Al's
Most Recent
Quote
of the day:
“Love
is a condition in which the happiness of another is essential to your
own.”
Robert Heinlein
I
went to lunch Monday at one of my favorite places. I had fried
flounder, steamed cabbage, fried okra, banana pudding, water and
cornbread. My server was a middle aged black man named James who had
on a “I Love My Church” tee shirt. James sings a lot. Normally
it is “How Great Thou Art” but this time it was “Oh happy day,
Oh happy day, when Jesus washed...washed my sins away”. James is
religious.
Speaking
of religion:
Greenville,
SC is the home of Bob Jones University/Academy. It is a very
narrow-minded Christian based school teaching from kindergarten to a
master's degree with about 3,000 students. A while back the
administration was called to task for their actions, or lack thereof,
relative to reported sexual abuses/attacks on campus. An independent
Christian based organization named GRACE was hired by the Academy to
look into these allegations. After a few weeks of squabbling, GRACE
and BJU agreed on the rules. After two years of investigating Grace
issued their 301 page report. GRACE in an organization formed by a
relative of Billy Graham just for this purpose. The report was not
to determine if sexual abuses existed but what the Academy was doing
about it when and if it is reported. It took me a while but I read
this report and I am still stunned at what I read. GRACE did not
pull any punches, y'all, the report was blistering. 60% of those
victims that were interviewed reported that when they reported their
encounters to BJU they were told outright to not call the police or
they were discouraged and/or browbeaten from doing so. It is also
apparently the position of BJU that in the case of sexual
abuse/attack both people bear some of the blame. The Academy does
not approach this issue at all in their curriculum. They even
suggest that it is “sinful” to even talk about it and they have
no professionally trained counselors available. If the victim is
female the Academy's position is to question whether she precipitated
the event with her behavior, attire and/or her body language. If the
answer is no, then it is still sinful for her to feel “bitterness
and be unforgiving”. One female student reported that a
professor's son had sexually abused her and when she tried to report
it to her “Resident Adviser” she was told to let it drop because
it could negatively effect the professor's ability to do “God's
work”. In nearly all of the females interviewed they felt that the
Academy advocated male superiority and that “male lust should be
controlled by the behavior and attire of the women”. One girl
reported a sexual assault to her adviser and he asked for all the
details. She said that she was not comfortable with telling
everything and the adviser told her that if she did not want to give
the details she must be lying about the whole thing. What a sick
bastard. I am beginning to gasp for breath and feel a throb in my
temples. How can this be here in the 21st
century? I have three daughters and I may be prejudicial...but I
don't think so, I know evidence of sick minds when I see it. I
wonder if Bill Cosby went to Bob Jones. Later on Greenville Law
enforcement refused to pursue it.
This
Date in History December 15
1961
Earlier in 1906 Adolf Eichmann was born in Solingen, Germany. In
1932 he joined the Nazi party and was absorbed into the elite SS
military/political machine of Adolf Hitler. He rose swiftly in rank
and authority and eventually he was in the inner circle of those in
the Nazi party chosen to find a way to exterminate all the Jews in
Europe. As Field Marshal Herman Goering called it, “We need to
find a “final solution to the Jewish problem.” Goering was the
second in command to Hitler and was tasked by Hitler with eliminating
the Jews. Goering in turn assigned Eichmann to figure out a way to
get this attempt at genocide on its feet and still be to best effect
for the 3rd
Reich. Eichmann was equal to the task and very shortly had death
camps, work camps where the workers were slaves building the tools of
war for the German military. They were literally worked to death and
buried in mass graves, or burned into dust in ovens. Eichmann’s
creations were responsible for the deaths of about 4 million Jews,
Slavs and Gypsies. There were another 2 million deaths that were the
responsibility of others in the SS. After the war was lost Eichmann
was captured but escaped and bounced around in the Middle East for
several years before making his way to Argentina in 1950. The
Argentinians played it fast and loose with immigrants, especially
former German military personnel. Eichmann assumed the name of
Roberto Klement and began a life of a factory worker in Buenos Aires.
In 1957 a former German officer told the Israeli secret police,
known as the Mossad, that Eichmann was living Buenos Aires. The
Mossad was very interested in Eichmann for obvious reasons and sent
two secret agents to Buenos Aries to try and find this monster. It
took a while but they located the home of Eichmann. In May of 1960
Argentina was having a celebration commemorating the 150th
anniversary of freedom from Spanish rule. There was a large influx
of visitors to this celebration and Mossad took this opportunity to
bring in more agents. On May 11 the Mossad agents descended upon
Eichmann’s house and waited. When Eichmann got off the bus coming
home from work, the agents grabbed him, injected him with enough
drugs to knock down a mule and flew him to Israel. Argentina raised
hell and demanded Eichmann’s release but Israel said he was an
international war criminal and there was no way in hell he was going
to be released and he was put on trial for crimes against humanity.
On this date Eichmann was convicted on all counts and was sentenced
to death. Eichmann’s total defense was that he was doing as he was
ordered like the good soldier that he was. On May 31, 1962 Adolf
Eichmann was hanged, his body cremated and his ashes thrown into the
Mediterranean. Thus ended the life of one on the worst monsters this
world has ever known. But there are still more out there, count on
it.
1890
For years the holy man for the Lakota Sioux, Sitting Bull, had been
warning his people that any contact with people other than those of
their tribe would result in disaster. His warning proved to be
prophetic as the honky settlers took more and more of Sioux land by
force. This meant that the Sioux were fighting a defensive battle
the great majority of the time trying to hold on their tribal lands
and traditional way of life. It was a fruitless fight because the
settlers were protected by a well armed and well trained United
States Cavalry. Finally Sitting Bull persuaded his people to go to
the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota or risk complete
annihilation. The US Cavalry got wind of an increase of the practice
of the legendary “Ghost Dance” by the Sioux. This dance was
usually a prelude to war so the Cavalry assumed this practice was
fostered by Sitting Bull. On this date the Reservation Police went
to arrest Sitting Bull at his tiny cabin on the Grande River. They
went to get him at 6:00a so they could take him away as quietly as
possible. It was not to be. Sitting Bull began raising almighty
hell and soon a crowd had gathered around the great leader also
raising almighty hell. One hothead in the crowd shot one of the
policemen and the police responded with shooting Sitting Bull in the
chest and head killing him instantly. The police were not finished.
They continued shooting killing 12 of the crowd and wounding 4. Just
a few weeks later the Indian spirit was broken with the massacre of
Chief Black Kettle and 156 of his tribe at Wounded Knee, South
Dakota. This was the last “battle” between the US Cavalry and an
Indian tribe. All they wanted was to be left alone to live their
lives as they saw fit. It was not allowed.
Thanks
for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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