1984 is here....absolutely

sheep education, goering, USA, 1984

so, now, i cut and paste a fellow blogger on this site ... the reason for this is that i was trying to determine the veracity of the famous goering quote, because it was not in the transcripts of the Nuremberg trials.

on thing about the internet, people are not scrupulous when it comes to verifying quotes. hardly ever see someone do a footnote. i hope that gustave gilbert is telling the truth when he says the War Criminal made this observation.






Saturday, January 12, 2008
Göring, call me Meier, was not always wrong

Hermann Wilhelm Göring, *12 January 1893, succeeded Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, as commander of the flying circus in the Great War. An aerial hero, he had downed 22 confirmed enemy aircraft. As the only blonde nazi, he was a natural to command the Luftwaffe. He was a strutting sensualist, who delighted in the uniform and splendor.

He was also the second man on the nazi totem pole. He was the Reichstag's President from 1932 to 1933. Göring was involved in the Gleichschaltung, where for example, all Catholic newspapers he banned in 1933.

Immediately the nazi program began Gleichschaltung*¹, equivalent replacement, the process of nazification and co-öpting and abolition of individuals and organizations. Dachau was opened as a bullpen for those not deemed agreeable to change, the irredeemable, bad and troublesome citizens. Everything was to be reformed, ancient and contrary freedom was eliminated, no more kulturkampf.

Göring liked to boast, and on 9 August 1939, Göring said, "The Ruhr will not be subjected to a single bomb. If an enemy bomber reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Hermann Göring: you can call me Meier!" He used common, idiomatic cliches, as, "If x happens, then ― you can call me Meier." Black sarcasm had Berlin's air raid sirens called "Meier's trumpets" and "Meier's hunting horns" by the end of the war. He was correct, in seeing that war against Russia would be a disaster.

After the war ended, the surviving, prominent nazis were put on trial in Nuremberg (Nürnberg). Dr.Gustave Gilbert was an american born german fluent jew. Gilbert had access to speak to these men. 18 April 1946 Gilbert talked to Göring in his cell and records in his book, Nuremberg Diary, on page 278-9:

[Hermann Göring] "Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."

[Gustave Gilbert] "There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."

[Hermann Göring] "Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
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*¹ "forcible coordination" is a phrase some academics employ.

trash can through window august 2003

soulmates?

Is the idea of meeting a 'soulmate', at the age of 47 years, a cruel myth? A concept to torture myself with?

Is it my imagination , or are there a lot of single people.??
Alone in their cars, going to work?
Alone in their apartments or homes when they return at the end of the day?

I guess the grass is always greener. Hold out. Keep fishing for that soulmate.

My aloneness is the exquisite silence of solitude, Where the only person I argue with over doing the dishes is Myself.

WE have some doozie arguments over that issue, I'll tell you.

A couple of times I thought I was going to divorce myself over it...But, I kissed and made up with myself.

breaking eggs with a hammer

hoy boy,

okay,

so now i am up late.. so now i am FILLED with the potential of a new day. so now, what difference does it make?

just saying "hello" to the free world

i am looking forward to seeing our president retiring to his ranch. feel good about that.

obama was my man, yesterday, in the primary elections. would've voted for ron paul but the elections board didn't process my change-of-party form....

oh well, i got to be part of the fight between two strong democrats....

in the one image i uploaded, a protest banner i created for the october peace rally in LA is displayed. and so it goes... the citizens who are for peace and justice chant their weak slogans in the face of massive police presence. and the engine of corporate hegemoney ($) churns forward. boring forward. a massive screw, with salivating money hoarders at the wheel of this contraption..

the governors of the new world order are such cutups, aren't they?

and the sheep that munch contentedly on the fresh grass are comforted by their numbers. the wolves chomp at the edges of the herd, and all is well..

which brings me coffee-addled, to today's notion of inner peace.. i have no ability to exact change on those around me. trying to convince a friend or family member to see my point of view is an excellent example of the uselessness of persuasion. all i have is myself. ACTION. i can bravely and heroically take action today.

that's it. exercise. do art. give service. help others with their burden, when i can.