Hero's of the past 100 years: Who is your hero?

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It was only a few minutes since I found out about this guy, and I think he deserves it; Stanislav Petrov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

Petrov's dilemma was this: if he was disregarding a real attack, then the Soviet Union would be devastated by nuclear weapons without any warning or chance to retaliate, and he would have failed at his duty. On the other hand, if he were to report a non-existent attack, his superiors might launch an equally catastrophic assault against their enemies. In either case, millions of innocents would die.
Understanding that if he were wrong, nuclear missiles would soon be raining down on the Soviet Union, Petrov decided to trust his intuition and declare the system's indications a false alarm. After a short while, it was apparent that his instincts were right. There were no approaching missiles. The crisis put him under immense pressure and nervousness, yet Petrov's judgement had been sound. A full-scale nuclear war had been averted...
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Who is your Hero?
 
My hero:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_escobar

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (December 1, 1949 – December 2, 1993) gained world infamy as a Colombian drug lord who became one of the richest men in the world by smuggling cocaine into the United States and other countries around the world. Members of the United States and Colombian Governments, news reporters and the general public considered him to be one of the most brutally ruthless, ambitious and powerful drug dealers in history.
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At the height of his empire, Escobar was estimated by Forbes magazine to be the seventh-richest man in the world1, with his company Medellín Cartel controlling 80 percent of the world's cocaine market. His organization had fleets of planes, boats, and expensive vehicles. Vast properties and tracts of lands were also controlled by the cartel under Escobar due to the almost limitless influx of cash during this period. Estimates are that the Medellín cartel was taking in up to $25 billion annually at its zenith.

While seen as an enemy of the United States and Colombian governments, Escobar was a hero to many in Medellín; he was a natural at public relations and he worked to create goodwill among Colombia's poor. A lifelong sports fan, he was credited with building soccer stadiums and sponsoring little league soccer teams in the city. He worked hard to cultivate his Robin Hood image and frequently distributed money to the poor. The population of Medellín often helped Escobar by serving as lookouts, hiding information from the authorities, or doing whatever else they could do to protect him.
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Damn perps eventually got him :(.
 
off the top of my head, in no particular order:

Noam chomsky
John Lennon
Bob marley
gandhi
mother theresa
Martin Luther King
Rosa Parks
Albert Einstein
Arundhati roy
Tariq Ali
David Suzuki
Tommy Douglas
Terry Fox
Ella Fitzgerald
my son
 
my son is my hero ...what's there to explain? I'd kill every last one of you with a toothbrush if it meant saving my son :E
 
DEATH eVADER said:
Explain.....
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Don't think it requires explaining.

Also, amusingly enough, when I saw this thread title I thought of Stanislav Petrov, then clicked on it and found that you wrote that very name :D
 
Jack Bauer D:

Nah, but whilst I don't have a specific hero or heroes, my current choice heroes would be the people who fought the Battle of Britain, and the people who refused to give in when things looked the worst.
 
FoB_Ed said:
Jesus
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Big clue.

"Hero's of the past 100 years: Who is your hero?"

As for me, Xena: Warrior Princess. She was born in the last 100 years.

Ahem.
 
George Galloway
Lennin
Trostsky
George Orwell
Martin Luther King
That Tianamen guy with the tanks = number one hero.
 
Solaris said:
George Galloway
That Tianamen guy with the tanks = number one hero.
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What happened to him anyway? Did he get killed or what? Always wanted to know.
 
I read an article on the anniversary of Tiananmen square ..they tried tracking him down but no one could determine who he was ..and there were various unconfirmed reports he was killed or living in exile

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
 
Harryz said:
What happened to him anyway? Did he get killed or what? Always wanted to know.
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I think he is still in prison. :(

Mine:
-the Tiananmen square guy in front of the tank
-my Grandpa
-John McCain
-Teddy Roosevelt
-FDR
 
Solaris said:
George Galloway
Lennin
Trostsky
George Orwell
Martin Luther King
That Tianamen guy with the tanks = number one hero.
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Lenin and Trotsky were commies (King practically too). Orwell wrote agiants thier ideas and Tianamen guy died because communism...
I don't understand you...
 
martin luther king was a commie? that's the most absurd statement I've heard all day :LOL:
 
CptStern said:
martin luther king was a commie? that's the most absurd statement I've heard all day :LOL:
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No he wasn't but he was close to extreme left wing during his last days...
 
I think Major-Colonel Hans Von Luck to be a hero. Not to me personally, but during the Falaise Pocket, he managed to save 50,000 German Soldiers from complete annihlation.
 
Polaris said:
No he wasn't but he was close to extreme left wing during his last days...
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he was a humanist, he called for equality for all people regardless of colour etc ..I wouldnt call him extreme left by any stretch of the imagination
 
CptStern said:
he was a humanist, he called for equality for all people regardless of colour etc ..I wouldnt call him extreme left by any stretch of the imagination
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From wiki:
The speech was a reflection of King's evolving political advocacy in his later years, sparked in part by his affiliation with and training at the progressive Highlander Research and Education Center. King began to speak of the need for fundamental changes in the political and economic life of the nation. Toward the end of his life, King more frequently expressed his opposition to the war and his desire to see a redistribution of resources to correct racial and economic injustice. Though his public language was guarded, so as to avoid being linked to communism by his political enemies, in private he sometimes spoke of his support for democratic socialism:

You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry.... Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong... with capitalism.... There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism. (Frogmore, S.C. November 14, 1966. Speech in front of his staff.)

I agree with his humanist and anti-racism philosophies...
 
he was a humanist, he called for equality for all people regardless of colour etc ..I wouldnt call him extreme left by any stretch of the imagination
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He said King could practically be considered as so, although officially Martin Luther King himself never declared that. Thats all. He was'nt saying he was, but, he was saying one could almost consider him to be so.

Just clarifying that.
 
Polaris said:
From wiki:
The speech was a reflection of King's evolving political advocacy in his later years, sparked in part by his affiliation with and training at the progressive Highlander Research and Education Center. King began to speak of the need for fundamental changes in the political and economic life of the nation. Toward the end of his life, King more frequently expressed his opposition to the war and his desire to see a redistribution of resources to correct racial and economic injustice. Though his public language was guarded, so as to avoid being linked to communism by his political enemies, in private he sometimes spoke of his support for democratic socialism:

You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry.... Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong... with capitalism.... There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism. (Frogmore, S.C. November 14, 1966. Speech in front of his staff.)

I agree with his humanist and anti-racism philosophies...
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yes but the fear of being called a commie was due to the era when any sort of humaism was seen as communist. He was closer to as your quote rightly points out, social democracy not communism
 
-Lenin and Trotsky were commies (King practically too). Orwell wrote agiants thier ideas and Tianamen guy died because communism...
I don't understand you...

China isn't communist. It's state capitalism. Communism is freedom, orwell wrote about the tyranical rule of the Soviet Union and china ect. who were as communist as Zimbabwe is democratic.
 
OVERALL: My Grandfather. I'll never forget you



Musically:
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