1946 again
I've previously noted the 1946 attempted coup by globalists. WW2 defeated globalists who had been running Germany and Japan, so the idea was discredited everywhere. Globalists like Bernard Baruch didn't enjoy being discredited, and tried to bring back the joy through weapons like James Byrnes and Norman Corwin and Phillip Morrison.

The media and "science" were fully infested by globalist venom. Most Americans didn't seem to notice. Truman, acting under the influence of Byrnes, implemented real and bloody globalism in Korea, and Americans finally noticed. They kicked out Truman and brought in the comparatively non-globalist Ike.

Robert Ripley was an expert showman and a globalist but not a very sharp thinker. His show had previously embarked on stupid and pointless "crusades" like globalizing all traffic laws to cut traffic deaths. A better thinker would have been advocating SEAT BELTS, which were already familiar and already known to save lives.

In 1948 Ripley visited Hiroshima and issued this grotesque and illogical piece of Corwin-style propaganda. This episode isn't online for free as far as I can tell, and the sound quality is poor, so I'll just do a rough transcript. I've marked and numbered paragraphs for reference.

(1) I am now in Hiroshima, a city whose name will live long after NY, London and Paris are gone and forgotten. For it was the unhappy fate of Hiroshima to have been chosen for the eternal and frightful honor of being the first city on earth to receive the atomic bomb.

(2) The end of the world began on August 6 1945, at 8:15 AM it happened, for a fraction of a second it was a blinding flash so bright that the very sun turned black, and a temperature and a power generated which goes beyond the meaning of those terms. The heat and the pressure in the heart of the hottest star of the universe is insignificant compared to the violence. A vast [cloud?] shot up into the sky, in a terrible pattern 50 thousand feet high. History held its breath.

(3) In Hiroshima 15k people vanished from the face of the earth, 47k were dead, 60k more died within two months of the blast, and 100, were injured. Of the city's population of 220k people, only 6k escaped.

(4) I am standing now on the spot where the atomic bomb exploded. I am standing on the famous shadow bridge, so called because the bridge left the shadow of a [???] on the [???] stones. Here in the center of the city two rivers meet. I am standing on the bridge, and above my head was the exploding point of the bomb. Before me stands a ruined [???] of a steel dome that was once the Exposition Building. This building, the largest in Hiroshima, was the target of the bomb, and it will never be repaired, they tell me, and will always be kept as it is, as a monument not to violence but to peace.

(5) But as they say, home is where the heart is, and the heart is strong, and now people are coming back again to build small shacks and establish homes once more among the wreckage. The scars of the wreckage are being covered with vegetable gardens. To the left of me, I see a little patch of ground being cultivated by a man, where an office building once stood. To the right of me, an old fellow with a wicker basket on his head is picking grass from what was once a main street. In the distance I can see a group of Japanese boys playing baseball on a lot where once a big apartment house stood.

(6) The people here seem happy, and [????] never forget what happened here, they all seem well fed, and no wonder because Hiroshima is on the shores of the famous inland Sea of Japan, which abounds with fish. I can see a fishing junk [????] now. The tide is out and over to my left are hundreds of women who have waded out to catch mussels and other shellfish on the mudflats. The [farm fields?] which were white and seared with fire, now they're turning green again with little terrace farms, and trees are growing once more.

By number:

(1) Who started the war? You seem to think we did.

(2) History held its breath? Why didn't history hold its breath during the 40 years when Japan was robbing and raping and murdering half of Asia, killing and enslaving many millions?

(3) Japan killed more than 250k in just one area of China, punishing the locals for refusing to turn over an American pilot who crashed there.

(4) Monument to peace? How did the peace happen? It didn't happen because of Baruch. It happened because of the bomb, AND because Russia immediately showed the Japs that the bomb wasn't the end of the war. A fresh new war awaited them if they didn't surrender.

(5) Nice to see that you respect Jap hearts. How about respecting the hearts and homes of the Chinese and Filipinos and Koreans who were slaughtered and enslaved by the Japs from 1905 to 1945?

(6) If the atom bomb was such a history-ending unique phenomenon, how come Nature was returning in abundance, WHICH YOU OBSERVED AND DESCRIBED, just three years after the end of history?

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The plain and simple fact is that war is always horrible. Atomic war is not exponentially worse than other kinds of war. Even in Japan, our attacks with non-atomic Thermite did vastly more damage than the atom bomb. But there was never an anti-Thermite or anti-fire movement. Why?

Labels: Asked and unanswered, Loughnerian Logic

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