One Small Town, One Terrible Lesson

Illinois Review ^ | April 29, 2012 A.D. | John F. Di Leo

[Gay State Conservative]

I visited the Dachau museum that stands near where the actual camp was situated.It was a rainy,dreary,cold March day which only added to the spookiness.I was so freaked out that I had to leave after about 30 minutes.

[dfwgator]

Imagine how the Polish inhabitants of Oswiecim must feel. Through no fault of their town is forever associated with evil.

[sport]

Mark for later.

[21twelve]

An excellent essay. My kids are learning about the Holocaust now in school. My one daughter has been interested in it for awhile, and did a website on it earlier this year for her history day project. A lot of the kids had the same questions and didn't really believe her (”how could they kill so many without anyone knowing”, “how could one guy be that powerful”, etc.)

Thank goodness something like that could never happen again. /s

I read somewhere that the Jews in Germany at the time were not very religious, and that they were preyed upon as they were viewed as the greedy and wealth-takers. The one-percenters at the time.

[Twotone]

“As hard as it is to remember these horrors, we must find a way. Not to dwell on the morbid, but to remember that what has happened before, could happen again… that unless restrained, governments can kill. And in particular, socialists kill.”

That point can’t be repeated too many times!

[jocon307]

This is an excellent piece. Thanks for posting it. He doesn’t pull a punch.

[tomkat]

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking:  What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?  Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?  The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

  Solzhenitsyn

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[21twelve]

The idea of abortion came to mind in reading some of this. What scapegoat that threatens our way of life, gets in the way of our progress, our freedom, our financial gains and our pleasures? Hitler ain't got nothing on the millions killed in the U.S.

[null and void]

6 million? Friend and mentor of Obama, Bill Ayers, thinks 25 million Americans should be killed.

[DuncanWaring]

25 million when the population was 200 million.

Scale that number up by 50%.

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[X-spurt]

And 150 million Americans think Ayers should be killed.

[X-spurt]

And 150 million Americans think Ayers should be killed.

[Levante]

In regards to fighting evil...

One of my favorite Twilight Zone (1980s incarnation) episodes, “Red Snow”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22f5Sa92knk

[xone]

ph

[wintertime]

These godless movements imagine their own utopia and take measures to reach it
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Yet.....85% of our nation's children attend our government's GODLESS, compulsory-attendance, compulsory-funded, and socialist-entitlment schools. What are Christians and conservatives thinking when they send their children into these indoctrination centers?

If children attend godless schools they will learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate in the classroom. How could it be otherwise?

If children attend socialist-entitlement schools they risk learning to be comfortable with socialism. Any voting mob powerful enough to give them tuition-free schooling is certainly powerful enough to give them **lots** of “free” stuff.

If children attend compulsory attendance government schools they become comfortable with government compulsion.

If and when we have concentration camps in the U.S., the sheeple will not board trains. The oligarchy will use big yellow school buses and the citizens will compliantly step up and take a seat just as they have been trained to do.

May God save our nation because I doubt our experiment in self-rule can withstand another generation of voters indoctrinated in godless and socialist-funded government schools.

[wintertime]

One of the concepts taught in women's self defense courses is that some decisions **must** be made beforehand. For instance, I have personally decided that I will not be forced into a car. A perp will have to kill me in the parking lot. I will resist and attack him with every ounce of energy that I have.

Well....During the Kosovo crisis, I made a decision. I will **never** allow the men in my family to be dragged out into the street to be shot. They will have go through me first. I, personally, (little ole grandmom me) will resist with everything that I have. They will have to kill me before I would let that happen.

I will **never** allow myself to be rounded up and sent to a concentration camp. I will resist. This is an oath that I have made to myself and to God.

It is time, that we as citizens face this decision and make that decision beforehand.

By the way....If tyranny comes to the U.S. they won't use trains. They will round up the sheeple with big yellow school buses.

[DuncanWaring]

One of the entries on Claire Wolfe’s “101 Things To Do ‘til The Revolution” is:

“Decide what you’re willing to kill for. Not ‘What you’re willing to die for’; What you’re willing to kill for”.

[tomkat]

You and me both, sister !

A sincere and rousing Bravo to your attitude !

My personal plan, posted on a thread re bugging out (and others) is:

I hope to kill as many of the zombie bastards as possible, torch the ranch, and the save the last round for me.

Fortunately (tho it often doesn't seem so) I've no children/spouse to factor into that decision,
and am of an age at which any delusions of immortality/invincibility were long ago discounted.