{"id":217318,"date":"2022-04-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/?p=217318"},"modified":"2022-04-25T09:16:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T14:16:25","slug":"honoring-war-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/blog\/honoring-war-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring War Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, what do you think of Putin honoring the Russian soldiers who committed war crimes\u2014 purposely slaughtering civilians, including beheadings and torture\u2014in Bucha, Ukraine?  He praised the 64th Motorized Brigade for \u201cmass heroism and bravery, steadfastness and fortitude\u201d and for \u201cdistinguishing itself in military action for the protection of the Fatherland and state interests.\u201d They were awarded the \u201cesteemed honor\u201d of becoming \u201cguards,\u201d becoming the \u201c64th Guard Motorized Brigade.\u201d Whatever, according to Putin, they are heroes, not murderers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This goes beyond disinformation and propaganda; it\u2019s a celebration of evil that turns reality on its head until it\u2019s gone.  Putin isn\u2019t just willing to commit atrocities on behalf of conquest; he revels in evil for its own sake.  It\u2019s as if his quest for power is nothing but a convenient ruse for sadism.  Sadism has finally become his ideology, the end all.  And given Putin has the largest stash of nuclear weapons in the world, he literally holds the power to end it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve often spoken about the evil \u201cslave power\u201d of the antebellum South and the awful Confederate \u201ccause\u201d for which I was fool enough to die for.  Up until now, at least, I always thought the lords of the \u201cCotton Kingdom\u201d were the all-time champions of turning reality on its head for their greedy convenience.  In order to justify owning and abusing other human beings for profit they devised an almost infinite number of ridiculous arguments and rationalizations, well encapsulated by the words of my former commander, Robert E. Lee: \u201cThe blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially and physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their instruction as a race.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even Hitler Tried to Hide His Concentration Camps from the World!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n

Looking back, there\u2019s some evidence these antebellum slaveholders were at least sane enough to see the evil in their ways.  They vehemently denied that slaves were beaten and whipped, that families were split up and children sold off when it was profitable, and that women were frequently raped as suited their fancy. (They went ballistic when the novel Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em> created a sensation in the North for exposing these horrors.) They certainly didn\u2019t send letters to Horace Greeley at the New York Tribune <\/em>(perhaps the country\u2019s most influential abolitionist and newspaper) bragging about their latest atrocity, and they didn\u2019t hand out medals for abusing slaves.  No, they did everything they could to hide their crimes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin isn\u2019t trying to restore the Russian empire; he is committing evil because he can and reveling in his sadism for all the world to see.  And unfortunately, because of those nearly 6,000 nuclear weapons under his control, it\u2019s just part of his charm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kudos to Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow.

\n<\/strong> In response to a Republican colleague who called her a \u201cgroomer\u201d for standing up against marginalizing the state\u2019s LGBTQ population, McMorrow made a stand against the Republican hatred and bigotry. Defining herself as \u201ca straight, white, Christian, married suburban mom,\u201d she called out the \u201cperformative nonsense\u201d of her attacker. \u201cPeople who are different are not the reason that our roads are in bad shape\u2026or that healthcare costs are too high, or that teachers are leaving the profession,\u201d she said. \u201cWe cannot let hateful people tell you otherwise to scapegoat and deflect from the fact they are not doing anything to fix the real issues that impact people\u2019s lives. \u201dShe recalled historical heroes who tried \u201cto right wrongs and fix the injustice in the world,\u201d and went on to say that \u201ceach and every single one of us bears responsibility for writing the next chapter of history. . . we will not let hate win.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, what do you think of Putin honoring the Russian soldiers who committed war crimes\u2014 purposely slaughtering civilians, including beheadings and torture\u2014in Bucha, Ukraine?  He praised the 64th Motorized Brigade for \u201cmass heroism and bravery, steadfastness and fortitude\u201d and for \u201cdistinguishing itself in military action for the protection of the Fatherland and state interests.\u201d They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217325,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217318\/revisions\/217325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}