DEoes Mr Treanor enjoy insulting the memory of my father, and the
relatives of many others whose relatives fought in the war.
Conned they may have been, but they went, many died and many more came
back permanently damaged - and in those days you couldn't sue the
government for post-conflict trauma.
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Adam Tickell wrote:
> Repeat a lie sufficiently frequently and it becomes plausible (or not).
>
> The second world war ushered in a period not of liberalism but of
> social democracy and if simplistic causes for fighting can be
> ascribed, which (other than, of course, conscription) they cannot,
> social democracy and a disgust with fascism is far more likely than
> a desire to see unchecked liberal economics.
>
>
>
> The men and women
> > who fought for the western allies in World War II fought for an evil
> > cause, the cause of global liberalism. Living in a market society is
> > not freedom. The soldiers of the western allies share the guilt, for
> > the tens of millions who have been killed by the free market since
> > 1945. They were morally no better than the soldiers of the Wehrmacht.
> > They deserve no honour and no memorial.
> >
> > ----
> > Paul Treanor
> > http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/dem.wrong.html
> >
>
>
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