Glenn Reynolds:
“Why do the lefty media always have to puff people up into bogus heroes?”
Answer: because otherwise, their only heroes are murdering bastards like Stalin, Mao, Guevara, Lenin, Trotsky, Castro, Chile’s Allende and Venezuela’s Chavez (just off the top of my head; there are LOTS more).
‘Murdering’ gives the impression of a psycho whacking a few shoppers or grade-schoolers.
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BOLCHEVICS heroes are genocidal… by the millions.
They hire armies of grave-diggers to conceal their crimes against humanity.
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The chinese genocide their moslem and Buddhist neighbors by the tens of thousands.
“Murdering” suggests that there was some element of individual attention given to the victims, even if only for a moment, as with the NGO individual mass murderers