-DON and the POLICE

von am 5. Januar 2021 um 18:26
Veröffentlicht in: Polemics, Politics

 

Washington — President Donald Trump appeared to advocate rougher treatment
of people in police custody during a speech in New York.
Politics Jul 28, 2017 4:16 PM EDT
WATCH: Trump trumpets MS-13 crack

“Trump spoke dismissively of arresting officers who protect suspects’ heads while putting
them in police cars in a speech in front of law enforcement on Long Island.
He said: “You can take the hand off,” drawing cheers from his audience.
Trump also claimed that laws are written to “protect the criminal” and “not the officers.
He told the law enforcement officials that the “laws are stacked against you ” and need to be changed.”

 

DUCK DON!

 

Donald Trump advocated rough treatment of suspects by police in New York
“You can take your hand off,” he said, referring to protecting a suspect’s head
while hustling him into a car.

When Trump is no longer president, he may be in for it.
If Trump becomes a “suspect,” should police follow his advice?

BETTER DUCK, DON!

 

– Herbert Kuhner

-Heine

von am 30. Dezember 2020 um 14:12
Veröffentlicht in: Poetry, Polemics, Translation

Heinrich Heine – An Invalid Poem

 

Doch die Kastraten klagten,
Als ich meine Stimm erhob;
Sie klagten und sie sagten:
Ich sänge viel zu grob.
Und lieblich erhoben sie alle
Die kleinen Stimmelein,
Die Trillerchen, wie Kristalle,

Sie klangen so fein und rein.
Sie sangen von Liebessehnen,
Von Liebe und Liebeserguß;
Die
Damen schwammen in Tränen
Bei solchem Kunstgenuß.

 

The Castrati

 

The castrati complained
as I began to sing.
Go away, they said,
your voice is so vulgar.

Then in a chorus
they raised their voices
trilling as clearly as crystal
and sounding so pure.

They sang of passion,
of passion and love,
and the ladies wept
at the beauty of it.

 

* * *

 

A Marvelous Invalid Poem by Heine

 

The Castrati by Heine is a beautifully written invalid poem.
It is not the fault of the castrati that they sing as they do.
It is the fault of the Catholic Church that the sing so high.
Their voices are high due to the fact that they were castrated.

In order for this poem to be valid the songs sung high
should be due the singers singing high intentionally.
In other words, the singers should be singing
the way they sing voluntarily.

And the tragedy here is that they
have made the ladies weep,
but the weeping they cause
is all that they are capable
of bringing about.

 

Added by Herbert Kuhner

* * *

 

They sing so high
since they cannot sing low.
Others are to blame
for this specious trilling.

Tears should be shed
for singers who hit high notes
due to the intercession of those
who brought about their falsetto.

I weep not due to the singing,
but for the singers!

 

And here is a valid poem.

 

Zu fragmentarisch ist Welt und Leben

 

Zu fragmentarisch ist Welt und Leben –
Ich muß mich zum deutschen Professor begeben.
Der weiß dos Leben zusammenzusetzen
Und er macht ein verständlich System daraus;
Mit seinen Nachtmützen und Schlafrockfezen
Stopft er die Lücken des Weltenbaus.

 

 

Life and the World Are Too Fragmentary

 

Life and the world are too fragmentary.
I must consult the German professor.
He’ll know how to put everything in place
and make a system of it. And as for the gaps
in the cosmos, he’ll plug them up
with shreds of his nightcap and gown.

 

    * * *

 

Translated by Herbert Kuhner
Mnemosyne, Heft 20, 1996

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Dancing

von am 11. Dezember 2020 um 14:00
Veröffentlicht in: Poetry

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“It is incomprehensible to me
how any Jew could ever return
to the killing grounds.
You chose to go to Hell
and then you complain
that the landscape is littered with devils.”

– Cynthia Ozick, writer, USA

Dancing

You can’t dance on graves.
There are no graves,
no gravestones for flowers
or stones. No graves to kneel
in front of or stand next to.

That cemetery is boundless.
The dead are all interred on high.

No, there’s no dancing on graves.
There’s only dancing under graves.
And there’s no lack of dancers.
There are dancers galore!

– Herbert Kuhner

 

 

-The Key

von am 10. Dezember 2020 um 4:25
Veröffentlicht in: Polemics, Politics, Text, Translation

The Key

“It is incomprehensible to me how any Jew could ever return to the killing grounds. You chose to go to Hell and then you complain that the landscape is littered with devils.”
– Cynthia Ozick, writer

Before returning to Austria, I could not fathom the barbarity of the recent past Now I no longer ask questions.The Revisionists, those who paint the brown past in rose-colored tones, are master key-makers. However, my key came from their alleged foes, those designated themselves as intermediaries for the ones who managed to avoid what the Third Reich had in store for them..

Exploitation is the name of the game.

-Herbert Kuhner

(Examples will be presented)

 

Author Cynthia Ozick in her home in New Rochelle, N.Y. in 2008.

 

Der Schlüssel

Es ist mir völlig unverständlich, wie ein Jude zu den Tötungsgebieten zurückkehren konnte. Sie haben sich für die Hölle entschlossen, und dann wundern Sie sich, daß die Landschaft voller Teufel ist.
– Cynthia Ozick, Schriftstellerin, U.S.A.

Als ich nach Österreich zurückkam, konnte ich die menschliche Grausamkeit der Vergangenheit nicht fassen. Jetzt stelle ich mir keine Fragen mehr.

Die Ärgsten unter ihnen sind die Vermittler und Sprecher für Emigranten und Remigranten. Sie sind nichts anders als Ausbeuter des Holocausts, die sorglos über Leichen gehen. Ihre wahren Ziele sind es Macht und Geld zu sammeln. Der menschenverachtende Geist des Dritten Reiches ist geschickt in die Kunst geführt worden und wird in ihr deutlich ausgedrückt.

Die Beteiligten finden unter der Unantastbarkeit der Kunst Schutz. Die Gemeinheiten und Grausam-keiten von Förderern und Geförderten sind grenzenlos. Vergleiche mit der Mafia sind ungültig, da die „Beteiligten“ viel geschickter und raffinierter vorgehen.
Sie stellen reines, unverfälschtes Übel dar.

-Herbert Kuhner

Es folgen Beispiele.

-A White Knight, an Elderly Damsel and Three Black Brigands

von am 30. November 2020 um 12:20
Veröffentlicht in: Polemics, Politics, Text

A White Knight, an Elderly Damsel and Three Black Brigands

 

Al Gore actually won the presidency in 2000.
Bush and his cronies cheated him out of it.
If the true winner had been instated, there would have been no Iraq War.
That’s the breaks of the game.

In the conflict between Nazis and Communists in Germany
of the Thirties, we know who won.
If it had been the other way around, things might not have been
hunky-dory, but they would not have been as bad as they were.

If Trotsky and the fellow revolutionaries hadn’t succumbed to Stalin,
all I can say is ditto. Trotsky and the departed generals would at least
have held the line in June 22, 1941.

So there you are!

I’d like to relate an incident that occurred to my friend, the liberal communist Gerald Grassl.

On June 17, 1977, the Day of German Unity, which was celebrated by German and Austrian neo-Nazis. A demonstration was held to commemorate the fascist event of German Unification  (In other words, the Annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany) There would indeed be a unification of German Democratic Republic with the Federal Republic of Germany in 1989, but that lay in the future and would not be celebrated neo-Nazis.

Back to June 17th of the Seventies: on the one hand, there were young neo-Nazis in black uniforms with swastika-like symbols. On the other hand, there were elderly anti-fascists, many of whom were communists.

An elderly woman, attempted to stop a young neo-Nazi from distributing leaflets. Two cohorts came to the embattled Neo’s aid, and the woman was knocked down. Now there were three against one.

Gerald saw what was happening, and being the white knight that he is, came to the woman’s aid. The three Neos turned on him, causing blood to flow. Gerald reached down and grabbed his belt, using it as a mace and chain.

The white knight injured one of the black brigands before he, Gerald, and the elderly lady were able to flee.

The story does not end here. The three Nazis brought charges against him. It was three against one, and the one was found guilty and fined. Since he refused to pay, he ended up spending twenty days in the can. The presiding judge had views similar to thos of the three accusers.

The moral of the story is that in certain situations the Right has it over the Left.

 

–  Herbert Kuhner