This episode reminds me of a quote from Black Panther Party Eldridge Cleaver.

“I’m telling you after I ran into the Egyptian police and the Algerian police and the North Korean police and the Nigerian police and Idie Amin’s police in Uganda, I began to miss the Oakland police. The last time I saw them suckers, I was shooting at them; and they were shooting at me. But regardless of what our standards are in this country, we do have some laws; we do have some principles that to a certain degree restrain our police.”

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/interviews/ecleaver.html

You totally crack me up. That’s a fantastic sentence.

(And of course, Juche has no connection to the Hermit Kingdom status dating back centuries…)

It’s so disturbing to see that, in many quarters in the US, ANY argument that bases itself on the idea that the only moral agency in Int’l relations that is to be held accountable is the US, finds credence among a dedicated lot of morons.

I’ve never understood this tendency either. It’s the Bruce Cumings complex.

It should be easy to just limit yourself to attacking the United States — without becoming an apologist for the likes of North Korea. Why do so many of the great critics of the US end up — being the champions of third world dictators?

Here is where a discussion of what Bill Ayers calls “small c communism/communist” has to come in. In the end, no matter how inept and even illogical and even unrealized they are in it, what people like this are doing is — advocating for a socialist/communist way over that of others – particular Western capitalism/industrialism as exemplified by the US and the US government.

These same people and type were much more clear and direct about this back in the 1970s and back into the 1930s. They just lost their ability to openly announce (or even mentally recognize) their allegiances when global communism collapsed and the people from those states were able to fully tell the world what a repressive crap-hole their societies had been for decades….

…and of course here I’m referring to Anh…

Why is it people further left frequently seem to jump to the victim complex and talking about how they are being oppressed and their speech repressed when people simply respond to usually inflammatory statements they make?

Why are they so thin-skinned when their own views are so strong and claims so bold and damning?

And/or what will she think when the big guns like “Hot Air” and “Gateway Pundit” start to get a whiff of all the mental flatulence she’s been spewing forth!

It’s a lesson in Silly Semantics, too. Taking a ‘more contextualized view’ on NK means placing its badness in an imaginary context that noone but she accepts. A quick shortcut to sheer nonsense.

It’s so disturbing to see that, in many quarters in the US, ANY argument that bases itself on the idea that the only moral agency in Int’l relations that is to be held accountable is the US, finds credence among a dedicated lot of morons.

My favorite quote: room temperature circulation