Sunday, December 31, 2006
More Hypocrisy from the Phony Left
Why is it that so many from the "progressive" crowd express their (just) outrage at the human rights crimes of Augusto Pinochet (the former military dictator of Chile), but see absolutely nothing wrong with the greater numbers killed, tortured, and imprisoned by Fidel Castro and his radical socialist regime? To the contrary, Castro is virtually worshiped by such people as a symbol of fulfilling the socialist dream (there are a host of journalists, intellectuals, and Hollywood pseudo-thinkers whose quotes attest to this).
The typical "progressive's" world view has nothing to do with justice, opposition to human rights abuse, or opposition to war. The only thing they are truly consistent on is their opposition to the capitalist free-market system and the success of individuals acting unconstrained by a heavy-handed apparatus of state. Their attempts to depict themselves as somehow being "champions" of human rights and justice is the most transparent aspect of their phony nature as con-artists of self-delusion and authoritarian sympathy.
