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2007-05-24T02:03:08Z

SocialDemocrat: /* Current Alerts */ that was an illegitimate ban by a rogue administrator

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'''This is where you can report abuse of editing privileges. Please make notes short and concise. Unsigned posts will be removed.'''
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Sysops, please move notes down to 'old alerts' once the incident is closed.

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*[[:Category:Speedy deletion candidates|Articles for Speedy Deletion]]
*[[User:CPanel|Conservapedia Panel]]

==Current Alerts==

*[[User:Billwsu]]...See [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Paternity_test&diff=prev&oldid=172943 here] for example. And [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Jnl001&diff=prev&oldid=172902 here] where the user edits another user's account. [[User:HeartOfGold|<big>HG</big>HeartOfGold]] [[User_talk:HeartOfGold|talk]] 16:35, 22 May 2007 (EDT)
::User now [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk%3ABillwsu&diff=172999&oldid=172993 claims] one of the edits was a new user error. [[User:HeartOfGold|<big>HG</big>HeartOfGold]] [[User_talk:HeartOfGold|talk]] 16:39, 22 May 2007 (EDT)
:::I just provided a welcome message to this user as he ''may'' be making honest mistakes, according to other users. [[User:HeartOfGold|<big>HG</big>HeartOfGold]] [[User_talk:HeartOfGold|talk]] 16:57, 22 May 2007 (EDT)
*I blocked [[user:Etaroced|Etaroced]] because he admitted to being a sockpuppet of tmtoulouse on his userpage. Was this correct to do?[[User:Bohdan|Bohdan]]
*:YES! Congratulations! --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 05:47, 19 May 2007 (EDT)
*:I am so mad because i can't block these guys. Who ever is doing this has alot of IPs--[[User:Will N.|Will N.]] 10:49, 18 May 2007 (EDT)
*:Ditto [[User_talk:Alfred|Alfred]] and [[User_talk:LSD|LSD]] [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 10:47, 18 May 2007 (EDT)
*:Obviously the same is true with [[User_talk:VirginIP|VirginIP]] and [[User_talk:BlockedIP|BlockedIP]] [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 10:38, 18 May 2007 (EDT)
*:Rather obvious, but look at user [[User_talk:PCP|PCP]] [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 10:33, 18 May 2007 (EDT)
* <s>[[User_talk:Conservateur|Conservateur]] made this [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Scopes_trial&diff=166184&oldid=159587 edit], which I assumed was an accident, but after I posted a notice to his talk page I saw other warnings about what might other similarly strange edits.</s> [[User:HeartOfGold|HeartOfGold]] 20:31, 17 May 2007 (EDT)
::In the interest of full disclosure, the above content may have been approved by Andy, though I am not sure why. I certainly don't like Gore, but Gore's results in an election has not been sufficiently linked to the Scopes Trial, and cluttering it up with random political facts seemed strange. I retract the implication of the previous post about Conservateur. [[User:HeartOfGold|HeartOfGold]] 20:44, 17 May 2007 (EDT)

*[[User:FaithPlus1|FaithPlus1]] going out of his way to insert BCE into articles, blocked by Niandra for 3 days. His screen name is a reference to a ''South Park'' episode. [[User:DanH|DanH]] 15:03, 17 May 2007 (EDT)

*[[User:Cullen21|Cullen21]] made inappropriate edits. See [[Karl Rove]]--'''Adrian[[User talk:AdrianP|P]]''' 13:40, 17 May 2007 (EDT)

*[[User:Jpatt|Jpatt]] violates the 90/10 rule and he seems to be to go over the top on conservative issues which makes him look like he really isn't conservative at all, but just pretends to be.--'''Adrian[[User talk:AdrianP|P]]'''
: blocked for a week due to violation of 90/10 rule. Thanks, Adrian.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 01:33, 17 May 2007 (EDT)\

*{{user|Binary42}}, sock of [[User:Linus M.|Linus M.]], seriously. Ask me/him. --[[User:Binary42|Binary42]] 22:29, 16 May 2007 (EDT)
*:Your name contradicts itself, anyway. [[User:DanH|DanH]] 22:30, 16 May 2007 (EDT)
*: It's sad that people feel a need for attention like that.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 22:45, 16 May 2007 (EDT)

*somehow, the user [[User:box|box]]'s page had a category "Worthless Conservapedians" that included everyone. I deleted everything on his page and now it is gone.[[User:Bohdan|Bohdan]]

*look at this [[Albania|page]]. Its completly messed up? I dont get it?-[[User:box|Box]] 22:16, 15 May 2007 (EDT)
::Oh i made out the writing it spells "icewe"????? -[[User:box|Box]] 22:17, 15 May 2007 (EDT)

*[[User:Figleaf]] You'll see what I mean when you check up his edits. See Vietnam War and Alexander the Great. You may wish to stop him before he can do more damage. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 13:35, 15 May 2007 (EDT)

: Blocked for infinite duration. Thanks!--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 13:38, 15 May 2007 (EDT)

*[[User:Jpatt|jp]] Other than 7 edits to [[Separation of Powers]] of which 3 are simply adding internal links and one is adding a return, this user has made no edits to actual articles. This user has however, made a total of 330 edits to Conservapedia so less than 3% of his edits are to actual pages. This user is in clear violation of the 90/10 rule. --[[User:Reginod|Reginod]] 10:34, 15 May 2007 (EDT)

*[[User:Human|Human]] Declared Conservatives are actually not welcome on this one tiny little corner of CP. Who_will_liberals_support_for_President_in_2008. Liberals can post anywhere Conservatives not allowed.--[[User:Jpatt|jp]] 01:40, 14 May 2007 (EDT)

::I left him an offer he can't refuse, so I think it will be okay now. BUT please don't taunt the Liberals too much, they completely have no sense of humor when it comes to things political. --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 01:54, 14 May 2007 (EDT)

::What JP, fails to mention here, is that this took place on Human’s user page.
::Human asked that users who self identify as conservatives not post on his personal user page asking liberal users who they would support as president but rather to post on his user page asking conservatives who they would support—that seems to be a very reasonable request (which JP chose, knowingly, to ignore). He seems to have been acting under the assumption that his user page was his castle and he could tell people who could post where on it. This doesn’t seem like abuse at all, but rather making a reasonable request that is well in line with the Conservapedia policy that a user has the right to decided how his user page is treated.--[[User:Reginod|Reginod]] 11:42, 14 May 2007 (EDT)

::Hi Liberal Reg, I am fine with what Human says however, people like you will comment on Republicans even though they are not one. Must be fair all they way around in order for his system to work. Otherwise, you'll have a section of liberal false hoods without rebuttal.--[[User:Jpatt|jp]] 15:11, 14 May 2007 (EDT)

:::I count at least three errors of fact in your first sentence, allow me to clear them up. My name is neither “Liberal Reg” nor “Reg”, I identify as a Libertarian and not a liberal, and I have not posted to the conservative page and have no plans to do so. The first two are minor mistakes, but the third strikes me as a serious accusation (that I will violate the castle that is another user’s page and that I am a hypocrite). I would ask that you be clear about the facts before you accuse me of anything in the future.--[[User:Reginod|Reginod]] 17:10, 14 May 2007 (EDT)

::Sorry for offending you nod, first of all 'people like you' doesn't mean you have posted to Republicans. Second of all, all libertarians are just other liberals with a different name. You are defending John Edwards so strongly, yet he's not a libertarian. Who said anything about hypocrite? lighten up. Sysop, are we really allowed to debate here in the abuse forum?--[[User:Jpatt|jp]] 23:30, 14 May 2007 (EDT)

*'''No, this isn't a debate place, and I will be removing such posts here, and cleaning it up later. Let me say this about user pages...your ONE user page and ONE discussion page is your castle. ''You cannot create dozens of other pages, like the political discussion page of Human, and expect to be entitled to the "rights" of your one user page/discussion page "castle"''. Now please move those extra pages, Human, out to the debate page space where they belong, or it will be done for you, and I wouldn't want to be responsible for any data loss, or edit conflicts.''' --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 00:23, 15 May 2007 (EDT)
: And '''this is not the page for personal direct comments''' (user talk pages are), we all are not reading this. (This case of comment to Human fixed by me.) --[[User:Aulis Eskola|Aulis Eskola]] 11:48, 16 May 2007 (EDT)

*{{alert|IDidItForIcwdg}} vandal. He is making inappropriate articles. --'''Adrian[[User talk:AdrianP|P]]''' 19:47, 11 May 2007 (EDT)
:Blocked Geo.[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Geo.plrd Talk] 20:29, 11 May 2007 (EDT)
*[[User:Flippin|Flippin]] Posted he was leaving for a while, left attack on CP and other users on page. Blocked two weeks. Pray for his returning rested and positive! --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 16:15, 11 May 2007 (EDT)
**It appears that our "castles" are built out of very thin paper... gives me article/essay ideas, though. --[[User:JLindon|JLindon]] 16:23, 11 May 2007 (EDT)
::Actually I think Sysops pages are castles, where as normal editors only live in the fields in mud huts. [[User:Jrssr5|Jrssr5]] 16:25, 11 May 2007 (EDT)
*{{alert|Cookieman}} - replacing pages with llamas. [[User:Jrssr5|Jrssr5]] 09:44, 11 May 2007 (EDT)
*Blocked by PhillipRayment. Geo.[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Geo.plrd Talk] 15:50, 11 May 2007 (EDT)
*{{alert|SeanTheSheep}} 2nd warning. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 17:09, 10 May 2007 (EDT)

*{{alert|Favor}} sock of icwdg --'''Adrian[[User talk:AdrianP|P]]''' 20:52, 8 May 2007 (EDT)
Proof? [[User:DanH|DanH]] 20:56, 8 May 2007 (EDT)
:He has a user box that says AmesG is the leader of conservapedia. And I have been seeing a lot of vandalism on this site that has been saying icwdg thinks AmesG should be unbanned. --'''Adrian[[User talk:AdrianP|P]]''' 20:57, 8 May 2007 (EDT)
That's not proof. [[User:DanH|DanH]] 20:58, 8 May 2007 (EDT)
:It is easier to block and unblock later than to fix the pages that a person has vandalized. --'''Adrian[[User talk:AdrianP|P]]''' 21:00, 8 May 2007 (EDT)
::AmesG does a better job of getting himself blocked than any Admin here. He likes the attention, but I agree with DanH, that box isn't much "proof" and check it, several others do, or did, have that same box. --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 21:36, 8 May 2007 (EDT)

*{{alert|Sacrificialzeus}} vandalized my user page and other pages. --'''Adrian[[User talk:AdrianP|P]]''' 15:09, 8 May 2007 (EDT)
*{{alert|Jesuslover143}} vandal. --'''Adrian[[User talk:AdrianP|P]]''' 15:08, 8 May 2007 (EDT)
*04:37, 8 May 2007, TK blocked Muschifresser (infinite, account creation blocked) (Parodist/Subtle Vandal: "Owing to their diet of eucalyptus leaves, which contain a volatile oil, Koalas are highly flammable. For this reason, it is recommended to consume them raw in the form of a carpaccio or Koala tartare."Also has sock,LordWhimsey‎ )
*04:38, 8 May 2007, TK blocked LordWhimsey (contribs) (infinite, account creation blocked) (Sock of Muschifresser )

*{{alert|YouGuysSuck}}, replaced Theory of Relativity with insults.
:Blocked infinitely Geo.[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Geo.plrd Talk] 18:09, 5 May 2007 (EDT)
*{{alert|Commodore Morgan}}, replacing user talk pages with "Icwdg has pwned Bronzefinger", in my case. [[User:Bronzefinger|Bronzefinger]] 13:04, 3 May 2007 (EDT)
:Blocked infinitely Geo.[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Geo.plrd Talk] 18:09, 5 May 2007 (EDT)
*{{alert|Muschifresser}}, user name needs explanation. No apparent justification for blocking, but "Fresser" means "to eat like an animal," and "Muschi" is, uh, blocked by Google's Safe Search filtering. I'm about to leave a note on his Talk page. watch for his reply. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 08:50, 3 May 2007 (EDT)
*{{alert|Swordofdestiny}} using specious reasoning to defend a troublemaker. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 10:11, 2 May 2007 (EDT)
:Blocked by ed poor Geo.[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Geo.plrd Talk] 18:09, 5 May 2007 (EDT)
*{{user|Boris Johnson, MP}} obscenity [[User:Crocoite|Crocoite]] [[User_talk:Crocoite|Talk]] 15:45, 1 May 2007 (EDT)
*{{user|The Black Angel of Death}} [[User:Crocoite|Crocoite]] [[User_talk:Crocoite|Talk]] 15:40, 1 May 2007 (EDT)
*{{user|Czolgolz}} - Karajou says he lied about sources. [http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Ed_Poor#Zugstein] --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 07:21, 1 May 2007 (EDT)
:User made a mistake Geo.[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Geo.plrd Talk] 18:09, 5 May 2007 (EDT)
*{{user|Tennis Sweatshirt}} I think he might be icwdg and he also posted "This place is pretty worthless so I would leave Tennis Sweatshirt 12:29, 29 April 2007 (EDT)." So I am not sure if you can trust any of his edits as being of any worth. --'''[[User:AdrianP|Adrian]][[User talk:AdrianP|P]] 20:03, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
*{{user|Pokeisthemon}} mostly hunch, but I'm sure it's a sock of Icwdg. Should be watched closely, if not pre-emptively blocked. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 21:15, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
:Inconclusive on checkuser Geo.[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Geo.plrd Talk] 16:20, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
::Cool. My apologies to Poke. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 22:33, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
*{{user|JoshuaZ}} Misleading edit summary + removed valid information from [[Noah]] article. Last 3 edits are questionable. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 05:11, 28 April 2007 (EDT)
** I reviewed his unproductive edits and a short block is appropriate. Please proceed as you think best.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 08:59, 28 April 2007 (EDT)

*[[User:Fred]] -- questionable edits intended to embarass CP. [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Censorship&diff=prev&oldid=46203][http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Separation_of_church_and_state&diff=prev&oldid=41507] [[User:RobS|RobS]] 11:46, 26 April 2007 (EDT)

*{{user|GeorgeJ.W.}} keeps to add seemingly parodic, biased nonsense to articles, often attacking free software for being "communist". --[[User:Hacker|Hacker]]<code>([[User talk:Hacker|Write some code]] • [[Conservapedia:Requests for adminship#Support|Support my RfA]])</code> 19:50, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
: Silly edits by GeorgeJ.W., I agree. Not quite enough to block him, but he's getting there.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 19:38, 27 April 2007 (EDT)
::They're parodic, Andy, not silly, unless he's an utterly ignorant moron. --[[User:Hacker|Hacker]]<code>([[User talk:Hacker|Write some code]] • [[Conservapedia:Requests for adminship#Support|Support my RfA]])</code> 07:47, 28 April 2007 (EDT)

*{{user|Scorpion}}, vote fraud via sockpuppets. --[[User:Hacker|Hacker]]<code>([[User talk:Hacker|Write some code]] • [[Conservapedia:Requests for adminship#Support|Support my RfA]])</code> 21:53, 24 April 2007 (EDT)

*[[User:Flippin|Flippin]] defaced my user page [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User:Auld_Nick&oldid=151416 here] (my castle? [[User_talk:Aschlafly#User_page_a_person.27s_castle.3F|see here]]) also
:[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] added to [[User:Ian St John|Ian St John]]'s user page [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User:Ian_St_John&diff=151723&oldid=151721 here] and [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User:Ian_St_John&diff=151726&oldid=151723 here]. (his castle? [[User_talk:Aschlafly#User_page_a_person.27s_castle.3F|see here]]) [[User:Auld Nick|Auld Nick]] 15:17, 9 May 2007 (EDT)

===Dealt with===
*{{user|Hacker}} Review of Hacker's edits: slightly less than 500 edits, of which only about 6 are new entries and only about 10 are substantive edits of existing entries. One of the new entries was "Geek". Unless this improves quickly, I propose blocking this account because this violates the 90/10 rule.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 18:50, 23 April 2007 (EDT)
::That seems disingenuous. Yes, he has only a few new pages, but he has made a number of templates. And, maybe I read the "total" incorrectly, but it said 307 edits? At the risk of sounding tautological, this user is quite useful, IMHO. [[User:Flippin|Flippin]] 10:52, 24 April 2007 (EDT)
*16:04, 6 May 2007 TK (Talk | contribs | block) blocked "Hacker (contribs)" with an expiry time of infinite (Hacker is a sock of Linus, Hacker is blocked now infinitely)

*{{user|Tomt}} Insubordinate and impolite remark at [[User talk:TK]]. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 07:22, 19 May 2007 (EDT)
**So I get a warning after I complained to another for making a rude comment about me? This makes no sense... --[[User:Tomt|TomT]] 07:41, 19 May 2007 (EDT)
**TK is not "another" but has a higher position than you. I also told you to read [[Conservapedia:Avoid personal remarks]] but see no evidence you have done so. Furthermore, this page is not a place to argue about whether you have violated a rule. You are blocked for 36 hours. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 07:50, 19 May 2007 (EDT)
**'''UNBLOCKED''' after successful appeal to Mr. Schlafly. Welcome back! --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 09:03, 19 May 2007 (EDT)

*[[User:Harlequin]] made inappropriate edits to bloodhound --'''Adrian[[User talk:AdrianP|P]]''' 19:12, 16 May 2007 (EDT)
**Blocked. --[[User:Hojimachong|'''Hojimachong''']][[User_Talk:Hojimachong|talk]] 19:12, 16 May 2007 (EDT)

*[[User:Totnesmartin|Totnesmartin]] If you look at his user page he sounds like a parodist. He makes fun of conservapedia articles and says how great this site is. Seems to be a bit over the top if you ask me. --'''Adrian[[User talk:AdrianP|P]]''' 19:31, 16 May 2007 (EDT)
:I blocked him for a week for violating the 90/10 rule.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 19:53, 16 May 2007 (EDT)

*[[User:BushRules12|BushRules12]] parodist/vandal --'''Adrian[[User talk:AdrianP|P]]''' 22:51, 16 May 2007 (EDT)
: blocked for a week due to violation of 90/10 rule.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 01:33, 17 May 2007 (EDT)

*All socks. Blocked infinite. --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 23:23, 8 May 2007 (EDT)
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#Solstace (Latest: 01:46, 9 May 2007) (Earliest: 01:37, 9 May 2007) [2]
#Talk for me (Latest: 01:20, 8 May 2007) (Earliest: 01:20, 8 May 2007) [1]
*[[User:Auld Nick]]. In [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Kilt&diff=152957&oldid=152944 this edit], he added [[:Image:Soldiers wearing Kilts.jpg]], with the edit comment "Image of soldiers in kilts" and the picture caption "Kilted Scottish Soldiers paying respect to their fallen comrades." He does not say in the talk page or in an edit comment why he chose an image in which one soldier's kilt has been lifted by wind to expose part of his bare buttocks. The use of such an image ought to have been discussed in Talk. If the point was to illustrate that kilts are worn without underwear, and if he sincerely thought such an image was appropriate, then the edit comment should have said something like "Image showing that kilts are worn without underwear." Therefore, I consider the edit comment misleading, and that trips my threshold for labeling it as "abuse." Put plainly, it's my opinion that Auld Nick is figuratively mooning Conservapedia. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 09:57, 10 May 2007 (EDT) P. S. Undoubtedly a copyright violation, too, although widely reproduced all over the Net. It appears to be an Associated Press photograph of one Lee Wotherspoon in Hong Kong on April 24, 1997. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 10:05, 10 May 2007 (EDT)
*#Blocked for two hours. That'll larn 'im. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 12:40, 10 May 2007 (EDT)

*{{user|CaptainCAVEMAN}} ought to be blocked. [[User:Murray|Murray]] 10:45, 24 April 2007 (EDT)
*#Blocked.
*{{user|Pussyfooter}} check out edits to [[Pudding]] [[User:Murray|Murray]] 17:31, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
*#Blocked. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 17:36, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

*{{user|JeffersonDarcy}} He put "this user doesn't have a problem with calling a person a faggot" on my user page. He also deleted my post putting his name on the current alerts. --[[User:AdrianP|AdrianP]] 14:36, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
*#Blocked for 1 week. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 15:43, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
::Extended to indefinte for sockpuppetry during block. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 13:51, 14 May 2007 (EDT)
*{{user|Auld Nick}} User name means Satan ("Old Nick"). Uploaded picture of a man in a skirt and frilly blouse, mislabeled as "traditional attire". --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 07:23, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
*:- Ed, a kilt (pleated male skirt) and (on formal occasions) dress shirt with ruffles ''is'' traditional Scottish dress. [[User:Unthank|Unthank]] 07:26, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
*#You are both on probation. Let's see your writing plans. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 07:57, 30 April 2007 (EDT)
*Terreista and LambChop -blocked, socks of each other --~ [[User:TK|TK]] [[User_talk:TK|MyTalk]] 16:23, 16 April 2007 (EDT)
*{{user|Alfa Papa}} causing havoc. [[User:Crocoite|Crocoite]] [[User_talk:Crocoite|Talk]] 17:18, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
:It's a sock of Icwdg. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 19:12, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
::'''Blocked''' by [[User:TerryH|TerryH]][[User talk:TerryH|Talk]] 20:39, 29 April 2007 (EDT)
*{{user|Aydindrill}} Causing havoc. [[User:Crocoite|Crocoite]][[User_talk:Crocoite|Talk]] 22:09, 24 April 2007 (EDT)
**'''Blocked''' by Aschlafly as a sock of icwdg. Geo.[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Geo.plrd Talk] 12:47, 27 April 2007 (EDT)
*[[User:Staple]] -- vandalism and other questionable content. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 22:24, 27 April 2007 (EDT)
** Feel free to make my one-month block permanent.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 08:59, 28 April 2007 (EDT)
** Staple has many counterproductive edits, and potentially offensive ones by labeling users with categories. I lengthened his block to 1 month. I don't know anything about a "swastika" but feel free to make his block permanent if that is what it sounds like.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 22:35, 27 April 2007 (EDT)
***He had a swastika on his userpage[[User:Bohdan|Bohdan]]
****The [[:Category:Liberal Users]] he created as a subcat of [[:Category:Communists]] [http://www.conservapedia.com/Category:Liberal_Users]; he & I were the only [[:Category:Conservative Users]] in that cat after he put a swastika on his User page.[http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User:Staple&diff=prev&oldid=132099] At a minimum this is incivility and trolling, and has little to do with his own use of his User page. A permanent block is warranted. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 02:04, 28 April 2007 (EDT)
** Swastika alone justifies it. Good block.-'''AmesG'''[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:AmesG yo!] 22:33, 27 April 2007 (EDT)
*[[user:MontyZuma]], for instances of minor vandalism, and the creation of a profane page which involved moving an article into and changing the content. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 18:27, 3 May 2007 (EDT)
:I'm going to unblock him; this particular article he wrote is actually a dish, as I just found out. My apologies. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 18:31, 3 May 2007 (EDT)

* Please investigate [[User:RSchlafly]]'s edits to [[Geocentric theory]]. They are simply cutting out well-justified and relevant material, and there is no rationale given for the decision. This is tantamount to vandalism. [[User:OfficerDibble]]
:* I second that. [[User:RSchlafly]] hs been deleting and reverting a lot of my stuff and instead of debating the changes on the talk page he made statments like "Your beliefs are ridiculous". He has now protected the page so I can't make any changes.[[User:Mmeelliissssaa|Mmeelliissssaa]] 13:22, 6 May 2007 (EDT) This user is a sock of Icwdg and has been blocked.
:::I oppose this alert, at the risk of POV-pushing, geocentrism is risible IMO. --[[User:Linus M.|Liπus the Turbohacker]]([[User talk:Linus M.|contact me]]) 22:39, 6 May 2007 (EDT)
::::This is not the place for insults. Please see my detailed account on [[Talk:Geocentric theory]] before you make such judgements. --[[User:OfficerDibble|OfficerDibble]] 04:19, 7 May 2007 (EDT)
*Insults? Where? Please don't make random accusatory posts, OfficerDibble, okay? --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 05:01, 7 May 2007 (EDT)
::"I oppose this alert, at the risk of POV-pushing, geocentrism is '''risible'''" I take "Risible" to be insulting, since I have worked long and hard to make the points I have on the article. --[[User:OfficerDibble|OfficerDibble]] 05:27, 7 May 2007 (EDT)
*Well, if you object to furious editing of your work, and debate about it, a wiki is the wrong place for you. Your tone borders on the dramatic. If you are into drama, might I suggest working on one of the acting/dramatic arts pages? --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 05:33, 7 May 2007 (EDT)
*:OfficerDibble and myself have been following the comandments of conservapedia, RSchlafly has been deleting our work with out discussing our valid points. Be even objects to relevent bible verses being included. And the page block prevents us from making any changes. Clearly we are in the right here, as can plainly be seen in the history and talk page of the article. Also I have not been blocked and I am not a "sock of icwdg".[[User:Mmeelliissssaa|Mmeelliissssaa]] 12:11, 7 May 2007 (EDT)
:'''No Action''' Rschlafly is a Sysop Geo.[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Geo.plrd Talk] 12:12, 7 May 2007 (EDT)
::So are we to take this to mean that Sysops have carte blanche and can do whatever they want whenever? [[User:Jrssr5|Jrssr5]] 14:44, 7 May 2007 (EDT)
:*You are to take it per the CP Guidelines. [[http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia_Guidelines]] Failure to follow the directions of an Administrator, as to what is, and is not, appropriate behavior/content/actions, is a blockable offense. So is never-ending argument. --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 19:32, 7 May 2007 (EDT)

::TK, is a simple precise answer such as '''''No''', Sysops do not have carte blanche and cannot do whatever they want whenever they want'' to much to ask? [[User:Auld Nick|Auld Nick]] 05:02, 9 May 2007 (EDT)

*When you leave your glass house, Auld Nick, perhaps you would make a better spokesperson for transparency and short comments. Either you are completely obtuse, or just ignoring what the Guidelines say, for a better (read dramatic) retort. Obviously at any website in the world, Administrators have more leeway than users. Just as that aging hippy Jimbo has at WP. Anything else on your mind? --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 05:48, 9 May 2007 (EDT)

::Thank you for the [[Conservapedia:Civility|civil]] answer. That has clarified things for me. [[User:Auld Nick|Auld Nick]] 06:49, 9 May 2007 (EDT)

:::I greatly resent users putting me on the spot about what another Sysop does or does not do. First, it isn't fair or polite. Secondly, if the intentions of the user were honorable, in my opinion, they wouldn't seek to make a public scene about it, and might, if they were using good manners, email about it. Is that really so unreasonable? --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 09:03, 9 May 2007 (EDT)

::::For the record we (or maybe just myself) didn't put you on the spot, the question was asked of Geo and you chose to respond. And I disagree about the honorable thing, if it is honorable, why not talk about it in public to let others decide. Doing things by email, behind everyone's backs make it seem like someone has something to hide. [[User:Jrssr5|Jrssr5]] 09:18, 9 May 2007 (EDT)

:::Well of course you do. But I was addressing Auld Nick. Sorry, we all don't agree with your wiki ways of doing things. It is a software, not a way of life. Your post smacks of Wikipedia bullying, it won't work here. You are now warned. Don't continue this. Take it up with the Sysop in question. Geo, BTW, answered you; "No Action". --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 09:32, 9 May 2007 (EDT)

::When you say your wiki ways, are you refering to me or Auld Nick again? And am I warned or Auld Nick? What wikipedia bullying tactics am I or Auld Nick using that are so different from you warning to block me or Auld Nick from this wiki? It is very hard to fill in the blanks and figure out what you mean when replies are very cryptic and sarcastic. And I did take it up with the sysop in question (as seen above), I asked Geo for an answer ''after'' he stated "No Action", he never replied. [[User:Jrssr5|Jrssr5]] 09:42, 9 May 2007 (EDT)

*Well, sorry to have confused you. By the way, the Sysop in question is RSchlafly, not Geo, not me. We merely attempted to provide answers, for which we have been whipped for. Now, take me seriously, no more on this. You have been given instruction by a Administrator to take it up with the Sysop you were/are complaining about, and told no action will be taken. --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 09:54, 9 May 2007 (EDT)
*In response to the question by Jssr5, the reason for no action is that this is not the appropriate forum to debate tohe actions of a current Sysop. Geo.[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:Geo.plrd Talk] 22:17, 9 May 2007 (EDT)

Zimbabwe

2007-05-24T02:02:06Z

SocialDemocrat: New page: '''Zimbabwe''' formerly '''Rhodesia''' is a country in southern Africa which is ruled with an iron fist by dictator Bobby Mugabe. It is one of the worst countries in the world to live in. ...

'''Zimbabwe''' formerly '''Rhodesia''' is a country in southern Africa which is ruled with an iron fist by dictator Bobby Mugabe. It is one of the worst countries in the world to live in. In addition to being a totalitarian dictatorship, Zimbabwe is ravaged by AIDS and famine and has one of the lowest life expectancies in the world
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Taliban

2007-05-24T01:59:59Z

SocialDemocrat:

The '''Taliban''' is a Sunni [[Islam]]ic [[fundamentalist]] movement which effectively ruled most of [[Afghanistan]] from 1996 when the United States assisted them until 2001, when United States forces invaded Afganistan and overthrew them. The Taliban allowed [[al-Qaeda]] (a militant [[Sunni]] Islamist organization) use of Afghan territory to plot, train, and conduct terrorist activities across sovereign international borders. The Taliban retains control of substantial tracts of Afghanistan to this day, and continues to co-ordinate attacks against the Afghan government and supporting coalition forces.

The word "taliban" means "students".

The Taliban's rule was characterized by a fanatical intolerance for other religions and the fact that women could not be educated. Additionally, the Taliban banned all forms of television, imagery, music and sports, resulting in Afganistan being suspended from the 2000 Olympics. The Taliban were also strongly against [[drugs]]; since their overthrow [[heroin]] production in Afghanistan has increased massively and the country is now once again the world's largest producer. {{fact}}
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Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini

2007-05-24T01:58:36Z

SocialDemocrat: /* Sources */

[[Image:Iran.jpg|thumb|198px|right|Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran]]
The Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini was a Muslim [[Shiite]] who took control of Iran after a revolution overthrew in 1979 one of the twin pillars of Western cooperative security arrangements in the Persian Gulf, the Shah [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]]. The Ayatollah came to power as part of US President [[Jimmy Carter]]'s "Human Rights" policy. William Miller, chief of staff on the US Senate Intelligence Committee, said America had nothing to fear from Khomeini since he would be a [[progressive]] force for human rights. U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan compared Khomeini to [[Mahatma Gandhi]].”

In 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini created the ''Basij Mostazafan'' a mass movement of young people under 17 years of age. When the Iran-Iraq War started in 1980, Khomeini issued a [[fatwa]] and promise of paradise and they were incorporated into the Iranian military. The Iranian clergy took over command from the regular military leaders in mid-1982. In July 1982 Iran launched Operation Ramadan near Basra. The clergy used "human-wave" attacks calling for the young people from age 9 years old and up to move forward in human wave attacks to clear minefields so the regular Army could follow. <ref>[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/iran-iraq.htm Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), ''Iraqi Retreats, 1982-84''], Globalsecruity.org, retrieved 20 March 2007.</ref> Matthias Küntzel quotes an Iraqi officer's description of one such encounter in the summer of 1982.

:''“They come toward our positions in huge hordes with their fists swinging...You can shoot down the first wave and then the second. But at some point the corpses are piling up in front of you, and all you want to do is scream and throw away your weapon. Those are human beings, after all!'' <ref>[http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/ahmadinejads-demons ''Ahmadinejad's Demons: A Child of the Revolution Takes Over''], Matthias Küntzel, The New Republic, 24 April 2006 .</ref>

Other reports appeared in the Iranian daily newspaper ''Ettelaat'' and later an eyewitness gave an account to the German newspaper ''Frankfurter Allgemeine'' in 2002. Some 100,000 were killed this way.

On April 5, 1984, US President [[Ronald Reagan]] issued a National Security Decision Directive (NSDD 139), saying the U.S. needed to stress
:''"the urgent need to dissuade Iran from continuing the ruthless and inhumane tactics which have characterized recent offensives."'' <ref>[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/iraq53.pdf NSDD 139, 5 April 1984].</ref>

This played a large part in the humanitarian basis of Reagan's decision to help put the end of the Iran-Iraq War by the [[Iran-Contra affair]] and reestablish relations with an old longtime ally, Iran.

The Ayatollah held American hostages until President Carter, who had admitted the Shah into the United States for medical treatment, left the presidency on Jan. 20, 1981.

==See also==
[[Carter Doctrine]]

==Reference==
<references/>

==Sources==
*Grinter, Dr. Lawrence E. [http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1983/jan-feb/grinter.html ''Avoiding the Burden: The Carter Doctrine in Perspective''] Vol. XXXIV, No. 2 (January-February 1983): 73-82.
*[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/iran-iraq.htm Global Security.org Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)]
*Winton, Emanual E., [http://www.tzemach.org/fyi/docs/winston/july17-01.htm ''Abomination: The Sacrificing of Children''], Tzemach, 17 July 2001.
*Küntzel, Matthias, [http://www.tnr.com/user/nregi.mhtml?i=20060424&s=kuntzel042406 ''A Child of the Revolution takes Over''], The New Republic, April 4, 2006.
*D'Souza, Dinesh,[http://townhall.com/columnists/DineshDSouza/2007/01/29/giving_radical_islam_its_start ''Giving radical Islam its start''], January 29, 2007

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Kim Jong Il

2007-05-24T01:56:07Z

SocialDemocrat:

[[Image:Bvdy76.jpg|right|thumb]]
'''Kim Jong Il''' has been the dictator of North Korea since coming to power in 1994. He is also the leader of the [[Communist Party]] of [[North Korea]]. He has been criticized for the human rights abuses in North Korea. Over one million people in North Korea starved to death as a result of a state imposed famine. Jong-il is one of the worst human beings on the planet.

He came into power in 1994, after his father [[Kim Il Sung]] died, and has remained the North Korean leader ever since. He is an intense persecutor of Christians and other organized religions.

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[[Category:Mass murderers]]
[[Category:Dictators]]

Kim Jong Il

2007-05-24T01:55:47Z

SocialDemocrat:

Hugo Chavez

2007-05-24T01:53:10Z

SocialDemocrat: /* Further reading */ chavez was freely elected in elections ruled fair by international observers, he is not a dictator

[[Image:chavez.jpg|175px|right|thumb|Hugo Chavez]]'''Hugo Chávez''' (b. July 28, 1954) is the democratically-elected President of the Bolivarian Republic of [[Venezuela]]. Chávez was elected President in 1998 on promises of aiding Venezuela's poor majority, and was reelected in 2000 and in 2006. Chávez has launched Bolivarian Missions, whose goals are to combat disease, illiteracy, malnutrition, poverty, and other social ills. Chávez openly encourages alternative models of economic development than those of "United States' Capitalism", and has advocated cooperation among the world's poor nations, especially those in Latin America.

According to the ''Washington Post'' Chavez has been accused of supplying weapons to Colombian rebels, of financing Bolivian and Ecuadorian groups seeking to establish "Marxist'' states, and of being, with Cuban leader Fidel Castro's guidance, a "subversive'' everywhere else in the region.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/25/AR2005082501420.html?nav=rss_world/centralamerica ''Dealing With the Good and Bad Hugo Chavez''], Marcela Sanchez The Washington Post 25 August 2005.</ref>

Through Venezuela's state owned petroleum industry and membership in [[OPEC]], Chávez has now used powers granted to him by Parliament to increase oil prices, stimulating the economy and providing more money for the Bolivarianist projects. Countries such as the United States have criticized Chávez for the increase in cost for crude oil. Chavez is at the forefront of wanting to set crude oil prices at $60 a barrel minimum, according to the ''Asia Times''<ref>[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/HL07Dj01.html ''Bush, OPEC and Chavez of Arabia''], Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, 7 December 2006.</ref>
[[Image:Hugo-chavez8.jpg|left|175px|thumb|Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with Fidel Castro.
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The [[United States of America]] and [[Venezuela]]'s foreign relations are presently unstable. This is understandable given that Chavez often criticizes the United States for its 'imperialism' on his radio segment 'Alo Presidente', and the United States's support of the 2002 coup in Venezuela, toppling Chávez and replacing him with a dictatorial government. (Which was then toppled shortly after by the Chávez supporters, also known as 'Chávistas'). However, Venezuela and the United States remain friendly trading partners when it comes to imports and exports.

Hugo Chávez is a great friend of Cuban leader [[Fidel Castro]] and is said to have drawn his political style through influences such as [[Che Guevara]], [[Karl Marx]] and [[Simon Bolivar]]. The U.S. State Department ''Report on Global Anti-Semitism'' cited Chavez in August 2004 warning citizens against following the lead of Jewish citizens in the effort to overturn his referendum victory. <ref>[http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/40258.htm Report on Global Anti-Semitism] U. S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, January 5, 2005. </ref> Chavez has also embraced a number of world leaders that have hostile relations with the United States, including [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]], the President of [[Iran]], who Chavez has referred to as "my brother".<ref>[http://english.eluniversal.com/2006/07/31/en_pol_art_31A756133.shtml Chávez decorated in Iran; initials cooperation pacts]</ref> U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives [[Nancy Pelosi]] said of Chavez, ""Hugo Chavez fancies himself a modern-day Simon Bolivar, but all he is is an everyday thug." <ref>[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/pruden092206.php3 Back to the old days, if only for a minute], Wesley Pruden, ''Jewish World Review'', Sept. 22, 2006.</ref> He is also considered to be an ally of [[leftist]] [[Ecuador|Ecuadorian]] president [[Rafael Correa]], [[Bolivia|Bolivian]] president [[Evo Morales]] and the president of [[Nicaragua]], [[Daniel Ortega]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6187364.stm Correa]

==References==
<references/>

==Further reading==
*[http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/] An in depth view on Venezuela under Hugo Chávez.
*[http://www.latinbusinesschronicle.com/app/article.aspx?id=706] An overview of articles on Venezuela's business under Hugo Chávez.
*[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-2_24_06_AVL.html ''Why The Left Should Cringe at The Mention of Hugo Chavez''], Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Independent Institute, February 24, 2006.
*[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmnew/is_200108/ai_kepm313968 ''Bolivar, Dictator or Paladin?''] Interview: Hugo Chavez talks about Venezuela, Maria Amparo Lasso, Newsweek, Aug 20, 2001.

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Francisco Franco

2007-05-24T01:52:24Z

SocialDemocrat: /* Reference */

{{stub}}Generalissimo '''Francisco Franco Bahamonde''' was a soldier and politician who served as the head of state of Spain from April 1, 1939 to November 20, 1975. He was also the head of the Spanish government from January 30, 1938 to June 8, 1973. He had previously been an officer in the Spanish army, and had been the youngest person in Europe to be appointed to the rank of General since Napoleon.

Franco gained power through an attempted military coup d'etat in 1936 that developed quickly into the [[Spanish Civil War]]. Franco's forces fought the elected republican government for three years before finally defeating the Republicans outside Madrid on April 1, 1939. With the fall of Madrid, Franco assumed control of Spain. His policies have been described as [[fascist]]. His regime is generally recognised as having rested on the support of a number of different elements in Spanish society - the army, the [[Roman Catholic Church]], rural landowners, and the Falange political party.

Franco ruled Spain as a dictator until his death in 1975. His successor Juan Carlos reversed many of Franco's accomplishments.

==Reference==

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[[Category:Fascists]]
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Heinrich Himmler

2007-05-24T01:51:42Z

SocialDemocrat:

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'''Heinrich Himmler''' was born in [[Munich]] in 1900. He was an early follower of [[Adolf Hitler]]{{fact-history}}, and in 1936 he was named chief of police for all of [[Germany]]. When the [[SS]] was established in 1925 Himmler was given command of that also. In 1943 he was made Minister of the Interior and Minister of Home Defense in 1944. He died in 1945 when he committed suicide shortly after hearing of the German loss at the [[Battle of the Bulge]]. Himmler was one of the most sinister of all the Nazi leaders. Millions were killed by men under his command{{fact-history}}.

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[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:Fascists]]
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Joseph Stalin

2007-05-24T01:51:06Z

SocialDemocrat: /* References */

[[Image:Josephstalin.jpg|right|thumb]]


'''Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin''' (Ru: Иосиф Сталин) (December 6th, 1878 (Julian: December 18th)-March 5, 1953) was the General Secretary of the [[Communist Party]] of the [[Soviet Union]] (CPSU) from 1922 until his death. He was the son of a poor Georgian cobbler and a former seminary student who became a Bolshevik and one of [[Lenin|Lenin's]] closest allies during the their take-over of the Kerensky regime. During the [[Russian Civil War]] Stalin, who chose his name from the Russian word for steel, held the city of Tsaritsen on the Volga from counter-revolutionary forces. Stalin later re-named [[Stalingrad]] in honor of his victory, and was the same city of [[Germany]]'s massive defeat in [[World War II]].
 
 
 
 
 
==Rise to Power==

Stain was tapped by the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police, as a low-level informer shortly after he was expelled from the Tiflis seminary in 1899. Stalin then began to systematically inform on revolutionary comrades in party organizations in Tiflis, Baku, and Batum over the next few years. He acquired a highly unsavory reputation among the [[Social Democrats]] of these cities and was finally arrested for cover purposes in 1902 when suspicions about him were about to boil over. It was the Okhrana that furnished the invisible means of support for the family he acquired after 1904.

In 1917, the Commissariat of Nationalities was formed with Stalin as its Commissar (Minister). The Commissariat addressed the question of the nationalities of the Russian Empire, and helped integrate them into the [[Soviet Union]]. From 1919-1922 he was also the People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection (Rabkrin, from the Russian), which was founded to be a check on the burgeoning Soviet bureaucracy.

In 1922, Lenin named Stalin General Secretary of the CPSU. In 1924 Stalin in turn created the "Secret Department," a unit of 94 of his personal functionaries that maintained special privileges as the ''[[nomenklatura]]'', or a list of trusted individuals. He also appointed regional party secretaries who all, of course, supported Stalin. Through the Secret Department Stalin gained control of the [[Red Army]] after removing [[Lev Trotsky]] in 1925 and the OGPU (later, [[KGB]]) when its leader [[Felix Derzhinsky]] died in 1926. Lenin had foreseen all of this and had warned in his last testament that Stalin should be removed from General Secretary because the position's power was unlimited.

Stalin, however, did not allow this to happen. His most powerful rival, Lev Trotsky, who was the commander of the Red Army, was painted as a danger to the Revolution, because he continued to push the idea of international revolution; the "left opposition." Other Soviet leaders, like [[Zinoviev]], leader of the [[Comintern]], and [[Kaminev]], the head of the Communist Party in Moscow, were painted with the same brush because they supported Trotsky and did not wish to expel him from the CPSU in 1927. Later, he accused his ally [[Bukharin]] of being a member of the "right opposition," i.e. he was in favor of a more capitalistic economic system, as seen under the [[New Economic Policy]] (NEP) of the early 1920s. Trotsky was murdered in Mexico in 1940 by [[Ramón Mercader]] in an extenisve conspiracy that included underground operatives from the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA). Zinoviev, Kaminev, and Bukharin were the center of the famous "[[Great Purge|show trials]]" of the 1930s. All were put to death.

==Catch and Overtake==

In 1928 Stalin decided that the Soviet Union was not properly industrialized to enjoy a communist future, so he initiated the First Five Year Plan and the campaign to collectivize agriculture in order to "build socialism," and to "catch and overtake" the capitalist world. Stalin fanned the fires of collectivization, claiming that peasants had been hording grain and that they needed to be controlled. Under this program, rich peasants (kulaks), were exiled or killed for being enemies of the people, and peasants' land was taken in order to introduce collective farming to expedite grain appropriations. Many were called kulaks by jealous neighbors, while the peasants who remained were often the laziest and most ill suited to producing enough grain. Collectivization caused massive famine in Russia, particularly in [[Ukraine]] (see [[Holodomor]]), where Stalin ordered the Red Army to blockade certain regions and take grain by force. It is estimated that the famine of 1931-33 killed 6-7 million people, while 20 million starved.

The First Five Year Plan was a program of crash-industrialization. After [[World War I]] and the Russian Civil War Russia had an industrial capacity equal to that of its 1861 capacity. The only way for Russia to be able to break the "capitalist encirclement," Stalin declared, was to industrialize. Brigades of shock workers were formed to work faster and harder than the world had ever seen. Most of this, however, was pure propaganda, although the shock workers did set the record for concrete poured in a single shift. Compared to the capitalist world which was experiencing the Great Depression, Soviet growth was impressive. Between 1929 and 1937, 8,000 factories were constructed, average GDP growth was around 10%, and the official unemployment statistics, which included gulag detainees, was 0. In 1936, after the Second Five Year Plan, Stalin declared socialism "built." Nevertheless, the capitalist world lived better than the Soviet Union, despite the Great Depression. [[John Scott]], an American CPUSA member and Comintern oeprative who was living in the Soviet Union during the Five Year Plans, notes this in his memoirs of that period "Behind the Urals." The legacy of the Five Year Plans (most of which Stalin declared "completed" in 4 years) injured the Soviet's production models, because the encouraged quantity and speed over quality. However, the planning of the 1930s enabled the Russians to defeat the Nazis in the 1940s. <ref>Suvorov, Viktor. ''Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?// (Viking Press/Hamish Hamilton; 1990) ISBN 0241126223.</ref>

==Stalin's Terror==

Between 1936 and 1938, [[Joseph Stalin]] launched his purges to rid the Soviet Union of "fifth columnists," or spies who were loyal to the [[capitalist]] world. During the Terror 3 million people were arrested on various and often made-up charges, while 750,000 were executed. Due to the interrogation techniques of the NKVD (later, KGB), which often were torturous, most of those arrested confessed and were sent to work camps, called the [[Gulag]] for 10 years and sometimes even 25. Here, prisoners were forced to labor in mines, to log forests, or to do construction. Few lived through their sentences.

The infamous show trials of former leaders of the Soviet Union occurred during this period, where they were accused of working with Trotsky or sabotaging the Soviet Union. Stalin also evicerated the high command of the Red Army, killing 90% of the leadership. The minions of oppression were not spared either; of the NKVD's 809 officials, 43 lived through the purges. The leadership of the communist party was persecuted as well. For example, in 1934 130 members of the 139-member Central Committee were arrested. The Terror forever made Russians afraid to speak out against the government, and also made sure that no one but Stalin could ever rule the Soviet Union as effectively.

==World War II==

To avoid war with [[Germany]], Stalin ordered the Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, [[Molotov]], to sign a non-aggression pact with [[Adolf Hitler]], named the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, on 19 August 1939. The treaty detailed the agreement to split up [[Poland]] between Germany and the Soviet Union, give Stalin the Baltic Republics of [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], and [[Estonia]], and to allow the Soviets to wage war on [[Finland]], a war that ended in a humiliating Soviet defeat. Both sides, however, knew that they would eventually engage in hostilities.

It seems that Stalin anticipated this less than Hitler, who, in June of 1941 invaded the Soviet Union with the largest land army ever assembled. It consisted of 170 divisions, or 3.5 million troops. Stalin was caught off guard, and the [[Nazis]] blazed a path through the Ukraine and European Russia. Reaching [[Moscow]] in October 1941, the Nazis threatened Stalin and the entire Soviet Union with defeat. In only 6 months, the Nazis controlled one third of the Soviet economy, a total of 5% of the Earth's surface. Hitler's troops were defeated at Moscow during the winter of 1941-42 after Stalin appointed [[Yorky Zhukov]] as commander of the Red Army. A spy in the German embassy in Tokyo, [[Richard Sorge]], informed Stalin that Japan was not going to attack [[Siberia]], freeing thousands of winter ski-troops to move to Moscow to defeat the Nazis. It was during this time that Stalin famously invoked the name of [[God]] and allowed religious services to be conducted after 20 plus years of repression. Also, 1500 factories were evacuated and restored in Siberia and 12-15 million workers were moved east of the [[Urals]], where Soviet production was higher than Germany's in 1942, despite Germany holding some 50% of Soviet industry.

The Red Army went on the offensive after the defense of Moscow, but soon the Nazis gained the advantage and pushed to Stalingrad. More than one million troops fought on each side in urban combat. Hitler refused to allow surrender, and eventually the Nazis were encircled and routed. After turning the tide of war in Stalingrad, the 1943 [[Kursk]] tank battle was decisive in pushing the Nazis from European Russia. In two years, the Red Army pushed the Nazis all the way back to [[Berlin]]. Stalin used his control of Eastern Europe to extract concessions from [[President Roosevelt]] at Allied conferences, including control over the region. [[Winston Churchill]] warned against this very control, for he greatly feared Soviet hegemony in Europe. Victorious, Stalin named himself Generalissimo and became more popular than ever in the Soviet Union and more dangerous than ever to the capitalist world.

Over the course of World War II, around 25 million Russians died. Twenty million were in the armed services. The total number of 25 million reflects half of the worldwide losses of human life during World War II. The population did not recover until 1956. Many Soviet POWs, like famous writer [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]], were sent to the Gulag after the war because they had fallen into German hands, and were accused of being spies. This swelled the prison camps by the thousands.

==Post-War Period and Death==

Similar to the 1930s, Stalin undertook a harsh campaign of industrialization, which hurt the Soviets as much as it helped them rebuild. Money was devalued to one-tenth of its previous value, 2 million German and Japanese POWs were forced to stay in the Soviet Union and rebuild the country, and 10% of investment from 1945-46 was from looted machinery. The crops produced by household plots were collected by the government to sell, and a famine in 1947 caused by drought and Soviet single-crop farming killed 2 million. The recovery was built on the Soviet subjects.
[[Image:Stalinfuneral.jpg|250px|right|thumb|''Right to left:'' Lavrenti Beria, Georgi Malenkov, Vassily Stalin, V.M. Molotov, Nikolai Bulganin]]
After World War II, Stalin's cult of personality emerged as the dominant force of Soviet life. He was credited as the savior of the Soviet Union and the architect of victory, though it was really General Zhukov who was responsible for most of this. The communist youth group, the [[Komsomol]], devoted songs to "the Father of All Nations" or "the Driver of the Locomotive of History." Party membership increased by one million people between 1945 and 1953. Books quoted Stalin as an expert in communism, while he was often photographed surrounded by children to make him seem friendlier. This all served to form a deep, personal connection with Stalin for many Soviets. Indeed, he was loved by the Soviets. When he died in 1953 an anxious mob at his viewing crushed and trampled some mourners to death. Dissidents like Sakharov, the man forced in a prison to build the Soviet atom bomb, cried upon hearing that Stalin had died, despite their intense hatred of him. Despite his terror, he had convinced millions that he was their father.

Following a stroke on 1 March 1953, Stalin died on 5 March after a period of declining performance. Between 1949 and 1952 Stalin increasingly took vacations and met with the [[Politburo]] less and less. When he died a short power struggle ensued, one which led to the execution of KGB head [[Beria]] as a spy. Eventually [[Khrushchev]] became the General Secretary of the CPSU and denounced Stalin's repressive tactics, his purges, gulags, and his cult of personality in the [[Secret Speech]] at the 20th Party Congress of 1956. Gulags were dismantled and the political climate was slightly less tense, but Soviet oppression still continued. The period following Stalin's rule is called the "thaw," the start of life again after a long winter.

==Quotes==

"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." ~ to Churchill, 1945.

==References==
Though this isn't footnoted, it is culled from the following sources:

Hosking, Geoffrey. The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Kotkin, Stephen. Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization. Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.

Scott, John. ''Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia’s City of Steel''. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989.

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, ''The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956''; an experiment in literary investigation'', Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney, Publisher New York, Harper & Row (1974-78), 1st Edition, pg. 67n.
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== RobS banned me for a legitimate edit ==

RobS banned me for a legitimate edit, I merely pointed out that Colombian dictator Alvaro Uribe controlled right wing militias, which he does, and I was blocked for it--[[User:SocialDemocrat|SocialDemocrat]] 21:49, 23 May 2007 (EDT)

Colombia

2007-05-24T01:47:41Z

SocialDemocrat:

'''Colombia''' is a [[country]] just south of [[Panama]], on the continent of [[South America]]. Colombia is a major source of [[cocaine]] and has been ravaged by many illegal drug [[cartels]] and [[terrorism|terrorist]] organizations.{{fact}} The primary language in Colombia is [[Spanish]]. It is ruled with an iron fist by totalitarian dictator [[Alvaro Uribe]], a staunch Bush ally. Uribe brutally supresses any dissidence by use of his illegal right-wing militias [http://www.counterpunch.org/donahue0821.html].
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Colombia

2007-05-24T01:47:16Z

SocialDemocrat:

'''Colombia''' is a [[country]] just south of [[Panama]], in the continent of [[South America]]. Colombia is a major source of [[cocaine]] and has been ravaged by many illegal drug [[cartels]] and [[terrorism|terrorist]] organizations.{{fact}} The primary language in Colombia is [[Spanish]]. It is ruled with an iron fist by totalitarian dictator [[Alvaro Uribe]], a staunch Bush ally. Uribe brutally supresses any dissidence by use of his illegal right-wing militias [http://www.counterpunch.org/donahue0821.html].
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Talk:Colombia

2007-05-24T01:42:10Z

SocialDemocrat: New page: I'll get a citation for that --~~~~

I'll get a citation for that --[[User:SocialDemocrat|SocialDemocrat]] 21:42, 23 May 2007 (EDT)

Colombia

2007-05-24T01:41:55Z

SocialDemocrat: rv

'''Colombia''' is a [[country]] just south of [[Panama]], in the continent of [[South America]]. Colombia is a major source of [[cocaine]] and has been ravaged by many illegal drug gangs and [[terrorism|terrorist]] organizations.{{fact}} The primary language in Colombia is [[Spanish]]. It is ruled with an iron fist by totalitarian dictator [[Alvaro Uribe]], a staunch Bush ally. Uribe brutally supresses any dissidence by use of his illegal right-wing militias{{fact}}.
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Noam Chomsky

2007-05-24T01:40:57Z

SocialDemocrat:

[[Image:Chomsky3.gif|right|thumb|130px]]
'''Noam Chomsky''' (born December 7, 1928) is a linguist who is best known for his writings on politics. He is an institute professor & professor of linguistics (Emeritus) at the [[MIT|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) <ref>http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/chomsky/index.html</ref>.
He has always been very critical of [[America]]n and [[Israel]]i foreign policy and sympathizes with [[Palestine|Palestinians]] and has shown support for causes but not necessarily the methods of the terrorist organization [[Hezbollah]]<ref>http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=11&x_article=1151</ref>. Because he critisizes Israeli foreign policy, Chomsky has also been criticized for [[anti-Semitism]].<ref>http://www.jbooks.com/interviews/index/IP_Dershowitz.htm</ref>.

His opponents accuse him of expressing admiration for governmental systems such as the Soviet Union, Chinese and Cambodian governments which are characterized by central control, xenophobia, and rejection of free expression. This is obviously not true because Chomsky has refered to the Soviet Union as a dungeon. Chomsky counters that he is merely pointing out the West's own crimes and not condoning authoritarian governments that the West opposes. Chomsky identifies himself as a libertarian socialist who is opposed to both neoliberalism and authoritarianism. <ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19446</ref>

==List of Terrorist Atrocities committed by the West According to Chomsky==
#The overthrow of democratic and secular leader Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and replacement with the Shah, a brutal dictator in 1953 (Done by the US and the UK)
#The overthrow of social democrat Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954
#The overthrow of democratic socialist Salvador Allende in Chile on 9/11 in 1973
#The Dirty War against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980s
#The backing of a brutal military dictatorship in El Salvador during the same time period
#Selling weapons to a terror-state ([[Iran]]) to fund another terrorist group (The Contras). (See [[Iran-Contra Affair]])
#Selling weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war.
#Supporting the mujahideen which later became al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan in the 1980s
#Invading Iraq in 2003 against the ruling of the UN
#Blatant Support of Israel which Chomsky believes is a terror state despite his Jewish ethnicity
(Source: Hegemony or Survival)

However, it should be noted that Chomsky's books are riddled with factual inaccuracies <ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/100chomskylies.pdf</ref>. Despite this, all of the above are documented historical events.

==Linguistic Works==
===Generative Grammar===
Noam Chomsky advocates the view that the human brain has innate ability to generate gramatical sentences, thus all utterances which is deemed sensical to the speaker is necessarily grammatical, and the only role the liguist should play is to decipher its grammatical structure. This view has been criticized by many linguists as [[nihilism|nihilistic]] in that it rejects the notion of ungrammatical sentences. Noam Chomsky also pointed to instances of infants utter grammatical sentence fragments they have not been taught before as evidence for Generative Grammar.

===Universal Grammar===
Noam Chomsky also proposed the theory that a kind of universal grammar, a grammar that underlies all human languages, is hard-wired in the human brain. Thus all human languages are fundamentally the same, with only superficial differences. This theory of universal grammar has been criticized by linguist Geoffrey Sampson as being not falsifiable, arguing that the grammatical generalizations made are simply observations about existing languages and not predictions about what is possible in a language. To this day, the search for such universal grammar has been fruitless.

For decades, Noam Chomsky and his followers have been trying to make sense of sentences such as:
<blockquote>
''Who will be easy for us to get his mother to talk to?''
</blockquote>
which are deemed to be ungrammatical by a lot of linguists; by using techniques such as linking theory, anti-c-command requirement, A-positions, Bijection Principle, weakest crossover configurations, bound variable anaphora, asymmetric linking, licensing conditions, index of apronoun, null operator analysis, variable binding, configurational conditions, inappropriate and appropriate antecedents, etc.

== See Also ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk8pxyAWTBk Chomsky Speaks about American Politics] Chomsky believes the Democrats and Republicans are a single entity
*[http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1136# Video of Noam Chomsky with Hezbollah Leaders in Lebanon]
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomskyhoax.html The Chomsky Hoax] by Paul Bogdanor
*[http://www.grsampson.net/AGwg.html Grammar Without Grammaticality] by Geoffrey Sampson
*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23543 Chomsky's New Blood Libel] by Alan Dershowitz
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXMZZCvFtlw Chomsky on Middle East Television] Chomsky speaks about American Imperialism

==References==
<references/>
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[[category:authors]]
[[category:Liberal activists]]

Noam Chomsky

2007-05-24T01:40:04Z

SocialDemocrat: reverted vandalism

[[Image:Chomsky3.gif|right|thumb|130px]]
'''Noam Chomsky''' (born December 7, 1928) is a linguist who is best known for his writings on politics. He is an institute professor & professor of linguistics (Emeritus) at the [[MIT|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) <ref>http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/chomsky/index.html</ref>.
He has always been very critical of [[America]]n and [[Israel]]i foreign policy and sympathizes with [[Palestine|Palestinians]] and has shown support for causes but not necessarily the methods of the terrorist organization [[Hezbollah]]<ref>http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=11&x_article=1151</ref>. He has also been criticized for [[anti-Semitism]].<ref>http://www.jbooks.com/interviews/index/IP_Dershowitz.htm</ref>.

His opponents accuse him of expressing admiration for governmental systems such as the Soviet Union, Chinese and Cambodian governments which are characterized by central control, xenophobia, and rejection of free expression. This is obviously not true because Chomsky has refered to the Soviet Union as a dungeon. Chomsky counters that he is merely pointing out the West's own crimes and not condoning authoritarian governments that the West opposes. Chomsky identifies himself as a libertarian socialist who is opposed to both neoliberalism and authoritarianism. <ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19446</ref>

==List of Terrorist Atrocities committed by the West According to Chomsky==
#The overthrow of democratic and secular leader Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and replacement with the Shah, a brutal dictator in 1953 (Done by the US and the UK)
#The overthrow of social democrat Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954
#The overthrow of democratic socialist Salvador Allende in Chile on 9/11 in 1973
#The Dirty War against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980s
#The backing of a brutal military dictatorship in El Salvador during the same time period
#Selling weapons to a terror-state ([[Iran]]) to fund another terrorist group (The Contras). (See [[Iran-Contra Affair]])
#Selling weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war.
#Supporting the mujahideen which later became al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan in the 1980s
#Invading Iraq in 2003 against the ruling of the UN
#Blatant Support of Israel which Chomsky believes is a terror state despite his Jewish ethnicity
(Source: Hegemony or Survival)

However, it should be noted that Chomsky's books are riddled with factual inaccuracies <ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/100chomskylies.pdf</ref>. Despite this, all of the above are documented historical events.

==Linguistic Works==
===Generative Grammar===
Noam Chomsky advocates the view that the human brain has innate ability to generate gramatical sentences, thus all utterances which is deemed sensical to the speaker is necessarily grammatical, and the only role the liguist should play is to decipher its grammatical structure. This view has been criticized by many linguists as [[nihilism|nihilistic]] in that it rejects the notion of ungrammatical sentences. Noam Chomsky also pointed to instances of infants utter grammatical sentence fragments they have not been taught before as evidence for Generative Grammar.

===Universal Grammar===
Noam Chomsky also proposed the theory that a kind of universal grammar, a grammar that underlies all human languages, is hard-wired in the human brain. Thus all human languages are fundamentally the same, with only superficial differences. This theory of universal grammar has been criticized by linguist Geoffrey Sampson as being not falsifiable, arguing that the grammatical generalizations made are simply observations about existing languages and not predictions about what is possible in a language. To this day, the search for such universal grammar has been fruitless.

For decades, Noam Chomsky and his followers have been trying to make sense of sentences such as:
<blockquote>
''Who will be easy for us to get his mother to talk to?''
</blockquote>
which are deemed to be ungrammatical by a lot of linguists; by using techniques such as linking theory, anti-c-command requirement, A-positions, Bijection Principle, weakest crossover configurations, bound variable anaphora, asymmetric linking, licensing conditions, index of apronoun, null operator analysis, variable binding, configurational conditions, inappropriate and appropriate antecedents, etc.

== See Also ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk8pxyAWTBk Chomsky Speaks about American Politics] Chomsky believes the Democrats and Republicans are a single entity
*[http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1136# Video of Noam Chomsky with Hezbollah Leaders in Lebanon]
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomskyhoax.html The Chomsky Hoax] by Paul Bogdanor
*[http://www.grsampson.net/AGwg.html Grammar Without Grammaticality] by Geoffrey Sampson
*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23543 Chomsky's New Blood Libel] by Alan Dershowitz
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXMZZCvFtlw Chomsky on Middle East Television] Chomsky speaks about American Imperialism

==References==
<references/>
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