Subj : Japanese Common Sense
To   : Ward Dossche
From : Lee Lofaso
Date : Wed Feb 06 2036 11:45:48

Hello Ward,

 LL>> The Land of the Rising Sun is filled with wonderful people, a people
 LL>> who deserve far more credit than what they have received.  For example,
 LL>> during WWII, the Japanese people gave refuge to many Jews, thus saving
 LL>> them from certain death at the hands of the Nazis.  This is the sense
 LL>> of decency that all peoples such strive for, regardless of nationality
 LL>> or ethnicity.  Why did the Japanese choose to help the Jews when so
 LL>> many others (including Americans) chose otherwise?  Maybe, just maybe,
 LL>> it had something to do with religion?  Or at the very least a sense
 LL>> of human decency.

WD>I think you need to start reading "The Rape of Nanking" by Iris
WD>Chang and learn about the attrocities committed by the Japanese when
WD>entering the Chinese city of Nanking and slaughtering 300,000
WD>civilians in that town alone.

Just because a handful of Japanese military men got carried away
does not mean that an entire people was at fault.  And lets not forget
what we did to innocent Japanese citizens, nuking TWO of their cities -
just because we could.  Makes me real proud to be an American ... NOT!

WD>Another interesting fact is that several of Japan's WW2 war
WD>criminals who were convicted at the eastern version of the Nurnberg
WD>war trials and executed, are still being revered as heroes in a
WD>shrine.

Of course those Japanese "war criminals" were convicted in our
kangaroo courts and executed.  What else would you have expected?

Saddam Hussein mocked his Shiite executioners by asking them just
before they hanged him, "Is this manly?"  What a brave man he was,
hitting the nail on the head with that comment.

Imagine what Adolf Hitler would have said had the Jews been able
to capture him alive.  Imagine what Adolf Eichmann said after the
Jews kidnapped him and convicted him in an Israeli kangaroo court,
executed him by hanging, and finally cremating him then throwing
his ashes into the Mediterranean Sea.

How is any of that "justice"?  Having a Shiite hit squad execute
your enemy just because you could?  That is what our sorry excuse
of a president did.  Having a bunch of angry Jews execute your
enemey just because you could?  That is what the Mossad did, along
with their Jewish brethren, totally disregarding international law.

There is no real "justice" in this world.  Only "revenge".  You
know it, I know it, and everybody else knows it.  So why not admit
what should be obvious to all?

It makes us feel good to kill people.  Especially people who we claim
have done bad things.  Emotionally, we cannot help ourselves.  It is
our nature to kill, whether we do it ourselves or have somebody else
do it for us.  We just do not like to admit it.

We have the death penalty in the USA.  Both at the federal level,
and also in most (but not all) states.  The majority of people here
are in favor of the death penalty, as they feel (rightly or wrongly)
that those who are put to death deserve to die.  However, they get
very uneasy when I tell them the state is murdering people in their
name.  Seems that most folks do not like to be called "killers" or
"murderers" to their face.

Klingons, as do Sicilians, have a saying - "Revenge is a dish
best served cold."  And that is exactly what those trials were
after WWII, for both Europeans and Japanese.

We wanted our revenge.  And we got it.

--Lee

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