Kevin Craig for Congress: Hiroshima, August 6, 1945

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Hiroshima, August 6, 1945

The Communists won World War II.

The fascists in Italy lost.
The fascists in Japan lost. (Maybe.)
The fascists in Germany lost. (Maybe.)

But the Communists in Russia conquered Europe.
And the Communists in China conquered Asia.

And the Communists in Washington D.C. had a feeling of satisfaction unsurpassed since the days of the Sovietization of America during the "New Deal."

Sen. Joe McCarthy was right about Communists in the U.S. State Department, as M. Stanton Evans has shown, and even liberals are now admitting:

“Since then [the Rosenberg trial,] Soviet cables released as part of the Venona Project show that Communist espionage in the United States, long dismissed by the Rosenbergs’ defenders, actually occurred, and that Julius was an atomic spy.”

The mass murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent non-combatant civilians in Hiroshima on this day in 1945 was preceeded by the mass murder of millions in the Soviet Union, and followed by the mass murder of millions in China.

Some still believe that the nuclear annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was necessary to prevent the loss of an equal number of U.S. troops who would have "had to" invade Asia to eliminate the Japanese obstacle to Communist domination there. And of course we "had to" be at war with Japan because they attacked Pearl Harbor, which could not have possibly been avoided, and had absolutely nothing to do with Roosevelt's policies toward Japan. (NOT!)

The Big Picture

The original "American Dream" was that of every American dwelling safely under his own "Vine and Fig Tree." But this can only be the result of our beating our "swords into plowshares."

The United States is increasingly perceived around the world as a heavily-armed bully. Nothing could be clearer from the Old Testament prophets than that God judges bullies. God takes down empires that think they're gods.

Even now, the United States is committing new Hiroshimas around the world. U.S. use of depleted uranium weapons will kill an amount in the Middle East equal to Hiroshima's toll.

Can "We the People" beat U.S. swords into plowshares?

There are doubts that the United States government responds to the democratic voice of "the People" any more.

But there are also doubts that a lethargic and apathetic population wants to endanger their SUV's and video games by speaking out loud enough for the IRS to hear.

And there can be no doubt that if we want the government to hear "the People," each of us as individuals must first beat our own swords into plowshares, before we can speak to the government. Each of us must be willing to work rather than vote for the plundering of others. Each of us must be willing to forgive rather than seek vengeance. Only then can we effectively demand that the government beat its swords into plowshares.

Of course, one of the most effective ways to purge ourselves of violence is to cut the patriotic ties we have had with government violence and vengeance. Perhaps our own personal disarmament begins with publicly affirming that we disassociate ourselves from U.S. imperialism and genocide.

Perhaps this Hiroshima Day will begin your own personal transformation, which will fuel the restoration of America to a land of "Liberty Under God."

Here are a few resources for further study:

Dropping the Bomb « The New American « cover

On the Atomic Bombings of Japan I « Vox Nova

Chris Floyd Online - Living Death: The Eternal Now of Hiroshima

John Pilger: The lessons that should be learnt from Hiroshima The Guardian

Scaring Us Toward Global Government « The New American

For more than five decades, foreboding fear of death and destruction has been exploited to further the drive for world government. The principle is simple enough: Individuals become more inclined, sometimes even eager, to surrender freedom, resources, and national sovereignty once they have been persuaded that the alternative is suffering or annihilation.

From the bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II through the end of the "Cold War" -- during which the "free" West and the communist East were portrayed as nuclear-armed antagonists prepared to unleash an apocalyptic nuclear conflict -- the false alternatives offered by internationalists were world government or nuclear destruction. Unless the United States and other nations divested themselves of nuclear weapons and submitted to a centralized "peacekeeping" authority, the nuclear "arms race" would inevitably lead to the destruction of humanity.

Laray Polk: Tongues of Fire, Plains of Grace

Iron Ink - McAtee on Hanson on Buchanan

Warring as Lying Throughout American History

Radioactive Ammunition Fired in Middle East May Claim More Lives Than Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Conservative Revisionists and Hiroshima - by Leo Maley III and Uday Mohan

Empire and Nuclear Weapons - by Joseph Gerson

Remembering Hiroshima - by David R. Henderson

Hiroshima, the Top News Story That Wasn't - by Humberto Márquez

Hiroshima or Wheat Smut? - by Gordon Prather

Hiroshima Under the Shadow of 9/11 - by Praful Bidwai

Lessons from Hiroshima, 60 Years Later - by Walter Cronkite

Remembering Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Dark Cloud Over Civilization - by Douglas Mattern

Hillary, Hiroshima, and Hubris - by Justin Raimondo

HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR « Why Americans are Barbarians

William Norman Grigg writes:

Rev. Jeremiah Wright has on occasion displayed a gift for anti-social truth-telling. His notorious and much-misrepresented post-9/11 sermon did not minimize the horror inflicted on our nation that day, or the blood guilt of those responsible for the atrocities.

Speaking with commendable courage and mesmerizing passion, Wright described the long train of abuses and outrages committed by the government that rules us -- from the Trail of Tears through Hiroshima and Nagasaki, from Wounded Knee to the first Gulf War -- and asserted that the criminal violence of our rulers did much to sow and nourish what we harvested on that terrible Tuesday morning.