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Two False Testimonies from Auschwitz

In an article commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the Nuremberg trial , Robert M.W .
Kempner states that the extermination of the jews has been incontestably and unassailably proved since the time of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg , and the twelve successive trials which continued until mid-1949 .
“ The history of the Holocaust written at Nuremberg bears importantly on the punishment of the guilty .
The historical verification rests almost exclusively on the official records of the Hitler regime , which a faithful bureaucracy painstakingly preserved.
” In addition to these documents there are the confessions of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the eyewitness testimonies of Rudolf Hoss and Otto Ohlendorf and the statements of numerous defendants heard as testimony in the Einsatzgruppen and Wilhelmstrasse trials .
“ A large number of other historical truths were established thanks to documents and eyewitness testimony before German courts during the past twenty years.
” In reality , as we have shown in our study “ The Myth of the Extermination of the Jews “ , despite the enormous mass of official National Socialist documents produced during these trials , there exists not a single proof of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , so that at this time “ it is difficult to say exactly how , when , and by whom the order to exterminate the jews was given.
” Even apart from that , however , to attribute historical value to the verdicts of tribunals in which the victors sat in judgment over the vanquished is at the very least naive .
In fact , as the attorney general of the United States stated during a hearing of the Nuremberg trial on 26 July 1946 , the International Military Tribunal constituted simply “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ war effort ” against Germany , with which they were “ technically still in a state of war ” although the political and military institutions of the enemy had collapsed .
At Nuremberg , as the English historian A.J.P .
Taylor remarks : “ The documents were chosen not only to demonstrate the war-guilt of the men on trial , but to conceal that of the prosecuting Powers.
” The guilt of Germany was therefore posited at the start : “ The verdict preceded the tribunal ; and the documents were brought in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been settled.
” Torture also entered into the framework of this “ continuation of the war effort ” directed , thanks to the trials , against the Germans .
The first commandant of Auschwitz , Rudolf Hoss , interrogated by British investigators at Heide with “ alcohol and the whip , ” signed a deposition without even knowing its content !
At the Malmedy trial , which took place at Dachau in 1946 , American investigators submitted the accused to every sort of physical and mental torture to force them to sign false @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presided over by Judges van Roden and Simpson established .
During the proceedings , there occurred an incident which illustrates perfectly the atmosphere which prevailed during the trials of the vanquished conducted immediately after the war by the victors .
The American investigator Kirschbaum had introduced a witness , Einstein , to prove that the defendant , Metzel , had murdered his brother , who was nonetheless sitting in the courtroom !
Kirschbaum proceeded to scold Einstein : “ How can we bring this pig to the gallows , if you are so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ court !
” The most absurd aspect of these trials is that any “ eyewitness ” was able to tell the most shameless lies without the least fear of being contradicted , let alone being charged with perjury .
That this is literally true is demonstrated by the extravagant statements about Auschwitz by one Sophia Litwinska during The Belsen Trial .
She stated that she had been “ selected ” for the gas chamber ” – together with 3,000 other jews at the Auschwitz hospital – on Christmas Eve , 1941 or several @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the historians of the Auschwitz Museum , neither “ selections ” nor “ gassings ” of jews had begun at that time .
In the “ gas chamber , ” Sophia Litwinska saw “ fumes coming in through a very small window at the top ” , which is absurd because Zyklon B , the gas allegedly used to “ exterminate ” the jews , is stored as a solid in hermetically sealed cans .
Our “ eyewitness ” was exposed to the gas “ a minute or two perhaps ” , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that moment I heard my name called .
I had not the strength to answer it , but I raised my arm .
Then I felt someone take me and throw me out from that room .
Hoessler put a blanket round me and took me on a motor cycle to the hospital , where I stayed six weeks .
Thus , in the middle of a “ gassing ” someone – without even a gas mask !
– is supposed to have entered the “ gas chamber ” to summon Sophia Litwinska @ @ @ @ @ @ @ under the heading of lunacy , if one considers that hydrocyanic acid is one of the most powerful poisons which exist : for humans 12 milligrams per liter of air is a fatal dose ; moreover , “ if the concentration of hydrocyanic acid in the air is strong enough , death is almost immediate.
” In this study we shall examine the “ Eyewitness testimony ” of two other witnesses who testified at The Belsen Trial : Charles Sigismund Bendel and Ada Bimko .
Their testimonies , while less extravagant , are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has not prevented Gerald Reitlinger from accepting them in his famous book The Final Solution .
Further , the “ eyewitness testimony ” of Charles Sigismund Bendel has been recently dug up by Georges Wellers to demonstrate the existence of the “ gas chambers ” at Auschwitz .
Now , the fact that these perjurers lied brazenly is doubtless shameful , but it is still more shameful that unscrupulous judges used their “ eyewitness testimony ” to exact a legal vengeance against the German defendants , with whom they were “ technically still @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and that biased historians have consciously used it to prop up the tottering myth of the “ extermination ” of the jews .
The Romanian-jewish doctor Charles Sigismund Bende was a prosecution witness at The Belsen Trial in 1945 and at the Tesch trial in 1946 .
His “ eyewitness testimony ” also appeared in 1946 in the work Temoignages sur Auschwitz ( Auschwitz Eyewitnesses ) .
He was arrested in Paris on 4 November 1943 and interned in the camp at Drancy from which , on 10 December 1943 , he was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was sent to the Buna camp ( Monowitz or Auschwitz-III ) , then returned to the main camp at Auschwitz , from which he was finally transferred to Birkenau .
Dr. Bendel does not even know when this took place , since he declares , contradictorily : On 1st January , 1944 , I was transferred to the main camp , and on 27th February,1944 , into the gipsy camp 4 in Birkenau , where I worked as a doctor .
Q : How long did you work at Birkenau ?
In June @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Sonderkommando of the crematoriums at Birkenau , which according to him simultaneously comprised 200 and 900 men , and in which he helped in the “ extermination ” of jews in the “ gas chambers.
” At this time he observed a “ gassing ” for the first time : One day in June 1944 , at 6 in the morning , I joined the day shift ( 150 men ) of Crematorium 4… At noon a long procession of women , children , and elderly people entered the courtyard of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ghetto .
This is incorrect because the first convoy of jews from Lodz arrived at Auschwitz on 15 August 1944 .
Furthermore , this contradicts Bendel ’ s testimony in The Belsen Trial : The first time I started work there was in August , 1944 .
No one was gassed on that occasion , but 150 political prisoners , Russians and Poles , were led one by one to the graves and there they were shot .
Two days later , when I was attached to the day group , I saw @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that occasion it was the ghetto at Lodz – 80,000 people were gassed .
In reality the execution of the 150 political prisoners is a complete fabrication while his number for Lodz ghetto jews “ gassed ” is greater by ten thousand than the number of jews deported from Lodz to Auschwitz .
Dr. Bendel states that there were four crematoriums at Birkenau , numbered 1 , 2 , 3 , and 4 .
According to him , the construction of crematoriums 1 and 2 ( II and III in the official German @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ The foundations of these imposing red brick buildings were laid in March 1942.
” This is not correct , because the Central Construction Office of the Waffen-SS and Police in Auschwitz took bids for the construction of the first Birkenau crematorium on 1 July 1942 .
Once again according to Dr. Bendel , the crematoriums were completed in January 1943 : “ Completed in January 1943 , their dedication was honored by the presence of Himmler in person ” .
This is likewise incorrect .
The Construction Office of the Waffen-SS and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ II and III on 31 March and 25 June 1943 respectively .
It is also untrue that Himmler was present for the openings .
According to Dr. Bendel , crematoriums 1 and 2 ( II and III ) each had 16 ovens , which is false because 5 triple ovens were installed in the above-mentioned crematoriums , giving a total of 15 muffles .
Dr. Bendel asserts that there were two “ gas chambers ” in each of the four crematoriums at Birkenau : Q : How many gas chambers were there ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ generally two gas chambers .
Contradicting this , in his sworn declaration of 21 October 1945 Dr. Bendel speaks of a single “ gas chamber ” in each crematorium .
These two assertions are contradicted anew by the “ official ” version defended by the Auschwitz Museum , the protagonists of which assign crematoriums II and III one “ gas chamber ” each , while crematoriums IV and V are supposed to have had a total of four .
The “ gas chambers ” of crematoriums 1 and 2 ( II and III @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meters [ 40 square meters , 64 cubic meters ) and at the same time 10 x 5 x 1.5 meters ( 50 square meters , 75 cubic meters ) : Q : How big were the chambers ?
A : Each chamber was 10 meters long and 4 wide .
Q : [ by the defense attorney , Dr. Zippel ] : You stated that the gas chambers had dimensions of 10 by 1.6 meters , is that correct ?
There were 2 underground gas chambers , each approximately 10 meters long @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a half high .
The 2 gas chambers supplied the corpses for the crematoriums .
The “ gas chambers ” of Crematoriums 3 and 4 ( III and IV ) measured in turn 6 x 3 x 1.5 meters ( 18 square meters , 27 cubic meters ) : “ For crematoriums 3 and 4 there were 2 other gas chambers which each measured 6 meters long , 3 wide , and one and a half high.
” The data supplied by Dr. Bendel are all false .
According to the original plans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are supposed to have been “ gas chambers ” had the following dimensions : The capacity of the “ gas chambers ” described by Dr. Bendel was , if truth be told , surprising : 1,000 people were customarily put in each of the two large chambers and 500 in each of the two small ones .
This is impossible and contradictory .
Impossible , since the two “ gas chambers ” of crematoriums II and III would have held – based on the surface area supplied by Dr. Bendel – 25 or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those of crematoriums IV and V would have held 28 people per square meter !
Contradictory , because Dr. Bendel asserts : “ In crematoriums 1 and 2,2,000 each ; in crematoriums 3 and 4 , 1,000 each ; and in the bunker 1,000.
” Cross-examined by the defense attorney on the possibility of cramming 1,000 people into a room of 64 cubic meters , Dr. Bendel gave an astonishing answer , which makes plain the deceitfulness and bad faith of this “ eyewitness ” : Q : How is it possible to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 64 cubic meters ?
A : That ’ s a good question .
It could only be done with German technique .
Q : Do you seriously maintain that 10 people can be put in a space of half a cubic meter ?
A : Four million people who were gassed at Auschwitz are the witnesses .
This ridiculous argumentation has been taken up by the court historians who obstinately close their eyes to the flagrant technical absurdities of the “ gassings ” and Cremations , ” pretending that because the extermination of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ feasible .
Thus the famous declaration of the 34 French historians : It is not necessary to ask how , technically , such a mass murder was feasible .
It was technically feasible because it took place .
Dr. Bendel describes the extraordinary German technique which allowed cramming 1,000 people into a room of forty square meters : The people were so tightly packed in there that it was impossible to fit in even a single one more .
It was great fun for the SS to throw in children over the heads @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
That was no longer possible , because the “ gas chambers , ” according to the “ witness , ” had a height of only 1.6 or 1.5 meters !
Thus it is evident that Dr. Bendel never set foot in the crematoriums at Birkenau and that what he says about the “ gas chambers ” is completely false .
Equally false is his description of the technique of “ extermination ” allegedly employed in Crematorium V. The “ victims ” undressed in the crematorium courtyard : About twelve o ’ clock @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some 800 to 1000 people .
These people had to undress themselves in the court of the crematorium and were promised a bath and hot coffee afterwards .
This contradicts the official “ truth ” about Auschwitz , according to which the “ victims ” undressed in special rooms referred to specifically as “ changing rooms ” in Exterminationist literature .
On the original plan of Crematorium II , the alleged changing room is actually called “ Leichenkeller 2 ” ; on the plan of Crematorium IV , the alleged changing room is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ appears solely the word Entluftung ( aeration , ventilation ) .
From the courtyard of the crematorium the new transport entered the “ gas chamber ” : “ One heard cries and shouts and they started to fight against each other , knocking on the walls.
” This is not possible , because in the “ gas chamber , ” according to Dr. Bendel , there were 28 persons per square meter , that is to say a density preventing all movement completely .
The “ victims ” died in two minutes ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” was opened the men of the Sonderkommando went inside without gas masks – since Dr. Bendel says nothing of gas masks , either – and began to drag out the bodies : This went on for two minutes and then there was complete silence .
Five minutes later the doors were opened , but it was quite impossible to go in for another twenty minutes .
Then the Special Kommandos started work .
This is impossible .
Crematoriums IV and V did not have ventilation systems .
The “ gas chambers ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doors to create a draft .
Given the extreme toxicity of hydrocyanic acid , a room fumigated for disinfection must be aired for at least twenty hours .
Thus it is evident that the men of the Sonderkommando , entering , after only twenty minutes ’ aeration , “ gas chambers ” in which there lingered lethal concentrations of gas would themselves have been gassed .
Consequently , it is still more impossible that the Sonderkommando could have begun evacuating the corpses five minutes after the death of the “ victims , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ For two interminable minutes , one heard blows against the walls , cries which had nothing human in them any longer .
And then nothing .
My head spun , I thought I had lost my mind .
Of what abominable crimes were these women , these infants guilty that they had to die in so cruel a manner ?
” Five minutes later the doors were opened .
The heaped , contracted corpses tumbled out like a waterfall .
A few were so intertwined that separating them required fantastic effort .
Covered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ struggled desperately against death .
One who has seen a gas chamber even only once can never forget it .
The corpses , still warm , passed to the barber , who cut their hair , and the dentist , who pulled out their gold teeth .
Elsewhere , Dr. Bendel reports that the “ victims ” unable to enter completely filled “ gas chambers ” were shot in front of the cremation ditches : During the time this is going on they continue to shoot people in front of these ditches , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the gas chambers because they were overcrowded .
This is also in contradiction with the official “ truth ” about Auschwitz , which says absolutely nothing about executions near these alleged ditches .
On this matter , Dr. Bendel asserts that during the period of maximum exterminations , Crematorium V was unable to deal with the enormous number of corpses , and so three cremation trenches were dug behind it for burning the bodies in the open : In Crematorium No .
4 [ V ] the result which was achieved by burning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was not going on quickly enough , so behind the crematorium they dug three large trenches 12 metres long and 6 metres wide .
This is wrong , as shown by the aerial photograph of Birkenau taken 26 June 1944 , on which there appears not the least trace , anywhere in the camp , not merely of pyres , but of any smoke at all , including over the crematoria .
Yet according to Dr. Bendel “ during the month of June the number of gassed was 25,000 every day.
” Dr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ditches are not merely wrong , but impossible .
He asserts that “ … in the middle of these big trenches they built two canals through which the human fat or grease should seep so that work could be continued in a quicker way.
” In reality , corpses placed in a cremation trench ( ! )
would have been charred , and , even if the fat had flowed off , it could not have collected in the bottom of the trench because it would have burned immediately owing to the high @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same reason the men of the Sonderkommando would not have been able to come up to these 72-square-meter pyres to throw in the corpses of the “ gassed ” without being burnt themselves .
Here again , therefore , the “ eyewitness ” Charles Sigismund Bendel has lied .
Regarding the incineration capacity of the crematoriums , he asserts : The corpses were then removed by the men of the Kommando and placed in an elevator which rose to the ground floor , where there were sixteen ovens .
Their overall capacity was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The twin crematoriums 3 and 4 [ IV and V ] which were commonly called the “ Forest Kremas ” ( being located in a pleasant clearing ) , were of more modest dimensions , with their eight ovens having a capacity for a thousand corpses in twenty-four hours .
This is wrong too ( see note 18 of “ Auschwitz : A Case of Plagiarism “ ) .
Had they been as efficient as those in a modern crematorium , the 46 muffles at Birkenau could have incinerated 946 to 1,325 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an average of 1,104 corpses and not the 6,000 which Dr. Bendel has dreamed up .
As has been seen , our “ eyewitness ” states that in June 1944 25,000 people were gassed a day , which amounts to 750,000 for the entire month .
But , contradictorily , he asserts that during the months of May and June 1944 , 400,000 people were killed : In May and tune 1944 , a total of 400,000 people were gassed and in August around 100,000 .
In still another contradiction with the above @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 15th July to 1st September , 80,000 ” people were gassed .
In any case it is absolutely impossible that in the month of June 1944 25,000 people per day were “ gassed ” for a total of 750,000 since , during this month , fewer than 70,000 persons were deported to Auschwitz .
As to the grand total of “ victims , ” Dr. Bendel asserts that the number “ gassed ” was “ more than 4 million ” but he contradicts himself by defining Birkenau as “ the tomb of hundreds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corners of Europe.
” As is well known , the figure of four million , invented by the Soviets , is now considered incorrect , even by Exterminationist historiography .
Dr. Bendel claims that disinfection of personal clothing and barracks in the concentration camp was accomplished “ chiefly with lisoform ” , that is , with a substance ineffective against parasites .
This is to avoid acknowledging that the alleged means of “ extermination ” in the “ gas chambers , ” Zyklon B. was in fact commonly used at Auschwitz , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for disinfection .
Finally , the Eyewitness testimony ” of Dr. Bendel presents other deviations from the official “ truth ” about Auschwitz .
According to him , 17 tons ( ! )
of gold teeth were extracted from the alleged 4 million corpses .
According to the historians of the Auschwitz Museum , 40 kg of gold teeth were collected from 16 to 31 May 1944 ( 29 transports of jews allegedly sent to the “ gas chambers ” ) .
At that rate , 12,000 transports would have been necessary to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bendel .
Dr. Bendel claims that 4,300 Gypsies were “ gassed ” at the end of July 1944 .
The Auschwitz Museum ’ s historians claim that the “ gassing ” of 2,897 Gypsies took place on 2 August 1944 .
To believe Dr. Bendel , in the revolt of 7 October 1944 , 500 men of the Sonderkommando were shot , more precisely 100 from Crematorium 1 ( I ) and 400 from Crematorium 3 ( IV ) , which is false , since on 7 October 1944 the Sonderkommando of Crematorium @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bendel states that 200 other members of the Sonderkommando were gassed either on 7 or 27 September 1944 , depending on which of his two testimonies is credited .
The four detainees accused of supplying the explosives to the Sonderkommando were hanged “ in December 1944 ” , although , according to the historians of the Auschwitz Museum , this event took place on 6 January 1945 .
In conclusion , Dr. Charles Sigismund Bendel has lied on every essential point of his Eyewitness testimony .
The Polish-jewish physician Ada Bimko , deported @ @ @ @ @ @ @ compares to Dr. Bendel as a prosecution witness in The Belsen Trial .
During her testimony she related that in August 1944 she had been sent into a “ gas chamber ” at Birkenau to recover blankets left by the “ gassing victims.
” No sooner had she entered the crematorium than she had the good fortune to meet a member of the Sonderkommando who came from the same town as she ; he described to her the ultrasecret installations for “ extermination.
” Here is her account : “ In the first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the same town as I do .
There was also an S.S. man with a rank of Unterscharfuhrer , and he belonged to the Red Cross .
I was told that in the first big room the people left their clothes , and from this room were led into a second , and I gained the impression that hundreds and hundreds might go into this room , it was so large .
It resembled the shower-baths or ablution rooms we had in the camp .
There were many sprays all over the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ All these people who went into this room were issued with a towel and a cake of soap , so that they should have the impression that they were going to have a bath , but for anybody who looked at the floor it was quite clear that it was not so because there were no drains .
In this room there was a small door which opened to a room which was pitch dark and looked like a corridor .
I saw a few lines of rails with a small wagon which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was told that prisoners who were already gassed were put on these wagons and sent directly to the crematorium .
I believe the crematorium was in the same building , but I myself did not see the stove [ sic ! ]
.
There was yet another room a few steps higher than the previous one with a very low ceiling , and I noticed two pipes which I was told contained the gas .
There were also two huge metal containers containing gas.
” To summarize , from the changing room one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which opened on an adjacent room , resembling a corridor ( the room with the rails ) , from which one passed into another room a few steps higher than the previous one and with a very low ceiling ( the room with the gas containers ) .
If one compares this description with the original plans of the crematoriums , one notices that it is completely incorrect .
Let us examine the material facts of the crematoriums II and III .
From the alleged “ changing room ” ( Leichenkeller 2 ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and , by a corridor ( Gang ) , to the anteroom ( Vorraum ) , in which is located the elevator ( Aufzug ) and through which the alleged “ gas chamber ” ( Leichenkeller 1 ) is entered .
This entire sector of the crematoriums was underground , and on a single level .
The room with the rails and the room with the gas chambers did not exist .
No underground room had rails leading directly to the oven room , which was on the ground level ( the corpses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ No room was several steps higher than the others or had a very low ceiling : Leichenkeller 1 was 2.30 meters high and Leichenkeller 2 was 2.40 meters in height .
Now let us examine crematoriums IV and V. From the alleged changing room ( designated Entlüftung , or ventilation , on the plan ) across the anteroom ( Vorraum ) one enters the first of three adjacent alleged “ gas chambers.
” All these rooms were on the ground floor and on the same level .
The room with the rails and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ non-existent .
No room had rails leading directly to the oven room ; besides , these rails would have had to cross the alleged “ changing room.
” No room was several steps higher than the others , nor did any room have a very low ceiling ; the lowest place in these two crematoriums measured 2.20 meters in height .
But the crowning absurdity of this “ eyewitness testimony ” is that Ada Bimko , not even aware that Zyklon B was contained in cans , speaks of pipes and of “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as if the gas in question were methane !
Dr. Bimko gives to understand that the gas passed from the metal containers into the pipes and came out the shower sprays into the “ gas chamber.
” Another member of the Sonderkommando reported to Dr. Bimko that “ in this gas chamber ” “ about four million ” jews were “ gassed.
” In fine , Dr. Ada Bimko never set foot in any of the crematoriums at Birkenau and her “ eyewitness testimony ” on this subject is completely fabricated .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eyewitness ” doesn ’ t even know how many crematoriums there were : Auschwitz was divided into a number of camps and the five crematoria were in a portion called Birkenau , of which Kramer was commandant .
Dr. Bimko ’ s other lies complete the tableau of her perjury : I remember that 1st December , 1943 , was a day of very large scale selections .
Typhus was rampant throughout the camp and there were in the hospital 4124 sick jewish women .
Of this number 4000 were selected for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact , according to the Kalendarium der Ereignisse im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau ( Calendar of Events in the Concentration Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau ) , no selection was made in the hospitals on that date .
On 27th July I remember that all those who were even suspected , who were not yet in hospital , were sent to the gas chamber .
On that day big transports came in from a concentration camp called Litzmannstadt and there were quite a few cases of typhoid fever .
As we have seen , however , the first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Polish , Lodz ) ghetto arrived at Auschwitz on 15 August 1944 .
Dr. Ada Bimko , therefore , has also lied on all the essential points of her “ eyewitness testimony .
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By Carlo Mattogno
Introduction
In an article commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the Nuremberg trial, Robert M.W. Kempner states that the extermination of the jews has been incontestably and unassailably proved since the time of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, and the twelve successive trials which continued until mid-1949.
Kempner writes:
“The history of the Holocaust written at Nuremberg bears importantly on the punishment of the guilty. The historical verification rests almost exclusively on the official records of the Hitler regime, which a faithful bureaucracy painstakingly preserved.”
In addition to these documents there are the confessions of Hans Frank and Baldur von Schirach, the eyewitness testimonies of Rudolf Hoss and Otto Ohlendorf and the statements of numerous defendants heard as testimony in the Einsatzgruppen and Wilhelmstrasse trials. “A large number of other historical truths were established thanks to documents and eyewitness testimony before German courts during the past twenty years.”
In reality, as we have shown in our study “The Myth of the Extermination of the Jews“, despite the enormous mass of official National Socialist documents produced during these trials, there exists not a single proof of a “plan to exterminate” the jews, so that at this time “it is difficult to say exactly how, when, and by whom the order to exterminate the jews was given.”
Even apart from that, however, to attribute historical value to the verdicts of tribunals in which the victors sat in judgment over the vanquished is at the very least naive.
In fact, as the attorney general of the United States stated during a hearing of the Nuremberg trial on 26 July 1946, the International Military Tribunal constituted simply “a continuation of the United Nations’ war effort” against Germany, with which they were “technically still in a state of war” although the political and military institutions of the enemy had collapsed.
At Nuremberg, as the English historian A.J.P. Taylor remarks:
“The documents were chosen not only to demonstrate the war-guilt of the men on trial, but to conceal that of the prosecuting Powers.”
The guilt of Germany was therefore posited at the start:
“The verdict preceded the tribunal; and the documents were brought in to sustain a conclusion which had already been settled.”
Torture also entered into the framework of this “continuation of the war effort” directed, thanks to the trials, against the Germans. The first commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Hoss, interrogated by British investigators at Heide with “alcohol and the whip,” signed a deposition without even knowing its content!
At the Malmedy trial, which took place at Dachau in 1946, American investigators submitted the accused to every sort of physical and mental torture to force them to sign false confessions, as the commission of inquiry presided over by Judges van Roden and Simpson established.
During the proceedings, there occurred an incident which illustrates perfectly the atmosphere which prevailed during the trials of the vanquished conducted immediately after the war by the victors.
The American investigator Kirschbaum had introduced a witness, Einstein, to prove that the defendant, Metzel, had murdered his brother, who was nonetheless sitting in the courtroom! Kirschbaum proceeded to scold Einstein: “How can we bring this pig to the gallows, if you are so stupid as to bring your brother into court!”
The most absurd aspect of these trials is that any “eyewitness” was able to tell the most shameless lies without the least fear of being contradicted, let alone being charged with perjury.
That this is literally true is demonstrated by the extravagant statements about Auschwitz by one Sophia Litwinska during The Belsen Trial. She stated that she had been “selected” for the gas chamber” – together with 3,000 other jews at the Auschwitz hospital – on Christmas Eve, 1941 or several days before, although, according to the historians of the Auschwitz Museum, neither “selections” nor “gassings” of jews had begun at that time. In the “gas chamber,” Sophia Litwinska saw “fumes coming in through a very small window at the top”, which is absurd because Zyklon B, the gas allegedly used to “exterminate” the jews, is stored as a solid in hermetically sealed cans. Our “eyewitness” was exposed to the gas “a minute or two perhaps”, and then something extraordinary happened:
“At that moment I heard my name called. I had not the strength to answer it, but I raised my arm. Then I felt someone take me and throw me out from that room. Hoessler put a blanket round me and took me on a motor cycle to the hospital, where I stayed six weeks.
Thus, in the middle of a “gassing” someone – without even a gas mask! – is supposed to have entered the “gas chamber” to summon Sophia Litwinska and carry her out!
This comes under the heading of lunacy, if one considers that hydrocyanic acid is one of the most powerful poisons which exist: for humans 12 milligrams per liter of air is a fatal dose; moreover, “if the concentration of hydrocyanic acid in the air is strong enough, death is almost immediate.”
In this study we shall examine the “Eyewitness testimony” of two other witnesses who testified at The Belsen Trial: Charles Sigismund Bendel and Ada Bimko.
Their testimonies, while less extravagant, are entirely false.
This, however, has not prevented Gerald Reitlinger from accepting them in his famous book The Final Solution.
Further, the “eyewitness testimony” of Charles Sigismund Bendel has been recently dug up by Georges Wellers to demonstrate the existence of the “gas chambers” at Auschwitz.
Now, the fact that these perjurers lied brazenly is doubtless shameful, but it is still more shameful that unscrupulous judges used their “eyewitness testimony” to exact a legal vengeance against the German defendants, with whom they were “technically still in a state of war,” and that biased historians have consciously used it to prop up the tottering myth of the “extermination” of the jews.
The “Eyewitness” Charles Sigismund Bendel
The Romanian-jewish doctor Charles Sigismund Bende was a prosecution witness at The Belsen Trial in 1945 and at the Tesch trial in 1946. His “eyewitness testimony” also appeared in 1946 in the work Temoignages sur Auschwitz (Auschwitz Eyewitnesses).
He was arrested in Paris on 4 November 1943 and interned in the camp at Drancy from which, on 10 December 1943, he was deported to Auschwitz. From there he was sent to the Buna camp (Monowitz or Auschwitz-III), then returned to the main camp at Auschwitz, from which he was finally transferred to Birkenau.
Dr. Bendel does not even know when this took place, since he declares, contradictorily:
On 1st January, 1944, I was transferred to the main camp, and on 27th February,1944, into the gipsy camp 4 in Birkenau, where I worked as a doctor.
Q: How long did you work at Birkenau?
A: From 1st January 1944 to 18th January 1945.
In June 1944, Dr. Bendel was attached to the Sonderkommando of the crematoriums at Birkenau, which according to him simultaneously comprised 200 and 900 men, and in which he helped in the “extermination” of jews in the “gas chambers.”
At this time he observed a “gassing” for the first time:
One day in June 1944, at 6 in the morning, I joined the day shift (150 men) of Crematorium 4… At noon a long procession of women, children, and elderly people entered the courtyard of the Crematorium. They were from the Lodz ghetto.
This is incorrect because the first convoy of jews from Lodz arrived at Auschwitz on 15 August 1944. Furthermore, this contradicts Bendel’s testimony in The Belsen Trial:
The first time I started work there was in August, 1944. No one was gassed on that occasion, but 150 political prisoners, Russians and Poles, were led one by one to the graves and there they were shot. Two days later, when I was attached to the day group, I saw a gas chamber in action. On that occasion it was the ghetto at Lodz – 80,000 people were gassed.
In reality the execution of the 150 political prisoners is a complete fabrication while his number for Lodz ghetto jews “gassed” is greater by ten thousand than the number of jews deported from Lodz to Auschwitz.
Dr. Bendel states that there were four crematoriums at Birkenau, numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4.
According to him, the construction of crematoriums 1 and 2 (II and III in the official German numeration) began in March 1942: “The foundations of these imposing red brick buildings were laid in March 1942.”
This is not correct, because the Central Construction Office of the Waffen-SS and Police in Auschwitz took bids for the construction of the first Birkenau crematorium on 1 July 1942 .
Once again according to Dr. Bendel, the crematoriums were completed in January 1943: “Completed in January 1943, their dedication was honored by the presence of Himmler in person”.
This is likewise incorrect. The Construction Office of the Waffen-SS and Police of KGL-Auschwitz finished construction on crematoriums II and III on 31 March and 25 June 1943 respectively.
It is also untrue that Himmler was present for the openings.
According to Dr. Bendel, crematoriums 1 and 2 (II and III) each had 16 ovens, which is false because 5 triple ovens were installed in the above-mentioned crematoriums, giving a total of 15 muffles.
Dr. Bendel asserts that there were two “gas chambers” in each of the four crematoriums at Birkenau:
Q: How many gas chambers were there?
A: In each crematorium there were generally two gas chambers.
Contradicting this, in his sworn declaration of 21 October 1945 Dr. Bendel speaks of a single “gas chamber” in each crematorium. These two assertions are contradicted anew by the “official” version defended by the Auschwitz Museum, the protagonists of which assign crematoriums II and III one “gas chamber” each, while crematoriums IV and V are supposed to have had a total of four. The “gas chambers” of crematoriums 1 and 2 (II and III) measured 10 x 4 x 1.6 meters [40 square meters, 64 cubic meters) and at the same time 10 x 5 x 1.5 meters (50 square meters, 75 cubic meters):
Q: How big were the chambers?
A: Each chamber was 10 meters long and 4 wide.
Q: [by the defense attorney, Dr. Zippel]: You stated that the gas chambers had dimensions of 10 by 1.6 meters, is that correct?
A: Yes, certainly.
There were 2 underground gas chambers, each approximately 10 meters long, 5 wide, and one and a half high. The 2 gas chambers supplied the corpses for the crematoriums.
The “gas chambers” of Crematoriums 3 and 4 (III and IV) measured in turn 6 x 3 x 1.5 meters (18 square meters, 27 cubic meters): “For crematoriums 3 and 4 there were 2 other gas chambers which each measured 6 meters long, 3 wide, and one and a half high.”
The data supplied by Dr. Bendel are all false. According to the original plans of the crematoriums, the rooms which are supposed to have been “gas chambers” had the following dimensions:
Cremas Designation Dimensions Area Volume II and III Mortuary cellar 130x7x2.4 210 504 IV and V 1. Room with “Binder” 12.35×7.72×2.2 95.34 209.75 2. Room with “Lichte Höhe 2.00m” 8.4×11.69×2.2 98.19 216.03 3. Room without designation 11.69×3.7×2.2 43.25 95.15
The capacity of the “gas chambers” described by Dr. Bendel was, if truth be told, surprising:
1,000 people were customarily put in each of the two large chambers and 500 in each of the two small ones.
This is impossible and contradictory. Impossible, since the two “gas chambers” of crematoriums II and III would have held – based on the surface area supplied by Dr. Bendel – 25 or 20 people per square meter, while those of crematoriums IV and V would have held 28 people per square meter! Contradictory, because Dr. Bendel asserts: “In crematoriums 1 and 2,2,000 each; in crematoriums 3 and 4, 1,000 each; and in the bunker 1,000.”
Cross-examined by the defense attorney on the possibility of cramming 1,000 people into a room of 64 cubic meters, Dr. Bendel gave an astonishing answer, which makes plain the deceitfulness and bad faith of this “eyewitness”:
Q: How is it possible to get 1,000 people into a room of 64 cubic meters?
A: That’s a good question. It could only be done with German technique.
Q: Do you seriously maintain that 10 people can be put in a space of half a cubic meter?
A: Four million people who were gassed at Auschwitz are the witnesses.
This ridiculous argumentation has been taken up by the court historians who obstinately close their eyes to the flagrant technical absurdities of the “gassings” and Cremations,” pretending that because the extermination of the jews occurred, it was therefore feasible. Thus the famous declaration of the 34 French historians:
It is not necessary to ask how, technically, such a mass murder was feasible. It was technically feasible because it took place.
Dr. Bendel describes the extraordinary German technique which allowed cramming 1,000 people into a room of forty square meters:
The people were so tightly packed in there that it was impossible to fit in even a single one more. It was great fun for the SS to throw in children over the heads of those packed closely into these rooms.
That was no longer possible, because the “gas chambers,” according to the “witness,” had a height of only 1.6 or 1.5 meters!
Thus it is evident that Dr. Bendel never set foot in the crematoriums at Birkenau and that what he says about the “gas chambers” is completely false.
Equally false is his description of the technique of “extermination” allegedly employed in Crematorium V. The “victims” undressed in the crematorium courtyard:
About twelve o’clock the new transport arrived, consisting of some 800 to 1000 people. These people had to undress themselves in the court of the crematorium and were promised a bath and hot coffee afterwards.
This contradicts the official “truth” about Auschwitz, according to which the “victims” undressed in special rooms referred to specifically as “changing rooms” in Exterminationist literature. On the original plan of Crematorium II, the alleged changing room is actually called “Leichenkeller 2”; on the plan of Crematorium IV, the alleged changing room is not so designated: on the plan appears solely the word Entluftung (aeration, ventilation).
From the courtyard of the crematorium the new transport entered the “gas chamber”: “One heard cries and shouts and they started to fight against each other, knocking on the walls.”
This is not possible, because in the “gas chamber,” according to Dr. Bendel, there were 28 persons per square meter, that is to say a density preventing all movement completely.
The “victims” died in two minutes; twenty minutes after the “gas chamber” was opened the men of the Sonderkommando went inside without gas masks – since Dr. Bendel says nothing of gas masks, either – and began to drag out the bodies:
This went on for two minutes and then there was complete silence. Five minutes later the doors were opened, but it was quite impossible to go in for another twenty minutes. Then the Special Kommandos started work.
This is impossible. Crematoriums IV and V did not have ventilation systems. The “gas chambers” were aired out simply by opening the doors to create a draft. Given the extreme toxicity of hydrocyanic acid, a room fumigated for disinfection must be aired for at least twenty hours. Thus it is evident that the men of the Sonderkommando, entering, after only twenty minutes’ aeration, “gas chambers” in which there lingered lethal concentrations of gas would themselves have been gassed.
Consequently, it is still more impossible that the Sonderkommando could have begun evacuating the corpses five minutes after the death of the “victims,” as Dr. Bendel anomalously asserts:
“For two interminable minutes, one heard blows against the walls, cries which had nothing human in them any longer. And then nothing. My head spun, I thought I had lost my mind. Of what abominable crimes were these women, these infants guilty that they had to die in so cruel a manner?”
Five minutes later the doors were opened. The heaped, contracted corpses tumbled out like a waterfall. A few were so intertwined that separating them required fantastic effort. Covered with blood, they appeared to have struggled desperately against death. One who has seen a gas chamber even only once can never forget it. The corpses, still warm, passed to the barber, who cut their hair, and the dentist, who pulled out their gold teeth.
Elsewhere, Dr. Bendel reports that the “victims” unable to enter completely filled “gas chambers” were shot in front of the cremation ditches:
During the time this is going on they continue to shoot people in front of these ditches, people who could not be got into the gas chambers because they were overcrowded.
This is also in contradiction with the official “truth” about Auschwitz, which says absolutely nothing about executions near these alleged ditches.
On this matter, Dr. Bendel asserts that during the period of maximum exterminations, Crematorium V was unable to deal with the enormous number of corpses, and so three cremation trenches were dug behind it for burning the bodies in the open:
In Crematorium No. 4 [V] the result which was achieved by burning was apparently not sufficient. The work was not going on quickly enough, so behind the crematorium they dug three large trenches 12 metres long and 6 metres wide.
This is wrong, as shown by the aerial photograph of Birkenau taken 26 June 1944, on which there appears not the least trace, anywhere in the camp, not merely of pyres, but of any smoke at all, including over the crematoria. Yet according to Dr. Bendel “during the month of June the number of gassed was 25,000 every day.”
Dr. Bendel’s claims on these phantom ditches are not merely wrong, but impossible. He asserts that “… in the middle of these big trenches they built two canals through which the human fat or grease should seep so that work could be continued in a quicker way.” In reality, corpses placed in a cremation trench (!) would have been charred, and, even if the fat had flowed off, it could not have collected in the bottom of the trench because it would have burned immediately owing to the high temperature of the pyre. For the same reason the men of the Sonderkommando would not have been able to come up to these 72-square-meter pyres to throw in the corpses of the “gassed” without being burnt themselves.
Here again, therefore, the “eyewitness” Charles Sigismund Bendel has lied.
Regarding the incineration capacity of the crematoriums, he asserts:
The corpses were then removed by the men of the Kommando and placed in an elevator which rose to the ground floor, where there were sixteen ovens. Their overall capacity was around two thousand corpses in twenty-four hours. The twin crematoriums 3 and 4 [IV and V] which were commonly called the “Forest Kremas” (being located in a pleasant clearing), were of more modest dimensions, with their eight ovens having a capacity for a thousand corpses in twenty-four hours.
This is wrong too (see note 18 of “Auschwitz: A Case of Plagiarism“). Had they been as efficient as those in a modern crematorium, the 46 muffles at Birkenau could have incinerated 946 to 1,325 corpses in 24 hours, i.e. an average of 1,104 corpses and not the 6,000 which Dr. Bendel has dreamed up.
As has been seen, our “eyewitness” states that in June 1944 25,000 people were gassed a day, which amounts to 750,000 for the entire month. But, contradictorily, he asserts that during the months of May and June 1944, 400,000 people were killed:
In May and tune 1944, a total of 400,000 people were gassed and in August around 100,000.
In still another contradiction with the above, Dr. Bendel claims that “from 15th July to 1st September, 80,000” people were gassed.
In any case it is absolutely impossible that in the month of June 1944 25,000 people per day were “gassed” for a total of 750,000 since, during this month, fewer than 70,000 persons were deported to Auschwitz.
As to the grand total of “victims,” Dr. Bendel asserts that the number “gassed” was “more than 4 million” but he contradicts himself by defining Birkenau as “the tomb of hundreds of thousands of victims brought from all corners of Europe.”
As is well known, the figure of four million, invented by the Soviets, is now considered incorrect, even by Exterminationist historiography.
Dr. Bendel claims that disinfection of personal clothing and barracks in the concentration camp was accomplished “chiefly with lisoform”, that is, with a substance ineffective against parasites. This is to avoid acknowledging that the alleged means of “extermination” in the “gas chambers,” Zyklon B. was in fact commonly used at Auschwitz, and in all the German concentration camps, for disinfection.
Finally, the Eyewitness testimony” of Dr. Bendel presents other deviations from the official “truth” about Auschwitz.
According to him, 17 tons(!) of gold teeth were extracted from the alleged 4 million corpses.
According to the historians of the Auschwitz Museum, 40 kg of gold teeth were collected from 16 to 31 May 1944 (29 transports of jews allegedly sent to the “gas chambers”). At that rate, 12,000 transports would have been necessary to obtain the 17 tons imagined by Dr. Bendel.
Dr. Bendel claims that 4,300 Gypsies were “gassed” at the end of July 1944. The Auschwitz Museum’s historians claim that the “gassing” of 2,897 Gypsies took place on 2 August 1944.
To believe Dr. Bendel, in the revolt of 7 October 1944, 500 men of the Sonderkommando were shot, more precisely 100 from Crematorium 1 (I) and 400 from Crematorium 3 (IV), which is false, since on 7 October 1944 the Sonderkommando of Crematorium IV consisted of only 169 men.
Bendel states that 200 other members of the Sonderkommando were gassed either on 7 or 27 September 1944, depending on which of his two testimonies is credited.
The four detainees accused of supplying the explosives to the Sonderkommando were hanged “in December 1944”, although, according to the historians of the Auschwitz Museum, this event took place on 6 January 1945.
In conclusion, Dr. Charles Sigismund Bendel has lied on every essential point of his Eyewitness testimony.
The ‘Eyewitness’ Ada Bimko
The Polish-jewish physician Ada Bimko, deported to Auschwitz on 4 August 1943, compares to Dr. Bendel as a prosecution witness in The Belsen Trial.
During her testimony she related that in August 1944 she had been sent into a “gas chamber” at Birkenau to recover blankets left by the “gassing victims.” No sooner had she entered the crematorium than she had the good fortune to meet a member of the Sonderkommando who came from the same town as she; he described to her the ultrasecret installations for “extermination.” Here is her account:
“In the first room I met a man who came from the same town as I do. There was also an S.S. man with a rank of Unterscharfuhrer, and he belonged to the Red Cross. I was told that in the first big room the people left their clothes, and from this room were led into a second, and I gained the impression that hundreds and hundreds might go into this room, it was so large. It resembled the shower-baths or ablution rooms we had in the camp. There were many sprays all over the ceiling in rows which were parallel. All these people who went into this room were issued with a towel and a cake of soap, so that they should have the impression that they were going to have a bath, but for anybody who looked at the floor it was quite clear that it was not so because there were no drains. In this room there was a small door which opened to a room which was pitch dark and looked like a corridor. I saw a few lines of rails with a small wagon which they called a lorry, and I was told that prisoners who were already gassed were put on these wagons and sent directly to the crematorium. I believe the crematorium was in the same building, but I myself did not see the stove [sic!]. There was yet another room a few steps higher than the previous one with a very low ceiling, and I noticed two pipes which I was told contained the gas. There were also two huge metal containers containing gas.”
To summarize, from the changing room one could enter the “gas chamber” which opened on an adjacent room, resembling a corridor (the room with the rails), from which one passed into another room a few steps higher than the previous one and with a very low ceiling (the room with the gas containers).
If one compares this description with the original plans of the crematoriums, one notices that it is completely incorrect. Let us examine the material facts of the crematoriums II and III.
From the alleged “changing room” (Leichenkeller 2) one proceeds directly to Leichenkeller 3, and, by a corridor (Gang), to the anteroom (Vorraum), in which is located the elevator (Aufzug) and through which the alleged “gas chamber” (Leichenkeller 1) is entered. This entire sector of the crematoriums was underground, and on a single level.
The room with the rails and the room with the gas chambers did not exist. No underground room had rails leading directly to the oven room, which was on the ground level (the corpses were transported by the elevator). No room was several steps higher than the others or had a very low ceiling: Leichenkeller 1 was 2.30 meters high and Leichenkeller 2 was 2.40 meters in height.
Now let us examine crematoriums IV and V.
From the alleged changing room (designated Entlüftung, or ventilation, on the plan) across the anteroom (Vorraum) one enters the first of three adjacent alleged “gas chambers.” All these rooms were on the ground floor and on the same level. The room with the rails and the room with the gas containers were non-existent. No room had rails leading directly to the oven room; besides, these rails would have had to cross the alleged “changing room.” No room was several steps higher than the others, nor did any room have a very low ceiling; the lowest place in these two crematoriums measured 2.20 meters in height.
But the crowning absurdity of this “eyewitness testimony” is that Ada Bimko, not even aware that Zyklon B was contained in cans, speaks of pipes and of “huge metal containers containing gas,” as if the gas in question were methane!
Dr. Bimko gives to understand that the gas passed from the metal containers into the pipes and came out the shower sprays into the “gas chamber.”
Another member of the Sonderkommando reported to Dr. Bimko that “in this gas chamber” “about four million” jews were “gassed.”
In fine, Dr. Ada Bimko never set foot in any of the crematoriums at Birkenau and her “eyewitness testimony” on this subject is completely fabricated.
It is therefore not surprising that our “eyewitness” doesn’t even know how many crematoriums there were:
Auschwitz was divided into a number of camps and the five crematoria were in a portion called Birkenau, of which Kramer was commandant.
Dr. Bimko’s other lies complete the tableau of her perjury:
I remember that 1st December, 1943, was a day of very large scale selections. Typhus was rampant throughout the camp and there were in the hospital 4124 sick jewish women. Of this number 4000 were selected for the crematorium and only 124 remained.
In fact, according to the Kalendarium der Ereignisse im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau (Calendar of Events in the Concentration Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau), no selection was made in the hospitals on that date.
On 27th July I remember that all those who were even suspected, who were not yet in hospital, were sent to the gas chamber. On that day big transports came in from a concentration camp called Litzmannstadt and there were quite a few cases of typhoid fever.
As we have seen, however, the first transport of jews from the Litzmannstadt (in Polish, Lodz) ghetto arrived at Auschwitz on 15 August 1944.
Dr. Ada Bimko, therefore, has also lied on all the essential points of her “eyewitness testimony.”
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The May-Pole of Merrymount

By Charles M. Skinner From Myths and Legends of Our Own Land [ 1896 ] The people of Merrymount—unsanctified in the eyes of their Puritan neighbors , for were they not Episcopals , who had pancakes at Shrovetide and wassail at Christmas ?
—were dancing about their May-pole one summer evening , for they tried to make it May throughout the year .
Some were masked like animals , and all were tricked with flowers and ribbons .
Within their circle , sharing in song and jest , were the lord and lady of the revels , and an English @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wedlock .
Life , they sang , should be all jollity : away with care and duty ; leave wisdom to the weak and old , and sanctity for fools .
Watching the sport from a neighboring wood stood a band of frowning Puritans , and as the sun set they stalked forth and broke through the circle .
All was dismay .
The bells , the laughter , the song were silent , and some who had tasted Puritan wrath before shrewdly smelled the stocks .
A Puritan of iron face—it was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the flag of England—warning aside the “ priest of Baal , ” proceeded to hack the pole down with his sword .
A few swinging blows , and down it sank , with its ribbons and flowers .
“ So shall fall the pride of vain people ; so shall come to grief the preachers of false religion , ” quoth he .
“ Truss those fellows to the trees and give them half a dozen of blows apiece as token that we brook no ungodly conduct and hostility to our liberties @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the May , have you no better things to think about than fiddling and dancing ?
How if I punish you both ?
” “ Had I the power I ’ d punish you for saying it , ” answered the swain ; “ but , as I have not , I am compelled to ask that the girl go unharmed.
” “ Will you have it so , or will you share your lover ’ s punishment ?
” asked Endicott .
“ I will take all upon myself , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the governor softened .
“ Let the young fellow ’ s hair be cut , in pumpkin-shell fashion , ” he commanded ; “ then bring them to me but gently.
” He was obeyed , and as the couple came before him , hand in hand , he took a chain of roses from the fallen pole and cast it about their necks .
And so they were married .
Love had softened rigor and all were better for the assertion of a common humanity .
But the May-pole of Merrymount was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no more games and plays and dances , nor singing of worldly music .
The town went to ruin , the merrymakers were scattered , and the gray sobriety of religion and toil fell on Pilgrim land again .
The Puritans were deeply impressed with the belief that the maypole was a substantial relic of Paganism ; and they were no doubt right .
There appears to be reason sufficient for supposing that , at a period which can not now be ascertained , the maypole had taken the place of the phallus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the two objects were identical .
The same joyous procession in the Roman festivals , described above , conducted the phallus into the midst of the town or village , where in the same manner it was decked with garlands , and the worship partook of the same character .
We may add , too , that both festivals were attended with the same licentiousness .
“ I have heard it credibly reported , ” says the Puritan Stubbes , “ and that viva voce by menne of greate gravitie and reputation , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or a hundred maides goyng to the woode over night , there have scarcely the third part returned home again undefiled.
” The day generally concluded with bonfires .
These represented the need-fire , which was intimately connected with the ancient priapic rites .
Fire itself was an object of worship , as the most powerful of the elements ; but it was supposed to lose its purity and sacred character in being propagated from one material to another , and the worshippers sought on these solemn occasions to produce it in its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ done by the rapid friction of two pieces of wood , attended with superstitious ceremonies ; the pure element of fire was believed to exist in the wood , and to be thus forced out of it , and hence it was called need-fire ( in Old German not-feur , and in Anglo-Saxon , neod-fyr ) , meaning literally a forced fire , or fire extracted by force .
Before the process of thus extracting the fire from the wood , it was necessary that all the fires previously existing in the village @ @ @ @ @ @ @ afterwards revived from the bonfire which had been lit from the need-fire .
The whole system of bonfires originated from this superstition ; they had been adopted generally on occasions of popular rejoicing , and the bonfires commemorating the celebrated gunpowder plot are only particular applications of the general practice to an accidental case .
The superstition of the need-fire belongs to a very remote antiquity in the Teutonic race , and existed equally in ancient Greece .
It is proscribed in the early capitularies of the Frankish emperors of the Carlovingian dynasty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proved by the circumstance that it still exists in the Highlands of Scotland , especially in Caithness , where it is adopted as a protection for the cattle when attacked by disease which the Highlanders attribute to witchcraft .
66 It was from the remotest ages the custom to cause cattle , and even children , to pass across the need-fire , as a protection to them for the rest of their lives .
The need-fire was kindled at Easter , on May-day , and especially at the summer solstice , on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Baptist , or of Midsummer-day .

By Charles M. Skinner
From Myths and Legends of Our Own Land [1896]
The people of Merrymount—unsanctified in the eyes of their Puritan neighbors, for were they not Episcopals, who had pancakes at Shrovetide and wassail at Christmas?—were dancing about their May-pole one summer evening, for they tried to make it May throughout the year. Some were masked like animals, and all were tricked with flowers and ribbons. Within their circle, sharing in song and jest, were the lord and lady of the revels, and an English clergyman waiting to join the pair in wedlock. Life, they sang, should be all jollity: away with care and duty; leave wisdom to the weak and old, and sanctity for fools. Watching the sport from a neighboring wood stood a band of frowning Puritans, and as the sun set they stalked forth and broke through the circle. All was dismay. The bells, the laughter, the song were silent, and some who had tasted Puritan wrath before shrewdly smelled the stocks. A Puritan of iron face—it was Endicott, who had cut the cross from the flag of England—warning aside the “priest of Baal,” proceeded to hack the pole down with his sword. A few swinging blows, and down it sank, with its ribbons and flowers.
“So shall fall the pride of vain people; so shall come to grief the preachers of false religion,” quoth he. “Truss those fellows to the trees and give them half a dozen of blows apiece as token that we brook no ungodly conduct and hostility to our liberties. And you, king and queen of the May, have you no better things to think about than fiddling and dancing? How if I punish you both?”
“Had I the power I’d punish you for saying it,” answered the swain; “but, as I have not, I am compelled to ask that the girl go unharmed.”
“Will you have it so, or will you share your lover’s punishment?” asked Endicott.
“I will take all upon myself,” said the woman.
The face of the governor softened. “Let the young fellow’s hair be cut, in pumpkin-shell fashion,” he commanded; “then bring them to me but gently.”
He was obeyed, and as the couple came before him, hand in hand, he took a chain of roses from the fallen pole and cast it about their necks. And so they were married. Love had softened rigor and all were better for the assertion of a common humanity. But the May-pole of Merrymount was never set up again. There were no more games and plays and dances, nor singing of worldly music. The town went to ruin, the merrymakers were scattered, and the gray sobriety of religion and toil fell on Pilgrim land again.
The Puritans were deeply impressed with the belief that the maypole was a substantial relic of Paganism; and they were no doubt right. There appears to be reason sufficient for supposing that, at a period which cannot now be ascertained, the maypole had taken the place of the phallus. The ceremonies attending the elevation of the two objects were identical. The same joyous procession in the Roman festivals, described above, conducted the phallus into the midst of the town or village, where in the same manner it was decked with garlands, and the worship partook of the same character. We may add, too, that both festivals were attended with the same licentiousness. “I have heard it credibly reported,” says the Puritan Stubbes, “and that viva voce by menne of greate gravitie and reputation, that of fourtie, three score, or a hundred maides goyng to the woode over night, there have scarcely the third part returned home again undefiled.”
The day generally concluded with bonfires. These represented the need-fire, which was intimately connected with the ancient priapic rites. Fire itself was an object of worship, as the most powerful of the elements; but it was supposed to lose its purity and sacred character in being propagated from one material to another, and the worshippers sought on these solemn occasions to produce it in its primitive and purest form. This was done by the rapid friction of two pieces of wood, attended with superstitious ceremonies; the pure element of fire was believed to exist in the wood, and to be thus forced out of it, and hence it was called need-fire (in Old German not-feur, and in Anglo-Saxon, neod-fyr), meaning literally a forced fire, or fire extracted by force. Before the process of thus extracting the fire from the wood, it was necessary that all the fires previously existing in the village should be extinguished, and they were afterwards revived from the bonfire which had been lit from the need-fire. The whole system of bonfires originated from this superstition; they had been adopted generally on occasions of popular rejoicing, and the bonfires commemorating the celebrated gunpowder plot are only particular applications of the general practice to an accidental case. The superstition of the need-fire belongs to a very remote antiquity in the Teutonic race, and existed equally in ancient Greece. It is proscribed in the early capitularies of the Frankish emperors of the Carlovingian dynasty. The universality of this superstition is proved by the circumstance that it still exists in the Highlands of Scotland, especially in Caithness, where it is adopted as a protection for the cattle when attacked by disease which the Highlanders attribute to witchcraft. 66 It was from the remotest ages the custom to cause cattle, and even children, to pass across the need-fire, as a protection to them for the rest of their lives. The need-fire was kindled at Easter, on May-day, and especially at the summer solstice, on the eve of the feast of St. John the Baptist, or of Midsummer-day.
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renegadetribune--2020-04-29--Untold Tales: A Walk with the People of God

Sencha MacRae from Untold Tales provides an examination of some claims about ancient Israel .

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renegadetribune--2020-04-29--Desperate To Identify People Staying At Home, Biometric Industry Holds “Festival Of Identity” Webina

Desperate To Identify People Staying At Home, Biometric Industry Holds “Festival Of Identity” Webinar

I am constantly surprised by how far biometric corporations will go to exploit COVID-19 .
But nothing and I mean nothing could have prepared me for what I read this past Friday .
Planet Biometrics reported that Science Media Partners is planning to hold the world ’ s largest “ home ” identity webinar from May 4th -May 12th .
Calling the largest home identity webinar in the world a festival is a misnomer at best .
Dictionary.com says the definition of a festival is “ unrestrained joy ” , Your Dictionary calls it a “ celebration.
” When biometric @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ways to identify people staying at home , everyone should take notice .
What is the reason Science Media Partners is holding the world ’ s largest home identity webinar during a pandemic ?
It is to help governments and private corporations identify people staying at home , of course .
The world finds itself in a time of great uncertainty and unprecedented change , with life having been turned upside down .
Working from home has become the new normal , domestic travel has become the exception , international travel a rarity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ challenged – albeit most often with good reason .
Across the world , governments and corporations are grappling with issues such as population management , dispersal of benefits , IT security and considering how we can finally exit from citizen lockdown strategies .
COVID-19 has changed the way governments and corporations can identify and monitor people .
Governments are worried that police can no longer rely on CCTV cameras , license plate readers and contact-tracing to identify people .
“ If only some company could solve this privacy dilemma and find a way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at home , then we could all feel a sigh of relief ” , I sarcastically said to myself .
Six days from now , the world ’ s largest home identification webinar called “ The Festival of Identity ” will begin to do just that .
To date , there are seven free webinars designed to help governments monitor and identify people who are staying at home .
“ Proportionate Use Of Surveillance Technologies During Lockdown ” “ Internet Dogs And Digital Frankensteins : How Better ID Can Slash Identity Fraud ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Human Authentication ” ( To find out more about HeartID click here & here . )
“ Are Your Security Credentials Going To The Real Service Provider ?
” “ How To Make Law Enforcement Systems Interoperable And Available On Any Device ” The Festival of Identities mission is to accelerate the growth of government-run biometric solutions .
I find it ironic that a company whose slogan is “ exploring the future of government commercial and citizen identity solutions ” appears to be concerned with customers and consumers .
The Festival Of Identity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ involved in authenticating human identity , whether via a secure credential , biometric , or online/digital identity solution.
” And that really says it all .
( To see their long list of biometric sponsors and exhibitors click here . )
A company called ABI Research , which bill ’ s itself as an IoT research company that “ has partnered with hundreds of leading technology brands , cutting-edge companies , forward-thinking government agencies ” , is offering a new webinar called “ After The Coronavirus : What Will Drive The IoT Market @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to help biometric companies profit from tracking potential COVID-19 patients .
“ Asset visibility and connected operations ” is a fancy way of saying market awareness or capitalization .
The more services biometrics companies can offer , i.e.
, facial recognition/thermal imaging , heartbeat measuring , etc.
, the more governments will want to use their services .
ABI Researchs ’ s summation of how biometric companies are profiting from COVID-19 is incredulous .
To be clear , the pandemic is not driving the need for biometric surveillance ; it is the biometric @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take advantage of our fears .
ABI Research is the same company that recently predicted that COVID-19 would prove to be a boon for public surveillance robotics and drones .
We can not afford to allow shameless biometric companies to profit from COVID-19 .
If we remain silent and let fear rule us , then not even our homes will be safe from Big Brother ’ s prying eyes .

By MassPrivateI
I am constantly surprised by how far biometric corporations will go to exploit COVID-19. But nothing and I mean nothing could have prepared me for what I read this past Friday.
Planet Biometrics reported that Science Media Partners is planning to hold the world’s largest “home” identity webinar from May 4th -May 12th.
Science Media Partners has announced plans for a groundbreaking online event entitled the Festival of Identity, noting it will be a new, positive, and exciting webinar platform that will serve the whole identity community during these difficult times.
Calling the largest home identity webinar in the world a festival is a misnomer at best. Dictionary.com says the definition of a festival is “unrestrained joy”, Your Dictionary calls it a “celebration.” When biometric companies show unrestrained joy for finding new ways to identify people staying at home, everyone should take notice.
What is the reason Science Media Partners is holding the world’s largest home identity webinar during a pandemic? It is to help governments and private corporations identify people staying at home, of course.
The world finds itself in a time of great uncertainty and unprecedented change, with life having been turned upside down. Working from home has become the new normal, domestic travel has become the exception, international travel a rarity. Privacy and rights are being increasingly challenged – albeit most often with good reason. Across the world, governments and corporations are grappling with issues such as population management, dispersal of benefits, IT security and considering how we can finally exit from citizen lockdown strategies.
COVID-19 has changed the way governments and corporations can identify and monitor people.
Governments are worried that police can no longer rely on CCTV cameras, license plate readers and contact-tracing to identify people.
“If only some company could solve this privacy dilemma and find a way for governments and corporations to monitor people at home, then we could all feel a sigh of relief”, I sarcastically said to myself.
Six days from now, the world’s largest home identification webinar called “The Festival of Identity” will begin to do just that. To date, there are seven free webinars designed to help governments monitor and identify people who are staying at home.
Monday May 4
“The Identity Landscape: COVID-19 Changes Everything”
“Proportionate Use Of Surveillance Technologies During Lockdown”
Tuesday May 5
“Internet Dogs And Digital Frankensteins: How Better ID Can Slash Identity Fraud”
Wednesday May 6
“Seamless And Hygienic Identity Technologies For Future Travel”
Thursday May 7
“HeartID – Recent Advances In ECG-Based Human Authentication”
(To find out more about HeartID click here & here.)
Monday May 11
“Are Your Security Credentials Going To The Real Service Provider?”
Tuesday May 12
“How To Make Law Enforcement Systems Interoperable And Available On Any Device”
The Festival of Identities mission is to accelerate the growth of government-run biometric solutions.
Our global event aims to be a significant identity industry catalyst. The overarching mission is to help accelerate the move towards a world where trusted identity solutions enable governments and commercial organisations to provide citizens, employees, customers and consumers with a multitude of opportunities to transact in a seamless, yet secure manner. All the while thwarting the efforts of those intent on doing harm.
I find it ironic that a company whose slogan is “exploring the future of government commercial and citizen identity solutions” appears to be concerned with customers and consumers.
The Festival Of Identity is a “one-stop-shop for any company involved in authenticating human identity, whether via a secure credential, biometric, or online/digital identity solution.” And that really says it all. (To see their long list of biometric sponsors and exhibitors click here.)
A company called ABI Research, which bill’s itself as an IoT research company that “has partnered with hundreds of leading technology brands, cutting-edge companies, forward-thinking government agencies”, is offering a new webinar called “After The Coronavirus: What Will Drive The IoT Market Through 2020.”
The webinar is designed to help biometric companies profit from tracking potential COVID-19 patients.
As one country, region or city gets infections under control, another is responding in dramatic ways to limit the pandemic’s damage. Under these conditions, asset visibility and connected operations will become even more critical for enterprise viability in uncertain times but also for long-term success.
“Asset visibility and connected operations” is a fancy way of saying market awareness or capitalization. The more services biometrics companies can offer, i.e., facial recognition/thermal imaging, heartbeat measuring, etc., the more governments will want to use their services.
ABI Researchs’s summation of how biometric companies are profiting from COVID-19 is incredulous.
The pandemic is also driving renewed emphasis on contactless, biometrics and surveillance technologies to add resilience to connected operations and enable novel approaches to connected solutions.
To be clear, the pandemic is not driving the need for biometric surveillance; it is the biometric industry themselves who see a chance to take advantage of our fears.
ABI Research is the same company that recently predicted that COVID-19 would prove to be a boon for public surveillance robotics and drones. We cannot afford to allow shameless biometric companies to profit from COVID-19. If we remain silent and let fear rule us, then not even our homes will be safe from Big Brother’s prying eyes.
Source: MassPrivateI Blog
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renegadetribune--2020-04-29--Narrative Managers Argue China-Like Internet Censorship Is Needed

Neoconservative publication The Atlantic has published an article authored by two university professors titled “ Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal ” , subtitled “ In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network , China was largely correct , and the U.S. was wrong.
” The article is actually worth reading in full , not just because it ’ s outrage porn for anyone who values human communication that is unregulated by oligarchs and government agencies , but because it ’ s actually packed full of extensively sourced information about the way Silicon Valley tech @ @ @ @ @ @ @ censor speech .
The only difference between this article and something you might read on some libertarian website is that this article argues that all of these regulations on speech are a good thing .
Here ’ s an archive of the article if you don ’ t want to give clicks to The Atlantic , whose editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg once assured the world that “ the coming invasion of Iraq will be remembered as an act of profound morality.
” Do give it a look if this interests you and you have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the past two decades about freedom versus control of the network , China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong , ” argue the article ’ s authors , one of whom is a former Bush administration lawyer .
“ Significant monitoring and speech control are inevitable components of a mature and flourishing internet , and governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society ’ s norms and values.
” The article paints an accurate picture of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ platforms have been collaborating with governments and with each other to regulate speech and have increased that collaboration during the Covid-19 pandemic , noting how “ In March 2019 , Zuckerberg invited the government to regulate ‘ harmful content ’ on his platform ” and how “ As in other contexts , Facebook relies on fact-checking organizations and ‘ authorities ’ ( from the World Health Organization to the governments of U.S. states ) to ascertain which content to downgrade or remove.
” “ These platforms have engaged in ‘ strategic collaboration ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sharing information , to fight foreign electoral interference , ” The Atlantic reports after outlining ways in which Facebook , Twitter and Youtube have been censoring speech in “ aggressive but still imperfect steps to fend off foreign adversaries.
” “ The harms from digital speech will also continue to grow , as will speech controls on these networks , ” the article ’ s authors assert .
“ And invariably , government involvement will grow .
At the moment , the private sector is making most of the important decisions , though @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Zuckerberg has pleaded , the firms may not be able to regulate speech legitimately without heavier government guidance and involvement .
It is also unclear whether , for example , the companies can adequately contain foreign misinformation and prevent digital tampering with voting mechanisms without more government surveillance.
” This article comes out days after journalist Whitney Webb published another article worth reading titled “ Techno-Tyranny : How The US National Security State Is Using Coronavirus To Fulfill An Orwellian Vision “ .
Webb details how FOIA-obtained document by a US government organization @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Intelligence ( NSCAI ) argues for the need to implement authoritarian measures like increased surveillance more in line with those used in China , in order to prevent the PRC from technologically surpassing the United States .
Webb notes for example how the document “ cites the use of mass surveillance on China ’ s ‘ huge population base ’ is an example of how China ’ s ‘ scale of consumer market ’ advantage allowing ‘ China to leap ahead ’ in the fields of related technologies , like facial recognition.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in surveillance being pushed for in a new report by the think tank Tony Blair Institute for Global Change , arguing that a drastic increase in tech surveillance is “ a price worth paying ” in order to fight Covid-19 .
Which is of course hilarious , because having the think tank of a Bush lapdog Prime Minister argue that more surveillance is a price worth paying to stop coronavirus is a lot like a bunch of muggers arguing that time saved by cutting through dark alleyways is worth the increased risk of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
We ’ re seeing mainstream narrative managers shriek about the need for new cold war escalations against China ’ s bad , bad authoritarian government , while simultaneously arguing that western governments should espouse Beijing ’ s worst authoritarian impulses .
This as we ’ ve discussed previously is because consent needs to be manufactured in order for the US-centralized empire to take drastic steps to prevent China from surpassing it and creating a multipolar world , and the freer people are to think and act and organize , the harder that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have no business controlling what we can and can not say to each other .
Governments have no business bringing more and more transparency to us while bringing more and more opacity to themselves .
This is ugly , it is abusive , and it must end .
Freedom of speech is actually about freedom of thought .
Speech is the carrying agent of thought ; controlling human communication is actually about controlling the spread of ideas .
Censorship is about controlling the thoughts that the public think in their heads .
Speech @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is an independent journalist who writes at Medium .
Follow her on Twitter here , and follow her on Facebook here .

Neoconservative publication The Atlantic has published an article authored by two university professors titled “Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal”, subtitled “In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong.”
The article is actually worth reading in full, not just because it’s outrage porn for anyone who values human communication that is unregulated by oligarchs and government agencies, but because it’s actually packed full of extensively sourced information about the way Silicon Valley tech giants are collaborating with western governments to censor speech. The only difference between this article and something you might read on some libertarian website is that this article argues that all of these regulations on speech are a good thing.
Here’s an archive of the article if you don’t want to give clicks to The Atlantic, whose editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg once assured the world that “the coming invasion of Iraq will be remembered as an act of profound morality.” Do give it a look if this interests you and you have time.
https://twitter.com/anthonyLfisher/status/1254557981087334400
“In the great debate of the past two decades about freedom versus control of the network, China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong,” argue the article’s authors, one of whom is a former Bush administration lawyer. “Significant monitoring and speech control are inevitable components of a mature and flourishing internet, and governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society’s norms and values.”
The article paints an accurate picture of the ways in which supposedly independent social media platforms have been collaborating with governments and with each other to regulate speech and have increased that collaboration during the Covid-19 pandemic, noting how “In March 2019, Zuckerberg invited the government to regulate ‘harmful content’ on his platform” and how “As in other contexts, Facebook relies on fact-checking organizations and ‘authorities’ (from the World Health Organization to the governments of U.S. states) to ascertain which content to downgrade or remove.”
“These platforms have engaged in ‘strategic collaboration‘ with the federal government, including by sharing information, to fight foreign electoral interference,” The Atlantic reports after outlining ways in which Facebook, Twitter and Youtube have been censoring speech in “aggressive but still imperfect steps to fend off foreign adversaries.”
“The harms from digital speech will also continue to grow, as will speech controls on these networks,” the article’s authors assert. “And invariably, government involvement will grow. At the moment, the private sector is making most of the important decisions, though often under government pressure. But as Zuckerberg has pleaded, the firms may not be able to regulate speech legitimately without heavier government guidance and involvement. It is also unclear whether, for example, the companies can adequately contain foreign misinformation and prevent digital tampering with voting mechanisms without more government surveillance.”
Last May, a govt org outlined an extremely Orwellian vision for what the US must to do to win "the tech war" against China in AI. It essentially called to remake the entire American economy and society. Now, thanks to Covid19,their vision is taking shape.https://t.co/fhWkyQR5n3 — Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) April 20, 2020
This article comes out days after journalist Whitney Webb published another article worth reading titled “Techno-Tyranny: How The US National Security State Is Using Coronavirus To Fulfill An Orwellian Vision“. Webb details how FOIA-obtained document by a US government organization called the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) argues for the need to implement authoritarian measures like increased surveillance more in line with those used in China, in order to prevent the PRC from technologically surpassing the United States.
Webb notes for example how the document “cites the use of mass surveillance on China’s ‘huge population base’ is an example of how China’s ‘scale of consumer market’ advantage allowing ‘China to leap ahead’ in the fields of related technologies, like facial recognition.”
We’re also seeing an increase in surveillance being pushed for in a new report by the think tank Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, arguing that a drastic increase in tech surveillance is “a price worth paying” in order to fight Covid-19. Which is of course hilarious, because having the think tank of a Bush lapdog Prime Minister argue that more surveillance is a price worth paying to stop coronavirus is a lot like a bunch of muggers arguing that time saved by cutting through dark alleyways is worth the increased risk of mugging.
So that’s great. We’re seeing mainstream narrative managers shriek about the need for new cold war escalations against China’s bad, bad authoritarian government, while simultaneously arguing that western governments should espouse Beijing’s worst authoritarian impulses. This as we’ve discussed previously is because consent needs to be manufactured in order for the US-centralized empire to take drastic steps to prevent China from surpassing it and creating a multipolar world, and the freer people are to think and act and organize, the harder that’s going to be.
Oligarchs have no business controlling what we can and cannot say to each other. Governments have no business bringing more and more transparency to us while bringing more and more opacity to themselves. This is ugly, it is abusive, and it must end.
Freedom of speech is actually about freedom of thought. Speech is the carrying agent of thought; controlling human communication is actually about controlling the spread of ideas. Censorship is about controlling the thoughts that the public think in their heads. Speech control is mind control.
Caitlin Johnstone is an independent journalist who writes at Medium. Follow her on Twitter here, and follow her on Facebook here.
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renegadetribune--2020-04-30--jewish Tranny Health Commissioner on Lockdown: “It’s Much Too Soon To Decide What Things Will Look L

jewish Tranny Health Commissioner on Lockdown: “It’s Much Too Soon To Decide What Things Will Look Like…”

I mainly share this because of how insane it is that Pennsylvania ’ s Health Commissioner is a mentally ill @ @ @ @ @ a woman , but fooling no one .

I mainly share this because of how insane it is that Pennsylvania's Health Commissioner is a mentally ill jewish man pretending to be a woman, but fooling no one.