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Thanks, C(ecille B De)Ville -

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 18:22:08 +0000

Thanks, C(ecille B De)Ville - I actually read that when you posted it,
just didn't have anything to add - we all think we're doing right.
Had an angry skinhead bartender last night going on and on about
why the Americans knocked off Qaddafi to keep him from introducing
the African dinar, and it's all the Rothschilds' (read Jews') fault.
He'd started out seeming very drunk (was 3am or so when I went to the bar
at the beach for their last call) but friendly normal, and then some guy who actually knew and
lived with Arabs in Germany set him off on a long racist rant that I couldn't defuse,
so walked away leaving the 2 of them, waiting for the sound of blows or glass or...
that fortunately never came.
But yeah, everyone thinks they're doing right by their side. Sucks for those of us
who actually are.

Very thoughtful piece, as

CVille Dem — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:05:20 +0000

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Very thoughtful piece, as usual, but depressing as hell.

Edited to add:

Part of an interview with the last living Nuremberg prosecutor:

Lesley Stahl: Did you meet a lot of people who perpetrated war crimes who would otherwise in your opinion have been just a normal, upstanding citizen?

"War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people."

Benjamin Ferencz: Of course, is my answer. These men would never have been murderers had it not been for the war. These were people who could quote Goethe, who loved Wagner, who were polite--

Lesley Stahl: What turns a man into a savage beast like that?

Benjamin Ferencz: He's not a savage. He's an intelligent, patriotic human being.

Lesley Stahl: He's a savage when he does the murder though.

Benjamin Ferencz: No. He's a patriotic human being acting in the interest of his country, in his mind.

Lesley Stahl: You don't think they turn into savages even for the act?

Benjamin Ferencz: Do you think the man who dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima was a savage? Now I will tell you something very profound, which I have learned after many years. War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.

So Ferencz has spent the rest of his life trying to deter war and war crimes by establishing an international court – like Nuremburg. He scored a victory when the international criminal court in The Hague was created in 1998. He delivered the closing argument in the court's first case.

the full article is here: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-the-last-nuremberg-prosecutor-alive-wan...

Flavius — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 17:43:54 +0000

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I'm reminded of the final line of a Henry Green novel. " And the next day they all went on the same".

Or less elegantly : "What else is new?"