Remember Communism

It's been a while since I visited the spoof whitehouse.org site, but I loved this on the Victims of Communism. flicking through to the non-spoof NPO was also a laugh.

I love speed-reading stuff first, I enjoy the way my brain filters certain information "Communism's unknown victims will be [consigned] to history and remembered forever" Huh what, oh wait "Communism's unknown victims will be consecrated to history and remembered forever" that sentence makes more sense, but I think my first take was more accurate.

Oh and of course everyone knows that "without the United States, the struggle for human freedom and liberty would have been lost." Oh my aching sides, because we all know how America has been at the forefront of ensuring these things in places like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

Discussion of the victims and crimes of communism, featuring presentations by former political prisoners

That's nice; were there slides?

Okay who's willing to bet that in 50-100 years time (when the species might have grown up a bit) America will plant a Victims of Capitalism statue next to the other one? They can feature discussions involving political prisoners from countries where the democratically elected leaders were overthrown and a dictatorship installed on the backing of the Western Powers.

Talks by villagers who had their homes bulldozed and their forests clear-cut so the West could get soft toilet paper. Exhibitions featuring dams and power stations built in areas that didn't need them, couldn't use them, and then had to clean up all the mess they caused.

Children of the time could reminisce over how they and their parents were kicked out of their homes for not paying their utility bills after the system was privatised and the prices increased by 300%.

On the plinth they could etch the number of preventable deaths that occurred in Africa due to the lack of cheap medicine.

Ah yes remember Communism - how evil it was (is).