Korean War

The United States and the Soviet Union have very different ideologies. The United States wants everyone to be free and not have to worry. The Soviet Union wants their government to have total control over their people. This was one thing that caused the United States to get involved with the Korean War. We wanted to stop the spread of Communism. But this apposed trouble. General MacArthur wanted to use nuclear weapons and wanted to kill everyone. Most of the United States people loved MacArthur. This caused problems with President Harry Truman. He wanted to fire MacArthur but he knew this would cause the people to get very angry. Finally Korea and the United States talked it out in peace. 

Red Scare

The Red Scare is one on the things that came with getting into the Cold War. With the United States getting involved, the country getting scared, people started getting frantic. People in the movie business would fire people if they suspected anything to do with communists; the same was for the industrial industry. The Red Scare got a huge coming to when people would start strikes. Also, someone tried to bomb the attorney- general. This caused many people to get arrested. Also when the Soviet Union tested the nuclear bomb, this caused our country to go into full military mode and get involved. A year later, after Korea became communist supporters, we got involved in the Korean War. 

United States and Soviet Union

The United States and the Soviet Union greatly very differently, the United States is a capitalism country and the Soviet Union is communism country. In the United States you can have a free market which means that you are free to trade with other countries as you please.  The Soviet Union on the other hand the government does not allow their people to trade, it must be the government that gets to trade not the person who has the product. With the Soviet Union being communistic it makes trading goods very hard, you really don’t have a choice on how you can trade. We should be thankful in the United States we are very lucky that we can trade as we please.

Dr. Josef Mengele and Dr. Shiro Ishii

I am writing about what I think is the most terrible things that one human can possibly do to another human. Let’s go back to 1939, the year that Word War II started. Many people around the world were suffering tremendously, from Germany to Japan and even the United States.

 In Germany Hitler took control and started Nazi camps. This is where the evil and twisted Dr. Josef Mengele, or Angel of Death, took over his evil experiments. Dr. Mengele worked at Auschwitz where he took many victims lives.  The people that he was most interested in where child twins, with the twins he tried to figure of heredity. Another fascination was eye color. He would take eyes and inject them to see if they could change color.  He later fled the camp because he knew it was soon going to be over taken and shut down.

          The next sick and twisted individual is Dr. Shiro Ishii. Ishii was the head of Unit 731, biological and chemical warfare research, where he carried out violent human experiments. Some of the experiments’ that he carried out was he would force pregnant women to have an “abortion”. He would take the women and inject them with different diseases so he could see how the fetus and mother would react to them. He also made it so the prisoners would have strokes, heart attacks, frost bite, and hypothermia.

          I am very disgusted with how and what the Germans and Japanese did to others. They are both equally bad in all ways. In my point of view, they are both terrible. How could you ever do that to someone? Why is it that when one person beholds all power everything turns evil and twisted, then it’s all for one. This was a terrible time in history.

          Nanking was a very eye opening film.  It opened my eyes to all of the terrible things the Japanese did to young women. I cannot imagine what that would have been like to go through those times. The Holocaust was just as bad as what they did to all of the different races. I cannot believe what we humans are capable of. 

War

        Have you ever thought about how we, the people, contribute to joining a war that is taking place? Well if you don’t know we the people have a huge chunk of deciding on whether or not of going into a war. Without the people, you wouldn’t have anyone to join the military. Who would go out and protect us? Nationalism, devotion to one’s country, has a huge part that makes men and women want to join the military and serve our country.  Men and Women want the best for their country and if that means that they die for the country they will.  With going into the war the United States need allies to help with the war. Although Germany and the United States, Germany did break allies with the United States by attacking international shipping.  This fired up many people and helped them join the war. Most men wanted to join the war to show pride and leadership for their country. Without these men we would have never been able to be a strong military.  With this we need men and women who are willing to risk their lives and stand up for our country and serve. We need their families supporting them through this whole journey they are willing to take. Without the whole United States standing behind our troops we have nothing. We need to show support, help serve and better our country. Men out there need to be ready to willing to fight for their country. 

Salt Pit

       We were assigned to research the topic CIA’s Salt prison and torture methods that they use on prisoners to try and get answers out of them.  The definition of salt prison or pit is CIA interrogation center in Afghanistan.  This salt pit started to arise and become more popular after the 9/11 attack. This made the CIA very furious with terrorists and wanted to stop them.  I read three different articles, which I will explain in this blog.
The first article I read was titled, At CIA’s ‘Salt Pit’ prison, torture reigned, with little oversight this article is found on msn.com. This article explains that no one in the world really knew about these torture prisons until now. What they do to the prisoners is very inhumane. They would make the prisoners to get no sleep, no clothes, unhealthy food, cold showers, and mock executions.  The CIA will take prisoners and put them in shackles and let them listen to blaring music for around 22 hours of the day.  One of the victims of the Salt Pit, Gul Rahman, only lasted two months from when the pit opened. He was killed due to misunderstanding towards the CIA.
United States government hired two psychiatrists to come up with new torture techniques to torture the prisoners. Each of the doctors got paid around forty million dollars to complete this task.  James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were the two doctors that were chosen to do this task for the government. They used Wikipedia and the hand book of Joseph Stalin to come up with torture tactics. They quoted to Vanity Fair in a questioning, “We are proud of the work we did for our country.”
The last article I read on was from Huffington Post, it talked about how Gul Rahman was shackled and left in the pit half naked and with little to no food. With him were four other terrorists.  The government would tell the family of the members that died that they died of natural causes or died in the interrogation. Why do we need to treat these people so poorly?

Over Abusing Power?

As we go to concerts, festivals or any public events, do you look around and what do you usually see, cops. Cops are there to protect and serve the citizens to make sure they are safe. But when does protecting people and getting involved too much? In Pittsburgh Pride Fest, Ariel Lawther is under arrested after she “assaulted” a Pittsburgh police officer.  The police officer was trying to break up a fight between Ariel and Eric Moure. Do you think that the police officers are doing their job or making it worse?

                On June 15, 2014, Ariel Lawther was at Pittsburgh Pride Fest, when she got into an argument with an anti-gay protester, Eric Moure. They were in the middle of the street, when the police officer, Souroth Chatterji, came in and tried to break up the fight. In the meantime, the police officer said that Ariel began punching him in the chest. This is the time where the police officer pushed her into an opening trying to hand cuff her. As he pushed her, he pushed her in the upper chest area and neck. Is this were police officers cross the line? Couldn't he have simply tried to ask her to stop and say he was a police officer instead of pushing her? The police officer was scared of Lawther hurting innocent people in the crowd, so he grabbed her by the hair on her head and shoved her out of the crowd. Jenna Kenny, a bystander who recorded the parts of the fight and arrest that took place, posted this video on Facebook.  As Jenna was interviewed for the news she said, “She didn't put up a fight. The only time she was throwing her hands up in the air is when he grabbed her.”

                Mayor, Bill Peduto, ensures that this case will be fair and complete investigation so that the both parties get fair treatment from Pittsburgh.  Peduto wants the city not to worry and to make sure that the city is safe and gives each party to explain their side of the story.

                Our law enforcement is supposed to protect and help serve citizens but does that give them the right to hurt the citizens in the time they try and arrest them? The police officer who made the arrest is off duty until the investigation is over and has come to justice.  I think we need to have better law enforcement rules that you should need to go through before touching or hurting the person before arresting them? Why didn't officer Chatterji try and talk to Ariel before grabbing and pushing her out of the crowd? Could this situation have been avoided by trying to settle this in a civilized manner?

                Do you think that cops are over abusing their power or just protecting citizens?  Is it necessary for them to attack citizens without trying to talk to them? In Ariel case she was just trying to protect herself and to stand up for what she believes in.  Where does the line cross for protecting and abusing?

Sources:http://www.wtae.com/news/woman-arrested-during-pittsburgh-pridefest/26510854

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2659839/Police-officer-investigated-grabbed-woman-head-punched-gay-pride-parade-woman-attacked-man-protesting-against-LGBT.html