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[–] 7 pts

Then he was declared insane and put in a mental institution.

As war in Europe drew near, Pound returned home (1939) in the hope that he could help keep the peace between Italy and the United States. He went back to Italy a disappointed man, and between 1941 and 1943, after Italy and the United States were at war, he made several hundred broadcasts over Rome Radio on subjects ranging from James Joyce to the control of money and the U.S. government by Jewish bankers and often openly condemned the American war effort. He was arrested by U.S. forces in 1945 and spent six months in a prison camp for army criminals near Pisa. Despite harsh conditions there, he translated Confucius into English (The Great Digest & Unwobbling Pivot, 1951) and wrote The Pisan Cantos (1948), the most moving section of his long poem-in-progress. Returned to the United States to face trial for treason, he was pronounced “insane and mentally unfit for trial” by a panel of doctors and spent 12 years (1946–58) in Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital for the criminally insane in Washington, D.C.

[–] 5 pts

Back when they used loony bins for political imprisonment. Nowadays people just get cancelled on twatter instead.

[–] 3 pts

A tragedy to say the very least. A hero.

[–] 6 pts

and they slander him to this day..

[–] 4 pts

We can't believe Western democracies are run by Jews, because then we'd be agreeing with Hitler. That's not allowed. Totally out of bounds.

[–] 3 pts

That's exactly what they mean when they say "our democracy".

[–] 2 pts

Antisemitism and Poetry.

Name a more underrated combination.

[–] 1 pt

Was not familiar with him. Looked him up and found another favorite!

"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people." Ezra Pound

Very based Poet!

[–] 0 pt

I'm gonna have to get my collection out now