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Anytime you go against their narrative with facts and truth, the only come back is your racist...

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I was pretty troubled by the part about defining fascism, and how you favored the FDR version as the best you’d ever heard. It was one of the worst I’ve ever heard. But it really just raised the question, do you think of fascism and naziism as the same (or even similar) because FDR’s definition doesn’t even come close to describing the nazis.

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I have minor points to make.

1. Operation Sea Lion (the invasion of Britain), was Hitler’s great error of 1940. Operation Market Garden was the Allied (mostly British) error of 1944 in the unprepared attempt to cross the Rhine.

2. Benigni Aquino led the first challenge to Marcos in 1983. Philippine soldiers assassinated him as he disembarked his plane at the Manila airport. US military war gaming postulated that Salvador Laurel would succeed Marcos. Cora on Aquino, the color revolution widow of Benigni Aquino, damaged the Philippines gravely. Mrs. Imelda Marcos had hundreds of pairs of shoes because each hamlet, by state directed infrastructure investment, created small shoe factories in these numerous hamlets, and each hamlet mayor gave Mrs. Marcos one pair the hamlet factory’s shoes as a gift. American lawyer Gerry Spence won acquittal of Mrs. Marcos for tax evasion in the US; he showed these facts and demolished the Marie Antoinette image of Mrs. Marcos.

3. The dismantling of FDR’s project began shortly after D-Day when the U.S. Democratic Party nominated Harry Truman as FDR’s running mate, dumping Henry Wallace. FDR did not fight this development, even though the greater share of Democratic delegates favored Wallace on the first ballot. Then-Florida US Senator Claude Pepper described this as the high water mark of the New Deal,

4. Hjalmar Schacht escaped the Nuremberg gallows. A local German court during occupation convicted him of crimes that would have locked him up for many years. My godfather, Newton S. Friedman, helped to prosecute him. A German appellate court reversed the conviction.

5. Former U.S. Congressman and then-incumbent NY Supreme Court Justice Nathan Perlman (court of first instance in NY state) launched a project on

own to do damage to American street Nazis (not the Budhes, Harrimans, DuPonts, or Dulleses). He contacted a Jewish man of honor named Meyer Lansky to do the work, short of actual homicide. Lansky farmed the work out to Murder, Inc., led by Louis Buchalter. With the help of NYPD Allie’s, these Jewish men of honor fulfilled their patriotic duties on the skulls and carcasses of hapless Nazis -- for no money (the postwar French Connection and Cuban enterprise were future payoffs).

6. Of all Jewish-American organizations in 1933, only the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America organized, marched, and demanded an unconditional boycott of the Third Reich after the Reichstag fire of 27 February 1933. See Edwin Black’s “Transfer Agreement” on the way that the Jewish Agency did business with the Third Reich to secure some Jewish immigration to Palestine, at the fatal expense of millions of Jews. Edwin Black also wrote a book on IBM’s role in finding Jews throughout Germany for the Reich.

7. American fascism has a long history that predates the Round Table. The US Supreme Court gutted the Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendments within 31 years of the end of the War of the Rebellion. The 1873 Slaughterhouse Cases gutted the privileges and immunities that newly freed human had as unalienable rights, the 1886 S. Pacific RR Co. case created corporate personhood out of the underside of the judges’ robes, and the 1896 Plessy case enshrined “separate but equal” apartheid. FDR changed the Court with the country; his threat to pack the court with additional justices forced the Court to uphold New Deal programs, to save its marble hide.

8. What are the best sources that demolish the dominant narrative on Stalin’s rule in the 1930’s?

9. Andrew Martyanov credits General Hodges as the real hero of the Battle of the Bulge, not Patton.

10. What role did MacArthur have in the preservation of Unit 731?

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Excellent... smart educated perceptive non waffle!

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Thanks for this... I think you're SPOT ON.

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Pissing on Patton and USA subtracted from any point you were eventually going to make. I'd like to see your point in writing so I can skip the rest.

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