A story of a lifetime

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Jerusalem Post

By RUTH EGLASH
11/04/2010 04:38

Through Yad Sarah’s Life Stories Project, Holocaust survivor from Ra’anana recounts how she beat the Nazis.

When Ra’anana resident Klara Ruso was given the opportunity – through Yad Sarah’s Life Stories Project – to record the details of her daring escape from the Nazis during World War II, she did not hesitate.

“I did not do it just so people would read about what had happened to me,” Ruso told The Jerusalem Post last week ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, which begins Sunday night. “I did it so that future generation will always remember what we went through.”

Born in Romania, Ruso described how she spent much of the war, together with her four siblings and her mother, on the run.

“Every time the Germans arrived where we were, we would pack up our bags and leave,” recalled Ruso, who joined the Life Stories Project, part of Yad Sarah’s outreach to homebound Holocaust survivors, nearly two years ago, and had her story published in a bound memoir.

“When the Germans arrived in Romania, we ran away; we went eastward to Ukraine and then to Uzbekistan, and then I finally made aliya in 1947, after spending a year in Cyprus,” she recalled. “It’s a long, long story and there is a lot to tell.”

Ruso is one of some 350 elderly and housebound Israelis who have shared their life stories with specially trained volunteers that record, transcribe, type, print and then bind the stories to create a personal memoir for each individual.

Although Yad Sarah has been running the project in Jerusalem for more than a decade, a €100,000 donation from the Berlin-based EVZ Foundation (Remembrance, Responsibility and Future) a few months ago has allowed the project to expand countrywide. It will also add a training component for volunteers, teaching them how to correctly broach the highly personal issues and record them in a way that is enduring. The service is for all elderlyhomebound people and the terminally ill, as well as Holocaust survivors. Stories told by survivors are shared with the national Holocaust archive at Yad Vashem.

“The idea is not only to record the stories of the survivors but also to give them the feeling that their stories are important and being heard,” said Franka Kuehn, head of Public Relations for EVZ, in explaining why her foundation adopted the project.

“We support a lot of different projects for survivors, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as others in Israel,” Kuehn said. “We heard about Yad Sarah and recognized it was a big welfare organization that does a lot for survivors of the Holocaust.”

Kuehn also explained that the foundation, which started as Germany’s state-appointed body to distribute compensation to victims of forced slave labor during the war, was driven “to show that survivors are still being cared about and to preserve memories for the future.

“As long as these people are still alive then we have to let them tell their stories,” she continued. “[Life Stories] is not just an archive where stories are preserved by researchers, it is also a very important dialogue between those who do the research and those who speak out about their lives and experiences.”

For Daniela Ziv, one of more than 250 volunteers working on the project, it is also about the human interaction and the chance for people to recall many old memories.

“One woman I was working with told me afterwards that she was shocked when she realized she had done so many things in her life,” said Ziv, 66, a retired nurse from Herzliya. “Telling their stories really helps them organize their memories in their heads and it gives their families the chance to hear all the things they have done and be proud of them.

“I usually visit my clients once a week for about an hour, and we just sit and talk about their lives,” Ziv said, describing how she records the conversations and later, at home, transcribes them. “We talk about everything from their first memories and their childhood to what they remember about their grandparents and their friends. I also get them to describe different smells and foods from their past.”

The volunteers are given guidelines on what to ask and taught how to be sensitive to difficult memories, but still, they are encouraged to push the person in order to bring some of the deeper, murkier memories to the surface.

“From my former profession, I know that I am good with people and I know exactly which buttons to press to get them talking,” Ziv said. “I do not like working according to a list. It is better for it to come out in a natural way and it’s also important to hear what happened to them in the years before the Holocaust, as well as during the war and afterwards.”

The whole process can take up to eight months and, said Ziv, each hour spent recalling such difficult memories can be emotionally draining for both her and the client.

 

“Often we both get very tired and there are lots of emotions and tears,” she said, adding that she also scans personal photos and other personal documents to include in the memoir.

Despite the obvious difficulties, however, Ziv said that the work is “my life.”

“It’s amazing. I learn so much from them and have many stories. It’s really an amazing and important experience,” she said.   

Gay activists betray themselves by using Swastika’s to refer to Israel.

Vladtepesblog.COM

By Eeyore | April 8, 2010

 

 

By way of forward to this excellent article in Canada’s National Post, one of the few newspapers left that actually reports and comments on real news, I can’t help but mention that I would sincerely like to see these gay-rights activists have a pride march in Saudi-Arabia, Somalia, Gaza and the West Bank, or Iran. I would like to see that so much, I would be willing to take up a collection to fly these particular activists to one of those nations to march for gay rights. It should also be mentioned, that the Nazis also murdered homosexuals in as large numbers as they could, unless they happened to be Joseph Goebbels.

I would like to point out to these cowardly hypocrites, people who are so high on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs that they actually have a nose bleed, what a true gay rights activist looks like. From April 8th TROP web site:

Gay rights activists wave a rainbow flag in front of a
mosque in Turkey, where at least 45 homosexuals and
transgenders have been murdered in the last three years.
(There are no reports of devout Muslims killed by gays).

Actual gay-rights activists are people who march in areas for their basic human right to exist without being murdered for being homosexual, because of 7th century religious laws, invented by a man who raped children and widows. (Calling it marriage does not make it not rape. Lack of consent, makes it rape no matter what you call it)

Below, the National Post on Homosexual Antisemites.

Eeyore for Vlad:

Parade of horribles

Let Pride participants protest Israel– but on their own dime

National Post Published: Thursday, April 08, 2010

Queers Against Israeli Apartheid Via Facebook Queers Against Israeli Apartheid during a Gay Pride Parade.

Toronto’s gay Pride Parade is in danger of losing the nearly $200,000 it receives annually from the city because it cannot bring itself to impose any standards whatever on the groups that enter floats and demonstrations. Specifically, it cannot even bring itself to ban hateful symbols that offend community standards and may even violate the Criminal Code.

That the parade and the week-long events that surround it have become mainstream can be seen in the crowds it attracts — nearly half a million annually, including tens of thousands of families — and in the fact that it has been named the country’s top festival three times by the Canadian event industry, most recently in 2009.

 What was once a ramshackle collection of flamboyant gays and lesbians marching almost unnoticed through downtown Toronto has become one of North America’s largest (and slickest) street parties — so large and slick, in fact, that corporate sponsors now line up to partner with the organizing committee. The chaps and jockstraps, feather boas and transvestite costumes have been almost overwhelmed by unremarkable, middle-class gays, lesbians and transgendered persons, plus straight supporters of all three.

However, last year, the group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA), chose to sport tshirts with swastikas while they ambled down the street chanting “Fist by Fist, Blow by Blow, Apartheid State, Has Got to Go.”

Leaders of QuAIA insist their members’ shirts featured the Nazi symbol superimposed by a circle with a line through it — a sometimes anti-Nazi symbol. The video evidence is inconclusive; if there were circles with lines, they were fainter than the swastikas they were meant to cover, which leaves reasonable people to conclude the hateful sign of genocide was what the crowd was truly intended to see. 


But the larger point is why is there any need to protest Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, at all, at a taxpayer-funded celebration of inclusion and rights for gays? Certainly, hatred of Israel cannot have anything to do with a legitimate campaign for gay rights: Israel stands out as the only country in the Middle East where gay rights are respected on a par with other Western nations. Gay Pride rallies, for instance, are common in Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities — while the staging of such events in the Palestinian territories or any other part of the Arab world would almost certainly end in a bloodbath of dead gay paraders. If organizers cannot bring themselves to ensure participants keep their displays “on message,” why should municipal, provincial or federal taxpayers have an obligation to foot the bill?

Last year Pride Toronto received $175,000 from Toronto City Council, not including $85,000 for extra police and $81,000 to have civic workers clean up the streets afterwards.
Toronto has stringent anti-hate rules for groups seeking city grants. In order to keep its event within those guidelines, parade organizers last month announced that all symbols and signage from participants would henceforth have to pass muster with an ethics committee.
That seemed sensible: If groups at multicultural festivals or floats in local rodeo parades suddenly began sporting swastikas or bed sheets with eyeholes, their funding would quickly dry up and rightly so.

After an uproar from the city’s queer community, though, organizers backed down and withdrew their new vetting policy. Still it is not clear whether city council will be taking away the funding they would quickly remove from most other organizations under similar circumstances. So why the kid-glove treatment for Toronto’s gay community?

Let participants in the parade say whatever they wish. But if they insist on saying or doing hateful things, let them do it on their own dime.

Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=2776131#ixzz0kXAnoOSI

"Over six million were killed in Shoah'

Jan 14, 2010 0:53 | Updated Jan 14, 2010 2:00
TheJerusalemPost.com

Father Patrick Desbois believes that many more than six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, and he can prove it.

Through interviews with more than 1,200 witnesses, Desbois has uncovered upwards of 700 previously unknown Jewish mass graves in Eastern Europe, where at least 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews are buried. Since 2004, Desbois has worked systematically and painstakingly, documenting and mapping the site of Jewish mass killings by Nazi mobile killing units, or Einsatzgruppen, in Eastern Europe.

Desbois is reluctant to say how many more victims there might be of Nazis and German policemen, who lined up Jews and shot them one by one. Having made his way through the Ukraine, he turned his attention to Belarus last year.

"What we can say is that the number of shootings is without any comparison. If you look only at the German archives, you'll find five to six times less than what we found. It's sure that at the end, the number will increase," he said on Tuesday, at a gathering in New York City hosted by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

"This killing began the first day of the war, and finished the last day of the war."

Desbois said he is not looking for 10,000 or 45,000 missing Jews.

"We are looking for the family," he said. "For the persons. It's what keeps us strong."

For Desbois, the work began nearly 60 years after the Holocaust. The French Catholic priest said he was deeply impacted by his grandfather's experience during the war, when he was held at Rawa-Ruska in the former Soviet Union. His grandfather mostly refused to speak about the experience, except to describe harrowing conditions, including no food and drink.

He always said, "Outside the camp, was worse," said Desbois. "For me, I was wondering, what is worse?"

In 2004, Desbois established Yahad-In Unum, meaning "together" in Hebrew and Latin, to collect forensic evidence of the killings. The organization also maintains an archive in Paris. In November, Desbois published a book, The Holocaust by Bullets, which documents his findings to date.

During one of his first research trips to Eastern Europe, Desbois said he stopped at a farming village, where 100 old farmers stood waiting for him.

They took him to a mass grave, recalling that Germans had listened to music and played a harmonica while Jewish workers dug it. They secretly placed explosives in a field, and sent Jews from the town to rest in the area, where they were killed.

Later, Desbois and his team used a metal detector in the area and recovered fragments of the harmonica, along with bones and German shell casings.

The German policemen used one bullet per Jew, and they buried alive whomever they failed to shoot and kill, Desbois said, telling how witnesses later said the mass graves moved for three days.

"It took me a while to accept, to understand," he said.

Like so many Holocaust research projects, his is a race against time.

"The witnesses are old and we are also in a political window that lets us do the job," he said. "In five years this project is finished, unfortunately."

It is a painstaking process, with his researchers cobbling together files on each town using documents and maps that are part of Soviet and German archives.

Desbois says during visits to each village, he taps local priests and mayors to find witnesses, while also scouring the markets for people who lived there duringthe war and remember seeing Germans killing their Jewish neighbors.

The interviews are matter-of-fact: Desbois asks for precise information regarding where the Germans stood, whether they brought dogs, which streets they blocked off.

"The goal is to rebuild the killing," he said, explaining how forensic scientists then return to the scene and look for evidence, such as shell casings or neglected jewelry.

"We make at this moment a ballistic investigation. Why? Because the Germans were not afraid to leave evidence."

He recalled one village where he found 50 gun cartridges in one place.

"It meant the shooter didn't move," he said. "We also found a bunch of Jewish jewels. It means these policemen stole everything and stole a lot of jewels."

If the Holocaust was a secretive extermination in the West, it was public in the East, he said.

"Anybody who had a pistol could be invited to be in the killing group," he said. Local Germans sometimes organized the killings.

For Desbois, a primary goal is not only to document what happened more than 60 years ago, but also to protect the mass graves, which are vulnerable to looting. He has encountered anti-Semitism along the way, and travels with bodyguards.

The recipient of honorary degrees from Bar-Ilan University and the Hebrew University, Desbois has been honored by Jewish organizations around the globe. In June 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy named Desbois Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur for his research.

On Tuesday, the chairman of the Presidents' Conference, Alan Solow, expressed his "personal appreciation" for Desbois's courage, perseverance and work to preserve humanity.

In presenting Desbois with a silver etching of a dove, Malcolm Hoenlein, the group's executive vice chairman, underscored the importance in Judaism of preserving the sanctity of the dead.

There is "no greater mitzva" than that, he said, "It's something you cannot repay."

"All my team, we have the same conviction," Desbois said. "We cannot build Europe, we cannot build the modern world, and ask the thousands of Jews and gypsies to stay in silence."

Interpol – From the Inside

By Barry Napier Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Well, Interpol has certainly started a tidal wave! My inbox has been crammed with comments, from hostile to accepting, from ignorant to a pretence of knowledge. I had one, indirectly, from someone who worked in Interpol Europe. Also, many gun-owners tell me they would shoot it out with anyone who wants to arrest them for having guns. I can only warn against a Waco conclusion if that happened.

But, it seems I must be a lousy writer, because only one contact really understood where I was coming from. In this article I must mention my main contact, a recently retired ICE special agent, who worked very closely with Interpol as colleagues, and who was also an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. For obvious reasons I will not name him.

Tomorrow, Not Today

Now, my concern is NOT for what the situation is today. My concern is for the ramifications of what superficially appears to be a minor issue. I am not a conspiracy theorist. Having watched the growth of socialism over the past decade, I can see where things are going. I have watched seemingly ‘minor’ actions growing into major obstacles to peace and social cohesion. And this is why I reported on the Interpol issue… before it is buried under time.

It is also fact that those in power (in whatever role) tend to be very devious in their movements. They will not introduce huge changes with sudden big announcements. Instead, they will alter things a bit at a time (which is very fast on Obama’s clock), so that the big change occurs slowly, each step being accepted and assimilated by the public, so the final push seems natural.

Devious R Government

Let me tell you something, very bluntly and frankly: I remember in one senior role I had, having to deal with a troublesome situation that threatened the entire organisation and which was almost impossible to eradicate. I didn’t tackle it outright, because it would have caused a big reaction. So, I wrote a new policy. But, I didn’t leave it at that. I wrote several new policies, seemingly all different. Each one, in itself, was minor, but they were given as copies to all employees, who had to sign they had read it. But, I had an ‘agenda’. Over several months I gave verbal warnings, and after a while I referred the troublesome crew to the written policies, which, by UK law, were by then part of their contracts.

It took a while, but after several verbal warnings (all documented), I issued written warnings. But, I didn’t want cooperation – I wanted to get rid of the troublesome few. Thus, I stepped up the pressure by increasing work requirements, knowing there would be complaints. I kept increasing the pressure, and when there were inevitable failures to comply, I issued final warnings. At that point I referred the troublesome people to the policies issued months before and showed how they were failing to comply with each one. I then increased pressure of workload, and bingo! They left before we had to give them notice.

The problems we had could have been catastrophic if not dealt with. So - Devious? Yes. Necessary? Yes. What I am showing you is that often, when something major explodes in politics and in society (usually in a bad sense), everyone has missed the signs preceding it. Socialist governments are very good at devious. They will write seemingly innocuous laws and policies that, in themselves, appear to be ‘nothing’. What observers fail to see is the motive and the agenda. Soon, the seemingly innocuous changes are joined by others, apparently not connected. It is only when the big changes are about to be implemented that all the ‘minor’ changes and laws are brought to light as justification for the massive alteration in conditions.

In other words, look at EO 12425 on its own and you will see next to nothing. Read it as innocuous, and you will not see the wood for the trees. Ask government for clarification and they will muddy the waters, just lie, or be open (because there is nothing obvious to explain). If you don’t think this happens, then you have not lived in Europe!

Tony Blair barnstormed Britain with laws that were unconstitutional; he handed Britain over to the EU, just as Edward Heath did in the early 1970s, without a shred of legal backing. Then, more recently, Gordon Brown literally committed treason by signing the UK into the unsafe hands of the EU. Indeed, many laws, especially to do with so-called ‘human rights’ have been devised and used as a tool against the people, to bring in immorality and deception as a rule. Anti-terrorist laws have been used even by local councils to give penalties in court to folks who don’t fill their trash-cans properly! Websites have been crashed and stopped because government didn’t like the anti-government contents. The list of unlawful laws is long and growing. As one US journalist has noted: “Britain is already a police state.”

Don’t Be Naive

I ask those in the USA, then, not to be so naïve. If you think demanding freedom of access to information will provide the answers, then think again! You will only get the ‘official version’. It will not give you the motive or the agenda. What I do is to identify what appears to be disparate items and then join them together in logical fashion. This leads us to conclusions that can only be proved in hindsight. But, if we don’t identify them and do something now, before other changes are instituted by government, we will suddenly be faced with devastating changes hard to deal with.

Interpol claims anything anti-green is suspect, and even calls those who are anti-green,‘terrorists’. It could be argued that I am being over the top, if not spreading ‘misinformation’. Could be true on both counts! But, I am only taking the facts to certain conclusions, by relating them to apparently odd changes made by government, changes that have no obvious reason or force. As one who has experienced and witnessed social engineering of the Labour government in the UK, blatant and unchallenged, I know just how devious these changes can be. And, what they can lead to. No amount of freedom of information will show us the true nature of the beast, any more than the true nature of Obama was given publication space by a pro-Democrat media system, before the election (and after)!

From The Horse’s Mouth

My contact was an ICE senior special agent who worked closely with Interpol - let us dramatically refer to him as ‘Agent X’. He agrees with my UN comments but differs with one or two others. That is no problem. He says that airport security failings were “well known” by U.S. Customs, FAA, GSA and other branches of the government back in the 90’s, but no-one bothered to take notice. The reason given was, then, that there was no immediate threat; like many security agencies the government had to “balance the immediacy and imminence of threats”.

Agent X says “I certainly do understand your concern about spreading the word as son as you see a threat.” He also said that “My partners and I… were like voices in the wilderness” and so seemingly minor threats to airport security were ignored, because they were not deemed imminent enough.

He told me: “Even security in the federal buildings was a source of great frustration for us, especially after consulting with the security manager from the World Trade Centre.” Perhaps you might recognise that last name?

Think my approach to EO 12425 is far-fetched, or even wrong? Then listen to Agent X, who responds: “Part of my personal frustration or caution, if you will, with pointing out possible dangers presented by such things as EO 12425 is the responses these early warnings generate from their recipients. It’s been my experience, even with people trained and experienced enough to know better, is that a warning against something that’s not imminent is discounted.”

“If it never happens, the one who sounded the alarm becomes a ‘worrier’ and is taken less seriously. If it DOES happen, but much later… no-one remembers the earlier warning.”

Just as the US ignored the dangers posed by Islamic terrorists that devastated the Twin Towers. Just like the UK government that believed Hitler wanted peace. Just like the world governments that allowed Russia to land-grab after the Second WW. Just like world authorities who played down (and still do) the enormous threat to life by AIDS and what causes it. Just like those who foolishly voted for Obama despite the facts that were smuggled out under the noses of the liberal media. Just like those who ignore the evidence that environmentalism is fraudulent.

Socialism By Any Means

Obama is out to cripple the USA. He will do it by any means he can. That is why the UN is poised ready to step in when Obama hands the USA over to them (probably after the three nations join as one North America – Canada, USA and Mexico). The warnings are there! Yet, few wish to engage in the debate, because they think it is just rhetoric! How much more ‘rhetorical’ must Obama’s real activities need to be before anyone takes notice? How many ‘minor’ facts must be ignored before what was thought of as ‘not imminent’ blows up in our faces like the Twin Towers?

The fact is blatant – Obama wants the USA to be fully socialist; he wants to ruin the economy, because it is how Marxism operates; he has already silenced the media. Therefore, it is logical for him to begin proceedings, no matter how innocuous they might seem, to bring in laws and policies that will enable him to deliver the final blow to democracy.

Look Past the Laws – See the Agenda

This is the reasoning behind my original Interpol articles. Look beyond the obvious and the present! See the outcomes! And don’t expect Obama or his administration to give you the truth or the full facts. Even if you read and re-read the law, it won’t give you the agenda or the aim. These only come to special people on a ‘need to know’ basis, and those are people tied to Obama by the same agenda. However, we can all join the clues.

Yes, I know Interpol is not a ‘police force’ and is a datahouse for criminal activity. As others have rightly asked – why, then, has Interpol been given political immunity? It is my view that it has been given not so much for current use, but for future use. I link that use to Interpol’s now close relationship with the UN. And I link that to Obama’s aim to hand over the USA to the UN. Another link is that the UN was started by a Soviet spy and has been Marxist from its inception. Every single Secretary General has been a Marxist! So, when Interpol, a mere ‘datahouse’, joins with the UN, there is another motive.

Is it, just as Interpol says, a natural move so as Interpol can make use of the UN’s extensive world connections? Could be. But, I see it differently, given the way all politics is moving towards a One World Order. What begins as a seemingly small action, will mean a far bigger role for Interpol in the future. The data-gathering will all too quickly cover everyone, everywhere.

The UN doesn’t forge meaningless relationships! Everything it does is part of the Marxist movement itself. Only those at the very top will know the truth of the matter, but any sane observer should take note and build a Marxist future into the overall scheme of things. Or, be suddenly surprised by another ‘Twin Tower’ situation, because everyone ignores the clues. Better to be wrong than sorry!

I was told by another Interpol employee that all his colleagues were “very competent, law-abiding professionals”. Apart from the Pink Panther, I have no doubt they are. But, lower levels never know what their bosses are planning. Nor do they know the motives. Hitler’s army was run by professionals. Many did an excellent job in terms of strategies. But did that make their work any the more acceptable? No matter how professional people are, they cannot alter, and usually do not know, what their superiors are up to.

Hyperbole, or Real?

So, friends, do not think that political conclusions are necessarily wrong. Or that “there’s been some ill-informed, hyperbolic language used” in describing Interpol. It is not a popular task to take given facts and extend them to their obvious conclusions, because they go beyond what is immediately obvious. They do not come within the framework of an “immediate and imminent danger”. So, they are ignored. Then comes the crunch, and everyone is surprised. Better to go on the offensive now, than risk being a victim in the future, just because the extension of the facts does not meet the immediate law or policy wording!

Feel-Good Now – But What About Later?

I unashamedly speak of Obama, Marxism and Fascism in the same breath, because that is how they should be treated. Therefore, I relate the ‘official’ idea of Interpol to that of Germany in the early days of Hitler. They were ‘feel good’ days, too. But, troubling things began to occur, and were ignored. The Jews who provided much funding to the emerging political Hitler, then became victims of the same leader, their homes broken into, their shops smashed and closed, the Jews made out to be horrific causes of Germany’s problems.

When the war began, even these clues were ignored, and so the obvious end came – the gas chambers. At each stage in the years preceding the war, the clues were growing and no-one bothered to ‘join the dots’. The same is happening in the USA today. The UK and Europe are already in advance of the USA. Take my word for it: Europe is now in misery and expects far worse. The USA is only just starting on the treadmill promised by Obama… so use the clues to stop him in his tracks!

As Agent X says, “Interpol is an organisation that is more ‘feel good’ than effective…. Foreign assignments to the US are generally given as rewards, so that they may come here to live and enjoy our lifestyle.” Yes… but what of the future? No group is joined to the UN unless the UN can get maximum use from it in some way. The current ‘feel good’ may just be the same as the ‘feel good’ of Hitler in his early days. This is based on history, not on guesswork or wild thinking!

Comments on UN Valid

“Your concern regarding connection between the agency and the UN are valid” continued Agent X. As far as he is concerned, though, Interpol will keep up a façade of relevance as it becomes more irrelevant, until it can be employed as an arm of the World Court…. That is true, but we should not ignore the fact that the UN only joins with those who will be of help in spreading Marxism in the future. Will that help be in the form of a massive police network of data, not just on criminals, but on everyone? Melodramatic? Oh? What about those who said the same things about Hitler and Stalin? Their ‘wild thinking’ became a stunning and evil reality, and millions died as a result. A similar database is already being used against UK citizens, though they don’t want it.

Agent X sees Interpol as more a symbol than an actual useful tool. In my view a symbol can be just as effective as the actual tool. This is why Hitler spent a lot of time and effort getting the symbol of his power just right – and along came the swastika. He was right, because even today the symbol is a powerful reminder and rallying-flag for wicked men. Interpol can become such a symbol, even if others are used as the tools to grind-down society.

Commenting on its future, Agent X suggested: “What I foresee, in terms of criminal investigation, is a charter with the UN to involve Interpol as an arm of the World Court. This would be a significantly easier venue for them, as the World Court is operating without support from all governments, but would be recognised by the current administration, AND then provide a mission for Interpol that could work directly against US interests.” So, how far from the truth have I been?

“The difficult part to overcome would be US membership in Interpol… authorized by Congress, but at the discretion of the Attorney General. Just how far this or any leftist administration will go in this situation is truly frightening. It would be at THIS point, WITHOUT U.S. membership, that EO 12425 could be seen as a threat.” Exactly – that is my point… it is not a threat now, but will be in the future. Especially as Obama is following UK design – do it and see what you can get away with… which is just about everything.

As a student I read law and took part in many Moot Courts. I had the knack to twist the law to suit my own aims, even with a trained lawyer opposing me. It is legal and this is the way lawyers work to create a precedent.

“I agree with you that the green movement is insidious and is a Marxist organisation. I also believe they are ‘in league’, so to speak, with certain green industrialists… such as Al Gore, who was instrumental in creating a green market so he could capitalize on it. Each, much like the pre-war German industrialists and the Nazis, believing that they control and manipulate the other.” Well said! Bear in mind that Interpol says those who are anti-green are ‘terrorists’. This helps Obama et al enormously, as they force us all to enjoin with greenism. Penalties for resisting will come, make no mistake! Copenhagen saw to that. And Europe is already being penalised.

However, Agent X thinks that, at the moment, “rising against this executive order is swinging at shadows” believing there are more imminent threats to the US way of life right now. And that is true. Even at the very beginning of Obama’s administration there is the matter of his eligibility to be president. But, if he can get away with his procurement of the Oval Office without once giving proof of his eligibility, he can literally get away with anything he wishes. And one only has to look at the long list of his ‘czars’ to see just how radical and immoral his decisions are, against the people and even Congress. So, just how distant is imminent, seeing as how Obama is rushing forward like an express train?

“He adds “We have many more grievous threats… to waste energy focusing on the possible threat of Interpol, during a time in which we must be actively engaged in imminent and immediate threats to our freedom…” Again, well said, and he has a valid point, which I respect. My own view is simply that to ignore the threat is to become a victim in the future. And yes, there are many current threats that must be dealt with – but deal with the seemingly smaller ones at the same time, before they grow from little fish to big ones with huge teeth.

Keep Going

Finally, Agent X said this: “Thanks again and keep the torch burning. I am glad we can have this civilized discourse… so much different than when trying to engage a liberal!!!”

There you have it, from the mouth of a Interpol insider. The only real point of difference is that he believes we should concentrate on current dangers to our freedoms, though he still recognises the dangers posed by the UN. My caveat is that some things seem small now, but will grow fast.

Look at Europe for the alternative, where a Fascist EU rules every aspect of life… and is paid billions of dollars by each member country for the privilege! It is getting worse. Because of UK green laws, the elderly are buying old books from charity shops, because it is cheaper to burn them than to use energy, hiked up in price by socialists. This is what the USA faces very soon if it does not fight back and stop the Obamarisation of the country. Fight for freedom, but also be very aware of coming threats, such as Interpol, and be ready to take action. Otherwise the USA will be lost forever. Remember – there is no real difference between Marxism and Fascism. Both are socialist and both want to rule the world with an iron fist.

Summation by Agent X

Agent X agrees with my main thesis. He concludes:

“Overall, I believe your article is very accurate and very rationally and logically presents the arguments that need to be raised. I would also add, for your discussion of the Nazi rise to power, is that Mein Kampf was an incredibly open and honest expression of Hitler’s ultimate goals. Had anyone read and believed his agenda, no one could have been surprised with the result. Just reading statements of Barak Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and other “esteemed” members of the disloyal left should leave no surprises! Even less surprising should be a review of their performance….”

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Vatican Defends Status of WWII Pope

By RACHEL DONADIO
Published: December 23, 2009

ROME — In an effort to calm growing tensions with Jewish groups, the Vatican said Wednesday that Pope Benedict XVI’s decision moving the wartime pope Pius XII closer to sainthood was not a “hostile act” against those who believe Pius did not do enough to stop the Holocaust.

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, issued a statement saying that the beatification process evaluated the “Christian life” of Pius, who reigned from 1939 to 1958, and not “the historical impact of all his operative decisions.”

Moving Pius toward sainthood “is in no way to be read as a hostile act towards the Jewish people, and it is to be hoped that it will not be considered as an obstacle on the path of dialogue between Judaism and the Catholic Church,” Father Lombardi wrote.

Benedict confirmed the “heroic virtues” of Pius — along with those of John Paul II — on Saturday, opening the door to beatification once a miracle is attributed to each. A second miracle would be required for sainthood.

The move created anger among many Jewish groups, which have argued that Pius did not speak out vocally enough against the Nazis or intervene to save Jews during World War II, and that the Vatican helped many former Nazis escape to South America after World War II.

The decision by Benedict — a German who was an unwilling member of the Hitler Youth — to move Pius closer to sainthood was the latest in a series of controversies. It came less than a year after he revoked the excommunication of a schismatic bishop who had denied the scope of the Holocaust, an act that caused the pope and the Vatican to issue a series of extensive clarifications. Benedict also upset many Jews when he did not directly mention the Nazis or Germany during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Israel in May, as John Paul II had done, although Benedict has denounced the Holocaust on many other occasions.

Even as the Vatican sought to separate the religious aspects of the beatification process from Pius’s historical record, observers said that Benedict’s decision to move Pius toward sainthood sent a strong message, effectively endorsing his actions.

Jewish groups had asked Benedict to delay Pius’s beatification process until the Vatican opened the archives from his papacy to scholarly scrutiny. Father Lombardi said that the Vatican “understood” the request to open the archives, and that the copious number of documents from Pius’s papacy were expected to take several more years to process.

Defenders of Pius, who was the Vatican secretary of state in the 1930s, say that his reticence was sound diplomacy, and that speaking out more directly against the Nazis would have caused more deaths in Rome and beyond. Benedict has said that Pius worked “secretly and silently” to save Jews.

In his statement, Father Lombardi said that confirming Pius’s “heroic virtues” was not intended “to limit discussion concerning the concrete choices made by Pius XII in the situation in which he lived.”

He added that the Vatican hoped the pope’s expected visit to the Rome synagogue next month would reaffirm ties between Judaism and the Roman Catholic Church. After days of tension, Roman Jewish leaders said that the visit was still expected to take place.

The legacy of Pius is particularly sensitive for the Jewish community in Rome. More than 1,000 of its members were rounded up in 1943 and deported to Auschwitz. Documents in the Vatican archives indicate that Pius knew of the deportation and did not act to stop it.

In a statement, the chief rabbi of Rome, Riccardo Di Segni, said he welcomed the Vatican’s statement. “Certainly the historical evaluation remains open and controversial,” Rabbi Di Segni said. “But the Vatican’s understanding of requests to open all paths to research is significant.”