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I agree with Ski and remembering what an old friend told me about the invasion plans… he was an aide de camp to one of the planners… 4 years and at least 2 million (total) causalties! Makes the bomb look pretty smart.Also according to at least one source, after Nagasaki, we had no more bombs… just parts and would have required at lesat a couple of weeks for the next raid. Would have offered the Japanese time to get their duck in a row perhaps.
For those interested in what Lightfoot tells in his song….http://home.europa.com/~random7/fitz.htm#line
… why don't more Americans of this kind of thinking attach themselves to the original American rebels of Patrick Henry, Ben Franklin, George Washington…..?
Poor P/R mostly; to too many these are a bunch of old dead white guys that are the villains for all the bad stuff we've done since leaving the Commonwealth.We forget they were on the cutting edge of liberalism of the time; Enlightenment ideas from Locke… the extension of citizens rights from English Parliamentary tradition… the challenge to the established authority for individual rights and autonomy from the Great Awakening. These guys were the Che's of their time!Given our current political direction I'd say we need some individuals like these fellows to step forward and challenge the existing power structure. Our government (both parties) represent a conservatism that dictates to the population because it can. Neither party will do anything that might jeopardize the status quo… that is risk losing their place at the public trough or their lock on power. Why else would you see so much pandering to keep everyone happy while working to disarm the population before it wakes up to the fact that our rights and liberties are being quietly deleted.I could go on….
http://www.talkingproud.us/HistoryWWIVets.htmlThis may shed some light on the story….
One more goes to his greater reward… Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets (USAF Ret'd) 23-Feb 1915- 1-Nov 2007Rest in Peace.
Registering does little good; if one wants to sling SPAM, they will[;] witness lark04….edit: punctuation
10-4; anything in the field (at least in time of a declared war) would be military law and Geneva Convention et al. When we get them here USConst would be the instrument.While I'm not (nor do I professto be) a Constitutional law expert it seems like the 5th and the 14th amendments should protect due process, and such, in most cases. Several clauses speak of people / persons rather than citizens.Wally
That, and my concept (maybe I'm wrong but think not) that the Constitution also protects the rights of anyone under our jurisdiction… having captured someone puts them in our jurisdiction, eh?
Kids are looking for justification for their angst and rebellious nature… they'll take it where they can.Catch-22 or Holden Caulfield… Goodbye Columbus or Harry Potter… On the Road or Che… doesn't really matter. Most of us grow out of it and carry on… the rest get elected to the House as Democrats. 😮
This is one of those areas that will get folks in deep doo-doo because others don't listen to the whole statement.Case in point; years ago, in my little corner of the orchard, a civics teachers told her class “Communism looks like a good form of government, until you compared it to anything else.” In the conservative community she taught in this went home to the Birchite parents as “Communism looks like a good form of government.”Barely kept her job!I think of this every time I tell the kids that Hitler was one of the greatest leaders in the history of humankind; a monster that lead his country to terrible things but still great at lgetting what he wanted done. So far so good.Wally
The book 1491 has some great insights into the ear in question. A really good read. Four stars!Wally
