Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I can't stop but see red (sic) when I hear ignorants making the apology of communism.

To settle this once and for all.

Communism is a bankrupt ideology. Communism cannot but end in bankruptcy. As it already did once. Period.

People are not equal. And they will never be. WTF!!!!

And yes we are better off now than ever. Is this the best possible world? Probably not (wink Leibnitz), but the world will definitely be a better place when I'll publish this post.

We need equal liberty, we need competition (play), we need rewards, we need to protect and help the ones in need.
Is the present capitalist system perfect? Absolutely not. Can it be improved with a more humanistic dimension? Certainly.

As my friend, Tudor, a philosopher of science, was giving me an example yesterday. Assume a communist planet like Earth receives $60billion aid. Should they distribute the wealth, every person will receive $10. Just enough to go to a movie. And then? WTF?

But this is just a hilarious consequence of communist systems. Now:

- people are not equal
- communist system will try to level everybody
- people are not equal
- need a police state to keep this level to the lowest common denominator
- people are not equal
- lowest common denominator becomes the norm
- idiots get to power
- idiots will always be idiots
- intelligent people that try to speak out are silenced
- the rest has no incentives and rewards
- wealth is not produced
- the system slowly or violently disintegrates

There was a saying in communist Romania: "They are pretending to pay us, we are pretending to work." QED.

Liberty saves the world.

And the only country that made from liberty her strongest pillar is the same country that saved the world several times from suicidal political systems...

So for all the apologists of imbecile political systems please go and live there first and then I want to see you speak (oops, you won't be able to, free speech is not their most favourite hobby)....

... grrrrrrrrr... ;)

Ion Iliescu's Legacy

On June the 13th 1990 Romania's communist president Ion Iliescu asks the miners to come to Bucharest to 'clean up' the streets of anti-communist rallies.

20000 armed miners are brought by train to Bucharest.

Results:

• 1200 people arrested (yes, by the miners with police's help)
• hundreds savagely beaten
• women raped
• there are reports of about 5 killings
• the head-offices of all opposition parties, newspapers and universities are destroyed

During that period, I was regularly attending with friends and family the anti-communist rallies (no one from my family got hurt, my friend Radu got arrested).

Besides witnessing the savage beatings and destruction, the image that shocked me the most was that of an old lady who by means of animal screams was serving as anti-communist radar showing the miners who should be beaten next.

"The student, the student, he's a student!!" and the miners will flock on that person hitting him with anything from fists and kicks to stones and mine axes.

Human stupidity is endless.

Last month (may 2007) Iliescu said that on 13-15 June 1990 the miners performed an act of citizenship.

Only history shows if political actions are for the greater good.

In this situation, under Iliescu's presidencies, democratic reforms were seriously in peril, accession to European Union and NATO was blocked, a class of corrupt politicians and businessmen was created, hundreds of thousands of Romanians (mainly intellectuals) left their country.

Once and for all, Ion Iliescu's legacy is one of a criminal leader that used communist techniques of class war to control, scare and destroy his rivals. May justice prevail.