On the end of innocence

June 29th, 2005 at 12:28 Björn Hallberg

Kevin Lyda offers his take on the road towards totalitarianism and the loss of innocence over at the Daily Kos.

At some point in the formation of the Nazi party an innocent was killed. A jew, a gypsy, a homeless man, a baker, whatever. That person was killed and the Nazis who saw it looked away.

An innocent was killed to further their ideology. An ideology that Germans were better than everyone else, that others were inferior, that anything done to protect Germany; elevate Germany was acceptable. And that included killing those they perceived as a threat - right or wrong, innocent or guilty.

Bush and the Republican party have not murdered 6 million muslims at Gitmo. They haven’t killed 10 million arabs in war. But Hitler didn’t lead his nation into hell once the six millionth jew was slaughtered or the 10 millionth Soviet soldier was shot on the Eastern front. He began the march with a single sanctioned killing of an innocent.

In the past 2+ years we have invaded a sovereign nation for the wrong reasons. For lies stacked upon lies - a stack of lies matched only by the tens of thousands of iraqis killed on the “strength” of those lies. We initiated a war for which there were no right reasons.

Supposedly this was to make us safer. But even that reason isn’t proving true. We’ve killed thousands and we’re in greater danger than we were on 9/11.

In the past 3 years we’ve begun holding people in prison camps without charges and sometimes without acknowledgement. We’ve tortured prisoners. We’ve killed prisoners.

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