Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!

[VNA]

VNA, what should we have done in the face of Hitler and the nazis?

I don’t want to get too deeply drawn into such matters on the eve of Remembrance Day, as I am aware that my views may offend.


But yes I do remember, and yes my family like many, or maybe most was very much effected by the great war.


I also remember the forgotten International Brigades, of which there were many volunteers for from Scotland.  Perhaps our then governments should have paid the attention that these men, socialists, anarchists and communists, paid to the sick perversion of nationalist fascism that was creeping across Europe at that time.



And yes, I also remember the bravery of the 1914-18 conscientious objectors.  One thing they were not was cowards.


Whilst I think of our crimes recently in Afghanistan and Iraq.  I think too of the arms companies whom will call on their employees to stop for a 2-minute silence before they resume working on Saudi’s next order. The resulting children in Yemen, whom if they have dodged the British made missiles now face starvation.  Starvation, one hellish death.


And if you’ve read All Quiet On the Western Front, can I suggest you seek out another controversial and long buried foreign title – FEAR by Gabriel Chevallier.


It’s a funny question you ask me Hedgetrimmer, as if I am not mistaken many here expressed horror at my suggestions in the past as to how to deal with the BNP and EDF.