Suzanne Collins Quotes

Instructions to followers in revolting against the mulattoes

This proverb only makes sense in the light of understanding the Arab concept of revenge—“blood.” In a rural desert environment where little can be expected of government, the Arabs have developed a law enforcement and peace keeping mechanism which while primitive from modern standards, nevertheless worked to some degree. It is that revenge—“blood” is a moral necessity and obligation of all people, and revenge is not limited by time or to the individuals involved in the first incidence. The immediate family are the first to extract revenge, but the extended family follows and often the entire clan. Sometimes revenge is tribal or even national. Anyone who fails to revenge a member in his group is not only a disgrace, but is a clear and present danger to the group because then they can be attacked with impunity. So revenge is a strong obligation of the group members and blood must be paid with blood no matter how many generations it may take. The only thing that keeps me and my family safe, is the surety what whosoever kills one of us will themselves be killed or if they die a natural death we will take revenge on one of the evildoers relatives. Crime must never pay!

The Abenaki Indians from Canada had come South and raided many of the settlements of upstate New York. In the process, they committed many atrocities killing civilian men, women and children. Amhurst ordered Robert Rogers and his rangers to attack the Abenaki home villiage in Canada on a famous punitive raid. The Rangers, did indeed, raid the Abenaki and wiped out all the males of the tribe that were in the camp at the time. Amhurst hated Indians, but still had his standards regarding the killing of women and children, but was perfectly willing to kill all the mature males. There were no Geneva Conventions at the time. The same general introduced biological warfare by giving Indians smallpox infected blankets. See {619646}

During the Cold War, Yugoslavia was a part of the Eastern Communist Bloc, but was very independent. They had a very experienced military and were the one country of the Eastern Bloc who the Russians could not easily militarily dominate. Tito was a great and feared military leader having killed More Germans per soldier with his army than any of the Allies in WWII. He was also very independent of Moscow and would not follow Russia directives. The Russians decided on assassinating Tito but the attempts failed.

This sura on retaliation for murder is behind the Saudi Arabian law which allows the male relative of a murder victim to personally wield the sword in the beheading of the murderer.

Dagestan was the poorest of the Soviet States, It was then mainly populated by feuding Muslim sects who were in constant conflict with each other and an Islamic nationalist group that wanted independence from Russia. There were also a large number of bandits in what was a frontier culture of banditry and lawlessness.

The defendants included the County Sheriff, a deputy, and the Imperial Wizard of the Mississippi KKK who had ordered the murders. Cox, an inveterate racist (See {637614}.), gave the two men convicted of 1st degree murder, including the Klan leader, to only 10 years, and the 2nd degree murderers were only sentenced to 3-5 years as the trial was Federal for Civil Rights violations but the judge did not even impose the maximum jail sentence.

See {639177}.for part of the article. Platt even demanded of President Roosevelt that the Journalist, White, be barred from the White House. Actually White was a very good friend of Roosevelt’s and generally agreed with White’s assessment of Platt.

ISISm or Daesh as teh Syrians called it had occupied Mosul and had brutalized and murdered many of the residents enforcing their own extreme version i=of Islamic fundamentalism. The Iraq and Kurdish armies were trying to take Mosul back, but the ISIS fighters were deeply embedded in the large inner city. Dislodging them was very difficult and they took many casualties. The United States provided logistical, tactical, and air support. The Iraqui military had asked for an airstrike on a target and unfortunately about 200 Mosul mcivillians were killrf in the aitstrike. Thisd was one resident's question oif the U. S. Military Advisors. The investigation verified that the strike had inadvertantly killed all those civillians.

A number of the American soldiers refused to obey Calley's illegal order. Some helped some villagers to escape, and a helicopter pilot landed betreen Callery's men and the villagers they were shooting at, and ordered his helicopter machine gun crew to fire on the soldiers if they did back off. The soldiers stopped firing at the civillians. However, his and other reports of the massacre were covered up by the military for a few years. Mai Lai was not the only major war crime perpetrated by Americans in the Vietnam War; there had been a few others. But given the years of fighting and the many opportunities war crimes violations under orders were quite rare. The Viet Cong had many more war crimes that they perpetrated, and our South Vietnamese allies repeatedly committed war crimes against their own people.