Gunner, Cam, and Bear would stand in front of a speeding train for one another. When called to duty, the repeat the secretive motto of The Activity, they’d reply—send me. They have each other’s six and are committed to their team’s motto:
Day by day.
Minute by minute.
Ride or die.
We stick together.
Real-World News Excerpts
TOKYO SUBWAYS ARE ATTACKED WITH SARIN GAS
~ BBC, March 21, 1995
Several small packages of deadly sarin gas were set off in the Tokyo subway system killing twelve people and injuring over 6,000 according to reports coming out of Japan. After thousands of checkpoints were set up across the nation in the massive dragnet, Tokyo police quickly learned who had planted the chemical weapons and began tracking the terrorists down.
The gas attack was instituted by the Supreme Truth cult that had thousands of followers all over Japan who believed in their doomsday prophecies.
Tokyo police found a hidden basement at a Mt. Fuji compound where other cult leaders were holed up, including Masami Tsuchiya, a chemist who admitted making the sarin gas.
Sarin gas was invented by the Nazis and is one of the most lethal nerve gases known to man. It killed those who came in direct contact with the gas within minutes. Fortunately for others, the amounts released into the subway were minimal.
SYRIAN REGIME BLAMED FOR SARIN GAS ATTACKS IN LANDMARK REPORT
~ The UK Guardian, April 8, 2020
The report, released on Wednesday by the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), accuses the Syrian Air Force of twice using sarin to attack the town of Ltamenah in late March 2017.chemical weapons.
In the first of a multi-pronged attack, a Syrian air force helicopter from the Hamas air base dropped a sarin-filled cylinder onto the Ltamenah hospital that broke through the roof, ruptured and released the nerve agent.
A day later, using another aircraft, the Syrian military dropped a bomb containing the sarin nerve agent in the same area, affecting at least 60.
In the aftermath of the attacks, which ultimately killed 89 people, loyalists of the Syrian regime and the Russian government rushed to push a narrative that distressing scenes of dead and dying victims had been staged by rescuers.
Syria is among the 193 nation-States that are parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention, which outlaws the production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons including sarin.
THE CHURCH, THE RED CROSS AND THE NAZI’S GREAT ESCAPE
~ The Irish Times, July 9, 2011
ON JULY 14TH, 1950, a German “technician” whose forged papers declared him to be Ricardo Klement arrived in Argentina. Despite his disguise, the Argentinean authorities were well aware that Mr. Klement was, in fact, Adolf Eichmann, the man responsible for coordinating the eastward deportations of millions of European Jews to extermination camps during the second World War.
Eichmann was not the only senior Nazi official who managed to escape prosecution by fleeing to South America: several other serious war criminals, including the former Auschwitz camp doctor, Josef Mengele, had similarly evaded justice and left behind their old lives for a fresh, care-free existence in the Americas.
According to the most widely known theory about the mass escape of Nazis to South America – first circulated by the Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal – these flights were organized by a secret society of ex-SS men named ODESSA (Organization of Former SS Members), which paid for forged visas and travel costs with money and gold stolen from their Jewish victims.
America’s approach to the exodus was different from other nations. The CIA’s attitude towards ex-Nazis – and in particular to former SS “intelligence experts” – was essentially pragmatic: after Germany had been defeated and relations with the USSR had begun to deteriorate, the CIA was willing to give exit visas and new identity papers to middle-ranking Nazis in exchange for valuable intelligence information on the new Soviet enemy.
Even more intriguing is the role played by the Red Cross. Researchers established that the International Red Cross issued about 25,000 new identity documents to men whose past was often more than dubious. Although this assistance in gaining access into the Americas came from individual Nazi sympathizers within the organization with full knowledge of senior members of the International Red Cross knew about the misappropriation of identity documents.
The Catholic Church’s involvement in the escape of ex-Nazis is, by comparison, well known. It has long been established that individual Nazi sympathizers within the clergy actively supported the flight of Nazi war criminals. However, the Vatican insists these accomplices were misguided black sheep within the Church.
Epigraph
“Only one thing could have stopped us. If our adversaries had, from the first day, smashed with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our movement.”
~ Adolf Hitler at the Nuremberg Congress, September 3, 1933
Biological weapons are no longer a potential threat, but a real threat to the safety and security of the United States.
~ James Gilmore, former Governor of Virginia and current U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
“Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.”
~ King Abdulla II of Jordan
For biological weapons, you don’t need big facilities. You need nothing more than what one would consider a microbrewery in your backyard to brew the bugs.
~ Sydney Drell, American physicist and arms control expert
“Now, people. Rise up and let the storm break loose!”
~ Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, Nazi Germany
Für meine Mutter. Ich liebe dich!
Das folgende beruht auf wahren begebenheiten
The following is based on a true story.
The Oath
The following oath was repeated by millions leading up to World War II. Most of them meant it. Many did not.
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