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Subject: Dr. Josef Mengele, Nazis, and grotesque hypocrisy
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Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 23:40:25 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  9 23:40:25 1985
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Hypocrisy In Action:

Last month, then Attorney General William French Smith announced that
a special unit of the Justice Department was joining with the Canadian
Government and several private groups in a worldwide hunt for Dr.
Josef Mengele, the notorious doctor who carried out Nazi policies at
the Auschwitz concentration camp.  I applaud this effort, as it shows
that a civilized world community will not let inhumanity of grotesque
proportions as the brutal Nazi rulers of Germany go unpunished, even
after the defeat of this criminal regime 40 years ago.  Or does it?

On July 16, 1971, the US Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
published "The Human Cost of Soviet Communism," a study authored by
Britain's Robert Conquest.  Its estimate of the the toll of lives
terminated during the first fifty years of Soviet rule approaches 45
million, virtually all killed or executed by deliberate cold-blooded
design.

Many of the Communists who rule the Soviet Union today are directly
responsible for this incredible slaughter.  All are responsible for a
continuation of the butchery and oppression that is still Kremlin
policy.  Yet, leaders of our nation treat Communists with fawning
respect while they now chase furiously all over the globe for a few
Nazi war criminals.

On July 27, 1971, the same Senate Subcommittee published "The Human
Cost of Communism in China," a completely separate study authored by
China scholar Richard L. Walker of the University of South Carolina.
Estimates of extermination carried out by Chinese Communists in their
first twenty-two years of rule, which began in 1949, run from a low of
34 million victims to a high of over 60 million.

The smiling leaders of today's Peoples Republic helped to bring about
this staggering human carnage, a feat that even earned them a place in
the "Guiness Book of World Records" as the greatest mass murderers in
all history.  Yet the top leaders of America - from the worlds of
government, press, business, education, etc. - fall all over each
other in the rush to befriend Peking's bloody tyrants.  Meanwhile, the
same breast-beating paragons of virtue save their voices of
condemnation for a handful of old Nazis who have been hiding somewhere
for forty years.

As horrible as Nazi Germany was, it was defeated in 1945 and has not
murdered anyone in the forty years since.  During the past four
decades, Communists have slaughtered tens of millions and are still at
it.  Where their victims have been Russians, Chinese, Cambodians,
Hungarians, Tibetans, Algerians, Cubans, Vietnamese, and others, their
newer targets include Afghanis, Ethiopians, Miskito Indians, Soviet
Jews and Christians, and many more.  Are victims of Communist
brutality less worthy of concern than those slaughtered by Mengele and
the Nazis?  Shouldn't current atrocities receive more attention than
those of a bygone regime which is no longer a threat to anyone?

Right now, tens of thousands of Jews are prisoners in Soviet Camps,
and millions of Christians suffer alongside them.  In China, besides
forced abortion and infanticide, more millions suffer and die in labor
camps.  Yet, officials of this nation regularly treat the leaders of
these regimes as equals and even supply them with the wherewithal to
maintain their tyrannies.  Such hypocrisy, to me, is unprecedented in
all of mankind's history.  Evil unopposed is evil that triumphs.

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