Escaping From Oppression

Here is a collection of 6 TED talks, beginning with Hyenseo Lee's escape from North Korea.

The Khmer Rouge and Communism's Killing Fields

Read this and then this.  The four remaining leaders of the Khmer Rouge have been indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity.  Indeed.  The butcher's bill for their murderous regime at last count was 1.5 million.

Welcome to Reality: Former Khmer Rouge Supporter Says "Sorry"

The fantasy: the Khmer Rouge were courageous revolutionary freedom fighters!

The reality: the Khmer Rouge were a lot of murderous, bloodthirsty thugs and *unprintable*s whose Communist tyranny slaughtered nearly 2 million people in Cambodia.

The BBC reports that Gunnar Bergstrom, a former fan of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot, has finally woken up to the reality and gone public with it. How much are you willing to wager that Mr. Bergstrom, in his Rouge-happy days, was a pie-eyed idealistic young leftist with a penchant for self-deception, denial of the truth, "Communist chic," and no conception of objective reality?

Well, I suppose I should give Mr. Bergstrom credit for being able to realize and admit his error in judgment. The world has one fewer "useful idiot."

One more note: Mr. Bergstrom is Swedish. Don't you find it rather interesting that so often Communist-fans come from comfortable, safe, free countries? How many Communist-fans do you find who live or have lived in Communist hellhole nations?

I cannot tell you how much I hate Communism. I hate it WITH FIRE.