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Welcome to the new America created in part by Donald Trump.Bipartisan Report, March 12, 2016
Three people are dead in Milwaukee because their neighbor, identified by police as Dan Popp, took offense with them not speaking English. The three were Popps neighbors.
Police say Jesus R. Manso-Perez was stopped by Popp as he and his son were on their way the laundry room of the apartment complex where all involved in the incident lived. Popp allegedly tried to gain Manso-Perezs trust by offering him a beer. When Manso-Perez declined the invitation, police say Popp asked where Manso-Perez and his son were from. The father said Puerto Rico, to which Popp commented:
Oh, thats why you dont speak English. Youre Puerto Rican.
As Manso-Perez and his son were returning to their apartment, Popp met them on the stairs with a rifle and told them:
You guys got to go
With that, Popp then shot the elder Manso-Perez in the head and attempted to kill his son, but missed.
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http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/03/12/milwaukee-man-shoots-and-kills-3-neighbors-because-they-dont-speak-english/
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)be prepared for more of this, folks.
The right has whipped the fragile-minded into a frenzy.
I weep for America.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)I was raised in Michigan.
Trump and Popp have no idea of what it means to be a citizen of the United States of America.
malaise
(269,254 posts)Unfuggingbelievable - thanks Drumpf!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Christopher Simpson calls it "The Splendid Blond Beast."
The Splendid Blond Beast
excerpted from the book
The Splendid Blond Beast
by Christopher Simpson
Common Courage Press, 1995
Friedrich Nietzsche called the aristocratic predators who write society's laws "the splendid blond beast" precisely because they so often behave as though they are beyond the reach of elementary morality. As he saw things, these elites have cut a path toward a certain sort of excellence consisting mainly of the exercise of power at the expense of others. When dealing with ordinary people, he said, they "revert to the innocence of wild animals.... We can imagine them returning from an orgy of murder, arson, rape and torture, jubilant and at peace with themselves as though they had committed a fraternity prank-convinced, moreover, that the poets for a long time to come will have something to sing about and to praise.'' Their brutality was true courage, Nietzsche thought, and the foundation of social order.
Today genocide-the deliberate destruction of a racial, cultural, or political group-is the paramount example of the institutionalized and sanctioned violence of which Nietzsche spoke. Genocide has been a basic mechanism of empire and the national state since their inception and remains widely practiced in "advanced" and "civilized" areas. Most genocides in this century have been perpetrated by nation-states upon ethnic minorities living within the state's own borders; most of the victims have been children. The people responsible for mass murder have by and large gotten away with what they have done. Most have succeeded in keeping wealth that they looted from their victims; most have never faced trial. Genocide is still difficult to eradicate because it is usually tolerated, at least by those who benefit from it.
The Splendid Blond Beast examines how the social mechanisms of genocide often encourage tacit international cooperation in the escape from justice of those who perpetrated the crime...
According to psychologist Ervin Staub, who has studied dozens of mass crimes, genocidal societies usually go through an evolution during which the different strata of society literally learn how to carry out group murder. In his book The Roots of Evil, Staub contends that genocidal atrocities most often take place in countries under great political, economic, and often military stress. They are usually led by authoritarian parties that wield great power yet are insecure in their rule, such as the Nazis in Germany or the Ittihad (Committee of Union and Progress) in Turkey. The ideologies of such parties can vary in important respects, but they are nonetheless often similar in that they create unity among "in-group" members through dehumanization of outsiders. Genocidal societies also show a marked tendency toward what psychologists call "justworld" thinking: Victims are believed to have brought their suffering upon themselves and, thus, to deserve what they get.
But the ideology of these authoritarian parties and even their seizure of state power are not necessarily enough to trigger a genocide. The leading perpetrators need mass mobilizations to actually implement their agenda. For example, the real spearheads of genocide in Germany-the Nazi party, SS, and similar groups- by themselves lacked the resources to disenfranchise and eventually murder millions of Jews. They succeeded in unleashing the Holocaust, however, by harnessing many of the otherwise ordinary elements of German life-of commerce, the courts, university scholarship, religious observance, routine government administration, and so on-to the specialized tasks necessary for mass murder. Not surprisingly, many of the leaders of these "ordinary" institutions were the existing notables in German society. The Nazi genocide probably would not have been possible without the active or tacit cooperation of many collaborators who did not consider themselves Nazis and, in some cases, even opposed aspects of Hitler's policies, yet nonetheless cooperated in mass murder. Put bluntly, the Nazis succeeded in genocide in part through offering bystanders money, property, status, and other rewards for their active or tacit complicity in the crime.
The actions of Nazi Germany's business elite illustrate how this works. Prior to 1933, German business leaders did not show a marked impulse toward genocide. Anti-Semitism was present in German commercial life, of course, but was often less pronounced there than in other European cultures of the day.4 Among the Nazis' first acts in power, however, was the introduction of incentives to encourage persecution of Jews. New Aryanization laws created a profitable business for banks, corporations, and merchants willing to enforce Nazi racial preferences. Tens of thousands of Germans seized businesses or real estate owned by Jews, paying a fraction of the property's true value, or drove Jewish competitors out of business. Jewish wealth, and later Jewish blood, provided an essential lubricant that kept Germany's ruling coalition intact throughout its first decade in power. By 1944 and 1945, leaders of major German companies such as automaker Daimler Benz, electrical manufacturers AEG and Siemens, and most of Germany's large mining, steelmaking, chemical, and construction companies found themselves deeply compromised by their exploitation of concentration camp labor, theft, and in some cases complicity in mass murder. They committed these crimes not so much out of ideological conviction but more often as a means of preserving their influence within Germany's economy and society. For much of the German economic elite, their cooperation in atrocities was offered to Hitler's government in exchange for its aid in maintaining their status.
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Genocide/SplendidBlondeBeast.html
NAZIs think they are worth more than other people. They couldn't be more wrong.
malaise
(269,254 posts)Thanks
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)Spanish, French, Chamorro etc.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Came over to the USA just before the Civil War to avoid what they saw as a Kaiser intent on war. The cousins settled in Texas, part of a town where almost everyone spoke German.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)than they can back up. Everyone should get the best defense possible.
We might want to wait until a psychiatric evaluation returns it's findings.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)This guy killed three people because he hated them.
Personally, anyone who would intentionally harm another human being is mentally ill.
However, from what he is alleged to have said, it seems Popp knew exactly what he was doing.
rockfordfile
(8,709 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Trump quotes Mussolini and salutes Hitler.
Obama launches drones against Shia and Sunni and bombs hospitals, too.
When ideas like peace and justice are alien, violence is the preset answer.
raccoon
(31,130 posts)From the article:
Popps attorney, Christopher Hartley, said of his client:
I think that he is just entirely confused about everything and Im not sure he understands whats going on. I think he has some significant mental health issues. (My note: Is being a trigger-happy bigot a mental issue?)
The children who survived, police said, were terrified by what they had witnessed.
I hope this worthless oxygen-waster spends the rest of his life in prison.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)I no longer believe in capital punishment, because the State is quick enough taking innocent life as it is, along with a portion of the guilty.
malaise
(269,254 posts)I haven't seen it yet