One of the themes of this blog is that, with some exceptions, the people who are most dangerous are politicians. Since rich people own politicians, indirectly, they are included.
We’ve been, as a society, obsessed with serial killers for some time. They are seen, by many, as the ultimate evil. The average serial killer is responsible for about six deaths.
The Iraq war killed about half a million people (we don’t really know, since we didn’t count, but the post-fact estimates are credible.) That means George W. Bush, as the primary driver of the Iraq War, was the equivalent of over eighty-three thousand serial killers.
If we want to spread out the blame, US and UK politician who were for the war were the equivalent of over 83,000 serial killers.
The high end estimate of active serial killers in America is 2,000 active killers.
Recently I did a bit of research into the effect of Clinton’s “Welfare Reform” bill, in which he cut access to Welfare significantly. Interestingly, it’s really impossible to tell how many people the bill killed or made homeless (which is a delayed death sentence).
We don’t count.
But I’m guessing Bill’s serial killer number is pretty high. Let’s ignore how many Americans he killed. Iraq sanctions killed somewhere between 200K to a million people, with Madeleine Albright famously saying that if 500K children had been killed, it was worth it.
Even 200K suggests a serial killer count of over 33,000.
Obama’s policies deliberately helped banks steal (foreclose) American homes (steal is the correct terminology, they used documents with fake information and signatures.) Once again, we don’t really know how many people had their homes taken, but 750K were included in a single class action suit, so that’s the lower bound estimate. I wonder how many of those became homeless or died as a result? Again, we don’t know, bu it’s bound to be a lot of people. There’s no possibility that it doesn’t massively increase Obama’s “serial killer count.”
Yesterday we discussed prosecuting those who have enabled the Gaza genocide. Of course there’s plenty of blame to go around, but assuming a death count of half a million, which is going to be a low end estimate, we’ve got a serial killer count of over 83K.
Don’t worry about serial killers. They kill hardly anyone.
Politicians, at the behest of their owners, on the other hand, now they have bloody, bloody hands.
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And everyday we see more killings, more atrocities, more lies and coverups.
It’s difficult to fathom the criminal mind that gets off on murder, but it’s even more difficult to understand the motives of those who kill freely on a mass scale in the name of some (“good”) cause or another. Then there’s the cheerleaders and apologists. How do these people live with themselves?
Sick is too weak a word to describe this behavior and its scale. I’m old enough to have lived through wars, assassinations, genocides and all around brutality and depravity, but I never thought I’d live to witness what we see today.
It kicked off royally during the Reagan years, but I’ll leave it there.
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Yes, it’s hot evil versus cold evil. Andrew Kimbrell describes it perfectly. Hot evil sells. Cold evil is many times more dangerous. It’s stealthy and it scales.
https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/cold-evil-technology-and-modern-ethics/
For anyone interested, they’re ALL war criminals. Lock ’em up or off with their heads or whatever you prefer as a punishment. I’m flexible.
https://youtu.be/0p0TV9A65TQ