Heidegger

On 10/06/2006, at 11:22 PM, That Pete wrote:

> This occurred to me last night. The affinity with the “WWII was a
> Roosevelt conspiracy” theme popular with some. The struck me was
> the parallel threads of: Arabs and Japanese aren’t clever enough to
> pull off such attacks.

I’m not one for popular conspiracy myths That Pete, or revisionist
histories from Popular Mechanics or any other form of mass media
entertainment for that matter. I prefer, just as in my philosophical
reading, to go for primary sources and I think you’ll find the
Minority Report of the 1946 US Congressional JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE
INVESTIGATION OF THE PEARL HARBOR ATTACK rather interesting reading.
And don’t worry, it was written by the minority Republicans who
fundamentally disagreed with the Democrat whitewash of Roosevelt’s
foreknowledge and Roberts Commission scapegoating of the two local
commanders Kimmel and Short:

20. In the final instance of crucial significance for alerting American
outpost commanders, on Saturday night, December 6, and Sunday morning,
December 7, the President of the United States failed to take that quick
and instant executive action which was required by the occasion and by
the responsibility for watchfulness and guardianship
rightly associated in law and practice with his high office from the
establishment of the Republic to our own times.
pp. 505-506 http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/congress/…

They blame the president, claim he had clear foreknowledge and the
entire report can be read in full here:

 http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/congress/…

You might also be interested in Admiral Robert A. Theobald’s version
of events in Final Secret of Pearl Harbor written in 1954:

 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0317659…

He was a commander at Pearl Harbor, founding author of the
alternative military history and anything but a mentally deranged tin
foil hat conspiracy theorist. Neither is retired FBI Special Agent
and former naval officer Thomas K. Kimmel, Kimmel’s grandson, who
convinced Congress in 2000 that neither commanders Kimmel nor Short
were privy to the intelligence available to the supreme commander and
his immediate subordinates in Washington. It should be obvious even
to the most hard core cheerleaders for the Democrat party that a very
plausible case can be made that FDR and his military staff knew in
advance and allowed the Japanese to fire the first shot that would
catapault the US into total mobilisation for the war in Europe.

I do find this ‘conspiracy theory’ meme interesting though, it’s very
X Files. What is it do you think that drives otherwise good honest
people to make such mindless denunciations of officially unauthorised
histories without the slightest knowledge of what they’re talking
about? I have found it’s almost an autonomic response to any
information that threatens to disturb the history free comfort zone
bubble of your average comfortably indebted middle class, by which I
mean lower to middle income earners drowning in the prosperity of
their hard earned mortgage and credit debt. Too much idiot box and
overtime perhaps and not enough time for serious reading and
research? I call it reactionary bourgeois angst, a religious faith in
the sanctity of our popular consensus reality, and a conditioned
Pavlovian response to the herd’s ridicule of anyone who departs from
popularly approved doctrine. Unfortunately I prefer actual history to
populist beliefs.

Maybe our next list should be on the Principles of Indoctrination to
Consensus Reality, what do you reckon That Pete? It could be a
companion list to the final draft of the principles for a universal
proscription I’ve published here:

 http://heidegger.an-archos.com/archive/p…

Any comments on the German translation that Google spat out would be
most welcome for those of us who are fluent German speakers.

Cheers,

Malcolm

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Posted on Sunday, June 11th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
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