Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
No one can point to any statement from President Trump calling upon
his supporters to storm the Capitol, much less to stage a coup against
the U.S. government, but it doesn’t matter anymore.
The establishment
media and the social media giants are insisting that he incited the
attack on the Capitol and was trying to install himself as a dictator by
means of a guy with a buffalo horn hat and some other dopes and
wingnuts, and if you don’t believe it, you’re a racist, bigoted,
MAGA-hat-wearing fascist who deserves to be silenced along with the
president, and soon will be. But it’s clear who the real fascists are,
and they are exploiting their Reichstag Fire moment to the fullest.
On February 27, 1933, four weeks after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor
of Germany, the Reichstag, the German parliament building in Berlin,
caught fire. The culprit was a Dutch Communist, Marinus van der Lubbe,
who apparently had acted alone. Hitler, however, insisted that the
Communist Party, which was a considerable force within the Reichstag,
had set the fire, and pressed German President Paul von Hindenburg to
approve of an emergency law suspending civil liberties. Communist
leaders, including the Communist members of the Reichstag, were hunted
down and arrested.
Without their presence in the Reichstag, the National Socialists and
their coalition partners had a majority. That enabled the Nazis to pass a
further law, the Enabling Act, on March 23, 1933, giving Hitler
dictatorial powers and removing any obstacle to his absolute supremacy.
While some people have always maintained that the whole thing was a
false flag, most historians believe than van der Lubbe really did set
the fire. Nonetheless, the advantages it gave to the Nazis were clear,
and so it was no surprise when, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War
II ended, German General Franz Halder declared that he had heard one of
the most prominent and influential Nazis, Hermann Göring, boast that he
himself had set the fire. When confronted with Halder’s statement,
Göring denied having had anything to do with the fire, but there is no
doubt that its chief beneficiary was Germany’s new National Socialist
regime. The Reichstag fire enabled the National Socialists to declare
their political opponents enemies of the state and accordingly silence
them and outlaw their activity, and opened the door to World War II and
the Holocaust. There is much more.
