On June 6, 1944 UK, Canadian, and US troops landed on five Normandy beaches and broke through Hitler’s Atlantic Wall to liberate France and the rest of Western Europe, while another army slogged up the Italian peninsula. The American soldiers fought the Nazis thousands of times from the Battle of the Bulge and Anzio to small skimirshes in the villages through France and Germany.
The hundred thousand American dead are buried along the trail of victory.
In November 11, 2011 I stood on the grass of the Luxembourg WWII cemetery surrounded by thousands of tombstones with the names of the dead. I cried thinking of these boys and men dedicating their lives to end the thousand-year Third Reich.
Proud, but new battle lines have been drawn across America.
Trump has given the green light to far-right scum like the all-male/pseudo-Nazi Proud Boys founded by non-American Gavin McInnes, who said the group’s name came from Disney’s ALLADIN song “Proud of Your Boy” in which Aladdin apologized to his mother for being a boy. Gavin has probably said the same thing to his mother.
After all the hipster one-time owner of VICE magazine likes Broadway tunes and we all know what that means especially when a man likes Broadway tunes.
The Proud Boys number from 700 to 6000 members mostly young white (no women allowed) come from the nowhere lands of the suburbs and exurbs. According to Wikipedia their four-stage initiation process includes a loyalty oath, on the order of “I’m a proud Western chauvinist, I refuse to apologize for creating the modern world”; the second is getting punched until the person recites pop culture trivia, such as the names of five breakfast cereals; the third is getting a tattoo and agreeing to not masturbate; and the fourth is getting into a major fight “for the cause.”
No masturbation?
An addendum was changed to allow heterosexual brother of the Fraternity the freedom to jerk off once in any calendar month unless it’s in a circle jerk in the shape of swastika” and “all members shall abstain from pornography” unless it’s wanking to naked photos of Donald Trump.
No opioids and crystal meth either, but cocaine is cool.
Complete and utter scum.
They are truly dangerous.
Fuck them all.
