In the past month or so, we’ve seen world leaders admonishing Jews, especially in Israel, to stay calm and composed, and avoid responding to concerted efforts to run them over with cars, bash them to bits with large stones, burn them alive with gasoline, stab them with knives, or shoot them to death. The last thing the “Nations” want to see is Jews standing tall and vigorously defending themselves.
Even in Israel, the secular leaders bob back and forth between a slavish bureaucratic mindset inherited from socialist post-war Europe and British Mandatory Colonialism on the one hand, and the ethereal wails of their elders and deceased relatives, driven from homes a thousand or more years old or turned to “smoke” not so long ago.
So it is with not a little dark humor that we note a commemoration in Sweden planned for tonight, on the seventy-seventh anniversary of Krystallnacht. This historical event is considered the formal onset on the Nazi genocide of European Jews (along with Gypsys, Poles, and Social Democrats, etc.).
Why is this funny, you ask? Because, the Jewish community of Sweden has specifically NOT been invited. The organizers, seeing radical Islamic elements and Leftist Jew Haters protesting at prior years’ commemorations, decided that having Jews at a Krystallnacht commemoration is too provocative… a “security risk” (?!)
Gee, if the Nazi’s had been just a little more efficient (not for lack of trying) in their “solution”, just think how civil Europe’s commemoration of their slaughter could be. Nice… and… civil.
To paraphrase the French Foreign Minister recent musings; “We gave Europe’s Jews to the Nazi’s, and in exchange, we are getting Muslims. Millions of them.”
Who says G-d doesn’t have a sense of humor?
We seem to be reaping what we sowed when FDR turned Jewish people away in WWII. Genesis 12:2,3 come to mind.
I’m no part of that “we,” Eric. Many people obviously were, but I wasn’t born yet.
This is just like the collective “we” claimed by those who accept the “constitution” as somehow binding on them – even though everyone who signed it died hundreds of years ago.
I didn’t sign it, or ever agree to be bound by it. And neither did most of the people living then. By what legitimate authority does this piece of paper claim my life and property?
And if you don’t think it does that, just read it again. The power to tax is the power to destroy. The destruction should be clearly evident all around us.
Sigh. One does not have to be part of the “we” who did it. The we I use here is the we who live in the USA now. And yes we will pay a price for everything that has been done in the past. Your personal non-involvement won’t matter. As for the rest of your comment ya’ might want to take the RED PILL. Then you seem to suggest that I “don’t think something” about the Constitution. How on earth would you know what I think about it? Seems to me you’re upset about something else? You are practicing projection and perhaps displacement.
Just get tired of the loose use of the word “we” in so many places. “We” suffer, for sure… but “we” didn’t necessarily cause it.
And what I’m really upset about is the presumption that any “constitution” or political body somehow has legitimate authority to rule the lives of people who do not consent to that rule… implicitly, directly and with a full understanding that they are responsible for the consequences to themselves…
I do not consent. I can be forced to comply, of course, at the point of a gun, but I do not recognize any authority to do so. I own my life and my body, and I am the only one who is responsible for my life. And that includes everything, not just my guns.
So think about it… If this involuntary government somehow has the authority to do any of the things it does… just how can the believers deny that same government the “authority” to control or even confiscate their guns? How is that different from anything else. They can control what we eat or drink, but not our guns?
And don’t give me that “second amendment” thing. That’s magical thinking. The individual authority to defend oneself and others from aggression predates the “constitution” by as long as human beings have existed – and depends on no government or political system at all.
Keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” Exodus 34:7
I would say what was done by FDR and Europe in general before and during the holocaust is what the French Foreign minister is thinking.
Sort of akin to what America’s children will be under as the result of electing a community organizer who has never worked or ran a business. One who hates the military and wants to see the country he was elected to serve weakened. Will all who live here, and want to live here in peace and freedom pay a fiercesome price for this? Oh yeah.
ML’s arguments could be used against the Torah or the bible for that matter.
People have a right to believe or not to believe in what ever they want IMHO.
I agree Comrade X. It seems to me though, if you look at what people base their reasoning on you have a bit of an idea of their thought process. For example citing the Tanakh or the Constitution will likely mean something quite different than someone who is guided by Rules for Radicals.
Well Sybill we all have to believe in something! Even to say you believe in nothing is to say you believe in something.
If we were to be lining up on sides I would be choosing Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, John Adams, & James Madison anytime over the likes of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky or Mao but that just me, we all need to decide for ourselves. People may die but their words and deeds can live forever.
Newsflash;
They just uncovered an unknown before now utube of James Madison;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty2zAKdJkWo