The crimes of communists -- Perm executions.

The left in the U.S. focuses incessantly and pathologically on the supposed moral and intellectual failings of American leaders. The right concerns itself -- more appropriately -- with the mechanics of limiting government power, preferring to pit imperfect men against each other and to limit them with laws.

Leftists are utterly indifferent to such concerns, think Shangrila will be ushered in if people with good hearts and good thoughts can take power, think of laws merely as written instructions for distributing the boodle to favored constituencies, and gleefully do what they can to neuter or destroy competing non-government sources of power, such as small businessmen and the (immoral) rich.

Leftists are indifferent to the mass murders of the 20th century and clamor for more powers for the central government as though the slaughter perpetrated by unrestrained monsters never happened. The Colonel has never heard any leftist of his personal acquaintance even hint at the problem of untrammelled government power.

Consider, when you must endure the mewling of the left over its pathetic concerns, this tiny snippet of information about the ghastly daily experience of people under unrestrained leftism:

Vedeneyev, meanwhile, told Gazeta.ru that there were at least 20 mass-execution sites used by NKVD officials in the city [of Perm, Russia] . . . .

"Former Political Prisoner Protests NKVD Memorial." MosNews.com, 8/7/04.

Update: Francis Porretto has an insightful take on this at "Dictatorial Fantasies." Eternity Road, 11/15/06.