Post by Glenda Gustin on Oct 27, 2021 18:06:28 GMT
A thought for these times:
Like many of my fellow patriots I get frustrated with the lack of action and the lack of interest, even, of other fellow patriots and of the world at large. While throughout history people and communities have risen up against tyranny --for lack of a better word there IS no word in any language worldwide to describe the horrific criminal behavior we see perpetrated against innocent citizens of the world today; 'The Fourth Reich' is probably the closest we can come and for lack of anything better it will have to do.
Something went wrong somewhere that led the world into what came to be known as World War One. When it was over, there were 20 million deaths (about half military and half civilian) and 21 million wounded. Most of the war's major battles occurred in France. Extensive looting took place as German forces removed whatever material they could use and destroyed the rest. Hundreds of mines were destroyed along with railways, bridges, and entire villages. Prime Minister of France Georges Clemenceau was determined, for these reasons, that any just peace required Germany to pay reparations for the damage it had caused. Clemenceau viewed reparations as a way of weakening Germany to ensure it could never threaten France again.
This was not how things ended though. United States President Woodrow Wilson opposed these positions and was adamant that no indemnity should be imposed upon Germany. THAT is mostly how things ended. Austria, Hungary and Turkey paid almost nothing. Germany paid only a small amount and in 1932 during the Lausanne Conference the German debt was cancelled altogether until 1952, after which the final payment was made in 2010.
Something went wrong somewhere again and World War Two began with many of the same players and a few new ones in September 1939. By war's end, September 1945, an estimated 50 million people were killed. Although many billions of dollars in reparations were proscribed, most if not all payments had stopped by 1953.
Along with the reparations that didn't work, as a further attempt to stop a third world war, there were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949; resolving to prosecute those responsible for violence against civilian populations.
The London Charter of the International Military Tribunal (IMT), issued on August 8, 1945 among other things, defined three categories of crimes: crimes against peace (including planning, preparing, starting or waging wars of aggression or wars in violation of international agreements), war crimes (including violations of customs or laws of war, including improper treatment of civilians and prisoners of war) and crimes against humanity (including murder, enslavement or deportation of civilians or persecution on political, religious or racial grounds). It was determined that civilian officials as well as military officers could be accused of war crimes.
Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), the Soviet leader, had wanted the execution of 50,000 to 100,000 German staff officers. Far from that, twenty-four individuals were indicted with two having died already, and one more died before the executions. Twelve were sentenced to death, one in absentia, and the rest were given prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life behind bars. Of the 185 people indicted in the subsequent Nuremberg trials, 12 defendants received death sentences, 8 others were given life in prison and an additional 77 people received prison terms of varying lengths. Authorities later reduced a number of the sentences. All this for 50 million deaths. And as for Stalin, he later came to be blamed for 9 million of his countrymen's deaths--some say more--and then went on to die a natural death on his own bed in his own home.
Something has gone wrong somewhere again and here we are in 2021, continuing in a course of worldwide civilian mistreatment that seems to have no end in sight. Coerced vaccinations, nasal and anal swabs, lockdowns, masks and vaccine mandates and the invasive extraction of private and sensitive information--sometimes on a daily basis, much of it recorded--have taken their toll on populations worldwide while some business coffers are overflowing by the billions.
It could be worse. 80 years have passed since the Nuremberg days while it took only a few years for the world to forget the lessons of WW1. And in Germany, the estimates are that 90 percent of that country turned violent and deadly onto a remaining tiny percent of their fellow citizens. Today Americans comprise fifty percent on each side. (Update: now today 1/22 it is probably 80 percent versus 20 percent, or even worse we are losing this battle. Obviously some lessons WERE learned and some progress HAS been made.
The problem as I see it is, while it was all well and good to go after a mere handful of perpetrators, no account was taken from all those who stood by and did nothing, behavior considered by many to be just as culpable. It may have been felt that accounting would not be useful or not even possible. But Robert H Jackson, during the Nuremberg trials wrote: "Civilization can afford no compromise with the social forces which would gain renewed strength if we deal ambiguously or indecisively with the men in whom those forces now precariously survive."
But that is what previous generations did, after each world war: they did not deal with the social forces that led to so much death and destruction.
AND HERE WE ARE.
Up until today, the terrible effects of these oversights continue to make themselves known as a continued, seemingly unstopped array of civil uprisings worldwide, up to and including the one we might be seeing now. It is nothing new. During the Nuremberg trials, Justice Robert H. Jackson wrote: "The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.”
But even as they ARE being repeated, as usual there is some opposition. In the early days were America's Frontline Doctors and then those who made 'The Great Barrington Declaration' now inching toward a million signatures. And then in July 2020 the convening of 'Germany’s Extra-Parliamentary Coronavirus Investigative Commission' (Nuremberg 2.0) which many considered even more weak and toothless than the first Nuremberg trials. But it was a beginning. The road to justice and perhaps even vengeance has to begin somewhere, and folks however are catching on.
And they are speaking out more strongly. 'Doctors for Covid Ethics' warned in Sep 2021: "The gravity of your deeds is now laid out before the world. For the sake of yourselves and your families, rise and respond. Or go down in history books in indelible shame and disgrace."
Ricardo Bossi of 'Australia One' stated in Sept 2021: "But if any remain silent in the face of an obvious attack on ...sovereignty they will have signed their own death warrants. Remember them...Remember their names and who they are. Remember what they said and what they did not say. Remember what they did and did not do..."
My best guess is that the fear of being remembered for a few hundred years as modern-day Nazi-like beings embodying true evil 'because they could' may be the only thing holding back the waves of evil circling the planet right now. There is, and will be a need for, modern-day Simon Wiesenthals to do the work that must be done and that authorities will not do.Governments lose interest, memories fade, actions are buried and after some time we can do it ALL OVER AGAIN.
It is my fervent belief that this time they will get it right. It is not just the movers and shakers who will be dealt with strongly, but this time those that said and did nothing. This time both perpetrators, and their silent supporters, will be caught by forces to be reckoned with: injured citizens and their survivors who are out for blood and this time they will deal with those 'social forces' for a very long time.
Well, we can always hope.
Glenda Gustin
Arizona, USA
October 2021
Like many of my fellow patriots I get frustrated with the lack of action and the lack of interest, even, of other fellow patriots and of the world at large. While throughout history people and communities have risen up against tyranny --for lack of a better word there IS no word in any language worldwide to describe the horrific criminal behavior we see perpetrated against innocent citizens of the world today; 'The Fourth Reich' is probably the closest we can come and for lack of anything better it will have to do.
Something went wrong somewhere that led the world into what came to be known as World War One. When it was over, there were 20 million deaths (about half military and half civilian) and 21 million wounded. Most of the war's major battles occurred in France. Extensive looting took place as German forces removed whatever material they could use and destroyed the rest. Hundreds of mines were destroyed along with railways, bridges, and entire villages. Prime Minister of France Georges Clemenceau was determined, for these reasons, that any just peace required Germany to pay reparations for the damage it had caused. Clemenceau viewed reparations as a way of weakening Germany to ensure it could never threaten France again.
This was not how things ended though. United States President Woodrow Wilson opposed these positions and was adamant that no indemnity should be imposed upon Germany. THAT is mostly how things ended. Austria, Hungary and Turkey paid almost nothing. Germany paid only a small amount and in 1932 during the Lausanne Conference the German debt was cancelled altogether until 1952, after which the final payment was made in 2010.
Something went wrong somewhere again and World War Two began with many of the same players and a few new ones in September 1939. By war's end, September 1945, an estimated 50 million people were killed. Although many billions of dollars in reparations were proscribed, most if not all payments had stopped by 1953.
Along with the reparations that didn't work, as a further attempt to stop a third world war, there were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949; resolving to prosecute those responsible for violence against civilian populations.
The London Charter of the International Military Tribunal (IMT), issued on August 8, 1945 among other things, defined three categories of crimes: crimes against peace (including planning, preparing, starting or waging wars of aggression or wars in violation of international agreements), war crimes (including violations of customs or laws of war, including improper treatment of civilians and prisoners of war) and crimes against humanity (including murder, enslavement or deportation of civilians or persecution on political, religious or racial grounds). It was determined that civilian officials as well as military officers could be accused of war crimes.
Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), the Soviet leader, had wanted the execution of 50,000 to 100,000 German staff officers. Far from that, twenty-four individuals were indicted with two having died already, and one more died before the executions. Twelve were sentenced to death, one in absentia, and the rest were given prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life behind bars. Of the 185 people indicted in the subsequent Nuremberg trials, 12 defendants received death sentences, 8 others were given life in prison and an additional 77 people received prison terms of varying lengths. Authorities later reduced a number of the sentences. All this for 50 million deaths. And as for Stalin, he later came to be blamed for 9 million of his countrymen's deaths--some say more--and then went on to die a natural death on his own bed in his own home.
Something has gone wrong somewhere again and here we are in 2021, continuing in a course of worldwide civilian mistreatment that seems to have no end in sight. Coerced vaccinations, nasal and anal swabs, lockdowns, masks and vaccine mandates and the invasive extraction of private and sensitive information--sometimes on a daily basis, much of it recorded--have taken their toll on populations worldwide while some business coffers are overflowing by the billions.
It could be worse. 80 years have passed since the Nuremberg days while it took only a few years for the world to forget the lessons of WW1. And in Germany, the estimates are that 90 percent of that country turned violent and deadly onto a remaining tiny percent of their fellow citizens. Today Americans comprise fifty percent on each side. (Update: now today 1/22 it is probably 80 percent versus 20 percent, or even worse we are losing this battle. Obviously some lessons WERE learned and some progress HAS been made.
The problem as I see it is, while it was all well and good to go after a mere handful of perpetrators, no account was taken from all those who stood by and did nothing, behavior considered by many to be just as culpable. It may have been felt that accounting would not be useful or not even possible. But Robert H Jackson, during the Nuremberg trials wrote: "Civilization can afford no compromise with the social forces which would gain renewed strength if we deal ambiguously or indecisively with the men in whom those forces now precariously survive."
But that is what previous generations did, after each world war: they did not deal with the social forces that led to so much death and destruction.
AND HERE WE ARE.
Up until today, the terrible effects of these oversights continue to make themselves known as a continued, seemingly unstopped array of civil uprisings worldwide, up to and including the one we might be seeing now. It is nothing new. During the Nuremberg trials, Justice Robert H. Jackson wrote: "The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.”
But even as they ARE being repeated, as usual there is some opposition. In the early days were America's Frontline Doctors and then those who made 'The Great Barrington Declaration' now inching toward a million signatures. And then in July 2020 the convening of 'Germany’s Extra-Parliamentary Coronavirus Investigative Commission' (Nuremberg 2.0) which many considered even more weak and toothless than the first Nuremberg trials. But it was a beginning. The road to justice and perhaps even vengeance has to begin somewhere, and folks however are catching on.
And they are speaking out more strongly. 'Doctors for Covid Ethics' warned in Sep 2021: "The gravity of your deeds is now laid out before the world. For the sake of yourselves and your families, rise and respond. Or go down in history books in indelible shame and disgrace."
Ricardo Bossi of 'Australia One' stated in Sept 2021: "But if any remain silent in the face of an obvious attack on ...sovereignty they will have signed their own death warrants. Remember them...Remember their names and who they are. Remember what they said and what they did not say. Remember what they did and did not do..."
My best guess is that the fear of being remembered for a few hundred years as modern-day Nazi-like beings embodying true evil 'because they could' may be the only thing holding back the waves of evil circling the planet right now. There is, and will be a need for, modern-day Simon Wiesenthals to do the work that must be done and that authorities will not do.Governments lose interest, memories fade, actions are buried and after some time we can do it ALL OVER AGAIN.
It is my fervent belief that this time they will get it right. It is not just the movers and shakers who will be dealt with strongly, but this time those that said and did nothing. This time both perpetrators, and their silent supporters, will be caught by forces to be reckoned with: injured citizens and their survivors who are out for blood and this time they will deal with those 'social forces' for a very long time.
Well, we can always hope.
Glenda Gustin
Arizona, USA
October 2021