I don’t know the
woman’s name or where she lived. I don’t remember what year it was. But I saw
the woman on television news. She was crying. Her newly empowered government
was confiscating her family’s property. She couldn’t believe what was
happening. Her family had helped to bring the new leader to power, she
explained, through her tears. She shouldn’t have been surprised, but a lot of
people like her have been. Supporting a tyrant certainly can pay off, but too
many have paid with their freedom and their lives for assuming that it would.
Not surprisingly,
many conservatives are dismayed by the corruption in our own government. Over
five hundred conservative or Christian groups, groups such as The 9/12 Project
or Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse, have been harassed or denied the
ability to organize on the same terms that left-wing groups, groups such as
Moveon.org or Occupy Wall Street, have been permitted to organize.
Yezhov…..was a brutal man who oversaw the Great
Purge [under Stalin and] personally framed his…mentor and predecessor, [who
was] executed. Yezhov once said, “Better
that ten innocent people should suffer than one spy get away.” [He was later
tortured and executed as was his successor].
During the Night of the Long Knives, Hitler purged
his secret service, killing between sixty-one and four hundred men. One of them
was the powerful Ernst Rohm, one of Hitler’s earliest supporters. Hitler liked
Rohm personally, but that rarely stands in the way of “progress.”
In the early years of his presidency, Saddam
Hussein killed hundreds of his own Baath Party officials. Like Stalin, his
role-model, he killed anyone who could become a threat to his power, regardless
of ideology…To Read More….
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