Authentic News with Jim Fetzer, April 3, 2026 Hour 1

“Young People are FREAKING OUT Over the 2026 Draft – Will It Actually Happen?”

“Mr. [Jeremiah] Mason is regarded, after Daniel Webster, as the ablest lawyer and statesman which New England has produced. In his great speech showing the unconstitutionality of conscription, he uttered the following defiant language:

“‘In my opinion, this system of military conscription, thus recommended by the Secretary of War, is not only inconsistent with the spirit and provisions of the Constitution, but also with all the principles of civil liberty.

“‘Such a measure cannot, it ought not to, be submitted to. If it could in no other way be averted, I not only believe, but I hope, it would be resisted. The most odious and cruel slavery would be the inevitable consequence of submission.‘” (The Old Guard, May 1864, p. 112)

“Governor Brough, of Ohio, in his late message states that more than twenty thousand men have fled from Ohio to save themselves from the draft. He says in many places ‘there are not men enough left to fill the quotas.’ The same we know to be true of some townships in New Jersey. It is an awful sight to see men fleeing from their homes to avoid being seized by ‘the government,’ and dragged away to be murdered…. A sight which ought to make the cheek of every American burn with shame! The man who can glory in such a state of things deserves a halter or a straight jacket.” (The Old Guard, April 1865, p. 190)

“Of forty-one men drafted in Clinton County, Michigan, thirty-two have escaped to Canada….” (The Old Guard, May 1863, p. 117)

“‘Vile, Horrifying, Evil’: Trump Threatens to Bomb Nation of 90 Million People ‘Back to the Stone [Age]'”

“Admiral William D. Leahy, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, heartily agreed:

“‘It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was taught not to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.’

“‘The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul,’ former US president, Herbert Hoover, added shortly after the news reached him.” (Thomas Goodrich; Summer, 1945: Germany, Japan and The Harvest of Hate)

“Mr. Spaight is not content merely to admit that upon Britain rests the responsibility for starting the practice of bombing civilian populations, but insists that to Britain must be awarded the entire credit for conceiving and carrying into effect this practice…. Finally, he agrees that Hitler only undertook the bombing of the British civilian population reluctantly three months after the R.A.F. had commenced bombing the German civilian population….” (F.J.P. Veale; Advance to Barbarism (1968); Chapter 6)

“[I]n March 1942 … the Bomber Command was placed under the direction of Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris, who inaugurated civilian bombing in the Middle East and India in the 1920s.” (Sheldon Richman; “Killing Noncombatants”; The Journal of Historical Review; Vol. 18, No. 1)

“Aachen is the biggest German town in our hands. It is the most exhilarating sight I have seen for years. The town of some 170,000 inhabitants has not now a single habitable house left in it…. Ten thousand inhabitants are living like rats in cellars among the debris. One air raid alone caused 3,000 civilian deaths…. And it is good to think that what happened in Aachen happened, and goes on happening, in almost every German town.” (Report of British war correspondent, printed in London newspaper, Christmas Eve, 1944. (F.J.P. Veale; Advance to Barbarism))

“Japan was not really ‘opened’ to foreign commerce until after a British fleet had bombarded the city of Kagoshima and reduced it to rubble, and another British fleet, with a few American, French, and Dutch vessels added to make it seem international, levelled Shimonoseki in 1864….” (Revilo P. Oliver; “The Yellow Peril”)

The Yankees and the English sailed halfway around the world in 1864 to destroy a city in a country that was no threat to them, a country that had no modern weapons with which to defend itself.

Imagine this. After the shelling of their city begins, a Japanese couple and their little girl hastily seek shelter in their cellar. As the bombardment continues, the girl hears the yelping of her terrified puppy who is tied up in the yard. Before her parents can stop her, she runs outside to rescue him. A Yankee with a telescope in the crow’s-nest of his ship sees her and yells to the crew, “A little Jap bitch thinks she’ll save her dog! Give her hell, men!” As she is carrying her pet and running back to the cellar, she is brought down by a piece of shrapnel in her guts. As she lies screaming in agony, the Yankee yells triumphantly, “She’s down! The Jap bitch is down!” And then all of the Yankees on the ship laugh and spontaneously begin singing “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”.

“She’s down! The Jap bitch is down!”

“the lowest of the low, the vilest of the vile, and the most contemptible of the contemptible”

“Abraham Lincoln was the leader of the greatest and bloodiest rebellion ever recorded in the annals of mankind. His whole course was a rebellion, or a war, against not only the fundamental principles of liberty, but it was a war upon civilization and upon society. His generals not only plundered private property, but they murdered nonbelligerent and unarmed people, not even sparing women and children.” (The Old Guard, June 1867, p. 460)

“The Yankee—who has followed up an extravagance of bluster by the vilest exhibitions of cowardice—who has falsified his prate of humanity by the deeds of a savage—who, in the South, has been in this war a robber, an assassin, a thief in the night, and at home a slave fawning on the hand that manacles him—has secured for himself the everlasting contempt of the world.” (Edward A. Pollard; The Second Year of the War (1864); p. 303)

“American aviators would be released from the Army, Navy, and Marine air corps to be hired as mercenaries through the Intercontinent Corporation, … which would hire them ‘under contract with the Chinese government’ …. Japan would thus be unable to prove that the Roosevelt government’s pretense of neutrality … was odious hypocrisy….

“The plan for the sneaking attack on Japan … [was one] that Roosevelt obviously had authorized no later than 15 April 1941, eight months before Pearl Harbor…. The bombers would use incendiary bombs to devastate Japanese cities and fry Japanese civilians.…

“Only difficulty and delay in diverting weapons promised the British prevented the plan from being carried out on schedule and enabled Japan to get in the first blow….” (Revilo P. Oliver; Liberty Bell; July 1989)

“Clearly, much like his general on Okinawa, the commander of Japan simply had no desire to play ‘Santa Claus’ to a despised enemy. The conditions of hunger and homelessness did not improve for years under MacArthur. Millions of Japanese simply starved on scraps that ‘did not reach the level necessary to sustain a healthy life.'” (Thomas Goodrich; Summer, 1945: Germany, Japan and The Harvest of Hate)

The world’s contempt and hatred for the Yankee and the GI must be—and will be—everlasting.