kraftiekortie wrote:
The El Paso shooting was, apparently, perpetrated by a nut who admires Trump.
I’m not saying Trump is to blame.
These sorts of murders have gotten more numerous since Columbine. It doesn’t make sense to blame Clinton for Columbine.
That Waco guy was from 1993. Timothy McVeigh from 1995. Both right wing nutjobs. Can’t blame Clinton for those.
The Cultural Revolution in 1960s China, and the genocide in 1970s Cambodia, were both perpetuated by left wing nutjobs.
Funny you should mention 1970s Cambodia
Nuon Chea: the Khmer Rouge's unrepentant revolutionaryQuote:
Khmer Rouge "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, who died Sunday aged 93, was considered the chief ideologue of the murderous Cambodian regime and a key architect of its killing machine.
Once leader Pol Pot's most trusted deputy, he was arrested in September 2007 on charges of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity that occurred during the brutal Khmer Rouge reign from 1975 to 1979.
But the unrepentant revolutionary lived long enough to be one of only a handful of former leaders to face justice.
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia sentenced him to life in prison last year after he was found guilty of genocide against the ethnic Vietnamese and Cham Muslim minority groups.
He was previously convicted of crimes against humanity for the forced evacuation of Phnom Penh in 1975.
During his trial at the UN-backed court, the former law student denied a role in a regime whose policies led to the death of about two million Cambodians, telling judges that he was mainly in charge of educating fellow cadres.
Wearing his trademark sunglasses even in the dock, he frequently walked out of the courtroom in protest at proceedings.
Addressing the tribunal in October 2013 in his final statement, Nuon Chea blamed everything on "treacherous" subordinates.
"I never educated or instructed them to mistreat or kill people, to deprive them of food or commit genocide," he added.
Nuon Chea was accused of playing a critical role in a regime which starved, executed and worked to death a quarter of the population.
He and his fellow defendant Khieu Samphan were "dictators who controlled Cambodians by brutal force and fear", according to prosecutor William Smith.
This is the second tragedy to hit Dayton within a few months. A tornado killed one and destroyed many buildings in heavily populated areas of the city in late May.
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