Ernst Zundel Warns The Jews About Doing To America What They Did To Germany

For a minority forming less than one quarter of one percent of the world's population, Jews are massively disproportionately represented

So many who survived the Holocaust want to make sure that it is simply not forgotten.

I think it is more important that the cause is identified so that future such horrors can be prevented.

Ayn Rand was born into a Jewish family and her name was Alissa Rosenbaum. She was twelve when the Bolsheviks took over Russia and created the socialist state there.

She was inspired by certain characters in literature and decided to become a writer herself in order to create the kind of heroic characters who inspired her as a child. She came to realize that heroes are those who are loyal to their values and she set out to discover what values it made sense to be loyal to.

She discovered that the prevailing wisdom in most theologies held that human beings are sacrificial animals who should sacrifice themselves for the benefit of others. Ayn Rand rejected the idea and premise that humans are sacrificial animals, rather that each human being has a right to exist for his or her own sake and that all interactions among them should be by mutual consent, rejecting the initiation of force.

Her philosophy of Objectivism is based on the concept that Existence exists and that Consciousness is conscious. Human beings possess a volitional conceptual consciousness and must learn how to think in order to achieve their goals.

Her writings show the role of philosophy in reality. Leonard Peikoff studied the rise of Nazism from a philosophical perspective. He identified the premises which came to prevail in the German culture and traced those ideas all the way back to Plato. His book, The Ominous Parallels, presents his case and shows how Nazism came to power.

Lovers of freedom would learn from reading Peikoff's book and might discover that some of their own premises were at the root of that horror.

Another work is that of Hannah Arendt who wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism which compares the totalitarian dictatorships in Russia and Germany. Valentin Chu wrote Ta,Ta, Tan, Tan as a Time correspondent in Hong Kong who interviewed those who swam to their freedom from all over China under Mao. Victor Kravchenko wrote I Chose Freedom, the story of an engineer who rose in the ranks to the Kremlin and witnessed the collectivization of the Kulaks before he defected to the West.

There is only one thing which might save this country and that is if we all continue to read and read and read. Both Ron Paul and Ayn Rand recommended the works of Ludwig von Mises which are all available online at www.mises.org in the literature section.

Just my two cents.