Japanese soldiers in China in 1937 had a "no prisoners" policy and killed thousands of abandoned enemy bodies, POWs and civilians. The Japanese soldiers lured groups of 100 to 200 Chinese people to secluded locations to be killed en masse.
The Nanking Massacre was a period of mass murder and war atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers against the residents of Nanjing, then capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Although there were no orders to rape or to exterminate the enemy, there was a take-no-prisoners policy, and Japanese soldiers began to execute Chinese prisoners of war and unarmed deserters who had surrendered.
The Japanese units learned of the Chinese retreat on December 13th, which leads to skirmished and ultimately surrender by many Chinese soldiers. The attack on Nanking appears out of control from the start with glory-hungry units leading the charge, which can be compared to the sack of Carthage by the Romans.
In this segment, insensitive and derogatory speech is used while recounting past experiences.
The speaker describes the chaos and destruction during the Iraq War, with the image of a "crazy apocalyptic fireworks show."
A rolling program of replacing prisons and using technology to secure people in their homes or in different environments is necessary to change how we treat people who have committed crimes, as they are much more likely to behave normally when they come out of a normal environment rather than behind monstrous concrete walls. Only an absolute tiny number of immediately violent people will need to be secured in what might look like a cell.