Savage: 'Redistribution' leads to mountain of skulls

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On his top-rated nationally syndicated radio show today, Michael Savage took a page from history to warn of where attempts to institute economic "fairness" ultimately have led.

"Be very careful, indeed, with your call for the redistribution of wealth, and fairness," he said. "It always ends up with a mountain of skulls."

Noting that communism cost an estimated 100 million lives in the last century, he reminded his listeners of the dark saga in Southeast Asia in the 1970s that began with a "nice, mild-mannered professor" going to Paris to study Marxism.

"He went back to his country, and he instituted social reform," Savage said. "He did not like the mild capitalism that he saw in his homeland, because he felt it was unfair. And he wanted the rich to pay a little bit more. He wanted the bourgeoisie to pay their fair share. That's how it started. It ended up a mountain of skulls. His name: Pol Pot. The country: Cambodia."

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Turning to the "nice, mild-mannered professor in the White House," Savage said his point is not what President Obama, himself, will do but where his rhetoric and policies ultimately lead.

"When he starts in with the class warfare, when he starts in with the 'tax the rich,' when he starts in with 'it's only fair,' all you've got to do is look back at history," Savage said. "And don't look for Hitler. Look back to Pol Pot of Cambodia. That is the closest fit I could find."

Many people, he said, "don't understand how close Obama is, emotionally and intellectually, to Pol Pot."

Pol Pot returned to his country calling for a fair, more equitable system, Savage said. But at the end, "anyone with a pair of eyeglasses – that was the teachers, the doctors, the lawyers, the engineers, the police chief – anybody who had glasses, the entire educated class, was subjugated to slave labor, brutally tortured and killed."

It wasn't Pol Pot who personally carried out the atrocities, Savage noted; it was teens with red scarves called the Khmer Rouge.

"We have millions of unemployed youth in this country who would gladly put on a red scarf and come to your neighborhood and put you into a slave labor camp," he said. "All they need is the right person in the White House to organize them.

"Be very careful, indeed, with your call for the redistribution of wealth, and fairness. It always ends up with a mountain of skulls."

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