The Blogging Life.

Danusha Goska has posted my review of a book on Julius Streicher on her blog.

It should be interesting to see what the commenters say.

I notice that one comment points out that Streicher was executed for incitement to violence. If I was a judge, I am sure that I would have strongly considered executing such a loathsome toad. On the other hand, he had been out of power for years - prior to 1939. Perhaps he should have gotten the same treatment as Rudolf Hess, namely life in prison.

I am not going to shed tears for this waste of a human life, but it is an interesting question if you really take an absolutist view of the values incorporated into the First Amendment, such as letting Nazis march in towns where Holocaust survivors live or not preventing the publication of plans for building a nuclear weapon.

How do we analyze this kind of pervasive eye-witness reports?  Mass hysteria? Collective re-writing of memory?

It does happen, but, then, there is an awful lot of suppression of news that does not fit "the Narrative."

//Occam's Razor says that the simplest explanation is best. Numerous New York and New Jersey residents insist that they or those close to them saw New Jersey Muslims celebrate 9-11. New Jersey radio station 101.5 quotes some of these accounts here. A sampling:

Tom Penicaro: "I worked for PSEG in Clifton on the Paterson boarder and I witnessed it firsthand. They were celebrating in the streets cheering and stomping on the flag. I am a Marine and I remember very very clearly because I was so pissed I wanted to engage them with a bat I had in my van."

William Hugelmeyer: "I was working in the jail when the attacks occurred. Once it was clear it was a terrorist attack, we had inmates celebrating. This instantly caused a lockdown. As you could imagine, many other inmates and officers didn't share their jubilation."

John Pezzino: "They were in the streets banging on the cars trying to drive through the crowd in the street. The Muslims were shouting death to Americans and Allah is great other crap I didn't understand. We were amused until a car with 3 young women mistakenly turned on to main st. The muslims were banging on their windows and screaming, thats when we came out of our car and pushed the muslims off their car helped them back out and get back to the Parkway."

Walter Emiliantsev: "I lived in NJ at the time on Demott Ave., Clifton! When I tried to go to Paterson to my brother in laws shop, I usually took Main Ave. There were so many people dancing on Main, I couldn't get through! I KNOW what I saw!"//

"Ten Reasons Why I am No Longer a Leftist."

Read this article by Danusha V. Goska.

I've never been a leftist, but my reasons for not being a leftist are found on Danusha's list.