No thank you, Lamby!
This guy was always kind of an unsung hero in the private investigations and bounty hunter fields…I was sad to see him go, but 97 years is an awfully good long life…I can only hope that if I live to see such an age that I can be as useful.
A man who believed in justice, even the modicum
he was able to achieve, as the linchpin of civilization.
When asked why he did not at last forgive these people,
after all these years, he responded that a feature
of Judaism is that one cannot forgive
on behalf of others. Only the victims can forgive
and they are not available.
There are four mistakes that good people make
about the Holocaust, IMO.
the first mistake is to forget it–it is the greatest moral teacher
in human history.
the second mistake is to forget that few things are as dangerous
as a righteous victim–no amount of suffering places
anybody above the moral law. It was the sense of
victimization of many Germans, who were punished
excessively for WWI, that helped fuel the Holocaust.
the third is to fail to understand that the slogan
‘Never again!’ includes us all. The vulnerable,
the weak, the meek everywhere, without
exception, not just Jews.
The fourth is not to see that when it comes again
it may not look like a holocaust, but progress,
a step forward for the rights of victims,
with accompanying murmers that those
terminated are of ‘doubtful humanity,’
‘not persons in the complete sense.’
When we hear this we must LOOK–that
is the chief lesson I’ve learned from the
Holocaust.
Simon W.–it might have been forgotten
without him, except as a footnote to history.
