On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:11:43 -0700, Michael Sylvester wrote: >This is noted evidence that whites are capable of being the most >aggressive and destructive of evolutionary human species.
Actually, in terms of all time greatest mass murderer, you have to go with Mao Zedong. Quoting from the Wikipedia entry on him: |Conversely, Mao's social-political programs, such as the Great |Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, are blamed for costing |millions of lives, causing severe famine and damage to the culture, |society and economy of China. Mao's policies and political purges |from 1949 to 1976 are widely believed to have caused the deaths |of between 50 to 70 million people.[2][3][4] Since Deng Xiaoping |assumed power in 1978, many Maoist policies have been abandoned |in favour of economic reforms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_zedong Some have estimated the number of deaths attributable to Mao as high as 100 million but such numbers are hard to confirm. It should be noted that, with respect to Japan, the allied forces in their Potsdam Declaration (July 26, 1945) had requested Japan's unconditional surrender. Japan's Supreme Council for the Direction of the War refused and this was a key factor in deciding to drop the atomic bombs as well as the Russian invasion of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo in China on August 9, after the bombing of Nagasaki. This led the Emperor Hirohito to surrender which he would announce to the Japanese people on August 15 on the radio. This was to be an amazing event because mythology held that the Emperor was a divine being and few people had access to him. But now they would be able to hear their Emperor's voice for the first time. It was expected that the Emperor would announce the surrender but in Japanese culture surrender was considered to be an incredibly dishonorable act (a point that was emphasized by the Japanese military and propaganda apparatus). How could the nation remove the dishonor? The traditional way was to commit suicide in one form or another (e.g., fighting to the death). Would the Emperor ask everyone to commit suicide? . Akira Kurosawa in his book "Something Like An Autobiography" recounts the anxious waiting for the Emperor's announcement. He was listening with others with the expectation that the Emperor would call for the "Honorable Death of the 100 Million". Kurosawa wrote that he was ready to commit suicide but had agreed with some friends to go over to the ministry office that was in charge of film censorship and kill the bastards that had given them such a hard in getting their wartime movies approved. As it turned out, Kurosawa didn't have to commit murder or suicide that day. But if the Emperor had requested it, it would probably have been the largest mass suicide in world history. Kurosawa's book is available on books.google.com and he uses the phrase "Honorable Death of the Hundred Million" if you're searching. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=4057 or send a blank email to leave-4057-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
