*The* Smoking Raccoon Dog (the 5th coming)
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Christ is King.
Dame Helen Mirren gets called an “evil Zionist b****” by a pro-Palestine thug in the streets of London. This is absolutely appalling. We are now at a point where public figures can be screamed at and abused simply for being perceived as being sympathetic to the world’s only Jewish state or unwilling to conform to an ideological litmus test. This is not activism. It is intimidation, mob behaviour and extremism masquerading as moral virtue.
The Brunt of the War and Where It Fell by Emily Hobhouse (1902) This is the book that ripped the mask off Britain’s very first concentration camps the hellholes where the British Empire invented the modern system of rounding up women and children and slowly killing them by the tens of thousands. The people in those camps were the Boers tough, independent Dutch, German,French descended farmers (Afrikaners) whose families had lived in South Africa for over 250 years. They came from the original Dutch settlers who arrived in the 1600s, joined by Germans and French Huguenots. They were not soldiers or politicians. They were simple farmers men, women, and children who had built two small independent republics, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, deep in the African veld. They spoke their own language (Afrikaans), lived off the land, raised cattle, and wanted nothing to do with the British Empire. They had already fought and won one war against Britain in 1881 to keep their freedom. Britain attacked them anyway. The real reason was gold and diamonds. Huge deposits had been discovered in Boer territory in the 1880s and 1890s. The British Empire wanted that wealth. They wanted to swallow the Boer republics whole, control the mines, and turn the entire region into another jewel in the imperial crown. When the Boers refused to hand over power to the British-backed “uitlanders” (foreign miners mostly from Britain), the Empire declared war in 1899. After the Boers fought back with guerrilla tactics, the British army under Lord Kitchener unleashed scorched-earth terror: they burned every Boer farm to the ground, shot the livestock, poisoned the wells, and herded the women, children, and old people into concentration camps so the men in the hills would have nothing left to fight for. Emily Hobhouse, a quiet British welfare activist, went into those camps in late 1900 and early 1901 and saw pure horror with her own eyes. She walked through the tents, smelled the stench, watched the children dying, and wrote it all down in raw, screaming detail so the world could never pretend it didn’t happen. The camps were ovens. Tents built for six people were crammed with twelve or more whole families jammed together so tightly they could hardly breathe. Inside, the canvas turned the air into a furnace. Flies swarmed in black clouds over everything: food, faces, open wounds, dying babies. There was almost no water, no soap, no proper beds just filthy blankets on the dirt. Fuel had to be scraped from distant bushes. Rations were a slow death sentence: a handful of mealie meal, a scrap of meat that arrived green and rotting, and almost nothing for the children. Measles, typhoid, dysentery, and pneumonia ripped through the camps like wildfire. Children wasted away to skeletons right in front of their mothers. Hobhouse described tiny bodies covered in flies, too weak to cry, while their mothers sat helpless beside them. One mother after another poured out the same nightmare: their farms burned to the ground, livestock shot, homes looted, then loaded like cattle onto open wagons or trains in the rain and cold, arriving at the camps with nothing but the clothes on their backs. She dragged British officers into the tents and forced them to look at the dying children. “You shall look!” she told one. She watched rows of tiny graves growing longer every day. In the Black camps where African families were herded separately conditions were even worse, though the authorities tried to keep her away. This wasn’t an accident. It was deliberate. Nearly 28,000 Boer women and children most of them under sixteen died in just eighteen months. Thousands more Black South Africans perished in their own separate camps. When she published this book, Britain exploded in fury at her. The press branded her a traitor and a hysterical spinster. The government tried to silence her. But the facts were too ugly to bury. archive.org/details/bruntw…
It's completely normal for a mass-extermination camp to have an orchestra, stop asking questions
