-South of the Border

von am 24. Juni 2018 um 10:40
Veröffentlicht in: Polemics, Politics, Text

Influx

Why is there an influx of migrants
at the Mexican border?
Because mostly Republican administrations
supported the Dirty Warriors in the Dirty Wars
of Central and South America.

Thank you Dick Nixon, Henry Kissinger
and Ronald Reagan.

We can’t have these people clamoring
At our border doors.

They must be punished
for fleeing for their lives
due to a situation we helped create

Best way is to separate them
from their children.

 

A Necessity

Is Slaughter elsewhere is a necessity for maintaining our Freedom?

 

Liberation Movements

In the Cold War the United States represented the forces of freedom
and the Soviet Union represented the forces of totalitarianism.

The Left of South America consisted of revolutionaries
who were fighting against right-wing autocrats who had amassed power and wealth
and were oppressing and exploiting the populations of their nations.

Communism provided a playbook for the revolution of the downtrodden.
The Soviet Union supported these anti-imperialistic movements with weapons and cash
and the United States fought them with every means at its disposal.

The military juntas of the South American Dirty Wars were carbon copies
of the enemy we fought in World War II.

They practiced mass murder, torture, rape and took children for the leftists they executed
and placed them in the homes of barren right wing Catholic couples.

The story was not much different in Asia. Vietnam and Cambodia
Are cases in point.

Thus, the forces of totalitarianism supported the oppressed
and the forces of freedom supported the oppressors.

 

Freedom-loving Dick, Henry and Ron

Conservative icon Ronald Reagan, initiator of the Iran-Contra Affair sold the Iranians weapons and used the proceeds to fund the Contras, formerly Samosa’s National Guard, a marauding soldateska whose mission was to free Nicaragua. Their pillaging and raping was exemplary. Another Reagan Administration gambit was the mining of Nicaragua Harbor, a country we were not at war with.

Ronald Reagan’s assessment: “The Contras are the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers.” Guess our founders, according to him, were coked-up mass murders, rapists and torturers.

Reagan’s solution for Vietnam in 1965: “We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it.” (He did not have a chance to apply his solutions since the war was over when he became president.

Question: What does human life mean to those aspiring to gain power or to retain it?

Answer: Not a whit!

Here’s Henry on Salvador Allende: “I don’t see why we need to stand by
and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its people.”

Ann Coulter: “Feminists don’t care about Saddam’s rape rooms.” (Referring to Saddam Hussein, who of course was the only rapist dictator in the Middle East)[1]

It’s nice of “non-feminist” Coulter to be concerned about rape.
In her Sept. 17th article she lauds “the great Augusto Pinochet”
who oversaw execution, torture and “rape” after his Chilean coup in 1973.[2]
The number of his mortalities equals those of 9/11.

And dear Ann, the United States supported a bevy of Right-wing Latin-American rapist dictators, mostly under Republican administrations.

Remember the four nuns who were raped and murdered in El Salvador in 1980!
Reagan’s Secretary of State Al Haig explained it in Congress this way:
“They drove through a ‘legitimate’ road block.”(!?)

 

Dirty Warriors

 
The Dirty Warriors
of the Dirty Wars
South of the Border
were all Catholic Churchgoers.

 

Preference

The Vatican preferred the Third Reich to the Soviet Union.
That makes sense: Christian monsters are preferable to atheistic ones.

 

Bishop Romero’s Successors

Bishop Oscar Romero was conveniently polished off in 1980. In 1995, Pope John Paul II appointed Fernando Sáenz Lacalle,an Opus Dei member, archbishop for San Salvador. Lacalle was instrumental in having harsh anti-abortion laws established.
A woman who has had abortion can be sentenced to thirty years in prison.
If a woman is brought to a hospital, and she suspected of having undergone a botched abortion, she is tied to her bed, and serves as an exhibit of the crime committed.[3]

Thank you, Saint John Paul!

– Herbert Kuhner

[1] Ann Coulter, Town Hall April 16, 2003.
[2] Anne Coulter: “Here’s A Traitor! Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War,” Town Hall Online, Sept. 17, 2003.

-Comparisons

von am 20. Juni 2018 um 15:56
Veröffentlicht in: Polemics, Politics

Comparisons

Pope Francis makes comparisons. „I say this with pain. In the last century the whole world was scandalized about what the Nazis did to purify the race. Today we do the same, but now with white gloves.“

Bishop Andreas Laun

According to Bishop Andreas Laun of Salzburg, if a child is raped and becomes pregnant, the child should have the child. “I would inform the child of the wonder of the new life in her body – that it is partially her child which will long for the love of a mother and that that it would grow up like a brother or a sister. I also say to her: This will enable you to heal wound that you have acquired …“

Laun also makes comparisons: “Hitler would have been delighted with legalized abortion. May I venture to say that Hitler was not all wrong? For thirty years Austrian children have fallen victim to legalized abortion.”[1]
(Laun needs to brush up his history. In the Third Reich performing abortions was a capital crime.)

The Archbishop of Cologne, Germany, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, “put women who had had an abortion in a row with mass-murderers like Hitler, Stalin and Herod. He compared abortion to the Holocaust and the abortion pill with Zyklon B, the gas used by the Nazis in the extermination camps.”[2]

 

Child Denied Abortion

A 10-year-old girl in Paraguay, who is five months pregnant after being raped by her stepfather, had been denied an abortion that could save her life.

The child was admitted to hospital with stomach pains and doctors later discovered she was 22-weeks pregnant after being raped by her stepfather, Amnesty International said.
The charity said despite the high risk of the pregnancy and her mother’s request, she has not been allowed to have an abortion.

Her mother’s request to abort the child was not granted by authorities in the South American country as abortion is illegal. The girl’s mother is now in custody facing charges of breaching duty of care and being an accomplice of sexual abuse.[3]

Pope Francis is mum in the Holy City
and he remained mum when he visited Paraguay.

In July, Pope Francis spent three days in Paraguay. He met with officials, toured a slum outside Asuncion and celebrated two Masses. While activists had hoped to bring up the case of the pregnant girl, Francis did not speak about it or focus on abortion in any of his speeches.

This is a previous policy statement by Pope Francis:
“The moral problem of abortion is of a pre-religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception. A human being is there. I separate the topic of abortion from any specifically religious notions. It is a scientific problem. Not to allow the further development of a being which already has all the genetic code of a human being is not ethical. The right to life is the first among human rights. To abort a child is to kill someone who cannot defend himself.”[4]

Fox News reports: “According to health statistics, 680 Paraguayan girls between 10 and 14 years old gave birth in 2014.”

-Herbert Kuhner

-Exiled

von am 19. Juni 2018 um 11:05
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Exiled

“Founded in 1993 by Dr. Rudolf Scholten, the Austrian Archive for Exile Studies is part of the Documentation Centre for modern Austrian literature. The Archive documents the life and work of Austrian writers and other cultural figures who have been living in exile and emigration since 1933 or 1938.”

My colleague Dr.Armin A.Wallas died on May 30th of 2003. Dr Wallas, the Austrian scholar, writer, editor and publisher who specialized on Austrian-Jewish literature. ( Dr. Wallas published my bilingual collections of poetry by Else Keren, Stella Rotenberg and Else Keren in his Mnemosyne imprint.) I wrote to Dr. Ursula Seeber, Mag. Zwerger’s predecessor as Director of the Exile Library, requesting a commemorative event for Dr. Wallas.

A reply was not forthcoming. I tried to contact Dr. Seeber by phone but she was unavailable. When I finally managed to reach her, she rendered me a verbal refusal and suggested I contact Dr. Heinz Lunzer, Director of the Literaturhaus.

Trying to reach Dr. Lunzer consisted of flawless repetition of attempting to contact Dr. Seeber.

My letter went unanswered. When I called, he was always unavailable. When I finals reached hon by phone, I received my second oral refusal.

 

Deliberate Tactic

Not providing a written reply is not due to a breach in etiquette, but rather a deliberate tactic. There should be no written record of the refusal.

 

Da Capo! 2018 at the Eightieth Anniversary of the Annexation

I have described Dr. Wallas’ scholastic achievements.

I experienced a SA-raid on my grandmother’s apartment in very young years. My family was decimated in the Holocaust: As a translator I have published numerous bilingual collections of Austrian poetry, Burgenland Croatian poetry, Carinthian Slovenian poetry and Austrian Jewish poetry.

Contrary to my letter concerning Dr. Wallas, I received a written reply.

– Herbert Kuhner

 

 

-The Golden Anniversary of the Annexation

von am 19. Juni 2018 um 10:49
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The Golden Anniversary of the Annexation
(Ditto for the 80th Anniversary)

At the unveiling of the monument commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, speeches of regret were read by political luminaries, Church dignitaries, public figures and high-ranking military men. Poets read epics about the slaughter of the victims and an oratorio was played and sung for the occasion. While those present vowed that what had happened must never happen again, a Jew was beaten by thugs in the midst of the ceremony. No one could hear the blows or his cries due to the chorus of raised voices. Nor could the beating be seen since the bystanders’ sight was blurry from the tears that were being shed.

 

Ein halbes Jahrhundert nach dem Anschluß
(Da Capo für den Achtigzsten)

Bei der Enthüllung des Denkmals für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus gab es Reden von Politikern, Kirchenfürsten und anderen distinguierten Bürgern. Dichter lasen Epen über die Opfer, und man führte
ein Oratorium zu ihren Ehren auf. Während alle schworen, daß das, was geschehen war, nie wieder geschehen dürfe, schlug man einen Juden neben der Bühne nieder. Niemand hörte die Schläge oder seine Schreie, weil der feierliche Schwur lauter war. Und niemand sah, was geschah, weil die Danebenstehenden feuchte Augen hatten, die ihre Blicke trübten.

– Herbert Kuhner

-Even-Handed Approach

von am 18. Juni 2018 um 13:06
Veröffentlicht in: Polemics, Politics

At Nazi and Klu-Klux Rally on August 11 to 12, 2017at Charlottesville, Virginia Heather Heyer, an anti-fascist activist, was killed when a car driven by James Alex Fields Jr. rammed her.

. . . very fine people . . .

“I think there’s blame on both sides…But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.”
– Donald J. Trump, US President

 I guess Alex Fields was not one of the “fine” people.

– H.K.

 

Our Policy

Now here’s our policy: we can beat the anti-Semitic drum softly, but we don’t bang it. We declare ourselves to be the friends of the Jews and even help establish and finance organizations to combat anti-Semitism while we drum away. There’s no hate involved. We’re just critics. And as far as the past is concerned, the last thing we want to do is whitewash Nazi Germany. To be sure there were excesses in the Third Reich, but historians, especially the Jewish ones, have exaggerated what they call the Holocaust. First, the numbers are grossly exaggerated. And if there was any gassing, it was minimal. No one says that the camps were recreation centers. Things were tough for everyone during the war. There just wasn’t enough food to go around. Ditto for medicine. And there was also a shortage of doctors. Too many of those Jews attended medical school prior to World War II. (But let’s not allow ourselves to become emotional about that!) And what’s more, there was also a shortage of medicine and drugs. Isn’t it natural for people to die in such a situation? Our men in Siberian camps were in the same situation. And let’s not forget the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans! As far as any excesses are concerned, in a war they are bound to happen on all sides. However, Austrians bear no responsibility since there was no Austria at the time. Up to 1945 everyone in the Third Reich was a German.

The men who served on our side not only defended Europe during the war, they rebuilt our country after it. The Left claims that the Reich fought a war of conquest and extermination. The fact is that it was a preventive war. The Soviet Union, as we know, was preparing to conquer Western Europe and export Bolshevism, so we had to beat them to the punch. Thanks to us, Europe was saved from Communism. We fought for Christian values and Western Civilization. Isn’t that a good cause? Every member of the Wehrmacht and the SS was an honorable man. If anyone claims the contrary, we’ll accuse him of condemning the war generation. And we’ll remind him of Dresden, Katyn and Hiroshima. We weren’t the ones who started bombing civilian centers. It was the British. Just read your David Irving! The Lefties call him a revisionist and a Nazi; you can’t expect them to be objective. Imagine, they can’t even bring themselves to admit that Poland provoked Germany.

Don’t get me wrong! I’m not saying that everyone involved with the Third Reich was a saint, but just look at the others! We certainly weren’t any worse than they were. But I don’t want to end on a downbeat note. We’re the ones with a purpose! We, not the others, are the real idealists. Nationalism is not a dirty word. However, we must be subtle. Let them think that we can be integrated. In the end, we will integrate them.

We’re up to date, but our spirit is in keeping with our forerunners. We have to be palatable to our group, but we must to appeal to all. In addition to presenting history as it really was, we’ll support politicians who are kindred spirits. And as far as those with a pure and untainted approach are concerned, we won’t sanction what they say and do, but we’ll soft-peddle it and show that they have a human side, and if they engage in violence, we’ll blame it on the Lefties.

– Herbert Kuhner