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Indifference Is The Essence of Inhumanity – George Bernard Shaw (1901)

“The crime against our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity.”

 – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist, from: “The Devil’s Disciple” Act II (1901)

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“Totalitarianism, extremism and indifference will be the three roots of man’s problems in the 21st century. Of these three, Indifference is the biggest challenge man will face in this century. “ 

WAIS post: “The Kyoto Protocol and deforestation” (B. Macario, ex-Philippines/USA, 2/19/06 5:37 pm)

http://waisworld.com/go.jsp?id=02a&objectType=post&o=9386&objectTypeId=3636&topicId=1

“If there is such thing as hate crimes, there should be the crime of indifference. “ 

re: Philippines – Natural or Anthropogenic Disasters? (Bienvenido Macario, ) 01/20/12

http://waisworld.com/go.jsp?id=02a&objectType=post&o=67963&objectTypeId=62213&topicId=17

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity - George Bernard Shaw

Six WAIS posts on indifference:

1.)    Jan. 20, 2012: If there is such thing as hate crimes, there should be the crime of indifference. George

Bernard Shaw described indifference as “the essence of inhumanity.”

The link lists the Philippines as having the worst disasters in history, worst sea accidents, air accidents, worst terrorist attacks, fires, bus accidents, volcanic eruptions, typhoons and flash floods (like the one that just happened in December 2011), worst festival tragedy and the Philippines’ coastal areas are sinking.

The UN, World Bank and the IMF have tolerated, aided and abetted the miserable existence of the Republic of the Philippines, the miserable living conditions of its people and the continued degradation of its environment.

If there is such thing as hate crimes, there should be the crime of indifference. George Bernard Shaw described indifference as “the essence of inhumanity.”

re: Philippines – Natural or Anthropogenic Disasters? (Bienvenido Macario, ) 01/20/12

http://waisworld.com/go.jsp?id=02a&objectType=post&o=67963&objectTypeId=62213&topicId=17

Do not forget my interpretation of why the world did not end on Dec. 21, 2012. We could contribute to the end of this world or prevent the same. To a certain extent, it is up to us.

What good is it for my people and I that the world did not end but we remain slaves in our own ancestral land as the trashing and degradation of our environment continues?

For Dec. 21, 2014 & Dec. 21, 2015 & Dec. 21, 2016: “Do you ALL feel lucky?” Go ahead ignore the Philippines and continue to recognize the false flag presidency of Pres. Benigno Aquino III a 3rd generation oligarch-traitor. Ignore my people and our environment.

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Mayan Prophecy – Dec. 21, 2012 Doomsday updated up to 12-21-2013

https://www.nedmacario.us/2012/12/23/mayan-prophecy-dec-21-2012-doomsday/

 

Mayan Prophecy – Dec. 21, 2012 Doomsday updated up to 12-21-2015

https://www.nedmacario.us/mayan-prophecy-dec-21-2012-doomsday/

See: Religion: Nostradamus and the Mayan Eschatologies (Bienvenido Macario, Philippines)  10/17/08 3:12 am

http://waisworld.org/go.jsp?id=02a4&objectType=post&o=27155&objectTypeId=21405&topicId=1

 

2.)    May 25, 2010: “My question is this:  What if Pres. Aquino III cannot deliver the solutions to these

problems?  As I posted earlier, INDIFFERENCE is the biggest challenge man will face in this century. “

Philippines: Former President Ramos’s Advice to President-Apparent Aquino (Bienvenido Macario, Philippines/US) 05/25/10

http://waisworld.org/go.jsp?id=02a0&objectType=post&objectTypeId=48197&topicId=17 

 

3.)    Dec. 27, 2007:  “It’s been said that three major challenges man will face this century are:

totalitarianism, extremism and INDIFFERENCE.”

While all politicians in every country understand and accept the risks they face in the career or vocation they chose, it is when we see the tragic end to a politician’s career that I wonder what is the real role or value of the UN in promoting world peace.

Neither the richest nations nor the poorest nations are in charge of promoting world peace and security.  We have placed our trust and faith in this United Nations for too long.

re: Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto Assassinated (Bienvenido Macario, Philippines) 12/27/07

http://waisworld.org/go.jsp?id=02a&objectType=post&o=18973&objectTypeId=13223&topicId=1

 

4.) Oct. 28, 2007:  ” . . . if with your silence you approved the killing of the troublesome SA leaders like Ernst Rohm, a Native German and a staunch supporter of the Fuhrer, you will applaud our final solution to the Jewish question.” The “Night of the Long Knives” ended on July 2, 1934. Recent research aired on History Channel suggests that there could have been hundreds of SA members that were summarily executed between June 30 and July 2, 1934.

“The crime against our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be INDIFFERENT to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity.” –George Bernard Shaw.

Spain Beatification Controversy; Nuremberg War Crimes Trial (B. Macario, Philippines) 10/28/07

http://waisworld.org/go.jsp?id=02a&objectType=post&o=17981&objectTypeId=12231&topicId=1

 

5.) April 23, 2006: Bienvenido Macario writes: Tagalogs, Bicolanos and other Filipino people are truly peaceful or docile, and deserving of more attention than the other violent peoples. They are nonetheless hungry for self-determination, justice and equal opportunity. We have the violence prone Basque Independent Movement which has resorted to violence from day one. Naturally, France, Spain and the other Western democracies refused to give in to terror and violence. Yet the same societies are indifferent to the plight of Tagalogs and Bicolanos.

Just because the Tagalogs and Bicolanos of Luzon have not resorted to violence or they are offering only silent protest doesn’t mean everything is fine in the corrupt, forever developing Third World Republic of the Philippines.

The Philippines and the Solomons (Bienvenido Macario, Philippines) 04/23/06 8:05 am

http://waisworld.org/go.jsp?id=02a0&objectType=post&objectTypeId=4271&topicId=1

 

6.) Feb. 19, 2006:  “I am not totally against the Kyoto Protocol. Totalitarianism, extremism and indifference will be the three roots of man’s problems in the 21st century. We just have to be relatively on the same page. But the Philippines is not yet ready for self-rule. It is difficult to argue that after 60 years of failing to develop, the Philippines as a whole should be allowed to maintain the status quo.

The Kyoto Protocol and deforestation” (B. Macario, ex.Philippines/USA, 2/19/06 5:37 pm)

http://waisworld.com/go.jsp?id=02a&objectType=post&o=9386&objectTypeId=3636&topicId=1

Memorial Day 2016

Memorial Day May 30, 2016 

To our Liberators, we are forever in your debt.

I aim to make the entire Philippines the biggest American Battle Monument in the world, so help me God. The history of the Philippines has been hidden from us, especially the part that the Philippines was a U.S. territory when WWII broke out and how U.S. forces defended and liberated the Philippines.

Our home town, Las Piñas was liberated on 4 Feb. 1945. We need a major re-education program so Filipinos would know how much we owe our liberators.

11th Airborne: Operation Mike 6 Part II

The 11th Airborne conducted the second part of Mike 6, again staging an amphibious landing instead of jumping. They landed some 45 miles southwest of Manila (January 31–X-ray Day). This totally surprised the Japanese who were fixed on the American drive from the north. Two regiments of the 11th Airborne Division, the 187th GIR commanded by Col. Harry B Hildebrand & 188th GIR, led by Col Robert H Soule and under Maj. Gen. Joseph M. Swing, landed unopposed. The paratroopers were able to seize a bridge near the beach before the bewildered Japanese could demolish it. This enabled the paratroopers to begin the southern drive on Manila.

The Division’s Third Regiment (511th Parachute), did jump to join the other two regiments. They were soon advancing north along a rare paved highway. Filipino civilians lined the highway cheering them on. The 11th Airborne Division was one of Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger’s Eighth Army units which had been pushing up the New Guinea coast. The Division was initially to be used to contain Japanese troops throughout southwestern Luzon. MacArthur decided to use the Division to add to the drive on Manila.

It proved to be an epic drive. The Japanese mounted a defense near Imus, only 5 miles south of Manila (February 3). An entrenched force of about 50 Japanese held a position centered on an old stone building. A bombardment by the battalion’s 75-mm. howitzers failed to dislodge them. T. Sgt. Robert C. Steel (“D” Co.) managed to get on the roof and poured in gasoline with a phosphorous grenade. The Japanese rushed out and were mowed down.

Three miles further up the road towards Manila was the Las Piñas River bridge. A Japanese detachment on the north bank of the river was ready to blow it. As a result of poor communications they were unaware of the fighting at Imus and were surprised when the Americans appeared. The paratroopers managed to secure the bridge before the Japanese demolished it. One battalion guarded the vital span while another continued the drive on Mania.

How did the paratroopers know it was safe to enter the town proper of Las Piñas? Elements of the 11th Airborne entered Las Piñas at around 4pm. Going north towards Manila, after the Las Piñas bridge is about a hundred yards of the road with salt beds on both sides. 

In front of the cluster of houses a man on horseback was carrying the American flag. This was the indication that there were no more Japanese soldiers in town. The man was Florencio Aldana, the head of the local guerrillas and my mother’s cousin. He was the son of Elias Aldana a four-term mayor of  Las Piñas. His cousin Bernardo Aldana was the town mayor when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. (Ricardo Santos told me this story.)

The next day as the Division approached the southern outskirts of Manila, they were stopped at Parañaque River, this was part of the main Japanese defenses around Manila. A damaged bridge stopped them. And they were hit with artillery fire from Nichols Field. [U.S. Army, pp. 11-12.] One division did not have the strength to break through here. But it meant that the Japanese defenders could anticipate no support from Shimbu Group to the east. This left the Japanese in Manila completely cut off.”

On Feb. 8, 1945 T.Sgt. Robert C. Steel was killed in action in Manila.

From: Liberation of the Philippines: Luzon (1945)

http://histclo.com/essay/war/ww2/camp/pac/phil/lib-luz.html

511th PIR, 11th Airborne in Luzon probably in Imus, Cavite 511th PIR, 11th Airborne, South of Manila, Philippines, February 1945

 

 

 

Radicalized Gunman massacres 50 at Florida gay club in worst US mass shooting

In the early hours of Sunday June 12, 2016 a ‘radicalized’ gunman massacred 50 at the Orlando, Fl gay club and wounded 53 others in the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S.

This is my comment on the Council on Foreign Relations’ question: “Why do mass shootings occur more frequently in the United States than other major democracies?”

Council on Foreign Relations Why do mass shootings occur more frequently in the United States than other major democracies?https://www.facebook.com/councilonforeignrelations/posts/10153430432042030

The U.S. is a melting pot where various sometimes conflicting cultures and beliefs are FORCED to integrate. The county office where the San Bernardino shooting happened, held a job fair in the morning. In the afternoon it became the office Christmas party. Those who worked in the office but do not celebrate Christmas were also invited. In fact there were reports that the shooter had an argument with a non-Christian co-worker about two weeks before the shooting.

You cannot have all the cultures in the world mixed up in one place and not run the risk of having these debates and clashes, violent or otherwise.   It’s like having a one-party system in a country with people from all over the world and expecting to please everybody. Would it be too much of a stretch to say it’s like having cats and dogs placed in one cage?

Switzerland while it has many gun owners is a homogeneous society and it’s been that way for hundreds of years. The U.S. established in 1776, is made up of immigrants from so many different countries.  The U.S. has a history of less than a hundred years of as a nation of immigrants from all over the world. For instance, Laotians, Cambodians and Vietnamese didn’t immigrate to the U.S. until after April 1975. 

So it now appears the Obama administration is doing a social experiment but could not be held accountable for its unintended consequences. Would there be so many victims if the gay club employed armed security or had armed employees?

The support the LGBTI got from the administration and politicians gave the community a false sense of security. Official recognition was interpreted to mean the idea is accepted by everyone even those who were born and raised opposed to the trend. Politicians should be held accountable for this. 

On Sept. 23, 1957 when the City of Little Rock, AR complied with the Supreme Court ruling that school boards desegregate (stop separating the races) as quickly as possible, upon the Mayor’s request, Pres. Eisenhower provided ARMED federalized National Guards to escort the Little Rock Nine, African-American high school students who transferred to an all-white Central High School. The photo of  young African-Americans entering the school escorted by ARMED soldiers was etched in my mind.On September 23, 1957 the Little Rock Nine were eventually escorted into Central High by the federalized the Arkansas National GuardOn September 23, 1957 the Little Rock Nine were eventually escorted into Central High by the federalized the Arkansas National Guard. A mob of several thousand white segregationists had gathered at the school to stop the children from entering.  The following morning, more than one thousand soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division accompanied the Little Rock Nine into Central High.