[Noumenon]

Yes - just as the European Jews refused to acknowledge what was happening under their very eyes until it was far too late. Even crossing borders wasn't enough.

“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

[BobL]

Also applies to George W. Bush and his ‘new tone’ where he let the Clinton Gang off the hook on all of their crimes - resulting in the FBI we have today.