DEFEATING FALSE OR PURBLIND HISTORY

One December seventh I heard a TV newscaster read, “On this day in 1941 Japanese jets ravaged pearl Harbor.” I couldn’t resist writing to the station manager and confiding how lucky we had been to prevail over a country with an air force technologically advanced even before our declaration of war. He replied that he had subsequently taught the young reporter that never in the war did the Japanese have jet aircraft.

There is no dearth of erroneous representations of history, and one wonders which are deliberate and which, products of mere ignorance. Sometimes it is possible to discriminate the two. On one Memorial Day in D.C. actor Charles Durning, narrating the annual, commemorative program, told the crowd that World War II had been fought to rescue the Jews! For another example, despite the fact that he publicly rejected the hypothesis dozens of times, there are those that persist in the belief that Abraham Lincoln waged the Civil War in order to liberate slaves. Others believe the fatuous notion that Vietnam was “a war we could not have won.” Thanks to the Internet, misconceptions and lies have an easier path to circulate and gain absorption by the careless, naïve, and stupid.

Lately I saw one based on a “Non Sequitur” comic strip that was not comic. In it, a man explained his inartistic tattoos to a granddaughter. Other groups were mentioned, but the piece ended with a facsimile of the Israeli flag, and the man said that in World War II times, “millions of people perished because of their faith.”

The statement begs analysis. First, not all Jews practice Judaism, and not all that practice Judaism are Jews. Being a Jew is a matter of one’s ancestors, while practicing Judaism is a matter of one’s faith; the two are hardly equivalent. If you read Arthur Miller’s “Incident at Vichy,” you will find men’s being classified according to the lengths of their noses and whether or not they are circumcised. Naturally, it is as horrible to judge one way as the other, but the Nazi’s were interested in people’s ethnicity, not what Gods they worshipped or how – unless that amounted to resisting the nightmare they perpetrated.

Consider the case of Saint Teresa Benedictor of the Cross, born Edith Stein to Jewish parents, hence a jew, in 1891 Germany. After reading the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila, Dr. Stein, by then, was received into the Catholic Church at the age of 30. In 1933 she entered the Carmelite community at Cologne and professed her vows in 1935. With the persecution of Jews she decided her presence was a danger to the convent and was permitted to transfer to the Netherlands, into which she crossed secretly on New Year’s Eve, 1938. The Nazi’s, however, had invaded her new country and arrested al Catholics of Jewish descent. On 2 August, 1942 she was removed from the Echt Carmel and murdered in a gas chamber at Auschwitz seven days later. Clearly, this saint was killed for her ethnicity, not her faith.

Unpopular, anyway, Jews were made a lens to focus Germany’s hatred and ferocity and thus cement solidarity, but Hitler and Co. weren’t concerned about how much time their victims spent in synagogues – except as a way to identify targets.

Gypsies, like Jews, were labeled “Lebensunwertesleben,” lives not worth living. (There were doctrinal issues about some of the Gypsies, who, with origins in India, had claims to Aryanism, but the definitions were overlooked to accommodate the murderous objectives.) In the Nazi – don’t overlook the “Socialist” contribution to that acronym; find it in your dictionary and check your understanding of the term – scheme of things, Jews were anti-human, the lowest, Slavs were subhumans, to be annihilated once their utility had been exhausted, and Gypsies, in this Mohs scale of undesirability, were cast between these two.

Relative to their respective population sizes at the time, about the same percentage of Gypsies, as of Jews, were murdered, even if one accepts the disputed, six million figure for the latter. Gypsy religion, if that is a viable term, is rather an odd ragout of beliefs, and it is utterly foolish to suppose they were slaughtered for it. It was because they were classified as low-class undesirables, whose lives were not worth living. German soldiers would drive into Gypsy villages and shoot everyone there.

Interested readers should try Jolan Foeldes’ (“oe” for an umlaut “o”) marvelous novel Golden Earrings, which does not deal in atrocities but, rather, the preface to them and how Gypsies in Germany lived and coped at the time. Other revealing reading is H. Huttenbach’s, “The Romani Porajmos: The Nazi Genocide of Europe’s Gypsies,” Nationalities Papers, vol. 19, no. 3, 1991, pp. 373-394.

Gypsies are just one group whose mass murders go undocumented in our biased television and film productions and for whom there are no museums situated practically on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. While condemning Nazi’s do not forget other candidates for the Mass Murderers’ Hall of Infamy.

1. Chou en Lai and Mao Tse Tung, currently transliterated differently, authored the murders of upwards of 8 million Chinese people.

2. Joe Stalin presided over the starvation deaths of millions of Ukanians.

3. “Benevolent Uncle” Ho Chi Minh, who, in the name of filthy, degenerate, failed Communism, ordered the murders of millions of his countrymen. Why do you suppose that South Vietnam, at the time of our bumbling there, had all the Catholics? This is what is meant by perishing on account of one’s faith. Ethnically, they were generally all the same people.

Cartoonists and others should get their facts straight and stop dropping faulty allusions that have grown easier to say with the number of iterations. The bias in these representations is a question of ownership and control. Jews own or control much of what we see in films and on television, and that is why their tale is the only one told.

Y.C.

CAUSE FOR MOURNING = REASON TO FIGHT

Perhaps misguided Jenkins saw himself as loving the enemy, or possibly he, himself, is one of them, but what he did was to attack the faith he claims to profess. At Notre Dame it was a sorry day for Catholicism and all others that believe in God, which belief necessitates embracing the sanctity of life. Let us hope and pray that the force and wisdom of Jenkins' bishop are the ones to prevail.

Yves

STILL HERE, FRIENDS

I haven't forgotten you and have LOTS of topics I'm anxious to address, but I needed a little vacation and shall soon post a contribution.

Sincerely,

Yves

CONGRESS REVISITS THE 60'S

Today I read that 5 congresspersons - guess which party - were arrested for civil disobedience during demonstrations in D.C. It is so eminently typical of liberals to place their views and themselves above the law; any means justifies their self-exalted assessment of what is correct. I imagine that among constituents that would elect their type, their popularity just zoomed.

A COMMENDABLE SOURCE

Friends,

If you have any sort of sympathy for traditional, sound, rational, moral family values, you ought to catch announcements from the American Family Association. See, for example, www.afajournal.org. In the May, 2009 edition of this newsletter I read on p. 9 how Planned Parenthood abortion factories break the laws and on p. 10 that the University of Wisconsin voted to perform second trimester abortions while making the ridiculous claim that while the horrible procedures will be performed at a state-supported institution, no state money will be involved! This sounds like B.O. talk; i.e., laughably stupid and paradoxical.

The AFA deals with far more than abortion, however, and you should have an eye-opening look for news that somehow or other doesn't find its way into ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and most of the sycophantic newspapers.

OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE

Lately, when a friendly postal clerk apprised me of the approaching rate increase, I said, “When the price of oil goes up, rates increase; when the price of oil falls, rates increase. What’s going on?”

“With the bad economy, people aren’t using the mail so much; they’re losing money,” she answered.

This view was corroborated by official Postal Nazi announcements of bad conditions, possible elimination of a day’s “service” each week, concatenation of carriers’ routes, etc., with the encouraging qualification, FEAR NOT, AMERICA; NO POSTAL EMPLOYEE WILL LOSE HIS/HER/ITS JOB!

Notice that in aforementioned bad times, when XYZ Corp. (fill in GM, Citibank, you name it) is having trouble, the first notice always includes “XYZ cuts n (fill in 1, 2, 10, you name it) thousand jobs.”

How does one explain that not only does the Postal “Service” avoid elimination positions, it raises our rates to preserve those that sensible, private companies would scotch? The easy answer follows.

Naturally, the Feds have several OFFICIAL bureaus of welfare, but every agency, department, office, you name it, is chock full of welfare recipients, incapable blockheads that hold high-paying, unneeded jobs because your tax rip-offs subsidize them.

Being cautious to avoid assault or murder, take a trip to Washington, DC, walk into the buildings, and have a look at what’s running YOUR government.

The dumbest of the liberals whine about the Defense Department budget, but so much of it is wasted on welfare/affirmative action hires, it’s a wonder we’ve GOT a defense. They hire the asymptotically deaf to answer phones and illiterates to work as secretaries or, more grandly, administrative assistants. Highly-educated professionals must do their own word-processing and photocopying, while the nominal secretaries send e-memo’s, make personal phone calls, eat high-calorie meals and snacks, and take coffee and cigarette breaks. Some of the affirmative action hires have nothing more to do than open outgoing mail to be sure it’s not personal.

I’ve spent many hours in those buildings and am confident you will find that much of this nasty, Gordian tangle of federal government, which, despite campaign lies, only burgeons is unadulterated welfare.

Why not try and do something about these continuous abuses. Get the feather-bedding, superfluous, unproductive – if not detrimental – creeps off our payrolls.

HOMELAND SECURITY AND THE H. R. COMMUNISTS

You may have noticed that our sorry excuse for a head of state, in concert with his left-wing legislature and advisors, is doing his damnedest to destroy the Bill of Rights. The latest attack, spearheaded by Homeland Security, every day sounding more like the Geheime Staats Polizei, and the lunatic Communists in the House, is on the First Amendment. These latter want to quench your right to express your sentiments by passing a law against it. Better look up your representative and make clear the obvious; viz., that this hate-crime legislation is a crock of horse shit. Meanwhile, H.S. seeks to label dissent with B.O.’s ill-begotten whims as “extremism.”

Are you unsympathetic towards queers? Well, damn you, you’re hate-oriented and extreme! Outspoken about the murder od unborn children? You’re a hate-oriented extremist, did you know? Had a belly full of being overrun by illegal aliens’ spoliation of the country. Sorry, you’re hate-oriented, too. It’s the same tactic that has served whining minorities for years; equate any well-reasoned criticism to hate. No one wants to be known for hatred, so criticism will be deracinated. Given leave, B.O. and his Gestapo gang would legislate your freedom of expression out of existence. The “thought crime” of 1984 is just around the corner.

For the moment, at least, a sane majority prevails in the Supreme Court, but 1 out of 3 braches of government is not a percentage to inspire confidence.

If you were one of the coney majority last November, are you pleased at watching your freedoms erode? The best you could do for 2010 is to get out on election day and cause some amends to the damage you’ve done.