The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law and Genocide in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)

by Christopher Simpson (Author)

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• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Common Courage Press (July 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567510620
• ISBN-13: 978-1567510621
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,126,041 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars pretty good, May 20, 2008

By	Robert W. Smith "Robert Smith, Ph.D." (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

i have to agree with one of the other reviewers, simpson's title seems to offer much more than the book delivers. frankly, if he had fully covered money, law, and genocide in the 20th century, the book would have been an extra 20 thousand pages. it consists of 20 chapters that are representative of topics within the title. the chapters are well written and adequate referencing is provided. i also agree that a chapter discussing the relationships between sociopathy and genocide would have filled out the text. in quite a few chapters, i found that, while it discussed what it discussed quite well, there were many topics that were not even mentioned. overall, i think that this is a very good book. it is well worth the price, used, for those studying genocide. you know, another topic that merits attention, somewhat addressed in the book "unholy trinity" is the complicity of those in positions of moral or religious authority and the resolution. again, overall, very good, used.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Insufficient, flawed, but contributes some puzzle pieces, June 20, 2005

By	Lion Kuntz "Researcher of Evil" (California, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Before considering this book one must read The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us, by Martha Stout, ISBN: 076791581X. One in 25 of us has no conscience, can do anything without guilt or remorse -- that includes reviewers who shrug off mass murders.

Simpson takes on two events: the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Shoah, but he doesn't understand the underlying psychology of sociopaths creating all history. The history of governments is the history of sociopaths taking over. Thomas Paine in Common Sense (ISBN: 0486296024) explained it consisely: " This is supposing the present race of kings in the world to have had an honorable origin; whereas it is more than probable, that could we take off the dark covering of antiquity, and trace them to their first rise, that we should find the first of them nothing better than the principal ruffian of some restless gang, whose savage manners or pre-eminence in subtility obtained him the title of chief among plunderers; and who by increasing in power, and extending his depredations, over-awed the quiet and defenceless to purchase their safety by frequent contributions.", and elsewhere said "Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices." Genocides are wickedness done by governments controlled by sociopaths.

Sociopaths resist laws restraining their wickedness. They reward sycophants who pile on praises for the brutal power to rule without restraints both from beneath and from neighboring powers. International rule of law is kept weak by the predatory nations.

However, Nuremburg created precedent out of thin air: said nazis cannot kill people under their control as a "right of government". The logic for this precedent derives from the principle that the people are the sovereign, that government belongs to the people, not people belong to the government. Intuitively Simpson understands, but intellectually he cannot apply the principle. This book gropes for answers which are in plain sight when sociopathy is considered.

On page 232 of Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil, by Ron Rosenbaum, ISBN: 0679431519, this quote is presented (in context):

"In his speech to a regional Nazi Party meeting, Hitler "addressed himself to the Jewish question [and] referred contemptuously to the insistent demands within the party for more action against the Jews." Dawidowicz writes. He assures them no one is more qualified to think about the disposition of the Jews -- he knows where he's going, but he must employ Machiavellian tactical considerations to make sure he gets there: "The final aim of our whole policy is quite clear for all of us" (emphasis added), Hitler says.

[HITLER:] Always I am concerned only that I do not take any step from which I will perhaps have to retreat, and not to take a step that will harm us. I tell you that I always go to the outermost limits of risk. but never beyond. For this you need to have a nose more or less to smell out: "What can I still do." . . . In a struggle against an enemy[,] I do not summon an enemy with force to fight. I don't say: "Fight!" because I want to fight. Instead I say. "I will destroy you! And now, Wisdom, help me to maneuver you into the corner that you cannot fight back. and then you get the blow right in the heart."

It's a passage in which Hitler seems to be confiding to his insiders exactly the exoteric-esoteric two-track strategy ... There is no doubt, no hesitation, no wavering around his final goal: the destruction of the enemy. But he discloses to his confidants his intention to conceal from outsiders, from the enemy, the ultimate goal in order to take, one after another, cautious, intermediate steps toward it. Steps that will appear hesitant only to those not in the know: caution that will seem like trepidation only to those it's designed to deceive."

The "Blow To The Heart", the corralling the weak into "divide-to-conquer" pieces, the concealed manipulations are the methods, eternal methods, of the sociopaths.

Christopher Simpson puts some facts on record: pages 230, 248, 249, 251, 265, 266, 267, 271, 273 (look them up) how American-Axis sociopaths undermined efforts for truth, justice and the American way, manipulating levers of power through infiltration of government. He fails to track the lifetime records exposing the symptoms of sociopathy of persons he names.

He never tracked John McCloy's lifetime record to sitting with Himmler and Goering in Hitler's box in the 1936 Berlin Olympics (with Charles A Lindbergh), connected to the same lawfirm as the chief American judge at the Nuremberg Industrialist's Trial. McCloy targetted bombings, refused to bomb Auschwitz which his partrons were invested in, refused to even bomb the railways serving Auschwitz, then pardoned the Industrials who received light sentences from his law partner.

Simpson never tracked The Dulles brothers completely: John Foster Dulles support for the American-Nazi Axis extended to financially underwriting neighbor eugenist Lindbergh's anti-semitic speech on the eve of Pearl Harbor, and Allen was instrumental in the escape from capture, trial or punishment of many high-ranking SS officers. This is slovenly scholarship which mars this book.

200,000,000 people were murdered last century by sociopaths, villians whose whole life story cannot conceal the clear markers of identifiers which diagnose sociopathy. The sociopaths have names and there are records which escaped the shredders of people knowing full well they were engaged in supreme criminal activities. Simpson just failed to find enough facts before starting to write his thesis. His book helps, in a very imperfect manner, to throw light on a difficult subject.

Read the review for The Plot To Seize The White House, by Jules Archer, ASIN: B0006COVHA, to see some pieces of the puzzle Simpson just plain refused to look at.

5.0 out of 5 stars cost of book, May 24, 2009

By	Little Teacher on the Prarie (Iowa) - See all my reviews

I'm glad this book remains in print, but disappointed by the price. I think I paid less than the current price when it first came out in hardbound (Grove Press??). Never heard of Common Courage Press and I know we should be grateful they've picked it up.

I did a lot of yellow highlighting when I first read this, because there were so many cogent phrases and paragraphs, something I normally don't do with a book.