AWWWW the RED SCARE is BACK

How did differences in ideologies and the fear of communism lead to the Red Scare? Our nation has always been an anti-communist nation, ever since people immigrated into our country in the very beginning they were trying to get away from a very dominating government. Theses governments weren’t all communist but most had many communistic traits. So when we hear about communistic events happening it somewhat scares the people in our country because we have learned that we want no part in that type of government system.

                Nothing was scaring the American citizens until our government officials were being put on trial due to beliefs of them being communists. As soon as these allegations took place people didn’t know if they could trust their senators or representatives in congress. It ultimately “scared” them and they had no one to look to for help or to answer questions because they were all being said to be soviet communistic followers. This did not help us when it came to trying to end the cold war between us and the soviets. All these allegations made ending this war a very difficult task.

U.S. vs. Soviet Union

                What caused the U.S. to get involved in the war rather than the Soviet Union? It all comes down to our different ideologies, ours involves how we always love helping out the other small countries around the world that are being “bullied” by bigger countries or countries that have different governments like communistic ones like North Korea. So when the war began we saw a small country getting bullied by a bigger communist one and we decided we needed to pitch in and help. The main reason we did is 1. Because at that time our country was still scared of changing into a communist government, and 2. We also love helping out small helpless countries.

                The difference between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is they think more about themselves and we act like a big brother to all of the other countries in the world. Sometimes this gets us in trouble but other times it helps us keep good ties with countries and may give us opportunity to their resources.

US vs. USSR Agriculture 101

What are the differences between Soviet Union agriculture and the agricultural practices of the United States? It all starts with the role of the government in our society. The Soviet Union has a communistic government which is based on the idea “that everyone shares everything” and that is why their agriculture is the way it is. It started with many small farms that the government owned but farmers farmed, the thing is they weren’t making the maximum production they could. Later the government decided to merge all the individual farms into large state collective farms, that government continued to own.

In the United States we do things differently. The government doesn’t own our farms but they have a few different regulations and rules that we have to follow but for the most part we can ultimately do whatever we want to our fields. We can grow any crops we want on them and we can sell them and receive the profit for them because we own them not the government.

The thing that is the most different between our ways of living and our ways of farming is government conflict. The government is concerned with how we live and with what we do on our farms, because that helps our economy and keeps our country running. Where in the USSR the government owns everything and they receive all of the profits from farming. So the work ethic from farmer in the US is better than those in the USSR due to the fact that the US farmer gets to keep his earnings after he sells his crops.

The Doctors Behind Nanking and Nazi Camps

Two doctors of World War II that most people don’t know about are Dr. Joseph Mengele and Dr. Shiro Ishii. These two men you may or may not know and I would go out on a limb and say most of you have no idea who they are. These men were doctors trying to find out ways to test ideas that they had conjured up in their minds. What better way for they thought to do it was to test them on people that the German or Japanese armies were already going to execute. These men tested theories that would make your heart skip a beat hearing about them and how horrible they were, but this is one of the good reasons we have history is to learn from mistakes of the past like theirs and never make them again. I suppose I should tell you a little about these men and why they are so horrible.

First off are a few things that are very similar about these men. They both were skilled doctors before the war began; the military found them and wanted them to test their hypothesis on some of their prisoners. For instance the Germans always wanted more Aryians which were blonde hair blue eyed people so they had Mengele work on trying to genetically change the prisoners that had twins to make more Aryians. Through most of these procedures he ended up killing off most of the little kids and twins. Now Ishii on the other hand also tortured his prisoners by testing out theories we know today such as putting them in a hypothermic state, giving them frostbite, simulating heart attacks and strokes, forced abortions, and vivisections. He mostly worked with psychological ideas but he also worked with the idea of a germ warfare where he would unleash plagues and other devastating diseases to kill of entire populations.

The reason these two men were not treated the same way after the war was due to the different ways they handled their situation. Mengele wasn’t not remorseful for what he had done, and that eventually landed him in the court system. On the other hand Ishii had made an earlier agreement that if he told everything about his practices and about germ warfare that they couldn’t not jail him after the war was finished.

These two men were very bad people and I believe they both should have been jailed for what they had done and honestly I believe they should have been executed as well. On a final note, I believed that the Nanking was worse for the prisoners than the holocaust. In the Nanking there was much more brutality such as the raping and beating of the ones being raped.  In the holocaust they made the prisoners usually work and they got fed less but the torture aspect wasn’t nearly as bad as being raped to death or near death during the Nanking. I enjoyed the movie and am glad we watched it, it helped me learn more about WWII and what really happened.

Lets Go To War

To war we shall go! The United States of America needs to help with the uprising war in the eastern countries. Why is this you all may ask, our country is and has been founded and brought up by immigrants. People who were originally from some of those eastern countries and we need to show appreciation and support for what they have done for our country by helping solve the conflicts in theirs.

One thing most of you must want to happen is to see all of the central powers fall to create an opportunity for independence of your homeland. After all isn’t that why you came to America. After all they killed the Arch Duke Francis Ferdinand this should be one item that will spark a little bit of a fighting spirit in some of you. We shall join the war and help out your homeland and show Germany who they are dealing with. You all know what is at risk, your homeland’s independence we can’t let Germany over rule everyone and make them the biggest and strongest central power in the world. One reason that Germany thinks they have the upper hand is due to nationalism they support. This kind of nationalism supports when an action goes against the nation’s interest warfare will fix the problem. This kind of nationalism is what started this war and we need to put an end to it.

So let us fight alongside Great Britain and show Germany what the United States is all about. If war is what they want then war is what they will get. Lets put an end to Central powers and end this war!

Torturing Methods

                The torturing of many suspected terrorist has blown up the media lately. It seems like all we have to talk about is which terrorist group is the worst. But the stuff in the news is no longer about which group is the worst it’s how we are torturing the suspected members of those groups. The biggest issue now is the methods we are using, to torture them for information about the suspected terrorist group. A large investigation by the CIA has brought out many secrets about these places that we never knew before.

                One of the places that the CIA talked about was a place called the Sand Pit. This place was perfect because is possessed a dungeon like atmosphere where they kept all of the prisoners. One of the typical torture techniques most of us would think of is water boarding. I found out in through this investigation that waterboarding wasn’t actually one of the techniques used in in the sand pit. Some of the people explained that we would literally beat and torture these prisoners to the point of almost disfunctionality.  We actually pushed some prisoners to death. This is too far and we need to make changes to our torture techniques.

                Now onto another article I read, that told about how two former Air Force psychologists came to $80 million dollars through developing torture techniques. These two men prior to this newfound occupation had no intelligence of how to interrogate, tactics of torture, information about al Qaeda, these men were rookies as some may say. But we trusted them to make up new torture methods for our country. I can already see how this made issues for our ways of not getting information out of our torturees. The people who make the methods on how they get tortured have no experience in this field.

                Here is a list of techniques I found that tells about what different torture methods were used in theses prisons. One of the main methods is sexual assault or humiliation they would sexually assault the prisoners and or make them be naked and humiliate them in front of others. Then onto things such as sleep deprivation and mock burials where they would put said prisoner into a casket and pretend to bury them as if they were stuck in there till death. This technique would seem effective but most of the time these techniques acquired us no new information making them ultimately useless.

                I believe we should torture terrorists for the just reason of why we have them in our custody in the first place. Also if torturing them can get us useful information then I believe we should continue doing it. One thing that is for sure is that we need to find and or hire people that are trained and have studied how to do so before just asking random people to take care of it for us.

Muckraking

There are many places around the world where people believe that catholic priests are sexually abusing and raping young children. The reason this stereotype is, is because of people we call muckrakers. A muckraker is a person that goes finds things that are happening in the world and they seek to bring out the bad things or help find ways to exploit the wrongdoings of others. So you could say they are just another way the media in the world makes thing worse.

                In the case I’m talking about today I found that it is believed that catholic priests are using kids between the ages of 11 and 14 for their own sexual extravaganzas, In other words as their own personal love makers. While I believe this isn’t true to all catholic priests, but to some of the ones that may already have personal issues with this specific case.  It is said that in the United States there are fewer catholic priests touching kids then there is in say Canada and Ireland and Switzerland. Those places at least have instances where the priests are caught and the case brought forth to the law enforcers. One reason for bringing this type of thing out about catholic priests is so that it makes other religions seem superior or stronger. It is a way for other religions to attract followers and strengthen the force of their faith.

                Now when it comes to whether or not this is actually happening we don’t know for sure. But we do know that, yes some cases have been brought forward and we have found that priests are as a matter of fact touching and raping some kids. But it should not be put on all priests as a stereotype. I believe that for the most part catholic priests are safe and people don’t need to change their faith due to being scared about their kid being touched. Just remember at all times that if you are going to leave your child unsupervised with any adult that you know and trust the individual.

                One thing is for sure muckraking makes the media interesting. It is one thing we all enjoy reading and listening to in the media. No matter what happens in the future they are always going to be out their making things interesting for us and sometimes blowing it all completely out of proportion.