BBC News - Auschwitz sign theft 'ordered from abroad'
I've been generally sickened by this story.
And wonder how well planned the theft was. Whether there will be a well orchestrated series of contacts around the world that would only know 2 people in the chain. Identifiable only by a goose step limp.
And I've been wondering who would want it? Holocaust deniers; ex-Nazi party members, Neo-Nazis, Al Qaeda, Iranians, Ultra-conservatives or maybe even Jews wanting to repulse people in to remembering the chapter that should never be forgotten.
I think of all the evils of the world where man has killed man. I can fathom reasons for nearly all of them.
Murder: one on one or mass murderers. Sometimes there's a bad apple.
Arms proliferation: kill some people with your bigger weapon and you have peace on your terms for a while.
War: once your leaders have declared it, you're in it for the duration.
Genocide: war gone a bit too far, but basically one race wins for a while. (I'm thinking Rwanda and Bosnia here)
Colonialisation: view the inhabitants of your newly conquered land as sub human, kill the warriors, and enslave the rest to make you rich.
But concentration camps, really escape my rationale.
I can see factors that lead up to it that draws parallels with Genocide. E.g RACE B are bad and blame them for all the ills of the world. And you would expect RACE A to annihilate RACE B. But this was annihilation of RACE B behind closed doors. Is it because even by 1930s Western Europe was too gentrified to deal with hassle of murdering another race for themselves, that they rather it be shoved under the carpet; out of sight, out of mind?
Although we live in a digital age and I'ld find it hard to believe an atrocity like this could happen again (for an extended period of time). I do believe it could happen again (sexuality in Uganda, religion in any country). And of all the senseless war stories the world has ever known the holocaust is the one that should never be forgotten.
I know it's not music - but just wanted to post some thoughts anyway (and there was no 'BBC comment on this story - link on the report') :S
I've been generally sickened by this story.
And wonder how well planned the theft was. Whether there will be a well orchestrated series of contacts around the world that would only know 2 people in the chain. Identifiable only by a goose step limp.
And I've been wondering who would want it? Holocaust deniers; ex-Nazi party members, Neo-Nazis, Al Qaeda, Iranians, Ultra-conservatives or maybe even Jews wanting to repulse people in to remembering the chapter that should never be forgotten.
I think of all the evils of the world where man has killed man. I can fathom reasons for nearly all of them.
Murder: one on one or mass murderers. Sometimes there's a bad apple.
Arms proliferation: kill some people with your bigger weapon and you have peace on your terms for a while.
War: once your leaders have declared it, you're in it for the duration.
Genocide: war gone a bit too far, but basically one race wins for a while. (I'm thinking Rwanda and Bosnia here)
Colonialisation: view the inhabitants of your newly conquered land as sub human, kill the warriors, and enslave the rest to make you rich.
But concentration camps, really escape my rationale.
I can see factors that lead up to it that draws parallels with Genocide. E.g RACE B are bad and blame them for all the ills of the world. And you would expect RACE A to annihilate RACE B. But this was annihilation of RACE B behind closed doors. Is it because even by 1930s Western Europe was too gentrified to deal with hassle of murdering another race for themselves, that they rather it be shoved under the carpet; out of sight, out of mind?
Although we live in a digital age and I'ld find it hard to believe an atrocity like this could happen again (for an extended period of time). I do believe it could happen again (sexuality in Uganda, religion in any country). And of all the senseless war stories the world has ever known the holocaust is the one that should never be forgotten.
I know it's not music - but just wanted to post some thoughts anyway (and there was no 'BBC comment on this story - link on the report') :S
Sadenning isnt it when a world we in live people cant get on! 
