New Book Shows Eichmann Was Not Just Following Orders, Book Review

Book Review:
Bettina Stangneth's
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

[From article]
The German philosopher Bettina Stangneth's "Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer" responds to Hannah Arendt's extraordinarily and perversely influential "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil."
Although, or perhaps because, Arendt was a philosopher, in her report on Israel's trial of Adolf Eichmann, the organizer of industrialized murder, she accepted the facade Eichmann presented to those who could, and in 1962 would, hang him: He was a little "cog" in a bureaucratic machine. He said he merely "passed on" orders and "oversaw" compliance. Arendt agreed.
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Arendt, however, did not have, as Stangneth has had, access to more than 1,300 pages of Eichmann's writings and taped musings among Argentina's portion of the Nazi diaspora, before Israeli agents kidnapped him in 1960.
Eichmann was proudly prominent in preparations for the "final solution" even before the Wannsee Conference (Jan. 20, 1942) formalized it. "His name," Stangneth notes, "appeared in David Ben-Gurion's diary only three months after the start of the war" in September 1939. On Oct. 24, 1941, a newspaper published by German exiles in London identified Eichmann as leader of a "campaign" of "mass murder."
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"There are," Eichmann wrote, "a number of moralities." But because thinking is national, no morality is universal. Only war is universal as the arbiter of survival. So, Stangneth writes, "Only thinking based on ethnicity offers a chance of final victory in the battle of all living things."
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Before he donned his miniaturizing mask in Jerusalem, Eichmann proclaimed that he did what he did in the service of idealism. This supposedly "thoughtless" man's devotion to ideas was such that, Stangneth says, he "was still composing his last lines when they came to take him to the gallows."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will111514.php3

A murderer's warped idealism
By George Will
Published Nov. 13, 2014
Jewish World Review

Harvard Study: Why Do Feminists Need Constant Celebration of Their Superiority?

[From article]
I'm fascinated by this continued effort to find women as superior to men in one field of endeavor or another. Do you remember when Sonia Sotomayor was nominated to the Supreme Court, she was called a "wise Latina", simply because she was a liberal woman? I call her an "unwise Hispanica", in deference to her extreme bias and her determination to treat the Constitution like a blank etch-a-sketch.
What is this insecurity that feminists have about their own abilities that causes them to constantly find "studies" that show their superiority? Why at universities do they need self-help and support groups when the men don't? I think all these things point to inferiority complexes.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/02/harvard_study_women_are_better_legislators.html

February 20, 2015
Harvard Study: Women are Better Legislators
By Pedro Gonzales

Not The Best

Is this an example of an abusive wife?
 
Sadie tells Maurice, "You’re a schmuck! You always were a schmuck and you always will be a schmuck! You look, act and dress like a schmuck! You’ll be a schmuck until the day you die! And if they ran a world-wide competition for schmucks, you would be the world’s second biggest schmuck!" 
"Why only second place?" Maurice asks. 
"Because you’re a schmuck!" Sadie screams.

Holder Like Obama is Above the Rest of Us


http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/11/neutral_and_detached.asp

"Neutral and Detached”
by Rachel Abrams
Weekly Standard [blog]
November 14, 2009 04:55 PM |