Peter Norton

In central L.A. the Los Angeles Railway served another 900,000 passengers per day along 375 miles of track.

One hundred years ago, when Los Angeles County had one seventh its current population, the Pacific Electric Railway was the largest electric interurban railroad in the world. It served 315,000 passengers a day along 1139 miles of track. It had 979 passenger cars and 3,131 freight cars.

“Without them, how would the beaches be enjoyed as they are? How otherwise would thousands each week visit the mountains, the old missions, the orange groves – the rarest charms of Southern California – that are so easily and economically reached by The Red Cars?” ...

YouTube video by McGovern Video Library One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern

The McGovern quotation is from the film “One Bright Shining Moment,” which is free online and which I recommend: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX29...

The flag is not magic.
Waving it doesn't turn betrayal into patriotism.

no kidding

On Sep 30 he told the entire US military: No more “stupid rules of engagement.” Just “maximum lethality.”

Then he tried to court-martial a senator for reminding soldiers of the fact that illegal orders are in fact illegal.

This man is determined not just to make war, but to commit war crimes.

Using statements like this one as courtroom evidence, the USA has arrested, tried and convicted war criminals.

Hegseth has boasted that his job is not defense, but war.

This man has practically asked US personnel to commit atrocities. ...

YouTube video by CTV News ‘Death and destruction from the sky all day long’: Hegseth outlines ‘Operation Epic Fury’

It takes Pete Hegseth two minutes to say
“I am a war criminal."
www.youtube.com/shorts/1QeJ_...
(via CTV Canada)

He promises:
“Death and destruction from the sky, all day long.”

With glee. ...

Today, L.A. County’s population is 6.5 times greater than it was in 1925. The L.A. Metro now has 121 miles of track plus 117 bus lines. On each weekday it serves about 930,000 passengers on roads and rails.

In 1925 the Pacific Electric Railway operated along another 1139 miles of track in Los Angeles County (including spurs in Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties), serving another 320,000 passengers per day.

In fact in 1925 the L.A. Railway carried about 900,000 passengers per day in a city of about 900,000 people. By specifying business days, the company ensured its claim was accurate.

Los Angeles Rode on Street Cars

“The number of passengers boarding Los Angeles Railway street cars every business day, along the 375 miles of car lines, exceeds the population of the entire city.” ...

This, the United States and allied countries argued, is how the unthinkable becomes possible, and how the possible becomes real.

They were addressing themselves to future generations. They were speaking to us.

The Nuremberg trials were filmed and their proceedings published as a warning to the world, including its statesmen, military leaders, diplomats and CEOs.

He instructed U.S. attorneys to prosecute quasi-legal peonage sentences as unconstitutional slavery. Without question, Biddle would consider the current attorney general criminally complicit in current unconstitutional abuses.

As attorney general, Biddle denounced the internment of Americans of Japanese descent as “repugnant to the principles of our government.” He called the “relocation centers” where they were confined “concentration camps.” He was the first attorney general to order the FBI to investigate a lynching.

Before he presided at Nuremberg, Judge Francis Biddle was U.S. Attorney General from 1941 to 1945. He did not exempt Americans from the standards he enforced at Nuremberg.

He must have the cooperation of others, including “business men” – the people we now call CEOs.

At Nuremberg, American prosecutors held German CEOs and other opportunists criminally responsible for their complicity in international crimes.

... renounce defense in favor of war, ridicule the rules of engagement that prevent atrocities, launch military attacks, and kill another country’s head of state by himself.

He cannot bypass the national constitution, disregard the authority of the national legislature, abjure international law, violate treaties, betray faithful allies, threaten to seize their sovereign territory by force, ...

An authoritarian cannot succeed alone. ...

Some EV hype stands up.

CEOs, they agreed, are not “excluded from the possibility of complicity as a matter of law.” In fact numerous CEOs were prosecuted on multiple counts.

In the I.G. Farben trials, the three judges were all Americans. Judge Paul Hebert concurred with his associates: In a state planning or engaging in aggression, “holders of high positions in the financial or economic life” of the country may be guilty of complicity in crimes against peace.

At Nuremberg CEOs’ professions of political neutrality did not avail. Alfried Krupp asserted that he and his associates “never cared much for ideas. We just wanted a system that functioned well and gave us the opportunity to work without interference. Politics is not our thing.” Krupp was convicted.

Yet it still has had no difficulty finding CEOs so compliant that they acquiesce in calling the Department of Defense the “Department of War.”

It has committed to supporting the White House in efforts to acquire Greenland “the easy way or the hard way.” It has ridiculed the “stupid rules of engagement” that prevent atrocities, while demanding “maximum lethality.”

In its attempt to rename itself, the current Defense Department has subordinated its sole constitutional purpose (to provide for the common defense) to war. It has disregarded treaties and disparaged international law. It has disdained the exclusive authority of Congress to declare war.

As the Defense Department denounces efforts by its contractors to build human rights safeguards into the AI models it uses, it’s worth remembering that at Nuremberg, the United States, with its allies, prosecuted German CEOs on several counts, including prewar crimes against peace. ...