1/9/24

Roman salute returns to Rome


DailyKenn.com — transcript

Do you remember reading, and learning about that thing the Germans did back in the 1930s and even into the early 1940s when thousands of them would gather in a stadium like in Nuremberg and all at once thousands of people would try to hail a taxi. And I guess it was some kind of humor, but whatever, community activity, but whatever, they never seemed to get a taxi. But this little guy with a mustache would get up and yell at them for an hour or two.

Well, they're doing that again, only it's not the Germans. It is a little group of Italians that gathered somewhere, I think it was in Rome, and they too got together and all at once they tried to hail a taxi.
It's called the Roman salute.

And when they did that, people really got upset because apparently it is reminiscent of a time in European history, Italy, Germany in particular, in which some people felt oppressed. Okay, I'm understating that a little bit. Some people actually were oppressed under that socialist extremist regime, more than one, you know, one in Italy, one in Germany.

And the reason they did that, these people gathered in Rome to do this, is because they were commemorating the death of two members of a group or two young people who were like-minded, who were killed by extremists, by leftists, and so they were just having a memorial. Some years later, I don't see that that is a particular problem, even if you disagree with people, you know, freedom of expression. And what I'm thinking about the Roman salute, does it really hurt anybody, you know, call it a Roman salute or hailing a taxi, whatever you want to call it, does it really hurt anybody? The action in and of itself is about as harmless as flipping a peace sign or flipping something else.

It's just a symbol. Now it can be provocative. But if we're going to silence any free speech that is provocative, well, what do you do? You can't just say nothing, because saying nothing can be provocative, you know, silence is violence.

So if you say something, you're out of line, if you don't say something, you're out of line. So you're always out of line. These things, it's really tough to legislate them, but they've tried to do that in Italy with obviously marginal success because they're still doing it.

Now, one of the issues at hand is the premier of Italy is an individual by the name of Giorgia Maloney. And this individual is known to be, according to the press, a far-right leader, which is kind of rare in Western Europe these days, now it's getting rare in even Eastern Europe. But you know, when I read the media calling these people far right, I wonder why it is that the media never refers to far-left leaders as far left.

It seems you can be extremist right, you can be far right, but you can't be extremist left, you can't be far left. Apparently, the media is under the impression that anything to the left is the center and there is no left, there's only the far right, the right, and the far left, which they say is just reason, they don't even call it the far left. So one of the sentences in this article that was published by APnews.com said, Mussolini's anti-Jewish laws helped pave the way for the deportation of Italian Jews during the German occupation of Rome in the latter days of World War II.

Got a question for you. In American history, we had this episode called the Trail of Tears, where there was an agreement made with multiple Indian leaders, leaders of Indian tribes, where they would relocate and they literally marched across the United States, or what is now the United States, to the West. But one of the things that is missing from the historical context as it's presented to us, is this was by and large a voluntary movement.

I mean, they had an agreement with the leaders of the tribes that they would do this. And one of the stipulations, if my memory serves me correctly from history class, is they wanted the Indians, okay, Native Americans, make you happy, make the Indians, they wanted to make the Indians become westernized, you know, to give up their traditions. And if they wouldn't do it, well then, we want you to move West and we'll help you out here.

In fact, during the Trail of Tears, so-called Trail of Tears, a lot of people were unaware of this, but my understanding was the government provided medical assistance. They actually had nurses, and medical professionals, accompany these people as they headed out West. What's that got to do with this thing in Italy? Well, they say that this story again said Mussolini's anti-Jewish laws helped pave the way for the deportation of Italian Jews.

Notice they said deportation. Well, isn't that basically the same thing as the Trail of Tears, only instead of moving Indians you're moving Jews. And something else that's missing is just like the Indian leaders agreed to the deportation of Indians, Jewish leaders agreed to the deportation of Jews.

Now, a lot of people are gobsmacked when I say that. And if you are, what you need to do is you need to do a search on what is called the Transfer Agreement. It was a big deal in the 1930s.

And historians have just kind of scrubbed that from history books. The fact of the matter is there was an agreement that Jews in Italy would resettle in what then was Palestine. And the objective was to send the best and brightest of the Jewish community to what we now call Israel, the area that we now call Israel, an established country.

So effectively what they were doing was they were segregating on a global scale. Why is that not talked about in history books? They just totally scrub it, they ignore it. But it was a, I mean, it was really a big deal back in the 1930s.

That is what launched this whole episode, a historical epic episode that occurred in what some people refer to as the Third Reich. Just a little bit of trivia. You know, Hitler, I'm a little bit hesitant to even say the name because YouTube picks up on these things, but Hitler didn't actually use the term Third Reich.

In fact, from what I've read, he didn't even like it. I think one of his promotional gurus, Goering maybe, one of those guys, came up with that term, but Hitler himself didn't like it. So if you call it the Third Reich, that's really not appropriate.

But anyhow, the fact of the matter is you get several hundred people raising their arms up in the air, and other people are all upset about that. My feeling is that I don't like it. I don't like socialism in any form.

I think it's destructive. I think it's hurtful. But I think there's one thing that is also hurtful, and that is when we try to legislate free speech to a ridiculous, I mean, where you can't even raise your arm, that's kind of silly.

What if we said you can't give a peace symbol because that is a symbol of extreme leftism? And you know what the leftists did, they massacred millions of people in the Soviet Union. They massacred millions of people in China. Then there was that thing with Paul Pott.

There was that thing in Cuba. I mean, these people, the far leftist, the woke left, as we now call them, were responsible for killing more people than anybody, period. And their favorite gesture, hypocritically, is the peace sign.

That's why I hate the peace sign. It's kind of a passive form of the clenched fist. In my mind, and I'm probably the only person who thinks this way, but when I see a clenched fist, or I see a peace symbol, I see a synonymous symbol that both means authoritarianism to the extreme, that kills millions of people.

Now there's another thing in this article that referred to Maloney, and it said that whose Brothers of Italy party has its roots in neo-fascism. Pausing here to wonder, aloud, if I may, the Democratic Party in the United States, that is, we could say, Biden, whose Democratic Party has its roots in the Ku Klux Klan. Well, I mean, it did.

So can we say that? Or is it fair, and honest to say that? Can we draw the conclusion that because it had its roots historically in that particular movement, today it is still composed of the remnants of that ideology? Well, effectively, that's what they're saying about the Brothers of Italy party, because they were, because that political party has its roots in neo-fascism, then it retains remnants of that ideology, and therefore it should be eschewed, it should be hated. That's just my opinion. And somebody else could have another opinion.

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