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My god! They were an awful race of 'people'

posted 9 years ago by Stewatson35
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I recently got a 3 day ban from Facebook for this exact post about ISIS torture techniques;

"Compared to the Japs in WWII, ISIS look like a bunch of fairies" and that was all I wrote, I'm still trying to figure out why I was banned. I'm thinking it's because I'm a Brit, and we were never actively at war in the Pacific like the Americans were.

I wrote that BEFORE seeing this movie, in fact I never knew the details of the death march, or the burning of POWS in bomb shelters, it's sick, and far more disturbing than what those idiot ISIS lot are up to.

The Japanese talk of peace and honour all the time, but where's the honour in starving people to death for fun? Or burning a few for a laugh?

They were animals, and I'm sorry, but if somewhere was going to be nuked, I'm damn glad it was those beasts.

I know this is an old thread, I've just seen the last post is nearly from a year ago, but on the off-chance somebody with a fuller knowledge comes along, can you tell me when the Rangers were first formed?

[–] Stewatson35 9 years ago

Sorry, premature postage.

And we're The Rangers the American's only SpecOps of that time?

[–] dvickers 9 years ago

About 30 years ago I had not been working that long when a Japanese contingent were visiting my workplace, I was only about 19 or 20 at the time but I remember one of the managers who was near retirement at the time locked himself in his office during their visit, saying "I want nothing to do with those animals" and "I have nothing to say to them that they will want to hear" I was told by an older colleague that John, the manager had been a POW of the Japanese and he had been tortured by them several times and bore the scars 40 years after the events.

John was a really nice man and a good boss and this was the only time I ever saw him angry about anything. Honour and peace are easy to talk about but I think actions speak louder than words.

[–] Stewatson35 9 years ago

This is what I mean.
Yes I know that their media was heavily controlled propaganda, but whose country wasn't total propaganda at the time?
The Brits were winning, the Germans were winning, the Americans were out according to some Japanese and Germans, the same with the UK.

Apparently they had flyers dropped on them wiling their instructions saying that we were pure evil, and that we wouldn't stop until they were all dead, and that why they treated us the way they did.
ABSOLUTELY no excuse IMO. Regardless of your "orders" you can still treat people like they are your personal punchbags.
Now this is all factual, it's all there to see. Plus the japs bombed pearl harbour during peace talks! (More proof of their honour?)

They treated their captives like they were going to die anyway. So I don't blame your boss, he was probably threatened with death on more than one occasion, and he was undoubtedly tortured.

They were truly animals with no empathy for human life other than their own.
Can we blame all of that on propaganda? Well the nazis sure followed orders without question, so these "people" should have been held accountable too, which is probably why they got 2 special packages from the U.S. It stopped them dead in their tracks. Unfortunately we had to kill a massive amount of innocent people just to prove a point, that being, our stick is MUCH bigger than yours!

[–] oldgoatee 8 years ago

The original Rangers were trained by the British commandos in 1942 and deployed to North Africa and then Italy. The unit depicted in this movie was formed in New Guinea from an artillery unit in 1943. The 75th Ranger Regiment active today actually traces its heritage from the Composite Unit known as Merrill's Marauders which fought in Burma alongside the British Chindits

[–] blackswan-545-352343 8 years ago

we're not that far from the Primate line, which is animal

we've been killing each other for thousands of years

fact is stranger than fiction, as the saying goes
[just read the daily news;
people say things like - can you believe what he/she did?]
even today,
given the right circumstances, we can do very unpredictable things, to other humans

it's not so much the Japanese, or German, or Russian soldiers, during WW2, it's the circumstances they were in, put there by politics, governments, mad men, etc etc

marc

[–] HOKfilms 8 years ago

Check out Eisenhower's Death Camps or Other Losses. See what the Americans did to German POWs. It will blow your hair back. The didn't even classify them as POWs, but rather came up with the term Disarmed Enemy Forces to get around the Geneva Conventions' rules.

[–] nickm2 8 years ago

See what the Americans did to German POWs. It will blow your hair back

Too bad it was all lies.

Why can't you wretched prey creatures understand that the Universe doesn't owe you anything!?

[–] HOKfilms 8 years ago

You must be talking about the holocaust.

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[–] nickm2 8 years ago

Nope...no "stiffies" in regards to the 'other losses' claim. Now if you're trying to be a shyte & lump together the Russian (and to a lesser extent the French treatment of German POWs) then, Ima gonna have to call you on that.
Anyway, why exactly do the Germans get to be at the front of the rations line? Allied nations were also suffering after the occupation AND there was still the campaigns in China, Mainland Asia & the Pacific to keep supplied.

Anyway, every German memoir that I read touched upon the rather poor conditions that existed shortly after the surrender-what with the the distribution network being kind of 'trashed', having suddenly a few hundred thousand extra mouths to feed & feelings still being 'hard' in the aftermath of finding a few KZs & the fact that The Germans sort of starting the whole mess to begin with---but they also add that things got better.

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[–] HOKfilms 7 years ago

Explain to me how the Germans started the war.

[–] nickm2 7 years ago

You tell me man, I just work here. That whole Danzig corridor and the screw over of the 'agreement' to preserve Czechoslovakia...

Aaaaand it took two whole months for you to come up with that?

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[–] HOKfilms 7 years ago

Great response

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