randall terry, nazi apologist

Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, has been recently quoted in the media saying, "We need to apologize to the people found guilty at Nuremberg." He feels that the judgements rendered against Nazi's for crimes against humanity were unfair, in light of our current culture.

As an ad hoc spokesman for the Schindler family in the Teri Schaivo ordeal, Terry made this comment equating inaction on the part of Florida's executive branch in the case of one brain dead bulemic to the mechanized and wholesale slaughter of millions of Jews, Gypsies, mental defectives and socially undesirables.

We have to be very careful with our collective memory. As a culture we cannot go around calling every two-bit dictator the next Hitler and every unfortunate death the beginning of the next Holocaust. As Americans we have some really serious issues before us: our educational standards are in decline; millions of citizens have no health insurance; each year there are thousands of unnecessary gun deaths; our social safety net is on the verge of collapse or explosive destruction (depending on who you ask). Each of these issues have long term implications for large numbers of people. None of them separately, nor all of them collectively, rise to the magnitude of attrocities committed by Nazi Germany.