Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Should We Apologize To Everyone?

I was just reading the story of German-Americans who were interred in camps like the Japanese-Americans, during World War II, and the effort to pass a bill to look into the treatment that they received during the War.
While the Germans were detained in far fewer numbers than were the Japanese, there were still thousands of them and many had their lives ruined.
The future of this legislation is in doubt as it was passed as an amendment to the Immigration Amnesty Bill, which was defeated last week.
Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin is the bills sponsor as he represents a large German population in his state.
I am of German descent, and our family had problems during both World Wars due to their German ancestry, but having said that I am not in favor of this bill.
As a nation we have spent the last thirty years apologizing to one group of people or another and what has it gotten us, nothing that's what. This is just one more "death by a thousand cuts" mentality that tends to fracture rather than repair relations between different races, religions, etc.,.
We have some incredibly bloody stains on ourselves during our growth as a nation, from stealing the land from the Native Americans, to committing genocide against them, and leaving those we did not kill, to live on reservations as we tried to force our culture upon them. Then there was the interment of the Japanese, German, Italian, people during World War II, and turning away the Jews who tried to seek refuge here and were refused, and were sent back and killed by the Nazi's.
This is our history, and is part of our curse as a nation. What we cannot do is hope that by passing legislation saying we are sorry for the past atrocities that it is going to do anything other than keep people in the victim mode. We need to make America pay for its' past sins by being the shining light of a nation that comes to the aid of those in need.
One other point of disagreement with the goal of the bill, and that is in the fact, that it seems to try and equate the treatment that the interred in this country suffered with that done to others by the Axis powers. This type of moral equivalency is dangerous at best and evil at worst.
While the United States had internment camps, they were not concentration camps like those used by the Germans and Japanese, for the sole purpose of killing the occupants. I think the Jews would find it an abomination to try and make what America did to its' internees to be the same as the Holocaust, that was perpetrated against them.
It is the agenda of the far left to make everyone's suffering equal, when we know that it is not even close to being the same. This obscures the actual truth of history and that is never a good thing.
Beware of those, who by treating all victims alike will do the work of the Holocaust myth advocates, who try and dispute that it ever occurred. They usually say that while there may have been some who died, it was from illness, not the plan of a madman, which was being carried out methodically with precision and deadliness by his followers.
Be very cautious, as deceivers come in the guise of goodness and light.

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