Cernovich RT’d CJ Killmer
@KillmerCj [Thread at link below]
After the sinking of the Lusitania, Sen. Robert La Follette claimed that the ship had actually been carrying large amounts of ammunition for the UK govt. The US & UK govts claimed this was false-even though both knew it wasn’t-& their respective medias dutifully repeated the lie.
A campaign (ultimately unsuccessful) was launched to remove La Follette from the Senate, & a big part of their charges was that he’d been spreading what would in today’s Orwellian lingo be called misinformation.
Just a few years after the war ended, a New York customs official claimed the ship had in fact been carrying a large amount of ammo. Divers on the wreck in 2008 proved the customs official & La Follette were correct, & that the US & UK govts & press had knowingly lied at the time
Think about that: The US & UK govts & media lied about the Lusitania (& not just in regard to the ammunition, btw) & the 1 guy in Congress who told the truth about it was nearly impeached for supposedly spreading “misinformation.”
Do you really think this willingness of govt & media to lie during wartime, & to demonize & try to silence & destroy those who tell the truth, has magically stopped sometime in the last 100 yrs???
Or do you think it’s more likely that their willingness to lie & to try to silence & destroy those who speak the truth (& their skill & sophistication at doing both) has massively INCREASED over the last 107 years???
PS - The large amount of ammunition stashed in the Lusitania’s cargo holds DRASTICALLY increased the number of passenger casualties, because of 1) all the secondary explosions of the ammo touching off & 2) it caused the ship to sink a lot faster than it otherwise would’ve.
BTW, I’m currently up to my eyeballs (& have been for a while) working hard on an epic upcoming Dangerous History Podcast mini-series on World War I propaganda in the US. Stay tuned!
https://twitter.com/KillmerCj/status/1527620296479490048
I never heard that story.
Thanks!
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If the ammo is small arms, then no, it would not increase the fatality number. Ammo “touching off” outside a firearm chamber does not fly off in a powerful manner or direction, because the exploding gunpowder creates the hot gases that expand in all directions, simply rupturing the cartridge. In contrast, for a cartridge firing within a firearm chamber, the heavy walls of the chamber and the heavy tight bolt behind the cartridge force the explosion only in one direction—down the open barrel. Cartridges just burning up and popping off are like firecrackers, essentially, and the bullets do not fly off and hurt anyone. The cartridges “cooking off” and killing bystanders by bullets flying off in a random manner in a fire is a myth.