Monday, January 16, 2006

Mark Aarons crimes against humanity and his father

First we have: Mark Aarons - theaustralian.news.com.au: Government lags on action against war criminals - January 16, 2006 - The Vasiljkovic case again highlights the need for a much stronger investigative and legal framework to bring to justice those who have committed crimes against humanity. More than anything, we need the Prime Minister to show the political will to act. Mark Aarons is author of War Criminals Welcome and Sanctuary: Nazi Fugitives in Australia.
Then we have: Laurie Aarons - wikipedia.org
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Laurence "Laurie" Aarons (19 August 1917 - 7 February 2005), Australian Communist leader, was National Secretary of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) from 1965 to 1976. He was born in Sydney, son of Sam Aarons, a leading member of the Communist Party and a veteran of the Spanish Civil War. The Aarons family was of German-Jewish origin. His brother Eric Aarons was also a senior party member. He followed his father into the CPA as a teenager and became an active trade unionist. During World War II Aarons was rejected for military service on security grounds, instead serving in the CPA's bureau for party members in the armed forces. In 1944 he married Carole Arkistall, with whom he had three sons: Brian Aarons, who was also later prominent in the Communist Party, Mark Aarons, a well-known broadcaster, journalist and author, and John Aarons.
Then finally we have: Grand mythology still blinds disciples to the crimes of communism - Gerard Henderson - smh.com.au said "According to the edited collection The Black Book of Communism, "the total approaches 100 million people killed" under communist regimes during the 20th century. What would Australia have been like if the communist party had come to power any time during the 1940s and 1950s? In short, would the Aarons family and their comrades have attempted to set up the kind of totalitarian state which prevailed in Eastern Europe? The answer is an unequivocal yes. Eric Aarons said as much in his memoirs, What's Left? On page 118 he related how, in 1956, the party's leadership discussed what response it should take to Nikita Khrushchev's confirmation that Stalin was a mass murderer: "I made the point at the central committee meeting which decided the matter that our outlook was such that, had we been in power, we too could have executed people we considered to be objectively, even if not subjectively (that is, by intention), helping our enemies. "In other words, Aarons is an authority for the proposition that if the communist party had gained power in Australia, it "could have executed" not only its outspoken enemies but also those who were opposing communism unintentionally. There should be no surprise here. After all, that is precisely what communist regimes were doing at the time in Eastern Europe and parts of Asia."

[Should Mark Aarons explain crimes against humanity and his father and not be questioning other people's alleged crimes?]

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