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tater · 06-01-07, 04:59 PM

If someone actually believed that their leadership was EVIL and didn't fight it (and I do mean fight, as in take up arms), they might as well shut up about it. Put up, or shut up.

Faced with real evil, that's the choice. Protests, rock concerts and puppet shows? No. It's either worth actually fighting, or it isn't actually evil to you, you just disagree with it.

The rationale behind why they might be giddy doesn't matter. During that time they were. They were happy, and they supported it. They also damn well knew that a substantial percentage of their neighbors back home were being disappeared. My friend's mom grew up in Austria during the war. She said they knew that the people in those trains that went by where she lived were not coming back---and she was a kid. Another friend's mom was a kid in Belgium during the war (her mom made the poor choice of deciding to have her 2d kid back in the old country in the early spring of 1940). She said they knew what was going on (she was a teenager by the end of the war). She helped treat allied soldiers, actually.

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tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	If someone actually believed that their leadership was EVIL and didn't fight it (and I do mean fight, as in take up arms), they might as well shut up about it. Put up, or shut up. Faced with real evil, that's the choice. Protests, rock concerts and puppet shows? No. It's either worth actually fighting, or it isn't actually evil to you, you just disagree with it. The rationale behind why they might be giddy doesn't matter. During that time they were. They were happy, and they supported it. They also damn well knew that a substantial percentage of their neighbors back home were being disappeared. My friend's mom grew up in Austria during the war. She said they knew that the people in those trains that went by where she lived were not coming back---and she was a kid. Another friend's mom was a kid in Belgium during the war (her mom made the poor choice of deciding to have her 2d kid back in the old country in the early spring of 1940). She said they knew what was going on (she was a teenager by the end of the war). She helped treat allied soldiers, actually. <S> Last edited by tater; 06-01-07 at 05:23 PM.