AUSCHWITZ IS A DEADLY
LANDMARK FOR CIVILIZATION
January 25, 2005
Mr.
Speaker: This sixtieth anniversary of observance of the liberation of
Auschwitz presents the people of all civilized nations with an opportunity
to focus a searing light of exposure on one of the deadliest landmark
events of human history. More than one million human beings died in this
hellish extermination factory which was part of a system that murdered
more than six million Jews.
As often as possible, in every way conceivable, the leaders of the present
must be forced to gaze with thorough and undivided attention upon the
horror of the holocaust. Auschwitz and all of the similar death camps
document the levels to which civilized men can descend. No savage and
primitive tribe could ever have engaged in such monumental and systematic
slaughter. That these crimes were committed by one of the most
scientifically advanced, well educated, culturally sophisticated,
thoroughly organized nations that the world has ever seen is a fact that
magnifies the need to forever study this bloody man-made tsunami.
The observance of this sixtieth anniversary is an empty, useless ceremony
if it does not arouse massive worldwide anger, pity and fear. The anger
must be divided not only at Hitler and the SS; but also the anger should
be focused on the millions who help to maintain the poison fog racism,
anti-Semitism and religious hatred. The pity levels must be raised high to
envelope all of the more than six million individual souls whose
opportunities to breathe and live, to develop their potential and to
pursue happiness were so brutally snuffed out. The fear must be shared by
us all as we contemplate our unforgivable impotence in the face of other
epidemics of genocide that have been allowed since the landmark lesson of
the holocaust.
Stalin and his gulags; Pol Pot and his killing fields; the Hutu
intelligentsia and their exhortation to "cut the tall trees" with machete
executions; all of this competition with Hitler has occurred within the
last sixty years. We applaud the civilized governments of the world for
drawing a line at Kosovo. But we are burdened with a great fear that more
mass slaughters are coming because we still have not learned this most
profound lesson of modern history.
On the occasion of this sixtieth anniversary let us remember that the
trials of the major killers at Nuremberg also failed to take place, that
Nazi scholars are still daring to deny the reality of the holocaust. We
must remember that new statues are being contemplated for Stalin. We must
also note the fact that Pol Pot died of natural causes. We must show fear
in the face of our inability to advance the trials and convictions of many
of the obvious architects of the genocide in Rwanda.
The lesson of history is that we must come down on the perpetrators of
genocide with an uncompromising righteous wrath and trumpet the punishment
throughout the earth. The message for future mass murderers with their
convoluted rationale and twisted theories is that there will be swift and
universally supported punishment. The message for the population that
support genocide in the future must be that there is no acceptable excuse
for your actions. For ignoring Auschwitz there can be no pardons, no
acceptance of sentimental schemes for truth and reconciliation. For
permitting their leaders to violate the most vital principles of human
society the citizens must be judged and their nation must be forced pay a
special debt to civilization.
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