POLICE BLOTTER - What would it take for you to use your law enforcement authority against a neighbor you knew had never broken a criminal law? “
That could never happen!”,
you say. That is because you are a good cop, a good citizen of your
community, a patriot of your country. But, what if someone changed the
definitions on you? What if the definition of what it means to be a good
cop, good citizen etc. changed? What if a whole new set of laws came
down of which your neighbor is definitely ‘guilty?’ Even if at first,
you are not sure you believe the new laws are right, so many people, the
majority it seems, believe that they are. That is impossible!
Wrong!
January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Set to the anniversary day of the liberation of the Auschwitz Death
Camp, the Holocaust Remembrance Day comes in an era when Holocaust
deniers are prolific, the nation of Iran is threatening to eliminate
Israel and Hamas and Hezbollah cry out for killing of all Jews. The
Jerusalem Mufti this past Sunday called for “Jews to be killed wherever
they are…”
[i]
a repetition of the words of Haj Amin Al Husseini, the Mufti’s
predecessor, who helped Hitler and Eichmann in their quest to
exterminate the Jewish race.
But what does that have to do with me, a cop in 2012 in America? The
greatest act of terrorism ever committed against a people began with one
man spreading a new definition of ‘good’ and a new list of laws that
the people allowed themselves to be told were for their betterment. All
of the blame for the bad economy, the crime, the hunger… everything that
was wrong could be blamed on one people. All the ‘good’ people had to
do was rid the world of these ‘criminals’ of the Jewish faith. One man.
Just one. So when it happens here, will you be one of the few who stand
up and say “NO! Not on my watch!”? Will you? Really? When they take your
family? When your children are starving? Really?
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| Romani children at Auschwitz January 27, 1945 |
The only way to prevent such horrific acts of terrorism is to stop it
before it can begin. As funny Deputy Barney Fife comically said, “Nip
it in the bud!” Well, Don Knotts was a very funny man but this is not
funny. Madmen such as Ahmadinejad of Iran must be stopped long before
they can wield the power that he already does. The world, and the United
States in particular, should have taken care of this issue long before
now but as you, the beat cop patrol tonight and the nights leading up to
January 27
th, if it is really cold where you are; think
about those freezing and frozen Romani kids at Auschwitz when those
first American and Allied tanks rolled up to the gates. Maybe someone
like you could have stood up for them long before they ended up in a
German death camp. Maybe someone wanted to – but didn’t.
If you believe it cannot happen again,
are you believing a lie? George Santayana, a Spanish philosopher once wrote, “
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”[ii]
[Dr. Ross L. Riggs, Director Global Security Consulting a subsidiary of Security Consulting Investigations, LLC your premier private investigations consulting service worldwide www.security-consulting.us]
[i] Jerusalem Post reported by Joel Rosenberg in Flash Traffic Jan 25 2012
[ii] All photos courtesy Wikipedia on-line: holocaust
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