Kevin Pezzi, MD

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“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”

— Elbert Hubbard, American editor, publisher, and writer (1856–1915)

Trivia: He and his wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, the noted feminist and writer, died aboard the RMS Lusitania, which was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915, when they were heading to Europe to cover the war and interview Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

If you disagree with something I wrote, feel free to challenge it. Some of my viewpoints are the antithesis (exact opposite) of what they once were. That isn't flip-flopping; that is changing opinions with scant evidence to support them into convictions with a firmer foundation of facts.

My political philosophy is an amalgamation of libertarian, conservative, and liberal principles. My opinions have changed so significantly that my conservative friends might be horrified by how I strongly believe that liberals are correct on certain issues. I've previously written about some of them, but to make this more fun, I will present others as challenges in which I offer $100,000 to the first person who can refute the logic I used in forming that opinion. Please note that due to my limited time and difficulty using my hands after I broke my neck, I cannot quickly update my previously published opinions. However, now that I am balancing the promptings of head and heart, I strongly disagree with many opinions I expressed in my writings.

I like finding people who make me think, not necessarily those who agree with me. Genius Robert Heinlein said, “I never learned from a man who agreed with me.” If you can educate me, I'm all ears.

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”
— Albert Einstein

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
— Albert Einstein

“The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about and refuse to investigate.”
— Dr. Wayne Dyer

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
— General George Patton

“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A lot of people risk their lives in a brief act of heroism, which is kind of cool, but Jill has what I call slow heroism. She is risking her professional life on something that her own calculations show may not work for a thousand years—may not ever. So I like to support people that are risking their lives.”
— ex-Microsoft billionaire brainiac Nathan Myhrvold speaking about Jill Tarter, who inspired the character played by Jodie Foster in the movie Contact. It takes a brilliant person to see that others who go against the grain of conventional wisdom may be sages although lesser minds often ridicule their ideas.

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
— Oscar Wilde

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
— Winston Churchill

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
— Euripides, Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC)

“It is socially unacceptable to be right too early.”
— Robert Heinlein

“I'd rather stand alone on the truth than with millions on a lie.”

“The most distinctive mark of a cultured mind is the ability to take another's point of view; to put one's self in another's place, and see life and its problems from a point of view different from one's own. To be willing to test a new idea; to be able to live on the edge of difference in all matters intellectually; to examine without heat the burning question of the day; to have imaginative sympathy, openness and flexibility of mind, steadiness and poise of feeling, cool calmness of judgment, is to have culture.”
— Arthur H. R. Fairchild

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
— Abraham Lincoln

This reminds me of something stressed by one of my psychology professors, who said that society imposes rigid boundaries for what behavior is acceptable, and applies tremendous pressure trying to force people to conform to the behavioral expectations. Some of the most brilliant and productive outside-the-box thinkers led unconventional lives. One of the side effects of forcing people to think inside the box is that by lopping off outside-the-box behavior, potentially great outside-the-box ideas are lost, too.

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.”
— Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (1908-1965)

“You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.”
— John Eliot

NOTE: Several family members were brutally slaughtered recently, so I will take a break from writing. Their deaths erased my affinity for writing about politics or the economy, thus I'll later limit myself to health and brainpower in addition to completing my book on rapidly overcoming racism and bigotry. BTW, the two men who murdered my father are still on the lam; I am offering up to $100,000 for information leading to their arrest and conviction.

1. Japanese war crimes
2. Should war criminals be protected by PC police?
3. The bizarrely selective outrage of Media Matters
4. Verbally disparaging evil people is normal

Almost every adult is familiar with Hitler's abominable war crimes, but very few know of the crimes against humanity committed by one of our World War 2 allies before the war and another ally during that time, which I discussed in another article that will likely rock you to your core and make you think, changing how you view the world.

Another sordid but often overlooked chapter in the history of the 20^th century concerns what Japanese soldiers did before and during World War 2. As I discussed in the aforementioned article, Soviet soldiers did things to German women and children that made some of Hitler's atrocities seem almost humane. However, Japanese soldiers and even scientists gave the Soviet barbarians a run for their money in terms of doing evil things. According to the Wikipedia, “The Japanese military during the 1930s and 1940s is often compared to the military of Nazi Germany during 1933–45 because of the sheer scale of suffering.”

Here's a sampling of the misery the Japanese dished out:

Eight of the nine crew members who survived the crash of a U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bomber “were taken to the anatomy department of Kyushu University, at Fukuoka, where they were subjected to vivisection or killed.” Consider this: al-Qaeda terrorists are rightfully considered savages for rapidly beheading people, which is more humane than what some Japanese soldiers and scientists did.

Japan tortured and then executed countless POWs. Speaking of this, a former Japanese Army officer said they did this “for the sake of our country” and for “our filial obligation to our ancestors.” He added, “we never really considered the Chinese humans. When you're winning, the losers look really miserable. We concluded that the Yamato [i.e., Japanese] race was superior.” This was also evident in what they called Americans, who were referred to as “kichiku (mongrel beast or mongrelized apes).”

Chinese civilians to be buried alive by Japanese soldiers during the Nanking Massacre

Chinese killed by the Japanese Army in a ditch

A Chinese head, beheaded by Japanese soldiers during the Nanking massacre

An elderly Chinese woman was raped and killed by Japanese soldiers,
who speared her vagina (read of similar atrocities)

A boy killed by Japanese with a rifle butt because he did not take off his hat

A Chinese POW about to be beheaded by a Japanese officer

A war crime in progress: an Australian POW (Sgt. Leonard Siffleet)
about to be beheaded by a Japanese soldier. The picture below shows him
with his fiancé Clarice Lane about two years before his execution:

Murdering Siffleet ended not only his life, but the lives of the children
he could have had, and their children, and their children, ad infinitum.

Two Japanese officers, Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda, competing to
see who could kill (with a sword) one hundred people first [link 1] [link 2]

Ghosts of Bataan, a war documentary, presented numerous examples of Japanese war crimes during World War 2, such as running over POWs with tanks, beheading prisoners, and stuffing so many American soldiers into boxcars on a 110-degree day that they begin panting for air, with some dying of asphyxiation. An American POW recalled, “I watched a guy have his arms broken in so many places. They put his arms across saw horses and they beat him across the arms and wouldn't let the doctor reset his arms.” A description and images of this begins at 3:18 in the following video:

Historian Chalmers Johnson wrote that both Germany and Japan “looted the countries they conquered on a monumental scale, though Japan plundered more, over a longer period, than the Nazis.” He added that when Nazis captured prisoners of war from America, Canada, Britain, Australia, or New Zealand, they “faced a 4% chance of not surviving the war” whereas “the death rate for Allied POWs held by the Japanese was nearly 30%.” Unlike Hitler, who paid the ultimate price for his many sins, Emperor Hirohito and his family got off scot-free and lived a carefree life of luxury.

Daniel Inouye, an American of Japanese ancestry and currently a United States Senator from Hawaii, witnessed the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7^th 1941. As the Japanese planes roared overheard, he ran outside and yelled, “Damn Japs!” Was he racist for saying “Japs”? Of course not.

In fact, if I were Japanese, I would welcome any word that separated me from those barbarians. If the word was disparaging, so much the better. Who wouldn't want to disparage human monsters who did such things? Media Matters, that's who.

Media Matters wants you to believe I am racist because I called those savages “Japs,” but that word has been used myriad times on various televised military documentaries, including programs aired in the politically correct 21^st century.

In my blog posting, it was obvious that I was not referring to all Japanese people or today's Japanese people. The fact that Media Matters would defend such barbarians speaks volumes of their moral compass. If you or a loved one were one of the 580,000 people who died from their germ warfare and human experiments, you'd probably invent a word much harsher than “Japs.”

I discussed more Japanese war crimes and war atrocities in another article.

The bizarrely selective outrage of Media Matters

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel referred to certain liberal activists as “fucking retarded” (or “fucking retards,” according to other reports). Media Matters defended him, saying “it's worth noting that Emanuel has apologized for the comment at least twice now.”

This illustrates their selective outrage: whether they attack or defend someone is based not on the evidence, but on whether they support or oppose Obama. Hitler's henchmen had a similarly bizarre moral compass; whether they fried you or looked the other way was determined not by what you did, but by whether you supported Hitler.

Second, the world is awash in insincere apologies motivated by a desire to be let off the hook; heartfelt regret for some transgression is relatively rare.

Third, one cannot accurately judge whether some word was intended to disparage a group or just some offensive element within it unless one examines the context of how that word was used. Had Media Matters done that in my case, they would have seen that I was targeting only Japanese war criminals, not Japanese people in general.

Since Media Matters is impressed by apologies, it is high time I apologized for calling Japanese war criminals “Japs” after they butchered tens of millions of civilians, including children and elderly folks, many of whom were raped and brutalized, such as by being speared through the vagina (see above photo).

In retrospect, I now realize it was unconscionable for me to call such savages “Japs” when I should have used far harsher terminology. Since they referred to American soldiers as “kichiku” (mongrel beast or mongrelized apes), let's think of an appropriate term for those Japs; please submit your suggestions in a comment below. While you're at it, think of an appropriate characterization of Media Matters.

If a Japanese soldier carved pieces from your body, you would surely call him expletives that made “Japs” seem professorial. That's one of the problems: most people are much more concerned with what happens to us than others, especially strangers in faraway lands. Most of the victims can't express their outrage because they are dead and hence permanently silenced. Young girls who were raped and then had spears thrust in their vaginas cannot tell you how God-awful the agony was; indescribably intense and agonizing pain inflicted by extremely cruel and wicked monsters.

Unable to contain their fury, some fathers in court attacked defendants who raped or murdered their daughters. I've never heard anyone so coldhearted they criticized the fathers who went berserk. Instead, our capacity for imaginative sympathy—figuratively putting ourselves in their shoes—makes it easy to understand why fathers would do such things. Many even applaud the retaliation, which is viewed as being pardonable, even desirable.

If someone murdered my daughter (if I had one), he would wish the police put him safely behind bars. If all fathers were similarly intolerant of depredations done to loved ones, rapists and murderers would have compelling reasons to think twice before committing their dastardly acts. The prospect of free food, housing, medical care, and cable TV for life just isn't an adequate deterrent, judging by crime statistics. Very few criminals are so insane they cannot control their behavior; most just do a cold Machiavellian calculation in which they weigh the rewards (to them) of the crime against the possible risk. Computing risk versus reward is something humans do so automatically that we rarely think of it, but almost everything we do includes at least a subconscious assessment of whether that action will bring us more pain or pleasure, harm or benefit, risk or reward.

If we can understand and even excuse taking justice into our own hands, we can understand why it is reasonable for people with normal human emotions—not coldhearted robots—to verbally assail barbarians like the Japanese war criminals.

Arthur H. R. Fairchild said:

Since imaginative sympathy is one of the hallmarks of cultured minds, cultured people can understand and even congratulate me for lambasting Japanese war criminals. For example, Dr. Michael Brett-Crowther, Editor of the International Journal of Environmental Studies, wrote to me, “I think your remarks on Japan's unadmitted, unrepented guilt are very sound and far better expressed than many on US Veterans' sites.” He requested that I write and submit a paper on the “cultural environment for Jap atrocities” because “the Japanese must confront their responsibilities.”

I agree. Japanese war crimes are hardly ancient history. They are as relevant today as they were in the not-too-distant past when Japanese were doing horrifying things to innocent people, even infants and children. Some of us are too busy with our iPods and whatnot to give a hoot about what happened to them, but cultured people will never forget.

Will you?

There is no expiration date on the relevance of this topic because what Japanese soldiers did before and during World War 2 had its genesis in peculiar ways that humans justify such actions. These tendencies remain latent in most of us, but can be elicited by clever but diabolical leaders such as Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong), and Emperor Hirohito. Those butchers created a veritable torrent of blood during the 20^th century that killed well over one hundred million people and made billions suffer. They are hardly alone. Evil still exists in leaders, followers, and those who follow their own rules. We cannot fully extinguish it, but by understanding its roots and tirelessly punishing transgressors, we can minimize it, creating a more just world in the future and giving some measure of justice to past victims who are too often forgotten.

Verbally disparaging evil people is normal

One of the unwritten laws of civilization is that it is not acceptable to verbally lambaste people who don't deserve it, but it is OK and perfectly understandable to blast with both barrels those who do evil things. I've heard Hitler called every name in the book, but I've never heard anyone loony enough to complain that Hitler didn't richly deserve being verbally battered. Neither the world's best writers nor the most profane sailors could possibly think of terms for Hitler that are even 1% as offensive as what he did.

Not wanting to lump all Japanese in with the bad ones, I thought it was preferable to differentiate between the two by calling the evil ones “Japs.” Since they committed acts more numerous and often more depraved than what nutjob Hitler did, they're fair game for verbally blasting.

To see how people accept verbally knocking evil monsters, consider how no one complained about what a mother said after a teenager allegedly trying to murder a rival gang member instead fatally shot her 6-year-old daughter. She said, “They're not teenagers. Real people with a real heart don't do this, so I'm sorry, they're not teenagers. They're not people—they're animals. They're garbage.”

Media Matters is so notorious for their untenable, over-the-top claims that even liberal Democrats are bashing them. For example, the über-liberal New York Times called Media Matters “highly partisan,” and Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who describes himself as a liberal Democrat, declared war on Media Matters, saying they have “crossed the line” and use Hitler-like tactics. Professor Dershowitz said he “can't tolerate bigotry on any side of the political spectrum.”

Dershowitz said the Media Matters smear merchant used “virulent hate speech” and an odious, “wildly inaccurate” canard:

Dana Loesch wrote that Media Matters “has been an embarrassment with pettiness and hyperbole permeating every post. Their baseless attacks on political enemies they wish to blacklist has earned them the reputation as modern-day book burners. Their mission of correcting "conservative misinformation" has been refuted countless times by numerous outlets.”

There appears to be no limit as to how low Media Matters will go in attacking people they perceive to be their political enemies. For an example of this, consider how they criticized me for creating a free website that helps people quickly and permanently end their spam problems.

Even semi-credible news organizations try to get their facts straight before opening their mouths. Media Matters purports to be a fact-checking organization, so one might think they would be even more concerned with accuracy, but they're more reckless than most beginning journalism students. For evidence of this, consider how they attacked me for taking what they presumed to be an extreme Right-wing opinion when in reality on that issue, I am further Left than most folks in the far Left. However, the sages at Media Matters painted a picture of me as being further Right than Attila the Hun. Thus if you don't believe Bill O'Reilly when he complains of outrageous smears by Media Matters, believe me. Or judge for yourself.

I don't fall for the phony Left-Right paradigm. I agree with liberals on some issues and conservatives on others, but I don't side with the Left or the Right or give them my allegiance. Both sides have an agenda that often compels them to distort the truth. Our leaders give lip service to “healing” and “bringing us together,” but almost everything they say is divisive, intended to drive a wedge between us and fuel the hate that is rampant in America, with people often walking around with chips on their shoulders, looking for flimsy reasons to hate others. Our politicians stir the pot so they can divide and conquer. Leaders should set the benchmark for statesmanship and cooperation, but ours just want endless turmoil they milk for their Machiavellian schemes to stay in power despite their pathetic ideas. Year after year, the sheeple fall for this transparent ploy.

With the world economy on the verge of a meltdown and with evil far from extinguished, and with our leaders unwilling or unable to solve those problems, giving allegiance to those nitwits or the partisans who support them strikes me as a waste of time.

In fairness to Media Matters, they're not the only ones who slant reality to favor their side. For example, how many Fox News viewers know that a recent occupant of the White House is a killer?

Related articles:

• I presented more shocking war crimes in another article: Hirohito: the war criminal who got off scot-free
• Why I discussed Japanese war crimes

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