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Robert F. Graboyes's avatar

And we can never say what someone ELSE is capable of. Decades ago, someone at a university I was associated with was arrested for attempting to spy for the Soviets. The folks at the Soviet embassy thought he was an imbecile and asked the FBI to please get rid of him for them. the guy’s mother went on TV to plead for her son who, she said, could NEVER do such a thing—that he was goooood, PATRIOTIC American. Well, he wasn’t. My mother and I saw this on the evening news. I turned to her and said “Mom, if I’m ever arrested for some heinous crime, please don’t go on television and make a fool of yourself defending me. You don’t know whether or not I’m capable of some lunacy or intrigue.” We had a good laugh. I didn’t get arrested.

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Steven Work's avatar

Anyone not responding in some way to the televised daily for over a year mass murder intending genocide of Palestinians in Gaza by Zionist supremacists with, totally depending-on, and enabling active support from this GreatSatan, for our ruling elites' Masters - Genocidal Zionists & Jewish Nationalist State of israel, .. if they are silent to that ongoing est. over 200,000 murdered Genocidal State, do they need a slap to wake them?

Having lived and loved, worked, and learned in two States as a young adult, never having run into pure deep evil horrors that will hate you for your sex and race, and systematically coordinate with others, and poison environment with lies to others near, using Which-Whisper-Web in secrete, and in growing confusion to strange seemingly abusive and disrespecting interactions, to growing isolation and transformation from Dream Job I worked and studied since 5th grade, to a Toxic Hell of the worst female-evil abuse and pleasure to may increasing suffering, to the slow Murder of Joy-Love-Hope, ..

.. much later when I realized what I was evil blind to, I changed into someone that can argue that if God sent a Real pandemic that killed women at menopause and before those 40+ years of spewing vile deadly poison on everyone, a walking soul-dead Zombie from Hell.

Then in 6 months our sadness for those decent few, those that still were silent to the deadly lies and vomit other women and society rammed down our throats from birth, that was okay sending us to die in wars, or keep entire world running with poverty wages, often dying on job, silently supported the separations of fathers-children on our putrid vile back-stabbing demons from Hell wives that divorce because 'not happy', or supported the ripping apart legs and body, silently screaming, our babies on mother's whim.

Sad we would be - and better dead the best of you - because within 6 months a New Spring of Joy, Love, Hope, .. would follow, and people would turn to each other with the most often questioning look - asking that if God didn't kill them, and knowing this, might we not mass mercy kill them to defend s all and to start this New Spring?

No, thanks to those Witches and others - I am different.

God Bless., Steve

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Kim's avatar

In 1982 my parents took a six-week trip to Germany, which they used in part to visit my mother’s cousins and other extended family. Her parents were ethnic Germans from Lithuania who immigrated to Chicago prior to WWI. My grandfather’s siblings arrived in the US after that war, but my grandmother’s family stayed in Lithuania. After the Soviets expelled all Germans from eastern Europe they ended up in West Germany.

My parents broached the topic of Germany’s war crimes in WWII, and found them to be defensive. If you suspected anything, they said, you dare not say anything. Besides, do you know everything your US government does? The discussion ended there.

Whether or not my dad being a WWII vet affected them or not, I don’t know.

So as much as we want to think we would be bold in the face of evil, the sad truth is that very few of us would. Fear makes one passive. Which is why we should know history and never forget that there have been people of courage to whom we owe deep gratitude and admiration.

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Marta Holmes's avatar

Such a great observation.We truly don’t know what we are capable of.Good people must always be on guard of our motives.

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Travis Blake's avatar

An excellent article and a timeless lesson.

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