Liars and Deny-ers
Two interesting things are going on thee days. One of which is Alex Rodriguez getting fingered as a cheat and admitting it. The other is this wacky bishop who denies the Holocaust ever happened.
Ok, first things first.
1. Hey A-Rod. You cheated, you knew, even tho it wasn’t necessarily against the rules, that you were cheating. Jose Canseco fingered you as a cheat, and you kept your mouth shut. Others got fingered as cheats ad you kept your mouth shut. So when the report finally emerges that you tested positive, you finally decide that you are going to admit you cheated? Oh, you are so, so sorry.
Here’s the deal: if you were truly sorry and believed that you did wrong, you would have admitted it years ago. When the Yankees gave you that giant contract, you didn’t mention it then. If no one found that report, you still would have had your mouth shut. You were also not young and stupid. You were 26 years old, with about 7 years in the big leagues by then. You knew exactly what you were doing (and I am sure any others did as well). You aren’t sorry you did what you did, you aren’t sorry that the fans were lied to, you are sorry YOU GOT CAUGHT.
2. I do not understand these Holocaust deniers. Have they not seen the graphic film from the camps? The bodies stacked 5 or 6 deep? What is the rationality on that? Do they think perhaps they are stunt bodies? How could all the servicemen who found those camps have the same stories?
More importantly, where do these deniers think the victims were instead? Disneyland? 5 million Jews, Catholics, Gypsies, Gays and many others just decided to move to Ohio? How about all those kids who were orphaned? Did they just sprout out from the ground?
It’s been over 60 years since the war has been over. Why are there still people who insist certain things never happened? Frankly, the Bishop (who has rejected the suggestion from The Vatican that he recant his idiotic statements and also to visit Auschwitz) puzzles me and just today the order of which he belongs to kicked him out.
Is it because maybe we are getting further away from war atrocities that it is easier to deny they ever happened? The scope of how many people died in such a heinous way is hard to grasp, so perhaps some people just go that way? Either way, just as with slavery and other assorted nasty atrocities over the years, if people are not reminded how incredibly awful people can be to each other, then this thing could, indeed, happen again. And with the blind faith that people put into religious clerics, that can be super dangerous.
