Elie Wiesel: The Nazis were Right! (Newtown Massacre)

By Nicholas Stix

Did you know that in Germany, the Nazis seized private arms from all citizens considered not to be politically “reliable,” and from all Jews? No? Well, that was one of their secrets for success.

Now, pompous ass Eli Wiesel, who has spent his life profiteering over having been a Holocaust survivor, tells us we should give ourselves over to the Nazi solution to violent social conflict.

I realize that I sound hard-hearted. After all, the man survived the Holocaust! He is a man of great humanity. He won the Nobel Peace Prize, for cryin’ out loud! (Along with Martin Luther King Jr., Rigoberta Menchu, Yassir Arafat and the John Doe calling himself Barack Obama.)

The following Wiesel essay runs 399 words, plus teasers and links to other totalitarian Daily News gun confiscation propaganda. (On Tuesday, the paper became the Daily Gun-Grabber.) But just try and read it without losing your dinner. At any length, the man is unertraeglich!

Beliefs and certainties are to be reexamined, habits and values reevaluated. In the face of so much pain and mourning, we must not ignore the question: Where did society go wrong? What made humanity so frail, so blind? Where did education fail? What does such an outburst of anger say about our generation’s hopes and ideals?

In other words: Is there anything we can learn from this event? That all murder is evil but that of children is seven times seven more? That the ease of acquiring a weapon is no longer acceptable. If this tragedy does not produce universal gun control, what can and what will? What else do we need for preventing further horrors such as this?

When has Wiesel ever re-examined his “beliefs and certainties”? I have been hearing and reading this man drone on for over 30 years. He’s always the same. (In case you’re wondering, I went from being a virulent gun-grabber to a supporter of the Constitution. I studied the right to keep and bear arms, the “arguments” for confiscation, studied the philosophical foundations of American freedom, and reflected on the world. I recommend the same to Wiesel.)

There is a complete logical non sequitur between Wiesel’s phony plea to “learn” from Newtown, and his demand for “universal gun control.”

There will never be “universal gun control.” Bad guys will always be able to get guns. However, there has been, is, and will be totalitarian dictatorships and genocide. Elie Wiesel is presently greasing the skids for one here. The man has learned nothing in life.

* * *If massacre of 20 children in Newtown doesn't bring gun control, what will?
If the death of one child is a tragedy, the murder of 20 is a scandal of outrageous proportions.
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By Elie Wiesel
December 17, 2012, 9:37 p.m.
New York Daily News
US author and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel is up in arms over gun issues (photo caption).

Disbelief, horror, revolt: This is what we all felt when the news arrived. By its magnitude and cruelty, it surpassed everything else. We were not ready for it. Earlier tragedies should have immunized us. But they didn’t. Not to this violence, to this bloodshed.

A young man assassinates his mother with her own weapons. Then, he goes to an elementary school and murders 20 children, one after the other, firing more and more bullets into their small bodies.

Why?

The need, the desire to understand is as strong as the pain itself.

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* * *Somehow, in spite of the lost lives that we read about in street fights, in poverty-stricken neighborhoods, in faraway war regions such as Syria and Afghanistan, we were unprepared to see this kind of evil in action.

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* * *What does it say about the world, the culture we live in, the ideas we cherish and the education we receive?

In the most passionate address of his life, President Obama spoke for all of us when he said that his heart was broken. So was ours. Other areas of our being were also affected. If the death of one child is a tragedy, the murder of 20 is a scandal of outrageous proportions.

Beliefs and certainties are to be reexamined, habits and values reevaluated. In the face of so much pain and mourning, we must not ignore the question: Where did society go wrong? What made humanity so frail, so blind? Where did education fail? What does such an outburst of anger say about our generation’s hopes and ideals?

In other words: Is there anything we can learn from this event? That all murder is evil but that of children is seven times seven more? That the ease of acquiring a weapon is no longer acceptable. If this tragedy does not produce universal gun control, what can and what will? What else do we need for preventing further horrors such as this?

And what do we know about the perpetrator? We know he didn’t finish college and struggled socially. But what did he do in his spare time? What books did he read? What music did he listen to? What was he dreaming about? What made him laugh or weep?
We must discover, to the extent possible, what his secret ambitions were. We must remember: He was not a stranger from another planet.

He was one of us.

Wiesel is the author of more than 50 books of fiction and non-fiction including “Night,” a Holocaust memoir. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

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