Aiding totalitarian regimes at the very depth of their depravity

Is Dennis Rodman unique as a celebrity who props up totalitarian regimes at the nadir of their brutality? No, there is Robert Redford who praised Cuba's Castro and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. There is actor Martin Sheen, who did the same. Lloyd Billingsley writes,

As former Washington Post East Asia bureau chief Blaine Harden noted in Escape From Camp 14, North Korea’s forced labor camps “have now existed twice as long as the Soviet Gulag and about twelve times longer than the Nazi concentration camps.” Since the regime works prisoners into their graves, death camps would be an accurate description. The regime also eliminates “enemies of class” through three generations, as Kim Il-Sung proclaimed. With Stalin’s encouragement, he invaded South Korea in 1950. But as American leftist icon I.F. Stone explained in Hidden History of the Korean War, South Korea invaded the North.

North Korea’s current Stalinist-in-chief is Kim Jong-un. According to reports in a Chinese state-backed newspaper, Kim Jong-un recently had his uncle and five of his aides stripped naked and fed to a pack of hungry dogs. According to other reports the aides were executed with anti-aircraft machine guns.

The North Korean regime also threatens the United States and its allies with nuclear weapons and aids terrorist groups. None of that matters to Dennis Rodman, who bows to Kim Jong-un, croons “Happy Birthday” to the dictator, and charges that one of his victims, American Kenneth Bae, actually deserves his 15-year sentence.

Whether he knows it or not, Dennis Rodman follows the American tradition of abetting Stalinist regimes at the very depths of their depravity. The worst regime gets probably the most buffoonish apologist. They didn’t call him “The Worm” for nothing.