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2003-06-01 Home Front

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Posted by 11A5S 2003-06-01 01:52 pm|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "When I hear the word "culture", I reach for my revolver."

The full quotation is: "Wenn ich Kultur hÃ¶re ... entsichere ich meinen Browning." It comes from Hanns Johst's most famous play, Schlageter (first performed in April 1933, for Hitler's birthday) and occurs in Act 1, Scene 1. The character who says the line is called Thiemann.

This is usually translated as "Whenever I hear the word culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning!"

From the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations entry for Johst, Hanns (1890 - 1978) German playwright.

Hope that helps. ^_^ You can find the reference here.

http://www.thinkinginenglish.com/notes.htm

Posted by Ed Becerra 2003-06-01 14:41:02|| 2003-06-01 14:41:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Thanks, Ed. I remembered that the quote was often misattributed to Goering or some other Nazi, but did not know that it was from a play. I disagree with the translation. The Browning that was fetishized by European revolutionaries of the right and left during that era was an automatic pistol, not a revolver. It was as much part of the revolutionary image of that era as the AK-47 is now. If OBL had lived in the pre-WWII era, he would have carried a Browning.

Posted by 11A5S 2003-06-01 16:24:06|| 2003-06-01 16:24:06|| Front Page Top

#3 One thing I have never been able to understand is why people in these s***holes in the third world when exposed to what conditions are like in the US, Canada, Europe,and Japan don't rise up in protest against the governments that keep them poor and oppressed. A classic example is Africa, Blessed with abundant natural resources the politicians there have only seemed to be interested in Swiss Bank accounts and formenting tribal conflicts.

Posted by Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire 2003-06-01 16:32:25|| 2003-06-01 16:32:25|| Front Page Top

#4 I have little patience for Friedman's brand of narcissistic navel-gazing and subtle America-blaming, or for those who keep telling us we need to "understand why they hate us so much."

It's really a lot simpler than people like Friedman want to acknowledge: they hate us because their culture, and particularly their religion, fill them with hate. They are hateful, and there's nothing more to it than that.

The French arch-jackass Rousseau put forth the proposition that these people are "noble savages." He was wrong. They're not noble savages; they're just savages.

Posted by Dave D. 2003-06-01 16:40:31|| 2003-06-01 16:40:31|| Front Page Top

#5 The Chinese are just biding their time.

Look at the population for the PRC and the male:female birth rate. Their distribution curves are seriously distorted and their population will top out in a few years, to start shrinking. From their economy to their military made in the Cultural Revolution times, the PRC isn't a threat to the United States.

Posted by Brian 2003-06-01 16:49:23|| 2003-06-01 16:49:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Brian is quite correct. While China would wish it otherwise, female infantacide is STILL quite strong in the rural countryside, practiced by families desperate to have male sons to carry on the family name. In China, when a family has only daughters, the name is lost due to the practice of a married woman leaving her family and becoming part of her husband's family. (IE., Miss Jones becomes Mrs. Smith, and the Jones family is left without an heir to the family NAME, which is held to be as important, if not more than, the real property.)

The end result of families killing girl children at birth is a massive underpopulation of females to create the next generation.

The desperation to preserve their family names has, unfortunately, blinded the rural Chinese to one brutal fact of nature.. that when you want 100 babies, you MUST have 100 women. But only ONE man.

So China's in a hole they're not able to climb out of on their own. Certain friends of mine in the international intellegence community have told me (off the record) that it's so serious, some members of the ruling elite have actually suggested going to war with India just to (a) kill off the excess number of young men who will never have brides of their own and (b) if possible, indulge in bridal-kidnapping on a mass scale.

China PROBABLY won't do this, it's too damn risky and there are other, far more practical, solutions. But the fact that the idea was even brought up in serious discussion shows just how bad off the situation is.

Ed Becerra

Posted by Ed Becerra 2003-06-01 21:26:43|| 2003-06-01 21:26:43|| Front Page Top

#7 A couple of things, here.
Yes, it's just pure hatred on the part of the Mohammedans... we're infidels, and we must all die. They won't rest until the West has been destroyed. (Remember, Islam is an evil religion, and Muslims in America are a Fifth Column.)
As for the Chinese, we will be at war with them within 24 years. They also despise us as "Western Devils".
Isn't it great we're allowing Muslims and Chinese to pour into America?

Posted by dickweed 2003-06-01 21:48:40|| 2003-06-01 21:48:40|| Front Page Top

#8 I agree a bit with Dave D. I find Friedman frustrating in that he sounds reasonable but then veers into left wing or liberal dogma/answers. Classic example - he was on Charlie Rose the other night and while he rightly blamed much of the Middle East mess on Saudia Arabia, Egypt, etc. he then blamed Bush for not signing Kyoto which (Friedman said) would greatly reduce the U.S." "far out of proportion" energy consumption and help resolve the Middle East crises.

Posted by AWW 2003-06-01 22:52:23|| 2003-06-01 22:52:23|| Front Page Top

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