Terrorist Anniversaries

This week commemorates three great anniversaries of terrorism.

Yesterday (Feb. 12) was the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Birthday. At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and some experts say the toll reached 700,000. William Wilberforce abolished slavery in Great Britain without killing anyone. But then, Lincoln's primary goal was not ending slavery.

Today (Feb. 13 -- actually, Feb. 12-14) is the anniversary of the Allied (U.S. and Great Britain) bombing of the capital of Saxony, an art city, “the Florence of the Elbe,” Dresden.

Doug Wilson draws the parallels and makes an interesting point about Ahmadinejad and Terrorism:

Yesterday (9/24/2007) I saw a talking head on television waxing indignant over Ahmadinejad's visit to New York. One of the things he was angry about was the fact this man, a terrorist, engaged in killing American soldiers, was able to come over here and say his bit.

We have to be careful not to let the passions of war run away with careful definitions. Admadinejad waging war on our soldiers is not terrorism. That is what enemy combatants do, they fight. To blow up an American armored vehicle is not terrorism. To shoot down an American heliocopter is not terrorism. It is war.

Now Admadinejad is a terrorist -- say a bunch of Iraqi civilians at a bus stop are blown up, civilians deliberately targeted in order to demoralize the opposition -- that is terrorism. If that is why he is being called a terrorist, then that is accurate, and be my guest. But this fellow on television was calling him a terrorist, it appeared, for no other reason than that he was fighting us.

But the problem with defining terrorism carefully this way is that it sometimes includes people we don't want included. When Lincoln let Sherman conduct his infamous march to the sea, what was that? When the Allies firebombed Dresden in the Second World War, what was that? According to Paul Johnson, in his magnificent book Modern Times, the bombing of Dresden was pointless carnage. Unless the point was to wage war directly on civilians in order to demoralize all of Germany -- but that makes it terrorism.

Finally, tomorrow (Feb. 14) is "Valentine's Day," which commemorates another act of state-sponsored terrorism: the execution of St. Valentine. Here is The Hidden History of VALENTINE'S DAY -- Murder and Empire.

The greatest terrorist organizations on the planet are those we call "governments."

The good news this week is that many conservatives are thinking seriously about not voting for anybody for President this November. The Right's leading lights are urging conservatives to reject McCain. Republican turnout in several primaries was only half that of Democrats. It's a good thing to vote for Nobody. Perhaps they'll come to the same conclusion in other races besides President:

http://NobodyForCongress.com

Why I Weep at All Military Parades

Here's an interesting article about the recent parade in Russia commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany by the Russian Army:

Why I Wept at the Russian Parade | Veterans Today

The author has fallen for the propaganda of the military parade.

Many people will agree that National Socialism (also known as Nazism -- "Nazi" is short for Nationalsozialismus, the ideology of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) was a great evil.

Many people will agree that International Socialism (also known as Communism, the ideology spread by Moscow) is evil.

A growing number of people around the world are coming to agree that "democracy" (also known as "freedom," "free enterprise," "free market," the ideology spread by those who call themselves a "Constitutional Republic") is also evil. Those who call it evil might also call it "crony capitalism," or "fascism." (It has very little to do with freedom and freed markets.)

There is growing concern about Russia and China working together to spread Communism. (Or whatever you want to call their form of "government.") Many nations have long been concerned with the United States spreading "democracy" in Iran, Vietnam, Iraq, and many other nations.

There is good reason to believe that the United States Federal Government is the most evil and most dangerous entity on the planet. "The enemy of mankind."

Thankfully, the United States is dying. It might be that the U.S. will ignite another world war just to protect its crumbling hegemony, but in the long run, the kind of imperialism and mass death promoted by the U.S. during the last 150 or so years cannot be maintained long into the 21st century.

World War II was a war against Christian civilization. Franklin Roosevelt, led by communists in the White House, brought the U.S. into the war to protect the spread of communism in Eastern Europe and Asia. The United States is responsible in large part for the casualties of the war itself (as many as 90 million) and the deaths caused by Communism in China (76 million). The carnage of two atomic bombs dropped by the U.S. was dwarfed by the massive Allied firebombing of Tokyo, Dresden, and other major cities.

No rational Christian can support World War II. Russia was not any better off materially, financially, or spiritually under Stalin than they would have been under Hitler. Good arguments can be made that Hitler could not have terrorized the Russian people from Germany as effectively as Stalin did from Moscow. Jesus expressly commanded His followers not to resist invasion and military occupation. More than a hundred million human beings died to make sure International Socialism prevailed over National Socialism. Private Property, including architecture and art representing centuries of human progress, produced and appreciated from the depths of the human heart and imagination, were destroyed on a massive scale. Again, to make sure International Socialism prevailed over National Socialism. This is truly a form of insanity, lunacy, madness. What word describes such lethal society-wide sociopathy as massive destruction over two obviously false antitheses? 

In Moscow, hundreds of thousands of Russians, many with portraits "of the estimated 27 to perhaps 30 million Soviet citizens who never returned alive from World War II" watched a parade of soldiers and weapons of mass destruction through the main boulevard in Moscow, and elsewhere throughout the nation. The soldiers of the Russian Army should have reached the same conclusion Muhammad Ali reached, when he decided to stay out of the Vietnam war and face prison rather than kill or be killed in a senseless war.

World War II was an "unnecessary war," to quote the title of Pat Buchanan's book. The parades in Russia celebrated the war rather than mourning it, and mourned the soldiers who fought it rather than forgive them their trespasses, and honor those who stayed home to raise their families. And the author of the article above seems also to have been "impressed" rather than depressed.

Jesus came to bring "Peace on Earth." In many ways, the world is more peaceful to day than it was before Jesus came. A huge percentage of human beings in the ancient world died violent deaths, whereas today over 7 billion people enjoy levels of peace and prosperity which the ancient world could not have imagined. Twelve disciples have changed the lives of billions of people and many nations.

But we have a great distance to go. The pro-military parade in Russia is taking us backward. Those who yearn for a "united" America, in solidarity with "the troops" and "proud" of "our government," are also taking us toward war and totalitarianism and away from freedom and peace.

We must "beat our swords into plowshares" (which some derisively call "pacifism"), to the point where we abolish the myth of legitimate aggression ("government," the absence of which some call "anarchism"), and trust in "Divine Providence" rather than government coercion. America once thought of herself as a nation "under God." Today this is ruled out as "Theocracy." The alternative is mass death under atheistic despotism.

Nagasaki, August 9, 1945

Sixty-two years ago, at 11:02 in the morning, the American B-29 bomber dropped a 10,200 pound plutonium bomb (nicknamed “Fat Man”) over the city of Nagasaki, a tourist destination, industrial center and sea-port in southwestern Japan with a population of about 230,000. The bomb exploded about 500 yards above Nagasaki, creating a fireball, a shockwave, and a massive burst of radiation. Some 74,000 civilians — about 1/3 of the population of Nagasaki — were burned alive, crushed to death by the shockwave, or sickened and died over the next few months due to severe radiation poisoning (the burning away of their internal organs by intense radiation) and cancer.

PHOTOGRAPHS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

This culminated a 6 month-long wave of bombings that killed nearly a million Japanese civilians, including the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima three days earlier, and the firebombing of Tokyo with nearly 2,000 tons of napalm bombs on March 9-10, 1945.

Japan had indicated a willingness to surrender and end World War II, but the U.S. demanded that Japan un-deify the emperor. "Fat Boy" thus became the most powerful missionary in the history of this once-Christian nation.

The crew of the B-29 that dropped the bomb were all Christians. Their target was the Urakami Cathedral, the oldest and largest Christian church in the Orient. Nagasaki was the oldest and most influential Christian community in Japan, having been founded by Francis Xaviar in 1550.

After killing nearly 2 million non-combatant civilians in Iraq, America the once-Christian nation has now succeeded in setting up an Islamic Theocracy there, governed by Islamic law. This because we didn't want Saddam Hussein to use "weapons of mass-destruction."

Beginning with Sherman's destructive march of terror through the South, continuing with the bombings of Dresden and Tokyo, the United States has perfected the use of "weapons of mass destruction," even apart from being the only nation to use atomic bombs.

Probably most Christians in the U.S. support the murder of civilians in Nagasaki and Iraq - to effect a change in religion. The United States is the greatest anti-Christian evangelist on earth.

We are no longer entitled to pray the popular song, "God Bless America."

The Point: Savage Ironies

War Crimes at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: The Untold Story by Gary G. Kohls

Enola Gay, Just War, and Mass Murder

Dulce Et Decorum Est » Nagasaki

Rad Geek People’s Daily 2005-08-09 – A day that will live in infamy

A Negotiated Surrender for Japan Was Another Alternative

US Radiation In Iraq Equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs

Green Left - Issues: Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Worst terror attacks in history

Official U.S. history of atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is more fiction than fact

Death From Above

Some Cheer, Some Cry, Many Die

Atomic Bomb may have Carried Hidden Agenda

Dropping the Bomb
"From at least January 1945, the many thousands of dead and wounded on both sides of the Pacific war must be counted as victims of the treacherous determination to extend the conflict in order to benefit the Soviet Union and use the bomb. Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and all who supported this perfidy must be held historically accountable. "

Iran and "the Bomb"

The Roe Revolution William Norman Grigg
In 1939, the Rockefeller Foundation — which continued financing the pro-Nazi labors of the American Eugenics Society — prepared for war with the Axis and its aftermath by financing a secret project called “Studies on American Interests in the War and the Peace.” Conducted by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on behalf of the U.S. State Department, this Rockefeller-funded initiative created the framework for what would become the United Nations. Among the studies prepared for the project was a paper by eugenicist Frank Notestein that called for “propaganda in favor of controlled fertility as an integral part of a public health program.”

This admonition was eagerly endorsed by Julian Huxley, the first director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In his 1947 book UNESCO: Its Purposes and Its Philosophy, Huxley declared, “though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that is now unthinkable may at least become thinkable.”

The horrors of World War II — the atrocities committed by Hitler’s Reich, as well as the indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations by both sides, culminating in the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — place Huxley’s statement in a chilling context. After all, what was “unthinkable” in the aftermath of Auschwitz and Hiroshima? Huxley explained that one of UNESCO’s “major tasks” would be to offer “a restatement of morality that shall be in harmony with modern knowledge and adapted to the fresh functions imposed on ethics by the world of today.” Rendered into plain English, UNESCO’s mandate was to eradicate the moral and ethical obstacles to the creation of the total state on a global scale. To this end, UNESCO and its allies began a propaganda barrage to indoctrinate the masses into believing that population was a “global problem” to be managed by a governing elite.

The Last American Missionary The New American

The “Other” September 11: Stimson, the Bomb, Bush and Iran: The Independent Institute

How We Bungled the Japanese Surrender By Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, USN (Ret.), Look Magazine, June 6, 1950