Terms of Engagement - Part IX

When confronted with opponents who are loony, deranged, mentally incompetent or intellectually crippled but lunatics who take their idiocy seriously, so seriously that they go around in circles all waking hours of the day, like rabid dogs after their own tails, bring out your sword. 

Rabid dogs must be put down, lest their poisonous froth is sprayed on those not infected with the same plague. 

Learn the art of beheading from those in the desert countries and let your sword go swooooooooossh.

 The following excerpt is from Australian Dr.John Ray's academic writings on "dissecting leftism". Emphasis mine.
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Extremists of both the Right and the Left do resort to political violence when the rest of society lets them. Normally, no-one is so let. In our society, however, the extremists of the Left have hoodwinked people into thinking that their parroting of humanitarian intentions is sufficient guarantee of the righteousness and benevolence of their deeds.
I would submit to the contrary: that people who think they act in the name of humanity are very much like the officers of the Spanish Inquisition who thought they had God on their side. Their mistake is the arrogance of thinking that they alone know what humanity needs or should have. There is no more dangerous cloak for evil deeds than the mantle, of good intentions.
Nor am I overgeneralising from the above examples. The violence and destructiveness of Left-wing unionists, peace demonstrators and anti-apartheid demonstrators is well-known. In earlier years I was on several occasions attacked by enraged Leftists for daring to hold up a 'conservative' placard at Vietnam demonstrations. 'Freedom to agree with me' is the only freedom most Leftists seem to know.
Of course Leftist coercion is not only limited to something as unsubtle as physical violence. Cutting off communications seems to be the latest device among Australian Leftists. I refer to the action in 1973 of the postal union (led by the avowedly Communist Jim Slater ) in cutting off postal services (mail) to right-wing members of our Senate because they failed to pass a law the Leftists favoured. This was an unparalleled interference with democracy beside which their cutting off of communications with France pales into insignificance. Unquote

 Confucius said: To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle