Friends of Padre Steve’s World,
I had t post this because I don’t want it to be unsaid as I transition off of this site. For my faithful subscribers I will post the new site info as it becomes available. The way I feel about WordPress now is like Joe Pesci playing “Leo Getz” in the “Lethal Weapon” films: “they always fuck you in the drive through.” But I digress.
Due to the vast amount of race hatred and violence occurring in the United States I watched two films: “Operation Finale” about the brave Israeli Mossad agents who traveled to Argentina, captured and escaped with a primary architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann in 1960, not long after I was born. I then watched “The Eichmann Show” which was about how the trial of Eichmann was filmed and televised around the world bringing to life for people who either had forgotten or ignored the Holocaust. The producer of that mammoth undertaking was an American television producer, Milton Fruchtman. He stood at the booth where Eichmann sat and said these words, which were inspired by his director Leo Hurwitz, an award winning documentary producer who was blacklisted during the McCarthy witch-hunts.
Fruchtman said: “For each of us who has ever felt that God created us better than any other human being, has stood on the threshold where [Adolf] Eichmann once stood. And each of us who has allowed the shape of another person’s nose, or the color of their skin, or the manor in which they worship their god to poison our feelings toward them, have known the loss of reason.”
Those words are as true now as when they were spoken. The United States is NOT AN EXCEPTIONAL NATION to which legal principles of International Law that it helped establish for other Nations is above or immune. As US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, who served as the Chief prosecutor for the United States at the trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals at Nuremberg said:
“If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.” Justice Robert Jackson International Conference on Military Trials, London, 1945, Dept. of State Pub.No. 3080 (1949), p.330.
To those who have ears let them hear…
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Words of wisdom from Justice Robert Jackson. Words that need to be repeated often by everyone today as a reminder that one person is no better than another simply because of the colour of his/her skin, their gender, ethnicity, religion or any other trait. Why on earth is it taking so long for this message to penetrate the human psyche, Padre? Sigh.
Submitting to fear.
Fear of that what you don’t want to understand.
Fear to confront yourself with your own bias and prejudices.
Unwillingness to learn.
Learning from anyone that will broadening your horizon in a constructive manour.
In short:
“There is nothing to fear as fear itself”
President Roosevelt
Well said … thank you!
I wish that I knew.
Reblogged this on silverapplequeen and commented:
Today’s sermon. Take it to heart, people.
We are all prisoners of our own device
Stab it with our steely knives, just can’t kill the beast.