Happy Birthday Mr. Rummel

[Epaphroditus]

Author of "Death by Government: A History of Mass Murder and Genocide Since 1900."

Heed the message.

[FeuerFrei]

THE STORY OF YOUR ENSLAVEMENT

https://www.bitchute.com/video/bBzrTJr-7tk/

[FeuerFrei]

Good reminder OP.

In case the drive by reader just sniffs it and moves on. NTSH

https://www.routledge.com/Death-by-Government-Genocide-and-Mass-Murder-Since-1900/Rummel/p/book/9781560009276

This is R. J. Rummel's fourth book in a series devoted to genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls democide. He presents the primary results, in tables and figures, as well as a historical sketch of the major cases of democide, those in which one million or more people were killed by a regime. In Death by Government, Rummel does not aim to describe democide itself, but to determine its nature and scope in order to test the theory that democracies are inherently nonviolent.

Rummel discusses genocide in China, Nazi Germany, Japan, Cambodia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Poland, the Soviet Union, and Pakistan. He also writes about areas of suspected genocide: North Korea, Mexico, and feudal Russia. His results clearly and decisively show that democracies commit less democide than other regimes. The underlying principle is that the less freedom people have, the greater the violence; the more freedom, the less the violence. Thus, as Rummel says, "The problem is power. The solution is democracy. The course of action is to foster freedom."

Death by Government is a compelling look at the horrors that occur in modern societies. It depicts how democide has been very much a part of human history. Among other examples, the book includes the massacre of Europeans during the Thirty Years' War, the relatively unknown genocide of the French Revolution, and the slaughtering of American Indians by colonists in the New World. This riveting account is an essential tool for historians, political scientists, and scholars interested in the study of genocide.

[ZapThyCat]

Sounds like he gets "democracy" and "republic" mixed up. There is actually less freedom in a democracy than in a republic.

[ChuckD]

Sounds like he gets "democracy" and "republic" mixed up. There is actually less freedom in a democracy than in a republic.

Neither in & of itself directly relates to Freedom. Democracy is simply rule by the majority, a Democratic Constitutional Republic is rule by the majority within a set of predetermined rules. Majority rule amongst a bunch of anarchists would be extremely free, while the same government amongst a bunch of 'Karen's' would be extremely restrictive. A Democratic Constitutional Republic is only as free as it's constitution demands (and that is assuming that the people demand it be followed, if the people allow the constitution to be overruled then it does not protect freedom at all).