Posted on 01/26/2013 6:50:10 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Oh okay. MUCH better. Never ‘read’ you as a pussbunny. :)
I think maybe I understand how you view this, but correct me if I’m wrong. You see this incident from a practical approach, using the old adage of “Better to live and fight another day.” I would bet you are among the many who view the Alamo defenders as more foolhardy than brave. It’s a different way of seeing things, that’s all.
So which philosophical approach is better? Who’s to say? August Landmesser may very well have lived a long, full life had he resisted ‘under the radar’ instead of open defiance of a totalitarian regime. Conversely, he ALSO could have faded into obscurity despite his very public stand of refusing to salute Hitler in front of the camera’s lens.
As it turned out, here we are in 2013 sitting at keyboards discussing Landmesser’s lone defiance, applying his ordeal to modern times and our current totalitarian-wanna-be pResident. At least one person here was inspired enough by August’s action to put the guy on his desktop. (As will I.) I just hope Landmesser and other brave souls of history — or needless martyrs as you may see them — will be rewarded in eternity by knowing their impact.
Now, if I’m wrong about all this, then I’m going with Laz and his apt description of female body parts. I also don’t want you in my foxhole on the proverbial teoteawki day. ;-)
“Lots of commentary from people who did nothing because they didn’t want to be noticed.”
Ironic how in the end, the spotlight of the world was on the German people for their lack of action in Hitler’s rise and subsequent actions.
Good people doing nothing is the same as consent.
“Better to live and fight another day.”
Indeed.
As long as you do fight.
Plenty of Germans didn’t buy the story about the Reichstag fire but nobody spoke up because they weren’t communists. In fact, questioning the story was enough to be labeled a communist sympathizer and rounded up in the resulting mass arrests.
Well, do us all a favor... If you ever find yourself in a foxhole and decide it’s time to leave so you can live to fight another day, do your foxhole mate a favor: Let him know BEFORE you leave so he can make an informed decision.
There’s nothing worse than dying a needless, naive martyr’s death trying to defend a ghost in the night who turned out to be wiser than you were at the moment. :)
The real star of the movie was Sophie’s interrogator. You almost felt sorry for him, because he was so trapped into believing that it was the Nazis that were responsible for him being something other than a “small town” pollce man. That is the danger of big government, when they give you what you want, there is always a price.
The time to fight was right before The Enabling Act was passed, once it did, it was the “point of no return”.....we are quickly coming to that “point of no return” in this country as well.
Yeah...I know...but didn’t seem the right context.
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