This is a great article by Sandy Rios:
Totalitarian movements have always destroyed their enemies. Peter the Great of Russia murdered members of the Streltsy military corps by taking the ax of the executioner to cut off their heads one by one himself. The Bolsheviks murdered the last Russian Czar—along with his wife and family—by telling them they were going to have their picture made. As they smiled into the camera, they were shot, buried and had acid poured over their remains.
Now the president, however coyly, and the Democratic leadership, boldly, are seeking to prosecute the last administration for political disagreements by calling them crimes....
For about six weeks, I have been asking the question, "At what point should the German People have acted to stop Hitler, and what should they have done?"
ReplyDeleteI have had no answers.
The question for us is this, "Precisely where do we draw our line in the sand, and what do we do when it is crossed?"
Without an answer to those questions, we will see nothing but bitching and moaning. Without a consensus, we will collectively take on the persona of the proverbial "frog in the pot", fat, dumb, and happy, smiling while we are cooked.