April 01, 2004

For those that call us Nazis

Lots of people around the world want to call the United States a brutal, Nazi-like regime. I'll give you the best example that we aren't even close to Nazis.

If Fallujah were being occupied by the Nazis, there would have been an immediate response by killing a certain number of civilians per every German citizen or soldier killed. Examples: The Kragujevac Massacre in Serbia (100 civilians for every German soldier killed), the reprisal killings in Rome (10 for every German killed), and in France this was a well known practice as well.

Of course, our friends the French also got in on some of the action after the war in their occupation of some German cities:

On April 24, 1945, in Reutlingen, Württemberg, four reprisal prisoners were shot by the French for the murder of a French soldier. On April 28, 1945, the following announcement was made in Leutkirchen:

"[...] 4. If a German shoots at Frenchmen, or if any other incident whatsoever happens, 5 houses will be torched and 100 Germans executed.

[...] 6. I am responsible, on pain of my own death, to ensure that these orders are enforced [...] the Mayor [...]"

In Markdorf, 4 German civilians were executed per 1 French soldier shot.[67]

In Saulgau it was proclaimed on April 27, 1945, that if a French soldier were killed or even only wounded, 20 hostages would be shot and the corresponding city district would be burned to the ground.

The Berlin Ordinance of July 1, 1945,[69] stated, inter alia:

"Anyone who commits an attack on a member of the occupation forces or on a bearer of official functions, or who commits arson for reasons of political enmity, seals not only his own fate but that of 50 former members of the Nazi Party as well. Their lives are forfeit together with that of the assassin or arsonist."

Going further back in time to when the Roman Empire reigned supreme, if the same thing that happened in Fallujah had happened in one of their outposts, the entire city's population would have been crucified along the Roman roads.

I now ask after yesterday's events. Are we a brutal, Nazi-like regime?

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Lets wait and see.

Posted by: at April 1, 2004 03:25 PM

What the vast, right-wing conspiracy did a year ago to those patriots who told the truth and opposed w's war for oil absolutely qualifies as nazi brownshirt activity on every level. If cancervatives don't like being called nazis, they should stop acting like nazis.

Posted by: The Token Librul at April 1, 2004 10:59 PM