I stopped reading pup's posts awhile back. It's all cut and paste. Old news and frequently wrong news. Very little food for thought. Still read the replies to his posts though. Chris's recent correction was accurate and amusing.
dj On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Slip Disc<[email protected]> wrote: > > New thoughts?? > > Currently President George W. Bush is carrying out a fiasco in Iraq > that is.............blah blah blah > > Currently?? You call this new thought?? Bush hasn't been President > for over 6 months. > > Do you just copy and paste without reading the content? > > Time for puppy to wake up? > > > > > > On Jul 23, 10:53 am, puppy <[email protected]> wrote: >> Tragedies Great and Small >> >> Here are some new thoughts: Please comment. >> >> Its been estimated that 160 million people perished in the wars, >> genocide's and starvation in the last century. It was the most >> disastrous century in the history of mankind, despite the introduction >> of democracy. A vast majority of these catastrophes were cause by >> dictators, and political men who were suspected of being mentally >> incapacitated, cognitive impaired and had dangerous demented >> intentions. They were the ones who, while invoking the name of God >> and Nation, gave orders to the military. Who being immune from the >> human emotions of guilt, would carry out the orders of the state >> without question. “I was just following orders” (of the state) was >> the plea of military war criminals. Claiming protection under this >> point of informal international code of military justice and conduct. >> One of these military principals-who gave the orders-was Sir >> Douglas, 1st Earl, Viscount Dawick, Baron Haig of Bemersyde, an ample >> titled royalty and a graduate of Sandhurst, a British military >> academy. In a painting, by John Singer Sergeant, Sir Douglas Haig >> is in uniform and has the artificial pose and the aloof look of >> English aristocracy class. >> Haig was the Commander in Chief of the British forces at the two >> battles of The Somme, in France during World War Two. Where 420,00 >> British troops were needlessly slaughter in battles that ended in a >> stalemates. Neither the Germans, the British and the French could >> claim victory. >> After the First World War a French psychologist wrote a >> psychological study of the leaders of Germany, France, Italy and the >> United Kingdom- the main adversaries of World War One-and found that >> they: the leaders, had exhibited the mental symptoms of psychotics >> and sociopaths. His study showed the leaders had the classic symptoms >> of megalomaniacs i.e. obsessed with their own power; and omnipotence >> i.e. believing they were able to do anything. It was the politicians >> who gave orders to military men such as Sir Douglas Haig who carried >> them out without question, moral culpability or human >> sentiments. >> Intermingling with the greater tragedies and atrocities were the >> multitudes of smaller tragedies involving hapless and innocent >> civilians caught in the tides of war, the genocide's, and the >> starvation of the last century. They were the salt of the earth. >> They had families. They loved and were belove. There deaths almost >> past unnoticed are being remembered in this article. >> Howard Fast, a former communist, humanist and pacifist writer >> traveled across India during World War Two and when his the train >> stopped at a remote station. Fast got out and strolled around where, >> he noticed, about thirty yards from the station, a tribe of small >> people were huddled together on a bit of empty ground. The men were >> no taller than five feet and the women were a few inches less. The >> men wore string loin cloths, the women some sort of bark skirts. The >> children were naked. The men carried spears with fire harden points. >> and small hide covered shields. Who were they?, Fast thought. >> Two uniform station attendants had appointed themselves as guards >> for this strange tribe, told him that they had come down from the >> hills because the game was gone and somehow heard that there was a >> thing (the train} that would take them somewhere, else where-all of >> this understood from sign language. No one knew a word of their >> language: no one knew who they were and where they came from or what >> their circumstances had been. >> They were rather beautiful people. with fine features, pale >> brownish skins, and on their faces expressions of heartbreaking >> hopelessness, all of them pressed together, clinging to each other. >> The indian station attendance had found some rice and fruit for them >> but not enough to keep them alive. >> And when Fast got ot Calcutta he wrote, “After seeing the great >> crowds of the poor and suffering masses...and the people so gentle, >> warm, so long suffering. No one comes in contact with the improvised >> and starving indians with sensing that knowledge of suffering.” >> In yet another enormous crime against hapless and innocent people >> was committed by the political leadership (not the people) of the >> United Kingdom. Who in 1944, near the end of World War Two, fearing >> the Assamese and Bengalese in countries to the west of India and >> bordering on Burma, might welcome the Japanese-who were close to >> victory in Burma- cornered the rice market with the collaboration of >> Muslim rice dealers and stored the rice in warehouses. While 6 >> million Assamses and Begalses men, women and children starved to >> death. There is ample documentation of this atrocity in the files of >> Calcutta University to prove that British the colonial empire was >> involved in a in a crime so terrible that it rivaled Hitler’s >> Holocaust. >> In the Vietnam War-another fiasco by the politically demented- >> another small tragedy is told by an North Vietnamese soldier: “The >> worst memory I had was seeing a woman whose legs had been blown off by >> a shrapnel bomb. She was lying in the road alive. She was beyond >> pain, but she knew she was going to die, and I knew there was nothing >> I could do for her. She asked me to kiss her. I did. I will never >> forget that.” >> The catastrophes of the last century are written in the blood of >> millions and millions hapless and innocent people. Currently >> President George W. Bush is carrying out a fiasco in Iraq that is >> responsible for 3,600 dead Americans and at least 160,000 Iraqi men, >> women and children. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
