This list is an obvious response to the ongoing war between the folks on the right and the folks on the left and it's a war that gets uglier every day. While not a crime, divisive politics have a more immediate impact on the American people than crimes we read about in our history books. Al Capone was a very bad guy, but his crimes happened a long time ago and don't seem that relevant to traditional Americans who are forced to fight off political and social zealots determined to transform our country into a place it was never intended to be and a place most of us have no desire to live. President Obama didn't commit a crime when he told American citizens he disagrees with to stop talking and get out of his way, but that doesn't make what he said any less threatening.

Jim, look at all the folks you listed like Manson, Capone, McVeigh, Dahmer, etc. and their death toll doesn't come close to what Sanger's responsible for. Heck, even throw in Jeff Davis and blame him for all the deaths in the Civil War, and they don't approach Sanger's millions.

But also, the damage done by folks like Dahmer is much more focused. Yes, we feel horrible for the families of their victims, but the damage done by people like Sharpton poison the entire society.

And Tregonsee is quite correct about Rachel Carson. Banning DDT alone costs about a million lives a year in Africa.

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Jim, you aren't much for clear linear thinking are you? Charles Manson is responsible for terrible atrocities, that's true, but when you stop and consider that he was, way back then, taking a leaf out of Saul Alinsky's playbook, with his race war theme, let's face it, the Alinskyites in power now, who are playing the same game on a larger scale, and from a real position of power can leverage the Alinskyite's damage on a far greater scale, I think it should put things in perspective. Jane Fonda, no, she's not much at surface value, but that's not the point. She was a famous, wealthy celebrity, she used that wealth and influence to target young people, especially college students. While visiting the Vietnamese communist army, she held them up as noble, and smeared our troops as war criminals. She actually broadcast to our troops in Vietnam to dispirit them, at a time when they were enduring hardship, and felt all alone. Jane Fonda said this in the early '70s, despite knowing what the communist Khmer Rouge had done to innocent Vietnamese citizens, “If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.”

Hillary & Bill Clinton deliberately sold our country out from under us, they provided secret information to the communist Chinese, and helped to profit the failed communist Chinese state, so it could become the global power that it is today. It was never about promoting capitalism, to turn them away from communism, but in stealing the wealth of the US to prop up communist China, to empower it.

Al Capone all those other villains, of course they were bad, they were monsters, but the damage they inflicted was small in comparison to the serious monsters on that list. As a former liberal democrat, I remember my growing awareness that the Michael Moore who I had thought was a good guy show that he was exploiting the issues of blue collar workers, to essentially sell them out. I remember watching a large group of his fans becoming radicalized through his propaganda on the forum on his web site during 1999. It was disgusting to see happen, he revealed that he was a phoney, that he didn't care about anything, short of power, ideology and profit.

The list is perfectly appropriate to me, and should be to anyone whose interest is returning us to our constitutional form of government.

Mares - Be sure to read and follow the Left Coast Rebel as well. You are quite welcome on the tip as well. I was pleasantly surprised too when I found the movie.

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1972: every four years the Dems have a convention to nominate their presidential candidate. The nominees always pay tribute to past great Dem presidents: FDR, JFK, Truman -- and for bipartisan purposes, they'll also throw in a reference to Eisenhower, TR or Reagan. But they NEVER EVER say "I want to be a president like Jimmy Carter", even though Carter himself is usually sitting there in the VIP section at the convention.

There is a reason for this. While certainly not "one of history's greatest monsters", Jimmy Carter was a terrible president by any measure. He was a failure and a whiner, and no politician ever wants to be compared to him, even within his own party.

His post-presidential activities are nothing to crow about either. He mainly bashes Israel, and "observes" corrupt elections overseas so he can give his stamp of approval to dictators like Hugo Chavez. Thirty years later he still does more harm than good. When he makes the news these days, it's usually for a gaffe that makes his own side look bad. Once a loser, always a loser.

Coupla things:

1) The discussion of Saul Alinsky is based on a deliberate mischaracterization (to be charitable) of his work and writings. It is ironic to me that Alinsky is so heavily excoriated on the right, as the Tea Party movement is a chapter-and-verse reading of "Rules For Radicals" made flesh.

Even more ironic is that the current Administration, while retaining some political objectives that are in fact liberal, is largely, within the overall historical landscape of American politics, centrist to center-right in its leanings. Just ask much of the Democratic base how happy they are with the Obama Administration's policies on a lot of things; the hard left views him as a corporatist tool.

Also, the factually-challenged slander of Rachel Carson needs rebuttal. The facts are:

1) Carson was generally right about DDT;
2) There are still numerous countries worldwide that use DDT to combat mosquitoes;
3) DDT's effectiveness is far less than it initially was because mosquitoes evolved resistance to the stuff. Many countries have had to stop using it not because Rachel Carson is evil, but because it doesn't work anymore.
4) Even if all the DDT disappeared tomorrow, there are numerous other methods and protocols to reduce malaria infection that work quite well - Mexico, came up with an alternate program that actually put DDT manufacturers out of business due to lack of demand.

The funny thing is Carson never called for a ban on DDT - just a reduction in its use, precisely because insects would develop resistance via indiscriminate use.