The Holocaust Continues - Former and Current Abuses of Human Rights

On May Day 2011, shortly before 11:00pm EDT, NBC television network broadcast news that Osama bin Laden was dead. I had been listening to the testimonies of Holocaust Survivors and switched to NBC during a commercial.

Regardless of whether bin Laden, Adolf Hitler, Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein and sons, and a number of butchers of humanity are alive or dead, the Holocaust continues. Rallies and holiday remembrances proclaim NEVER AGAIN - and the next day it happens again.

For the Survivors of the Jewish Holocaust, it will never be over. Those I know have told me this in interviews and presentation to my adult education classes. Nightmares and waking terrors follow many of them, hard-wired into their memories as children in concentration camps. The Holocaust continues inside them and new genocides in the world have reminded them. The histories of holocausts against ethnicities occurring before these survivors were born adds to the nightmares.

I see only one Holocaust of butchery against ethnicities and minority groups that have been, and will be, harmed. The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center on Long Island is the first organization that I have heard echo this belief.

Some black friends of mine have been alarmed that I don't think that the Slavery rampant in the US until the end of the Civil War and the horrid discrimination against and butchery of blacks afterward is not worse than the Jewish Holocaust. They discount the fact that Native Americans were the first unwilling victims of slavery and fought successful against it. Some portion of each offended group feels that their holocaust must be worse than all the others --

No holocaust is worse than that in Africa in Sudan where Christians that admit their belief in Christ have their arms cut off at the shoulders by the government.

No holocaust is worse than that of Chinese Christians that, having admitted their belief in Christ, have been enslaved to assemble tiny twinkling lights on wires - without tools for 12 - 14 hours daily without a break or food - for our Christmas trees in America and wherever else will buy them.

No holocaust is worse than that in which females in some Muslim groups may be legally stabbed to death by male relatives, because too much of one of their wrists was showing in public. A judge in Central Ohio ruled that such punishment was cultural and allowable here.

No holocaust is worse than that suffered by the people of rural North Korea, who are permitted only one meal daily and required to prepare it from ground up empty corn cobs into a gruel and to add to it ground up plant roots that are poisonous and cause blindness before death. All the while they must keep a photo of Dear Dear Leader in their homes, dusted and straight or be shot in cold blood. Reference: The Ginseng Hunter. Young people join the army as the only way of having any food to eat.

No holocaust is worse that the bullying and a menu of abuses levied against all genders, beliefs, faiths, heights, weights, and any other demographic you can name. Domestic violence kills men, women, and children every day in America. Intelligent kids are bullied, sometimes unto homicidal death or suicide. Kids that don;lt want to drink, smoke, curse or have sex are beaten by stronger kids and adults. Child Sex Trafficking is just as bad as the Slavery holocaust or the Jewish Holocaust - especially when the child trafficked is six months old. Thankfully, this problem is being addressed in Toledo OH, a gateway city.

There is only one holocaust and it is fully at the lowest level of hell. As long as any holocaust is allowed to continue, they all continue and the opportunity for new holocausts incubates.