, with Hitler far behind at 20,946,000 wiped out 1933-1945.

For perspective on Mao's most bloody rule, all wars 1900-1987 cost in combat dead 34,021,000 -- including WWI and II, Vietnam, Korea, and the Mexican and Russian Revolutions. Mao alone murdered over twice as many as were killed in combat in all these wars.

Now, my overall totals for world democide 1900-1999 must also be changed. I have estimated it to be 174,000,000 murdered, of which communist regimes murdered about 148,000,000. Also, compare this to combat dead. Communists overall have murdered four times those killed in combat, while globally the democide toll was over six times that number.

Let freedom ring.

Rudy Rummel Professor Emeritus For related research, see: http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills  New website: http://www.joyphim.org   Blog on the democratic peace: http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/