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Sunday, September 03, 2006

America, Is Your Soul Dead?


Then they came for the Jews,/ But I was not a Jew,/ So I did not speak out. The three small lines bear witness to the Holocaust.
They stun. They make us look inward to gauge our own capacity for passive, complicit evil. The poem in which the stanza appears is thought to have originated in various postwar speeches of German Pastor Martin Niemoller. Likewise, who cannot be stunned when the following statement is uttered by popular shock-jock commentator Michael Savage over America's Talk Radio Network?
"They say, 'Oh, there's a billion of them.' I said, 'So, kill 100 million of them, then there'll be 900 million of them.' I mean, would you rather die – would you rather us die than them?" He was talking about Muslims – all Muslims – in his April 17 broadcast.
Okay, Savage is a nutjob, right? A worst-case example of the failure of the human soul. He's not like the rest of us. But, apparently, he's like a lot of us here in the United States. The Michael Savage Show is the third largest syndicated radio talk show in the country...

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