Fear and Courage at Holocaust Museum shooting

of those museum workers saved lives. My Dad fought in ww2 --have so many forgotten hard lessons???good post SK.

The very fact the museum is there is saving lives. The education as well the courage make the difference.

Good post. I've been to that museum, and it's a very emotional place that can touch you down to the soul. Holocaust deniers are sick people. Imagine being one of the Russian soldiers liberating Auschwitz.

This was a reminder that many many people still blame the Jews for their own lack of success, for their own debauched cultures such as mid east anti semites, who believe killing the jews will in some way raise them up. If this idiot who attached the museum had spent a fraction of his time bettering himself instead of wallowing in hate maybe HE would have made something of his sorry self

Thanx-It does. I have a good friend-Ben Israel who is a holocaust researcher and the lessons of of this terrible event must not be lost.

Right on Bro--I could not have said it better myself!!

the overwhelming MORAL crisis enveloping our nation. From the lying-about-sex-in-the-oval-office, to the removal of prayer and ten commandments in public schools, to the New Deal (others 'owe you' a retirement), to Watergate, to my-lifestyle-choices can come at your expense (socialized health care), to you name it, we follow our leaders further into the abyss of moral relativism.

And other examples include immoral invasions, the use of torture, the overthrowing of democracies, and so on.

Our moral failure isn't just on a personal level, which definitely exists and here we have a partial agreement, it is on a state level too.

abyss is right. This nation is in deep trouble. It will take very real concrete steps to save us from oblivion.You can just imagine how Noah felt when the Ark was being built. Thanks for coming by!

Oh-you must be talking about the thugs who took over Gaza--or the brutal oppression in Iran right now???

Actually Hamas was legitimately elected by the people. When they offered to recognize Israel based on the Arab initiative, they economically attacked by Israel and the US.

But to answer your note, I was talking about the US. Since WWII, we have participated in over 50 coups, many of those overthrew democracies and replaced them with dictatorships. The latest was the invasion of Iraq, which was certainly not a democracy, but again violated international law. Opposing the invasion does not imply that one favored Saddamn, far from it. It is that on many levels, the invasion was wrong from the deaths of up to 1.2 million Iraqis to the displacement of 4.7 million to the utter destruction of the country. Then again, unilateral decision to invade another country without due process acts as a precedent and that precedent is practiced by other countries such as Russia invading Georgia. Indeed, the Russians had more reasons to invade Georgia since their troops were attacked by Georgian troops first.

The real issue here is the selective focus. The selectivity allows some to excuse or exonerate either the US or its client states from doing same that other nations or groups are persecuted for. You know Snow, we are far from innocent. Why not acknowledge that and work for change?

show me where I did not "acknowledge" this countrys "sins" and did not point to the solution.

So you agree that our sanctions led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children and those responsible should be put on trial. So you agree those who decided to torture detainees and illegally invade a country should be held accountable. So you agree that America should pay reparations for our past transgressions against other countries