Comment Re:Unless (Score 0) 301
No, anti-Semitic fools as you seem to be are a big part of the problem. But you are in "good" company.
No, anti-Semitic fools as you seem to be are a big part of the problem. But you are in "good" company.
As the propaganda minister, yes he would of been in control of spreading hatred for Jews, but it is hard to condemn that during wartime when spreading hatred and dehumanizing your enemies is standard practice. And it might not qualify as heinous enough to actually count as a crime against humanity.
Lets take a look at that. There is a disparity you are not acknowledging.
Soviet Union: Country with government at war with Germany, had army, navy, air force in massive quantities
Poland: Country with government at war with Germany, had army, navy, air force in meaningful quantities
France: Country with government at war with Germany, had army, navy, air force in significant quantities
United Kingdom: Country with government at war with Germany, had army, navy, air force in significant quantities
USA: Country with government at war with Germany, had army, navy, air force in significant quantities
Jews: Peaceful ethnic minority in Germany and other parts of Europe that often made important contributions to society.
Germany treatment of the prisoners of:
Russia: severe mistreatment, many died
Poland: severe mistreatment, many died
France: Relatively humane treatment
United Kingdom: Relatively humane treatment
USA: Relatively humane treatment
Jews: Germany used modern bureaucratic methods and tools of industry in an attempt to exterminate all Jews in German occupied territory.
On what reasonable ground could Jews be targeted for even worse treatment than the Russians? They were productive members of German society, not an invading foreign nation. They were targeted for death based purely on ethnic/religious hatred.
It is easy to condemn Germany, the Nazis, and Goebels for the propaganda in service of genocide against the Jews, and the genocide itself, not to mention the waging of wars of aggression by Germany.
If that gruel is too thin for you, fear not. Goebbels had a more direct hand in the Holocaust as well.
Making Berlin 'Judenfrei'. The decimation of Berlin's jewish population by railway deportations.
Now, more than elsewhere - the population of Berlin suffered more Joseph Goebbels, the infamous Minister of Propaganda. In the German capital, he was also an ambitious Gauleiter (District leader). The virulent antisemite wanted Berlin to be 'Judenfrei' (Nazi-German for 'Free from jews') - and he even bothered Hitler with this. On August 19th 1941, Hitler promised the fanatic Gauleiter to 'transport' the jews out of 'his' city when the possibility was there. Only one month later - Goebbels confirmed that this day came closer. In an diary entry of September 24th, he wrote that Hitler stated Berlin would be the very first city to be 'Judenfrei' indeed. The deportations were in sight. Another month later, at October 24th, Goebbels wrote
"Gradually, we start with the evacuation of the Berlin jews to the East. A couple of thousands are already on their way. In first instance, they go to Litzmannstadt (Nazi-German for: Lodz). This causes commotion in the affected circles. The jews ask for support in anonymous letters to foreign correspondents. (. .
. . . Already in this early stage, deportations were connected with the Holocaust. By November 1941 till January 1942, 4000 jews were sent to the ghetto of Riga - where Nazi authorities knew that 'Einsatzgruppen' ('Special Forces') executed these jews.
Nazi Germany pursued the destruction of the Jewish people till the end. They spent enormous amounts of scarce resources (trains, manpower, economic losses) to pursue their evil end. They damaged their own war effort to pursue their evil end of destroying the Jewish people. Why? Hatred. That hatred has infected more than just Nazi Germany.
Sadly, Mein Kampf is a best seller in the Middle East, and is popular in other places as well. There are Muslims with the same goal as the Nazis - destroy the Jewish people. Like the Nazis they are willing to damage their nation to pursue this goal.
The terrorist group Hamas, which forms the government of Gaza, has the destruction of Israel in its charter. They are unwilling to recognize the right of Israel to exist. This is made achieving peace agreements nearly impossible for the Palestinians.
Likewise Iran plans to create a "Palestine" free of the Jewish state and all that implies. At one level this is quite odd when you think about it since Iran and Israel were allies under the Shaw of Iran's government. Israel never did anything to Iran to deserve being target for genocide by Iran. But that was before the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Once Iran was ruled by Shia Muslim clerics, Iran declared Israel an enemy and that it is at war with Israel, the Jewish state. This is based purely on the religious hatred in Iran.
Iran now has missiles that can not only reach Israel, but reach Europe as well. They already have a nuclear warhead design for those missiles, and will soon have a transient and unreliable limitation on its ability to produce the nuclear material to mate with its warhead design to create nuclear tipped long range ballistic missiles. Other Muslim nations, Sunni Muslim nations, see Iran's march towards nuclear weapons and are starting their march towards nuclear weapons as well.
Meanwhile Europe continues to disarm, even in the face of threats from Russia. Russia's ambassador to Denmark just threatened the use of nuclear weapons against Denmark if Denmark participated the missile defense program intended to protect Europe from Iran's threat. What makes this more troubling is that Putin stated a few weeks ago that he was willing to brandish nuclear weapons to take Crimea from Ukraine.
The future doesn't look bright.
Anybody else surprised by this?
Truth, justice... is simply not the American way.
Truth and justice have been part of the American way, but not all Americans have made it their way. Have you?
The problem grows worse when society says there is no such thing as truth. and justice becomes a mockery.
Can anyone identify a land of universal truth and justice, in which no fault can be found, outside of myth or prophecy?
GCHQ has no jurisdiction in Ireland. Different country, not part of the UK and all that.
You aren't saying that GCHQ conducts no signals intelligence operations on servers or signals in Ireland, are you? I hear they've been known to operate in other countries. And fanacy that, the UK and Ireland share a land border.
No secret intelligence protocols between the UK and Ireland?
>> For the dude doing it...what's the penalty again for punching out a TSA idiot?
Gitmo?
Seriously folks - you may have a lovely country, but this sh!t keeps my tourist dollar in my bank and unspent.
If you actually believe that then you may not be smart enought to enter the country*. The Guantanamo Bay detention facility has only been used for holding individuals that were either members or thought to be members of al Qaida or its associates. I'm pretty sure that "punching out" a TSA employee isn't going to qualify for that.
*You do realize that there really isn't a qualification like that, right? Just making sure.
Where do you go to school? I had that hammered into me in grade school.
Hammered is probably the right word since it was PC indoctrination, not education.
To the point: Reject the Lie of White "Genocide" Against Native Americans
The next step in Swedish in Swedish criminal procedure is questioning by the Prosecutor, then comes the filing of charges. There are other countries in Europe with similar systems.
If they'll forcibly ground the Presidential plane from a sizable country, do you really think they wouldn't stoop to trumping up some rape charges and put a little pressure on Sweden too?
The plane of the President of Bolivia was not forcibly grounded. If you want to claim that, which country used fighter jets to force it down? It was denied transit of airspace. Do you deny that nations control their airspace?
The sexual assault allegation against Assange came from women that everyone acknowledges were his sex partners, not from the US embassy. Rape is a serious crime in Sweden, why do you think Swedish prosecutors wouldn't investigate the allegations?
How do you think the US could influence the course of Swedish justice? Do you have any proof, or just a conspiracy theory with no actual evidence?
You seem to be freely inventing allegations to tarnish the US instead of facing the facts against Assange.
Assange owes an apology for the President of Bolivia for Assange SWATTing him.
Assange owes answers to a Swedish court over sex assault charges.
Assange owes an apology to the UK for his criminal flight from justice, resulting in much waste of resources.
Assange owes an apology to his supporters for repeated misconduct and abuse..
The UK court that approved extradition found that the offenses he was being extradited for constituted sexual assault, making he eligible for extradition.
Assange is a fugitive from justice in self-selected luxury confinement rather than face extradiction to Sweden to face a Swedish court over charges of sexual assault.
Are there any other accused rapists you cheer for fleeing justice?
"sigh"??? Really? Sigh?
A case could probably be made against Assange for aiding and abetting in the theft and compromise of Australian and Commonwealth defence secrets due to the assistance he provivded Snowden.
Agreed, a safe deposit box. But just about any medium will do: cd, dvd, tape, memory stick, hard disk,
A copy in the fire safe in addtion to the safe deposit box is even better. (I've see backup media eaten.)
From the article: "Late last year the Spanish government passed a law that set extreme fines for protesters convening outside of government buildings. In response to the controversial Citizen Safety Law, which will take effect on July 1
I thought the Generalissimo was dead? Or are we back to him "valiently holding on in his fight to remain dead"?
Obama indistinguishable from GWB? Not on this planet.
I will agree with you about the silence of the Democrats (and the anti-war movement). They've demonstrated much of their opposition was purely political and not based on principle.
Why would any Republican be afraid of HRC? She is one in all but name. Iraq War cheerleader, surveillor, wall street's best friend. Seriously, what is there for the GOP to hate policy wise? Yeah, we know they hater her personally, but from a policy perspective, she's the dream GOP candidate.
The answer to understanding your view is in your email address:
obamaisaneocon@nothingchanged.org
You are well into the fringe Left if you Obama is a neocon, and that Hillary Clinton is "the dream GOP candidate" even when she is downplaying her more extreme Progressive views. It simply isn't true.
It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one. -- Phil White
