Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Denver Mods 7/26/84) 6/24/83; site drutx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!drutx!trb From: trb@drutx.UUCP (BuckleyTR) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Dr. Josef Mengele, Nazis, and grotesque hypocrisy Message-ID: <2198@drutx.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 23:40:25 EST Article-I.D.: drutx.2198 Posted: Sat Mar 9 23:40:25 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 08:01:38 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 67 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. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Tom Buckley AT&T Information Systems ihnp4!drutx!trb (303) 538-3442