Wednesday, March 10, 2010
He didn't know where to stop.
The big mistake that despots make is in killing people. Yes, outright murder. That may be the most heinous of crimes. Against humanity. Many a despot could have survived. And even thrived. If they had stopped short of the killing. Take Hitler, for instance. If his so-called 'final solution' had been to deport the Jews. He would still have been perceived as inhumane. But maybe not heinous. Yes, it's a thin line. Hitler could have ordered that all Jews must leave Germany. Voluntarily. Or by force. And other countries would have to take them. As a humanitarian gesture. Chances are the day would have come when the Germans saw the light once again, and welcomed back the deported Jews. Much as Germans welcome Jews now. And recognize Hitler for what he really was. A madman. A deviant. A despot. Hitler was bent on devastation and destruction and death. He knew no bounds. He didn't know where to stop. To stop before the killings began. --Jim Broede
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I rank America's treatment of black people and native Americans right up there with Hitler's genocide. Hitler did it in relatively short order. But we Americans made it a prolonged event, spread over generations. Even today, vestiges of our heinous crime linger on. It's a national shame. Equivalent to the Holocaust. If not worse. --Jim
Maybe it could be considered a 'crime,' of sorts, when we have a society that allows 45,000 people to die needlessly every year. Just because they don't get adequate medical treatment. Often because they don't have adequate insurance. Seems like we take this matter-of-factly. But when 3,000 people are killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack we are horrified, as well we should. But shouldn't we be just as horrified by the death of 45,000 because of an inadequate health care system? --Jim
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