Tokyo Rose Dies
In the last World War the demoralizing effect of "advocacy" journalism was harnessed by the enemy... Of course then it was called propaganda.The two media "stars" of this period were Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose. Both were Americans. The woman known as Tokyo Rose died this week. For the story of both (and Lord Haw Haw, the British Nazi broadcaster) click on the photo of the two ladies below:
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Sayonara .
Read up on your history. Neither the FBI nor General Douglas MacArthur's staff had found any evidence that "Tokyo Rose" (Toguri) had aided the Japanese forces. It was an influential gossip columnist named Walter Winchell who initally got her put on trial. She was later pardoned by Gerald Ford after her accusers publicly admitted they had committed perjury, saying they had lied under oath under pressure from prosecutors.
I think the record is pretty clear, poor lady was rail-roaded. Alas, one of many tragidies that happened in and after WWII. Good article for those interested in "The rest of the story".
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/world/asia/28rose.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087%0A&en=63e369f3a342efd6&ex=1159588800
The world is blind. A menace is growing every day. It does not grow on a unified front. It is not organized as a country. It does not have a seat at the UN. Some of its membership worldwide are not participating in open acts of violence, yet the insidious oppressive nature of this force finds its ways in through the front door of openness and inclusion. Openness and Inclusion are doctrines of the West. They are noble and just. But taken to the extreme, these doctrines can bring in division and oppression. Peace at any price, meaning the absence of conflict, is the most costly form of peace. It means submission. The world, primarily the West, is submitting. This is the aim of the adherents to the peaceful force that I am describing. Islam.
To offend somebody in the western Islamic community can bear either violent consequences or western societal submission. The moment speech is abridged, true freedom dies. The moment a woman in Western Civilization hesitates going into public dressed in a certain manner, true freedom dies. The moment law enforcement turns from protecting law abiding citizens, true freedom dies. When the predominating reason for tolerance is precipitated by fear, freedom dies.
Western society has two choices. Vanquish, or be vanquished.
Islam, by its nature, is not a status quo worldview. It is a jealous master. It will not submit by choice. If you doubt, open your eyes and read the Quran and the Hadith. Then read history. You can not come away from this study and find a worldview compatible with Western Civilization. This study coupled with today's headlines is a loud message from over a billion Muslims. It is visible everywhere, even in the UN. To miss this, one must willfully choose to disbelieve glaring evidence.
Understand, these encroachments on liberty will continue, and like a snowball at the top of a mountain, the onslaught will grow in size and speed. Ask yourself, why do I want to accept and appease Islamists? Is it because of your openness, your respect for multiculturalism? Or are you now starting to fear deep down inside. The hurried frenzy to negotiate and appease a fascist dictator in Iran is a great example of this problem. Iran will become a nuclear power if the world just keeps on negotiating.
How does it make you feel? Ahmadinejad, Iran's President, has stated numerous times that the Holocaust did not happen. He has also on numerous occasions called for the Muslim world to envisage a world without Israel. He is very direct in his statements. Ahmadinejad is not alone. There is a hunger in the Muslim world to see the destruction of Israel. It is not just Arabs. It is Muslims worldwide that desire the eventual removal of Israel from the map.
If you choose to willfully ignore the facts and believe that the threat can be negotiated with and contained, you are mistaken. Again, I ask you to conduct your own study. Read the Quran and the Hadith. Then read history. You can not come away from this study and find a worldview compatible Western Civilization. This study coupled with today's headlines is a loud message. It is visible everywhere, even in the UN. To miss this, one must willfully choose to disbelieve glaring evidence.
Bubba's Pravda
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Hi Guys,
You may want to reread (and do more research on) the Tokyo Rose story.
There is some pretty compelling evidence from the other side as well. And the story goes far beyond Walter Winchell and fromer US President Gerald Ford.
Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.
It's funny. The Muslims would kill me. Hitler (yimach shmo) would kill me if he were alive. The KKK would kill me. Buford Furrow would kill me. Church-goers have told me I have an "obsolete religion." I have been hassled at work because I wanted YK off (I always volunteer to work Xmas and Easter and Thanksgiving and Halloween).
Chabad has invited me to NOT come back. I've been asked to leave an Ortho shul. Blackhats in the Fairfax district watch me if I go into Atara bookstore. I would serve in the IDF if accepted.
So I converted under Reconstructionist auspices and have paid dues to a Conservative shul? Is that wrong? I study mussar literature and take it to heart. Why won't people accept me? I don't preach, but I live Jewishly, it feels right and it makes sense. YES, IT MAKES SENSE.
There's a solution: I will go it alone. Maybe in the next gilgul I'll be a Chassid or a Haredi or just a real-live secular atheist Jew-by-birth. For now: chayal boded.
This was Qesher.
Qesher,
Please do not despair; there are those of us out here in the world who will welcome you into our house to share a meal and conversation in spite of how the world may "label" either of us. All YHWH wanted for his children is to live in peace one with another on this Earth, his creation. It is only the arrogance and pride of this world that gets in the way and serves the Enemy.
Tokyo Rose and others like her only serve to make things worse, not better. Just ask any kid being picked on in the schoolyard. It usually starts with "he said/she said". So I suggest this. Lets stop the fighting and name calling among ourselves. Lets not worry over whether YHWH is obsolete or not (He's not) or if He changed because someone got nailed to a tree a couple of thousand years ago just for saying how nice it would be for us to stop hating each other. YHWH only wants his children to live in peace. Let us then sit down together, share a meal, and listen to each other. Then we can face our common foe with the truth and DEFEAT HIM!
G-d Bless you
And to you, too, Yakov
Well said "Bubba's Pravda"...Thank you for posting it...
Qesher, please try not to despair... you are welcomed and loved...I grieve for you...for Israel...for all the Jews...I am so full of anger at the world for their ignorance and intolerance...I cannot imagine what it must be like... I think it was despicable when Ahamadinejad and Chavez set their feet upon American soil and desecrated our American land...your enemy is my enemy and whether the world recognizes it now or later the day will surely come, that they do, and for most it will be too late!
God Bless
Ann...
California, USA
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