The enemy of their enemy is their friend...

...the case of the privileged obsessed Left and North Korea's murder of an American "frat boy."

//For years now, liberal-left commentators have been banging on about the sins of ‘privilege’. There is ‘cis privilege’, ‘Christian privilege’, even ‘thin privilege’. But none is so sinful as ‘white male privilege’, and this is why Warmbier was subject to mockery instead of sympathy. This obsession with competitive victimhood has so skewed the moral compasses of these commentators that they were almost ready to celebrate a totalitarian state’s unjust imprisonment and torture of a young student, instead of seeing it for the horrific abuse that it was.//

Slow-walking to Poland 1939

China and Russia are having naval drills in the China sea...

...North Korea is setting off nuclear bombs...

...and now this.

Good thing we have a Nobel peace-prize winning, certified smartest man with the very best diplomatic instincts rather than that fargin cowboy.

Sometimes we wonder at what a completely secularist state would actually look like if only we could get rid of the pernicious influence of religion. What an amazing place where superstition and ignorance would be banished. We wonder about how lucky people who live there would be...

....wonder no more.

It seems that refugees from one secularist state fleeing into another secularist state are told to seek out Christians to survive.

Kirkpatrick tells the story of one abandoned, starving boy named Joseph who scrambled across the Tumen River into China in February 2005, risking the chance that he would be captured or shot on sight. (Virtually all escapees go north into China — crossing the demilitarized zone into South Korea is effectively impossible.) In the Chinese village across the river, he found no one to help him until he knocked on the door of a Christian, who fed him and told him to go to the nearest town. There an old woman advised him to find a church, because Christians helped escapees. “What’s a church?” Joseph asked. “Look for a building with a cross on it,” she told him.

He did find a church, connecting with a network of Chinese Christians that eventually helped him find refuge at the American consulate in Shenyang and, miraculously, political asylum in the United States. “The first survival tip a North Korean learns when he reaches China,” Kirkpatrick writes, is to “find a Christian.”

Untold numbers of North Koreans have converted to Christianity following their escape, and some brave ones have even returned to North Korea, at extraordinary personal risk, to serve as witnesses to their countrymen.//

Another Atheist starts paying the tab.

Kim Jong Il is dead.

We always celebrate the death of tyrants at Lex Communis with a bit of the bubbly.

*Pop*

Kim Jong Il was a nasty work of humanity. North Korea is a nightmare, which could only have been envisioned by a science fiction writer, and which could only have been brought into reality by an atheist Communist.

Secular Americans can only regret that Kim Jong Il didn't receive the justice that his victims deserve. Christians, on the other hand, know that he is paying for the injustice he meted out during his sick, depraved life.

"9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.
10 They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?”
11 Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters,were killed just as they had been."

The demand for justice is divine as well as human. One can hope that somewhere Kim Jong Il repented of his evil as he drew his final breath, but that doesn't mean a free ride to the banquet where his victims sit:

44. To protest against God in the name of justice is not helpful. A world without God is a world without hope (cf. Eph 2:12). Only God can create justice. And faith gives us the certainty that he does so. The image of the Last Judgement is not primarily an image of terror, but an image of hope; for us it may even be the decisive image of hope. Is it not also a frightening image? I would say: it is an image that evokes responsibility, an image, therefore, of that fear of which Saint Hilary spoke when he said that all our fear has its place in love[35]. God is justice and creates justice. This is our consolation and our hope. And in his justice there is also grace. This we know by turning our gaze to the crucified and risen Christ. Both these things—justice and grace—must be seen in their correct inner relationship. Grace does not cancel out justice. It does not make wrong into right. It is not a sponge which wipes everything away, so that whatever someone has done on earth ends up being of equal value. Dostoevsky, for example, was right to protest against this kind of Heaven and this kind of grace in his novel The Brothers Karamazov. Evildoers, in the end, do not sit at table at the eternal banquet beside their victims without distinction, as though nothing had happened.

Spe Salvi.

One way to solve teen unemployment.

Close down the colleges and put the students in heavy labor.

North Korea closes down colleges for ten months because of anti-government graffiti.

Close watchers of North Korean affairs were caught on the hop last week by reports that universities in the hermit kingdom would be closed from 27 June for up to 10 months while students are sent to work on farms, in factories and in construction.

And:
 

Analysts in Japan and South Korea suggested there could be other reasons behind the decision to disperse the students across the country, including the possibility of demonstrations at campuses inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings, which began at universities.


They noted that North Korea had purchased anti-riot equipment from China in recent months, including tear gas and batons, while there has been an increased police presence at key points in Pyongyang in recent weeks.

Foster-Carter said North Korea watchers have been closely monitoring for signs of unrest since the spring, but there had not been any.

"The amount of information from the Middle East reaching the ordinary citizen is very, very limited and there has been nothing at all in the official media," Armstrong said. "There has been no student unrest that we know of for the last 50 years."

According to North Korea analysts, party controls are in place to prevent student uprisings, including political indoctrination and strong surveillance. Some analysts said surveillance on campuses had relaxed in recent years because many party officials had not been paid.

Communism - Hell's version of a practical joke.

Water is wet, the sky is blue, and...

...Commies are evil.



North Korean slave labor camps house up to 200,000 and are growing.

No one really knows how bad it is, but it’s much worse than I thought possible. Piecing together information from satellite images and eye witness accounts, Amnesty International suspects that the horrific concentration camps in North Korea are growing. Some 200,000 people live as slaves – enduring starvation, torture, and rape while performing hard labor. Many die every year, only to be replaced by fresh bodies. Of those that survive, few will ever be released. Deemed ‘prisoners’, the victims of North Korea’s political pogroms are interned for the smallest criticisms of the regime of Kim Jong-Il, and when they are carried away their extended families are rounded up as well. This is not genocide, it’s not a war crime, it’s an unending consequence of North Korea’s authoritarian government. And it’s been getting worse for the last decade. Amnesty International’s satellite research shows these slave camp expanding, their populations swelling with ‘criminals’ as the general population starves inside its borders and refugees who are caught trying to leave North Korea are executed…or sent to these gulags.

The only thing that Communists are good at is remaking societies into the worst nightmares of Science Fiction.