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Ghandi is a living reminder of the following comment;
‘The meek shall inherit the earth...exactly six feet of it to be precise.’
But if the Jewish mind could be prepared for voluntary suffering, even the massacre I have imagined could be turned into a day of thanksgiving and joy that Jehovah had wrought deliverance of the race even at the hands of the tyrant. For to the godfearing, death has no terror. It is a joyful sleep to be followed by a waking that would be all the more refreshing for the long sleep.
What an amazingly horrible irony that turned out to be....
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Ghandi and the Indians also had the fortune of having the British as their oppressors.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Arun Gandhi better pray he never runs into me on a New York City street.
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I can remember my mother talking about Ghandi...
She said that he would starve himself, in order to manipulate the British...
he would claim it was a “fast” for the Indian people..but he was really blackmailing England...
If he died during one of his “fasts” (which he did so often he was not well) the people would raise up and toss out the British..
he never intended to die though and he would let the British, convince him to stop his “fast” before that would happen...
That went on for years..he had the people so stirred up that the British were scared of uprisings and murders of the white population...
Ghandi was not a “holy” man, just a conman....
The Gandhi grandson — Arun — impresses me as an incredibly stupid man, maintaining himself on his ancestor’s legacy. But perhaps he is a good fit on today’s university campus.
Hanson PUNK SLAPS that bitch Ghandi PING!
I knew Ghandi drank his own urine, but I didn’t know he dipped his pen in it too.
Breathtaking. I can only assume that Mr. Ghandi is willfully ignorant of the entirety of human history including that of his own country. How many Indian people have the Jews killed? How many have the Muslims killed?
Frankly the Jews aren't even the "biggest players" in violence within Israel itself. That is not the chorus of the international elite, of whom Mr. Ghandi is a member in good standing, but perhaps what is called for here is a little less groupthink and a whole lot more think. They might take his membership card away but it sure beats a gas chamber.
Of course the people of the world--all decent people everywhere and for all time--regret the Nazi holocaust. We regret all the horrors of the past and present: slavery, torture, injustice, genocide, child abuse, murder, rape, plague, famine--the list goes on and on--the trans-Atlantic slave trade, torture and death for public amusement in ancient Rome, child labor in the Industrial Revolution, slavery in ancient Greece, surgical procedures without anaesthesia on prisoners in China, American persecution of Indians, English persecution of the Irish, the Inquisition, slavery and torture and death by stoning in contemporary Islamic theocracites, "honor killings", the genocides in Rawanda, the Bataan Death March and inhuman treatment of prisoners of war under Imperial Japan, the Pol Pot regime...the list goes on and on and on...
Of course decent people regret such horrors. We regret injustice and all the horrors of life.
But we must not feel guilty about such things. Guilt, like pain, is useful only if it spurs us to meaningful action. Otherwise, guilt is self-defeating.
The first thing we must do is insist on truth and honesty--something that Leftists find difficult, and often impossible, to do.
Then we must resolve to do everything we can to prevent such things' happening again in the future--although, considering the past as prophesy, we must face the truth about the difficult of implementing this resolve.
And we must resolve that we--as individuals--will never participate in the implementation of such horrors.
There is as much good as evil in human nature--probably more--but we must never overlook the potential for evil within ourselves. Only by acknowledging it and resolving never to allow the evil within ourselves to become manifest can we prevent it.
Mother Teresa said that she decided to go to Calcutta when she looked inside herself and saw a Hitler lurking there.
This monster is within all of us, and only by recognizing it and resolving to prevent its becoming manifest in our actions can we save ourselves--and others--from the potential for evil.
The price of goodness--like liberty--is eternal vigilance.
And murky, sloppy logic and mendacity encourage--rather than discourage--evil.
Arun Gandhi, like his grandfather, is a political man, not a spiritual man - too wrapped up in the machinations of power and influence to be considered a credible commentator.
As James D. Harris said on Charlie Sykes' show this morning, history doesn't really repeat, but it does rhyme.
Nothing is more useless than a dead pacifist, except, perhaps, a live one.
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A chicken terrorist.