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Maybe Nothing Changes
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By Punkerslut
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Maybe Nothing Changes
By Punkerslut
[Author's Note: Written on Wednesday, September 14, 2005. Thispiece is based on true events happening today in Germany.]
For the Batko...
"These Nazis are being hung up, so that the townspeople canspit on them and beat them... They will be unhooked in one ortwo days," he told me. I looked on. There were three white maleschained to a fence. All of them bore the Swastika on theirclothing.
"What... for?" I asked, "That doesn't seem like modern Germandue process of law."
"The Nazis killed millions," he told me, "They worked some todeath, tortured others to death, and killed others in the middleof the street. It is not 1940 any more. We are a long ways fromthat time. But whenever we see some proud, Aryan youth, bearinga symbol of hate and cruelty, we must stop him."
"I still don't understand," I asked, "Do you seriously thinkthat Nazism poses a threat to modern Germany today?"
"No," he replied, "That's not the point."
"What is the point?" I asked, "Nazis today are probablyoutnumbered a thousand to one, at the least. Why are youtorturing these men?"
"Because their political ancestors tortured Jews, Communists,Homosexuals, and other socially constrained groups."
"They are your ancestors, too," I replied, "During the Reich,men could openly beat and kill Jews. And today, men are allowedto openly beat and kill Nazis. The operations of torture andpersecution are set in place by the police. And in both cases,the media has remained completely silent. What the public knowswill hurt the possibility of change."
"Do you know what the Nazis --"
"The original Third Reich isn't really in consideration here,"I replied, "The original Jews were led by Moses to slaughter,enslave, and rape thousands of innocents. I'd ask why you don'ttorture and kill Jews openly here in the streets of Germany forthat, but that would only be bitterly ironic. You're onlytorturing and killing the Nazi youth of today for having ideas.Perhaps it doesn't bother you, that by doing this so-called'justice,' you're only agitating Racists, and causing more hatecrimes against the innocent. The end result of your action ismore Jews, Blacks, and other minorities, killed and tortured. Ifthe crowd can abuse these men for having ideas, what is to saythat the Communists, or other radical thinkers will not be next?If a crowd can be moved to stone men to death for believing inNazism, will they not be accustomed to the police organizingpublic murders? They will come for the Communists, retelling oldwar stories of Soviets killing Jews and other innocents in theUSSR. And next, they'll come for the Socialists, the advocatesof Democracy, the journalists, the union organizers, theLiberals, the Leftists, everyone with an opinion that goesagainst the grain of society... and somewhere, I thinkeveryone's missed the whole fucking point."
"Millions dead!"
"And you're all just adding more bodies to the heap!" Ireplied, "Maybe one day, there will be people to torture thetorturers of Nazis, just as the Nazis were the torturers ofpeople once associated with torturing the entire Middle Easternpopulation. At what point do you think this is justice? Sure,you spit, kick, and punch these men as they are chained to postsin the public. Perhaps you should take a soldering iron to theirskin, or better yet, to their eyes and tongue. Maybe you couldhear the pains of screaming, see their writhing and theirpaining, listen to their quieted moans, as they try to show youas much as possible that they're not in pain, and they areunwilling to submit. Can you really openly brutalize adefenseless man in a collective, and honestly tell me, thatyou're doing this out of.... some apparently obscure sense ofjustice?"
"I have no answer for you," he replied.
I turned, paced back and forth, and returned. "Again," I said,"Germany doesn't want the world to know what it's doing. It'sashamed. The broadcasters will not publish this information.Nobody will talk about what's happening. There are the samehushed voices, the same crowd being motivated to the same ends.Just like the Holocaust, everything is kept quiet, and nobody isallowed to talk about what is going on in the middle of ourstreets in broad daylight." I paused... I asked: "Isn't theregoing to be a day when people stop asking 'who should wetorture?' and start asking 'is it right to torture?'"
"That is purely a pipedream," he reminded me. The painfulaftertaste of irony lingered for several days.
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