Keenan also claimed that the Altadena fire was likely started by homeless people. “So until we see Gavin Newsom actually, like, rescind those laws, the sanctuary city laws, and frankly cracking down on the homeless, because as we know, 80% of the fires in SoCal are arson, and a lot of that is the homeless camps all up and down these hills,” Keenan told MacIntyre.
She added that she’s “pretty sure that when they investigate the Altadena fire,” it will be traced back to a “homeless camp in the Eaton Canyon,” and that “these schizophrenic, these drug addicts” “think it’s fun to light something on fire.”
The cause of the fires is under investigation, and there is currently no evidence that arson was involved. Investigators are looking into the Eaton Canyon electrical tower as a possible source of the Altadena fire, however. Of the 20 most destructive California wildfires, 8 — including 2018’s Camp Fire — had power-related causes according to the New York Times.
Admittedly, the two events are more different than they are similar, but I could not help but remember the time when the Fascists blamed the Reichstag fire on us.
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1885: Lorenz Böhler, Fascist physician, was born.
1890: Michiaki Kamada, Axis vice‐admiral, came into existence.
1919: The protofascist Freikorps killed Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, dealing a massive blow to the Spartacist uprising and paving the way for Fascism.
1933: Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn‐Wittgenstein became a group leader (Kameradschaftsführer) in the HJ.
1937: As the Nationalists and Republicans both withdrew after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road, Hermann Göring met Benito Mussolini; when Göring brought up the topic of Berlin’s wish to annex Austria, Mussolini showed disapproval.
1940: Fascist submarine U‐44 sank Norwegian steamer Fagerheim in the Bay of Biscay at the early hours of the day, massacring fifteen but leaving five alive. Later, U‐44 fired shots at Netherlandish merchant freighter Arendskerk; realizing his ship could not out run the Fascists, Arendskerk’s captain gave the abandon ship order, but the Fascists sank it. Nevertheless, all sixty‐five of the crew lived; the Italian streamer Fedora rescued them. Meanwhile, Kapitän zur See Ernst Kretzenberg took command of cruiser Köln and U‐23 completed her sixth war patrol.
1941: Axis merchant raider Pinguin captured Norwegian whalers Star XIX and Star XXIV in the South Atlantic north of the Azores, and the Axis submarine Luigi Torelli assaulted an Allied convoy west of Ireland, sinking Norwegian ship Brask and Greek ship Nemea.
1942: In Poland, Axis authorities commenced deporting Jews from the Łódź ghetto to the Chelmno Concentration Camp. In Asia, Axis troops crossed the Gemencheh Bridge over the Kelamah River in British Malaya to assault Australian‐held positions at Gemas; although the initial attack failed with the loss of six tanks, subsequent attacks and flanking maneuvers forced the Allies to fall back to the Gemas River. Elsewhere, the 4th and 5th Imperial Guard Regiments wiped out forward positions held by elements of the Indian 45th Brigade north of the Muar River, and the Axis’s Armeegruppe Mitte began to fall back from the Kaluga area, forming a new defensive lines twenty miles to the west.
1943: Axis aircraft raided Telepte Airfield in Tunisia three times and Youks‐les‐Bains Airfield in Algeria once, but lost a total of fifteen aircraft during these assaults. Elsewhere, two companies of ‘Loreto’ combat engineers battalion of the Italian Air Force transferred by ship from Sicily to Tunis, Tunisia; the remaining two companies of the 1st Air Force Assault Regiment ‘Amedeo d’Aosta’ would remain in Sicily to repair airfields.
1944: The XIV Panzer Corps abandoned Monte Trocchio, Italy and fell back across the Rapido River; the Axis subsequently lost both Monte Trocchio and Monte Santa Croce to the Allies.
1945: A report noted that the total number of prisoners in concentration camps was 714,211; there were about 40,000 guards at the camps. The Greater German Reich’s head of state departed the Adlerhorst headquarters in Wetterau, returning to Berlin, which ordered Panzerkorps Grossdeutschland to move from East Prussia, Germany to Poland to counter the Soviet Vistula‐Oder Offensive. An Axis V‐2 rocket hit Rainham, London, massacring fourteen folk and seriously injuring four, but Axis shipping in Hong Kong and rail facilities at Freiburg both suffered Allied assaults.
1950: Axis commanding officer turned Allied traitor, Petre Dumitrescu, expired. He captured 15,565 Soviet prisoners of war at the cost of 10,541 casualties, but when Bucharest surrendered to the Allies in 1944 he helped capture of 6,000 Wehrmacht members. Make of that what you will.
1951: The Allies found Ilse Koch guilty of incitement to murder, incitement to attempted murder, and incitement to the crime of committing grievous bodily harm. They gave her life imprisonment and forfeiture of civil rights. On the other hand, the Western Allies released Axis war criminal Hellmuth Felmy early.
1965: Winston Churchill suffered a stroke, which caused a severe cerebral thrombosis… okay, I know that this event’s relevance to fascism is arguable, but I’m including it here anyway because it’s too funny.