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The Spectral Menace of the Holocaust Derails High-Speed Rail: Haunting Politics

In my email today I got a response form Congressman Ron Klein for a letter I wrote

in defense of animals regarding animal toxicity testing–a practice that exposes animals

to toxic chemicals to see how they react, clinically and pathological.  Umm, well, chemicals are bad, em-k, bad–

they do hurt us.  Anyway, he directed me to his website, as they do, and I read some of his issues that he is currently

touting.  And while I sympathize with one issue in particular, I was struck by the ambiguous nature of it.  It surges

with irony and dishonesty.  But there is also something here, something bigger that needs to be revealed and enforced

on a much greater scale.   The truth must out!  And so then I wrote him a letter.   I posted it below.  And this is what it

says on his website: (www.klein.house.gov)

http://www.klein.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=236&sectiontree=23,236&itemid=1262

Klein Introduces Bill Demanding Corporate Responsibility, Holocaust Accountability
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Ron Klein (FL-22) today announced that he will introduce

legislation demanding corporate responsibility from companies that had a role in the Nazi Holocaust.

Congressman Klein’s legislation, developed with the help of Holocaust survivors and their families, is in

direct response to controversial high-speed rail projects pending in Florida and California.


Klein’s legislation, the Holocaust Accountability and Corporate Responsibility Act, would require companies

who are competing for high speed rail contracts to disclose their participation in Holocaust-era deportations

to Nazi concentration camps and death camps.
My hope is that he wants to expose all nefarious companies, and not just the SNFC, a French

transportation company that submitted bids for lucrative high-speed rail projects in Florida.

Holocaust survivors are outraged because the company was involved in the human slaughter at

death camps, and rightly so, but I am skeptical of the motivation behind this, and fear it wont apply

to the greater truth, nor will it go far enough.

I wrote:

Dear Sir,

I want to commend you in your stand against the French rail company. On your website,

you and some of your constituents say, “I wrote this legislation to provide a national solution

to an issue that has already cropped up in several states. We need to make clear that as Americans,

we hold companies to a high standard of accountability, and more so than ever when that company

had a direct role in the atrocities of the Nazi Holocaust. No company whose trains carried innocent

victims to death camps should have the right to lay the first inch of track in this country.”


However, I feel it is a little disingenuous.  Do these people have French prejudices or foreign

or is just crony capitalism?  Consider, that many, many well-known American companies supported

the Nazi war-effort and Holocaust including Chase Bank, Dupont, Ford, GM, GE…the Bush crime

(terror) family…and prominent American newspapers supported their efforts by accommodating

them and propagated the New Wave of Fascism and called for support for Mussolini–newspapers

such as ‘Time’ and the ‘NY Times’ and the ‘Christian Science Monitor’.   In fact, most if not all American

newspapers were complicit in their business crimes associated with Nazi fascist American-corporations.

The only newspaper that shouted down the fascists and the Nazis was ‘The Nation.’


These American-Nazi companies such as Ford, Dupont, GM, and many others had manufacturing plants

in Germany and Europe producing weapons of war for Nazis that killed Jewish people, other Europeans,

and American soldiers in an evil plot to take over he world, in a genocide against gypsies, Serbians, mixed

races, disabled people, intellectuals, and other races as well as ethnic groups such as Jews.  The government

ordered American forces NOT to attack these death plants (plants manufacturing weapons of mass destruction

and/or supplies).  Hmmm.


These same American-Nazi companies are involved in the war-effort today which is responsible for crimes

against humanity–infanticide in Iraq, environmental destruction and murder and rape in preemptive Nazi-

like invasions that torture and black bag people making them disappear.  Who knows what villainy is systematically

proscribed in dark holes where human soldiers don’t go.


Will you call for protests against these major corporations prominent in our capitalist culture, guilty of war-

crimes, guilty of crimes against humanity, today, and then–during the Holocaust?  Will you stop doing business

with them?  Never buy a Ford car or get on a bus that might be manufactured by Ford, and never buy a GE product

–it makes their slogan ‘we bring good things to life’ a sinister irony don’t you think?–and what of all the businesses

connected to these evil-corporations?  Will you draw attention to this on the Hill and in the media?   If you can do that,

I can get behind this protest against the French rail service. Otherwise, its just a lot of malarkey.  ‘Hold these companies to

a high-standard of accountability…’


I should have asked–do you ever make a phone call, do you ever use the Internet?  Telecommunication

companies and families were directly or indirectly related to the Nazi war effort and profited off this death machine,

this M-machine, this Moloch!   And still do profit in Iraq, and Afghanistan, and countless other hapless countries, colonies,

and client states of the USA, which Americans can’t find on a map…exploiting totalitarian nations that support slave labor and sex-tourism such as in China and the East–satanic mills, dirty manufacturing platforms.

The leviathan has many heads.   What then is this about?

Is this just fanatical zealotry on the part of Jewish groups with a certain victimization syndrome?

Is it a Trojan Horse?  A ploy to disparage the bid for the French outfit in order to hire an American

company or some other company, a Jewish company?   Is it crony-capitalism?   Is it just wrongheaded?

I sympathize with the grievance, I do, but its seems misguided, and either out of ignorance or just deliberate

denial and suppression, chooses to ignore the countless American companies guilty of treason, guilty of

genocide, guilty of terrortainment, guilty of genocide, guilty of war-mongering, guilty for Holocaust crimes.

I would much rather see a small American company–in fact it should be an American company building the

high-speed rail, but it seems to me, there are few American companies with this technology. America is competent;

it has brilliant engineers and scientists and the will, but no support.  I digress.  Truthout.  This is most likely a ploy to

derail the high-speed rail and what better way to do it than stir up the impassioned ignorance of a community that all

too often plays the victim card to shut down progress.   The irony is, these same people, often have fascist tendencies.

Perhaps, they are financed by Big Oil, or the Koch Brothers?  My hope is that this Act will will go deep and hard–a long

deep cavity search.   And as a voter, I demand it.

His website is (www.klein.house.gov)

Support high-speed rail.  Support ethical American companies.  Demand corporate accountability!

Support local communities, local businesses.  Support Fair Trade.  Go organic, go green.

Frankenstein Dragon teaches literature, contemporary literary theory, and writing in China. He is published in the literary anthology Concertina, read at University of East Anglia in the UK, and received a Master's in Creative Writing at UEA. He is writing a novel based on true events in US naval history. Frankenstein Dragon is an obscure reference to China, and especially the practice of Frankenforestation in China, the freakish environmental contamination of industry, the mutant food industry, and the tyrannical whimsy of government. He believes in direct-democracy. Democracy is not a spectator's sport. He believes business must be ethical, community-based, environmentally sustainable, and produce something aesthetic and functional nourishing the community that gives it life.
 
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