The most important lesson from Auschwitz
"Never be a bystander whenever a minority is discriminated against." -- Marian Turski, Auschwitz survivor, January 27, 2020
Here is Auschwitz survivor Marian Turski’s speech on January 27, 2020.
"Auschwitz did not fall from the sky. It began with small forms of persecution of Jews. It happened, it means it can happen anywhere. That is why human rights and democratic constitutions must be defended. The eleventh commandment is important: Don't be indifferent. Do not be indifferent when you see historical lies, do not be indifferent when any minority is discriminated, do not be indifferent when power violates a social contract."
The most important part: "Never be a bystander whenever a minority is discriminated against.”
The medical community, the mainstream media, Congress, and the HHS agencies are all ignoring Turski’s advice. They are all enabling and supporting the discrimination.
In addition, they are all supporting clear violations of multiple sections of the Nuremberg Code.
We cannot just sit back and watch this happen
As I wrote in my earlier article, what is going on is known as mass formation.
We break the cycle when people who have been silenced can find a way to educate the 40% in the middle who can be persuaded.
Today, many people are speaking out about what is going on. We need more people to speak out and take action and each of us need to expand the audience that we can reach.
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I live in Germany and have been tempted to demonstrate since summer 2020, but there has always been police brutality which frightened me. Plus you need official permission to demonstrate, which was denied due to the pandemic. The law courts generally also denied most appeals against banned protests. There are instances of judges who made sensible rulings and then they suddenly get their chambers searched by the police or were otherwise intimidated. Even the highest court (stacked with political appointees) just ruled that everything the government did last year was fine. People are now saying the Constitution is dead.
Doctors, lawyers, politicians, scientists, public personalities who put their head above the parapet in the last 1.5 years were very effectively targeted and intimidated. Some have left the country.
There are now significant protests in Sachsen and Thueringen (former DDR) and the numbers of people going to hundreds of smaller unauthorized marches (or walks) appear to be more than the police can squash. Austria also has large well organized protests that are not backing down. This gives me hope.
I just watched the movie "Betrayed" about the Jews that were in Norway when the Nazis invaded. I was really struck by the parallels with today. Some people say "well, people can choose to get vaccinated." But the Jews in Norway had the chance to renounce their religion too. They had to fill out paperwork claiming their Jewish religion long before anything happened to them. Nothing stopped them from simply claiming that they weren't Jewish and abandoning their religious practices. Does that make it okay to discriminate against them? It wasn't long before nobody would hire Jews. Then their businesses were shut down. It is really frightening in light of what we see today.