Posted on 07/20/2015 9:23:12 AM PDT by NRx
It may be 70 years since he worked at Auschwitz, and his occupation may have been no more than clerkly; he may even, as he claims, have have protested against what was happening and attempted to extricate himself from it; but it is thoroughly and totally right that an old man should be tried, sentenced, and punished for his involvement in the monstrous horrors of the National Socialist holocaust. If is true that his actions, according to the perverted legal code in place in Germany at that time, were not illegal when he performed them, that makes not one iota of difference. Every innocent Son of Adam or Daughter of Eve is protected by the commendment "Thou shalt not kill". 'Laws' which permit killing are not laws but abuses of laws. There are no such beings as subhumans. Neither Jews, nor members of any other race or human category, are vermin to be exterminated. Every instinct of human decency demands that a significant marker be placed against any surviving man or woman who gave any sort of collaboration whatsoever, immediate, proximate, or remote, to actions so grossly obscene, so unmistakeably and self-evidently horrible.
Otherwise, why should anybody ever be punished for anything?
I shall not live to see it, but I would like to think that, even if it takes 70 years, a similar retribution will one day befall those involved in the slaughter of unborn humans in our own time.
Otherwise, why should anybody ever be punished for anything?
It should not just be the 'doctors' who are involved; nor even also the nurses. Administrators, accountants, publicists, receptionists, 'counsellors', profiteers, even if they are well into their nineties; manufacturers of surgical appliances designed to facilitate abortion, and those supplying abortifacients, chemists who provide the abortionists' equivalent of Zyklon B; none of these should escape scot-free. Supreme Court 'judges' have handed down decisions such as the one denying legal protection to the Glasgow senior midwives who, on grounds of conscience, were unwilling to administer the killing machine: these purveyors of perverted 'law' should receive particularly exemplary punishment. Above all, legislators responsible for this monstrous evil, if still alive, should be hunted down and brought before a tribunal similar to that at Nuremburg. But there should be one difference. Such a tribunal should not, ever, apply the death penalty. Those convicted should be given their entire natural span of life to understand and to repent the evil in which they have participated. Every morning they should be given the reminder "You are enjoying the gift of life which you denied to others".
I learn* that Dietrich von Hildebrand observed, after Roe versus Wade, "Hitler has won". And Tolkien wisely observed "Always, after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again" (vide Mt 12:43-45).
Who will people hate when the last Nazi dies?
Only if those laws permit "murder". Killing is not always murder.
**I learn* that Dietrich von Hildebrand observed, after Roe versus Wade, “Hitler has won”. And Tolkien wisely observed “Always, after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again” (vide Mt 12:43-45).**
Wow!
All Christians need to hunker down and pray and fast for the end of abortion, and it will come [through Him]. Catholics need to do so in front of the Blessed Sacrament, frequently, and not just a couple of times a month or year.
This article (by Fr. John A. Hardon) explains the power of the Eucharist in these troubling times of abortion: http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Abortion_Euthanasia/Abortion_Euthanasia_003.htm
Mother Teresa invites all [to Jesus] here as well: http://adorationrocks.com/letter.html
I agree with you. I would love to see an organized effort of praying and fasting for the endangered unborn. We have black history month, we have breast cancer awareness month....there should be a month dedicated to this cause.
Nah! They should be hanged.
Fr. Hunwicke, another great priest who will never be a bishop! (Ah, if only he made slick video presentations and quoted confusing theologians from the 1950’s!)
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