No More Prisons

DON'T LET DISNEY TEACH YOU ABOUT HISTORY!

1. Pearl Harbor Was Not a Surprise Attack
   
   President Roosevelt, General George C. Marshall, General Leonard T.
   Gerow, Admiral Harold R. Stark, and Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner
   received several messages warning them of the attack.
   
   
   
   • Three days before the attack the Australian Intelligence service sent
     a message to the US military that the Japanese fleet had been spotted en
     route to Hawaii.
     
   • A British double agent working in Germany sent numerous messages
     warning of the attack.
     
   • 24 hours before the attack, the US Navy intercepted and decoded a
     message from Tokyo to the Japanese Embassy in Washington. It made
     explicitly clear what would happen on December 7th.
     
   
   
2. The Attack Was Not Unprovoked.
   
   In October of 1940 Lieutenant Commander Arthur H. McCollum wrote a memo
   to FDR that began, "The United States desires that Japan commit the
   first overt act". The memo described an eight step plan for provoking
   Japan into attacking The United States. The steps mostly constituted
   the building of bases that would encroach on Japan's borders and making
   alliances with the Chinese to help fight Japanese expansion. Each step
   on the list was undertaken by FDR and in 1941 the last and most
   provocative of the eight steps was instituted. An embargo, cutting
   Japan off from all supplies of rubber, jute, tin, oil and iron was
   instituted. When FDR tried to pass this embargo Congress warned him
   that he would surely provoke an attack from Japan. A few weeks later
   they were proven right.
   
   
3. Why Would America Deliberately Sacrifice its Soldiers at Pearl
   Harbor?
   
   There is no simple answer, but there are some simple facts. Before
   Pearl Harbor the American public was resistant to the idea of entering
   the war, but afterward support was plentiful. America entered the war
   in the midst of a severe economic depression and exited the war as the
   world's richest and most powerful nation. American corporate profits,
   as measured by Lawrence Wittner, rose from $6.4 billion in 1940 to 10.8
   billion in 1944.
   
   
4. Assessing the Damage
   
   2,400 American soldiers died at Pearl Harbor. However over 100,000
   innocent Japanese civilians died with the dropping of the first atomic
   bomb. As if this wasn't already frightening overkill, the US dropped a
   second bomb killing another 80,000 civilians. In addition, the US
   imprisoned 110,000 innocent American citizens of Japanese descent in
   internment camps in California, Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado,
   Arkansas and Utah.
   
   
5. Don't Let Disney Teach Our Children History
   
   Disney likes to make things simple and easy to digest. They create for
   us good guys and bad guys and situations where choices are either right
   or wrong. The world doesn't work this way. World Wars One and Two were
   complex and tragic events that destroyed millions of lives. They are
   nothing to be proud of, or nostalgic for.
   
   
6. Suggested Reading
   
   Day of Deceit by Robert B Stinnet, Betrayal At Pearl Harbor by James
   Rusbridger & Eric Nave, Pearl Harbor The Continuing Controversy by Hans
   Trefousse
   

If you, like the expected millions of others, are going to see Pearl Harbor this weekend, why not root for the Japanese? (thanks Chaz)


Disney maintains that the movie is a love story "like Titanic" (just what we need, right?) not a patriotic, white supremacist piece of propaganda. If that's true, then why is there a different cut for Japan and Germany? A Disney insder says "Most of the changes have been made with an eye for consideration for those countries... Words that would be culturally insensitive to the country where the film is playing have been altered or deleted." riiiight.


Unfortunately it's gone now, but Page Six's Cindy Adams quoted star Alec Baldwin a few weeks ago as saying "The movie [Pearl Harbor] is extremely rah-rah patriotic. Once it's out, there won't be a sushi restaraunt left in this country." He then continued "Make sure you print that I'm joking!" That and every other racist joke, you fuck.


This movie is total trash. Don't see it. If you must, buy a ticket for "Shrek" or "Spy Kids" instead and then switch theaters. thanks.