Joan Meyer correctly linked Gideon Cody raid on Marion County Record to Kristallnacht

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 11, 2024

Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.

Earlier this year, I traveled to Marion in Kansas, United States, for the anniversary of the raid on the Marion County Record.

We watched the documentary about the raid, Unwarranted: The Senseless Death of Journalist Joan Meyer which was produced by Jaime Green and Travis Heying. The moment where Joan Meyer called the police nazis jumped out at me. I made a mental note to include it here in the nazi.compare web site but I wanted to review it carefully and give it the justice it deserves.

I opened up the video on the anniversary of the Kristallnacht and the evidence jumped out at me. I don't think anybody has noticed it before but Joan was right on the money about nazi stuff.

The Kristallnacht occurred on the night of 9 to 10 November 1938. It was a giant pogrom by Nazi party members. The police did not participate but they didn't try to stop it either.

However, the Jewish press were not attacked during the Kristallnacht.

In fact, Hitler's Nazis attacked the Jewish press on the previous night, 8 November.

Looking at the body cam footage where Joan Meyer accuses Gideon Cody and his police colleagues of "nazi stuff", we can see a time and date stamp at the bottom right corner. The date of the raid is written in the United States date format, Month/Day/Year, 08/11/2023 which was 11 August 2023. When we see the date 08/11/2023 in Europe, for example, in Germany, we would interpret that as Day/Month/Year, in other words, that is how Europeans and Germans write 8 November 2023, the day that Nazis raided the Jewish press in advance of the Kristallnacht.

 

Here is the section of the video where Joan Meyer makes the Nazi comment, look at the date stamp at the bottom right corner, it is 08/11/2023 as in 8 November for Europe:

FSFE censored communications from the elected representatives

While thinking about the way the Nazis gave these censorship orders the night before the Kristallnacht, I couldn't help thinking about the orders from Matthias Kirschner and Heiki Lõhmus at FSFE when they wanted to censor communications from the elected Fellowship representatives.

Berlin police have declined to help FSFE shut down web sites that are making accurate FSFE / Nazi comparisons.

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