I despise Hitler and his holocaust of six million Jews and five million others (mostly Catholics) not counting those killed in war. I have often posted here that, if anyone here gets any bright ideas about repeating Hitler's behavior against the Jews, they are going to have to physically come through Catholics here, starting with my fellow Knights of Columbus. We join the late Meier Kahane in saying: Never Again!
Do you grieve for the Poles and other Slavs that Hitler slaughtered as "inferiors?" For his political prisoners? For the Gypsies? Hitler was special as a mass murderer since he targeted specific ethnic/religious groups such as yours for extinction. Our "ally" Stalin slaughtered the Kulaks. How about their deaths. Hitler had an especially hostile attitude as to priests who resisted him. Read up on St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Franciscan said (perhaps falsely) to have been anti-Semitic BEFORE the war and before Hitler's crimes converted him (if he had actually been anti-Semitic)non the subjects of Jews and Judaism. Kolbe voluntarily offered to die in place of a Polish sergeant imprisoned at Auschwitz for assisting Jews o escape the Nazis, a man who had a wife and children. Kolbe was executed in August 1941 in the man's place by injection of carbolic acid into his blood vessels. The man he saved survived to 1995. Check out St. Maximilian in Wikipedia.
It is your fellow Jews who have coined the wonderful term Righteous Among the Gentiles. Read the works of the Jewish historian and Oxford professor Sir Martin Gilbert on the subject of righteous gentiles during World War II and the Holocaust. Ditto the works of former Israeli diplomat Pinchas Lapide. Ditto the magnificent eulogy delivered by Golda Meir (an atheist if I am not mistaken) at the UN on the occasion of Pope Pius XII's death in 1958. Should Gentiles not also be able to use the word holocaust where appropriate? Your relatives were murdered simply for being Jews by ancestry or, perhaps, also by your Faith. The babies, of your background, my background and every other American's background have been slaughtered for nearly four decades now under "color of law."
If it is a numbers game, five times as many innocent babies have been murdered as the number of all of Hitler's victims. We have stood idly by while abortionists here killed more babies than the entire number of victims of Soviet Russia and we are fast heading for Mao's record. How many before it qualifies as a holocaust??? We are not even including the even larger number killed by IUDs and abortifacient drugs. Each of these victims is being killed simply because of age. Is that not also an intolerable kind or murder?
Do you, as do I, despise Mao Tse Tung (75 million) and Lenin/Stalin (50 million dead innocent victims)? The numbers are from historian Robert Conquest's The Human Cost of Communism in China and The Human Cost of Communism in Russia. He also wrote one on Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam but I do not recall the numbers.
Nor does losing relatives to Hitler give you special standing. You may want to defend Romney but you cannot very well deny his (and his father's and his mother's) lifelong devotion to abortion. You may want to hallucinate that he suddenly became credibly pro-life in 2004, but that he had no control over including abortions at a mere $50 a pop in Romneycare and putting Planned Barrenhood on Romneycare's board, apparently permanently. But he SAID he was pro-life. He wouldn't lie, would he???
The holocaust (and no other word will really do) of the American babies has reached 55 million by surgical abortion alone in this country alone since 1973. Each and every one of the 55 million an innocent human life, just as innocent as any victim of Hitler and just as human. I lost an uncle (a half German uncle) whose US destroyer was torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi U-Boat off Salerno (the USS Buck). That does not give me any special status either. In a rare occurrence, every male relative of age for the service then enlisted to fight Hitler. One wound up in American Samoa. The rest fought Hitler. Most agreed with Patton that Stalin should have been next. In that event, there would not have been a Mao in power.
Are you as "severely offended" by the death of my uncle who was killed by Hitler's navy? His widow was my godmother and, had he lived, he would have been my godfather. He had the privilege of dying in combat against Hitler as did your grandfathers (assuming they were killed in the European Theater of Operations).
AND you have the effrontery to tell me as the relative rookie that you are in this movement to which I have devoted my entire adult life that I am "content to allow a Marxist to destroy the economic future and ideals of this country..." and that "the rest of" YOU will be doing what you can to secure the future and freedom without me. I have much longer and much deeper roots in this movement than you do or ever will.