President Ignores Some Blatant Abuses

In a February 5, 2015, statement at a prayer breakfast, President Obama– in some cases going back some nine-hundred years– dredged up human abuse in history by citing the crusades, the Inquisition, and slavery in “our country.”

The objective citizen wonders why he “conveniently” omitted blatant communistic abuses.  Communism is a secular religion, with an organized system of beliefs, a cause, and a principle held to with ardor and faith. Communism also has its “sacred” books written by architects Lenin, Mao, Marx, and others.

Here are some of the communist abuses Mr. Obama ignored:

1. Mass killings occurred under some Communist regimes during the twentieth century with an estimated death toll numbering between 85 and 100 million. (See: Courtois (1999) “Introduction” p. X: USSR: 20 million deaths; China: 65 million deaths; Vietnam: 1 million deaths; North Korea: 2 million deaths; Cambodia: 2 million deaths; Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths; Latin America: 150,000 deaths; Africa: 1.7 million deaths; Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths; the international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power: about 10,000 deaths.)

2. During Stalin’s rule, several scholars, among them Stalin biographer Simon Sebag Montefiore, former Politburo member Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev and the director of Yale’s “Annals of Communism” series Jonathan Brent, put the death toll at about 20 million.

3. In Castro’s Cuba, the estimates of Cubans killed by the communist regime, range from 35,000 to 141,000 (1959-1987) according to historian R.J. Rummel.

Why did Mr. Obama overlook such relatively current genocide by Communist dictators?  Could it be that he is also a secular religionist?

Fillmer Hevener

Farmville, Virginia