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Pentagon’s New “Law of War” Manual “Reduces Us to the Level of Nazis”
The Pentagon’s new Law of War Manual – a 1,200-plus page document issued in June by the Defense Department’s Office of the General Counsel – is barbaric.
The Manual is so bad that one of the leading experts on the law of war (Dr. Francis Boyle) – who wrote the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, and teaches international law at the University of Illinois, Champaign – says :
This Law of War Manual reduces us to the level of Nazis. There’s no other word for it.
Boyle also says the Manual:
Reads like it was written by Hitler’s Ministry of War.
Why is the Manual so bad?
Manual Authorizes Slaughter of Innocent Civilians
Because – according to Boyle – the Manual allows massacres of civilian populations. The most comprehensive previous such document – the 1956 Pentagon field manual – assumed that any deliberate targeting of civilians was illegal and a war crime.
Reporters Can Be Assassinated
And the Manual treats allows reporters to be treated as “unprivileged combatants”, who can be assassinated.
Boyle points out that this retroactively legalizes assassination of reporters, such as Al Jazeera reporters during Iraq war. Boyle notes that even a SPY would be treated better, and given a trial.
(As we’ve previously noted, the U.S. government treats real reporters as terrorists. Because the core things which reporters do could be considered terrorism, in modern America, journalists are sometimes targeted under counter-terrorism laws.)
Manual Authorizes Barbarous War Crimes
Boyle also says the Manual authorizes the following barbarous war crimes:
(1) Warfare with nuclear weapons. Specifically, the manual states:
There is no general prohibition in treaty or customary international law on the use of nuclear weapons.
This flies in the face of the United Nations Charter, which – as noted by the World Court in its Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons – makes even threatening to use nuclear weapons a war crime.
This is also particularly worrisome because – as documented in
Towards a World War III Scenario, by Michel Chossudovsky – the U.S. is so enamored with nuclear weapons that it has authorized low-level field commanders to use them in the heat of battle in their sole discretion … without any approval from civilian leaders.
(2) Depleted uranium. The use of depleted uranium can cause cancer and birth defects for decades (see this, this, this, this, this, this and this).
(3) Landmines.
(4) Cluster bombs.
(5) Napalm, which is banned under Protocol III of the 1980 UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
(6) Expanding hollow-point bullets, banned under the 1868 St. Petersburg declaration.
(7) Herbicides, like Agent Orange in Vietnam.
The Good News
The good news – according to Dr. Boyle – is that both Congress and the president have power to revoke the Manual.
So – if we stand up and raise holy hell – we might be able to walk back from the fascist path we’re heading down. And we can prove that we’re not the rogue nation that the rest of the world thinks we are.
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Where were you all my life?
Serve? Hahahahaha, holy shit monad thanks for the laugh. Murder, just call it what it is.
Remember me when your community is under a massive, debt financed State army. Conquistadore.
Sorry, but demonizing the Gemans instead of the real evil ones who have worked with murder, mayhem and subterfuge for centuries won't get a pass here.
Dr. Francis Boyle - Really? http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/12/12/francis-a-boyle-to-the-hague-dis...
http://thegreateststorynevertold.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/this-flag...
http://thegreateststorynevertold.tv/
https://youtu.be/4cqBYHzGyOo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3seoQwZi14
I'm beginning to wonder if GW isn't a gate keeper...
Something all of you who like to parrot the Nazi epithet should know:
http://justice4germans.com/2013/04/16/exposing-the-nazi-epithet-who-star...
Germans.
Head of Veterans Today admits to disinfo: Gordon Duff Admits To VT Disinfo
Baby--------------------> Bathwater much?
I'm not defending VT but even a bad site gives up an acorn sometimes.
Yes, but even a fool should have worked that out, after reading the first or second VT page. And it isn't just Duff, he was just the tip of the associated iceberg with VT. And plenty of others around doing the same on other websites, some of them actually 'regarded' and quoted in here regularly.
And its not just sites like VT, mainstream prime time poison public discourse too, just for different owners, we all know who they are (hence my confliction joke about the concept of offing some journalists, above). And of course RT is among the very worst offenders, but noes! Must not criticize the Russian troll media, on zh! Only allowed hack down western media asshats! Hands off mass lie fabrication factory, like RT.
All of these people are intent on poisoning and degrading 'knowns', and inserting unknowns as knowns, and pretending that things that can't actually be known, yet, or possibly ever, are in fact known, or should be treated as 'known'.
It's done simply to make dysfunctional the whole process of public discourse, and sideline the use of evidence, and make no-evidence equate to having evidence, and destroy the concept of a valid verifiable testable source.
Which is a particularly malevolent activity in my view, a genuine enemy of the people does that (for want of a better term).
But more the point, why did so many zh numbskulls fail to recognize VT as such, and went sprouting its fabricated crap anyway, even when it was pointed out to them that it was thoroughly obvious that it was fabricated crap?
People like Duff would not be a problem at all if such numbskulls were not doing that. Duff got away with it only as long as people permitted his crap to go unchallenged and didn't reject it and him immediately. But those same people who read vt, will have no problem with the blatant lies RT tells. It's much more glossy!
Remember the desktop publishing craze in the early 1980s? Of course you do. One of the reasons it was so popular was because any jerk, like duff, could suddenly write complete crap and present it with laser printed professional polish, and deceive numbskulls all the more easily.
Style over substance simply works beautifully on credulous numbskulls.
All that we see today is the same concept being applied to video broadcasting, and the numbskulls are deceived in about 10 seconds if it seems 'credible' enough in presentation, and has a kewl animated logo or symbol, and a hottie in there somewhere.
i.e. numbskulls per-sec are the root of the problem every time (another whole topic, that one).
As for disgusting jerks like Duff, he can make all the hand-wringing self-apologetic mendacious 'excuses' he wishes, but only a numbskull of similar mendacity would entertain more of his mendacious fabrications about why he mendaciously fabricated.
I know what I'd do with him and his wondrous mitigating excuses - plus it would nourish the soil.
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veteranstoday is a verifiable looney bin.
Thanks for checking on my status though. Neat, although you are trampling on St. Geo Wash's turf there. ;)
If the citizens of the United States republic ever seek to remove the sitting federal government from their duty of submitting the US Constitution and its duty.
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There should be total understanding regarding the capability of the US military, and what it can and was designed to do to enemy populations.
This type of manual indicates that many of the rich/powerful will go to extreme lengths to defend their status quo level especially in an economic crisis that is likely to hit the middle and lower classes first and harder too. It's sad that acts that were once considered as immoral are now getting "legal cover" to attempt to make those things now a part of the official plan and paperwork.
It's primary function is as a deterrent to war, it works by making your opponent confident they work extremely well, but to make them think you'll use them in a serious battle.
the way you are putting it here is misleading as well, as the US and other nuke armed allied have a doctrine and battle plans that are continuously refined. For instance, during the cold war the main allied power's military's clearly understood their forces would be rapidly attrited in an actual Soviet invasion attempt, and that troops and armor coming across the Atlantic may take too long to prevent over-run and expenditure of local weapon supplies. Si they developed doctrines (doctrinaire views) and resulting engagement plans on how to fight, in that situation. And part of that was the early use of nuclear weapons to eliminate enemy concentrations and thus prevent over-run and prevent the enemy fighting effectively thereafter. they made this known and that acted as a deterrent. So that is what they are doing again.
Also Putin invaded Crimea with special forces and threatened to obliterate all of Ukraine if they tried to fight back. Clearly Putin was not sufficiently deterred from threatening nuclear war, and unfortunately the UN didn't factor in spanking him as a war crim.
Agree somewhat, but not convinced it's the problem claimed by activism, reality is a bit different. But if a major power has a large arsenal of effective anti-armor and anti-material incendiary weapons, then I see no excuse at all for using DU. DU was again a product of the need to kill Soviet armor fast, and cheaply, with smaller caliber weapons short of missiles. If the options are do I kill them with DU, or with neutron bombs and having a nuke exchange, then by all means, use the DU please. DU really only became a problem after the Cold War standoff, when A-10s and other aircraft showed up in the ME and used it, but there was no immediate choice between using DU, or else neutron bombs.
That never should have occurred. Failure of military leadership, both then and since. But the potential for a problem was also not well appreciated then, either. And mostly it still isn't, mostly because the alleged effects produced are much more ambiguous than vocal advocates claim.
I think you'll have a hard time convincing the Ukrainian military and Govt that land mines on their borders are a bad thing. Same for any other county where the land border is contended and being invaded. No chance these are actually going away George. Self detonation after 1 year of two in the ground is a better option than a ban.
This weapon is also a situation were if you're going to be over run you'd want them, and want them used, as a defensive measure to attrite and degrade a large force, and buy time (at least that's the justification used). In that context they seem 'justified'.
How they are used, actually, i.e. aggressively, to say, cover villages in Southern Lebanon with cluster mines, to murder and harm residents and depopulate the village is clearly not defensive, not aimed at soldiers, and not military use, and does look to me like a war crime.
Same applies to Napalm as with cluster bombs. However, Napalm is rarely used any more as radar-guided and unguided AAA cannons and mobile battlefield SAMs make delivering it to a forward force too dangerous to bother with it. Plus there's some very effective precision targeted 'smart' grenade-launcher rounds and tech these days, plus indirect fire that makes putting frag and incendiary on a near location not too hard to arrange. Try and find active use of napalm, today.
This one just seems very out dated to me. Rifle weapons of that era were struggling for muzzle velocity, range, and effects. All that happened after that was banned was the calibers and cartridges got bigger with better propellant, the muzzle velocities went up, and even steal jacketed rounds began to hit flesh with so much energy by WWI that they opened a path six inches wide as they went through anyway. It really made no difference to the trauma level.
The West at least went down to 5.56 mm from 7.62 mm (.223 from .308), but only because they had much higher mussel velocity and got the same EFFECTS with less weight and better accuracy with range.
But new rounds can be hyper-velocity and smaller again, made out of tungsten. If you get hit by one of those they literally blow a torso in half from kinetic hydrodynamic shock wave within your flesh.
So a very outdated concept.
Yeah, ~50 years ago. What does that have to do with now?
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As for killing some journalists I must admit, I'm a little conflicted on this one. ;-)
And don't tell me you aren't George ... I wouldn't believe it ... search your feelings Luke ... ;-)
I suspect it was a little more nuanced than that georges, but 1956 was 11 years after the end of WWII, (i.e 1945 was to them what 2004 is to us) and all the career officers in 'winning' allied military's had just done something like that in several countries. So yeah, they probably tended to see the realities of war in terms which I'm 100% confident you don't. But then again 1956 is almost 60 years ago! Quoting a manual from that era is not really a sound basis for a compelling proposition about now, is it?
Frankly, such a case would be better made with current day actions and examples (if it can be reasonably sustained, that is). Too much of "Boyles" argument (which is really George's argument here) is resorting to events which are not even close to current. But if you wanted to make such a case now you would have to compare it to contemporary forces in other countries as well. And frankly, that would make it a bit harder to sustain.
As I see it; every military on earth contains human elements within them, that when given an opportunity, will act 'fascist', without any hesitation. Why pretend it's just one military institution, and not the human tendencies of all of them?
Sorry, the US does not have a fascist military. Fascism comes from a political choice to use violence to attain policy ends. And those politicians come from the culture itself, which they then radicalize further by adding to the aggressive propaganda and fear.
The military, in the end (in the west at least) follows that lead of mainstream political BS, and civil attitudes (but also uses psy-op to shape those too). That's how it came to be that military forces tortured en-masse in the past decade. The politicians were urging them, repeatedly, to get intel via whatever means, and the citizens were complicit in the prevailing attitudes that permitted hardline actions.
What came first, the chicken, or the egg?
"That bit, right there, that's the bad bit!".
Yeah, OK ... what now?
Consider; the reason why Putin moved on Crimea is because Ukraine was very weak and unprepared to fight. If it was strong he would not have done that, or done it anywhere so easily. The reason why everyone is moving in on Syria now is because Syria is also weak.
This if you disbanded the US military (as you seem to want to) well, aggressive power loves a power vacuum. and then you really do see aggressive fascism expand in the wake of weakness and no deterrent.
It's my own view that civilians are mostly a form of poorly-disciplined military force, just with no uniforms or guns. 'Civilians' have a President, a 'leader', who is the military 'Commander in Chief'.
Get it? Most people never do.
Somehow there is a deep disconnect, a blindness to the implication that this means civilians are also 'in' a military. But who don't know they are. But if they were not, they could not be conscripted, or forced to vote, with the threat of a fine if you do not follow orders, and vote!
As pretend 'civilians', their actual military role is to make money efficiently (be productive), to be taxed harder, thus to build/buy better weapons.
And tend to get distracted by the latest iCrap social self-righteousness gadget, that enforces a right-thinking' idealism, so that they don't grasp that civilians are really just military capability that is deployed in a productive role, to better support the "sharp end", pay the taxes and service the banks.
In civilian roles the military 'promotions' take more subtle forms, they put more loot in the bank accounts of people that serve the 'society' best. And that's how you get a culture that produces the politicians who are prone to fascist leanings to get promoted further.
Who knows little Georgy! You could be President when you grow up!
Be the best you can be, Georges! :D
Not true!
I did not bother with the rest of your post given you more than likely 'believe' this statement. -1
I don't 'believe' it, I wrote it.
Belief was surplus to requirment. I watched events live and listened to threats and read about them. I saw them enter Ukranian ships from Russian vessels, and take them over, and saw them enter a Ukranian air base by force of arms. and numerous other occupational armed action. I'm pretty sure, and so are most of 7 billion humans that it was not in fact the Martians doing that.
And you might want to recall this from DW TV:
Not a whole lot of room for confusion there.
Some crazy guy called Tyler Durden wrote this:
Lucky it was not Chinese territory the Russian colonists tried to carve off, eh? The Chinese might have put the lot on them on trains at gun point and the shipped them back to Russia (at best). But of course Putin would not try that on China, he'll only play the poor beset armed-Russian colonist card with the weaker states who he thinks he can bully, and pretend they are his territory anyway.
Fine, pretend none of it happened, but utube is loaded to the gills with video of them doing it, which is a bit of a fly in the ointment for your bullshit story. Oh or perhaps it really is the Martian military guarding Crimea today, and threatening to use nukes to hold it?
Sorry, there is actually only one set of events from which history can be recalled, or maybe you 'believe' history dips in and out a multiverse of variable themes, as you please, with no evidence of this at all? Or maybe you just want to 'believe'? ... yeah ... whatever.
"The military, in the end (in the west at least) follows that lead of mainstream political BS,"
The military follows the lead of the BANKSTER WOLVES & PIGS who have lied, cheated, stolen and bribed their way into controlling American policy, foreign and domestic, so that it serves only their interests— and the people, not at all. They own the farm, shear the SHEEP and steal with impunity given cover by obfuscating bloviator sociopaths.
Please, the Nazis were the good guys.
One year after I wrote the controversial, much reprinted column Achtung! Are We the New Nazis?, how much has changed? Have things gotten better or worse in Iraq for "liberating" US troops and the so-called liberated Iraqi people? Sadly, the much-ballyhooed liberation has become the brutal occupation we critics always predicted it would become, of indefinite subjugation.
"Ten days before the invasion, Bill O'Reilly penned The New Nazis, a concise Neocon memo for a preemptive strike against Iraq, concluding with an ironic twist: "Nobody can predict the outcome and aftermath of any war. But we can learn from history. Evil has a way of killing people"--affirmed the respected talk show host--"that's a fact." Doctor Goebbels, who predicted the power of radio for the spread of state propaganda--would have been proud of his rapt pupil.
Achtung, Nazi!--One Year Later |I knew the nazis would come out and make Zionist Jews responsible for waht the Pentagon does. I'll tell you what they do,they run a good country and keep a bunch of savages in line. Unlike the Pentagon which doesn't even know who is po0n their side. Ever stop to think the plais are everyone non muz's enemies.
Actually, with a little research, one would find that it is really the criminals of the Rothschild interests that run and control the DC US' Pentagon wing of power. These Rothschilds were on the scene first, before the birth of the Zionist scheme in the 19th. Century.
The Zionists are more of a political force that exerts their power via the "softer power" of the CIA.
The two actually became allies during WW-I, like two mob families teaming up so as to preserve and increase the plunder flowing to both. The Zionists got a criminal base of operations, Palestine, and the Rothschilds got more usury to line their pockets with.
Now a days the two are so intertwined it is hard to discern where the boundaries between the two are. From time to time one can see their still brewing rivalry come out in the open, like it did with the purges of the Pentagon of late--McChrystal and Petraeus--the overthrows in Egypt, and the CIA's take down of the Pentagon sigtel arm, the NSA.
Since at least three of the last four Oval Office puppets have been CIA stooges--Bush Sr., Clinton, and CIA-Obama--the Zionists have effectively won the rivalry, and are now consolidating their power over the DC US and west.
The rest becomes crochet with a flamingo, but like in Alice in the rabbit hole, nothing is what it seems, only what it seems not.
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity..
We Americans are armed with a great and mighty weapon; Non-violent weapon as well. And that weapon is the removal of our backs from under their skyscraper of fiat-debt funded tyranny. Withdraw our backs, Stop paying, and their entire edifice and empire of plunder, murder, and tyranny will collapse down upon them.
So, just Stop. Stop paying. Stop whatever consent you may have given them with a loud "No!". Stop playing along with their farce; The farce that empowers their tyranny over you, us.
They will still come, but much weakened, and then it is time for the rest of the Four Rs.
We are not sheep asleep, but mighty lions stirring awake.
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity..
The Four Rs
Rejection: Stop Paying, Stop Obeying, Stop Playing, Stop-up the System.
Revolution: It is inevitable, so prepare, as they are.
Restoration: Restore the American people, country and Constitutional republic.
Retribution: The guilty must answer for their crimes against the American people and the Constitution.
Only thing left out of your post was the part about Guiotilles.
"Only thing left out of your post was the part about Guillotines."
Implied as part of Retribution. Trial and then Retribution on the guillotine.
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity..
rope is reusable
Whats the furor about the Fuhrer ?
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Of course it
Reduces Us to the Level of NazisBut not to the level of, say, the "Red-Army WWII Rape & Horror Machine" or the Mao "Cultural Warrior Genociders" or the American "Brown-Muslim Massacre Machine" cause those are all A-OK right?
(Pol Pot)
(Tamil Tigers)
(philistines)
The good news – according to Dr. Boyle – is that both Congress and the president have power to revoke the Manual.
So – if we stand up and raise holy hell – we might be able to walk back from the fascist path we’re heading down. And we can prove that we’re not the rogue nation that the rest of the world thinks we are.
The author is a dreamer. Militarism has become a state religion. There are a lot of people out there who vent their anger and frustration by rooting for war against whichever alien the news media puts in front of them. Even people I know who are otherwise very nice. I've had the same experience on other blogs when I bring up the subject of war crimes.
NOBODY is safe until every sociopath and psychopath is marginalized.
There is technology available that can scan the human brain for these unconscionable subhuman assholes, and genetic engineering can prevent any future propagation. There is a Sex Offender Registry, time for an International Sociopath & Psychopath Registry for these POS vermin.
Couldn't agree more. An ounce of prevention is worth incalculably more then any later cure. The cure is often the source of re-infestation in any case.
Sign me up.
Is there a disability annuity involved?
" time for an International Sociopath & Psychopath Registry for these POS vermin."
Its called a guillotine.
Unless one thinks that the likes of Pelosi, Bush Sr., Bush Jr. Cheney, Reid, Clinton, Hillary, Wolfowitz, Bremer, etc. have a productive role and place in a Restored civil society.
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity..
The nazis were civilized compared to the new bolshie savages running the shit show in the USSA.
Neocon historical revisionism at its finest.
Dr. Francis Boyle - served on the board of Amnesty International.
Yes, it's all becoming very clear to me now. Peace and moshpits for the win!
The more I read about Boyle, the more sure I am that he is a completely debased, reprobate, moral relativist.
Where there is State there is greed,
where there is greed there is war.
Where there is war there is suffering.
Fuck the fiat.
More peace please.
In this post you surpassed even your consistent level of idiocy, stupidity, anti-America, pro-everyone else, especially islamic-cult worshiping vermin, bias.
You clearly have NO UNDERSTANDING of who the Nazis were and what they did, compared to the USA military.
You have claimed to be an "american", but we now know that YOU ARE an islamic-cult worshiping anti-America PROPAGANDIST - living in America does NOT make you an American.
And there you have it. Keep an eye on this meme- the current push is to remove birthright citizenship from all people, not just the scapegoats who may or may not be crossing borders.
Republican Neo Con filth.
So based on your assertion what DOES make you an American? Will cheerleading for unconstitutional laws/action do it? Perhaps being undocumented?
You also assert you have and understanding of the Nazis - do you also understand who helped to finance them? Hmmm? Do you know WHO those people were? Hell, we even got a rebate on the purchase - project paperclip.
Personally, I like the approach of Christian philosopher, writer and psychiatrist M. Scott Peck. He didn't think "all Muslims are devils" or "all xyz are good."
Instead, he thought that people of ALL faiths can range from very good to monsters ... depending on their level of faith, development and maturity.
P.S I'm an American, with a Judeo-Christian background.
P.P.S. To me, the Constitution is more-or-less a sacred document, and my respect for the Founding Fathers is enormous. And The Demonization of Muslims is “Completely At Odds with America’s Founding Principles”.
Notice how he always responds "I'm an American, with a Judeo-Christian background", and he never denies that he is a home-grown convert to the islamic cult or has any criticism of the millenia-long much more severe immoralities, lies, hypocrisies, and atrocities of the islamic cultists.
We know who this impostor is, despite his feeble attempts to slime out of his true convictions, he IS one of the islamic cult worshipers, and his only purpose is to use America's ideals as a stage prop to ridicule and villianize America while white-washing regimes which are infinitely worse, eg the islamic cult worshipers, the putinists and the chi-coms.
Your respect for slaveowners? Or, a document I never signed but you somehow think I'm bound to obey?
The islamic cult's membership rule book, the koran, requires that all its faithful practicing members commit all the oppression, repression, suppression. intimidation, coercion, conquest, subjugation, torture and murder that you are always accusing the USA of being guilty of and whining about like a child passing through puberty,
AND
the islamic cult worshipers have been perpetrating these acts for millennia, and are resurgent today - go to iran and try publishing the truth about the islamic regime's atrocities and find yourself a guest in their regime's torture dungeons.
Eradicating the islamic cult worshipers is two things:
1. doing unto them BEFORE they can do unto us as 100% justifiable self-defense
2. good sanitation in eradicating a very dangerous contagious disease
You are definitely NOT an American, no matter what you came from or what you claim. Your ONLY agenda is to shit on America and elevate the islamic cult worshipers, putinists and chi-coms are being "victims of American empire lust" and being morally superior to the Americans, when in fact the policies and actions of each of those regimes is many, many, many times worse than the worst of the policies and actions of the American regime.
You are only at most just a sleazy propagandist, fifth-columnist and traitor.
You are not an American.
Isn't the inclusion of someone's religion in a judgment of their character a misdirection in the first place? Why should it be relevant?
This is no surprise, although making it public is.
The continuation of the Nazi idealism: Major industrialist in America liked some of what the Nazis stood for: corporate control (Rockefeller and Ford support of Germany during WW2 is well documented). After WW2 the IG Farben group of Germany created a joint venture with the Rockefeller group in America. During the next two decades the Rockefeller family empowered the Council on Foreign Relations to "mould" (eh, more like mold) the minds of rising politicians. At the same time they bought, or arranged the purchase of the twelve major newspapers needed to direct Americas opinion (that twelve has since grow and now includes TV networks). I have yet to find the connection between Rockafeller and Diabold, but I'm sure it's there.
So here we are. Our honorable soldiers swear an oath of service to us and the constitution, yet our leaders send them to support Nazis in Ukraine and Jihadists in Syria.
https://youtu.be/7BZCfbrXKs4
https://youtu.be/EOSrJH7z5CI
https://youtu.be/SMKnH2BlkBA
https://youtu.be/W9jzD2FIST0
This was the soft coup that we were warned of in 1958 by Rober Welsh. https://youtu.be/mqXVYTKKMec
Small comfort that it will fail. Collectivist systems like Nazism always fails.