Have you been to digg.com lately and noticed anything strange?
Apparently, it's being hijacked as we speak, and is heading in a very disturbing direction, as certain users are submitting stories dedicated to the war on terror Islam, and are aiming at getting people to support their agenda, through manipulation and lies.
If you don't know what Digg is - in the past, Digg used to be a funny, interesting and sometimes informative source on interesting tech news, and recently other types news. It had a system of users choosing which stories are interesting, and which ones aren't. One could "digg up" a story if it's worth publishing, or "bury" it if it's lame, spam, inaccurate, etc.. If a story got enough diggs, it would appear on the front page for everyone to see.
Users could also comment on every story, and have their comments dugg up or down by other users, depending on how relevant, interesting or funny the comment is.
One could spend lots of time searching Digg for interesting stories, rating them, commenting on them, reading other people's comments, and so on.
Not too long ago, Digg created a "Political news" and "Political opinion" section, allowing even a broader spectrum of stories and news. You'd get your usual troll here and there, but they got buried pretty quickly. Extremely right-wing comments never got through. And so it was..
A couple of weeks ago though, anti-Islamic stories started to appear, one by one. They increased very quickly and started hitting the front page in a very scary fashion.
What was even scarier was that the comments bashing Islam and calling for the genocide of all muslims or the destruction of Islam as a whole started getting extremely positive ratings, while the comments saying that it's just a minority of extremists and not the religion got buried very quickly, along with the comments saying that not all muslims are terrorists, and that the media is just painfully biased and that Islam is in fact NOT a violent or hateful religion.
Interestingly, this whole raid on digg had one single source: The vile scum also known as Little Green Footballs, a blog dedicated to bashing Muslims and Islam in every way possible, along with left-wingers, liberals, and basically anybody who opposes their agenda.
While the main author of the blog, Charles Johnson, restricts himself to presenting every single piece of bad news about the Religion of Peace (A term, which he tends to use, but in a sarcastic manner), his faithful readership is rabidly islamophobic and the comment section has featured frequent calls to destroy Islam, nuke the middle east, drive all Muslims away from Islam, or even more convenient: Just Kill All Muslims (who btw are always associated with terrorism, violence, and barbarism and are referred to as "Koranimals" and other rather pejorative statements).
Yes, yes, "Free speech" you say...
I have nothing against being able to express yourself, but nowadays free speech is becoming a tool. Another lame excuse in order to p#&@ people off and get away with it. And it often comes hand-in-hand with double standards.
Let's take an example: Germany has extremely strict laws and regulations about anything that's even remotely connected with Nazi-ism (In Germany, you're not even allowed to draw a crossed-out Swastika, which is supposedly an Anti-Nazi symbol.. just because the sign contains a swastika to begin with). So Neo-Nazis don't have their share of free speech. Which is a good thing, as there are limits for everything, even free speech, and Nazi propaganda is far beyond that limit already.
Now, what does this have to do with LGF? Everything.
If you check out this little quiz (further down the page), you'll realize that LGF's readership-spread propaganda and Nazi propaganda aren't very far apart.
In fact, the only difference is that it's another group of people that's being victimised. If you take that quiz, you'll realize that the sentiment, and sometimes even the terminology used is exactly the same.
Ironically, the LGF crowds would be the last ones to associate themself with Hitler or the likes. After a LGF post about an attack on a Jewish Kindergarten in Germany, there were even statements like "I'm still baffled about why any Yidden chose to return to Germany.". But naturally though, the commenters were pathologically trying to associate muslims with this story, although if you read the story, there is no proof that it was muslims to start with. And not to forget the usual violent urges against muslims, and the hints of Jewish Supremacy in the rounds.
So, in sum - the way LGF thugs do not tolerate Nazis, yet at the same time relentlessly bash Muslims at every turn, insisting that it's their the holy right of free speech, doesn't fall short of plain old Hypocrisy™.
Funny enough, regarding that story of the Kindergarten, one of the commenters said: "I guess people haven't learned from history.". Somebody really needs to hand them a mirror. The LGF crowds just haven't learned that this kind of hate and bias has lead to very ugly results throughout history. The 3rd Reich only succeeded because people were taught to hate and to fear, so they sided with whoever claimed would protect them. As an unpleasant side-effect, a world war broke out.
At this point I will remind everybody that I firmly reject indiscriminate attacks on Jews, and I will gladly say again that I respect Judaism and Jews as Islam tells me to. But this LGF-esque attitude of promoting one group to an almost super-human status and constantly kissing up to them, and at the same time reducing another group to the ranks of vermin is ridiculous, especially when it's based on lies. Unfortunately, things don't work that way. We're all human beings after all, and God created us all equal, and in our humble state, we are not the ones to destroy this equality.
It seems that these people are unaware that fighting Islam is simply useless. To kill off both means to kill the ideologies, and to kill the ideologies you need to kill every single person who supports the ideologies. Now if you take Islam as a target that you want to annihilate, that means you want to kill over 1.5 billion muslims, along with the countless other people who have no problems with Islam, and even like Islam and muslims.
All those people together probably make up significantly more than half of the world's population. You want to kill half the world's population? You deserve to have the sad remains of your brain surgically removed.
Islam is the fastest growing religious community in the world, and it is here to stay. Period, end of discussion. Live with it and stop whining. And if you're afraid that they'll take over the west and impose their beliefs on everybody:
a) That's a lie.
b) That's exactly the tactic Hitler used to fuel the hatred and fear against Jews not too long ago.
So if you want Hitler to be your role model, fine. But don't cry afterwards if you're labeled a Nazi.
What adds a pathetic twist to this whole story is that the LGF crowds (who call themselves Lizards for mysterious reasons) gloat that their recent actions at digg.com will seriously help them in the war on terror.
First of all, posting some bogus stories on a website will never stop terrorism in any way. Second of all, fighting terrorism is like trying to fight the wind. It'll always be there and has always been there since humans have existed, not to mention that fighting terrorism is one of the reasons why terrorism exists.
And fighting terrorism is more often than not a form of terrorism itself. About the uselessness of trying to fight terrorism, refer to this interesting commentary.
The only way to stop terrorism is simply to stop being terrified.
Finally, this "global terror" yadda-yadda is just a myth. It's the wet dream of all warmongers and right-wingers, exploited as a reason to fight wars against a randomly chosen culprit.
What they don't realize is that this hostility towards muslims is exactly what fuels muslims' hatred towards the west even more.
Muslims do NOT hate westerners, Muslims hate intolerant westerners.
Muslims do NOT hate other religions, muslims hate members of other religions bashing theirs.
Muslims do NOT hate freedom as some imbecile once said, muslims hate the abuse of freedom. And sadly enough, it'll be a long time before the LGF crowds realize this.
For more information and updates on LGF, visit this nice blog dedicated to exposing the shenanigans coming from that wretched place. Which is the best way to deal with these people. Expose them and show what they really are.

when they acknowledge it. They already 'realize' it.
They are simply hypocrits with an agenda.
And I agree with most of your points - except that it is Organized Jewry that first declared war on Germany.
And as far as I can tell - it is THEY - not Hitler - who are STILL trying to rule the world.
[Of course, I mean the zionist ones, as not all Jews are extremist zionists (redundant?).]
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"Money" has no value - people do.
Sounds like standard fare from the doyens of the Little Green Fu&!wits.
What is more worrying is that 'digg brigades' seem to be operating that bury interesting progressive stories before they have a chance, and promote festering nonsense to the front page.
Well Sullivan, luckily enough there's a digg brigade actively marking every LGF story as spam. And it's working.
The Sphinx wrote:
1. “We're all human beings after all, and God created us all equal, and in our humble state, we are not the ones to destroy this equality.”
I disagree. I say that Zionists as full-blown psychopaths. They’re all “Dr. Lecter wannabes.” I am not trying to be cute. I am sincere. All Zionists must hang. Anyone who says different is closing his / her eyes to reality, or resorting to wishful thinking. Zionists regard kindness as weakness. They must be annihilated. And they will be.
2. “The only way to stop terrorism is simply to stop being terrified.”
I would phrase it thus: “The quickest way to stop terrorism is to stop participating in it.”
3. “What they don't realize is that hostility towards Muslims is exactly what fuels Muslims' hatred towards the west even more.”
I believe they realize this quite well. Warmongers know they are liars. What they fear is having to get a real job like the rest of us. Without wars and “threats,” they become nothing, and they know it.
4. QRS wrote, “I agree with most of your points - except it is Organized Jewry that first declared war on Germany.”
Here, here.
There was the infamous boycott by Jews in 1937, of course, but everyone should study the situation between Poland and Germany just before World War II. Poles (which are demographically 8% Jewish – the highest anywhere except Israel) were slaughtering thousands of Germans in the Danzig Corridor. We're talking MAJOR massacres of German men, women, and children. Hitler appealed multiple times to Britain and the USA for help, but Churchill and Roosevelt had promised help to Poland. This made Poland extremely belligerent. When Germany crushed Poland, triumphant posters were set up all over Germany saying "Danzig ist Deutch!!!" Since Jews controlled the USA even then, they demanded that the USA enter the war, but anti-war Americans adopted the popular slogan, "Why die for Danzig?" Two years later, Roosevelt swept away all resistance to war by allowing (even encouraging) the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Also, Operation Barbarosa (the invasion of Russia) happened because Stalin massed troops on the border. Hitler merely struck first.
Also, I would ask people to actually READ Hitler’s speeches. He almost never said anything negative about Jews. (Although his henchmen did.) Reason: Germany was in chaos and despair. It wanted optimism and hope. Hitler could never have succeeded if he simply preached hate. His essential message was, “We can all do this together.” His real target was Jewish-controlled Bolshevism.
BOTTOM LINE: 99% of what western history books say about Hitler is Zionist propaganda.
I do not seek to exculpate Nazism. I merely say we must face truth and reality, or else we are doomed to endless war.
Churchill had a Jewish Mommy, and Roosevelt sounds like a Jew name as well.
http://judicial-inc.biz/Bush_Mossad11.htm
The Roosevelt family did indeed come from a Jewish background. Their clan originated in the Netherlands. This explains why Theodore Roosevelt was so supportive of a federal reserve when the idea was first proposed (later adopted in 1913). It also explains why FDR was so supportive of Polish Jews.
Eisenhower also came from a Jewish background, which explains his pathological hatred of all things German. It also explains why Eisenhower came out of nowhere and effortlessly rose to the top of the military, despite being incompetent, as judicial-inc.biz has shown.
Let us stop calling them Jews, they are not Jews. Roosevelt was a descendent of a dutch ashkenazic family (Roosewelt, surely rose garden magnates), Eisenhower was a descendant of a swedish ashkenazic family (Eisenower, surely steel industry magnates). These US presidents were both distant Khazar descendents, probably not of jewish religion themselves because the judaized Khazars never made one of their own lot to be king (see polish history).
We should make a point to be not against Jews, just against those turanic Ashkenazis who we can recognize by their evid deeds against humanity.
I would suggest people read Hitler's speeches, and then consider who best fits the profile of a lying, cheating, corrupt, amoral, inhuman, traitorous, genocidal warmongering tyrant - Hitler, or the likes of Olmert, Bush, Blair et al. I could well imagine Bush or Blair smirking as they let slip casualty figures at a press conference. Diplomacy, a desire for peace, and a comprehension of what it takes to achieve lasting peace has never been their forte. Zionist puppets certainly have no qualms about killing and maiming civilians, women and children, and utilising weapons designed to kill (even many years into the future) and dismember as efficiently as possible. Their only interest is whether they get a few million dollars or pounds, and whether the media praise them.
I have abbreviated the speech, but tried to keep the best excerpts. The original version is nearly 16 pages long. Enjoy.
Members of the German Reichstag!
In a fateful hour, on 1st September of this year, you met here as representatives of the German people. I had to inform you then of serious decisions which had been forced upon us as a result of the intransigent and provocative attitude of a certain State.
Since then, five weeks have gone by. I have asked you to come here today in order to give you an account of what has passed, the necessary insight into what is happening at present and - so far as that is possible - into the future as well. [...]
That the last remnants of the Polish army were able to hold out in Warsaw, Modlin and on the Hela peninsula until 1st October was not due to their prowess in arms, but only to our cool thinking and our sense of responsibility.
I forbade the sacrifice of more human lives than were absolutely necessary. [...]
In the first place I wanted to spare German lives, while in the second place, I still clung to the hope, misdirected though it was, that the Polish side might for once be guided by responsible common sense instead of by irresponsible lunacy.
[...] Sheer sympathy for the women and children caused me to make an offer to those in command of Warsaw at least to allow the civilian inhabitants leave the city. I declared a temporary armistice and safeguarded the roads necessary for the evacuation, which the result that we all waited for an emissary just as fruitlessly as we had waited at the end of August for a Polish negotiator. The proud Polish commander of the city did not even condescend to reply.
To make quite sure, I extended the time limit and ordered bombers and heavy artillery to attack only military objectives, repeating my proposal in vain. I thereupon made an offer that a whole suburb, Praga, would not be bombarded at all but should be reserved for the civilian population in order to make it possible for them to take refuge there. This proposal, too, was treated with contempt on the part of the Poles. Twice I attempted to evacuate at least the International Colony from the city. In this I finally succeeded after great difficulties, in the case of the Russian colony, actually at the last moment. I then ordered a general attack on the city for the 25th September. The same defenders who at first considered it beneath their dignity even to reply to my human proposals made on the grounds of humanity, then very rapidly changed face. The German attack opened on September 25th, and Warsaw capitulated on the 27th. [...]
The Polish soldiers as individuals fought bravely on many occasions, but their officers, beginning with the command, can only be described as irresponsible, unconscientious and inefficient. [...]
As I am now about to make known to you the number of our dead and wounded, I request you to rise from your seats.
Though, owing to the training given to our troops, the effectiveness of our weapons and the command of our forces, the figures do not amount to even one-twentieth of what our apprehensions had been at the outset of the campaign, we will never forget that every soldier who fell fighting brought for his people and our Reich the greatest sacrifice that man can bring.
According to the casualty list of up to 30th September, 1939, which will not change materially, the total losses for the Army, Navy and Air Force, including officers, are as follows:
10,572 killed.
30,322 wounded.
3,404 missing.
Unfortunately, of these missing a certain number who fell into Polish hands will probably be found to have been tortured and killed. [...]
On the face of this historically unprecedented collapse of a structure puporting to be a State, the question in almost everybody's mind is as to the reason for such a phenomenon. Versailles was the cradle of the Polish State which had emerged from the untold sacrifice of blood - not of Polish, but of German and Russian blood. Poland, who for centuries past had proved herself incapable of existence, was, in 1916 artificially begotten, and in 1919 no less artificially born, by a German Government just as incapable of existence. In utter disregard of almost 500 years of experience, without consideration for the lesson of historical development during many centuries, without appreciation of the ethnographic conditions, and with no regard for economic expediencies, a state was constructed in Versailles which, according to its whole nature, was sooner or later bound to become the cause of the most serious crises. A man who, I am sorry to say, now again ranks among our fiercest enemies, at that time clearly foresaw all this. I mean Mr. Lloyd George. Like so many others, he sounded a warning not only at the time of the creation of that structure, but also in the course of the subsequent expansion which had taken place in utter disregard of reason and right. At that time he expressed apprehension that in that state an accumulation of conditions was being created containing a risk of conflicts which sooner or later might lead to grave European complications. [...]
In 1919, the Poles laid claim to territories where they pretended to have a majority of 95 per cent - in East Prussia for instance - whereas the plebiscite later showed that the Poles actually reached a figure of 2 per cent.
In the State finally created, which contained parts of former Russia, Austria and Germany, the non-Polish elements were so brutally ill-treated, suppressed, tyrannized and tortured that any plebiscite depended entirely on the goodwill of the local administrative official, thus producing the forged result, as desired or demanded.
[...] Anyone who travels in that country for two or three weeks will get the proper idea of the classical German term "Polnische Wirtschaft", meaning a "Polish state of affairs"!
In spite of the unbearable conditions prevailing in that country, Germany endeavoured to establish peaceful relations with it. During the years 1933 and 1934 I endeavoured to find some equitable compromise between our national interests and our desire for the maintenance of peace with that country. There was a time, when Marshal Pilsudski was still alive, when it seemed possible for this hope to materialize, if only to a modest extent.
Unlimited patience and still greater self-restraint were called for. Because many of the regional Polish administrative officials took the understanding between Germany and Poland to be merely a licence for the persecution and annihilation of the Germans in Poland with even less risk. In the few years up to 1922 more than one and a half million Germans had been forced to leave their homes. They were hunted out, often without being able to take even their most necessary clothes. When, in 1938, the Olsa territory went to Poland, they used the same methods against the Czechs who lived there. Often within a few hours, many thousands of these had to leave their working places, their homes, their villages and towns at the shortest notice, without being allowed to take anything more with them than a suitcase or a little box with clothing. Things like this went on for years, and for years we looked on, always striving to attain some improvement in the lot of the unhappy Germans living there by establishing closer relations. It was, however, impossible to overlook the fact that every German attempt thereby to secure the removal of these intolerable conditions was taken by the Polish rulers as nothing more than a sign of weakness, if not of stupidity. When the Polish Government proceeded in a thousand ways gradually to subjugate Danzig as well, I endeavoured, by means of practical proposals, to secure a solution whereby Danzig, in accordance with the wishes of its population, could be nationally and politically united with Germany, without impairing the economic needs and the so-called rights of Poland.
If today anyone alleges that these were ultimative demands, that allegation is a lie. The proposals for a solution, as communicated to the Polish Government in March 1939, were nothing but the suggestions and ideas already discussed long ago between myself and the Polish Foreign Minister Beck, except for the fact that in the spring of 1939 I thought I would be able to facilitate the acceptance of these proposals by the Polish Government in the face of their own public opinion by the offer to concede to them as an equivalent a share in the guarantee of the independence of Slovakia, desired by that State. The fact that the Polish Government at that time refused to consider a discussion of these proposals was due to two reasons: For one thing, the inflamed chauvinist powers behind the government never intended to solve the problem of Danzig, but on the contrary already lived in the hopes expounded later on in publications and speeches, of acquiring territory from the Reich far beyond the bounds of Danzig; in fact, they hoped to be in a position to attack and conquer. These aims, far from stopping at East Prussia, clamoured, in a flood of publications and a continuous sequence of speeches, addresses, resolutions, etc., in addition to the incorporation of East Prussia, for the annexation of Pomerania and Silesia; the Oder represented the minimum of frontier claims, and finally even the Elbe was described as the natural dividing line between Germany and Poland. These demands, which today may appear crazy, but which were then presented with fanatical seriousness, were based in a simply ridiculous manner on the assumption of a "Polish Mission of Civilization" and declared justified because they were supposed to be capable of fulfilment in view of the strength of the Polish army.
[...] The violations and insults which Germany and her armed forces had to put up with from these military dilettantes, would never have been tolerated by any other state, just as they were not to be expected from any other nation. [...]
Another reason was that fatal promise of a guarantee given to a State which, although not menaced at all, very rapidly became convinced that it could afford to challenge a Great Power without risk, once it was assured of the support of two Great Powers, perhaps even hoping in this way to lay the foundations for the realisation of its own insane ambitions. For as long as Poland felt certain of that guarantee, the minorities living in that country had to suffer what amounted to a reign of terror. I do not consider it my task to speak of the lot of the Ukranian or White Russian populations, whose interests now lie in the hands of the Russians. However, I do feel it my duty to speak of the lot of those hundreds of thousands of Germans who carried on the tradition of those who first brought culture to that country centuries ago and whom the Polish now began to oppress and drive out. Since March 1939 they had been the victims of a truly satanic terrorisation. How many of them have been abducted, and where they are, cannot be stated even today. Villages with hundreds of German inhabitants are now left without men, because they have all been killed. In others, women were violated and murdered, girls and children outraged and killed. In 1598, an Englishman - Sir George Carew - wrote in his diplomatic reports to the English Government that the outstanding features of the Polish character were cruelty and lack of moral restraint. Since that time, this cruelty has not changed. Just as tens of thousands of Germans were slaughtered and sadistically tormented to death, so the German soldiers captured in the fighting were tortured and massacred. This lapdog of the Western democracies cannot be considered a cultured nation at all. For more than four years I fought in the Great War on the Western front, but such things did not happen on either side. The things that have occurred in Poland during the last few months, and especially in the last four weeks, constitute a flaming accusation against those responsible for the creation of a so-called state lacking every national, historical, cultural, and moral foundation. Had only one per cent of these atrocities been committed in any part of the world against English people, I should be interested to see the indignation of those 'gentlemen' who today in hypocritical horror condemn the German or Russian procedure.
No! To grant a guarantee to this State and to this Government, as was done, could only lead to appalling disaster. [...]
For many years, imaginary aims have been attributed to Germany's foreign policy which at best might be taken to have originated in the mind of a schoolboy. At a moment when Germany is struggling to consolidate her living space, which only consists of a few hundred thousand square kilometres, insolent journalists in countries which rule over 40 million square kilometres state that Germany is aspiring to world domination! [...]
If 46 million Englishmen claim the right to rule over 40 million square kilometres of the earth, it cannot be wrong for 82 million Germans to demand the right to live on 800,000 square kilometres, to till their fields, and to follow their trades and callings.
And they further demand the restitution of those Colonial possessions which formerly were their property, which they had not taken away from anybody by robbery or war, but had honestly acquired by purchase, exchange and treaties. [...]
I devoted no less effort to achieving an Anglo-German understanding, nay, more than that, an Anglo-German friendship.
At no time and in no place have I ever acted contrary to British interests. Unfortunately, I have only too often been forced to guard against instances of British interference in German affairs, even in cases which did not concern Great Britain in the least. I actually considered it as one of my life's aims to reconcile these two peoples, not only through mutual understanding but through inner sympathy. The German nation has gladly followed my lead in this respect. If my endeavours have been unsuccessful, it is only because of an animosity on the part of certain British statesmen and journalists which has deeply affected me personally.
They make no secret of the fact that - for reasons which are unfathomable to us - their sole aim was to seize the first opportunity in order to resume the fight with Germany. The fewer reasons of a substantial nature these men have for their schemes, the more they attempt to motivate their actions with empty phrases and assertions.
But I believe even today, that there can only be real peace in Europe and throughout the world if Germany and England come to an understanding. Because of this conviction, I have often shown the way to an understanding. If in the end there was not the desired result, it was really not my fault.
[...] Neither the German people nor myself have taken an oath on the Treaty of Versailles; I have merely taken an oath on the welfare of my people who give me my mandate, and on the welfare of those whom destiny has placed within our living space, thus inseparably binding them to our own welfare. To guarantee the existence, and thus the life of all of them, is my sole concern. [...]
Today I can only regret that those people, whose bloodthirstiness cannot have enough of war, unfortunately are not where the war is actually being fought, and never were at such places where people were shooting it out. I can very well understand that there are interested parties, who profit more from war than from peace, and I also understand that for a certain variety of international journalists it is more interesting to report on war than on peaceful activities or cultural achievements, which they are incapable of either judging or understanding. And finally it is clear to me that there is a certain Jewish-international capitalism and journalism that has no feeling at all in common with the people whose interests they pretend to represent, but who, like Herostrates of old, regard incendiarism as the greatest success of their lives. [...]
The ability of the Western Democracies to restore such ordered conditions has in recent times at least, not been proved. The example of Palestine shows that it would be better to concentrate on the tasks at hand and to solve these in a reasonable manner, instead of meddling with problems which lie within the vital spheres of interest of other nations and could certainly better be solved by them. At any rate, Germany has, in her Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, not only established peace and order, but above all laid the foundation for a new economic prosperity and for an increasing understanding between the two nations. England still has much to do before she can point to similar results in her Protectorate in Palestine.
One also realises that it would be senseless to annihilate millions of men and to destroy property worth milliards in order to reconstitute a State which at its very birth was termed an abortion by all those not of Polish extraction. What other reason exists? Has Germany made any demands of England which might threaten the British Empire, or endanger its existence? On the contrary, Germany has made no such demand of either France or England.
But if this war is really to be waged only in order to give Germany a new regime, that is to say, in order to destroy the present Reich once more and thus to create a new Treaty of Versailles, then millions of human lives will be sacrificed in vain, for neither will the German Reich go to pieces nor will a second Treaty of Versailles be made. And even should this come to pass after three, four, or even eight years of war, then this second Versailles would once more become the source of fresh conflicts in the future. In any event, a settlement of the world's problems carried out without consideration of the vital interests of its most powerful nations could not possibly, after the lapse of from five to ten years, end in any other way than that attempt made twenty years ago has now ended. No, this war in the West cannot settle any problems, except perhaps the ruined finances of certain armament manufacturers, newspaper-owners or other war-profiteers. [...]
The Geneva Convention once succeeded in prohibiting, in civilized countries at least, the killing of wounded, the ill-treatment of prisoners, war against non-combatants, etc., and just as it was possible gradually to achieve the universal observance of this statute, a way must surely be found to regulate aerial warfare, the use of poison gas, of submarines etc., and also so to define contraband that war will lose its terrible character of a conflict waged against women and children and against non-combatants in general. The growing horror of certain methods of modern warfare will, of its own accord, lead to their abolition and thus they will become obsolete.
In the war with Poland I endeavoured to restrict aerial warfare to objectives of so-called military importance, or only to employ it to combat active resistance at a given point. But it must surely be possible to emulate the Red Cross and to draw up some universally valid international regulation. It is only when this is achieved that peace can reign, particularly in our densely populated continent - a peace which, uncontaminated by suspicion and fear, will provide the only possible condition for real economic prosperity. [...]
If however, these problems must be solved sooner or later, then it would be more sensible to tackle the solution before millions of men are first uselessly sent to their death, and milliards in property destroyed. The continuation of the present state of affairs in the West is unthinkable. [...]
Destiny will decide who is right. One thing only is certain. In the course of world history, there have never been two victors, but very often only losers. This seems to us to have been the case in the last war. [...]