In her letter to the editor, Victoria Adams evades that tyrants like Vladimir Putin and Ali Khamenei do not want peace – they want to oppress people. They oppress – notably females in Iran – censor, imprison, and execute opponents.
The regime in Iran vows to annihilate Jews from their historical homeland, which long predated the Islamic religion. Obviously not peaceful behaviour.
Vladimir Putin openly wants to recreate the glory of the USSR, for which he was a KGB manager. Thus he invades Ukraine, lying about its governance and history. (Remember that the Soviet Union starved the most productive farmers for ideological reasons – Ukrainians.)
Growing up in Russia, Alisa Rosenbaum saw the horror of a Marxist takeover including the execution of the first elected legislators. After getting to the U.S., she thought about life. Building on Aristotle’s teaching that there is one world which humans can understand – in contrast to Plato’s mysticism that Marxism comes from – she figured out that life requires defence against initiation of force. That’s because life is a process of action, our mind determines the actions needed to live but force blocks our actions.
Peaceniks are suicidal people as they are defenceless against evil – does the writer object to police? She accuses Canadians of threatening aggressor Putin instead of looking at his actions – why?
Keith Sketchley
Saanich
