Writer and Director, Nora Fingscheidt and me... Los Angeles, CA- - Being a member of the Screen Actors Guild I am blessed to get to see a lot of films and meet the creative forces behind them. That’s exactly what happened tonight as I saw a German film, System Crasher .   It was a project dreamed up by a lovely young film student by the name of Nora Fingscheidt .   The film began seven years ago as a thought that has culminated in an Oscar competing film in the best foreign film category.  The entire cast was captivating.  The film stars nine-year-old, Helena Zengel as Benni , a young, somewhat abandoned child.  This child is under care of the government and they can hardly cope with her.  She’s a bright girl and is fiercely independent.  Benni's real problem is obvious she has been denied a two parent household and all of the love and attention that every child deserves. She’s considered a System Crasher.  Benni has somew...

Aschaffenberg, Germany --it was December 1968 when after being drafted by the Army I wound up in this beautiful hamlet.  I was just about 15 miles from Frankfurt and was blessed to be assigned there as a medical corpsman. It was Christmas time and I was in a strange land far away from home.  I decided that since I was a guest in  this nation I'd act like one.  I was compelled to learn the customs, language and culture.  I stayed far away from fellow soldiers if for no other reason I liked the elegant German babes better.   I soon found that the German people were incredibly kind to me.  I made some wonderful new friends and got an education few Americans ever get.   The 18 months I spent in Germany  was the very best time of my life.  I traveled everywhere I could.  The money exchange rate was four Marks to the Dollar then. It was truly an adventure!  If I made a mistake it was not staying there an...

Cologne, Germany —An irreversible political decision was made under the guise of humanitarianism to bring in one million refugees from Islamic nations into Germany.  The political Left did this like they always do to bring in people they believe will keep a majority of poor so the Socialist political agenda is realized and maintained.  These predominately Islamic refugee immigrants cannot speak German or even English that’s widely spoken in Europe.   They have no job skills other than their cultural military killing related knowledge.   They hate the Western world, its culture, Christian religion and women’s rights.   With rare exceptions, these people can only survive from what they are given or forcibly take from the Europeans. These Muslims are claiming that the suggestive clothing worn by German women is an excuse brutal rape and robbery.   The Islamists claim they can’t control their sexual impulsivity when women are not covered in Burkas....

Dresden, Germany — Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes or in its English translation, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West ( PEGIDA ) is exploding in Europe. Huge demonstrations in Germany have sent some controversial shockwaves throughout Europe that has stood by failing to react to the deadly Muslim threat.  Is this a hate based movement or terrorized people coming together for simple survival? That depends upon whose opinion you’re examining. There can be no argument that Muslim extremism follows this group wherever they go.   Beheadings, bombings and extreme senseless violence directed by hateful Muslims against non-Muslims is the rule rather than the exception everywhere. The Muslims have been invited guests in civilized Western nations for longer then most of us have been alive.   Generally it’s been without major problem until the last 20-30 years.   Civilization demands that when you’re an...

Chicago, IL —I have a lot of friends that consider themselves political moderates or even Liberal.   When they saw the wide smile of America’s first Black presidential candidate they somehow fell in love. After suffering eight years with a horrible president, George Bush many of my friends gambled on this unknown African-American, Barack Obama who they figured could never be worse than Bush.   They all simply wanted change particularly with respect to Bush’s ill-advised wars.   Bush wore the Republican label and his detractors called him a Right Wing Conservative.   Bush was mislabeled as a Conservative when he was nothing of the kind.   His rhetoric seemed Conservative but that was always just talk.   His actions were Liberal and Leftist.   He was also not very smart. Bush got us needlessly into two wars that really served no purpose for America.   Attacking Iraq was really dumb.    Had Bush stayed clear...

Aschaffenburg, Germany —When I was required to serve in the U.S. Army I had the good fortune of serving as a medical corpsman in this lovely town some 30 kilometers South of Frankfurt . I landed here in December of 1968 somehow escaping a combat assignment in Viet Nam .   I arrived in Germany just 24 years after World War II ended.  Technically I was still part of an occupation army.  Thankfully the deep wounds of war here healing and a real friendship was developing between Germans and Americans.  This was amazing since Aschaffenburg was the scene of the most aggressive and deadly resistance once the war ended.   Thankfully my predecessors were mush better behaved than the Russian military swine that raped the women and children of Berlin while looting their last few possessions.  The German people showed me kindness as they welcomed me into their nation, homes and hearts.  Learning about the customs, food and rich culture was a r...

Germany's top Nazi Hunter, Kurt Schrimm in on  mission! Ludwigsburg, Germany --Germany's Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes is located in this picturesque hamlet close to Stuttgart.   The head honcho of this Nazi-hunting agency is Kurt Schrimm .   Schrimm is on a desperate mission to round up as many as 50 former guards from the Auschwitz concentration Camp believed to still be alive.   Schrimm will not have to run fast after these guys because the old fugitives are well into their 90’s and have canes, walkers and wheelchairs.   Others are blind, deaf or suffering from dementia.   What Schrimm lacks is convincing eyewitness testimony of the alleged crimes.   Schrimm will try to make these cases using old Nazi records that seem to place the men at Auschwitz during the time when atrocities were committed.   Considering name similarities and the hearsay nature of these records this questionab...