"As for outrage, I am aware of some religious-based values that find
certain legal activities to be outrageous and that merit speaking out
against in no uncertain terms. But I wonder where these voices were in
the mid-30s when Hitler was killing Jews and not the religious
holier-then-thou voices, nor the pope, nor FDR, nor the German people,
found it within their moral compasses to speak out against this
outrageous abomination. For me, this was and is the real crime of
hypocrisy which, as you so adroitly suggest, 'sticks in the craw of
many...'"
5 million Ukranians were starved to death in the 1930's by Stalin. Thousands resorted to canibalism to survive. Books have been written on the subject. The death count may have been twice that because Ukranians at the time weren't considered worth enough to bother to number. 15 million additional murders outside of the Ukraine have been attributed to Stalin's regime.
Other senseless slaughters in this century include turn-of-the-century Armenia, 2 million (Turks); '30's & '40's China, 20 million (Hirohito); 1950-1980 China, 60 million (Mao); Killing Fields of Cambodia, 2 million (Pol Pot); 1970's Uganda 1.5 million (Idi Amin and his successor); 1980's Afghanistan, 1 million (Soviets); 1990's Ruwanda, 2 million (intertribal genocide). I'll skip the honerable mentions.
Seems to be plenty of craw sticking to go around lately, doesn't there? But that doesn't mean concerned investors need sully themselves with a company that peddles sexually explicit and violent films or stoop themselves to the level of making a quick buck off of toys pieced together by Communist forced labor or some kid in a S.E. Asian sweat shop, does it? --Alan |
