Simon Wiesenthal
Sep. 21st, 2005 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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mahaloluinoa says she hasn't read anything on LJ about the death of Simon Wiesenthal but lots about some guy called Bob Denver.Time to correct this.
Wiesenthal was the man who refused to let the Nazis get away with it. A holocaust survivor himself, he headed a mom and pop organisation that tracked fugitive nazis all over the globe and ran them to earth. His biggest coup was finding and arranging the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the speccy little bureacrat who do more than anyone else to industrialise mass murder.
Wisenthal said of his work that he was putting down a marker. He wanted the political killers and torturers of the future to be running scared, to know that sooner or later someone would come looking for them.
He was a great and righteous man.
"Baruch dayan emet"
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Date: 2005-09-21 04:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-21 05:50 am (UTC)A great and righteous man, indeed. We need more like him.
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Date: 2005-09-21 05:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-21 07:23 am (UTC)Resistance is futile. In my opinion, the more of us that don't count on the government to take care of the important stuff, the better.
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Date: 2005-09-21 09:36 am (UTC)I'm thinking about starting a meme...
Date: 2005-09-21 09:50 am (UTC)Here's a list of things I can do better than the government. Bold the ones you already do. Italicize the ones you think maybe you could do.
Strikeoutthe ones you think the government does better. Add your own "things I can do better" to the bottom. Pass it on.Re: I'm thinking about starting a meme...
Date: 2005-09-21 10:40 am (UTC)The one thing I really wouldn't be without is our National Health Service
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Date: 2005-09-21 11:05 am (UTC)Re: I'm thinking about starting a meme...
Date: 2005-09-21 11:13 am (UTC)But just think, no worries about whether you've got insurance cover or can afford the treatment etc...etc...
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Date: 2005-09-21 11:35 am (UTC)Re: I'm thinking about starting a meme...
Date: 2005-09-21 11:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-21 07:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-21 09:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-21 09:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-22 02:01 am (UTC)Wiesenthal was...
Date: 2005-09-21 09:30 am (UTC)Re: Wiesenthal was...
Date: 2005-09-21 09:38 am (UTC)Honestly, I didn't know. I've heard of the show, but it never actually played over here.
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Date: 2005-09-21 09:57 am (UTC)Re: Wiesenthal was...
Date: 2005-09-21 10:44 am (UTC)Another example is the Brady Bunch. They released the recent movie in our cinemas and the British public stayed away in droves.
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Date: 2005-09-22 01:59 am (UTC)Re: Wiesenthal was...
Date: 2005-09-21 01:52 pm (UTC)Yellowtail...
Date: 2005-09-21 01:58 pm (UTC)Now I'm back home in Oklahoma. We have state owned liquor stores here and I am limited to only the brands that they stock. I may never buy another legal bottle of Yellowtail and I'm a little obsessive about it. What can I say? I get really riled when the state tells me what I can't have.
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Date: 2005-09-21 02:06 pm (UTC)