Sunday, April 27, 2014
On the Brink of a Revolt?: The Nazis are still with us.........
On the Brink of a Revolt?: The Nazis are still with us.........: I just saw the movie " Walk with the Enemy" and I'd advise every one to go see it. It struck home with me for a half dozen rea...
The Nazis are still with us.........
I just saw the movie " Walk with the Enemy" and I'd advise every one to go see it. It struck home with me for a half dozen reasons. Born in 1940, I was awakened at 4 years old when a neighbor's mother was notified her 19 year old son was shot down and killed in a B-17 during " Big Week" push over Germany in the last week in February 1944. It was a mess that night. I could hear her screaming through the walls.
My father drove us behind the Philadelphia Airport through the German Prison Camp there where the Luftwaffe POW were so we would go to the end of the runway and watcch the commercial flights fly in over our heads. I still remember the blond German officers still in uniform marching in straight lines past our car.
In the film we saw about Hungarian Occupation by Germans, they brutally murdered their citizens, killing everyone that got in their way. Germans made films of themselves during the war and we show them on local channels for us to study the deterioration of societies during those periods. In it, I watched the German crowds cheering, mesmerized by their Fuhrer, swooning at his presence as he passes by. They danced and sang, and crowded him in the street.
I served as a Docent in a B-17 Museum in Tucson for two years here in Tucson. In it, I happily escorted many visitors from around the US, Mexico, Canada and the European region around the Museum, familiarizing them with the airplane, the world war and it's impact on America, our folks, and on all the people involved.
Some of the Germans who came provided the most interesting reactions: one woman from Frankfurt said to me, " we had guns in our backs. They made us come out in the street and wave to Hitler. We had to, we had no choice."
A man from Munich (a city I had visited twice), said, " Nazis? I knew no Nazis. Of course, I heard about it, but I don't think I ever actually knew of any." Dachau prison camp one of the most infamous concentration camps was right outside of Munich. I reached the camp under 15 minutes by car.
One day while I was on duty by the front door, four tall, mid 30's German men arrived and asked me questions by the European Map on the wall. " .....tell me, Roger, what were your losses?" I answered them that they were the highest of any US Military outfit on the planet - about 10%.
When I told him that, he came unglued. " Zat vas ALL??" He all but screamed?
I replied, yes, but we thought that was high. " To what do you attribute a loss of ONLY 10%?" he snidely asked of me. I thought for a minute and then replied.
" You guys were bad shots."
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My father drove us behind the Philadelphia Airport through the German Prison Camp there where the Luftwaffe POW were so we would go to the end of the runway and watcch the commercial flights fly in over our heads. I still remember the blond German officers still in uniform marching in straight lines past our car.
In the film we saw about Hungarian Occupation by Germans, they brutally murdered their citizens, killing everyone that got in their way. Germans made films of themselves during the war and we show them on local channels for us to study the deterioration of societies during those periods. In it, I watched the German crowds cheering, mesmerized by their Fuhrer, swooning at his presence as he passes by. They danced and sang, and crowded him in the street.
I served as a Docent in a B-17 Museum in Tucson for two years here in Tucson. In it, I happily escorted many visitors from around the US, Mexico, Canada and the European region around the Museum, familiarizing them with the airplane, the world war and it's impact on America, our folks, and on all the people involved.
Some of the Germans who came provided the most interesting reactions: one woman from Frankfurt said to me, " we had guns in our backs. They made us come out in the street and wave to Hitler. We had to, we had no choice."
A man from Munich (a city I had visited twice), said, " Nazis? I knew no Nazis. Of course, I heard about it, but I don't think I ever actually knew of any." Dachau prison camp one of the most infamous concentration camps was right outside of Munich. I reached the camp under 15 minutes by car.
One day while I was on duty by the front door, four tall, mid 30's German men arrived and asked me questions by the European Map on the wall. " .....tell me, Roger, what were your losses?" I answered them that they were the highest of any US Military outfit on the planet - about 10%.
When I told him that, he came unglued. " Zat vas ALL??" He all but screamed?
I replied, yes, but we thought that was high. " To what do you attribute a loss of ONLY 10%?" he snidely asked of me. I thought for a minute and then replied.
" You guys were bad shots."
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And now - HAVE A STIFF CASE OF RACISM!!!
If the country wasn't getting wacky enough, our hero of the moment, the rancher turned racist in Nevada suddenly spouts diatribe about black people being better off back on the plantation whistling Dixie and picking cotton, like it was part of yesterday's newspaper headlines.
Buffalo Bob Bad ass has unfortunately spent much too much time with cattle than he has brushing up with 21st Century folk in the big city, many of whom speak better English, pronouncing same in round pear shaped tones and many of whom not waving pistols in the air.
We all can appreciate his struggle against what appears in my opinion, to most of us to be an increasingly totalitarian government beginning to run amok in DC. However, Cowboy Cliven needs to raise his head, and his gaze as far as Washington to see that these days, most of the country is filled with literate, well educated American citizens of all stripes of human hood, and mercy sakes, all of them live in houses where the bathrooms are IN THE HOUSE!!
Now, as to the Basketball team owner in LA, little can be said for the man who has spent decades in sports ownership of a team known for it's employment of well skilled artisans of the game of basketball, who, by nature, from time to time, happen to be of African American descent.
For him to utter the same disgusting racist comments that the Nevada cowboy did, is disconcerting, in that both senior citizens seem unconcerned with the rupture of good taste, common sense, and anti-deluvian viewpoints. Unenlightened undeveloped, unevolved psyches seemed to run wild in the upper economic classes in certain strata verifying my theories long held since I graduated from one of the more prestigious ivy league colleges which states: - " IQ and the ability to amass large sums of money are NOT necessary related."
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Buffalo Bob Bad ass has unfortunately spent much too much time with cattle than he has brushing up with 21st Century folk in the big city, many of whom speak better English, pronouncing same in round pear shaped tones and many of whom not waving pistols in the air.
We all can appreciate his struggle against what appears in my opinion, to most of us to be an increasingly totalitarian government beginning to run amok in DC. However, Cowboy Cliven needs to raise his head, and his gaze as far as Washington to see that these days, most of the country is filled with literate, well educated American citizens of all stripes of human hood, and mercy sakes, all of them live in houses where the bathrooms are IN THE HOUSE!!
Now, as to the Basketball team owner in LA, little can be said for the man who has spent decades in sports ownership of a team known for it's employment of well skilled artisans of the game of basketball, who, by nature, from time to time, happen to be of African American descent.
For him to utter the same disgusting racist comments that the Nevada cowboy did, is disconcerting, in that both senior citizens seem unconcerned with the rupture of good taste, common sense, and anti-deluvian viewpoints. Unenlightened undeveloped, unevolved psyches seemed to run wild in the upper economic classes in certain strata verifying my theories long held since I graduated from one of the more prestigious ivy league colleges which states: - " IQ and the ability to amass large sums of money are NOT necessary related."
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Saturday, April 19, 2014
Nevada Cowboys vs the Feds - almost everyone got involved
I could smell it, and by the news reports that were NOT in evidence, so could everyone else. The third most powerful man in America, Major Domo Harry Reid, Reichmarshall of the US Senate, declared his underlings, the citizens of his own state, American terrorists, like-minded fellow travelers with Adam Gdansk, who clothes himself in Arab garb while squatting in the deserts of his own fellow travelers, while our own Nevada cowboys stand up to "American" tyranny.
Enough here at home, is enough.
But, from my studies of Germany in 1939, I deduce this - in my opinion, it is not over. Our president is replaying the Nazi playbook of that era. Break out your text books, and check out his next moves for yourselves.
Beware our cowboy friends on the Nevada border!! Step two is the knock on the door at mid-night! Phase two is the Christalnacht by Obama White House storm-troopers. Common Core is coming for our public schools In it - the definition of "common good" for the most is better than for the individual. (where have I heard that one, before?)
The moment of Revolution was almost breached when the fully armed government BLM troops suddenly backed up. I, for one, breathed deeply. The snipers on the hill covered their retreat, the cowboys held their ground, and their tempers and the order of the day was temperance. BUT, the cowboys kept the peace.
Reid is right. This is not over. But, NOT THE WAY HE THINKS!!! nUnless there is a negotiated settlement, this will end bloody. Obama's continued trail of bumbling toward political suicide i November will ensure our return to sanity.
God save our Democracy. Kill the Common Core.
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Enough here at home, is enough.
But, from my studies of Germany in 1939, I deduce this - in my opinion, it is not over. Our president is replaying the Nazi playbook of that era. Break out your text books, and check out his next moves for yourselves.
Beware our cowboy friends on the Nevada border!! Step two is the knock on the door at mid-night! Phase two is the Christalnacht by Obama White House storm-troopers. Common Core is coming for our public schools In it - the definition of "common good" for the most is better than for the individual. (where have I heard that one, before?)
The moment of Revolution was almost breached when the fully armed government BLM troops suddenly backed up. I, for one, breathed deeply. The snipers on the hill covered their retreat, the cowboys held their ground, and their tempers and the order of the day was temperance. BUT, the cowboys kept the peace.
Reid is right. This is not over. But, NOT THE WAY HE THINKS!!! nUnless there is a negotiated settlement, this will end bloody. Obama's continued trail of bumbling toward political suicide i November will ensure our return to sanity.
God save our Democracy. Kill the Common Core.
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