Post by ascendinglark on Aug 15, 2007 0:09:15 GMT
This is a particularly nasty story, but one which doesn't surprise me, coming as it does from Russia:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6946810.stm
What bugs me though is the typical way in which the leftist journalists at the BBC, seeing a Nazi symbol, label them "far-right extremists", even though right underneath the group identifies themselves as "National Socialists".
Since when did the right end of political ideology have anything to do with socialism, national or otherwise? The Nazis were not "right wing", they were socialists too. Google "Why Nazism was socialism" and the first link is to an excellent article on the subject on the Mises website.
Basically, they are socialists, but because they have a racist or nationalist element, the lefties label them "right wing extremists". You will never, however, hear a journalist EVER make reference to "left-wing extremists". You'll read about "right wing death-squads", but you will never hear the phrase "left wing death-squads", even though leftist ideology has produced way more death squads and killers than the right. Most of the worst and the largest atrocities in the history of humankind have been perpetrated by the left, but you'll still never hear about left wing extremism. To journalists, the most despicable left wing murderers are "revolutionaries" who deserve to have praise heaped on them - in fact, the more heinous their crimes, the more praise they deserve.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6946810.stm
What bugs me though is the typical way in which the leftist journalists at the BBC, seeing a Nazi symbol, label them "far-right extremists", even though right underneath the group identifies themselves as "National Socialists".
Since when did the right end of political ideology have anything to do with socialism, national or otherwise? The Nazis were not "right wing", they were socialists too. Google "Why Nazism was socialism" and the first link is to an excellent article on the subject on the Mises website.
Basically, they are socialists, but because they have a racist or nationalist element, the lefties label them "right wing extremists". You will never, however, hear a journalist EVER make reference to "left-wing extremists". You'll read about "right wing death-squads", but you will never hear the phrase "left wing death-squads", even though leftist ideology has produced way more death squads and killers than the right. Most of the worst and the largest atrocities in the history of humankind have been perpetrated by the left, but you'll still never hear about left wing extremism. To journalists, the most despicable left wing murderers are "revolutionaries" who deserve to have praise heaped on them - in fact, the more heinous their crimes, the more praise they deserve.