The title of my blog post is a quote from this news article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-second-most-dangerous-american/2018/03/23/90751d80-2ec6-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4_story.html?utm_term=.59d9f1b48237
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Democracy Post editor Christian Caryl says President Trump’s new national security adviser is more capable than other officials. That’s the problem.
Because John Bolton is five things President Trump is not — intelligent, educated, principled, articulate and experienced — and because of Bolton’s West Wing proximity to a president responsive to the most recent thought he has heard emanating from cable television or an employee, Bolton will soon be the second-most dangerous American. On April 9, he will be the first national security adviser who, upon taking up residence down the hall from the Oval Office, will be suggesting that the United States should seriously consider embarking on war crimes.
The first two charges against the major Nazi war criminals in the 1945-1946 Nuremberg trials concerned waging aggressive war. Emboldened by the success, as he still sees it, of America’s Iraq adventure that began 15 years ago this month, Bolton, for whom a trade war with many friends and foes is insufficiently stimulating, favors real wars against North Korea and Iran. Both have odious regimes, but neither can credibly be said to be threatening an imminent attack against the United States. Nevertheless, Bolton thinks bombing both might make the world safer. What could go wrong?
Much is made of the fact that Bolton is implacably hostile to strongman Vladimir Putin, whom the U.S. president, a weak person’s idea of a strong person, admires. And of the fact that the president has repeatedly execrated the invasion of Iraq that Bolton advocated. So, today among the uneducable, furrowed brows express puzzlement: How can the president square his convictions with Bolton’s? Let’s say this one more time: Trump. Has. No. Convictions.
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You can read about the death of Martin Luther King in this news article:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/03/us/mlk-memphis-what-if/index.html
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(CNN)It’s April 4, 1968, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. steps outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, and leans over the balcony.
The 9-11 attack seems to be back in the news.
I have written extensively about 9-11 on these blog posts: https://furtherglory.wordpress.com/tag/911-attack/
The claim is made today that 9-11 was an attack done by a foreign government. You never hear today that 9-11 was done by one man — the owner of the buildings.
How many times have you heard someone recently say “after 9-11”?
This phrase is often in the news now. It is frequently mentioned in the context of an attack by a foreign government. Why did a foreign government attack America on that day, but never again?
I wrote about the 9-11 attack on this blog post: https://furtherglory.wordpress.com/2016/09/10/memories-of-9-11/
There is no need to waste your time reading what I write. This is “just some random blog”, a phrase that was used by Molly Hemingway on TV this morning.
So who is Molly Hemingway and why is she qualified to judge a blog?
Molly Hemingway is just some random person who has a famous name, so she thinks that she has the right to insult random bloggers.
Is there evidence that Hillary cheated during the election and lost?
Is there evidence that The Donald cheated and won?
I’m going to go with “cheaters always win” because The Donald won — with the help of Russia.
You can read about it in this news article: http://www.wnd.com/2018/02/theres-enough-to-arrest-hillary-now/
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WASHINGTON – There is enough evidence now to arrest former Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and send her to jail, says the president of a well-known government-watchdog organization.
But Americans shouldn’t hold their breath, because federal authorities are too consumed with politics, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in an exclusive interview with WND.
“As far as I am concerned, there is enough to arrest Hillary Clinton now,” Fitton said bluntly. “And I just want the Justice Department to finally start enforcing the rule of law.”
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I recall that Hillary had a private e-mail server, which is not against the law. I had a private e-mail server at one time, and I am not in prison.
The news article continues with this quote:
Still, neither Clinton nor former FBI Director James Comey – who exonerated Clinton during the investigation of her private email server before even interviewing her – are likely to face indictment, despite their brazen disregard for the law, Fitton suspects.
Indictment is “unlikely given the way that Washington is being run these days, certainly out of the Justice Department and FBI – they are more interested in protecting Hillary and Comey rather than enforcing the rule of law,” he said.
In the meantime – while it appears Clinton, for now, will not be prosecuted – President Trump is being targeted by U.S. intelligence agencies “as if he doesn’t deserve protections of the law,” Fitton said.
“The concern is that no one is above the law – right now, it’s like the Obama-Clinton gang are above the law. On the other hand, no one should be below the law or below any protection of the law,” he said. “President Trump is being treated as if he doesn’t deserve the protections of the law. You can do whatever you want against him if you are the FBI and the Justice Department, it doesn’t matter.
“That’s got to stop,” he said.
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So, this news article, implies that Trump broke the law. I believe that the Russians helped Trump to win. I don’t think that Hillary broke the law. It is not against the law to have a private e-mail server.
You can read about Jedwabne in this recent news article:
JEDWABNE, Poland — The Jews who survived the axes were burned alive in a barn on the outskirts of town. The Germans had just recaptured the area from the Soviets, but it was not the Germans who bolted the doors, poured the gasoline and lit the fire.
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The Germans were blamed for this crime, which they did not commit.
Update: Read this recent article to learn more about the Africans who were brought to American and sold as slaves: https://www.splcenter.org/tt-landing-nation
The article, cited above, does not mention that the Africans who were brought to America were already slaves. This fact is not known today.
Continue reading my original article.
Note that I did not write that my neighbor was an African-American man. No, he had been brought to America straight from Africa. He had been born a slave in Africa. His skin was actually black, not brown.
He lived in a house that was next door to my house, although we each had a garden in the space between our houses.
This man’s wife was nearly white. She could have passed for white if she had used some cream rinse on her hair. When I was a child, she worked in our house as a maid. She told us about the background of her husband. One thing that she didn’t tell us is that her African husband could speak perfect English which he had learned when he was a slave.
Both of our houses were very close to the railroad tracks that ran past our property. When a freight train would go by, there would be pieces of coal that fell off the train. I would run outside with a bucket and pick up the pieces of coal. My black nieghbor also ran out to pick up the coal, but when he saw me, he would run away.
I would take some coal from my bucket and put it on the ground near him. Then I would say “for you.” He would approach very slowly and pick up a piece of coal; then he would run away.
I would sometimes walk past his house, on my way to visit my friends. When he would see me coming, he would run inside.
I talked to his wife and asked her why he was afraid. She said that he had been treated very badly by white people when he was a slave in Africa. I told her to tell him that no one would treat him badly now — this man was 6 foot 6, and very muscular.
After that, the next time that I walked past his house, I spoke to him and said “May I join you, and sit with you on your porch?” He appeared to be shocked and scared to death, but he motioned to me to come up on the porch and sit beside him.
After that, I sat with him many times, and then one day, I asked him if he would go for a walk with me. We walked down the main street of the town where we lived. I held his hand and tried to reassure him.
We started walking together down the main street of our town, and then one day, I took him to see the town jail, which was a small brick building. I told him that this was where white people would be locked up if they hurt him. He was completely shocked. He had no idea that white people would be punished for hurting a black man.
Long story short: he eventually got to the point that he would walk through the town by himself and greet the people that he met.
One important point here is that the black people who were brought here by slave traders were already slaves in Africa. The free Africans brought the slaves down to the ships and sold them to the slave traders.
I am now 85 years old — this was way back in the dim past.
In the comments section of my blog, someone asked if the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps had toilet paper to wipe their ass after shitting.
Good question. I know the answer to this question. When I went to visit the location of the former Majdanek concentration camp, there were signs that pointed to the toilets, which were claimed to have been there when the camp was filled with prisoners.
Dome at Majdanek camp
After I visited the former Majanek camp, I wrote the following on my website:
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Also to the left, as you face the dome, is the very inappropriate location of the toilets, which are underground but have air vents sticking up, that look like some weird sculpture. The first thing that the tour guides explain to Americans is the toilet etiquette in Poland. In many places, including the camp at Majdanek, one must pay the attendant on duty to use the toilets. Bring your own toilet paper because there is usually none available, even though the charges are supposed to pay for the cost of the paper. The toilets are for both sexes and there is no door on the men’s facility. When I visited the camp, the toilets were unbelievably filthy, just like at the Auschwitz II camp at Birkenau.
The photograph above shows the Mausoleum. To the right of it is located the reconstructed crematorium building. Standing on this spot, you have a panoramic view of the camp below you. Behind the Mausoleum are new modern apartment houses, their balconies painted red, yellow and blue, resembling buildings made with children’s colorful building blocks.
As you are standing in front of the Mausoleum facing the camp area, to the left there are more apartment buildings in the city of Lublin. To the right, as you face the camp area, is Lublin’s main Catholic cemetery which borders the camp; this cemetery was being used when the concentration camp was in operation.
There are noisy black crows flying overhead, which the tour guide says are always present here, as if to give further warning to visitors.
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Don’t ever say “Polish death camp” because you might go to prison for making this mistake.
To be correct, you must say “Nazi death camp in Poland” or you could say “German death camp in Poland.”
My photo of a fence at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp
You can read all about it in this recent news article: http://www.history.com/news/poland-holocaust-law-death-camps
The following quote is from the news article:
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Auschwitz. Treblinka. The Warsaw Ghetto. During World War II, Poland became the epicenter of the Nazis’ crimes—but soon, implying that those crimes were committed by the Polish state will itself be a crime. A controversial new law in Poland makes it illegal to accuse the nation of being complicit with Nazi crimes like the Holocaust. It also outlaws the phrase “Polish death camps.” Both are punishable by prison sentences of up to three years.
The law has provoked an academic and diplomatic firestorm, drawing criticism from historians and rebukes from people like Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who said the law “adversely affects freedom of speech and academic inquiry.” Israel’s memorial to Holocaust victims, Yad Vashem, called the legislation “liable to blur the historical truths regarding the assistance the Germans received from the Polish population during the Holocaust.”
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Did the Germans receive assistance from the Polish population during the Holocaust? I believe that they did, but the Polish people now deny it.
When I went to Poland for the first time, I went to a book store to buy a book on this subject as soon as I arrived. The woman in the book store told me that the Polish people were not to blame; only the Germans were bad. Why did she volunteer this information? I interpreted this to mean that she knew perfectly well that the Polish people wanted to get rid of the Jews, but she denied it.
You can read the history of the Auschwitz camp on my website at http://www.scrapbookpages.com/AuschwitzScrapbook/History/Articles/Birkenau01.html
