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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (36783)	8/10/2002 12:29:20 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Totally disagee. You said: ' "absolute power corrupts absolutely" doesn't describe the worker bees who do what they're told.' CB posted her thoughts earlier and gave an example where worker bees who "do what they were told"...were absolutely corrupt. Of course, they KNEW better. They CHOSE NOT to follow that inward beacon. Spies like Robert Hansen certainly are another example. Someday, we will know how many people he killed with his "worker bee corruption." CB said: Message 17860074 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The most wrenching document, in my opinion, was a book entitled Ordinary Men, about ordinary men who were not SS, just cops and the like, who were part of the Einsatzgruppen in Poland and Eastern Europe, who killed Jews by "Stalin shots" to the base of the skull, before the Final Solution was implemented. Just ordinary German Joe Six Packs who would shoot Jews all day, every age from babies in arms to old ladies who could not get out of their beds, then go back to their camps and get plastered on schnapps, with blood and brains all over them, and then get up in the morning and do it all over again. Just another day of work for the Third Reich. The thing that really got to me was that, if they did not want to do it, nobody made them do it. They could hang out and get drunk or whatever. But they did it anyway. Not all, but most. These guys and others like them killed maybe 2 million people, one person at a time. How do you contextualize that?<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<