Private Louis Till was convicted of raping two Italian women, Benni Lucrezia and Frieda Mari, and of killing a third, Anna Nanchi.

https://books.google.com/books?id=4OFSSHidzT0C&pg=PA117

And he had the same kinds of complicated forces in his life that Louis Till had.

These complicated (mysterious!) forces are quite capable of overcoming personal agency, yes. Thanks for asking.

Louis, enraged, choked her to unconsciousness, to which she responded by throwing scalding water at him.

Well there’s a complicated force, but don’t laugh. It’s actually hard to pull off when you’re unconscious.

It’s always Emmett Till O’clock somewhere!

That’s really quite brilliant.

Steve, your first foreign trip as president in 2029 will be to Italy. You can apologize for Louis Till and tearing down Columbus statues.

After all, more blacks than whites per capita were convicted of raping European women during WWII,

Of course.

To get a conviction of rape is pretty hard, even then.
You’d need to convince the local jury (or easier the military board) that :
a) the woman really had said no
b) the man might actually do such a thing,
c) the testimony of the man (and perhaps his colleagues) was worth little

All of which would be much much easier for a black accused than a white accused.

Here in Britain American white troops (Over-sexed, Over Paid and Over Here) were widely presumed to be seducing Brits with husbands away fighting. Many women were said to wear “American knickers” (one yank and they are off).

But even though Black Americans were largely surprised at how welcoming the Brits were, it would be very very difficult to persuade a 1940s jury that a woman had consented to sex with a black man.

Just a thought: I don’t think that bringing up Louis Till is quite the ‘gotcha’ people in our circles seem to think it is. It strikes me as a bit of a whataboutism.

Lol, Mr. Sailer is just as obsessed with Emmitt Til as our “elites”. Now, moving on….

“Patriotic Americans don’t like to think about it, but the Army scraped the bottom of the barrel pretty hard in recruiting during World War II.”

We do think about it, to the contrary. Perhaps you should do some NOTICING yourself rather than make unsubstantiated statements under the guise that it is common knowledge.

https://history.army.mil/events/ahts2015/presentations/seminar6/sem6_MarkFry_text_ImpactOfEdLevels.pdf

—One of the ways the war department gathered information on a recruit was to look at his occupation in civilian life. If he was engaged as a skilled workman he mostly likely possessed a higher intelligence level, greater initiative, and a sense of responsibility along with a superior physique then men who were not. This was not an end all be all method of determining a man’s eventual assignment, it merely gave the Army an indication as to how well he could adapt to his new role as a combat soldier and leader. Even those with a superior intelligence would have to learn their military job in the Army as there were few crossover occupations from civilian life in the army.

Despite the fact that there was a war on and the immediate need for manpower was great, the Army understood that it needed to look to the future as well. If it drafted all the young men allowed by the Selective Service and Training Act of 1940 it would eventually run out of trained men capable of performing the technical jobs the Army and eventually the nation would need in the future.

In order to preserve enough men with these skills, the Army created a special training program in which approximately 150,000 young men could be trained for the future in fields such as medicine and other technical fields. The Army’s would be called the Army Specialized Training Program or ASTP. The goal of these programs was to provide the military with specially trained technicians that the Colleges could train more rapidly and efficiently than the Army could within its own organization.

One of the biggest opponents of the program was Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair. Gen. McNair felt the army needed men “with the brains and battlefield skills to defeat the more experienced German and Japanese Armies.”Not being against having men with additional education, but he saw no reason why it provided a better soldier when it came to combat effectiveness.

The plan was officially announced in the New York Times on December 18, 1942 and gave a description of all that the program would entail. Throughout the winter and spring of 1943 the Army worked diligently to locate and acquire the necessary university and college support for the program. In the spring, more than three hundred colleges and Universities welcomed on campus the nearly 150,000 young men beginning their training. The ASTP term was divided into twelve-week terms with a week off between terms; and offered in two phases, a basic and an advanced. The basic phase covered what a college or university student would cover in the first year and a half of college in three sessions over nine months, while the advanced phase covered from the point the basic phase left off until the student was at a level of expertise “commensurate with the Army’s needs.” The one deviation was in the medical field, where medical, dental, and veterinary students participated in accelerated courses approved by their respective professional educating associations.

In order to be considered for ASTP, the recruit must meet a series of criteria. One he must have a high school diploma. Two, he must have scored an 110 or higher on the AGCT. This was the same threshold set for entrance to Officer Candidate school (OCS), although this score was later changed to 115 for the ASTP. Three, he must have completed basic training. For older men who might have already attended some college, the criteria were slightly different. They must have had completed at least one year of college and had “substantial background” in a foreign language or a year of mathematics, physics, or biology. For those with more than three years of college they must have majored in pre-dentistry, pre-medicine, or engineering, or “substantial background” in one or more foreign languages.—

The ASTP was a fascinating aspect of WW2. The termination of most of the programme and the sending of its participants to US military units, mostly in Europe, resulted in an influx of relatively intelligent soldiers into combat in the latter part of 1944. One of those was Kurt Vonnegut, captured at the Bulge in December 1944.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Specialized_Training_Program

https://twitter.com/goatpurple1/status/1564218841512550400

“Patriotic Americans don’t like to think about it, but the Army scraped the bottom of the barrel pretty hard in recruiting during World War II.”

Hey iSteve, that’s the Greatest Generation™ yer talking about. Aren’t you a genetic/iq/race realist? Were the 400,000 US military deaths during WWII (plus injuries sever enough to remove the individual from the gene pool) net eugenic or disgenic?

Emmett Till got what he deserved…so did his father…

Why do you continue to watch NFL TYRONE BALL you Cucks? You are outsourcing your Manhood…

In the discussion part of the Wikipedia article on the ASTP, a former PFC, Marvin Shar, mentions not being able to get into the US Army at first because his eyesight was bad, but later he did as they relaxed the standards in 1944. There was a similar process for potential air gunners in the US Army Air Force. Colour blindness did not seem to matter, according to one of them cited in Tail End Charlies, a book about the bomber war of 1944-5. He said they were shown balls of coloured wool but would get some fairly strong hints like “You know that’s not the red one.”
However, the USA did not send penal units into combat, unlike the Germans and the Soviets, and did not need to resort to drafting the very old and the very young into anything like the Volkssturm.

a judge forced Till to choose between enlistment in the Army and imprisonment. Choosing the former, he enlisted in 1943.

Yes, I am sure this is still going on. We had a half dozen “jail or Army cook school” POC’s from St. Louis in my Basic Training company in 1969.

They partied all night in the latrine and slept through many classes in the daytime. Though none missed Mess Call.

American servicemen committed war crimes in WW2, but to be fair, they were a lot less rapey than, say, Soviet or Japanese soldiers (to take the two worst). And I think the fact that the American military was significantly more willing to prosecute its own men rather than trying to hush it all up was the primary reason. Not to say that Americans didn’t try to hush it up sometimes, or that Japanese and Soviet authorities never prosecuted their own troops for rape. The Americans just disciplined their troops for sex crimes a lot more consistently.

Japanese and Soviet soldiers were subject to more brutal treatment by their own officers, and that probably played its part. I do think naive US soldiers tended, all things being equal, to be more decent than other soldiery, and less prepared to countenance cold-blooded mass reprisals (including rape) against civilians. But all things weren’t equal, so I still think the basic deterrent effect of knowing you’d get hanged if you were caught was probably the most important factor.

It’s do-able, that bellend Tony Blair apologised for the potato famine!

30+ years seems like a long sentence for a 16 y.o. Did he eat the guy afterwards? Is he out now?

Funny how both Tills achieved a sort of immortality. Louis, as well as being begetter of the great Emmett, merits a mention in Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos: “Till was hung yesterday/for murder and rape with trimmings.”

The UK has Steven Lawrence, “The Murder that Changed a Nation”.

What they mean by ‘changed’ is that they threw out the double jeopardy law.

The stakes around these black martyrs are high. Centuries of jurisprudence thrown under a bus to reach the ultimate goal: exemplary punishment for Whites, to ‘prove’ to the rainbow coalition that the government and corporations are in solidarity with them.

Nothing was ever done to Lazar Kaganovich, a Devil who helped orchestrate the systematic starvation of MILLIONS in the Holodomor. Kaganovich lived to be nearly 100 years old. Nope, not a single world leader had the sack to apprehend an elderly Jewish mass murderer to stand trial for the murders of millions of Ukrainians and others.

Millions of German women AND girls and even boys were raped by “the good guys.” German civilians nailed crucifix style to barn doors, hung by their feet and whipped. Starved, forced to be corralled and left outdoors in the “Eisenhower Death Camps,” etc. And while Trump and others deport ancient, decrepit former “Nazis” as recently as a few years back ( how many people living during WWII as adults are alive? 2?), all those who tortured, raped German women and children, nailed them to barn doors went unpunished. Perhaps they were dealt with in the afterlife by Satan?

Patriotic Americans don’t like to think about it, but the Army scraped the bottom of the barrel pretty hard in recruiting during World War II….

Not surprisingly, civilian women in combat zones tended to pay the price of the U.S. Army’s low standards for recruits.

This had a strong bias towards the ground forces. The Army Air Force for example tended to get the best, things like piloting and maintenance had hard floors of competence. If a tank’s engine failed, that might doom it and the crew, but they wouldn’t just fall out of the sky.

We also seriously underestimated our requirements for ground forces and after the fighting got heavy after D-Day the replacement system didn’t work very well. Although that included redirecting a number of men who’d been or were being trained for something else to the ground forces.

On the other hand, while I couldn’t just now find when Louis Till commuted his crimes, Wikipedia emphasizes the short period between them and his execution, which took place a month after the German surrender in Italy. I don’t know much about the end of the Italian campaign, but looking just now Till might not have been all that far from the front lines. Didn’t find anything about his specialty, but something logistics related would be a good guess.

Not only is Wideman’s son a murderer but his brother is also:

https://www.duq.edu/news/releases/for-first-time-brothers-robert-wideman-author-john-edgar-wideman-to-publicly-discuss-controversial-homicide-case-

His brother, Robert “Faruq” Wideman, finally got out of prison after 44 years in 2019. Faruq sought a new trial on the dubious grounds that his victim’s family had sued the hospital for malpractice after he died, thus “proving” that it was the hospital that killed him and not the bullet wounds that were inflicted in the robbery in which Faruq participated. This and 6 other appeals didn’t work but PA’s lib. Dem. governor commuted his sentence anyway. Faruq is now 71 so hopefully he is no longer a threat to society.

Wideman’s son Jacob appears to have a white phenotype, which maybe shows that blackness is more than skin deep. He committed murder when he was 16 but now he is a middle aged man of 52.

Jacob was attending a summer camp owned by his maternal grandmother in 1986. Part of the summer’s program was a tour of Western national parks. During a stop at Yellowstone, Jacob bought a knife. On the way to the Grand Canyon, the tour stopped for the night in Flagstaff, AZ. Eric Kane and Jacob were roommates in a hotel there. After Eric went to sleep, Jacob stabbed Eric twice in the chest, leaving him to bleed to death over the next several hours and then took the group’s car and \$3,000 in traveler’s checks and drove back to the East Coast.

So murder runs in the family. I wonder if Emmett Till would have raped or killed someone later in life?

John Edgar follows the common pattern of blacks who have broken out of the ghetto – he may have gotten out and joined the mainstream, even elite, world but parts of his family remained behind in the ghetto. Maybe the family’s genetic propensity toward violence was what put them in the ghetto in the 1st place?

My next door neighbor at one time was a black woman married to a white man. She had a very successful career as an executive recruiter after coming up the ranks in HR at a Fortune 100 company but she mentioned that her brother was a garbage man in New Haven, CT.

Another similar case is that of Robert Peace. Peace, the son of a convicted murderer, was an exceedingly intelligent young man and received a scholarship to Yale. After graduation, he taught school for a while at the private Catholic school that has given him his start, but at some point returned to his family profession of drug dealing in Newark and was murdered (presumably in a drug deal gone bad). His Yale roommate wrote a best selling book about his friend.

https://www.nj.com/news/2011/05/killed_in_apparent_drug-relate.html#:~:text=Aristide%20Economopoulos%2FThe%20Star%2DLedger,%22drug%2Dmotivated%22%20shooting.

Joe “didn’t know” about the FBI raid but he remembers 1955 like it was yesterday

On the other hand, while I couldn’t just now find when Louis Till commuted his crimes, Wikipedia emphasizes the short period between them and his execution, which took place a month after the German surrender in Italy. I don’t know much about the end of the Italian campaign, but looking just now Till might not have been all that far from the front lines. Didn’t find anything about his specialty, but something logistics related would be a good guess.

Top item agenda for the Harris administration will be a Louis Till commutation and apology. Maybe even a new federal holiday.

Dead? I didn’t know he was sick!

Till committed his crimes on June 27 and 28, 1944 and was executed 1 year later on July 2, 1945. Nowadays it take decades between crime and execution but in those days I would say that a year was rather a long time.

Here is a shorter version of Wideman’s book length account:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48989/black-and-white-case/

We also seriously underestimated our requirements for ground forces and after the fighting got heavy after D-Day the replacement system didn’t work very well. Although that included redirecting a number of men who’d been or were being trained for something else to the ground forces.

This is going on right now with the Russian Army in Ukraine (and to some extent with the Ukrainian Army also) . Combat (esp. WWI/WWII style combat which is basically what the Russians have been doing and especially offense which requires more manpower than defense) really chews thru the infantry and so you need a LOT of replacements. After a while you will take any warm body whether they are properly trained or suited to the role. Since the people you are sending are not well trained or suited and are often thrown together in poorly trained units that have not drilled together and which have weak leadership, they often don’t last very long at the front either which leads to a vicious cycle where you take even less qualified people. After some advances in Luhansk in early July, the Russia offensive appears to have stalled (perhaps in part for this reason) and the lines have moved very little since then. Or perhaps it is a gesture of Russian “good will”: on 24 August 2022, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told the Shanghai Cooperation Organization that Russia was deliberately slowing the pace of its military campaign in Ukraine, driven by the need to reduce civilian casualties. But I doubt it.

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 26 August 2022

Find out more about the UK government's response: https://t.co/InVVkio2XL

🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/OvxTQAfC32

— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) August 26, 2022

Till Sr. was with the Transport Corps. as you speculated. Most colored troops (the Army was still segregated during WWII – the US Army was always disproportionately Southern since the days of George Washington and followed Southern folkways) were assigned to logistics (truck driving, loading ships, etc.) because attempts at using them in combat during WWI had proven to be disastrous – if you assign blacks to hold a certain part of a line and they break and run then the entire line is endangered.

Patriotic Americans don’t like to think about it, but the Army scraped the bottom of the barrel pretty hard in recruiting during World War II.

Wish it was only “during World War II.” Rapes and murders by American soldiers in bases in Europe and Asia continue to happen to this day, and there isn’t even a war going on.

Just the other day a drunk female American soldier ran over and killed a 15-year old Italian boy.

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-american-soldier-pordenone-crash.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-soldier-was-way-over-alcohol-limit-when-she-fatally-struck-group-of-kids-cops-say

And a rape years ago in Japan:

https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/01/world/asia/japan-u-s-rape-sentencing/index.html

The story of the ASTP is very interesting and in fact is related to “scraping the bottom of the barrel” but not in the way that you say. Implicit in the ASTP was the Army’s recognition (at least some parts of the Army) that if you sent the flower of the nation’s youth to their deaths in combat you would be crippling America’s future potential – better to send the Louis Tills of America, whose loss would be no great loss. European civilization has never really recovered from the losses of WWI (and II) and America’s post WWII (dubious) intellectual ascendancy was in part driven by the fact that in the land of the blind, one eyed men are kings. So the ASTP was intended to spare some of the more promising youth (not so much for the postwar world, but because of the Army’s understanding that in a protracted war we would also run out of combat necessary doctors, etc. unless we kept training up more). At the same time, the Army was glad to take folks like Till Sr. who were otherwise headed to prison because they needed lots of warm bodies for combat and logistics roles.

My late father in law was drafted into the infantry in WWII despite having a job at the Frankford Arsenal where he had been working on designing machine guns for aircraft, because of this need for warm bodies. I guess they figured that they could get some old guy who was beyond draft age or disabled to work at the Arsenal instead, while he was more needed at the front.

He was sent to a unit that was slated for the invasion of the Pacific. As an experiment, this unit was supposed to build their own camp in the jungle and as practice for this, they were sent to build their own camp in North Carolina – this probably also save the Army \$ vs. hiring contractors. Conditions in this camp were rather primitive. While there, my FIL was befriended by the camp’s Protestant chaplain (despite the fact that my FIL was Jewish/atheist) on the basis that he and the chaplain were among the few people there who could read without moving their lips. The chaplain tried to convince him to go to Officer Candidate School because of his extremely high score on the AGCT, the highest that the chaplain had ever seen (my FIL later became a mechanical engineer and a business executive – the president of a large truck trailer manufacturer. He designed the corner fixture which is now a part of every single shipping container on earth.) But my FIL knew that the casualty rate among 1st lieutenants was exceptionally high and he declined.

My FIL had always suffered from asthma (in those days there were few effective medications). One day his toothless sergeant ordered him to sweep out a dusty cabin. Of course in those days there was no such thing as a dust mask or respirator. He told the sergeant that he had asthma and this assignment would surely put him in the hospital. The sarge accused him of malingering and ordered him to sweep anyway. Sure enough this put him in the hospital and was his ticket out of the Army.

My next door neighbor at one time was a black woman married to a white man. She had a very successful career as an executive recruiter after coming up the ranks in HR at a Fortune 100 company but she mentioned that her brother was a garbage man in New Haven, CT.

Your brain can’t seem to distinguish between people who have ordinary hourly jobs and people who stab others to death.

While we’re at it, even in the slums > 90% of the men and 98% of the women will get from one end of this life to the other without killing someone.

In the seventies, as the war was ending, I was the chief enlisted assistant to the psychiatrist for an infantry division. One of our duties was to psychologically evaluate soldiers who were being discharged for disciplinary reasons.

Commonly, the “exit interview” I conducted with these incorrigibles included an exchange of this nature:

Q. So, why did you enlist in the Army?
A. Well, the judge told me that I’d better have signed up by my next court date, or he’d send me me to jail.

OT — Great Replacement is a racist conspiracy theory, but also you deserve it, and also here’s literal Great Replacement propaganda.
https://www.netflix.com/es-en/title/81312828

Part of the summer’s program was a tour of Western national parks.

Nice camp. Was he overcome by the white privilege on display?

attempts at using them in combat during WWI had proven to be disastrous – if you assign blacks to hold a certain part of a line and they break and run then the entire line is endangered.

Disastrous in Korea as well. Although there has been a concerted effort to clean up the history books in the subsequent decades. I wouldn’t be surprised if a big part of the Army’s celebrated integration effort was really a recognition that all-black units were not reliable in combat.

America should have stayed out of WW2 and even more so WW1. A great book on this is NO CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER.

Both American interventions were unnecessary and disastrous.

Pop singer Nico was supposedly raped by a black American serviceman when she was around 12 years old.

Her song “Secret Side” is said to be about the incident.

Breaking News! President Biden Reveals That Emmett Till Is Dead.

Perhaps sometime in the future no one will get this reference, but I, for one, am glad that it is still part of the zeitgeist.

If Emmett Till, subject of apparently the most egregious lynching in American history, was a sexual predator, then the typical lynchee must have been guilty of absolutely horrible crimes.

Another favorite axiom about the cultural life of the Armed Services: “Military music is to music as military law is to law.”

OT, Notting Hill Carnival, London

Someone thought this would be a great idea.

“Let’s use the roof as a stage”

I guess they just don’t make bus stop shelters like they used to 😂😂#NottingHill #NottingHillCarnival #gmb pic.twitter.com/54x3BBXqdU

— Linda (Mags) (@magsloveslife2) August 29, 2022

I think the overlooked story, one that should generate moral outrage is the rush to judgment on the summary execution of Louis Till. I see two lynchings, not one.

I don’t remember all of the details, but I vaguely recall her mentioning that the ghetto branch of her family had various run ins with the law. I don’t think murder was mentioned but some very large % of ghetto males have some sort of record of incarceration or are on probation, etc. And keep in mind that the clearance rate for most crimes is rather low. Sometimes they will catch a guy in the middle of stealing a catalytic converter and when they open the trunk of his car there are a bunch of other ones in there which may just be that evening’s harvest and sometimes the trail will lead back to a garage where there are hundreds, etc. The same is true for burglary, robbery, etc. A lot of black men have very “vibrant” youthful periods and then settle down and become ordinary blue collars zhlubs as they age.

Your brain can’t seem to distinguish that while some fairly high % of the black population works at one time or another, this doesn’t mean that the people who are working are also not committing crimes or have sons (and increasingly daughters) who are committing crimes. This is why have a high (or even significant) % of blue collar blacks in your neighborhood is a death knell for the white inhabitants – having them around as a group will make the neighborhood unlivable even if most of them are reasonably honest.

even in the slums > 90% of the men and 98% of the women will get from one end of this life to the other without killing someone.

Even in a city like Philly, only maybe 1 black in 1,000 will commit murder in any given year (although if you were to focus on say black men between age 16 to 39 the rate would be much higher). But this is still many times greater than the white homicide rate. It’s not just murder and shooting that makes the ghetto unlivable but all of the day to day crime – the graffiti and vandalism and minor theft , not to mention the armed robberies and car jackings, etc. Everyone becomes a crime victim eventually and many suffer repeatedly.

Last weekend I happened to visit an exceptionally white part of PA (Sullivan County PA is 96% white – you don’t need to go to Idaho to experience whiteness). One of the things that struck me was how much unguarded property there was – people left out boats and bikes, the unmanned farm stand had an honor box for payment, etc. I would bet that a lot of people there leave their houses unlocked and their car keys in the ignition too. It’s just assumed that people won’t take stuff that doesn’t belong to them. It really lifts a psychic burden if you don’t have to live with having to guard your stuff and yourself all the time due to having blacks in your area.

The UKMoD tweet reads like a teenage girl wrote it. Embarassing.

It really lifts a psychic burden if you don’t have to live with having to guard your stuff and yourself all the time due to having blacks in your area.

Plus they are noisy, why do they have to be so noisy?

It is worth noting on today’s “Till Breaking News” story that it is a commonplace authoritarian regime propaganda gimmick to take some low life criminal who was caught and/or executed or killed, and turn said (now safely dead) criminal into a fake Folk Hero.

Either as some “victim of injustice” or just because a suitable martyr is required.

While Till Jr. was the victim of an extra legal killing (still common in “the hood” for certain offenses) his father certainly wasn’t. Nor was Martyr Till innocent of misbehavior as his contemporaries appeared to believe.

If Till Jr. were White, no one would care. Most lynching victims in the old days were not black. Most were White offenders often taken from custody and hanged. Blacks probably were more at risk for this but it usually wasn’t racially motivated. Reading accounts of late 19th century Texas outlaws, and you find many bank robbers and shootists being lynched when caught by posses. None of these were black.

Cynical manipulation of the public over fake martyrs is now a Democrat Party thing. Having Pelosi’s Kapital Kops murder Ashley Babbit is not on their menu for martyrdom.

Private Louis Till was convicted of raping two Italian women, Benni Lucrezia and Frieda Mari, and of killing a third, Anna Nanchi.

Out here in the west, we have a group called “E Clampus Vitus”, which puts up little historical plaques here and there pertaining mostly to the history of the old west. The refer to themselves as “Clampers”

I’d like to see a similar type group put up plaques honoring these women wherever there is an Emmett Tell street of park. Set up a go fund me, I’ll kick in a benji…

After Eric went to sleep, Jacob stabbed Eric twice in the chest, leaving him to bleed to death over the next several hours and then took the group’s car and \$3,000 in traveler’s checks and drove back to the East Coast.

The very definition of a low-life… killing someone in their sleep…

The President should apologize to the Italian people for Louis Till’s crimes against the women of Italy.

It is sad that we inflicted this upon Europeans. (The French really owe them an apology.)

But then we were inflicting much much worse in order to win the war. And Europeans were–as they’d done in the first war–inflicting terrible fire and death upon each other.

Where we really owe the Europeans an apology is the terrible ideological stupidity of minoritarianism, diversity and immigrationism that we have propagandized and pushed and normalized since the War.

People get killed, maimed, raped, starved, stunted, traumatized during war. (War is bad.) But the survivors rebuild, couples get married and have children … the nation recovers.

But the damage American minoritarian ideology has inflicted can never be fully repaired, and may–if it keeps rolling along much longer–simply destroy Europe.

Vibrant. The word is vibrant. The vibrancy is especially potent while trying to sleep.

I recently read a book on America’s WWII campaign in North Africa. The author discusses prostitution and VD. Something like 30% of white soldiers in the theater contracted a venereal disease, while virtually 100% of the black soldiers did.

If Till Jr. were White, no one would care.

If he were White, the chorus would sing “Fuck around and find out.”

I don’t see why Black troops would be prosecuted when FDR and Churchill agreed to look the other way on rape by the Russians.

US troops were actually ordered to stand down.

Same thing happened in Afghanistan. They were supposed to look the other way if they found a local chief with a boy.

What’s next? Will Biden sign a Channon Christian/Christopher Newsome anti-carjacking, abduction, gang-rape, torture, mutilation, and murder Act? I doubt if he’s even heard of the Knoxville horror, which occurred in 2007 and was 100 times worse than the “lynching” of Emmet Till, or the Wichita massacre, which was 50 times worse than the murder of Till.

But these atrocities, of course, among the worst crimes in all of US and world history, weren’t driven by hate nor by “racism,” since only whites can be “racists” and racial “bigots” and “supremacists.”

When was the last white-on-black lynching? Sometime in the 1960s, I believe, and I’m sure the “victim” was ‘lynched” because he raped and/or murdered a white female, as was true in most lynchings.

But signing an “Anti-Lynching Act” in 2022 was exigent to prevent blacks from being lynched by whites today and in the future in a country in which blacks are 25-30 times more likely to murder whites than vice versa -to say nothing of the ratios for aggravated assaults, muggings, armed robberies, rapes, gang-rapes, etc.

It is sad that we inflicted this upon Europeans. (The French really owe them an apology.)

But then we were inflicting much much worse in order to win the war. And Europeans were–as they’d done in the first war–inflicting terrible fire and death upon each other.

Americans and French don’t owe anyone an apology.

It was a failed artist that claimed to be an anti-Communist and then carpet bombed Warsaw.

Hitler was just plain full of s–t.

Poles were anti-Communist and he decided to invade them first. Well after he broke the Munich agreement and took all of Czechoslovakia.

A real anti-Communist would have gone after the Soviet Union first. That is what the British conservatives wanted and Hitler made fools of them by breaking the agreement. It is a myth that he needed Poland to access the USSR. He could have launched his attack against the south without Poland. Would have caught Stalin before he built up his tank factories. Choking off Moscow from the Volgograd made sense.

Hitler planned on erasing Poland entirely. He planned on wiping out a Christian nation and they even discussed turning Warsaw into a lake. What a guy.

If the US didn’t get involved then there was the risk of Germany becoming a superpower and fighting the US in a bigger battle at a later date. There is no reason to assume Hitler ever would have stopped. He was addicted to war. Even if died a successor seeped in Nazism might have gone for the globe.

Gim, I picked up a used copy of “The Rape of Nanking” by Iris Chang at our library’s table sale. First thing I did was to tear out some of the photos, way to graphic brutality. It seems the rape and slaughter of the Chinese was sanctioned and encouraged, at least in this case. Japan has still not apologised for this atrocity, while the Germans have paid reparations for the Holocaust. Nice comment.

No, her surname was Zanchi. Anna Zanchi.

Characteristic of Alzheimer’s patients. You lose your memory from now to then.

This March, I signed the Emmett Antilynching Act into law – making lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in American history.

No one in Congress, in the Republican Party, or even in the Unz Annex of BloggerWorld seems especially concerned about the criminal-justice version of the COVID fraud: the widespread knee-jerk acceptance of the legitimacy of so-called hate-crime legislation.

“Hate crime” is simply a tendentiously approbative name for what ought to be termed thought crime. Thought crime has no support in common law, and the US Constitution and every state constitution specifically speak of crimes only in terms of deeds. What with virtually everyone (not excluding devotees of this columnist) having been brainwashed into regarding both popular psychology and every form of psychiatry (aka mind-reading) as avenues to truth and understanding, however, the idea of raising a ruckus about this inherently totalitarian device seems not to have occurred to anyone—at least not since the passing of Joe Sobran.

Whatever the result of the increasingly immaterial 2022 election, nothing stands between Merrick Garland and the prosecution of white thought criminals—need I explain who they are?—other than a temporary insufficiency of power-mad staffers.

Incidentally, there is no “vaccine,” with or without a booster regimen, to protect you from this pandemic.

And keep in mind that the clearance rate for most crimes is rather low.

Black male birth cohorts have for some time been around 270,000 a year in size. From police reports and survey research you can determine that in a typical year, north of 8,000 homicides are committed by black males.

Your brain can’t seem to distinguish that while some fairly high % of the black population works at one time or another, this doesn’t mean that the people who are working are also not committing crimes or have sons (and increasingly daughters) who are committing crimes.

It’s not at ‘one time or another’. It’s at any given time the share of blacks who are employed is about 10% lower than the share of the other coarse racial categories.

As for young men, see Herrnstein and Wilson in Crime and Human Nature. A history of criminal activity is bog standard among young men of all races. It usually isn’t serious enough and frequent enough to land you in the soup. For some, it is.

“how both Tills achieved a sort of immortality”

That’s what I told Emmett when he started his yelling and crying — you’re sort of immortal. But your pops got greased by Uncle Sam. And then one of his index fingers dropped on the floor and began inching its way toward my shoes.

Clearly Alzheimer’s, but in his case tragically complicated by LAS — Lying Asshole Syndrome

“Your brain can’t seem to distinguish between people who have ordinary hourly jobs and people who stab others to death.”

Ever stand behind a cash register? Eight hours of stabbing people to death fantasies. (It’s a good way to kill time)

OT – I’m not sure if Americans, still with bearable prices over there and with plenty of their own gas, realise how much crap Europeans are in thanks to their governments insane decisions to stop all Russian oil imports and a large volume of their gas imports.

In the UK, electricity prices jumped in April, and are due to double in October – and UK electricity is still cheaper than in Europe. Gas prices are through the roof, factories making vital stuff like ammonia, fertilisers are closing, and everyone is dreading winter.

I spoke to a guy at the weekend who’s going to be powering his plant from big diesel generators because it’s actually cheaper than connecting to the mains supply.

There’s going to be big industrial trouble. A lot of people will strike as inflation, currently 12% in the UK, impoverishes them.

The much-talked-of independent “EU Foreign Policy” has been a pathetic following of whatever the State Department tell them. De Gaulle is spinning faster than most French generator turbines.

Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/08/will-europe-go-down-to-defeat-before-ukraine.html

We will be so bold as to posit that not only has the sanctions war against Russia backfired spectacularly, but the damage to the West, most of all Europe, is accelerating rapidly. And this is not the result of Russia taking active measures but the costs of the loss or reduction of key Russian resources compounding over time.

So due to the intensity of the energy shock, the economic timetable is moving faster than the military. Unless Europe engages in a major course correction, and we don’t see how this can happen, the European economic crisis looks set to become devastating before Ukraine is formally defeated.

It was Europe that vowed it would be off Russian energy by winter, while not mentioning that that depended on completely filling up all gas storage and not cutting themselves off until sometime in the fall. That is already “customer from hell” behavior: “We’ll default on our agreement in the way most convenient for us and brag about it too.”

Recall also that some of the loss of EU supply was due to Ukraine cutting off transport through one line going through Lugansk (weeks after the separatists took territory near a key junction, thus showing that the Ukraine claim that the separatists might do something bad were trumped up. Why not wait until an incident to deprive Europe of needed gas? But no one, not even a European columnist, chided the sainted Ukrainians for taking an action detrimental to Europe.

Supply to Europe also fell due to Poland and Bulgaria refusing to pay for gas in the contracted currency at Gazprom bank.

Recall also that Germany stole the assets of Gazprom Germania, yet Russia retaliated narrowly, by sanctioning the entities involved in the heist (I have yet to see any discussion of that impact….is the Western press not willing to admit to any?)

As to the uproar over the reduction of shipments on Nord Stream 1, Putin offered repeatedly to let the EU use Nord Stream 2. So Russia cannot be accused of denying Europe supply. This is about putting institutional and personal egos ahead of serving the public good.

“Top item agenda for the Harris administration will be a Louis Till commutation and apology.”

This fills my head with logistical problems. The olfactory challenge alone is daunting. And the “apology” won’t shut him up.

“People get killed, maimed, raped, starved, stunted, traumatized during war. (War is bad.) But the survivors rebuild, couples get married and have children … the nation recovers.

But the damage American minoritarian ideology has inflicted can never be fully repaired, and may–if it keeps rolling along much longer–simply destroy Europe.”

Yes. Poland has been invaded from Sweden, France, Germany, Russia and the USSR over the last 200 years. Millions of Poles have died, the borders have moved back and forth – it’s been pretty awful.

But at the end of all that awfulness, the Poles are still there and Poland is still theirs. The Soviets may have been communists, but they didn’t import a new people.

In England, supposed victor of WW2, something like 33% of all births are now to foreign born mothers. That’s basically come about since the 1960s – in 60 years the character of England has been changed forever for the worse.

England’s fate is Poland’s future.

Nothing was ever done to Lazar Kaganovich, a Devil who helped orchestrate the systematic starvation of MILLIONS in the Holodomor. Kaganovich lived to be nearly 100 years old. Nope, not a single world leader had the sack to apprehend an elderly Jewish mass murderer to stand trial for the murders of millions of Ukrainians and others.

What I have always found astonishing is that Kaganovich lived, not in some dacha in the country with protection, but in an ordinary apartment in the middle of Moscow with no protection whatsoever. Pretty much any day over the last 4 decades or so of his life anyone could have knocked on his door and beaten him to death with a hammer. As best I can tell he lived out his years entirely unmolested, despite there being tens, if not hundreds, of thousands with deep personal reason to kill him. It’s simply astonishing.

Wideman’s daughter, Jamila, won a basketball national championship at Stanford. Might have been a starter, don’t remember. I do remember reading an SI article that included her brother’s crimes, back when SI was legit.

Meh, you provided a link to a 1994 story in the Phoenix New Times on John Edgar Wideman, the Rhodes Scholar and English professor who wrote so kindly about Louis Till in “Brothers and Keepers.” The story extends to son Jacob Wideman, who at age 16 stabbed 16-year-old white kid Eric Kane for no particular reason. And John Edgar’s brother Robby Wideman, also in jail for murder.

Brothers and Victims, by Tom Fitzpatrick.

An excellent example of the New Journalism. “Couldn’t do it today,” as Paleo Retiree used to say at his blog Uncouth Reflections. Fitzpatrick would be cancelled within days for daring to question the elite’s narrative.

Buruma’s The Wages of Guilt contrasted the German and Japanese societal responses to their nations’ WW2 atrocities. A good read.

For the same reason that dogs pee on fire hydrants – to mark their territory.

In the religion of Negrolatry, there are five most holy figures:

Martin Luther King, Emmett Till, George Floyd, Trayvon Martin & Michael Brown.

Obviously, Martin Luther King is God the Father.

But I can’t quite decide which of the others counts as God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, Peter the Rock of the Church and Paul the Apostle.

American soldiers did rape local women and commit other atrocities on Okinawa in 1945. Nothing happened that was remotely in the league of the IJA’s horrific rampages earlier that year on the island and in Manila, but they did occur. There’s this one cave where the islanders dumped the bodies of a few black American soldiers that they’d murdered in revenge. They’d kept the secret for over 50 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Katsuyama_killing_incident

Organized prostitution for American soldiers in postwar Japan and South Korea was also a reality, and although things have changed massively since those days (the ladies have overwhelmingly non-local for decades, the US military got infiltrated by evangelicals and feminists who thought they could change the realities of life), American bases still remain profit centers for the local sex trade. I don’t think there was ever an official program in South Vietnam or Thailand in the same way, but from the American POV, there didn’t need to be. Last Stars and Stripes before the first deployment to Vietnam covered the migration of prostitutes from Saigon to Da Nang to make serious bucks from the incoming Americans, I’m sure with the approval of what passed for the government in Saigon at the time.

The motives were mixed. IMO, the fact that prostitution seems to have a long history of being “open” and officially regulated in many Asian societies can’t be ignored: it wasn’t an innovation, it was just making sure a subsection of the already existing prostitute pool was allocated to the Americans. Indeed, part of what led to the comfort women in the first place was, given how prostitution was laid out in Japan, that the logical conclusion made was that there should be brothels to serve the Japanese armed forces. But there’s no getting around the fact that one of them was also the desire to avoid mass rape, and on the part of the military authorities, to avoid homosexuality. For the 1950s/1960s ROK in particular, financial concerns seem to have been the truly decisive factor.

Again, there was no equivalent to the mass kidnapping of women to be gang raped to death that there was with the Japanese, or with the Germans and Soviets in Europe. But that didn’t mean that what went on didn’t happen, or that the results was pretty. In postwar Vietnam, part of the reason half-American (or half-Korean) kids were treated like garbage was it was automatically assumed the mother was a prostitute, regardless of whether or not this was actually true.

One year from commission of a crime to carrying out the sentence is not a rush to judgement.

The whole NYT/WaPo Emmitt Till thing is like a father of a 16 year old teenager stating to his son,
“Remember when you smacked your sister in the face when you were 4 and she was 7 for eating your cookie? Well it’s time for me to whoop your ass again on the 12th anniversary of that smack”.

Btw-pay no mind to the fact your 18 year old sister has been caught shoplifting 10 times, now works as a stripper, is living with a drug dealer and is an addict. It’s all your fault for that smack when you were 4.

Black soldiers who raped were probably more likely to be convicted than white soldiers who raped, and to be punished more harshly.

Perhaps they were refused more often by women and resorted to rape more often.

Perhaps they were more likely to rape.

None of this speaks to Louis Till being framed.

It’s hard to remember given how over-the-top brutal the German occupation of Poland would turn out to be, but the Polish and German governments had a non-aggression pact between 1934 and 1939. That the Third Reich might have appeared as the lesser of two evils wasn’t nearly as crazy as people think, for several reasons:

1) The Nazis seemed to be overwhelmingly focused on the Bolshevik menace. Unlike the Weimar Republic, which was their closest European ally and steadfastly refused to recognize the postwar border.

2) Nor did the Nazi leadership come from the Prussian deep state or military caste that would have been the driving force behind any German aggression toward them, and despite their hostility toward leftists, helped drive the 1920s alliance with the USSR. Hitler himself seemed to come out of the traditional southern pan-German milieu that would direct him toward Austria and the Czech lands, the latter of whom Poland was also eying.

3) Finally, Poland was itself ruled by a right-wing authoritarian government, presiding over a multi-racial polity where largest minority bordered their co-ethnics in the USSR and whose dictator would disproportionately target ethnic Poles during his purges. (It’s worth noting that Warsaw also had a non-aggression pact with the USSR, but given the USSR’s attitude toward the external world during the time, this meant little. I believe the key to understanding history and the choices people made is that you need to ignore what you know is coming.) It didn’t have the luxury of being choosy. It also had little ideological sympathy toward Hitler’s domestic enemies, or the kinds of left-wing Western critics that dominated the anti-Nazi Anglosphere media and the arguments they were making. Persecuting Jews and having a secret police in 1935 didn’t signal to contemporaries that you were fundamentally incapable of making compromises or respecting limits, i.e, that you were Hitler.

The men in Warsaw didn’t understand who Adolf Hitler really was. But then, nobody else did either, with the semi-exception of Winston Churchill: whose unique insight stemmed from the commonalities in world-view and political MO he shared with Hitler.

30+ years seems like a long sentence for a 16 y.o. Did he eat the guy afterwards? Is he out now?

His murder victim is still dead, no? A pretty long sentence for him too…

The President should apologize to the Italian people for Louis Till’s crimes against the women of Italy.

Apology not fucking accepted!

It probably was written by a young woman but what about it is embarrassing, keeping in mind that Tweets are intended to be very brief – in most cases less than 140 characters?

What about the killing and lynching of Koreans in Japan after the earthquake in 1923. As many as 6,000 were killed in a few weeks, perhaps double the number of black’s lynched in all of US history. Probably Emmett Till is more well known then all the thousands of ethnic Koreans killed altogether.

A Mexican-American soldier was the last man hanged for rape in England, at US Forces prison Shepton Mallet 15 June1945.

How many Normies even know who Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich were???

Looks like Ukrainian people are pretty damn dumb.

Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice…. You must be Ukrainian. smdh.

Reminds me of the black soldier gang-rape of a white English lady that took place during a home invasion while her husband was forced to watch, which was the basis of “A Clockwork Orange.”

One can imagine the public response if ACO was remade, except with black soldiers being accurately portrayed by Denzel Washington and Chris Rock, instead of Malcolm McDowell and the rest.

I didn’t think of it as a whataboutism, more of a ofcoursehewasism

This isn’t true. Japan’s heads of state have apologized, several times, for its wartime conduct. In the case of China, this goes back to the normalization of relations in 1972. Postwar Sino-Japanese relations were probably at their most positive in the 1970s and 1980s, when there actually did exist plenty of people in government who remembered WWII.

What the Chinese really want is for Japan to be psychologically more like Germany. This is never going to happen because a) Japan’s government, bureaucracies, media, and universities are not staffed top to bottom with people that have a hateful masochism complex regarding their people and culture, and b) because we’re closer to 100 years after the war than 50. And to be fair to Beijing, I think they get that, so you are left with the domestic politics involved and the lack of incentive to acknowledge anything. Note the gap between Chinese Internet and the government on Abe’s assassination.

Arizona law at that time specified that parole would not be considered before 25 years. He was not released the first few times he came up for parole, in part because the parents of his victim opposed it.

The Supreme Court has stated that for juveniles, the severest punishment must be reserved “for the rarest of juvenile offenders, those whose crimes reflect permanent incorrigibility”. Jacob qualified. As I mentioned in a different post, while Wideman did not eat his victim, he did stab him while he was sleeping and allowed him to slowly bleed to death over a period of several hours. His victim was a fellow camper (although neither a close friend nor an enemy) that he had known for 7 summers of his short life. The killing appeared to be completely unprovoked but premeditated in that he had purchased a knife the day before and had preplanned to get the car keys before he committed the crime. He also stole \$3,000 in traveler’s checks to fund his getaway. No one, including Jacob, who otherwise confessed, has ever really explained why he did this – perhaps he was like the man in the Johnny Cash song who shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. Flagstaff is not that far from Reno (by Western standards).

Mulattoes like Jacob are often among the most dangerous criminals because they combine the amorality and violence of the black man with the cleverness of the white (in Jacob’s case, Jew).

https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2011/05/13/Children-of-promise-children-of-pain-The-Jacob-Wideman-case/stories/201105130235

Did Biden thank Till for faithfully voting Democrat ever since he shuffled off this mortal coil?

(When you’re dead, you either vote Democrat or you don’t vote.)

30+ years seems like a long sentence for a 16 y.o. Did he eat the guy afterwards? Is he out now?

Execution is the sentence in a normal, sane, properly operating society.

When someone shows utter contempt for the norms of the society–exile. When they brutally murder one of its citizens–execution.

One of our serious problems now is that we no longer have this very basic–and very required–sense that a community is entitled to protect itself, its standards, norms, culture and people. And that the outliers and screwups have no right to feed–parasite–upon it.

We have lost the simple good hygiene of “take out the trash”.

“the Russia offensive appears to have stalled…and the lines have moved very little since then. Or perhaps it is a gesture of Russian “good will”…”

It’s a feint!

The worst about cash registerism for me was selling lotto tickets. Seeing sparks of hope and greed and despair flickering in their eyes. I never fully learned the ticket machines to fuck with the whole thing, it just felt ridiculous.

US Marines are still raping Japanese girls on Okinawa.

Haven’t seen where they end up at the end of a rope.

The WW2 Occupation that has no end date.

Buruma’s The Wages of Guilt contrasted the German and Japanese societal responses to their nations’ WW2 atrocities. A good read.

The Japanese response has been better.

I like Germany and Germans, and consider the Japanese response to be deficient. To me the proper response is “Yeah, we screwed up. We’re sorry and promise to not do that again.” But then … move on. The Germans have let this mea culpa shit drag them down. They are a great people, a great nation with huge achievements, but have fallen all over themselves not to be proud of themselves, nationalist–Nazi stuff!–which is required to survive.

The Japanese lying and soft-pedalling their crimes must annoy a lot of other Asians. But the flip side is the Japanese are still there. And provided they don’t succumb to the immigrationists will still be there for the foreseeable future. (Yeah, they need to make sure their nukes are ready and China “understands”–the core lesson of Ukraine “get nukes”. But that’s straightforward.)

The Germans on the other hand …. looks bleak.

From the same source linked by MEH 0910 in comment #8 and me in comment #66, a copy-paste from Tom Fitzpatrick’s 1994 review of John Edgar Wideman’s book “Brothers and Keepers.” It’s an account of how Fitzpatrick explored the circumstances of Eric Kane’s murder.

To John Edgar, his brother Robby’s and his son Jacob’s Lives Mattered. Louis Till’s as well.

Other people’s lives: not so much.

That the Obama Justice Department told the truth about Michael Brown and they still consider him a martyred saint is amazing. I thought they would brush him aside and move on to another candidate quickly. It is all media driven.

Hitler was just plain full of s–t.

Your hillbillian conclusion of a complex issue likely doesn’t inspire confidence amongst the more literate or well-studied faction of commenters here. Why don’t you abstain from your cheap brew of beer for a full day, and come back?

That is, if you seek to persuade, pretend your not yelling at passers by from the back of a broken-down pickup truck. Have some respect for the people here.

Or change your handle to “goober,” so as to fairly warn readers of what’s coming.

https://vault.si.com/vault/1997/03/17/out-of-the-shadows-like-her-father-the-distinguished-writer-john-edgar-wideman-stanford-point-guard-jamila-wideman-has-had-to-confront-a-dark-family-legacy-while-attracting-the-limelight-with-her-surpassing-gift

https://archive.ph/qZjS7

Yes I think we overplay the Americans were the good guys.

Still many Germen scientists arranged to surrender to the American forces rather than the Soviets and I think they were wise.

Horrible things happen in war, My history professor said that whenever one occupying army pulled out in the face of an advancing enemy – during the few hours or days before the new occupier arrived the civilians went wild in a murderous rampage extracting vengeance on their enemy co-civilians. Not sometimes, always.

You are correct. The book I quoted had the wrong name.

Vibrant. The word is vibrant. The vibrancy is especially potent while trying to sleep.

Speaking of which, I came across the following story today
https://ew.com/tv/natalie-portman-lady-in-the-lake-extortion-threats

“Natalie Portman series Lady in the Lake hits pause after threats of violence and extortion: While filming the series in Baltimore this weekend, multiple individuals threatened a member of the crew, according to a statement from studio Endeavor Content provided to EW. A spokesperson for the Baltimore PD told the Los Angeles Times that “the locals” had warned the producers that they would “come back later” that evening and “shoot someone” if the production didn’t shut down or pay them \$50,000. A separate report from the Baltimore Banner referred to the perpetrators as “drug dealers.”

“The safety and security of our crew, cast and all who work across our productions is our highest priority, and we are thankful no one was injured,” Endeavor’s statement continues. “Production will resume with increased security measures going forward. It has been a privilege filming Lady in the Lake in Baltimore, working with its vibrant community across many areas.”

A privilege, indeed. Perhaps a White privilege?

OFF TOPIC

A little-known businessman donated $1.6 billion to a new conservative group run by the Republican operative Leonard Leo, who helped engineer the Supreme Court's conservative dominance and financed battles over abortion, voting and climate change policy. https://t.co/khdrebboc3

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 22, 2022

This big pile of loot forked over to the Federalist Society from deceased electrical products guy Barre Seid is a big deal.

Mitch McConnell has clam raked big loot from Barre Seid and McConnell is set to grab more from the new loot holder named Leonard Leo.

McConnell is a treasonous weasel and Mitch McConnell voted for Reagan’s 1986 Amnesty For Illegal Alien Invaders. McConnell has crawled into bed with a Chinese woman with clear and shady ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

McConnell pushes mass legal immigration, mass illegal immigration, REFUGEE OVERLOAD, ASYLUM SEEKER INUNDATION and multicultural mayhem.

McConnell pushes sovereignty-sapping trade deal scams.

McConnell pushes more and more overseas war to provide grift to foreign policy scam artists and plunder opportunities for American Empire profiteers.

I hereby sentence you to suffer what black sub human monsters did to Christian and Christopher Newsome on January 5 and 6 2007 and what John Doe unidentified White male suffered December 21 to December 24 1973 at the hands of the Zebra Killers.,

But for months, not 2 ,3 days really truly.

>The Japanese lying and soft-pedalling their crimes must annoy a lot of other Asians.

As I alluded to, there are domestic political incentives in some of these countries to not acknowledge Japanese apologies or to deem them invalid.

To give a counterexample, unlike Taiwan or other Southeast Asian countries where the occupation experience was genuinely remembered sort-of differently, the Philippines endured Japanese atrocities that could rival anything that happened in China or Korea. This culminated in 1945 with their own version of the Nanjing Massacre, comparable both in the death toll and the sadism involved, right in their capital. Manila was the Pearl of the Orient before the war. It has, quite literally, never been the same since. It was the second most destroyed city in the world following the intentionally-dismantled Warsaw.

Yet Filipino-Japanese relations are fine. The Filipino public views Japan very positively. That’s not because they are stupid or ignorant of what happened, but because life has moved on and there’s no political incentive to focus on it anymore. The Japanese government doesn’t deny the massacre happened, apologized after the war, and provided reparations. Of course, that’s part of the issue: they did this back in the 1950s when Japan didn’t have official relations with either the ROK or the PRC. But sometimes, that’s just how history goes: you take what you can get and go. German behavior after 1968 in trying to appease everybody-a futile exercise-has been the exception, not the rule, and it’s not a healthy example that anybody should want to imitate.

(It should be noted that in the ROK, the then-government renounced rights to reparations in 1965 in exchange for Japanese investment and economic help. You can imagine this is a sore point.)

I don’t doubt the nationalistic sentiment of your average Internet commentator, partly because nationalism isn’t a dirty word in Asian education systems like it is in the West. I’m just cynical about the domestic politics involved, especially when it is clear that cooperation is going to be needed if everybody doesn’t want to be a Chinese vassal someday.

Some of us across the pond have been paying attention to the accelerating Western European energy catastrophe including its effects on fertilizer production (the US is a food superpower and I’m from farming stock and a farming region I’ve retired back to). Although I’ll note it started before the special military operation, CF Industries for example shut down its two nitrogen fixing plants in the U.K. in September 2021 due to high natural gas prices (it provides hydrogens to make ammonia; pure CO2 is a byproduct and one plant was paid by the government to start producing again for that, it’s heavily used by the food industry). Just skimmed an item on ZeroHedge saying 70% of the region’s ammonia production is off-line right now.

Some of this might be related by how Xi screwed up the 2021-20 winter heating and electricity season, but that became acute long after the above CF event. A lot is obviously bad Green policies, and to some extent connected I’m sure some was “‘customer from hell’ behavior” that Yves Smith call out.

Specifically Russia/Putin/Gazprom wants its customers to sign long term contracts so it can make the investments it needs to continue supplying gas. Plenty of regulating entities prefer to buy on the spot market for a bunch of reasons, some very bad in addition to “no fossil fuel use by [unrealistic date],” and thus the “we are fulfilling our contracted volumes” statements. As far as I know, none of these contracts specified spot price selling, supplying that market has just been a custom. And not supplying it would be battlespace preparation for the eventual showdown over the Ukraine, but also see own goals like Germany shutting down three of its last six nuclear power plants at the end of December 2021.

As a side note we in the US are feeling it to the extent we’re shipping record amounts of LNG to Europe, although that’s a bit less after one plant that liquefied 16-20% of our volume is off-line until at least mid-October due to a small-ish explosion. And new ones will be coming on-line fairly soon as I remember. This is hitting our electrical prices in summer air conditioning season, and will without change our winter heating season. And our ruling trash won’t care after our early November elections, at least if things don’t get as spicy as they’re looking to get across the pond.

nebu, the book I quoted was published in 1997/1998. An internet search shows Japanese PMs have expressed regrets but no formal apology issued by the Japanese government. We’re good, stay safe.

Remember Esquire magazine? It was pretty good sometimes,had some good humor,like a feature on people doing stupid things,with the tagline,” unclear on the concept.”

Years ago,in the magazine, I read a story about some black male married to a white slag,whose son just ups and murders some white kid. The author was the killers black father,and he went on and on about black this and black that.
I got the feeling he thought he,the dad,was some kind of really special guy,a brilliant victim of raycizzum!
He got a white wife! He’s the Man!
I’m pretty sure Wideman was the guy in that magazine article,and what a fathead he was,and is!
F him,F his rotten lousy wife and his screwball murderer son.
And F Emmet,and F Joe Biden and…

“Commonly, the “exit interview” I conducted with these incorrigibles included an exchange of this nature:“

Of course there were “degenerates” who were soldiers in WW2. But Mr. Sailer made an unsubstantiated claim You seem to be falling for his trick—make a statement without evidence to back it up, because he believes it is a truism.

So were the majority of white American soldiers in WW2 the “bottom of the barrel”? What proof do you have to support that contention?

Her name was Anna Zanchi

Louis Till’s execution order was signed by no other than General Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was found guilty of sexual assault and murder in Leghorn, Italy on February 17, 1945 — he was alleged to have killed Anna Zanchi, and raped Benni Lucretzia and Frieda Mari the year earlier. Till was executed on July 2, 1945, and buried in a military cemetery in France, the Oise Aisne World War I cemetery.

https://medium.com/frame-of-reference/emmett-tills-father-died-for-the-same-reason-as-his-son-fe6dc7dc451e

My God! Yes, Hitler had a plan to destroy Poland!
He told Himmler about it and Himmler said,gee,boss,you made this whole big plan,all by yourself?
Hitler repled,” It was easy,I just took this book,”Germany Must Perish”,and wherever it said Germany,I crossed it out and wrote Poland!”
“That,” said Himmler,” is why they call you the Fuhrer!!”😉

OT Absolute must-read, explains everything, flesh on the bones, names named, it’s not just the Deep State (which technically includes map readers and the Geological Survey), it’s this same clutch of people, and this piece interrelates them in new ways. Long. tldr spooks and para-spooks cynically calculated that they could make a boogeyman out of Russia because Americans don’t know anything anout Russia. One of the remarkable findings of the piece is how often they invoked this Russian nonsense. Literally everyone they don’t like is a Russian to these people.
https://archive.ph/gXVna

Breaking News! President Biden Reveals That Emmett Till Is Dead.

I wasn’t aware that anyone had disputed this. Good thing to know Biden’s brain is still alive and active… in 1955.

Patriotic Americans don’t like to think about it, but the Army scraped the bottom of the barrel pretty hard in recruiting during World War II. For example, from Wikipedia’s entry on Louis Till:

Eddie Slovik, as well. He was rejected by his draft board in 1943, then called again in 1944 and taken in. Overextension, anybody?

Yes, he made no attempt to evade the draft, just to avoid it– legally. And he turned out to be right.

After all, more blacks than whites per capita were convicted of raping European women during WWII, and, obviously, that couldn’t possibly mean that blacks tended to be guiltier.

This is almost certainly true of the Civil War and its aftermath, but nobody on either side wanted– or wants– to admit it.

How is it whataboutism? It’s more theappledontfallfarfromthetreeism.

Emmett Till got a bit more than he deserved. He deserved a beating.

Yet Filipino-Japanese relations are fine. The Filipino public views Japan very positively. That’s not because they are stupid or ignorant of what happened, but because life has moved on and there’s no political incentive to focus on it anymore.

Unlike Canada, whom the Philippine president threatened with war over too many dirty diapers getting into the “recycling” shipment.

This OT piece on Ukraine, sure to be popular among the “Putin couldn’t take Keeeev ” dipshits, is well worth the read. Follow the links to the Marine Corp guy’s analysis too, it apparently is causing head spinning among those in the DoD who get their info on Putin’s Secret Goals from the same place as Steve.

https://foundingquestions.wordpress.com/2022/08/29/marinus-article-analysis-guest-post-by-pickle-rick/

https://www.imetatronink.com/2022/08/a-former-us-marine-corps-officers.html?m=1

https://www.imetatronink.com/2022/07/destroying-mother-of-all-proxy-armies.html

Not much of this would be news to those following The Duran and the Military Summary guy.

Americans and French don’t owe anyone an apology.

Ok, I’m not big on this apology stuff.

This is why I mentioned French:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marocchinate

The behavior of the Frances Moroccan troops was beyond the pale of behavior for a 20th century Western army. (Of course, they aren’t Western.) Of course, much worse occurred on the Eastern Front. (By this time, incidentally the Italians had surrendered, and while the Germans rescued Mussolini and setup a puppet regime, the war was against the Germans. So this was rape unleashed against a nominal ally.)

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Re America, and your Hitler stuff …

Yeah, Hitler bad–duh. Maybe there’s a big–huge, gaping–political space between Hitler and American minoritarianism?

Western Christianity thrived for 1000+ years. Yeah, lots of stupid warring with this King or that trying to grab territory (and tax base) from the other guy. Lots of stupid warring over boundaries between nations. Lots of stupid warring over colonial possessions. But overall creating the greatest civilization–with the greatest accomplishments–on the planet.

If America wants to help, rather than hurt Europe, encourage the Europeans with a “Don’t copy the stupid minoritarian bullshit we do. Our “diversity” bullshit is a curse we have to bear, it is not for you. Stop immigration and look after the health and survival of your unique and wonderful nations.”

Encouraging them to take on the diversity burden we have is ideological malpractice and just being a bad neighbor.

Americans and French don’t owe anyone an apology.

No, not today’s. Anyone adult at war’s end would be 95 or older today. No, make that 98– the age of majority was higher.

However, those who conducted the war certainly owed apologies to their Creator.

I love the Cantos. I have to find it and read it again. And my very favorite epic poem or whatever it’s called John Brown’s Body by Stephen Vincent Benet.

Sally Dupre Sally Dupre. Her eyes were neither black nor gray. only daughter of misalliance hardened her heart for fear of defiance.
She could sew all day on an Appleton dress
And look like a saint in plaster
But when the fiddles began to play
Her feet beat fast but her heart beat faster

I’ll always remember that., I really don’t like the US civil war subject. Glorifying Lincoln and abolitionist John Brown and the slaughter of 750 White men in the prime of life. But I love the poem. Plus the fact that there are few blacks in it. And no Gullah apostrophe gobble grunt dialogue. Why I don’t like GTW and other civil war movies and books. Blackety blackety black

AMEN, Jack D ! I’m 55 and grew up like that – still happens where I live now (not far from the PA line with NY) – semi-country living has it’s advantages…

Whataboutism is conceding an accusation because of universal guilt: I ran a stop sign but so did you. Its only hope of winning is if the whatabout is big enough to blow away the original accusation: when you ran a stop sign, you killed fifty children. Emmett Till is idol worship, not whataboutism, and pointing out its emptiness is not whataboutism in any way I can see.

Dr Gorka had a guest host recently who put in the obligatory Putin Bad but then was refreshingly honest and sane about what obviously will happen.

I am having trouble giving a damn about what happens in Ukraine. Yeah, I know it could escalate into WW3 any minute now, but I can make no sense of all the propaganda from both sides and the expert opinion from the MSM. So I have decided that I don’t care what happens.

It’s 83 and sunny here in Canuckistan. The water is warm, the beer is cold, and my jetski beckons.

Missed It By That Much! (cont.)

The Russians tried to strike at the bridge across the Ingulets in Nikolaev. There were many civilians on the bridge, including a bus. Fortunately, the rocket fell a few meters from the bridge. The number of affected fish needs to be clarified.#Ukraine #Mykolaiv pic.twitter.com/EFuExhtv8d

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) August 29, 2022

They partied all night in the latrine

No shit!?

OT For Mr. Sailer. Coming to LA soon maybe:

“Urban Bush Women—Hair & Other Stories

Hair & Other Stories is a dance-theater work that reflects on race, identity, and ideas of beauty through the lens of Black women’s hair. Using movement, song, and conversation, it explores what constitutes freedom, liberation, and release in our everyday struggles to rise to our Extra-ordinary Selves in extraordinary times. This is the urgent dialogue of the 21st Century.”

https://playhouse.pointpark.edu/tickets/Playhouse-Presents-The-Artists-Series/urban-bush-women

(When you’re dead, you either vote Democrat or you don’t vote.)

Here is where you see the deep evil of Voter ID laws. Imagine preventing Emmett Till from voting! It’s like their killing him all over again.

Atlanta jury awards \$100 million to stupid black panhandler who was tazed by stupid black cop. There’s going to be more and more of this as the quality of cops declines. Also the quality of negroes.

https://mol.im/a/11157029

Sullivan County PA is 96% white…one of the things that struck me was how much unguarded property there was – people left out boats and bikes,

Thanks for posting. This explains the sudden spike in bus ticket sales from North Philly to Sullivan County

All negroes are always innocent.

Both American interventions were unnecessary and disastrous

Speak for yourself, gentile.

OT — Epstein, the man who will not die (because he didn’t kill himself). Link claims to be the black book. No idea if it’s any good, will check later.
https://epsteinsblackbook.com
Iraq is on fire. US embassy rejecting efforts to leave, live rounds used in green zone. Biden is presiding over a total collapse of American foreign policy. We talked about Afghanistan being once again used as a base for terror operations against the United States, but now Iran’s Western neighbor will be too. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

Joe Biden will be the president who gave our nation two (2) Vietnam-style embassy evacuations.

Once you go black, you never go back…literally.

It’s only been 30 years, so perhaps this hasn’t had enough time to attain the same urgency in the excusatory canon, but I think it’s totally unconscionable and overtly sexist to overlook the inhumanly racist murder of Latasha Harlins as a proximate cause for the current wave of black violence directed against elderly Asian women. Asian women have been oppressing black women literally for millenia, purposely flaunting their long, straight hair, and brushing their teeth with products bearing insulting caricatures.
https://qz.com/1871576/darlie-toothpastes-antiracist-rebranding-stirs-backlash-in-china/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Latasha_Harlins

Latasha Harlins (January 1, 1976 – March 16, 1991) was an African-American girl who was fatally shot at age 15 by Soon Ja Du (Korean: 두순자), a 51-year-old Korean-American convenience store owner. Du was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter over the killing of Harlins, based in part on security camera footage. The judge sentenced Du to 10 years in state prison but the sentence was suspended and the defendant was instead placed on five years’ probation with 400 hours of community service, a \$500 restitution, and funeral expenses.[2] The sentencing was widely regarded as an extremely light sentence, and a failed appeal[3] contributed to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, especially the targeting of Koreatown, Los Angeles.[4] The killing of Harlins came 13 days after the videotaped beating of Rodney King.

Too long, didn’t read. Or more accurately, Corvinus, didn’t read.

because attempts at using them in combat during WWI had proven to be disastrous – if you assign blacks to hold a certain part of a line and they break and run then the entire line is endangered.

It soldiers of any race break and run the entire line is endangered.

What was particularly disastrous about blacks?

Emmett Till got a bit more than he deserved. He deserved a beating.

My understand has always been that a good beating to scare him and teach him a lesson was all the Bryants ever intended, but that during the administration of said beating things got out of hand and they ended up killing him.

…did not need to resort to drafting the very old and the very young into anything like the Volkssturm.

You only do that when you’re fighting on your own territory or nearby.

What the Chinese really want is for Japan to be psychologically more like Germany. This is never going to happen because a) Japan’s government, bureaucracies, media, and universities are not staffed top to bottom with people that have a hateful masochism complex regarding their people and culture

Japan isn’t staffed with Jews who have ill will toward the host people.

Emmett Till may have been a creep, but I don’t think that he deserved to be beaten to death. And while I find it loathsome the way the media wave his corpse around to drum up white guilt, I don’t think his father being a rapist is anything more than an interesting historical footnote. Till fils isn’t responsible for the sins of Till peré any more than the white race is collectively guilty for lynchings by our great-great-great-great grandfathers.

How else are they supposed to keep it real?

Jamila became an activist lawyer for criminals.
Wiki: In September 2018, Wideman was hired by the NBA as Vice President of Player Development.
Perfect fit
She hasn’t killed anyone–that we know of.

“ there was the risk of Germany becoming a superpower and fighting the US in a bigger battle at a later date. “

Same with the Soviet Union.

“There is no reason to assume Hitler ever would have stopped.”

There’s the same probability that he would have stopped as there is he wouldn’t have.

“He was addicted to war.”

But negotiated an peace with Stalin.

Americans are oversexed, you say. But the Brit women’s knickers come down with one Yank. Seems it is your Brit women are oversexed. Or you blokes underperform

The Soviets may have been communists, but they didn’t import a new people.

With communism, your right to private property or wealth was gone. On the other hand, you did have a country, such as it was. With immigration and race replacement, you can have private property, but your country is being taken away. Confiscation has shifted from micro to macro level.

The fact that communist rulers didn’t allow mass immigration was not down to patriotism or nationalism. They thought it would be impossible to control a population that was constantly changing with new arrivals of aliens, and they even distrusted any of their own people who had been abroad. However, I think even these tyrants would have balked at the open borders policy of today.

I didn’t know anyone used the word vibrant in a non-ironic sense any more.

Two black murderers (father and son) who also both had IQ’s of 130+. Dad got a computer science degree at Leavenworth and got a good computer job with an aeronautical company when was he released at age 43. But he quickly threw it all way when he decided to rape a six-year-old girl. Son (b. 1962) killed two men in the NYC subway at age 15 but was only sentenced to five years due to his juvenile status. Despite that, public outcry plus his penchant for escapes and assaults led to him spending virtually all of his life (up to this point) in custody. Considered to be the most dangerous prisoner in the NY State system while being only 5´9″, 150 lbs. But he is getting kind of old now.

Author is famed NYT reporter Fox Butterfield.

What was particularly disastrous about blacks?

Watch just one episode of ‘Cops.’ Whenever they ask a black guy why he ran from the police, one hundred percent of them say “I was scared.”

https://pittsburghquarterly.com/articles/brothers-keepers/

Brothers & Keepers?
Thoughts on my client Robert Wideman and his brother John Edgar Wideman
by MARK SCHWARTZ
2021 FALL

October 25, 2021
Editor’s note: Between 1984 and 2019, attorney Mark Schwartz represented convicted felon Robert Wideman, ultimately securing a commutation of his sentence in 2019. This is his account of what transpired in the 35 years he dealt with Wideman and his famous older brother, the author of “Brothers and Keepers.”

I should have mentioned they never got the chance to meet each other. But you probably guessed that.

I remember the famous one from 1995. Heard it about it A LOT when I was at Camp Schwab in 1999.

In keeping with the theme of Steve’s post, check out the racist white republican racist white Marines who raped the 12 year old Okinawan girl.

One of the men later raped and murdered a college student after he got out of the Japanese jail (and complained that the Japanese jail worked on “slave labor”).

https://www.stripes.com/news/former-marine-who-sparked-okinawa-furor-is-dead-in-suspected-murder-suicide-1.53269

Do you have links to all of the other rapes Marines have done over the last 30 years so?

Sounds like you know of a lot of them.

2019:
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2019/01/02/released-arizona-killer-jacob-wideman-appeals-reimprisonment/2422528002/

Released Arizona killer Jacob Wideman appeals reimprisonment https://t.co/RYNtX0HPlu via @azcentral

— Michael Kiefer (@michaelbkiefer) January 2, 2019

I really like the “ignore commenter” button.

This big pile of loot forked over to the Federalist Society from deceased electrical products guy Barre Seid is a big deal.

(((Barre Seid))) Every single time!

Dr Gorka had a guest host recently who put in the obligatory Putin Bad but then was refreshingly honest and sane about what obviously will happen.

What do you think will happen?

We talked about Afghanistan being once again used as a base for terror operations against the United States, but now Iran’s Western neighbor will be too. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

Why ever would Muslims want to take up arms against the United States?

About half of the victims were guilty of capital crimes. Many of the others were guilty of major crimes.

I have met one person in my life who was present a lynching. The victims were white. This was the St. James Park incident in 1933. The person who was there was a friend’s father. I of course did not talk to him about it. My friend told me the story. But I did meet him.

The lynching victims had murdered the adult son of a prominent local physician in a bungled kidnapping plot.

This type of scenario probably was the most common one in the entire history of vigilante capital justice in the United States. There even were some cases where blacks lynched white perpetrators. The local whites did not get too upset about it because they knew the lynching victim was a depraved criminal. In at least one case of a white man having been lynched by blacks, the local coroner ruled it a justifiable homicide.

“He was addicted to war.”

But negotiated an peace with Stalin.

And sought peace with Great Britain.

I’m not sure what your issue is.

I didn’t write that the majority of white American troops were bottom of the barrel in WWII, and neither did Steve. It is true, however, that the military, particularly the Army, is less choosy about who it takes in during wartime [see: MacNamara’s morons].That’s not quite the same contention that you accuse me of falling for,is it?

So you’re not familiar with the evidence that being a rapist is genetic. Okay.

“He was addicted to war.”

But negotiated an peace with Stalin.

How did that work out?

…I don’t think his father being a rapist is anything more than an interesting historical footnote.

It’s too often said that it’s unimaginable that a black teen would dare speak out like that in 1950s Mississippi. This is a quite valid point– for about 90, 95, 99, whatever % of the black population. Those who say Emmitt was guilty are saying he was in the remnant.

What are the odds that any given black male is? You can bet that they’d be much higher for the son of a homicidal rapist than for a boy chosen at random. (On top of this, Emmitt grew up without a father, far less common at the time.)

So while Louis’s guilt is indeed irrelevant to the question of his son’s, it is very relevant to analyzing the probability of the latter.

And then I said to Corn Pop, “Until you’ve had the clap, you ain’t really black!”

I’ll bet in hell Satan doesn’t require a photo ID to vote.

So while Louis’s guilt is indeed irrelevant to the question of his son’s, it is very relevant to analyzing the probability of the latter.

It is therefore relevant to the question of the son’s guilt.

Bill, thanks for the link to the Marine Corps Gazette article. That–unlike most b.s.ing on Putin’s War was actually worth reading.

That said, while that Marine’s explanation was interesting, I don’t think anyone outside of Putin’s circle and the Russian command really has much of handle on what is really going on. The issues the Russians had/have and what exactly Putin’s political goals were/are and his endgame–how much does he want to grab and at what price?

I know I don’t know any of this. But despite all sorts of claims of understanding and “what’s really going on” yapping, I don’t think very many people know much of anything either.

But again, thanks for the Marine Corps Gazette piece–actually worth reading.

What was particularly disastrous about blacks?

Precisely that their bugout ratio was disproportionately high relative to any other demographic. The sociopathy that translates to excessive criminality also means they don’t really give a damn about orders from above or the man next to them, let alone the course of the war.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt?

Interesting. Do you remember where you read that?

Why ever would Muslims want to take up arms against the United States?

Ask the Ambassador.

I don’t think kayaks and Sunfish and canoes are really hot sellers in North Philly. Hard to bring back on the bus.

On the internet there are a fairly large number of blacks attempting holdups (because convenience stores, etc. all have video cameras nowadays). Quite often there is more than one yoof involved. If Yoof #1 is shot at by the shopkeeper, Yoof #2 takes off instantly at Usain Bolt-like speed.

Got a source for that?

I really like the “ignore commenter” button.

Me too. And C was first on my list of 2.
It’s not for nothing that Unz is renowned for having the best commenting system.

As a friend of mine used to joke- Where is that German Alzheimer who’s always hiding my stuff?

By ‘famed’ you mean much maligned and ridiculed, right?

Fox really cant let go of his favorite fables can he? Explaining their violence he describes the family as being “driven by circumstances, racism, and a distinctly American craving for respect by any means necessary.” More American than African?

“I don’t see why Black troops would be prosecuted when FDR and Churchill agreed to look the other way on rape by the Russians.”

The Russians weren’t under American control.

“Black soldiers who raped were probably more likely to be convicted than white soldiers who raped, and to be punished more harshly.”

Are you referring to military tribunals? Aside from perhaps being more habitual criminals why would the Army care to distinguish the two in terms of punishment?

Private Louis Till was convicted of raping two Italian women, Benni Lucrezia and Frieda Mari, and of killing a third, Anna Nanchi[Zanchi].

let’s not throw a wide net over black criminality oops too late:

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo14166482.html

I addressed Mr, Sailor’s claim with a source.

The next question I asked was a follow up, because it is a logical extension of the point he was making. He has a track record of saying things without saying things, aka an inference to lead his readers to a desired narrative.

So, were the majority of white American soldiers in WW2 the “bottom of the barrel”? What proof do you have to support that contention?

Should they even laid a hand on him in the first place?

This is also why the remnants of official segregation in the US armed forces ended. There were unfortunate experiences when mainly or all-Black units were hit by North Korean or Chinese attacks.

I wonder if the crackers who killed Emmett Till understood concepts like statistical odds and acted with them in mind. Somehow I doubt it.

Solzhenitsyn’s poem records the awful revenges perpetrated by Soviet troops on the women and children of East Prussia.

They’d been propagandized to consider all Germans a despicable enemy. And to be fair millions had been killed by the German Army.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Nights

True, but my general point is the Americans were under less pressure to scrape the bottom of the barrel than many other participants in WW2.

She’s more her Jewish mother than her black father.

Clayton Cramer (and Wikipedia isn’t awful) is a historian among other things and a while ago he went through old news reports on lynchings. As you relate, there’s a significant variety in them that doesn’t fit the trope our ruling trash pushes today. One that I remember was after a couple or so young criminal blacks murdered an old black man in his house. The resulting lynch mob was biracial, which if you know the South was not outlandish.

Clearly I shall have to mention Louis and Emmett again in my upcoming tour-de-force on lynching porn. Gotta keep this ball in play.

My favorite part of Arizona Republic reporter Michael Kiefer’s journalistic wordsmithery is italicized in this excerpt:

Jacob Wideman, now 48, is the son of the novelist John Edgar Wideman, an emeritus professor at Brown University, a former MacArthur fellow, two-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and a recipient of an American Book Award.

Among the senior Wideman’s books is a 1985 memoir, Brothers and Keepers, which describes how Wideman pulled himself out of a Pittsburgh ghetto to become an Ivy League basketball star and a Rhodes Scholar, while his brother succumbed to the streets and was beaten down by the establishment until he landed in prison with a life sentence for murder.

That’s such a precious description of Felony Murder, much more resonant than Robby’s own description of his deed (See comment #66, above).

On that topic of the establishment, somebody once quipped, “What America needs to do is treat blacks as human being with free will who, when they make good choices enjoy the benefits and when they make bad choices experience the consequences. Instead, The Establishment views blacks as our Sacred Cows, above criticism, but beneath agency.”

Who said that? Be brave, Mr. Kiefer, and click the link.

What’s quite remarkable is how many of the European Elites (is there a stylistic standard for sardonic word usage? Perhaps someone could design/typeset a reversed Italic font and we could establish that.) believe that the Anti-Russian sanctions can be removed and things would go back to normal. Putin’s drive to demilitarize the Ukraine has had the happy side effect of at least partially demilitarizing NATO and rebuilding the materiel that’s been destroyed won’t be done on Unicorn farts. Putin will not be repowering an agreement incapable West.
There is no way back. Putin’s attempts to use NSII to ship gas has shown that Russia has been the reliable partner and about half the world’s governments have shifted positions and accept this. Just 4 months ago 150 world governments condemned Russia’s move on Ukraine, last week the Ukes just about scraped together 50.
Russia has gained India but crushingly lost the Finnish Part Girl and her shitty assed people.

https://www.daily-sun.com/post/640727/Finnish-firm-warns-of-toilet-paper-shortage

and the Poles are queuing for 3 days to get to get coal for the winter.

https://whtc.com/2022/08/27/in-poland-where-coal-is-king-homeowners-queue-for-days-to-buy-fuel/

Putin will be begging for forgiveness any day now.

Ha ha.

It was the only large common area on the floor. They couldn’t much get away with this in the bunk areas and hallways.

Iraq, Ukraine or Germany?

On Twitter, David P. Goldman (Spengler) writes (8:44 AM · Aug 29, 2022):

“Capital Economics estimates that Russia can sell 1/5 of its pre-war volume of hydrocarbon exports and make the same money. The Russia sanctions have to rank as the biggest own goal in living memory.”

Yeah, you sound totally unbiased and not like pro-Russia troll at all. You forgot to mention that not only was Putin going to demilitarize Ukraine but also denazify it.

There is no doubt that weaning Europe from Russian energy is going to have a short term cost. Wars are painful but sometimes the pain is justified. WWII destroyed the British economy almost as much as it destroyed the German – the Brits had rationing for years after the war was over. But most Brits will tell you that this pain was worth it to rid the world of Hitler and the current pain is going to be worth it to rid the world of Putin and Putinism.

Wars are also contests of strength and endurance. Each side tries to inflict pain on the other and it becomes a contest to see who can endure the pain for the longest. Germany lost WWI without a shot being fired on their territory because they could no longer take the pain.

Of course Russian propaganda is “that didn’t hurt a bit” in order to show that the suffering in the West is completely for naught but that’s obviously not true. Being cut off from the West is going to have long term disastrous consequences for Russia. Their “friends” the Chinese have not helped at all because China is not going to endanger its Western markets in order to help Putin. Putin is now buying drones from the Iranians – Iranians are not exactly the first name that comes to mind when you say “high tech” so the fact that Putin has now turned to them shows how deep the desperation must be behind the scenes. The face that Russia presents to the world and what is really going on inside the Kremlin are two completely different things. The Russians have always been masters of presenting a false face to the world.

The Russians may have oil but we have chips – in the modern world chips are more important than oil and the Russians let their chip industry (always behind the West – the basis for the Soviet chip industry was the blatant copying of Western designs which could not even begin until the Western chips hit the market so they were always a generation or two behind) completely wither so they can’t even make a washing machine anymore let alone tanks without imported chips.

Let’s see who blinks first – I don’t think it is going to be the West. The West was determined to wean itself from fossil fuels anyway because of global warming (whether or not global warming is real) and this war has just sped up the process a bit. Energy was the only competitive product that Russia really had to sell – without it, the Russian economy is a hopeless basket case in the long run. No one is going to buy Russian cars or Russian planes or Russian arms (which have performed terribly in this war), especially since the Russians can’t even make this stuff without imported chips in the 1st place.

I do not believe the Emmett Till “story” in any way, shape, or form. It is as fake as the Tulsa “Massacre” of 1921, you know, when the White males were so jealous of “black Wall Street” that they went on a burning, looting, and killing spree. WE know it’s a joke – problem is, there are plenty of insecure blacks, both young and old, who are more than happy to suck up these demented fairy tales.
As for the atrocities that took place during WW2, dozens of women, young and old, were raped in France, many of them gang-raped. In some cases the perpetrators were White, but these were mostly committed by black soldiers. They did make prostitution available to the soldiers, but that wasn’t free, you know. In many cases, black soldiers raped French prostitutes and stole whatever money they could find on them and in their possessions. The French women really grew to dread the sight of black American soldiers and resented they were made to feel racist if they did not want patronage of black soldiers.
Now, what happened in Occupied Japan was FAR WORSE than what happened in Europe. General MacArthur did the best he could in order to contain the situation. The first 11 days of occupation saw a reported 1,330 cases of rape. So they set up “comfort women stations” – prostitution essentially, however, to no real avail, because as was the case in France, many “comfort women” were raped and robbed by black soldiers, many gang-raped, as well. Many young women were raped in front of their own fathers. The blacks also went on looting sprees in those first 10 days, because they were dumped off in a village that had only women, children, and the elderly, the young men had all been called off for duty.
Eventually, once it had become determined 1 in 4 servicemen contracted VD, MacArthur put a stop to prostitution and made it clear men would be held accountable. A lot of really horrible things took place in Japan – it was more freedom and lack of supervision than the likes of these young ferals could handle. I wish I could say it was only blacks – however, the large majority was black, especially the stealing, looting, murder in some cases, and their signature gang-raping.
Well over 75 men ended up being hung for rape – 68 of those men were black.
uncensoredhistory.blogspot.com, should you be interested in learning more.

Of course there were “degenerates” who were soldiers in WW2.

Do you have evidence to back this up, or are you just making another baseless assertion? Oh Corvirus, you’re so cagey.

make a statement without evidence to back it up, because he believes it is a truism.

I will need to see proof that “he believes it is a truism”. Otherwise I will conclude that you simply FAIL TO NOTICE.

Then later, Corky says:

“He has a track record of saying things without saying things, aka an inference to lead his readers to a desired narrative.

AGAIN with the baseless assertions. A “track record” implies “more than once”. Please provide at least 5 instances backing up your claims.

Jack… I concur with most of your commentary and appreciate your perspectives in most of the rest. I even agree with many of the specifics of the long comment I’m replying to.

However.

This “steady on, the other guy is about to collapse” sounds like a Hindenberg speech of 1916… 1917… 1918… but not 1919.

Like John Mearshimer, you’re American. As he’s pointed out for the last 8 years, our Washington DC Dept. of State and Deep State wizards have been risking disaster, not for us, but for our European allies. (To say nothing of the Ukrainians themselves.) Now it’s happening.

The first images of gas and electric bills are trickling onto Twitter from Ireland, Germany, etc., and they aren’t pretty. 5x jumps. If the wholesale markets are a guide, they’ll be 10x within a few months. By the winter, it’ll be rationing and not-at-any-price.

This isn’t short term cost or painful or who-blinks-first. It’s plummeting living standards, businesses going bankrupt, seniors freezing in their flats, economies flatlining. Yeltsin’s Russia. Weimar.

Dreher today, too long as always. See his excerpt of Hungary P.M Viktor Orban’s speech of July 23rd.

This mix of “Let’s play Risk!” and “Let’s you and him fight” is not good policy.

Fake historian Alice Kaplan, one of the gang of 88, who supported the Duke Rape Hoax, turned Louis Till into a “victim” of racism. She was mad that any black GI rapists or murderers was punished during WWII, while seeking to have innocent Whites railroaded for rapes that never happened, which would have been, in effect, a death penalty.

https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2016/01/fraudulent-tenured-historian-emmett.html

https://pittsburghquarterly.com/articles/brothers-keepers/

With my turning 65, my wife and I decided on a change of venue for six weeks. In the winter of 2018–2019, we rented a place in Stowe, Vt. and drove up with a station wagon full of Wideman documents. Afternoons were dedicated to my writing a Pardon Board “Application for Reconsideration.”

There was something serendipitous about sitting down that first afternoon for what would be more than a month of drafting. I got a telephone call:

“Mark… With this new guy [John] Fetterman being elected in November and now sworn in as lieutenant governor, we’ve got a real shot.”
I didn’t recognize the caller. “May I ask who this is?”
“Jeff Manning.”

I didn’t feel that Judge Manning and I were on a first-name basis. But he was correct. For Wolf’s second term, his lieutenant governor would be the upstart former mayor of Braddock, the depressed steel town just outside Pittsburgh. You’d never know from the goatee, black T-shirt, biker look and tattoos that mayor-turned-lieutenant governor John Fetterman was Harvard-educated.

THREAD: 7 times Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman advocated for releasing ONE-THIRD of prison inmates.

1⃣ Fetterman, 2020: “I agree” that “we could reduce our prison population by a third and not make anyone less safe.”pic.twitter.com/OhSIIQ63f7

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 30, 2022

This “steady on, the other guy is about to collapse” sounds like a Hindenberg speech of 1916… 1917… 1918… but not 1919.

As I said before, war is in part a “who blinks first” game. If I was saying “steady on, the other guy is about to collapse” then wasn’t “Bill Jones” (and aren’t you) saying the exact same thing from the Russian perspective? We are only 6 months into this (and at the moment the Russian offensive appears to have run out of steam) – come back in a year or 2 or 3 and we’ll see who outlasts who.

It’s inconceivable that consumer energy costs in Europe are going to jump 10x. Politically that is not viable – their governments would take action to subsidize energy costs before that. Extrapolating trends in a straight line rarely works – in the US gasoline prices have been falling. It’s easy declare that the sky is falling and that the Germans will be standing in bread lines this winter, but call me when that ACTUALLY happens. Of course you can’t just ignore the situation and hope for the best, but I really don’t see these worst case scenarios actually happening. The German government is rich and resourceful and they are not just going to stand by helplessly while their economy goes down the toilet.

Nor, are they, contrary to the hopes of the Putinists, ever going to go to Putin and beg for forgiveness in order to rescue their economy – that’s just not gonna happen. Those bridges have now been burned, even if the Germans have to burn their furniture for heating. Maybe if there wasn’t the whole “green” aspect to this, they might reconsider but once you add “greenness” on top of Ukraine, they are never going back to Russian fossil fuels – it’s only a question of how rapidly they can make the transition.

It’s inconceivable that consumer energy costs in Europe are going to jump 10x.

Markets work. Not today, but definitely within months or years. 10x energy prices will lure new investments from energy producers. They’re not figuring on peak prices, but even 25% price increases should result in them recovering their cost of capital and then some.

Emmett Till may have been a creep, but I don’t think that he deserved to be beaten to death. And while I find it loathsome the way the media wave his corpse around to drum up white guilt, I don’t think his father being a rapist is anything more than an interesting historical footnote. Till fils isn’t responsible for the sins of Till peré any more than the white race is collectively guilty for lynchings by our great-great-great-great grandfathers.

Ian, Till did not deserve to be beaten to death. (My take on what I’ve read was that everyone at the time thought some degree of beating was coming/deserved. But no one including the white folks in town thought the killing was deserved. An asshole who needed some sense/proper behavior knocked into him seems to more have been the thought.) Nor is Till responsible for his father’s rape, though that certainly goes a long way toward explaining his assholery.

But you just clean missed why Steve’s response to Biden was so excellent. It isn’t that Till is necessarily a genetic bad apple. It is it is that Biden–nominally the President of the United States–is blabbing about a–personal score-settling–murder from 67 years ago, using it to beat whitey … today. An anachronism.

Steve’s countering with Till’s own father–ouch!–raping and murdering 78 years ago, while serving as an American soldier. Which scores so many hits at once it’s positively delicious.

You can’t subsidize the cost of fuel you don’t have.

It’s a tragedy and a huge own-goal for the US and Europe that Russia, which has always looked to Europe since at least Peter The Great, is giving up and turning East.

If you have one rising global power and two declining ones, it makes little sense for the most powerful declining nation to drive the weaker declining nation and the rising one together.

“what’s quite remarkable is how many of the European Elites believe that the Anti-Russian sanctions can be removed and things would go back to normal”

Agreed. Even, which I don’t think for a moment will happen, were the EU to eat crow, how can you trust them any more – and I put the UK at the top of that list.

Blok’s poem The Scythians is still relevant

Come join us, then! Leave war and war’s alarms,
And grasp the hand of peace and amity.
While still there’s time, Comrades, lay down your arms!
Let us unite in true fraternity!

But if you spurn us, then we shall not mourn.
We too can reckon perfidy no crime,
And countless generations yet unborn
Shall curse your memory till the end of time.

We shall abandon Europe and her charm.
We shall resort to Scythian craft and guile.
Swift to the woods and forests we shall swarm,
And then look back, and smile our slit-eyed smile.