Operation AXIOM

Yesterday, 23 August, was Black Ribbon Day, the American observance of the European Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Stalinism & Nazism. We dare not forget that just a quarter of a century ago half of Europe, the heartland of Western civilization, lived under cruel oppression & ideological despotism. We dare not forget those who perished, lest we suffer their same fate, lest we stand by idly whilst others suffer that same baleful fate. The date was chosen to commemorate the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrip Pact in 1939.

"They Came First…"
by Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)

They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Commentary: Wayback Machine '14 & Wayback Machine '15.

Yesterday, 23 August, was also the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition. The date was chosen to commemorate the beginning of the Haitian Revolution in 1791. I urge my fellow Americans never to forget that the Confederate battle flag—the Confederate swastika—is not a symbol of "Southern heritage," but the banner of treason & slavery, of men who would turn their backs on their oaths of loyalty & kill their countrymen in order to play Pharaoh & keep other man in chains.