An Alternative to War
by Schizoid MannDisclaimer: What you are about to read is fiction. It is a story about peace. Peace at any cost.
THE WORLD TODAY: A News Summary
May 2009
BONN (EU News) – The current CSPEU administration has decided to increase productivity by lowering the age that children are required to enter the workforce from nine to eight years of age. The EU Vice Minister for the Interior states the lowering of the work age is due to an increased shortage of youthful workers. “It’s a reflection of the ongoing fighting between our peaceful union and the obstinate Russians.”
Citizens and subjects in the 18-25 age bracket have seldom been seen in recent years. The Vice Minister commented on this by stating, “This temporary downturn in our youthful population is insignificant compared to the tremendous loss of life on the Russian side. Though our rockets delivering Vemork V weapons obliterated St. Petersburg and most of Moscow years ago, the Russians, though scattered and ill equipped, still choose to resist to this very day. It staggers the mind why they wish to continue their own misery. “
The Vice Minister added, “England, on the other hand, fell very quickly after we dropped only a mere one quarter megaton of heavy water (D2O) weaponry on their proud London back in 1946. Of course, we could continue to bombard the Russian outposts like we did London and where Paris once was, but it would contaminate any remaining soil. We’ve been trying to avoid this drastic measure. We are humanitarians, after all.”
The Vice Minister continued, “More to the point, it is vital to emphasize that the biological surrogate guardians of children reaching their seventh birthday are now required by law to enter their offspring’s identity number with a nearby STC (State Training Center) to begin the one year transition to the workforce. It is mandatory they comply with the new law. Penalties are harsh.”
EU News has faithfully reported in the past that administration policy is very clear on this issue. Biological surrogate guardians, bio-guardians, who refuse to surrender their unlawful offspring in a timely manner, will be sequestered by the administration’s Ministry of Adult Education for an indefinite period of time. Consequently, children found unattended will be conscripted into the workforce with any surviving surrogates losing visiting rights.
The Vice Minister added, “It’s in every bio-guardians’ interest to register the Fatherland’s children early. The earlier these children start their lives the easier it will be for them to make the transition from their surrogate households and purge those troubled lives from memory. It’s for their own good to cut those ties early. It’s natural and it’s the law.”
The governing Commanding Socialist Party of the European Union has announced that they have apprehended another 2500 political criminals across the nation. These individuals will be held temporarily in one of the New Spandau prison system facilities outside the EU Capital Center in Bonn until such time that more permanent facilities can be arranged, if needed.
In other news, the incoming Director of the Ministry of Allocations and Provisions has announced new shipments of household goods to be rationed out to the populace beginning next month as part of the new modernization plan.
“Citizens throughout the inner Fatherland nations of Deutschland, Austria and Switzerland in residential blocks A thru F can once again begin signing up for bread, water, salt, kerosene, and toilet paper as promised.” The Director stated in an uplifting speech given earlier this week. ”Citizens in residential blocks G thru P can begin signing-up for potatoes, cloth, canvas, shoe leather, and slag metal. Citizens in blocks Q thru Z can sign-up for milk, cheese, and butter substitutes. These blocks will rotate. Everyone will eventually get a chance at all the household goods and items as required by law. Anyone found forging identity cards, ration coupons, altering their derma scancode, or cheating the system in any way will be dealt with harshly.”
The Director continued, “Subjects in outlying regions of old Europe, including territories referred to previously as Britain, Spain, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Italy, Malta, Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Scandinavia, Poland, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria will begin similar initiatives as soon as allocations within the inner Fatherland areas are completed and fully verified. The same waiting period applies to the new North and South Amerikan territories in accordance with the Colonial Affairs Ministry which has local jurisdiction for those continents.”
The Director concluded with these words of reassurance, “Subjects in frontier regions such as Afrika will begin an experimental allocation program. The details of which are not to be made public at this time. The difficulties in supplying the vast continent of Afrika are enormous, as many are aware. I urge our subjects in Afrika to be patient. Remember, Rome wasn’t built in a day and the pestilent Jews and gypsies weren’t purged from our streets in a week! These things take time, but as we know, they do get done. ”
In Asian news, the Empire of Japan stated there was a brief power outage at a Human Resources Productivity Center in former Ceylon. About 70,000 workers suffocated in one of the vast underground graphite mines when the air supply was interrupted for several hours due to the power outage. The mine was flooded with hydrofluoric acid to aid in the cleaning and speedy removal of remains. Relatives are reminded that religious services for the deceased are prohibited.
A high-ranking official with Human Resources stated (off-the-record), “It (power outage) was most likely due to attempted sabotage by rebels.” He added, “We get troublemakers stirring things up from time to time. They’re just pests. And we have experience dealing with pests. It will be dealt with.”
Within hours of that statement approximately four hundred suspects were taken into custody from the outlying region and are presently assisting HR with inquiries. Next of kin will be notified where appropriate.
In a related story, the highly decorated Imperial Swordsman Unit of the Empire’s Honor Guard, known for their much-prized ability to dispatch multiple opponents while on horseback, is no longer recruiting volunteers from the populace to assist the unit in training and practice.
In agricultural news, the expansive rice crop harvest in the region has shown high increases in yields due to the new extended work hours. A government source stated, ”We’ve seen an enormous growth potential in limiting the amount of sleep our workers receive. By modeling their sleep habits on other animals, such as dogs and livestock, and supplementing this with pharmaceutical conditioning we’ve been able to reduce the total sleep time per day to 2.5 hours per subject. It’s a tremendous achievement. We plan to implement our research into all other areas of the labor force. This is a very exciting time in the field of science.”
Other so-called outsider regions known previously as Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Burma, now generally referred to collectively as Gaidashu, have seen only moderate yields. GACPS has announced plans to implement more robust cultural and genetic reintegration of these outlying regions, stating, “Citizens of even the most outlying regions of the Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere must remember that the official language is Japanese and use of other, outsider, mongrel tongues is not only forbidden but is a direct insult to their role as subject in the service of the Empire. We have a no tolerance policy.” Violators of this policy, EU News has been told, will be transported to one of the following: Re-Education and Conscription Centers, dojos for assisting martial training of the military and to National Health Centers for volunteer work on pathogenic and contagious diseases research.
In a related story, the Empire’s successful testing of chemical and biological agents inside Manchuko, formerly known as China and Manchuria has yielded another 20 million liters of Cyanogen and Cyclosarin material necessary to ensure continued peace. Volunteers are still being recruited from the still mainly Chinese population in the area, eager to do their part in helping the Empire to attain its goals.
A government official remarking on a recent news blackout in the area stated, ”When testing such huge amounts such as we are required to do, accidents can and will happen. It’s part of the risk. Furthermore, we are announcing that several cities in the Sechuan area are off limits until further notice. Subjects who have relatives in these areas in former Southern China are reminded to be patient. Inquiries, as per government policy, will not be accepted. Trust is required. We are certain each and every subject understands this and will comply with regulations.” He warned, “Be advised. Causing any disruption over this issue, or any other, is bound to meet with the strictest and most severe disciplinary action.”
That’s the way it is, May 2009. Good night and good luck.
(The information ministries of the Commanding Socialist Party of the European Union and Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere contributed to this report. This news summary has been translated from German and Japanese into English for educational purposes only.)
Link: THE WORLD TODAY
Copyright © CSPEU/GACPS 2009.
What you have just read never happened. It is not the world we are living in today.
Thank you to all the men and women of the United States Armed Forces who gave their youth, their health and their lives over sixty years ago to prevent the nightmare such as the one depicted above from becoming today’s reality.
Not only on Memorial Day, but other days as well, let us take time to reflect on all that we have gained from those who gave everything they had.
- Schizoid Mann
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Schiz, it's amazing to ponder what could've been. Even in terms much less imaginative than you've laid out here. But do you really think that Germany if it had won and gained even partial access to the resources of Russia that they would've co-existed with Japan. Compare the model "aryan" with your everyday Japanese. No way Heinreich would've not persuaded Adolph to launch FS- Part Zwei
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I would like to say this could never have happened nor will it ever. However, I do not think I would be truthful if I did.
Although it's nearly beyond our comprehension these days, the average Japanese up to/through WW2 believed their monarch was a descendant of the gods… a diety. Therefore, in their mind they were the superior race. Their leader was a "god" after all. As such it was an honor to die in combat him. If it had come down to it (an Allied invasion of the Japanese mainland) Japanese women and children would have taken up arms. Had the Allies lost, with that mentality it wouldn't have been long before the descendants of the divine would have faced the aryan race in THE ultimate smackdown to see who really had the superior race.
A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.' That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this Country who no longer understand it.'
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
-Albert Einstein
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You know I'd forgotten about the deification of the Emperor. Sharp observation. "Gods vs. Aryans" almost sounds like a movie title.
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
-Orwell
If we don't stand up to the "progressives", this could very well be our future.
I'm a proud thought criminal.
Come and get me, big brother.
Given the current decay of population in the Western European nations and the use of EU, I was disoriented for a while until I figured out what was really going on. Scary that there are some eerie echoes to reality going on in there.
That was like a dose of lead through the veins. Thank God for the heroes of the day…
I remember a movie that was similar to this called The Fatherland. It had Rutger Haur as the main character. The Nazi's sued for peace after taking England. Over the years to conceal the true fate of all the Jews in Europe the Nazi's sent birthday cards, gifts, and other corrspondence to relatives in the U.S. to keep the secret of the final solution. Rutger, an investigator, is on a quest to find the reason for a string of killings and stumbles on the secret in the process. Haven't thought about that movie for years. But it was a pretty good.
Yes. USArtguy just answered it. The Nazi party believed they were superior genetically. Japanese believed they were the only divine race. If what you say took place, that Nazis would attempt to purge Asia of Japanese and exert their influence there, essentially the gas, germ, bio and yes , atomic war would have been fought. Nothing would be left. Nothing worth living for, anyway.
The Nazis would have tolerated them as they did the Italians. Eventually, the globe could have been divided into two regimes, Aryan and Asian. It wouldn't be the first time two groups ruled the world.
The funny, or not so funny thing is that everything I detailed above is factual. I made up nothing except the dates and territories. All the practices described above were already being implemented, and much worse (which I hinted at in a previous article. I figured folks didn't want to read that horrible stuff again, so I kept it to a news summary style.) But if you look up "Japanese War Crimes" or "Unit 731" or Ishii Shiro, you'll find more information and very graphic descriptions of the practices of the Japanese Imperial forces. Much more than you'll ever want to have known. Everyone knows what the Nazis did. Their behavior toward what they considered lower races is infamous. But many folks aren't aware that the Japanese were running circles around the Nazis in terms of brutality, cruelty and nightmarish horrors against humans. Again, a belief that they were a divine race excused all of it, like a researcher would dissecting a frog. But the researcher treated the frog with more respect.
I don't want to come across as Japan bashing, because I love the country and its people. But there is a very strange and alarming gap between what so many people think was an innocent, on its last legs, ready to surrender country bombed by a overpowering America and what the reality is.
Cool! I llke that.
And I sugar coated it! Reality would be worse, as it always is.
Really? I'll check it out.
Schiz, I'm a bit of a history buff when it comes to 20th century wars, and I fully agree that the Japanese (WWII types anyway) and the Asian enemies fought by the West (Vietnam, N. Koreans Khmer Rouge) were much more brutal and inhumane than the Nazis. A comparison of the treatment of POW's by the Nazis vs. Japanese is the easiest one to make. The Nazis and also the Russians who were bent on cruel revenge, treated each other's prisioners with volcanic violence, but the Japanese thought becoming a prisoner made a human worthless and treated them so. This may be hard to swallow but the Bataan Death March was more brutal than the Final Solution. Although the two are not even close in the order of magnitude of the murders, history can demonstrate incidents of small mercies, and I do mean small, by German captors whereas I've not seen or read of such things by the Japanese guards.
Japan, or for that matter London, Hamburg, Dresden, Coventry or Berlin were not bombed into submission. It was only some small humanity inside Hirohito that made him subdue his people to forestall what would have been a wickedly bloody invasion and defense of the home islands. The Japanese populace was not going to bend the knee.
My 2¢ on BDBerzerker and Schizoid_Mann's comments above me are thus…
While The Fatherland was a good HBO movie the book was even better. I know that's an oldie but goodie thing to say but in this case it holds true because of course with books you can delve even deeper into the situation.
Robert Harris is the author. He also wrote about breaking the Enigma Code as well.
The movie is not that good, the book is much, much better. It is by a British author call Robert Harris. The movie was a made for TV one with a low bugdet and not really faithful to the book. Originally it was to be a major motion picture, but rumor has it that, as the book is not exactly nice (But accuarate!) about Joeseph Kennedy (EG. He was allegedly an anti-semite, anti English and originally sympahetic to the Nazi cause), the Kennedy clan did their best to satotage it and a lot of financial backers pulled out under pressure from them, leaving only enough budget for a small scale production. (I also believe litigation was threatened over the portaryal of Kennedy?). Just a rumour but a believeable one at that.
Ah… the workers paradise. It never fails to amaze me how ignorant American youngsters willingly trash the American free market system, with no real experience in life. The world that you’ve described and they dream of exists in present day, Cuba, North Korea, Detroit, just kidding about Detroit. Any liberal idiot out there that believes a Washington politician gives a hoot-n-hell about their well being, needs to smoke a little less dope, and perhaps two jobs, you’ve got way to much time in your hands. America is toying with central control, mediocrity, and as the adults we must put our stupid ‘60s egalitarian dreams back in the box.
Good extrapolation, the 20th century version of Dante's Inferno.
I recently read Brave New World for the first time. Eerie feeling reading this…
Well-done worse-case scenerio. Or prognastication?
Thankfully, we Americans have a spotless history, if we just exclude slavery, Indian genocide, gunboat diplomacy, child labor throughout the Gilded Age, and of course, our daily indendiary raids on Japan's wooden cities – raids that killed more Japanese (most ly women, children and the elderly) than were lost in combat by their armed forces. We accomplished all that in less than 6 months of barbecuing "Jap" civilians. Was it necessary? Probably, because FDR and Churchill insisted on "unconditional surrender" all of which made Iwo Jima, Okinawa, the Philippine campaign and the A-bombs necessary.
I'm going to check out the book then. Thanks
You know, my ancestors died on bloody, horrible battlefields to end slavery. Many of them married Indians, and we cherish that heritage today. They created a country that deplores child labor. They rebuilt the ravaged countries of Europe and Japan in the wake of the second world war, using their own hard-earned monies, without demand or requirement except for peace. I refuse to bow my head in shame over the virtues of my country, just because you insist I should focus only ever on whatever blemish you chance to toss in my face.
My father was one of those Marine grunts who was to have spearheaded the invasion of mainland Japan.
Your smug equivalence of US history and practices with those of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan is ample proof why liberals shouldn't be trusted to handle matches or sharp objects, let alone the reins of power.
"Good night and good luck." Indeed.
Just being picky, but maybe helpful: The Japanese called Manchuria "Manchukuo," not "Manchuko."
Yeah, I agree.
Right Bataan is one of those examples. What is not surprising is that they treated their own prisoners with extreme cruelty, though nothing compared with that meted out on 'foreign devils'. The cultural sempai hierarchy thrives on an absence of mercy, so even in normal life, among people, there are everyday examples of severe tone shifts and bullying toward subordinates.
In a previous article I argued what you are saying here, noting that the absence of images of horror, the horror of Bataan and other atrocities by the Japanese, has made those events palatable, normal part of war. They are simply names of events, nothing more.
But, as you know from studying history, nothing could be farther from the truth.
Years ago, there was a History channel program on Bataan. I recorded it. It's on a VHS somewhere. There was an American survivor of the march and imprisonment who made paintings from his recollections of what happaned at Bataan. Rough stuff. Though not as proof-worthy as a photo or film, such depictions do help us to visualize the events better and supplement other first hand accounts.
The Japanese have carved out a very nice peace niche for themselves over the years. Very nice, indeed. And lucrative. For many in the world (not asia) they represent all the good ideas about how to help the world, whether it's with hybrid cars, or solar energy, or electronics and leisure gadgets, or anti-nuke statements. They are the model often cited. Of course, they hunt whales, but most liberals forgive that when it's time to buy a hybrid or a PSP.
Why does that fail to surprise me?
Ol' bootlegger Joe.
Yeah, the Kennedy legacy is powerful, no doubt. I often wonder what would have happened if JFK was ugly, as ugly as Nixon. What if their appearances were switched. I think the love of JFK would not even be a fraction of what it is, not even a fraction, since so many are swayed by the appearance, the image, the figure rather than the actual policies and competence of the man. He would probably not even have won.
Oh, sure, Robert Harris. So, it's not an obscure self published little tome, then? Hmm.
Right, the book, especially in cases like this, is going to be much easier to swallow ( the premise, not the actual volume).
'What if' scenarios of the present/future are hard to capture believably. Of course, everyone knows what a masterpiece Blade Runner is. Though at the time, the box office was not as good as expected. Especially not with major star Ford. Still, it took a visual artist like Ridley Scott to do it. If another director helmed that project and it stayed truer to the original concept by Hampton Fancher, it would most likely have been forgotten by now, or relegated to Silent Running stage.
Another example, many, most in fact, prefer Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 over the Truffaut film w/ Oscar Werner and Julie Christie. I'm on the fence on that one. I love both very much. There are major differences, naturally, but each has a tone, separate, but fulfilling. And I happen to love Truffaut's style for that film. The colors, the settings and the techniques used to portray the alternate present/future. Quite a different style than Ridley's but very, very effective (for me, at least)
I was lucky to meet Ray some years ago and he told me he didn't care for the film at all. I was a bit shocked. What I wasn't shocked about was that he hated the film treatment of his The Illustrated Man as much as I did. .
Well, I tried not to embellish the goals, achievements and horrors of the Axis powers at what would be our present day. I took the actual technology of the time, the techniques they were using to control populations, the disregard for human life, the starving, the rationing, the experimentations, executions all of it was happening already. I simply changed the dates to today, and expanded their regimes, as they would have, had the Nazis not been stopped in Norway (and the U.S. not been successful in Los Alamos).
It's a lot closer to what a reality would be for us, than many can imagine, I think. All it would have taken was the lack of action by commandos on Vermork. That's it. People are worried today about Korea (me too, I'm over here in their line of fire) because they have might have nukes and already have a delivery system. The Nazis were extremely close to having the atom bomb, and already had the delivery system, the V rocket, far more advanced than piloted bombers over Hiroshima. If they were able to create one D2O bomb, attach it to a V rocket, send it over to London, then…. whooosh. They would be unstoppable. There would have been no limit to their ability to counter allied forces in europe. They would simply 'whoosh' them away.
It's a bit frightening how simply the world could have changed so drastically. And even more frightening that a lot of young people are oblivious to that fact.
Old guy, I think you completely misunderstood the piece.
All that you describe happened, yes? And so we are living in a world that is a result of those actions, correct? So, there is no need to write a 'what if' essay on it. It happened. It's our present day.
The alternative which I describe above is a 'what if', it's what might have happened had the Axis powers achieved their stated goals in line with historical development. From the tone of your reply, it seems you might prefer that alternative instead, no?
With all due respect, I think you're watching too much Jeremy Isaacs (whom I love) or reading too much Zinn. You need to talk to more Japanese. More elderly Japanese. I have a feeling you've consulted neither allied veterans nor axis ones in the forming of your views. Don't rely on published works. You'll only be repeating others' mistakes or fulfilling their desires.
Sign up for an account, and I'll be glad to discuss the issue with you. If not, then no one will take you seriously, regardless of the seriousness of your words. If you care enough about the issue to post, register and make it count. Otherwise, we're all just wasting our time, aren't we?
It's actually spelled (if you use westernized romanji) Manshu-koku or Manzhouguo. But that refers to Manchuria alone. Not both China and Manchuria as is referenced in the piece.
And it's not being picky, it's fun. And as you know, the Japanese have different spellings for their pronunciation of words. Shinjuku, the major terminal city in Tokyo is spelled, to this day, depending on who you talk to and where you read it, "Shinjuku", "Shin Juku", "Shin juku", and my favorite, "Sin juku".
Also, Japanese often compress words that are commonly used, foreign 'loan words' as well as native Japanese words and phrases. Sexual Harassment is "sekuhara".
So, the extended vowel of 'uo' which you point out, is really a spelling preference (in this case). I chose to use the easier to pronounce for western readers version. And remember, the article is supposed to be 'translated'.
But thanks for the input.
If I remember right, "The Martian Chronicles" seemed to capture the tone of his stories quite well, though.
I flipped through "The Rape of Nanking" and although I thought I'd seen it all, I was not prepared for the photos in there. I'd seen photos of Holocaust victims stacked like so much cordwood and didn't think I'd ever see anything worse. This was worse. Here were photos of Japanese revellng in slaughter and cruelty. Treating executions as a sport. These were photos taken by the Japanese themselves as souvenirs.
The sheer scale of the dead in the Holocaust was horrific, but there was certainly a difference in the mindset of the perpetrators. The Germans—and here I need to choose my words carefully—were, if not ashamed of what they did, at least aware that they needed to hide it. The Japanese seemed proud of it.
It's hard to reconcile that fact with the image of a smiling, bowing, frail old man today.
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Yeah, I hear ya.
And the head of the medical unit that conducted the medical experimentation was later made the head of the Green Cross, which is the Japanese equivalent of the Red Cross.
That's why when Japan fails to acknowledge past war crimes, the rest of Asia goes ballistic. The thing is, they want Japan's financial resources and economic guide to help their own countries advance, so the criticism is limited.
Right, I've said before how the image is really the determining factor. We have reams of photos and films of the Holocaust, some in color even. But with the rare exception of images from personal collections, the Asian atrocities are largely in word only. It's hard to fathom the horror as real, not fiction, when it's only to be read and not seen.
This privilege mentality, that the Japanese had, is at the root of the barbarity. That's why I feel political correctness and victim mentality is just as dangerous. When one group feels superior to another, or justified in taking advantage of another, to right some past wrong, or exercise some manufactured superiority, then humans behave like we've seen in Nazi Germany, Japanese Asia, and throughout history.
Quit slackin and get back on the typewriter, all these other guys are boring me.
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