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• Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:33 PM

  The Jews are not the problem, nor the Pals, people are the problem - from a misanthrope

  There are no more Neanderthals, many anthropologists now believe that Cro Magnon man (us) killed them all.

  When the Romans were running the show, they killed millions, and oppressed the rest, they famously used torture, assassination et al.

  Genghis Khan, a Mongol, used to level entire cities, basically because the Mongols thought that cities were disgusting. (they are)

  Skipping ahead a bit, the British, and the Belgians made a pretty good run at depopulating Africa. King Leopold made Hitler look like a pansy.

  Then comes the 20th century with the oh so civilized Germans slaughtering tens of millions. Stalin, a Russian from the land of Doestoievski, did in 20 million or so Russians and of course ran the Gulags which enslaved millions more.

  Mao, a Chinese at the apex of a 6000 year old "civilization" liquidated what, 39 million Chinese? Millions an millions more were tortured and enslaved in his "reeducation" camps.

  After that came American hegemony, which resulted in the deaths of 3 million Vietnamese, 2 million Laotions and Cambodians, and more recently 2 million Iraqis due to the sanctions and then the most useless, stupid, pointless war in history (other than Granada and Panama (5000 dead) of course). Add to that another million or so in South America and around the world who were vaporized in various communist fighting adventures. Oh, and as Gary says, let not forget the Indians (remember them?). There used to be a LOT of Indians.

  30 years ago, when I was winter camping in Northern Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, we came across an old hermit who excoriated us for chopping down a tree in "his" woods. He said that he knew that tree "personally". Then a young man, I wondered what it was that would drive a man into the north woods to live in a rude log cabin on the edge of a cliff on the edge of a continent.

  Now I know. It was people. Someday, maybe soon, I am going back there and move into that cabin. If someone is living there, oh well, I am "only human" after all, so to hell with them, let them "go back where they came from".

  I hate all the murderers.

  Soon, the hot white light of 10 thousand thermonuclear suns will be rising all over the world. Then we will have peace.

  —Bill Owen Read Bill Owen's other letters
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