Author: Cannon’s Thoughts

The Turner Diaries was a book written by William Pierce, he used the alias Andrew Macdonald, and published the book in 1978. The Turner Diaries is a manifesto revolving around white supremacism. The story follows a man named Earl Turner, who is part of a white supremacy group in the future that plans to overthrow the government and murder anyone who is a person of color. This group is constantly committing acts of domestic terrorism and a large scheme of racism. The resulting race war is due to a nuclear war that shifted the world. The book talks about gas prices rising to astronomically high prices, causing riots and anarchy.

This faux hate group, The Order as they call themselves is a typical neo-Nazi hate group, and that plays into the main theme, that we are already living in a race state. Look at the news, there is always something going on between white people and people of color. It really isn’t that far-fetched of a story, because in the end the nuclear war is closer than you might think. William Pierce was a slacky writer and used vulgar language as a shock factor. However, it was a weak and boring story with little character development and weak structure. It is crazy to think this Nazi lover let the hate group win in overthrowing the government and allowing mass hangings of people of color to be the end story.

Maus II begins right where Maus I stopped, both Vladeek and Anja arrive at Auschwitz and are given prisoner uniforms. Their heads are shaved and they are stripped of all clothing. All articles they brought with them would be destroyed or stolen. They were filed into a housing district and they soon discovered the horrors they would have to survive. The bedding was thin, the food was stale, the sanitation was poor, it was hell. They are forced to work all day and many prisoner mice die from exhaustion. 

Vladek gets a special luck of the dice when he figures out he can teach a head guard English in return for favors and bonuses. He knows English well and teaches the guard the language throughout his stay. He gets better food and better clothing than the other prisoners because of it. We then find out that the author cannot get himself to finish the book ,but is reassured by himself that no one suffered more than the people at Auschwitz and therefore he must persevere. 

He continues with the story and Anja gets taken to another camp, this one is for Jewish people who are about to be murdered. He makes his way over to the camp where he is then beaten by Nazis and put into a hospital. He then tells Art that he was inspected by the Angel of Death but nothing came of it and he later fell ill and was shipped to Switzerland as a prisoner of war. When American soldiers rescue him he finally gets to be reunited with his wife. In the end Art gets mistaken by Vladek who is very sick and thinks Art is someone else.

Maus is a cartoon story written by Art Spiegelman, it is broken up into two different books labeled, Maus I and Maus II. The story is about his father who is a Jewish mouse during Hitler’s reign in Germany. The story views Nazis as powerful cats and it views Jewish people as tiny weak mice. Art’s father, whose name is Vladek, is the main character of this story and in the beginning of Volume I, Art goes to visit his father. Vladek tells Art of his early years and we see he falls in love and gets married. Vladek finds out that his wife Anja is a communist and a traitor to her people. 

He thinks of leaving her but stays, and later in the story she gets sick and Vladek is forced to take her to the hospital. There in the hospital, Vladek sees his first Nazi flag. Vladek gets drafted to fight for the Polish and winds up getting sent to the frontlines. There he is captured by Nazis and thrown into a work/slave camp. Since he is a mouse of Jewish faith he is treated worse than the other prisoners, although they all were treated quite terribly. 

He was transferred to the work camp later on and forced to dig throughout the entire day. After some time in the work camp he is sent back to Poland but dropped off in a random location so he is forced to find his own way home. Finally he arrives home to find his family relieved but in shock to see his once beautiful factory that he owned was seized by the Nazis and he is no jobless. Vladek and Anja bounce from hiding spot to hiding spot before being caught by Nazis and sent to Autruwitz.

Do Virginian hunters really help conservation efforts? That is the question I am seeking to find answers for. In the grand scheme of things you can argue that hunters help the environment more than hurt it. Why is that though? Hunters pay over 800 million dollars in licensing and fees annually. These funds are then donated to conservation organizations. However, while you can look at the federally taxes and licenses that hunters must pay yearly, what you can’t look at is the amount of illegal hunting and over tagging that goes on in the area.

I live in a rural area where hunting and fishing are a part of the majority of the people who live here. Most of my friends growing up have always hunted, however it was never my thing as I found it lacking and sometimes grotusque. When I used to work at Walmart I would register dozens of people a week for legal hunting licenses and I got to see first hand the pricing and procedure on how one obtains a hunting license. It is super simple and only certain licenses are objectively pricey.

Using my status of multiple cases of hunters, I can argue that while it is easy to obtain a hunting license, many hunters that I know or knew didn’t buy them. Most would be for federal state hunter seasons (i.e. turkey, deer, duck), but that didn’t stop them from over tagging or failing to tag in the first place. The main reason I bring this up is this will be my main argument, because if I know dozens of people who don’t follow the rules, just imagine how many do it worldwide, and if no one follows the rules, then hunting will hurt the environment. Because of this fascinating dilemma that I have put onto myself, this will be the question I seek after.

Anarchist cookbook is a very interesting read, the book is written by a shaggy man named William Powell. William was only 17 when he wrote Anarchist cookbook, he was angered at the government because he was going to be drafted into the vietnam war. The book shows recipes for making a wild variety of illegal weapons and substances. The FBI found wind of this book and was concerned over the book recipes on how to make explosives.

 Powell wrote this at a very young age and in fact he was only 17 when he made this. This was a very interesting read for sure and it isn’t at all what I had in mind when I read the title. Powell definitely had a lot of knowledge on everything he wrote about, but on the other hand it was suspicious how he knew so many people who were involved in suspicious and illegal activity. This was written with intention and that was for it to be used by others in a malicious way. 

Powell says that he regretted writing this since he wrote this at such a young age especially since he was inexperienced. I would necessarily say this is something that I would read again. I would prefer to read Bambi. Even though this was an interesting read, the only thing that truly caught my eyes was how he had mentioned peanut butter and how he was explaining how to make drugs because it just seemed truly ridiculous to me.The only thing that seemed truly realistic was how to make the explosives.

Saying Ted Kaczynski was strange would be an understatement. Ted, colloquially called the Unabomber, due to the targets of his bombings. They got UNABOM from universities and airlines being his targets. He targeted a total of 16 handcrafted bombs. He used to make mediocre pipe bombs in his early test but they soon shifted to more resistant to high pressure bombs. He killed three people and injured a dozen in his 17 year long terrorist spree.

He wrote a manifesto called Industrial Society and Its Future and was his reasoning for why he was doing his bombings. His manifesto was released one year before his arrest, news sites were forbidden at first to publish any form of his manifesto at first due to the cause of a possible anarchist group forming. They published it in 1995 and he was captured in 1996. His manifesto stated ultimately that we as society must rise up against technology before it takes over, and that it already is slowly taking over. He threatened to do more attacks if his manifesto wasn’t published, so the FBI forced the news sites he wanted them on to publish it. For a while it was a forbidden text, now it’s just a nonsensical blab post.

Ted had attended a bizarre and controversial scientific study while he attended Harvard. This case study lasted more than three years spanning from 1959 to 1962. Ted was forced to write essays about his personal philosophies, then after he would be shocked with electrodes and yelled at and called slurs for hours. Many experts say this played a large part into why Ted became who he became. In the end Ted is just another historical madman who caused havoc and blamed a non-urgent threat as his justification, sounds just like Hitler.