Simon Wiesenthal

[poliphilo]

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"

Comments

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

[Must.Resist.Urge.To.Climb.On.Hobbyhorse.]

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.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

You may be surprised to know that I more or less agree with you.....

I'm thinking about starting a meme...

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

It would go:

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. Strikeout the 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...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Could be interesting.

The one thing I really wouldn't be without is our National Health Service

Re: I'm thinking about starting a meme...

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Oh, gosh! That's on my list of things I can do better myself.

Re: I'm thinking about starting a meme...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

What- health?

But just think, no worries about whether you've got insurance cover or can afford the treatment etc...etc...

Re: I'm thinking about starting a meme...

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Thanks, but I'm a lot happier paying my own way. Even though, many times, I'm paying for the fact that so many others don't.

Re: I'm thinking about starting a meme...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm pretty much of an age with the NHS. The Attlee government of 45-51 brought it in and I've known no other way.