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You Cry... When You Care! | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust
July 17, 2015
Most of us feel sad when we see or hear of some tragedy... usually intensifying when it either affects a loved one or a neighbor. Even if it is a scene from far away, whereupon a train or plane crashes, or perhaps lightning hits a child swimming, or a shark attacks someone... we feel sad.
This writer decided the other day to once again view Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List, following that with Frank Piersen's 2001 film Conspiracy. The former film captures the 1941 atrocity of the Krakow ghetto massacre, where Jewish life meant nothing to the SS German command and troops. How difficult it was to see how inhumane one group could behave towards another group that it labeled subhuman.
In the case in Conspiracy, based on transcripts found after the war of a 1942 meeting at Wannsee, outside of Berlin, we see where the massacres like that at Krakow had led. A group of 15 high ranking Nazi Party and SS officials met under the leadership of SS General Reinhard Heydrich to tackle the "Final Solution" of what they called "The Jewish Question." In the end, Heydrich got the consensus he needed to gas and incinerate the Jews of Europe. A truly despicable set of events in a truly despicable time in history.
As with the majority of German citizens during that period, so too today's majority of Americans either do not wish to know, or really do not care that much regarding torture of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2002, Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo and Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee drafted what is now referred to as the "Torture Memos Part 1." This document advised the CIA, the DOD and the President on the use of what they (Orwellian?) called "enhanced interrogation techniques": mental and physical torment and coercion such as prolonged sleep deprivation, binding in stress positions, and (the infamous) WATERBOARDING.
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