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To: mistermj who wrote (173954)	11/2/2005 1:18:43 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Lenin called them useful idiots? Did you actually read Wikipedia before you posted it? When it's so easy to catch a whopping mistake, one begins to wonder if all your posts are...well...what shall we say? Reality challeged? "Lenin called them "useful idiots," The term is sometimes claimed to have been coined by Vladimir Lenin to describe those western reporters and travellers who would endorse the Soviet Union and its policies in the West. However, no reference to a communist being called a "useful idiot" was made in the United States until 1948, and not until decades later would the attempts to attribute the phrase to Lenin be made. Lenin never wrote it in any published document, no one has claimed to have heard him say it first hand, and it contradicts the opinions expressed in Lenin's published documents in reference to the Comintern. ..... according to Wiki, for those of you who would prefer something other than a misstatement: "In political jargon, the term "useful idiot" was used during the Cold War by certain anticommunists " surprise surprise

To: mistermj who wrote (173954)	11/2/2005 4:54:09 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

The totalitarians are those who support Republican one-party, unaccountable, war mongering, tax&steal rule. Republicans, in a clear violation of the basic balance of power concept of the US Constitution, are now using their majority sledgehammer to install a PERMANENT REPUBLICAN MAJORITY by hook, crook, Diebold and Scalia-Thomas. That is the DEFINITION of totalitarianism: permanent, autocratic, undemocratic, constipated one party rule. Get a clue. YOU, that would be YOU, let me repeat that it is YOU who are supporting the US's stride toward totalitarianism. Think it cannot happen here? Think it can only happen in the ME or Asia or Europe or Africa or South America but not in North America? Get a blooming clue.