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August 04, 2005
"One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day."
So says Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily fame, recently interviewed by Front Page Mag's Jamie Glazov. In the interview, Farah warns that Al Qaida plans to use its "existing nuclear arsenal" on major American cities -- and he highlights the critical importance of dates to Al Qaida: Dates are very important to al-Qaida, as we have come to know, and one of the dates mentioned in connection with this "American Hiroshima" plan is Aug. 6, the anniversary of the U.S. nuclear attack on Hiroshima in 1945. No year has been set, but it is worth noting that this Aug. 6th is the 60th anniversary of that attack.Obviously, he's not dumb enough to explicitly predict that the attack will happen this Saturday, but many will read it that way. I wouldn't be surprised to see a run on survivalist goodies. Of course, if Farah is right, it will be "I told you so!" time, and he says he hopes he's wrong. (Well, he's certainly been wrong before.) Stating that "reports indicate the nuclear devices came across the Mexican border" (reports I am unable to locate, but which a number of Freepers say consist of Farah citing Farah), Farah blames Bush, and "groups like the Council on Foreign Relations": FP: Why wouldn’t the Bush administration secure our borders? What are the advantages of leaving them unsecured? Is it too politically incorrect to secure them?Is this report worthy of a blog post? If the reports are false, and this is hysteria generated by Farah in order to get hits, then I should feel almost as dirty as the bombs we're all afraid of for even mentioning it. But then, if I am not to mention bad things, if I am not to inquire, if I cannot even express skepticism about conspiracy claims, then why blog at all? If August 6 passes and no dirty bombs go off, will that debunk these claims? Not to a true believer. Doomsday scenarios are constantly revised to fit changing times, and I'm sure this one will be too. But if there's one thing I can confidently predict, it's that -- nukes or no nukes -- eventually we'll all die. So, may the countdown begin. posted by Eric on 08.04.05 at 08:36 AM
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Sort of a reply, but I can't do trackbacks, so.... urthshu · August 4, 2005 10:08 PM ..not on topic exactly, I should point that out. You reminded me about it, is all. :-) urthshu · August 4, 2005 10:12 PM Thanks Steven, and urthshu! As to "not on topic," I don't go by such rules, and anyway, it's certainly related, as I've been thinking about the Hiroshima bomb along with everyone else. It's real easy for those who weren't there to be all sanctimonious. My father spent World War II in Burma, and told me that there was no such thing as a Japanese prisoner of war, save an occasional soldier found unconscious. They simply would not surrender, and had no plans to do so. (Suicide tactics are nothing new.) Consider that Tokyo was firebombed on March 9-10, 1945 and according to http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tokyo.htm : Estimates of the number killed range between 80,000 and 200,000, a higher death toll than that produced by the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima or Nagasaki six months later.Not even a rumble of surrender occurred. And why wasn't there an immediate surrender after the Hiroshima bomb on August 6? Why did it take yet another one on August 9 (Nagasaki)? Eric Scheie · August 4, 2005 10:54 PM Excellent post, BTW. :) Eric Scheie · August 4, 2005 10:54 PM Dear Eric: Thank you! And, yes, I agree: Thank God for the atom bomb! That bomb ended World War II quickly and decisively, saving at least thousands if not millions of lives. Many of our fathers could have been killed and we would not have been born. I once read a science-fiction alternate-history story in which the atom bomb was not invented, the prolongation of the War forced the Allies to send soldiers occupting Germany to go fight in Japan, thus allowing the Nazis to re-group, take over Europe, and ultimately, with the Japanese, take over the world, with all the horrors that followed. Alternatively, even if we had eventually won that War, the Cold War that followed might not have been so "cold". We might have been forced to fight a "hot" War to keep Stalin from taking over all of Europe. I would not have liked to have seen the results of that, so soon after World War II. The Bomb, like our guns, has kept us free. Steven Malcolm Anderson the Lesbian-worshipping man's-man-admiring myth-based egoist · August 5, 2005 08:08 AM |
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Pretty scary stuff. He'd better be wrong. I don't want another 9/11, especially not nuclear.
Joseph Farah. World Net Daily. Interesting style to it. And David Horowitz and his Front Page magazine has an interesting style. The styles of the Right. Very interesting what he said about the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations -- also "Campaign Finance Reform", i.e., censorship of political speech). Whenever I think about the CFR, I always think of the Odinist who objected to Columbus trying to Christianize the Indians, that Odinist said that when Columbus did that "he was acting like a CFR member or a member of the Trilateral Commission." The style of that!
CFR? Trilateral Commission? Bilderbergers? Birchers vs. Bilderbergers? Illuminati (founded by Adam Weishaupt on May 1, 1776)? Lodges? Orange Lodges? Hmmm....
The style of it all!....