#1: I have six brothers and sisters.
#2: I'm an only child. It must have been hard getting only 1/7 of your parents' love.
#1: 1/7? My parents didn't DIVIDE their love by seven, they MULTIPLIED it by seven!
The problem is not that we remember those who died without fighting. The problem is that we do not properly recognize those who fought back. The fight for Right lays claim to esteem unearned by mere victims.
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Remember, the Holocaust began with a simple census of all citizens. "The Germans always had the lists of Jewish names. … [because of] IBM Germany's census operations and similar people-counting and registration technologies. … Nazi Germany operated its socialist economic program using specially-tailored IBM punch cards and data sorting machines to register people and assets, to allocate food, to run the trains and document their doomed human cargo, and even to manage the slave labor in the concentration camps." ("Enemy at the Gate" column by Richard W. Stevens, "Can You Prove You Deserve Liberty?" in the March, 2002 issue of S.W.A.T. magazine, page 12.)
Many died in the Holocaust like sheep to a slaughter. They must be remembered. From them we must learn that, "Power is not something you're given. It's something you take!"
We must decide how our children and children's children will remember us. We are now numbered at birth by our government. Our Rights are taken from us and a few are sold back to us at the cost of registration and excessive taxation. Are we sheep who continue to let our government destroy the Constitution and usurp totalitarian power? Or will we become heroes who reclaim our Natural Rights by voting the tyrants out of power?
How will WE be remembered?
Do you even care?
