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In reply to the discussion: hi from europe, i "love" watching "democrats" apologise for fascism! [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)1. Adolf Eichmann was not an 'ordinary man' or a 'pencil pusher.' He was one of the principal architects of the Holocaust. He personally sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths. He bragged about how his efficient system allowed the murder of millions of Jews.
Eichmann was so dedicated to exterminating Jews that he got angry with Heinrich Himmler for being too soft on them.
2. He was not held responsible "for the crimes of the state he worked for." See #1 above, he was found guilty for his own actions.
3. The phrase "little Eichmanns" was coined by the loathsome Ward Churchill in order to justify the murders that took place on 9/11. So, you're using the words of a cheerleader for mass murder--making yourself the one closer to Eichmann.
There is simply no argument to be made that the Pentagon personnel killed on September 11 fill that bill. The building and those inside comprised military targets, pure and simple. As to those in the World Trade Center . . .
Well, really. Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire the "mighty engine of profit" to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved and they did so both willingly and knowingly. Recourse to "ignorance" a derivative, after all, of the word "ignore" counts as less than an excuse among this relatively well-educated elite. To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in and in many cases excelling at it was because of their absolute refusal to see. More likely, it was because they were too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly, into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants. If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.
Learn some fucking history, and avoid quoting those who got an erection from seeing 3000 people die a horrible death.