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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (237292)	7/20/2007 5:26:42 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) of 281500

They did not know then that they were going to be killed. They were told soothing stories about relocation while looking down the barrel of a gun. Hind sight is 20/20 but they didn't know what was in store until they were already in the camps. And even then you can't imagine (neither can I) what that was like. Hind sight has nothing to do with it. Why it happened doesn't change what happened. It's probably true that some didn't know, I'm confident that some suspected and I'm confident that some knew but were resigned to their fate. They all did the same thing. Whether they were Poles, Romas, or Jews, they lined up and got on the trains and walked cooperatively into the camps. Why? We all see the life experiences where people obediently follow authority. Study after study shows that the ill-educated and the educated will dutifully follow the orders of the authority. Sometimes it takes a little manipulation; sometimes it's immediate. But with very few exceptions people do what they are told. Whether it's on their way to their death or to become the executioner. No, I never will imagine what it was like. And I'll never imagine what it's like in Darfur. Nor will I ever imagine what the Warsaw ghetto was like. And I can't imagine what it's like for the millions of Iraqi refugees that we allegedly freed. I can't imagine what it would be like to live in Gaza city. There are many things I don't understand. The US gets intelligence from the Sudanese intelligence service. If there is some one who thinks there wasn't a US/Sudan deal cut on Darfur they are grossly naive. And it wasn't a deal for the benefit of the refugees in Darfur. 4 million Iraqi refugees. Let's put that in a little perspective. Suppose it was the US, that would be the equivalent of 48 million American refugees. I can't imagine that. Think about that scale. 48 million Americans in a refugee status. Somalia. For the first time in over a decade they have peace. The US supported the warlords because we didn't like the Islamists. I think everyone knows what warlords do. Does the US care? No. Because the people of Somalia don't deserve peace if the winner is someone we don't like. So we give a wink and a prod to Ethiopia to throw Somalia back into civil war. Hamas gets elected. What better way to shine the flashlight on "democracy" than punish the Palestinians for actually voting for the "wrong" guys. And if we punish them enough, they'll declare that Israel has a right to exist. jttmab

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