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July 11, 2005

PLANET MORONIA: The Horrors of History Forgotten

Checkpoint Charlie monument too embarrassing for Berlin elites

 

 

 

The horrors of history forgotten, the promise of history repeated. And the common man barely notices. It reminds me why so many over the years chose to come to America.

 

The municipal government of Berlin recently carried out its decision to tear down a city memorial to the thousand-plus East-Berliners murdered by East German police as they attempted to cross into the West. At the museum, a portion of the infamous Berlin wall and a field of crosses – one for each victim of Communist institutional terrorism (aka tyranny) were removed by a demolition crew July 5. Protestors, many who had once lived under the repressive DDR, were forcibly removed and many of them I’m sure had tears in their eyes as the crosses were plucked from their hallowed stations of remembrance one by one and the restless souls of the martyrs of freedom were also one by one forgotten. May God comfort their memory.

 

Welcome to today’s dysfunctional Germany, folks. A Germany where all sins are forgotten yet the sinful behaviors are being even more quickly relearned. A place where anti-Semitism is on the rise, and economic freedom and prosperity are quickly becoming an afterthought. It does underscore why so many of the German effete do not like America though – because it was America who saved Germany from Communism and brought down the Communist east, it was America who destroyed Hitler's "thousand-year Reich" and America who showed ordinary Germans what they could truly be – fulfilling their dreams, safeguarding their liberty. And it was America and that generation of Germans that ruined the utopian dream of the elites who today, still after the fall of Communism and Nazism, (and certainly their Mideast darling Saddam’s Iraq) have no loss of love for any regime that might in some way roll right over the human rights of ordinary people. In Germany many things over the course of the past century have been forgotten. The dreams of Jewish and pro-liberty Germans who were murdered by militant socialism and now their memory by those who remain - this generation. The only question is how long the Holocaust museum will remain as a prominent landmark in such a land, or in the hearts of those now sitting in the seat of power. Maybe one day that museum too will be torn down. Or maybe the people will decide instead to be counted.

 

Read more at Davids Medienkritik.

 

Posted by Martin at July 11, 2005 12:05 AM

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