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"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

They always seem to be from the same list of bad actors. They Kill Because They Like It

They Kill Because They Like It by Claire Berlinski - City Journal

Turkey’s Marxist terrorists strike again—this time, against America.
4 February 2013
Americans seem surprised that the February 1 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, was carried out not by Islamists but by a Marxist—specifically, by a member of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front, or DHKP/C. But no one in Turkey was remotely surprised. This diagram suggests why Turks recoil when asked about the hard-left militant groups here. They’re no joke, despite their names, which call to mind nothing so much as the Judean People’s Front scenefrom Monty Python’s The Life of Brian. For reasons yet to be properly explored, these groups don’t appear to know that the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. They are ideologically pickled in aspic, dedicated to a Marxist-Leninist revolution that happened nearly a century ago and failed brutally everywhere.
Many conspiracy theories circulate about these leftist groups. (The reason so many Turks are conspiracy theorists is that there are so many actual conspiracies in Turkey.) Some hold that rogue elements of the state or hostile neighboring countries sustain these organizations so that they can be activated, when needed, to cause chaos. These ideas are neither entirely implausible nor entirely logical, but it is certainly true that European countries have been slow or altogether unwilling to extradite suspected members of these groups, which has done little to dampen Turkish suspicions.
A theory currently making the rounds in Turkey is that the embassy bombing was a warning from Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to stay out of Syria’s ongoing revolution. The idea can’t be ruled out, but the history of the DHKP/C suggests that it would need little encouragement from Assad, or from anyone else, to commit this kind of atrocity. They do it, as Dirty Harry would say, because they like it. (Why they like killing themselves in the process—they’re known for suicide bombings—is a larger mystery. They are Marxists, after all, and one presumes that they haven’t been nourished on visions of the 72 collective farms awaiting them in paradise.)
The Turkish state’s workings are opaque, but it was nonetheless clear several weeks ago that something involving the DHKP/C was afoot. ...
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