This is unbelievable. I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race that can participate in these atrocities. Sickening. Criminal.
Gaza and the Palestinians are being systematically erased. Do Israelis expect us to believe that every citizen is Hamas. This is utter genocide of an entire innocent population to justify revenge on a radicalized few. Indiscriminate retribution against women and children, who are flesh and blood like your own loved ones.
Netanyahu is undeniably a war criminal deserving of the harshest of punishments. That so many enthusiastically condone and follow his orders is a scary reality.
That America's Commander in Chief can witness the carnage and not only assist in its execution, but gleefully see the devastation as a golden real estate opportunity speaks volumes of the perilous times ahead for the US.
That Trump can openly support another attempted genocide perpetrated by Putin in Ukraine, further demonstrates his corrupt criminality and lack of a soul.
Whenever I think of the despicable actions of Adolph Hitler in the past, I cannot help myself from condemning Netanyahu, Putin and Trump as the Hitlers of the present.
Last night Rachel Maddow said she is now researching the distinct possibility that there is a plan being formulated to send all Palestinians to Libya to live, whether they like it or not. I guess bibi and "friends" have to make room somehow for their fantasies of majestic, golden hotels and stretches of green golf courses (with a little room set aside here and there for big private, gated coastal mansions built high enough that the inhabitants can look down at their anchored custom yachts with helicopter pads).
In many ways we still echoe the unevolved attitudes of our ancestors. Many of us are still stuck in the primitive form of fight or flight. Many of us have never developed critical thinking abilities and mistakenly rely on the wisdom of others, whom we deem more informed than ourselves.
I often think, that despite our current world population of 8 Billion people, there are solutions that could be found for all of the problems that plague humanity. I realize this sounds like a fantasy.
We have the technology, the knowledge and the riches to ensure that nobody suffers from lack of the basic necessities for survival.
But because of the us and them attitudes we are force fed and cling to in our misinformed sense of self righteousness, solutions for the well being of all mankind are not pursued as a top priority.
We hoard obscene amounts of riches in greed. We destroy hundreds of tons of food each year to keep prices stable. We subsidize the research for medicines and then leave the resulting miracle drugs in the control of pharmaceutical pirates, whose only concern is profit. And we distract ourselves with force-fed consumerism, to briefly satisfy our feelings of a hollow spiritual existence, with the false joy of possessing mere objects.
Our numerous religions, which theoretically share the base belief of love and kindness, are rarely preached with messages of the heart. Instead, throughout history, religion has been weaponized to keep us at war with each other. War is profit and power. Empathy and compassion for those that differ from us are weakness. Hate is much more lucrative.
I've wondered many times through my life why we still exist? No matter what GOD or creator you believe in, does it not seem reasonable that this deity would look down upon us in utter disgust and decide to erase the entire experiment as an abject failure? Wouldn't our complete disrespect and abuse of our glorious planet and our violent contempt for its inhabitants warrant such a decree of annihilation? Even an atheist cannot deny that we are headed towards the same fate, through our own actions.
I don't have the solution to the insurmountable task of uniting people for the well being of all mankind, but I believe that those of us who are good decent people far outnumber those who are only satiated by hate and greed.
We cannot change the past, but each morning that we are fortunate enough to reawaken, the future is ours to collectively determine.
I wrote this to Rebecca, but thought I should share. I know too much about it as I lived in Germany in my most formative years, 13-16. That was 1962-1964. The U.S. Army made us watch many films of the camps while I was in a DOD junior high school. That left me with deep scars. It is all beyond comprehension to those not forced to see it. I read Anne Frank’s diary 5-6 times. I was near her age when I first read her diary. I just fell in love with her. What a wonderful contemplating mind…and then I turned the next-to-last page and was staring at a blank page, not the next day’s entry that I so wanted to read. I went into a shock. It stays with me. Stark fear. When I saw her handwriting in that diary in Amsterdam in 2006, it was too much for me. I cried. But we must speak of this so that no one can ever forget what happened. It horrifies me, but we must speak about where we are going.
Carl, that would be tough to take in at such a sensitive age.
You were about the same age as Anne Frank, so you were that much more connected to her.
I didn't even read her book until I was probably in my 40's & don't even remember my history classes from school days. As an adult though, I want to know about peoples' stories, even though some are unimaginable.
Only now, in my early 60's, am I really learning about what fascists, and traitors, and tyrants, and dictators really are. We have to keep talking, and listening.
My dad and his older brother were in WWII; Unk in the Pacific Theater, Dad in Europe. Dad had tons of war stories to tell (Unk was guarding folks even smarter than he was, for the most part, and most of his war stories were "still classified") at less than the drop of a hat, except for one that I had to pry out of him with a crowbar. I'd only heard it like 2-3 times in my life...
He and his unit were marching down the road one day through a small German town in late April, 1945: tired, worn out, but looking forward to the end of it. Then there were the sounds of a firefight up ahead, so it was "Double [tired] time!" with rifles ready. They came up around the bend and saw, in a clearing in the woods, an obvious prison: barbed wire "outer walls" with guard towers, gates, etc., and the prisoners were rebelling. So they figured, help 'em out! They took out the guards at the towers, crashed on through the gates, helped chivvy the bad guys.
The toughest, stiffest fighting was based around the Commandant's office, but they finally broke on through to the other side and found the general staff officers /frantically/ clearing out filing cabinets and throwing file folder after file folder into anything that could burn evidence: camp stove, fireplace, big coffee can with a lit match, etc. Our guys had ordered them all, at gunpoint, to drop what they were doing ("No, NOT in the fire! On the floor!"), surrender, and so on, ushering them out of the fortified office and outside.
Once the shouting had died down, the guys were looking around at the appalling condition of the prisoners and the prison, aghast, and muttering, "Whoa! This is the WORST P.O.W. camp ever! Geneva's gonna be PISSED!" On catching sight of one of the prisoners: "Hey, what's with the yellow armband?"
"This is not a prisoner of war camp, my friend. We are very glad you came when you did. They were going to evacuate us to an undisclosed location. We probably would not have survived."
The last Dad would say about it, detail-wise, was that his buddies offered their rations to the prisoners... "You're gonna need these more than we do now."
Turned out to be Buchenwald...ONE OF THEM. Dad thought there was only one... X-P
When I had a chance to visit Europe after graduating college, I noticed in the brochure Dad and I were checking out that one of the "authorized tourist stops" was at the (last remaining) Buchenwald camp, preserved as a museum. We both paused, and he looked up at me saying, "If you want to see it for yourself, go ahead. If you DON'T, that's fine. You already know about this, you believe it happened, you don't need to be educated about it. If they give you any hassle about it, have them call me, any time. I know they're about 9 hours ahead of us over there; that's fine. They can call collect. I'll talk to them."
"Well, I'm not sure; I'd kind of like to see it for myself, but I guess I'll see once I get there."
Finally, the big ol' tour bus (was big enough for all of us passengers, but not a bathroom, not back then) was in Germany, getting closer to the site, and I'd been bragging around all over the place to my nearest seatmates about how my dad and his unit had helped liberate the place way back when...and then we got through the gates, and were heading to the Bus Parking Lot. And the damn place went on and on and ON, for like forever... I finally had to get out of my seat (not usually encouraged while the bus was in motion; safety) and came up to our tour guide (nice Dutch kid; about mid-late 20s? He's a "kid" from this end of it now) and asked if I could just stay on the bus. "I've got a book to read; I'll be fine. It's just...my dad and his unit helped LIBERATE this place back in the war, and I thought I could handle seeing it, but I really can't, and..."
I love the Dutch; they're cool. "Well, the driver has to stay with the bus...all right, just don't wander out and get lost."
"Thank you..."
Went back to my seat feeling about 80 pounds lighter, though my seatmates weren't impressed. "Don't you want to see where your dad was during the war?" "We /already/ saw where my dad was during the war, lots of places; they're looking repaired again. But, you folks go on, have fun, get educated." (Talk about getting educated; I didn't realize until years later that the Buchenwald system wasn't so much a "death camp" system [not originally, but typhus epidemics can run amok in such places] as a "slave labor" system, and since the first [and now, only remaining] one was such a hit, business-wise, they'd franchised like the 7-11 of Evil. There were 28 of those fucking places by the end of the war; Dad's was just one of the smaller ones.)
They all trooped off the bus dutifully, wearing their "Serious Tourists" faces. Hours later, they came shambling back like zombies, their faces drained of color...shambled onto the bus, shambled down the aisle back to their seats... "So, how was it?" >unhappy shriek-moans< "Yep. Could've told ya that."
When I'd found out about the extent of the Buchenwald system, one of the stories (by /Edward R. Murrow/, of all people; apparently he'd been a war correspondent for CBS! :D) I'd read involved another small camp, like the one Dad had helped liberate, with a small German town nearby. The guys he was with were so appalled, they'd kept a guard on the Nazis and sent out some guys to the small town, which they evacuated at gunpoint. When they got the population past the gates, they made them march single file, slowly, looking at the conditions there. If they tried to turn away or just close their eyes, they'd likely get a gun muzzle in their temple and yelled at: "YOU DON'T GET TO LOOK AWAY. You KNEW what was happening here! And you did NOTHING!" At first, the poor terrified folks were trying to deny it, but finally: "Of course we knew. How could we not? But any time anyone tried to protest it, or even ask for information, we never heard from them again. What were we to do?"
If that had been the one my dad and his unit had actually liberated, he might not have been all that proud of his actions there... :-/
Just wrote to you from your comment in February on my Unity post. The worse it gets, the more I am activated. I was scarred as I became a teenager, being forced to watch films from the concentration death camps in Poland.
I was about 11 when Life magazine published its extensive feature on Anne Frank & her diary. I must have read that extensive essay over a dozen times the week it appeared, haunted, shocked & nearly paralyzed to know in the previous decade *people had done this to other people.* I mark the start of my far left political convictions from those collective moments. Nothing I've experienced since has done anything but reinforce them.
Let's make empathy great again. Trying to think of signs for tomorrow protest. My Indivisible group plans to keep it positive. I want to fly a black flag. ⚫️
Thank you Carl for making us all more aware. It's hard wanting to combat the inhumane with humanity. But if we don't keep our humane values we sink into the same pit with them. It's hard not to just outright hate these people (especially Stephen Miller and Kristi Barbie, not to mention the horror in the White House). We need to channel that hate into strategy. My mom once told me (when there were incidents of putting rattlesnakes in mailboxes going around), that her idea of revenge wasn't putting snakes in mailboxes but filling them with jello. She said it wouldn't kill them but it would be damn uncomfortable for them and get their attention. They are trying not to pay attention to us. They think they can get away with that but we need to show them that they can't! Happy 4th of July for the many of us who still care!
This is horrific and truly heartbreaking!! Is this what we've come to? We need to be out in huge numbers protesting!! So much hatred and racism is going to ruin humanity!! This can NOT continue!!!
This is the first 4th of July in 84 years that I am NOT proud to be an American! Fifty thousand of my generation perished in Vietnam to make our military contractors wealthy. Now the Republicans have pulled off the mask. Millions of people will die unnecessarily. Every one of those GOP Senators and Representatives should burn in Hell, sooner rather than later.
I can't wrap my head around what this government is doing to it's citizens. I refuse to call it my government because my government would never do these things and tear up our Constitution. I recently signed a petition to try and get rid of this regime and hold them accountable. I do not know if it will work, but it gives me hope. If you want to see what I signed google Change.org The People's Petition For The Global Against Authoritarianism. Read the article dated May 5, 2025 and then the one below it dated 7 days ago. If you believe in this, please sign and give the information over and over, so that everyone can see it. God Bless
You did your usual no-holds-barred, thought-provoking job on this article, Carl. I just can't bring myself to put a red heart on it. The contents are simply too galling & ghastly. Once again I'm left thinking to myself -- If this is what humans do to each other, I don't even want to be part of this species. I'm sure I don't have to explain further. I know you'll understand. Thank you for the effort you put into this. OMG, what a topic.
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This is unbelievable. I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race that can participate in these atrocities. Sickening. Criminal.
Gaza and the Palestinians are being systematically erased. Do Israelis expect us to believe that every citizen is Hamas. This is utter genocide of an entire innocent population to justify revenge on a radicalized few. Indiscriminate retribution against women and children, who are flesh and blood like your own loved ones.
Netanyahu is undeniably a war criminal deserving of the harshest of punishments. That so many enthusiastically condone and follow his orders is a scary reality.
That America's Commander in Chief can witness the carnage and not only assist in its execution, but gleefully see the devastation as a golden real estate opportunity speaks volumes of the perilous times ahead for the US.
That Trump can openly support another attempted genocide perpetrated by Putin in Ukraine, further demonstrates his corrupt criminality and lack of a soul.
Whenever I think of the despicable actions of Adolph Hitler in the past, I cannot help myself from condemning Netanyahu, Putin and Trump as the Hitlers of the present.
I agree with every word here -- & in the comment below.
Last night Rachel Maddow said she is now researching the distinct possibility that there is a plan being formulated to send all Palestinians to Libya to live, whether they like it or not. I guess bibi and "friends" have to make room somehow for their fantasies of majestic, golden hotels and stretches of green golf courses (with a little room set aside here and there for big private, gated coastal mansions built high enough that the inhabitants can look down at their anchored custom yachts with helicopter pads).
GENTRIFIED GENOCIDE
You are exactly right, John.
In many ways we still echoe the unevolved attitudes of our ancestors. Many of us are still stuck in the primitive form of fight or flight. Many of us have never developed critical thinking abilities and mistakenly rely on the wisdom of others, whom we deem more informed than ourselves.
I often think, that despite our current world population of 8 Billion people, there are solutions that could be found for all of the problems that plague humanity. I realize this sounds like a fantasy.
We have the technology, the knowledge and the riches to ensure that nobody suffers from lack of the basic necessities for survival.
But because of the us and them attitudes we are force fed and cling to in our misinformed sense of self righteousness, solutions for the well being of all mankind are not pursued as a top priority.
We hoard obscene amounts of riches in greed. We destroy hundreds of tons of food each year to keep prices stable. We subsidize the research for medicines and then leave the resulting miracle drugs in the control of pharmaceutical pirates, whose only concern is profit. And we distract ourselves with force-fed consumerism, to briefly satisfy our feelings of a hollow spiritual existence, with the false joy of possessing mere objects.
Our numerous religions, which theoretically share the base belief of love and kindness, are rarely preached with messages of the heart. Instead, throughout history, religion has been weaponized to keep us at war with each other. War is profit and power. Empathy and compassion for those that differ from us are weakness. Hate is much more lucrative.
I've wondered many times through my life why we still exist? No matter what GOD or creator you believe in, does it not seem reasonable that this deity would look down upon us in utter disgust and decide to erase the entire experiment as an abject failure? Wouldn't our complete disrespect and abuse of our glorious planet and our violent contempt for its inhabitants warrant such a decree of annihilation? Even an atheist cannot deny that we are headed towards the same fate, through our own actions.
I don't have the solution to the insurmountable task of uniting people for the well being of all mankind, but I believe that those of us who are good decent people far outnumber those who are only satiated by hate and greed.
We cannot change the past, but each morning that we are fortunate enough to reawaken, the future is ours to collectively determine.
Thankyou Carl for doing all you can to help turn this back around. It is gut wrenching.
I wrote this to Rebecca, but thought I should share. I know too much about it as I lived in Germany in my most formative years, 13-16. That was 1962-1964. The U.S. Army made us watch many films of the camps while I was in a DOD junior high school. That left me with deep scars. It is all beyond comprehension to those not forced to see it. I read Anne Frank’s diary 5-6 times. I was near her age when I first read her diary. I just fell in love with her. What a wonderful contemplating mind…and then I turned the next-to-last page and was staring at a blank page, not the next day’s entry that I so wanted to read. I went into a shock. It stays with me. Stark fear. When I saw her handwriting in that diary in Amsterdam in 2006, it was too much for me. I cried. But we must speak of this so that no one can ever forget what happened. It horrifies me, but we must speak about where we are going.
Carl, that would be tough to take in at such a sensitive age.
You were about the same age as Anne Frank, so you were that much more connected to her.
I didn't even read her book until I was probably in my 40's & don't even remember my history classes from school days. As an adult though, I want to know about peoples' stories, even though some are unimaginable.
Only now, in my early 60's, am I really learning about what fascists, and traitors, and tyrants, and dictators really are. We have to keep talking, and listening.
The fascists are bound to lose!
My dad and his older brother were in WWII; Unk in the Pacific Theater, Dad in Europe. Dad had tons of war stories to tell (Unk was guarding folks even smarter than he was, for the most part, and most of his war stories were "still classified") at less than the drop of a hat, except for one that I had to pry out of him with a crowbar. I'd only heard it like 2-3 times in my life...
He and his unit were marching down the road one day through a small German town in late April, 1945: tired, worn out, but looking forward to the end of it. Then there were the sounds of a firefight up ahead, so it was "Double [tired] time!" with rifles ready. They came up around the bend and saw, in a clearing in the woods, an obvious prison: barbed wire "outer walls" with guard towers, gates, etc., and the prisoners were rebelling. So they figured, help 'em out! They took out the guards at the towers, crashed on through the gates, helped chivvy the bad guys.
The toughest, stiffest fighting was based around the Commandant's office, but they finally broke on through to the other side and found the general staff officers /frantically/ clearing out filing cabinets and throwing file folder after file folder into anything that could burn evidence: camp stove, fireplace, big coffee can with a lit match, etc. Our guys had ordered them all, at gunpoint, to drop what they were doing ("No, NOT in the fire! On the floor!"), surrender, and so on, ushering them out of the fortified office and outside.
Once the shouting had died down, the guys were looking around at the appalling condition of the prisoners and the prison, aghast, and muttering, "Whoa! This is the WORST P.O.W. camp ever! Geneva's gonna be PISSED!" On catching sight of one of the prisoners: "Hey, what's with the yellow armband?"
"This is not a prisoner of war camp, my friend. We are very glad you came when you did. They were going to evacuate us to an undisclosed location. We probably would not have survived."
The last Dad would say about it, detail-wise, was that his buddies offered their rations to the prisoners... "You're gonna need these more than we do now."
Turned out to be Buchenwald...ONE OF THEM. Dad thought there was only one... X-P
When I had a chance to visit Europe after graduating college, I noticed in the brochure Dad and I were checking out that one of the "authorized tourist stops" was at the (last remaining) Buchenwald camp, preserved as a museum. We both paused, and he looked up at me saying, "If you want to see it for yourself, go ahead. If you DON'T, that's fine. You already know about this, you believe it happened, you don't need to be educated about it. If they give you any hassle about it, have them call me, any time. I know they're about 9 hours ahead of us over there; that's fine. They can call collect. I'll talk to them."
"Well, I'm not sure; I'd kind of like to see it for myself, but I guess I'll see once I get there."
Finally, the big ol' tour bus (was big enough for all of us passengers, but not a bathroom, not back then) was in Germany, getting closer to the site, and I'd been bragging around all over the place to my nearest seatmates about how my dad and his unit had helped liberate the place way back when...and then we got through the gates, and were heading to the Bus Parking Lot. And the damn place went on and on and ON, for like forever... I finally had to get out of my seat (not usually encouraged while the bus was in motion; safety) and came up to our tour guide (nice Dutch kid; about mid-late 20s? He's a "kid" from this end of it now) and asked if I could just stay on the bus. "I've got a book to read; I'll be fine. It's just...my dad and his unit helped LIBERATE this place back in the war, and I thought I could handle seeing it, but I really can't, and..."
I love the Dutch; they're cool. "Well, the driver has to stay with the bus...all right, just don't wander out and get lost."
"Thank you..."
Went back to my seat feeling about 80 pounds lighter, though my seatmates weren't impressed. "Don't you want to see where your dad was during the war?" "We /already/ saw where my dad was during the war, lots of places; they're looking repaired again. But, you folks go on, have fun, get educated." (Talk about getting educated; I didn't realize until years later that the Buchenwald system wasn't so much a "death camp" system [not originally, but typhus epidemics can run amok in such places] as a "slave labor" system, and since the first [and now, only remaining] one was such a hit, business-wise, they'd franchised like the 7-11 of Evil. There were 28 of those fucking places by the end of the war; Dad's was just one of the smaller ones.)
They all trooped off the bus dutifully, wearing their "Serious Tourists" faces. Hours later, they came shambling back like zombies, their faces drained of color...shambled onto the bus, shambled down the aisle back to their seats... "So, how was it?" >unhappy shriek-moans< "Yep. Could've told ya that."
When I'd found out about the extent of the Buchenwald system, one of the stories (by /Edward R. Murrow/, of all people; apparently he'd been a war correspondent for CBS! :D) I'd read involved another small camp, like the one Dad had helped liberate, with a small German town nearby. The guys he was with were so appalled, they'd kept a guard on the Nazis and sent out some guys to the small town, which they evacuated at gunpoint. When they got the population past the gates, they made them march single file, slowly, looking at the conditions there. If they tried to turn away or just close their eyes, they'd likely get a gun muzzle in their temple and yelled at: "YOU DON'T GET TO LOOK AWAY. You KNEW what was happening here! And you did NOTHING!" At first, the poor terrified folks were trying to deny it, but finally: "Of course we knew. How could we not? But any time anyone tried to protest it, or even ask for information, we never heard from them again. What were we to do?"
If that had been the one my dad and his unit had actually liberated, he might not have been all that proud of his actions there... :-/
Just wrote to you from your comment in February on my Unity post. The worse it gets, the more I am activated. I was scarred as I became a teenager, being forced to watch films from the concentration death camps in Poland.
I was about 11 when Life magazine published its extensive feature on Anne Frank & her diary. I must have read that extensive essay over a dozen times the week it appeared, haunted, shocked & nearly paralyzed to know in the previous decade *people had done this to other people.* I mark the start of my far left political convictions from those collective moments. Nothing I've experienced since has done anything but reinforce them.
I saw that.. I was thinking today about Anne Frank, and how they hid for years.
I'm learning from everyone.
Let's make empathy great again. Trying to think of signs for tomorrow protest. My Indivisible group plans to keep it positive. I want to fly a black flag. ⚫️
I protested yesterday in all black (in southern California in July...oy), with a paper sign on a yardstick with the following:
See, this is what happens when you DON'T READ:
Declaration of Independence
U.S. Constitution [both those titles in "script font" like from the late 1700s)
VS
Project 2025 [in "Chiller" font in blood-red]
Big, Beautiful Bill [in a font the Joker might've come up with, in a nasty shade of neon green]
and a tombstone:
R.I.P.
U.S.A.
1776-2025
I'd tied on a li'l 18"x25" American flag below the sign, upside-down at half-mast. :-/
Thank you Carl for making us all more aware. It's hard wanting to combat the inhumane with humanity. But if we don't keep our humane values we sink into the same pit with them. It's hard not to just outright hate these people (especially Stephen Miller and Kristi Barbie, not to mention the horror in the White House). We need to channel that hate into strategy. My mom once told me (when there were incidents of putting rattlesnakes in mailboxes going around), that her idea of revenge wasn't putting snakes in mailboxes but filling them with jello. She said it wouldn't kill them but it would be damn uncomfortable for them and get their attention. They are trying not to pay attention to us. They think they can get away with that but we need to show them that they can't! Happy 4th of July for the many of us who still care!
This is horrific and truly heartbreaking!! Is this what we've come to? We need to be out in huge numbers protesting!! So much hatred and racism is going to ruin humanity!! This can NOT continue!!!
This is the first 4th of July in 84 years that I am NOT proud to be an American! Fifty thousand of my generation perished in Vietnam to make our military contractors wealthy. Now the Republicans have pulled off the mask. Millions of people will die unnecessarily. Every one of those GOP Senators and Representatives should burn in Hell, sooner rather than later.
I can't wrap my head around what this government is doing to it's citizens. I refuse to call it my government because my government would never do these things and tear up our Constitution. I recently signed a petition to try and get rid of this regime and hold them accountable. I do not know if it will work, but it gives me hope. If you want to see what I signed google Change.org The People's Petition For The Global Against Authoritarianism. Read the article dated May 5, 2025 and then the one below it dated 7 days ago. If you believe in this, please sign and give the information over and over, so that everyone can see it. God Bless
You did your usual no-holds-barred, thought-provoking job on this article, Carl. I just can't bring myself to put a red heart on it. The contents are simply too galling & ghastly. Once again I'm left thinking to myself -- If this is what humans do to each other, I don't even want to be part of this species. I'm sure I don't have to explain further. I know you'll understand. Thank you for the effort you put into this. OMG, what a topic.
thank you for saying this.
Incredible post. Thank you for writing about the horrors of racism and how amerikkka has now become the land making concentration camps great again 😡