Posted on 11/14/2010 5:33:01 AM PST by Gomer1066
When I was growing up, the dark miasma of the Holocaust was still so pervasive that the famous slogan "Never Forget!" seemed almost irrelevant. How could anyone forget Hitler and his murderous goose-steppers? It was hard to imagine a world where that supreme evil was not remembered as a stern and awful warning. I heard Holocaust survivors insisting that we must never forget, and I thought they were just repeating the obvious. Why did they have to keep on saying it?
Well, they were right, after all. They understood more about human nature than I did. It was necessary to say it over and over again, because by now our Kultur Commissars in Hollywood and the media have deliberately forgotten it.
Today the Left has lost the Holocaust and its moral meaning -- not just the simple fact of 6 million Jews, plus millions more gays, gypsies, handicapped people, anti-Nazis, Russian and Polish civilians who just got in the way, Londoners who died in the Blitz, and tens of millions of "mere" war victims who lost their lives between 1939 and 1946 at the hands of inconceivably cruel regimes like the Nazis and Imperial Japan.
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The powers that be want us to forget history. So they can rewrite it to their own power needs.
They also want us to forget that the founding fathers were students of history, and specifically designed the Constitution to limit government.
See my tag. That same evil has worn different faces throughout history. But it is truly the same evil.
Patriots are not in the habit of forgetting, or forgiving traitors and tyrants.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
I was on a thread at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2626481/posts that dealt with the issue of George Soros and his meddling in currency. One poster wrote the following after reading my post that opined humanity would be better served if Soros were taking a “dirt nap”:
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I am grateful to F.A. Hayek for this observation from his great classic “The Road to Serfdom”: “It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program —on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off—than on any positive task.”
Hitler of course galvanized Germans to hate the Jews.
Liberals passionately hated George W Bush, and we all made fun of their “Bush derangement syndrome”.
Is George Soros now the man conservatives are required to hate? The Professor Moriarity, Ernst Blofeld, or Lord Voldemort of our time (pick your favorite fictional villain)? To me he’s just a rich old man with mostly wrong-headed political ideas (more government and hostile to Israel), but who occasionally gets it right.
When I see Freepers write that Soros “must be stopped at any cost” or “is Public Enemy #1” I am uncomfortable with rhetoric which some misguided person might mistakenly interpret as an incitement to violence.
Please forgive me for deciding to opt out of “Soros derangement syndrome”. In my opinion it has gone a bit too far for comfort. I can oppose most of what Soros proposes without hating him.
I don’t consider Soros “a misunderstood old man”. He seems to believe in both socialism and democracy, and either doesn’t accept or is ignorant of Hayek’s thesis that those two beliefs are in the end incompatible.
In my opinion Barack Obama is a communist who does not believe in democracy. Fidel Castro understood quickly that Barry was just like him, but somehow Hugo Chavez hasn’t been able to figure it out.
So in my opinion George Soros is a sideshow. The main event is trying to preserve the USA we know and love until Obama is out of office. And then educating our children and grandchildren better so this blot on our glorious history is never repeated.
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The key in all of this is that this person thought Soros was inconsequential, and Obama was a communist. My immediate reaction to this is that if he DID think Obama was a communist, isn’t that reason enough to feel anger and hatred towards Soros, who is his wealthiest backer? Communism is responsible for more deaths and murders than any other single ideology, and likely as many as all formal ideologies put together.
This article (another superb one from The American Thinker) is not only spot on, but very relevant to the times we live in. Leftists still view communism as a good option, saying “Oh, it just hasn’t been done ‘right’ yet...” There are even those like Thomas Friedman who look admiringly at the Communist Chinese, and wonder why we can’t be more like them. For every leftist like Thomas Friedman out there who has had the words like that leak from his mouth, there are tens of thousands of leftists who believe it but aren’t saying it.
I agree. The modern secular word is “psychopath” but we Christian Patriots have always called the enemy, “evil.”
Ditto your post. Glenn Beck was on to something good when he spent a week on his program exposing the “Revolutionary (read Communist) Holocaust.” We need more books, movies and documentaries shinning the light of truth on the crimes of communism. PBS if were really doing its job would be doing mini-series on the Soviet GULAG - the Communist execution camps that used arctic cold instead of gas to murder millions.
Every few years I read “The Gulag Archipelago”. It reminds me of the monolithic bureaucracy, the squalor and the evil of communism.
Just to remind me, as if I am the one needing reminding.
I disagree. Soros is not a harmless old man. He is EVIL and must be resisted.
Soros’ minions are trying to silence his critics. This is raw FASCISM.
Ernst Blofled had the saving grace of being fictional. Soros’ poisonous effects are REAL.
Those weren’t my comments, they were the comments of another freeper whom I disagreed with vehemently.
I’m with you. I think he is a well financed, dedicated, and focused ideologic enemy of the United States of America.
Sorry for the mixup!
A Jew who supports gun-control utters a lie when he says “Never Again”. And armed Jew can say it with a clear conscience
The Soviet Story (2008)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305871/
http://www.binsearch.info/viewNFO.php?oid=45134051&server=
In my opinion, Kapo Soros and his bought and paid for enemies within are just as evil as anyone in Nazi Germany.
I don’t know that I disagree but I think a lot more of it is just the simple passage of time. I grew up right after World War II. Every adult had lived through it and it was a shared experience for all of them. Half of the movies on TV in the 50s were cowboys and Indians and half were war movies. Every boy knew the difference between a B-17 and a B-24—how could you not? The Nazi atrocities were revealed at the end of the war so even in the 50s this was fresh news.
But amazingly to me, a half a century has passed from those days. The men and women who lived through WWII and the Holocaust are leaving us. The stories are second and third hand. They are from a time long ago and far away. When Lincoln gave his Gettysburg address he said that the day’s speeches would be soon forgotten but that no one would ever forget what the brave men did on the battlefield. To his mind, it seemed inconceivable that the monumental battle could be forgotten—but it has been. Gettysburg is the name of a battle and or speech to the average American—and that is about it. Iwo Jima is becoming the same.
I teach junior high kids American history. They don’t really remember 9-11—after all they were not even in kindergarten yet.
Not a problem...I find one of the more challenging things about posting is being able to post something and attribute it to someone else in a way that ensures it doesn’t look like I am saying it (without using html...that helps a great deal)
Q: “Whatever happened to ‘Never Forget’?”
A. They forgot.
‘A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisvitch’ personalizes the horrors of Stalin’s Russia better, in my opinion.
I read “The Gulag Archipelago” before I read “A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisvitch” so I think it had a deeper effect on me, but I agree, it is a powerful tale.
For a movie that illustrates the situation and provides a cautionary tale of where we could go as a country, “The Lives of Others” is a very powerful movie.
The part that really got my attention was when they were planting bugs in the apartment, and the main character sees a flash in a keyhole in the adjoining apartment, indicating someone was watching them through the keyhole.
The knock on the door that followed was indeed the characteristic knock of the state, and the woman knew it.
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