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“We have seen the enemy and he is us.” Pogo, Walt Kelly.

Too many Americans think that their democracy is unbreakable. They could not be more wrong. Most Germans thought the same thing in 1930. As always, then and now, language revealed itself to be the deadliest of all technologies and the least understood by most people. Nuclear weapons can murder millions and destroy us all. Words can convince you to murder your children, invade a country and torture your neighbour or a stranger.

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My parents were Holocaust victims. I never got to have the pleasure of having grandparents as they were gassed in 1942 at the camp called Chelmno. Others, killed in fields in Poland. That is the reality

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