Category: EVIL MF

Who was the most horrible person in all of human history? Some might claim their mother-in-law. I’m personally crazy about mine. However, I’d like to dig a bit deeper than that today.

Tragically, the competition for that particularly dark superlative is fierce. I would say that human beings are animals, but that unfairly disparages animals. If ever you might have doubted humanity’s innate sin nature, you need look no further than any handy history text.

Contenders

Certain names naturally percolate to the top. Adolf Hitler is a perennial contestant, as is Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot. However, I would assert that these infamous personalities, vile and heartless though they might have been, enjoyed a little institutional distance. It’s likely fairly easy to sit around a conference table and foment policy that results in the extermination of millions. It’s another thing entirely to implement that policy or even pull the levers yourself. They’re all horrible, but the act becomes viscerally worse the closer you get to the actual doing.

While the competition is indeed fierce, I would like to propose one SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich for that ignoble accolade. Amidst a veritable sea of Nazi depravity, Heydrich strikes a fascinating balance between policy maker and dispassionate executioner. He’s been called the Butcher of Prague, the Hangman, Himmler’s Evil Genius, the Man With the Iron Heart, the Young Evil God of Death, or simply the Blonde Beast. He richly earned those various sobriquets.

Qualifications

Reinhard Heydrich was an officer in the Nazi Schutzstaffel, or “SS.” The SS was initially designed as Adolf Hitler’s personal bodyguard. They eventually morphed into, among other things, the Waffen SS (or “Armed SS”). These military formations fought alongside the Wehrmacht and were known for both their ferocity and their fanaticism.

Administration of the death camps and some of the more viscerally objectionable aspects of the Nazi machine fell to other arms of the SS. Heydrich personally helmed the Wannsee Conference that codified the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” His was the dark mind behind the Holocaust.

Heydrich was the head of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA). He founded the Sicherheidsdienst or Security Service — the feared SD. These racist lunatics ruthlessly crushed opposition to Naziism in both Germany and her many occupied territories. Heydrich personally organized the Einsatzgruppen that followed the advancing German armies and institutionally slaughtered the Jews.

Heydrich’s formal title was Reichprotektor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. This made him one of the most feared and powerful men in Nazi Germany. When tasked with personally cleansing Czechoslovakia of the “Jewish menace,” Heydrich threw himself into his duties with elan.

Unlike Hitler who was dark-haired and a bit stumpy, Reinhard Heydrich was straight out of central casting. Standing six foot three and sporting both angular features and blonde hair, Heydrich willingly drank the Aryan superman Kool-Aide.

A psychopath kills because he is unable to empathize with other people’s suffering. Heydrich committed mass murder because his twisted sense of reason drove him to do so. He truly believed he was doing the right thing.

For his many sins, the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) determined that Heydrich must die. They titled the mission Operation Anthropoid. Anthropoid translates, “Having the form of a human.”

The Hit

27 May 1942 was a bright clear day in western Czechoslovakia. 38-year-old Reinhard Heydrich rode in his powerful green Mercedes 320 Cabriolet B convertible accompanied solely by his driver and bodyguard, SS-Oberscharfuhrer Johannes Klein. He was heading toward the Prague airport to fly to Berlin for a scheduled meeting with Adolf Hitler.

Heydrich felt he had little to fear from the locals. The top was down, and he was enjoying the Spring sunshine.

As he approached a tight turn, Klein rode the brakes to slow the big car. At the perfect moment, a pair of Czech assassins named Jan Kubis and Jozef Gabcik stepped out and blocked the road. Gabcik leveled his Sten gun at Heydrich and squeezed the trigger. The bolt snapped forward, but the gun failed to fire.

Little Things Become Big Things

At this point, Heydrich had a decision to make. A quick word to Klein, and he likely could have run the two young Czechs over. He would have kept his appointment with Hitler and had a spirited story to share for his trouble.

However, that’s not how the Blonde Butcher rolled. He was incensed that any of these subhumans might dare defy him. Heydrich retrieved his P.08 Luger handgun, stood up in the back seat of the moving car, and took aim at his assailants. That’s when Jan Kubis hurled an anti-tank grenade.

This thing was heavy and it fell a bit short, detonating against the fender of the Mercedes. Red-hot shrapnel and fragments of upholstery tore into Heydrich’s body, penetrating his spleen, lung, and diaphragm. Two of Heydrich’s uniform jackets that had been sitting on the back seat were later found blown over a nearby trolley wire.

Oberscharfuhrer Klein attempted to engage Kubis with his own pistol. However, the grenade blast had rendered him momentarily confused. Klein inadvertently stroked his mag release instead of the trigger, ejecting his magazine and rendering his sidearm temporarily inert. With his breath failing, Heydrich directed Klein to pursue the attackers. He did so and caught up with Gabcik in a nearby butcher’s shop. Gabcik shot the SS man twice in the leg with his .32 ACP M1903 pistol and successfully made his escape.

The Stoppage

The British Sten gun was an excellent weapon with a most horrible magazine. The Mk II version of the gun readily broke down into four components for easy concealment. The simple manual of arms and the gun’s comatose 500 rpm rate of fire made it easy to master. However, that double-column, single-feed magazine was the Sten gun’s Achilles heel.

Tapering the round stack caused a great deal of unnecessary friction within the magazine. It also demanded a dedicated loading tool or at least a wooden dowel to get the mag loaded to capacity. I have experienced this very stoppage with a Sten gun myself. The bolt will fly forward and then lack the energy to strip the round from the magazine. On a peaceful Mississippi shooting range, that is curious. For Jozef Gabcik on a chaotic Czech road back in 1942, it was a somewhat bigger deal.

The Aftermath

Heydrich was hurt and badly. Hitler sent his personal physician, Dr. Karl Gebhardt, to tend to the man, but the damage was done. The unrepentant Nazi succumbed to sepsis on June 3, a week after the attack. He suffered mightily in the process. I’m not torn up about that.

Gabcik and Kubis escaped the immediate area but were later cornered in a church by SS troops. During the course of a vigorous gun battle, the SS eventually commandeered local firefighting equipment and used it to flood the place. The two young men committed suicide rather than face torture at the hands of the Nazis. They still killed 14 SS troopers and wounded a further 21. The Nazis murdered some 5,000 innocent Czechs in reprisals.

Operation Anthropoid seemed somehow destined to succeed. Despite the most ill-timed misfire of the Sten gun, Reinhard Heydrich, the Man With the Iron Heart, was dead as soon as that anti-tank grenade went off. It just took a few days to work out the details. Thus ended the reign of terror of one of the most horrible human beings in the history of the species.

Full Disclosure: I intend to step on some toes today. I’ve been at this for years now. There are hundreds of these history columns in circulation. I read every word in the comments. The politically controversial topics always make for the most engaging discussions.

Bottom Line Up Front

Antisemitism seems to be the only flavor of racism that yet remains politically acceptable these days. Point out anything good about the Confederacy (the Civil War was about more than just slavery), Apartheid-era South Africa (modern liberated South Africa seems pretty horrible today), or Hitler (he seemed to genuinely love his dog Blondi), and expect ritual evisceration by the anonymous keyboard commandos relentlessly patrolling the Internet. However, publicly advocate for a Holocaust redux by chanting “From the River to the Sea” or “Globalize the Intifada,” and folks like George Soros and David Rockefeller Jr will purportedly give you money.

It’s curious. I have never really understood why so many folks hate the Jews so. I’ve spent some time in Israel. It’s a secular state these days, but the Israeli people seemed industrious, responsible, and friendly. They produce some simply gorgeous women. Every square meter of that country was cultivated or otherwise put to some useful purpose. It was clean. Folks clearly took pride in their space.

Why then does the modern Israeli state find itself standing essentially alone amongst the community of nations? Much of the world seems to inexplicably revile them. A shockingly large percentage of the human species wants to see them exterminated. It’s weird, but why is that?

Origin Story

Had it not been for the Holocaust, there never could have been a modern state of Israel. The Jews were effectively scattered nearly 2,000 years ago. It is legitimately miraculous that they could retain their independent national identity across the centuries despite not having a homeland. However, it took the egregious nature of the Holocaust to galvanize the world into allowing the Israelis to establish their state. The day after they declared their independence in 1948, the surrounding nations banded together to obliterate them. They’ve been fighting ever since.

Everything changed in 1967. Besieged on all sides, the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) utterly spanked the combined armed forces of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon. At the end of this 6-day conflict, Israel held the Golan Heights, the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza, and the West Bank of the Jordan River. This brought the Israelis control of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. Arabs understandably call this war “The Setback.”

I’m not Jewish. The claims that Palestinians aren’t real, or that the indigenous peoples of this area were nomads without true attachment to the land, aren’t mine to adjudicate. I’m also not rendering an opinion on the legitimacy of Jewish settlements. Not my circus, not my monkeys. However, it’s been 77 years. During that time, the entire map of Eastern Europe was redrawn. Countless international borders have been reimagined. North and South Korea fought a bloody war. Vietnam did, too. None of that was perfect, but it eventually found its level. Why then have we not seen things calm down in the Holy Land?

Ample blood has been spilled by both sides. Nobody is innocent. However, there is a palpable bias in the media and the larger world against Israel. This manifests in countless little ways.

October 7

7 October 2023 began with 4,300 rockets launched into Israeli territory. Hamas and sundry Palestinian terrorist organizations followed this up with 6,000 fighters who crossed into Israel, murdering as they came. At the end of that one day, 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals had been killed. 251 were taken hostage. Between 20 and 50 hostages purportedly remain alive as of August 2025.

One out of every 8,300 Israelis died on October 7. Scaled up for our population, that is the equivalent of having somebody murder 41,000 Americans…in a single day. In response, the Israelis attacked Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and the terrorist theocracy of Iran. As in all wars, this spawned a great deal of collateral misery.

Gaza

I honestly don’t know what to believe. The media began screaming about famine and widespread starvation in Gaza before the end of 2023. That was nearly two years ago. Gaza has been leveled and looks hideous in the newsfeeds. However, the adults in the videos bear little similarity to Somali famine victims. They seem to retain a fair amount of meat on their bones. I’m not saying it’s great, but Google it for yourself if you’re curious.

Amidst widespread international outrage, such otherwise-reasonable nations as Australia, Canada, France, and the UK now stand poised to recognize Palestinian statehood in a collective snub against the state of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Donald Trump. It’s in the news every single day. American universities and major cities have been shut down due to the pro-Palestinian protests. Donning a keffiyeh and chanting pro-Palestinian slogans is cool in many circles. Meanwhile, in other news…

It All Depends on What Church You Go To

Nobody cares about Africans. Never have, never will. Bill Clinton tried back in 1993. That resulted in Blackhawk Down—a great movie, but a bit suckier for the folks who lived it. The world did indeed come together to rightfully crush Apartheid, but South Africa is ranked the 5th-most dangerous country on earth today.

The recent civil war in Sudan has claimed between 20,000 and 150,000 lives. Nobody is really sure, because nobody cares enough to figure it out. Regardless, those numbers certainly put the carnage in the same bracket as that of Gaza. And then there is Boko Haram.

The Devil Walks Among Us

Boko Haram translates to “Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad.” This merry mob of psychopaths hung out a shingle in 2002, and they have been bathing in blood ever since. Their stated mission is to establish an African caliphate by force. The resulting relentless conflict has displaced 2.3 million people. Their primary stomping ground is Nigeria.

Nigeria is a West African nation of some 230 million people. It is the most populous country in Africa, and the sixth-most populous country in the world. A true polyglot nation, there are some 525 languages in use there among dozens of different people groups. 50% of the population is Muslim, living mostly in the north. Between 46 and 48% of Nigerians are Christian, most commonly found in the south. And therein lies the problem. Christians want to be left alone to worship as they please. Radical Muslims want to exterminate all Christians.

A Typical Example

In July of 2014, members of Boko Haram captured a Nigerian Air Force officer named Umar Abubakar and aggressively interrogated him, asking why he served the state rather than Allah.
They displayed his ID card and chanted, “Allah has given us an unbeliever today!” Abubakar claimed to be a Muslim himself. Regardless, Boko Haram members shouted “Allah is Great!” and decapitated the poor guy before parading about town brandishing his freshly severed head.

This wasn’t an outlier. These maniacs cut folks’ heads off all the freaking time. Their real forte is churches. They hit places of Christian worship while services are being held and systematically slaughter the parishioners. That’s kind of their thing.

In the first half of 2022, these lunatics murdered more than 6,000 people. Unlike the carnage in Gaza, this is not collateral damage from formal military operations. This is maniacal mobs of goons with Kalashnikovs and machetes descending upon villages to murder the men, rape the women, and drag off any female captives young enough to seem interesting–all because their dark god told them to do so. Nobody is completely sure of the body count these days, but Wikipedia claims they have thus far killed 300,000 children. And the Israelis are the problem?

Will’s Solution

Nigerian Christians have grown justifiably weary of this. They are screaming for their government to provide security. I’m not convinced that’s a reasonable ask. Nigeria has 356,669 square miles of territory. The Nigerian Army can’t be everywhere at once, and Boko Haram is crafty.

I’m a committed evangelical Christian myself. I try to live my life according to Biblical precepts. Matthew 5:38-40 says, “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.”

I read that to apply to the individual believer. To me, the passage is not a command to stand idly by while 300,000 kids are murdered. I am armed every time I darken the door at my church (and anywhere else, for that matter). I think the solution to the Nigerian conundrum is guns, lots and lots of guns.

Somebody needs to pony up about 20,000 AK rifles and distribute them among the Nigerian Christian population. Then a bunch of Special Forces types could sweep through the place to teach them the rudiments of weapons handling and basic security. If they ask nicely, Donald Trump might foot the bill. That might not stop the Boko Haram attacks, but it would sure make these monsters work a little harder for it.

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Ruminations

Screaming about Gaza is the very pinnacle of hypocrisy. The Israelis attacked Gaza after Hamas murdered 1,197 Israelis in a day. The IDF has been trying to get out of that godforsaken place ever since. Hamas could disband and release those last hostages, and the war would be over tomorrow. However, they won’t. The Hamas playbook is to kick the Israelis in the shins until they finally feel compelled to fight back, and then rush out to play the victim card for the international press. It is beyond my comprehension that the world cannot appreciate that. I don’t have a dog in that fight, but it just seems so blatantly obvious.

The Nigerians do not need foreign peacekeepers or gobs of international aid. They need a 2nd amendment. Nigeria currently has some ridiculously draconian gun laws. Hunting weapons are allowed but only to individuals who endure a suffocating licensing scheme. Handguns and military weapons are illegal. Despite this fact, the place is nonetheless awash in contraband guns. That’s where Boko Haram gets theirs. The Nigerian police force has misplaced 178,479 military-grade weapons, yet law-abiding civilians face a mandatory minimum 10 years in prison if they are caught with an illegal firearm. As is always the case, those stupid rules only apply to the good folks who choose to respect them. The terrorists couldn’t care less. See Newark or Chicago for some similar examples, a bit closer to home.

So, Israel invades Gaza in response to one of the most egregious terrorist attacks in modern history, and the world had a conniption over it. Putin has snuffed as many as 400,000 lives in his ill-conceived invasion of Ukraine, and activist college students aren’t making a peep about that. Boko Haram regularly empties Christian churches to behead the men, rape the women, and enslave the children, and the world literally cannot be bothered. There are lots of different ways to quantify insanity these days, but that seems like a pretty good one to me.

Addendum: I obviously wrote this a while ago. Since then, peace does seem to have sort-of broken out in Gaza. We have Donald Trump to thank for that. Those few hostages remaining alive have been repatriated, most of the IDF has gone home, and Hamas now occupies itself murdering any other Palestinians with whom they might have had a philosophical disagreement. Time will tell if the world allows this sordid cycle to continue…