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George Takei: I Lost Family in Hiroshima. Mr. Trump, Nuclear Weapons Are No Game.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/29/george-takei-i-lost-family-in-hiroshima-mr-trump-nuclear-weapons-are-no-game.html ^ | 12/29/16 | Daily Beast

Posted on 12/30/2016 8:11:46 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1

Three days before Christmas, President-elect Trump tweeted (yes, tweeted) that the U.S. “must greatly strengthen and enhance its nuclear capability” until the world “comes to its senses regarding nukes.” The world, for its part, blinked in astonishment, wondering once again what Mr. Trump might mean, and why such a momentous announcement appeared via social media. Prior presidents generally undertook any shift in nuclear policy with care, and with the advice of experts in arms control and proliferation who have made keeping us safe their life’s mission. After all, when a single person has the power to rain down nuclear fire across the world, caution might not only be warranted, but expected. Trump’s language seemed to imply a new arms race. So if the tweet, like many of his brazen acts, was meant to shock and unbalance others, it worked. Surely Trump couldn’t be calling for a renewed emphasis on these weapons, not after so many decades of effort to de-escalate and disarm, and surely not via Twitter? But Trump soon doubled down on his nuclear gambit in a follow-up interview: “Let it be an arms race,” he told MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski. And with that, the future became quite unclear—and many times more dangerous.

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KEYWORDS: fruitsandnuts; georgetakaei; homosexual; nknukes
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

“George Takei: I Lost Family in Hiroshima.”

Did you ever notice that none of them ever owns up to having “family” participating in the Rape of Nanking, or working with Unit 731, or murdering allied POWs ?


81 posted on 12/30/2016 9:21:15 AM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

I lost family fighting the Japanese in WWII. Does that give my arguments any more credibility than someone who didn’t?

STFU, George. The last thing this country needs is foreign policy advice from a skeletal Hollywood fairy.


82 posted on 12/30/2016 9:21:37 AM PST by IronJack
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To: GingisK
your Japanese relatives could also have been killed with a plain old 2000 pound HE bomb.

A shower of 250lb incendiaries would have been far more likely ...

83 posted on 12/30/2016 9:24:27 AM PST by NorthMountain (Northmountain)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
A child victim of the Rape of Nanking.

F*** off to anyone whining about Hiroshima.

84 posted on 12/30/2016 9:27:32 AM PST by ScottinVA
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Miss Takei, you do know that the guy who dropped the nuke on your family was a democrat.


85 posted on 12/30/2016 9:31:02 AM PST by Terry Mross (is country will fail to exist inmy lifetime. And I'm ttin' up there in age.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Mr Tekai

Have you apologized for you Japenese family’s role in the mass rape and slaughter in China, the routine torture and murder of POW and on combatatnat and the use of humans as lab animals in medical experimentation including vivisection while still alive?


86 posted on 12/30/2016 9:31:41 AM PST by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: headstamp 2

China, Korea, Taiwan, the Phillipines, Indochina, Burma...Geoege’s finger-wagging on behalf of the Japanese over the war is laughable.


87 posted on 12/30/2016 9:35:22 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

“Nuclear weapons are no game and you, Mr Sulu, are no Star Fleet Captain”

Trump, Out


88 posted on 12/30/2016 9:36:40 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

And I’m sure some German-American Hollywood actor lost relatives in Dresden. So what?


89 posted on 12/30/2016 9:42:21 AM PST by montag813
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Remember Bataan.

If we had had another bomb ready, we should have dropped it on them just for that.

90 posted on 12/30/2016 9:43:37 AM PST by Wizdum (Buckle up! It's going to be one hell of a ride.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

George Takei, you blowhard!


91 posted on 12/30/2016 9:46:43 AM PST by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Dear George,

Please take you sob story to China - I’m sure the Chinese will just shower you with cherry blossoms and hand you the keys to Beijing.

Stay away from Nanjing and Mongolia or some descendants of the millions your countrymen murdered, raped, and used as human experiments will wish to show you what suffering really is as they point to the mass graves their relatives are buried in by your countrymen.

Actually you should be thankful that we twice nuked your country as the Chinese had other plans for your wonderful countrymen - genocide: by slavey and sterilization ...


92 posted on 12/30/2016 9:48:19 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Vice creates slaves only (St. Augustine/Socrates). His vice is an intrinsic disorder which warps not only his worldview of males and females (Truth/biology) (and creates extreme sexism (separation of the sexes like in Afghanistan where boys harems are normal). His trauma in childhood (he probably was raped) warps all perceptions and worldview and he should be on a psychiatrist’s couch.

This man has a very sick nihilistic, irrational worldview which should be reviled. No Truth (God) and no science allowed, where he lives in his “utopia” where Slavery is Freedom and Boys are Girls for the NWO of total slavery—irrationality and ignorance (satanism (communism) where sodomy and baby-killing are normal).


93 posted on 12/30/2016 9:48:41 AM PST by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Apparently we missed one.


94 posted on 12/30/2016 9:51:56 AM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

And who ever thought that Trump thinks that.

What an idiot Takei is.


95 posted on 12/30/2016 9:53:00 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ScottinVA

The Rape of Nanking
300,000 dead in 3 weeks.

96 posted on 12/30/2016 9:53:47 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

George, maybe you should express your concerns to King Barry and Hillary Rotten Clinton about playing nuclear chicken with Russia over Syria and ISIS, and blaming Russia for your party’s failure in the election.

Then, we maybe can talk about Hiroshima.


97 posted on 12/30/2016 9:53:51 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: SecondAmendment
As a sidebar, a good number of scientists involved with the “Manhattan Project” were fine withe nuking white Germans, but objected to bombing the Japs because of their race ...

This is a good point not often brought out in the discussion of the bomb. A lot of the Manhattan Project scientists were Jewsh who'd fled Nazi Germany. They wanted the US to get the bomb before Germany did. Once Germany surrendered a number of them no longer wanted to develop or even use the bomb. Reason: the threat to their fellow Jews was over with the defeat of Germany.

98 posted on 12/30/2016 9:56:28 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

I lost family fighting against Japanese Imperialism. Fortunately, they were not eaten.


99 posted on 12/30/2016 9:58:48 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: nwrep

Too bad faggot George wasn’t home that day.


100 posted on 12/30/2016 10:00:36 AM PST by dearolddad
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