tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post3897264304466528335..comments2024-03-16T01:00:19.876-05:00Comments on The Mad Monarchist: An Example of Injustice for an Imperial ArmyMadMonarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-35537683123917284152018-01-17T10:35:07.787-06:002018-01-17T10:35:07.787-06:00In either case, it was belligerents winning decidi...In either case, it was belligerents winning deciding on belligerents losing.Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-80830712228166555332017-12-22T05:46:43.637-06:002017-12-22T05:46:43.637-06:00Damn you MM. Another post that makes me reflect my...Damn you MM. Another post that makes me reflect my previous positions.buohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14502514436923690441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-54635930612526245632015-07-29T21:04:17.860-05:002015-07-29T21:04:17.860-05:00Hello, M.M.,
Here is something I believe might be...Hello, M.M.,<br /><br />Here is something I believe might be of interest to you, with regards to a petition circulating to create a national holiday in honor of The United Kingdom. While there is currently only royal commemoration and saints days celebrating the diversity of the different nations within the UK, I believe it would be most fitting and timely to have a day in honor of Britain as a whole, to inspire patriotism and a deeper understanding of history. Even though I know you cannot sign it personally, since it is reserved for British citizens, if you could please advertise it among your many followers on this blog, and your other projects, you would be doing a great service to Queen and Country, as I know many Brits follow your blog and would be most keen on taking your lead if you were to lend us your support for the petition. Here is the link for it: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104343<br /><br />Thank you and God bless!Pearl of Tyburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06454820098627801613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-61785773324475796392015-07-29T04:32:39.763-05:002015-07-29T04:32:39.763-05:00Could you please sign and share this petition to k...Could you please sign and share this petition to keep the United Kingdom United? https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104343Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16121682092594777298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-37045861890911006762015-07-27T23:16:57.658-05:002015-07-27T23:16:57.658-05:00No one said the Holocaust or *Bataan* death march ...No one said the Holocaust or *Bataan* death march were made up, but your hysteria does rather make my point that a dispassionate look at the evidence is rarely possible under wartime or immediate post-wartime conditions. As for the trials themselves, they were just in some cases but blatantly unjust in others. General Yamashita, for example, was executed for crimes committed by forces that were not under his command, doing things he did not order them to do and which he did not even know had occurred. That is *not* justice. Nor have any of the victorious countries ever submitted to such a standard of judgment themselves.<br /><br />That is one of the main problems, that justice is not "just" unless it is evenly applied. Was any Soviet commander punished for the mass murders and the rape of 9 million German women at the end of the war? No. That doesn't mean Axis forces were not guilty of crimes but it is hardly justice to punish them for something that someone else is allowed to do without facing the same punishment.<br /><br />To an extent the Allies even recognized this which is why they did not punish any Axis naval commanders for waging unrestricted submarine warfare or any air force officers for bombing civilians. It wasn't because no one wanted to punish them but because the Allies had done exactly the same and as far as bombing civilians they did even worse (which is not to say the Axis wouldn't have done if they had had the ability to). Was the Soviet Union punished for invading Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania or invading Poland along with the Germans? Was Britain or Russia punished for invading neutral Iran? No.<br /><br />To say the trials were in many (not all) cases unjust is NOT to say that those on trial were not guilty. You're reading into it what you want to see. The fact of the matter is that there *were* innocent men who were unjustly put to death and there were guilty men who were able to escape unscathed. That is not how justice works.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-71765677161432692412015-07-27T23:04:35.542-05:002015-07-27T23:04:35.542-05:00Not familiar enough with the cases or the legal sy...Not familiar enough with the cases or the legal system in use there to comment. That, however, is a different issue as it involves a single country and a single legal code. Whether it was fairly applied, I don't know but it's not the same as having a legal system devised by one group of countries to be used to judge another group of countries that never submitted to it.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-48363475224738016722015-07-27T22:43:16.591-05:002015-07-27T22:43:16.591-05:00It's certainly true when you consider that Jap...It's certainly true when you consider that Japan was democratic before and during World War II. They still had elections for the lower house, it was not how most countries operate today of course but it had multi-party democracy when Germany and Italy were both having none of it. Early in the Showa era the right to vote in local assemblies was extended to Taiwan. Even after the Imperial Rule Assistance Association gained its height of power, leaders of opposition parties still remained in the Diet so that democracy, such as it was, never went away. And, of course, none of it stopped anyone from making bad decisions. There is no such thing as a system that can make governments impervious to the poor choices of either leaders or an electorate.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-49096522739321313862015-07-27T22:21:56.912-05:002015-07-27T22:21:56.912-05:00I always find it ridiculous when people voice thei...I always find it ridiculous when people voice their distrust of what an absolute monarch, such as Hirohito, might do with his power, as if absolute monarchs had more power than the worst of tyrants and dictators, such as Mao Zedong or Joseph Stalin. Some republicans argue that if Japan had been democratic in the 1930s, it would not have invaded China and attacked the United States. Fair enough, a democratic Japan might have made different decisions, but would this certainly have prevented war or significantly reduced the possibility of war? After all, democratic nations have done their share of bad things, and absolute monarchy can, by no means, be blamed for all evil or be distrusted as a source of absolute evil. Democracies are no guarantee for peace. Even if all nations of the world became democratic, there would be enough reasons, be they justified or not, for nations to go to war with one another, as they have done throughout history. A democratic world does not necessarily mean world peace, which is, in and of itself, a quite preposterously idealistic and grand, Utopian republican idea.Dark Linguisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07574494313701550324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-69246737623506890372015-07-27T14:22:09.749-05:002015-07-27T14:22:09.749-05:00Were the holocaust and the Bhutan death march made...Were the holocaust and the Bhutan death march made up? The mercy of the allies after WWII is unparalleled in human history: the Western Allies (not the U.S.S.R) helped build up the nations they defeated rather than imposing territorial (pre-agression) indemnities or fiscal ones. The essential truth is that the Nazi Regime of Germany and the Empire of Japan commited genoicidal atrocities against the peoples they conquered, were clearly the aggressors, and broke the Geneva conventions of warfare in hideous ways. France, the U.K., and the U.S. did not. The war crime trials at Nuremberg and in Japan were justice tempered with exceeding mercy. The entire S.S. (excluding secretaries et cetera) might justly have been executed along with every Japanese officer who served his emperor in a concentration camp or permitted the rape of Nanking or the extreme excesses of the occupation of Manchuko. Monarchy is the best form of government, but which monarchical family has the moral track record of the U.S. presidential first families? So too the soldiers of the Emperor behaved worse on the battlefield according to the Geneva conventions and the Western way of war (adherants of which claim it to be objectively "good" even if not accepted by enemies) than the republican citizens of the U.S. What is so distasteful about giving dead republicans their due for personal morality, a serious attempt at justice, a torrent of mercy, and courage?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-65241890921710365622015-07-27T02:46:34.332-05:002015-07-27T02:46:34.332-05:00"There were also those, in both Japan and Ger...<i>"There were also those, in both Japan and Germany, who would have been convicted of war crimes were it not for the fact that they were deemed useful by one of the Allied powers (usually the Soviet Union or America) and thus were spared."</i><br /><br />Shall I take this as an agreement "psychiatry" has profited from Nazi Doctor Camp Criminals?<br /><br />Perhaps the twenty tried in Doctors' Trial were just those who had a conscience and refused to collaborate, plus Mengele tried and found guilty in contumaciam?Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-1420428019048459022015-07-27T02:43:27.113-05:002015-07-27T02:43:27.113-05:00"I have never been very enthusiastic about th...<i>"I have never been very enthusiastic about the idea of 'war criminals' in general."</i><br /><br />Shall I take this as agreeing, that though Franco was right in the War 36-39, his exaction of punishment on war criminals was excessive?Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.com