Now that EU commissars and the rulers of most EU member states are trying to provoke a war with Russia, countless citizens will have solid grounds for suing their government for reparations.
The Shoah Business has so far been extraordinarily successful and truly is like a gift that keeps on giving. Back in 2012, Germany had already paid about 90 billion dollars in reparations to survivors and descendants of victims of acts committed during the National Socialist regime (1933-1945).
It has become the model for Blacks on both sides of the Atlantic. Persistent clamors for massive reparations from those quarters are becoming louder by the day. So far with little success. Western governments have responded merely with offering their “sincerest” apologies for the acts committed by some of their ancestors against the ancestors of today’s Black communities.
Other groups are claiming reparations as well. For instance, survivors in the Netherlands of Japanese internment camps in the former Dutch colony of the East Indies have also tried to get reparations payments for their past sufferings. They took the Dutch government to court, demanding financial compensation. However, in 2022 a Dutch court denied there was any legal obligation to so, alleging that the crimes had become out of date.
Was that a correct point of view?
During the first months of 1942, the Japanese armed forces invaded and occupied the Dutch East Indies, the archipelago known today as Indonesia. The colonial army (more than forty thousand men) were taken prisoner. More than hundred thousand Dutch colonial residents (most ethnically Dutch as well as numerous people of mixed ancestry, the so-called Indo’s) were put in internment camps. The men (any male person above the age of ten) were separated from the women and put in different camps. Men were made to do forced labor, such as working on the notorious Burma Railway (as portrayed in the movie Bridge on the River Kwai). Women were also subjected to forced labor in or near the internment camps, often exhausting agricultural labor under appalling conditions.
Of the more than hundred fifty thousand camp inmates, eight thousand soldiers and sixteen thousand civilians died of disease, malnutrition, mistreatment and torture by the Japanese and Koreans who staffed and guarded the camps. Several times per day, the inmates were assembled on the camp’s central square and told to bow out of respect for the Japanese Emperor. Whoever did not bow deep enough, was subjected to beating and nasty tortures.
After it had been forced into war and fallen into the trap of even starting it by attacking Pearl Harbor, Japan did not have a choice but to invade the Dutch East Indies as well. Once the Roosevelt regime in 1940 imposed stiff sanctions on Japan, prohibiting the export of scrap metal so vital to Japanese industry, it was clear that a violent outcome was inevitable.
Since the mid-1930s the Dutch government in The Hague had virtually abandoned its traditional policy of strict neutrality, aligning itself with London and Washington. It did not prove beneficial, for in May 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. The armed forces surrendered after five days of fighting, the Queen and government fled to London and legitimate authority in the occupied country now rested with the Germans. The “government in exile” in London could not claim any legal authority because under Dutch law, the government needed to reside on Dutch national territory. However, this did not prevent them from declaring war on Japan one day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Understanding Dutch law better than the Dutch themselves, the Japanese government refused to recognize the decreed state of war. However, when Dutch submarines began torpedoing Japanese merchant ships, the gloves came off.
Some two months later, the Japanese had conquered and occupied the Dutch East Indies with relative ease. They now had full access to the archipelago’s abundant mineral resources such as oil and tin, as well as to a continuous supply of tropical plantation products such as rubber, palm oil, sugar, coffee, tea and tobacco. The native population experienced hardship, scarcity and bouts of famine.
The hardship imposed on the native and non-native inhabitants of the Dutch East Indies until the end of World War II was entirely to blame on the vanity and stupidity of Dutch politicians. And of the cowardice and inertia of the few who might have prevented this, such as high Dutch colonial government officials. If war had not been declared in 1941, the Japanese surely would have treated the Dutch colony and its inhabitants like the French colony of Indochina, where not one Frenchman was thrown in an internment camp. That was only because the Vichy government had not declared war on Japan.
The ordeal of the inmates of Japanese internment camps is well documented and the survivors’ claims for reparations are demonstrably well-founded and plainly justified.
The question as to why no reparation payments were granted to the few thousand aging Dutch and Indonesian survivors of the Japanese internment camp ordeal is easy to answer: there was no decades-long PR program that conditioned public opinion and massaged it into support of the reparations claim. As a matter of fact, the claim was far too modest. It should have included a demand for reparations for the second generation (the survivors’ children) as well as for all the Indonesians who suffered as a result of the Japanese occupation. And for their children. Again, against the total absence of a long-sustained publicity campaign this is all perfectly understandable.
ORDER IT NOW
Thus, any group of people that feels entitled to reparations for past sufferings must first mount a vast PR campaign, the slicker and shrewder, the better. The various Black communities in Europe and the US are doing better, but they have not yet been able to laugh all the way to the bank. The second thing they ought to do is ally themselves in some way with the International Center for Holocaust Reparations, which is an expert outfit in securing reparations payments for individuals within the framework of approved reparations projects, such as the ones the German government keeps launching.
Now that the non-elected leaders of the European Union are preparing the public for a war with Russia that absolutely no European with at least two functioning brain cells wants, it is quite possible that the conditions for future waves of reparations claims are being created as we speak. It would not be such a bad idea to publicize such claims well in advance, as a kind of warning. Who knows, it might help to put brakes on the bellicose plans of the delusional EU leaders and the governments of most EU member states.
Reparations can and should also be claimed for damages due to government policies during the Great Covid Show, as a result of which small and medium businesses were destroyed, and many people were being withheld proper medical treatment if their condition was diagnosed as unrelated to covid. Of course many others can claim reparations because their spouses or relatives were killed by one of those untested “life saving” but actually potentially lethal covid jabs.
It does not make sense to go after the pharmaceutical companies. Although corrupt to the bone, they have no formal legal relationship with citizens. That relationship exists only between citizens and their government, wherefore citizens ought to claim reparations from their own government. After all, the government creates the rules under which all business takes place, and that includes the pharmaceutical industry and their products.
The survivors of German abuse during the Second World War have done the rest of us a big favor: they have been blazing the trail for a new line of business. Although they mainly besieged a foreign government for financial compensation, the underlying message is that citizens should directly address the high and mighty and not be afraid to do so.
After all, the old French adage noblesse oblige also applies to today’s rulers, who may not possess titles of nobility, but who are massively entitled nonetheless. Moreover, they ought to realize that power always comes at a price.
Basically, it is all quite simple: if we are made to pay taxes for the common good, it is only logical that the government should compensate us for what we are made to suffer due to government negligence, stupidity or evil intent.
