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To: nickcarraway

A year after the battle of Waterloo, bone collectors picked up the skeletons, then ground them up to be used as fertilizer in England.

In truth, there is little that is special about the Holocaust. It was not the only industrial genocide, nor was it unmatched in its inhumanity and brutality. Neither the Stalinist nor Maoist mass murders are forgotten, but there is no great lesson there, either, other than that tyranny is evil.

Except to the Jews. It was their final warning that they could never again rely on the good graces of others when threatened, and only by their hard work and diligence could they survive. It is an important lesson that should not be lost on us as well.


14 posted on 01/26/2009 11:55:08 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Petronski

ping


49 posted on 01/26/2009 6:13:05 PM PST by cyborg
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
In truth, there is little that is special about the Holocaust.

These are the words of an ignorant Holocaust-revisionist swine. Are you such a person, or are you quoting someone else?

See if your ward nurse can find a copy of Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (yes, a Jew), and maybe a nurse-aide or Red Cross worker can read it to you...perhaps even explain it to you (alas, it contains no drawing or pictures.

It was not the only industrial genocide, nor was it unmatched in its inhumanity and brutality.

It is most important to us because we have such impeccable records.

Neither the Stalinist nor Maoist mass murders are forgotten...

But so little is known of them because they were never conquered, their records never captured and scoured by historians for generations.

...but there is no great lesson there, either, other than that tyranny is evil.

Yet your first graf seems to boast of the merits of cleaning up, profiting from the remains of the victims, and moving on. You make me want to vomit.

If I had the authority to do so, I'd nuke your account right now.

50 posted on 01/26/2009 6:20:49 PM PST by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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