Welcome to Keith Knight. Don't tread on anyone in the
Libertarian Institute. This is my most recent article
at the Institute titled Justifying Evil.
So often critics of the regime are called conspiracy theorists.
Those same people calling us conspiracy theorists also tell
us that every foreign politician is a dictator of unsound mind
who can't be reasoned with. Kaiser Wilhelm, Adolf Hitler, Ho
Chi Minh, the Taliban, Saddam Hussein, David Koresh, Bashar
al-Assad, Osama bin Laden, Moammar Gaddafi, Vladimir Putin,
Xi Jinping, etcetera. The formula is nearly always
Enemy X has a plot to take over the world.
Only a mass murder campaign of conscripts and civilians can
save us. Consider the destruction of
Japan in the Second World War. The fire bombing of Tokyo,
otherwise known as Operation Meetinghouse, took place on
March 9th and 10th of 1945 at the direction of US Air Force
General Curtis Lemay. Roughly 100,000 human beings
were slaughtered and another million were left homeless.
In Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, a single bomb weighing
9700 lbs killed approximately 70,000 human beings.
Dwight D Eisenhower, first supreme allied commander of
Europe and the 34th president of the United States, commented on
the bombing of Hiroshima in his 1963 book mandate for Change,
1953 to 1956 the White House years Eisenhower says.
In 1945, Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my
headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government
was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan.
I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent
reasons to question the wisdom of such an act.
During this recitation of the relevant facts, I had been
conscious of a feeling of depression, and so I voiced to
him my grave misgivings. First, on the basis of my belief
that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was
completely unnecessary. And secondly, because I thought
that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the
use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer
mandatory as a measure to save American lives.
It was my belief that Japan was at that very moment seeking some
way to surrender with a minimum loss of face.
Three days later in Nagasaki, 40,000 human beings were
murdered with a single bomb and 60,000 more injured.
Charles de Gaulle, then Chairman of the Provisional Government of
the French Republic, wrote on page 926 of his 1954 book The
Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle.
On August 6th and 10th, the atomic bombs were dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a matter of fact, the
Japanese had given indications before the cataclysm that they
were prepared to make peace negotiations, but it was
unconditional surrender the Americans demanded.
Certainly they were following the success of the experiments
conducted in New Mexico that they would obtain it.
At the time of the bombings, Robert S McNamara was Lieutenant
Colonel in the US Army Air Corps.
He later gave a documentary interview titled The Fog of War
11 Lessons from Life for of Robert McNamara.
Commenting on the war in the East, McNamara says
proportionality should be a guideline in war.
Killing 50% to 90% of the people of 67 Japanese cities and then
bombing them with two nuclear bombs is not proportional in the
minds of some people to the objectives we were trying to
achieve domestically. Under Executive Order 9066,
President Franklin Roosevelt used the Pearl Harbor myth to
kidnap roughly 120,000 people of Japanese descent, including
80,000 American citizens. People who would apologize for
accidentally stepping on your foot will explicitly defend or
condone the mass murder of innocent people because they
attacked us first at Pearl Harbor.
As if the people killed in the fire bombings were the same
people involved in the high level secret meetings planning
the Pearl Harbor attack. This is equally as ridiculous as
blaming all Americans for the actions of President Donald
Trump or Joseph Biden. Most citizens of all countries
are rationally ignorant regarding political matters.
The high opportunity cost of informing yourself on issues is
not worth the microscopic unforeseeable effect your one
vote can have on the bigger picture.
And we want to not just blame but murder people in other
countries for the actions of their emperors and conscripted
soldiers. According to the US War
Department's 1944 Handbook on Japanese military Forces.
Quote in peacetime all male Japanese subjects between 17 and
40 are subject to service in the armed forces.
Second section titled The Pearl Harbor Myth after Roosevelt
spent 40 .1% of America's gross domestic product with his 1933
New Deal recovery program in hopes of ending the Great
Depression. The country experienced a double
dip recession in 1937 with unemployment hitting 20% and
with failed domestic policies, politicians look for foreign
distractions. The plan to provoke an incident
at Pearl Harbor was not widely known until January 2nd, 1972
when the New York Times summarized the then recently
released British War Cabinet papers covering the period of
January 1941 to July of 1945. The article titled War Entry
Plans led to Roosevelt claims President Franklin D Roosevelt
told Prime Minister Winston Churchill in August of 1941 that
he was looking for an incident to justify opening hostilities
against Nazi Germany. The minutes, quoting Churchill
indirectly said he Roosevelt obviously was determined that
they should come in if he were to put the issue of peace and
war to the Congress. They would debate it for months.
The Cabinet minutes added the president had said he would wage
war but not declare it, and that he would become more and more
provocative. If the Germans did not like it,
they could attack American forces.
The president's orders to these U.S.
Navy escorts were to attack any German U boat which showed
itself, even if it were two hundred or three miles away from
the convoy. Everything was to be done to
force an incident. The president had taken this
very well and made it clear that he would look for an incident
which would justify him in opening hostilities, Churchill
told the war cabinet, according to the minutes of the meeting.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger explained Roosevelt's
strategy of provocation toward Germany and Japan in his 1994
book titled Diplomacy. In September of 1941, the United
States crossed the line into belligerency.
Roosevelt's order that the position of the German
submarines be reported to British Navy had made it
inevitable that sooner or later some clash would occur.
On September 4th, 1941, the American destroyer Greer was
torpedoed while signaling the location of a German submarine
to British airplanes. On September 11th, without
describing the circumstances, Roosevelt denounced German
piracy, comparing German submarines to a rattlesnake
coiled to a strike. He ordered the United States
Navy to sink on site any German or Italian submarines discovered
in the previously established American defense area, extending
all the way to Iceland. To all practical purposes,
America was at war on the sea with the Axis powers.
Roosevelt instructed the American negotiators to demand
that Japan relinquish all of its conquests, including Manchuria.
By invoking America's previous refusal to recognize that these
acts, Roosevelt must have known that there was no possibility
that Japan would accept. Roosevelt had achieved his goal
patiently and inexorably, educating his people one step at
a time, about the necessities before them.
His audiences filtered his words through their own perceptions
and did not always understand that his ultimate destination
was war, though they could not have doubted that it was
confrontation. At the time.
Henry Louis Stimson was the US Secretary of War and in the 1946
investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack, Stimson's diary
is brought into evidence on page 177.
The report sites a diary entry from November 25th, 1941, almost
two weeks before the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.
Stimson wrote. General Marshall and I went to
the White House where we were until nearly 1:30.
At the meeting were Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Secretary of
the Navy Frank Knox, Chief of Staff of the Army, George C
Marshall, Chief of Naval Operations Harold Ranswell Stark
and myself. The President brought up the
event that we were likely to be attacked perhaps as soon as next
Monday, for the Japanese are notorious for making an attack
without warning. And the question was what we
should do. The question was how we should
maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot without
allowing too much danger to ourselves.
Stimson later published sections of his personal diary in his
1948 book Co, written with his brother Bundy, titled On Active
Service in Peace and War. On page 393, Stimson cites his
own diary entry from December 7th, 1941, the very day Japan
attacked American troops stationed at Pearl Harbor.
When the news first came that Japan had attacked us, my first
feeling was of relief that the indecision was over and that a
crisis had come in a way which would unite all our people.
This continued to be my dominant feeling in spite of the news of
catastrophes which quickly developed, for I feel that this
country united has practically nothing to fear, while the
apathy and division stirred up by unpatriotic men have been
hitherto very discouraging. On October 7th, 1940, a
memorandum was written by Captain Arthur McCollum, Chief
of the Far Eastern Section of Naval Intelligence.
McCollum, whose name is mentioned 55 times in the
previously cited official Pearl Harbor investigation of 1946,
titled his memo Estimate of the Situation in the Pacific and
Recommendations for Actions by the United States.
The memo was popularized by Robert Beaston Net in his 1999
book Day of Deceit. Page four of the Memorandum
records Mccollum's ninth and 10th, Section 9.
It is not believed that in the present state of political
opinion the United States government is capable of
declaring war against Japan without more ado, and it is
barely possible that vigorous action on our part might lead
the Japanese to modify their attitude.
Therefore, the following course of action is suggested.
A Make an arrangement with Britain for the use of British
bases in the Pacific, particularly Singapore.
B Make an arrangement with Holland for the use of base
facilities and acquisition of supplies in the Dutch.
E Indies. C Give all possible aid to the
Chinese government of Chiang Kai Shek.
D Send a division of long range heavy cruisers to the Orient,
Philippines or Singapore. E Send two divisions of
submarines to the Orient. F Keep the main strength of the
US fleet now in the Pacific, in the vicinity of the Hawaiian
Islands. G insist that the Dutch refused
to grant Japanese demands for undue economic concessions,
particularly oil. H Completely embargo all U.S.
trade with Japan in collaboration with a similar
embargo imposed by the British Empire.
Section 10. If by these means Japan could be
led to commit an overt act of war, so much the better.
At all events, we must be fully prepared to accept the threat of
war. Why do the ramblings of one
single soldier matter? Because the main recommendations
from the memo were embraced and enacted by the US government,
which, as McCullum predicted, LED Japan to commit an overt act
of war. Section C was enacted aiding
Chang's regime as part of an extension to America's Lend
Lease program, which also aided the British and Soviet
governments before the US official entrance into the war.
Moreover, Section D was enacted. A restricted document from
November 15th, 1941 had the subject General Marshall's
conference today titled #2-6O2. Robert Robert L Sherrod
Memorandum for David W Hulbert General George C Marshall at the
time was Chief of staff of the United States Army.
The document summarized a meeting at the War Department in
a secret conference with General Marshall.
The memo from the George C Marshall Foundation reads. the
US is on the brink of war with the Japanese, said the general.
Our position is highly favorable in this respect.
We have access to a leak in all the information that they are
receiving concerning our military preparations,
especially in the Philippines. In other words, we know what
they know about us, and they don't know that we know it.
Under a great secrecy. The US is building up its
strength in the Philippines to a level far higher than the
Japanese imagine. General MacArthur is unloading
ships at night, is building airfields in the carefully
guarded interior, is allowing no one within miles of military
reservations. Most important point to remember
is this. We are preparing for an
offensive war against Japan, whereas the Japs believe we are
preparing only to defend the Philippines.
We are piling a large portion of our new material into the
Philippines, several shiploads of it a week.
If war with the Japanese does come, we'll fight mercilessly.
Flying Fortresses will be dispatched immediately to set
the paper cities of Japan on fire.
There won't be any hesitation about bombing civilians.
It will be all out. Section F was maintained when a
clear alternative was possible, which was withdraw U.S. troops
from the area since Hawaii was not even an American state at
the time and would not be so until 1959.
Most significantly, Section H of Mccullen's memo advocating an
embargo, the forcible restriction of trade with Japan,
was enacted August 1st, 1941. This came on the heels of the
freezing of Japanese assets which occurred July 26th, 1941.
None of this was inevitable. It could have easily been the
case that the US government saw the brutality of the Japanese
regime in China and feared provocation or wanted a strong
Japan to later fight the Soviets or contain Chinese expansion in
Asia. With the Japanese having
occupied Vietnam in September of 1940 and having maintained Korea
as a colony since 1910, the new found United States Empire
inherited conflicts of the previous Japanese Empire.
Of course, those with fashionable opinions constantly
will say the US had Truman's containment policy and was just
trying to contain communism when they killed millions of Koreans
and millions of Vietnamese. This assumes the US empire had a
reasonable fear of communism thousands of miles away from
Vietnam and Korea, while Japan had no reason to fear them, even
though Japan is far closer to these areas.
Unlike market actors, governments have unique
qualities which incentivize warfare in ways that would be
unprofitable in the voluntary sector.
States have unique access to central bank money creation,
taxation, conscription, compulsory education and a legal
double standard which allows them to commit murder under the
guise of foreign policy. We should expect states to
continue to agitate for wars. We must see war for what it is,
mass murder campaigns based on lies funded by theft.
The national security elites in every country since the
beginning of time must lie and sensationalize potential foreign
threats in order to get their domestic populations to
surrender their freedoms and bear the high cost of dying and
getting their limbs blown off. May we all have the humility of
Tucker Carlson in reflecting on the atrocities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. Well, I love, by the way, that
people on my side, I'll just say I'll just admit it on the right,
you know, have spent the last 80 years defending dropping nuclear
weapons on civilians. Like, are you joking?
That's just like prima facie evil.
If you can't. Well, if we hadn't done that,
then this that the other thing that was actually a great
savings. Like, no, it's wrong to drop
nuclear weapons on people. And if you find yourself arguing
that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then
you are evil. Like it's it's not a it's not a
tough one, right? It's not a hard call for you.
It's not a hard call for me. Thank you for watching Keith
Knight, Don't Tread on Anyone, and the Libertarian Institute.