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D-day

71yrs ago today a huge number of very scared men (and a number of women) went into the most important battle of recent history.
These fathers, brothers, friends and sons travelled across the English channel to be met not by some officious customs officer but by lead, fire, pain, injury and death.
This day was the first day of a very long journey of pain, suffering and loss.
Many families were decimated by these events and all touched by it.
These soldiers of all allied and commonwealth nations, all religions and all cultures fought and died on that day and those that followed.
Christian, Hindu, Jew or Muslim it did not matter, they lived and died together as brothers fighting the same evil, fighting to give us, their children, and grand children a future of freedom, rights and justice.
Please think back to what it was like for them facing almost certain death by the most horrible ways imaginable. Reflect upon it. Allow yourself to feel a fraction of their fear, terror, pain and nothingness.
Their willingness to give up their own futures to ensure a good one for us.
Understand that they did this out of duty, out of morality but also most of all out of hope.
Do not sully their memory with hate. Do not let their memory be tarnished by the very things they fought for. Our freedoms, our rights, our future.
Do not allow others to steal our rights or tell us our fellow brothers, sisters, humans deserve theirs to be taken.
Those that use these memories to promote hate absolute disrespect the memory of those we should be most proud of.

I remember them, this and every day. I respect what they did and love them for it.

Jonesy.

Poor taste or enabling?

Laughing at the holocaust is not acceptable. Nazism was about “cleansing” the world of people with any difference to others. They use the word “cleansing” to describe ridding the world of the human race’s most valuable asset, divergence.
The cleansing involved torture, murder, rape, dehumanisation, vile experimentation, and stripping of all rights to anyone the nazis considered less than human, untermensch – inferior people, non-aryan.
Predominantly, it was the Jewish people who suffered, but not exclusively, the Gypsy, Roma and Travelling communities, the Disabled, Black people Babies born with what were seen as birth defects along with those who voiced any opposition or supported any different political movement were all victims of this horrific regime.
To single out a group of people and make out they deserved the treatment either then or now imposed upon them by the evil that was National Socialist Germany and their allies in the guise of humour is not only disgusting to those people’s memory but also to the horror everyone who opposed them suffered in the fight for ending the Nazi domination of Europe and other parts of our globe.
Yes humour can be dark, mine often is, but there is an acceptable line, Carr has crossed that and deserves all the ire focused upon him.
No Jimmy you are not funny, you are but another ridiculous has-been. One in the same ilk as Manning, Brown and Davidson. Talentless bigots.
Simple.