Mouth Breather
After World War II, an American journalist returned to Germany to live in a remote town in hopes of discovering why law-abiding citizens followed the leadership of Adolf Hitler. Milton Mayer interviewed ten average families, and in one of the more revealing sections of his book, They Thought They Were Free
, he asked why the townspeople didn’t protest the abuses of the state. A policeman related the story of a local leader who was arrested in 1933 and “taken away†without being charged with anything. When Mayer asked why there was no outcry from citizens, the policeman told him that the people, by their silence, had given the government that right. There were “no open trials for enemies of the state,†he said. “They had forfeited their right to it.â€
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Well, that seems like an easy conclusion for a policeman to make — he is the one carrying the gun.
I can not think of any place in the world where a civilian has the upper-hand in a dispute with a gun-toting statesman.
Think…Caledonia, Ontario, Canada.
It’s all here….
http://www.nationalpost.com/op.....?id=242865
A long time ago I asked an Austrian friend why the holocaust was allowed to happen. He related a single story to me about something that happened to his family in the post WWI depression and said that it was typical of what was happening at the time across Europe.
I don’t agree with what happened, but I better understood why so many stood by and let it happen.
Whenever one group in society is in a position to take unjust advantage of another, there will ultimately be consequences.
Thinking of today’s posts, the events of the last year in Caledonia, and more specifically the antics of the Six Nations and HDI made me think back to that story - and realize how similar the situations were.
I see no similarities between the native actions in Canada and the horrors of the Second World War. The natives in Canada consider themselves to be sovereign citizens on their own land and rightly so.