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Submitted September 17, 2008 - 12:24 pm by Stephen C. Rose (not verified)

As an unfunded Yippie Lincoln Park 68 vet who thinks that on occasion thou dost protest too much, if Barack's crony lingo does become an issue it will rank with lipstick for irrelevance. I watched Marxism die on the vine decades ago and have developed my own phrase for what the world now embraces -- benign genocide.

Actually it is not original, as someone used it to describe Australian treatement of Aborigines before it hopped into my addled brain.

Today capitalism is simply the sum total of all enterprise whose aim is to make money. Philanthropy is the sum total of all who work under the guise of not-for-profit including the good works of governments, hospitals, etc.

Benign genocide is what is left when both of these hubris-laden monoliths fail to achieve their claimed objectives. It is what UNICEF puts out in death stats annually.

I have no beard, despise Nader and do honor Barack's CO creds.

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