"History is full of ironies. Of course, it was the British who invented the concentration camp, and they did that during their war with the Afrikaners in South Africa. Afrikaners, of course, were the inventors of apartheid. Israel has learned from the South African example and perfected it. In a sense, made it even worse. And now we're into concentration camps for Palestinians, by people who, themselves, are the descendants of Nazi concentration camp inmates. You can't make this stuff up."
Newsweek, and many others, think "Crazy" Pete Hegseth is "Now Boarding the USS Idiocracy" for reconsidering naming a Navy ship after Harvey Milk. While I agree the Department of Defense should have better things to do with their time, I don't think they're completely off base with this one. If anything - like the subject of America and Israel - Harvey Milk inadvertently directs our attention to the parameters Americans are deceitfully putting around the truth, to keep history hidden under layers of propaganda. Check out Milk's bio in The Daily Mail:
Milk served four years during the Korean War before being discharged due to questions about his sexual orientation. He went on to become the first openly gay member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and was assassinated in 1978.
What's not to love? Clearly, if the U.S. Navy wants to honor Milk - purely for his military service - then fine, have at it. Only a bigot would say otherwise.
But, the issue is, there's more to Harvey Milk than his four years in Korea. Much more. And it's NOT good. And the main problem is, as Michael Bellefountaine wrote in 2013, "despite all the exhibits and memorials of Harvey Milk throughout San Francisco,...none of them acknowledges Milk’s relationship with Jim Jones and Peoples Temple."
As bad as that oversight is, it gets even worse. While beginning to write this post, I immediately identified a huge incident in Milk's life story that appears to have been wiped from the internet's narrative: the night Harvey Milk bombed his own camera store and blamed heterosexuals for it. Google's AI says "Based on the search results, it seems there might be a misunderstanding or a connection being made that is not supported by the provided information."
During his successful run for city supervisor, for instance, Milk’s camera store was the object of a glass-shattering attack by low-grade explosives. Milk blamed singer Anita Bryant, the outspoken opponent of gay-friendly legislation. “Years later friends hinted broadly that Harvey had more than a little foreknowledge that the explosions would happen,” biographer Randy Shilts noted. One friend explained to Shilts: “You gotta realize the campaign was sort of going slow, and, well . . .”
Determined to help elect politicians friendly toward his People's Temple, the Rev. Jim Jones ordered what former temple members say was an organized campaign of fraudulent voting practices that included importing busloads of illegal voters to cast their ballots in this city's 1975 municipal elections.
Among those named by some of Mr. Jones's former followers as recipients of his political support were Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, both of whom were shot and killed in their City Hall offices three weeks ago, allegedly by an enraged former city official.
That was NOT in Sean Penn's movie. There's also allegations of child sexual abuse, rape allegations, and more. Like the cult's mass murder in Guyana. Which brings me to one of the reasons I'm writing this post: Many Americans are living a lie, based on a manufactured culture, that few want exposed. A manufactured culture that's turned Harvey Milk - at best, a People's Temple associate - into someone admirable, to suit an agenda. An agenda that not only disrespects history, but the dead, who demand we wrestle with the truth.
And the truth is, Harvey Milk's participation in the Peoples Temple gave Jim Jones more credibility, political clout (Jones was rewarded with an office) and led, at least, 900 people to their deaths. How can we possibly hope to understand our time - when allegations of Democrat Party voter fraud in 2020 are still alive and well - if we aren't even allowed to know the Democrats not only did it, but got away with it, before? And, just like now, no one knew how it was done - until someone decided to confess. So we live a lie. And it's not the only one I can say this about.
Because even Joe Rogan doesn't wanna break through this bullshit.
I'm convinced it's all psychopathy, which may be in the eyes - either manic (think of the zionist's "Godmother of the Settlements") or Netanyahu-dead, like a fish.
Shane Gillis said the movie ['Sinners'] is like 'From Dusk 'Til Dawn' mixed with 'Django Unchained,' and admits he got "triggered" enough by the race stuff to consider correcting it's Irishhistory for the theatre he was in - but immediately thought against it - considering how they were only watching a vampire movie.
"When a real and final catastrophe should befall us in Palestine, the first responsible for it would be the British and the second responsible for it the Terrorist organizations [built] up from our own ranks. I am not willing to see anybody associated with those misled and criminal people."
"McDonald's is giving free meals to the Israelis. Because nothing will make you feel better, after killing a bunch of Palestinian kids, than a Happy Meal."
And, for fans of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, here's a new long-form guy:
Jason Manning with Collective Violence in American History 2: Fault Lines
TMR has been searching all day for Israel's "right to exist" as a Jewish homeland and just can't find one. Heard the tale, over and over again, and it keeps coming out the same way:
The Israelis are being assholes.
Romans chased the Jews from Israel 3,000 years ago - not the Palestinians - Romans.
They stayed gone until after WWII. Then British colonialists decided the Jews could move back - not the Palestinians or the Arabs who've lived there for the previous 3000 years - British colonialists.
So the Jews moved back and started kicking Palestinians out - at the point of a gun. In other words, the Israelis started doing everything to the Palestinians that the Jews had happen to them elsewhere. But - just like the Jews - the Palestinians hadn't done anything to deserve the abuse. They just lost their homes, lands, and lives, because racists in Yurp made problems.
But the Israelis don't care - when they ought to be ashamed of themselves - because there's no "right to exist" as a Jewish homeland in that story. The Jews lost that land - and the British had no right to give it back - so, understandably, the Palestinians are upset, because people are always very possessive of their land. It's beyond unfair, and reeks of a historically fucked-up situation. As Christopher Hitchens said, the Palestinians clearly have more right to be there than some Jew who just arrived from Brooklyn. Face it:
When The Joker told Batman some people like to see the world burn, he was talking about the Israelis, demanding they can set-up shop where someone was already living. They couldn't have rationally expected anything else.
And, oh yeah - about the claim God gave that land to the Jews? Grow-the-fuck-up.
The first black President's Guidance Counselor, David Axelrod, thinks "Donald Trump won't escape the verdict of history", without recognizing it is he - Trump - who is now historic, not Barack Obama.
It's easy to see, after the Obama's immediately entered television production, but, after his introductory DNC speech, he's never been more than another of Oprah Winfrey's quack sidekicks, like Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, or Deepak Chopra.
Deciding to campaign with the likes of her, quacks became the company David Axelrod allowed the future President of the United States to keep, and the results, politically, are as obvious as those Scientific Studies saying followers of Deepak Chopra are stupid.
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